Today is Monday, January 25th, 2021.

On this day in 1993, a Pakistani national opened fire on cars waiting to turn into CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

After years of seeing American imperialism damage Muslim lives

across Asia, from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the man decided to take matters into his own hands.

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.

Due to the graphic nature of this crime, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of homicide that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13. Today, we're covering the shooting of five CIA employees on their way to work by Mir Amel Conce. The result was the

death of two people and a four-year international manhunt. Let's go back to the morning of January 25, 1993,

as a line of cars waited to turn into CIA headquarters for work.

Route 123 was one of the busiest highways in Virginia, especially during morning rush hour.

Roughly five miles outside of Washington, D.C., the road became one of the go-to ways for government

employees to make their way to the capital. The Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters

were along that route, and about 10 minutes before 8 a.m.,

a line of cars waited to turn from Route 123 into the massive foreign intelligence building.

Among those waiting to start their workday were Dr. Lansing Bennett and Frank and Judy Darling.

Dr. Bennett had been with the CIA for 13 years as a medical officer,

spending various tours abroad in Asia, Europe, and South America.

For the past two years, he'd been working on medical assessments

for high-profile international

leaders. In a car next to Dr. Bennett sat 28-year-old field engineer Frank Darling. Only five

years into his CIA career, Darling had a reputation as a problem-solver. And yet, Darling

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