History of the '90s

In January 1991 the arrest of a Texas mom made headlines around the world after it was revealed she was accused of trying to hire a hitman to help her daughter win a spot on her high school cheerleading squad. Police said Wanda Holloway would stop at nothing to help her daughter but Wanda claimed she was set up by her ex-husband and his brother. In this episode of History of the 90s, a look back at the strange but true story that put Channelview, Texas and cheerleading in the spotlight.

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Jason Lapeyre, filmmaker and photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. He directed and produced the documentary The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot. It's streaming on HBO Max (US) and Crave (Canada).

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On Tuesday a judge sentenced Duane "Keefe D" Davis to 40 years to life in prison. Davis was found guilty in September for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996. Tupac's sister and step brother made victim impact statements before the judge delivered her sentenced.

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This year marks 35 years since Nirvana released their breakthrough album "Nevermind" and altered the trajectory of music history. With the words "Here we are now, entertain us," Nirvana introduced grunge to mainstream ears and almost overnight Kurt Cobain became the unwilling spokesperson for a generation. The pressure and unrelenting stomach issues led Kurt down a path of destruction that came to a devastating conclusion less than three years later.

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Alan Cross, host of The Ongoing History of New Music

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It's been 25 years since four men and four women embarked on an unprecedented mission to live inside in Biosphere 2 for two years.

On September 26, 1991 they entered the futuristic glass and metal structure in the Arizona desert marking the beginning of one of the most exciting and controversial experiments of the 20th century.

On this episode of History of the 90s we look at how the Biosphere 2 mission went from a media darling to what scientists called a colossal failure.

This episode originally aired on May 17, 2023

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Dr. Mark Nelson, ecologist, author and biospherian.

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When Svengali producer Frank Farian revealed that Milli Vanilli was a fake it nearly broke apart the world of pop music. The reaction from the media and the public was outrage tinged with racism and homophobia and the easy target for all the hate was the two young men hired to be the faces of the Euro-pop dance duo. It has taken 40 years for the world to realize that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan weren't the only ones to blame. In this episode a look back at the History of Milli Vanilli with help from Sarah Sahagian and Sadaf Ahsan from The Reheat podcast.

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Sadaf Ahsan; writer, editor and web producer.

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Sarah Sahagian; journalist and podcaster

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After only three hours of deliberations the jury at the Tupac Murder Trial returned with a verdict finding Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of first degree murder in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting death of Tupac Shakur. Davis will be sentenced on October 13, 2026.

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Coming up today at the Tupac Murder Trial closing arguments followed by jury deliberations. During testimony over the past two weeks jurors heard audio recordings of Duane Davis talking about the night Tupac was shot. Now they have to decide if he was telling the truth.

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Duane Davis’s defence attorney rested his case on Thursday after calling just three witness, all of them former Las Vegas police officers.

Davis opted not to take the stand in his own defence. The entire case put on by his lawyer Michael Sanft took just over an hour. Next up closing arguments on Monday morning.

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The prosecution rested its case on Wednesday after eight days of testimony and 25 witnesses. The Defence will begin its case on Thursday afternoon with closing arguments expected on Monday.

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A very busy day in court on Tuesday at the Tupac Murder Trial. Six witnesses took the stand including a rapper who witnessed Tupac’s shooting and a former Compton police detective who gave the jury a 101 on street gangs. Plus, jurors saw evidence removed from the Las Vegas home of Duane "Keffe D Davis house when police executed a search warrant in the summer of 2023. The evidence included newspaper clippings about Tupac’s drive-by shooting found in a plastic tub in Davis’s garage alongside what the prosecution described as scrap book.

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At the Tupac Murder Trial on Monday jurors heard an audio recording that defendant Duane "Keefe D" made during an interview he did for a Death Row Records documentary. In it Davis is asked admits being in the car with the shooter who killed Tupac. He is asked if he would like to apologize to the Shakur family and he says no because he didn't do nothing. Plus a heated rivalry between the defense and a prosecution witness over who speaks first.

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Coming up on Monday as the Tupac Murder Trial enters second week of testimony the jurors will continue hearing raw audio recorded during the making of the documentary The Death Row Chronicles. The 2018 series was the first time Duane "Keefe D" Davis spoke publicly about being involved in the murder of Tupac.

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On Thursday at the Tupac Murder Trial the majority of the day was spent listening to a secret interview Duane Davis gave to police in 2008.

Jurors heard Davis describe in his own words how he orchestrated the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac. The candid three hour long interview is a major part of the state's case and mirrors what Davis wrote in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend.

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A short day in court on Wednesday so there was only time to hear from two witnesses but the jury leaned a lot more about the man charged with orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur.

In addition to being a leader or shot caller in the Southside Crips street gang jurors also learned from two retired law enforcements officers that Duane Keefe D Davis is a convicted drug dealer who at one time bragged he had southside Compton sewn up meaning he controlled the drug traffic in that area.

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Some tense moments in a Las Vegas courtroom on Tuesday as a former gang member took the stand at the trial of Duane "Keefe D" Davis.

James Macdonald made it very clear that he didn’t want to be there because even though he doesn’t like Keefe D he doesn’t want to be responsible for sending him to prison. Macdonald was one of eight witnesses called by the prosecution on the second day of testimony including a Clark county medical examiner, a first responder and Reggie Wright Jr. who was the head of Death Row security.

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Opening statements and witness testimony were presented inside a packed courtroom in Las Vegas on Monday. Seven members of the Shakur family including Tupac’s brother Maurice "Mopreme" Shakur and his sister Set Shakur listened from the front row of the public gallery as the trial got underway for Duane "Keefe D" Davis. He is accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed the legendary rapper.

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The Tupac Murder Trial is set to begin today with the highly anticipated opening statements from the prosecution.

When things get starts at 9:30 PT Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo will lay out in detail the case he intends to prove against Duane "Keefe D" Davis who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur.

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Jury selection at the Tupac Murder Trial is entering the final phase. The initial pool of 125 people has been whittled down to 36 prospective jurors. Beginning this afternoon the prosecution and defence will use their peremptory challenges to pick the final 12 jurors and 4 alternate jurors who will decide the fate of Duane "Keefe D" Davis.

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Jury selection continued for a second day at the trial of Duane Keefe D Davis at a courthouse in downtown Las Vegas

12 more people made it through to the next step in the process and will come back on Thursday for the final phase of questioning.

Some of the questions being asked by the prosecution and the defence are starting to paint a picture of what to expect when testimony begins next week.

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Jury selection has started at the Las Vegas murder trial for Duane Keefe D Davis and lot’s happened on day one including a few unexpected mentions of Sean Diddy Combs. Plus Davis waived his right to be sentenced by a jury if he is found guilty of first degree murder in connection with the drive-by shooting that killed rapper Tupac Shakur in September 1996.

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