On this day in conspiracies

Frieda Langer, 53, vanishes near the Somerset Reservoir after turning back alone to change wet clothes, yards from her family's camp. Her body is found the following May in an area already searched.

Sheela and Ma Anand Puja, the commune nurse who ran its medical operations, are arrested in West Germany. Around the same period, Rajneesh himself is arrested on unrelated federal immigration charges, to which he later pleads and is deported; he is not charged in the poisonings.

After roughly 17 to 18 hours, the gunmen release their hostages and surrender to authorities on the promise of a fair trial and live testimony. No further attackers are found; the group is taken into custody and the investigation begins.

Yamagami's trial opens at the Nara District Court. He pleads guilty, telling the court there is no doubt he committed the killing. Prosecutors lay out the homemade weapon, the shooting, and his stated motive; the proceedings draw renewed public attention to the Unification Church's ties to Japanese politics.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee releases a staff report, 'The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,' alleging that senior aides concealed Biden's decline and facilitated executive actions without his direct authorization. Chairman James Comer refers Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal to the Justice Department for further investigation. The committee's ranking member, Robert Garcia, calls it a 'sham investigation' and says every White House official interviewed testified that Biden authorized his own executive actions.