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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S6 Ep18: The Girl Scout Murders on Cookie Trail Road
Dozens of Girl Scouts arrived at Camp Scott in the Oklahoma woods in June of 1977 expecting songs, crafts and campfires. By morning, three of the girl...
S6: ENCORE: The Forgotten Serial Killer of the Victorian Era
In Victorian England, a serial killer preyed on sex workers and other vulnerable women, targeting the people society was least likely to mourn or prot...
S6: TRUTH DEFERRED S1E1: Love Lost & Justice Unraveling
In 1884 Cincinnati, a string of brutal murders and a verdict that outraged the public set off a chain of events that would end in one of the darkest m...
S6: ENCORE: The Manhattan Well Murder
When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. But when she...
S6: THE CATALYST: The Traveler
Amber's on vacation, so she's yanking an episode of The Catalyst from behind the paywall over at Grab Bag Collab. Dive deep into the upbringing and ba...
S6: The Murder of Faith Hedgepeth: Future COTC?
In September 2012, a 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment. She was a biology major, a member of t...
S6 Ep17: Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship
In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from We...
S6 Ep16: The King of Meriwether County
One April morning in 1948, a tenant farmer named Wilson Turner walked out of a rural Georgia jail and into an ambush. The man waiting for him owned 2,...
S6 Ep15: Twilight Zone Part 2: 'We Decided to Break the Law'
After three people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, it took four years to get five defendants into a courtroom and another 10 months befor...
S6 Ep14: Twilight Zone Part 1: Vic Morrow's Last Role
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, cameras were rolling at a California filming location when a helicopter crashed into a river, killing act...
S6 Ep13: Wesley Elkins: The 11-Year-Old Killer
On a hot July morning in 1889, two adults were found murdered in their beds on a small Iowa farm, shot and bludgeoned to death while they slept. The o...
S6: Future Crimes of the Centuries: Murdaugh Country
You've heard the name. You've read the headlines. But the Alex Murdaugh story is bigger than one man's spectacular fall — bigger, even, than two peopl...
S6 Ep12: Above Suspicion: The FBI Informant Who Disappeared
A young mother from a tiny Kentucky hollow vanished without a trace in 1989, leaving behind her clothes, her makeup and her two children. She'd been w...
The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she inve...
S6 Ep11: The Butcher of Rostov
In 1978, a nine-year-old girl in a red coat went looking for a kind man she'd met at a train station. She never came home. Over the next 12 years, at...
S6 Ep10: The Fire That Condemned Cameron Todd Willingham
In 1991, investigators of a house fire in Corsicana, Texas, concluded the fatal blaze was arson, pointing to burn patterns they said proved someone ha...
S6: Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
On the night of January 31st, 2026, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Arizona. By mornin...
S6 Ep9: The Torso in the Marsh
In 1949, a headless, legless torso surfaced in the Essex marshes, setting off one of Britain’s most sensational postwar murder investigations. The vic...
S6 Ep8: The Covenant Conspiracy
In 1945, a reverend, a realtor, a science teacher, and a white woman in a low-cut dress conspired to help a St. Louis couple buy a house. The couple h...
S6 Ep7: Reckless Disregard: The Carrollton Bus Crash
In May 1988, a church bus returning to Kentucky was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. Within seconds, it became an inferno. As families searched f...
S6 Ep6: The Murder That Sparked the Zoot Suit Riots
In August 1942, 22-year-old Jose Diaz was found dying near a Los Angeles reservoir called Sleepy Lagoon. He'd been beaten and stabbed the night before...
ENCORE: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Singing his way through the 1950s and early 1960s, appealing to audiences across a segregated music industry, churning out hits of dreamy quality like...
S6 Ep5: LIVE Episode: Cincinnati's "Seamstress Slayer"
In November 1958, duck hunters at Cowan Lake State Park stumbled upon a burned body so badly damaged it was nearly unrecognizable. It belonged to Loui...
S6 Ep4: Stolen Valor: The Woman Who Wasn't There
In the years after September 11, 2001, one survivor’s story rose above nearly all others. She said she had escaped from the South Tower, lost the man...
S6 Ep3: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre
In August 1966, three unarmed London police officers pulled over a suspicious car on Braybrook Street in Shepherd's Bush in West London. Within minute...
S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release
In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a cause célè...
S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski
In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters, essays and...
S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evide...
S5 Ep45: A Newlywed Murdered: The Sherri Rasmussen Case
Sherri Rasmussen had been married for just three months when she was brutally murdered in her California home. Police quickly decided the case was a b...
S5 Ep44: Mary Meyer: The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress
In October 1964, a Washington socialite was shot execution-style on the Georgetown towpath. She had been JFK's lover. Her ex-husband worked for the CI...
S5: From What If They're Wrong: The Justice Who Won't Let Go
From Amber's other podcast, titled What If They're Wrong? After the Accusation: After charges against former death row inmate Elwood Jones were dismis...
S5 Ep43: The President's Silence: How Thousands Died Before Reagan Said 'AIDS'
In October 1982, journalist Lester Kinsolving asked the White House press secretary about a mysterious disease that had already killed hundreds of Ame...
S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer
In the industrial villages of 19th-century England, death was common—but not this common. Over two decades, Mary Ann Cotton married, buried, and moved...
S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders
The massacre at My Lai was one of the most lethal attacks on civilians carried out by American troops in Vietnam. For more than a year, the Army’s off...
S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices
In May 1983, a young Oregon mother arrived at a Springfield hospital with a horrifying story: a stranger had flagged her down on a dark road and shot...
S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock
For this holiday week, we're releasing an episode that initially was available only to subscribers through GrabBagCollab.com and Apple Podcasts. In th...
Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance
On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of h...
S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell
For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived...
S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers
When two wealthy brothers from the same family were murdered three years and 8,000 miles apart, it seemed too strange to be coincidence. But behind bo...
S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County
A boy’s discovery in the Yellow River launched one of the South’s most shocking murder investigations. What authorities found on John S. Williams’s fa...