Crimes of the Centuries
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Crimes of the Centuries
Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each episode of Crimes of the Centuries, award-winning journalist Amber Hunt will examine a case that’s lesser known...
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S5 Ep30: The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 2: Blood Atonement
Despite police informants thwarting one of his deadly plans, cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren’s appetite for violence couldn’t be satiated. When one targe...
S5 Ep29: The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 1: The Birth of a Cult
In 1980s Ohio, Jeffrey Lundgren wasn’t just studying scripture — he was twisting it into something dangerous. To outsiders, he was a soft-spoken tour...
S5 Ep28: Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Literary Forgeries of Lee Israel
For a brief, dazzling moment in early 1990s New York, biographer Lee Israel became one of the most notorious literary forgers of all time. Out of mone...
S5 Ep27: The Real Goodfellas Job
It was the score of all scores: a $6 million haul in cash and jewels lifted from JFK Airport in 1978. The headlines called it the Lufthansa heist; Mar...
S5 Ep26: The Massacre Texas Tried to Erase
In the piney woods of East Texas in 1910, a mob of white men stormed through the Black community of Slocum, murdering dozens — possibly hundreds — of...
Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY
Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily.
Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring,...
S5 Ep25: The Hitler Diaries
When a major German magazine announced it had uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost diaries, the world took notice. But what began as a journalistic coup...
S5 Ep24: Who Killed Barbara Hamburg? The True Story Behind El Dorado Drive
The murder of Barbara Hamburg might read like fiction — a bitter divorce, a mysterious pyramid scheme, a family full of secrets — but for her son Madi...
Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Death of John O’Keefe and the Trials of Karen Read
This week on Crimes of the Centuries, we’re breaking from tradition. Instead of a crime from decades past, we’re looking at a case that’s still shapin...
S5 Ep23: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Separating Fact from Fiction
In 1981, 21-year-old Danny Hansford was shot and killed inside one of Savannah’s grandest mansions. The man who pulled the trigger, antiques dealer Ji...
S5 Ep22: The Green Bicycle Mystery
Bella Wright was a shy, working-class woman whose life was cut short on a summer night in 1919, just short of her 22nd birthday. At first, her death l...
S5 Ep21: Gun on the Ferry: The Ruin of Laura Fair
Laura Fair wanted what many women in Gilded-Age San Francisco wanted: security, respectability, and a husband who told the truth. What she got instead...
S5 Ep20: The Fox in the Henhouse: Klaus Fuchs and the Secret That Changed the World
You’d think the guy helping build the deadliest weapon in history would be someone the Allies vetted carefully. You’d be wrong. Klaus Fuchs was a phys...
S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up
In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood left her home with a binder full of evidence and a plan to blow the whistle on dangerous conditions at the plutoni...
S5 Ep18: Reckoning at Penn State: The Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Jerry Sandusky was a legend at Penn State University. As the right hand of head football coach Joe Paterno, he was known not only as an exceptional co...
S5 Ep17: Faith Vs. Flag: How the Gobitis Case Tested the Limits of Religious Freedom
In 1935, 12-year-old Lillian Gobitas and her little brother William were kicked out of their Pennsylvania public school — not for misbehaving, but for...
The Murder of Phil Hartman
Crimes Of The Centuries is dark again this week, so here is an episode that you might not have heard previously... or might just want to listen to aga...
Guest Episode: The Wild Tale of Black Jack Ketchum
While Crimes of the Centuries takes a brief summer break, enjoy a guest episode from Josh at The Wild West Extravaganza. This one’s a doozy: It’s the...
S5 Ep16: The Siege of Sidney Street
In late 1910 and early 1911, a band of impulsive Latvian radicals fleeing persecution in Russia unleashed a wave of violence in London that left three...
S5 Ep15: The Repairman's Ruse: The Kidnapping of Alice Speed Stoll
When Berry Stoll returned from work on Oct. 10, 1934, the scene greeting him was pure chaos: His maid was tied up, his wife was missing and a terrifyi...
S5 Ep14: Breach of Trust: Inside the Legendary Loomis Fargo Heist
One Sunday morning in 1997, a security guard noticed the front fence at Loomis Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina, was ajar. So was the warehouse door...
S5 Ep13: Silenced in the South: Ruby McCollum and the Murder of Dr. Adams
In 1952, Ruby McCollum left two of her children in her car as she casually walked into a doctor's office in Live Oak, Florida, and shot Dr. C. Leroy A...
S5 Ep12: The Stolen Cells and Silent Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
When Henrietta Lacks discovered a tumor inside of her in 1951, she turned to Johns Hopkins Medical Center for help. They examined her cells and discov...
Presenting: Murder True Crime Stories
Murder: True Crime Stories explores the depths of history's most notorious murders, like you've never heard before. Go beyond the crime scene as we se...
S5 Ep11: Sex on the Moon: The Audacious Theft of Lunar Rocks
A band of nerdy geology enthusiasts were sure the email they received in 2002 was a hoax: The unsolicited message said that its writer was in possessi...
S5 Ep10: Did Britain Hang an Innocent Man? The Murders at Rillington Place Part 2
When 25-year-old Tim Evans was hanged for killing his wife and 14-month-old daughter in 1949, few outside of his family questioned whether justice had...
S5 Ep9: John Reginald Christie and the Murders at Rillington Place
In 1953, a horrific discovery was made behind some hastily hung wallpaper in a flat at 10 Rillington Place in London's Notting Hill neighborhood: The...
S5 Ep8: Journalist Spy: The Double Life of Pham Xuan An
As American journalists worked to cover the Vietnam War, one of their colleagues proved a valuable asset: Pham Xuan An had been born in Vietnam, and w...
S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?
In the 1990s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian ignited a firestorm when he began helping to end the lives of people who said they were terminally ill. Over the year...
S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
For much of their outlaw careers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid weren't the inseparable duo that Hollywood made us believe with its 1969 depictio...
*BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR
Crimes Of The Centuries is dark this week, but we hope you'll enjoy this episode of Strange And Unexplained with Daisy Eagan.
S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation
As the audience was settling in for an evening of entertainment in one of the swankiest nightclubs in the Midwest, a busboy approached the mic and ask...
S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman
To outsiders, John List was a mild-mannered, church-going father of three whose oddest trait was mowing the lawn in a suit and tie. But then the bodie...
S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster
William Mulholland was summoned to the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon early March 12, 1928, to inspect some leaks that workers found worri...
S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer
Sex workers began disappearing in the Rochester, New York, area at an alarming rate in the late 1980s. When their strangled and mutilated bodies were...
Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
On this Friday Follow-Up, we update with information brought to us by two descendants of an important latter-day figure in the case. After 4-year-old...
S5 Ep1: Twins Torn Apart: The Kidnapping of Marion Parker
When a well-dressed man approached a Los Angeles junior high school in 1927 asking for his coworker Perry Parker's daughter, the woman at the front de...
Introducing: CRIME HOUSE TRUE CRIME STORIES
Crime House True Crime Stories is the ultimate destination for true crime fans. Every episode features two notorious cases from that week in crime his...
S4 Ep46: The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Most people know the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who hid in a secret attic for two years with six other people to avoid the Nazis, but...
S4 Ep45: The Lysine Cartel: How an Informant (Sloppily) Exposed Archer Daniels Midland
Mark Whitacre, a high-ranking exec at the agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland, approached the FBI with some scandalous news: His employer was...