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For today's episode, we're going back to December 1978.

On December 5th, 1978, baseball player Pete Rose signed a $4,032 contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.

This made him the highest paid baseball player at the time.

On December 11th, six men rubbed the cargo area at New York City's Kennedy Airport.

They stole $5.m.m.

They stole $5.m.m. Dollars to cash and jewelry. It was the largest cash robbery on American

soil at the time. It's believed to have been mastermind by Lucchasey Crime Family Associate

Jimmy Burke. Burke supposedly ordered nine people to be murdered to ensure he was never arrested in connection with the robbery.

Only one man was convicted, Louis Werner, an airport worker, who helped plan the heist.

In 1979, Werner was sentenced to 15 years of prison.

On December 15th, 1978, the number one song was, You Don't Bring Me Flowers by Barbara Streisand and Neil

Diamond. The number one movie was the Richard Donner directed superhero film, Superman.

In December, 1978, Alice Euling lived with her four children, 16-year-old Susan, 13-year-old Wayne, 12-year-old Patty, 11-year-old Billy,

in a rural house in Clearwater, Minnesota. Clearwater only had a population of around 300 people.

Alice had lived alone with the children for about five years after getting divorced from her husband.

Just after 4.30 a.m. on December 15th, 1978, 11-year-old Billy pounded on the door of one of his neighbors.

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