Crimes of the Centuries

By Amber Hunt

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Subscribers: 1051
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 143

Could be great.
 Aug 27, 2021
Excellent subject matter; well-informed host. Only disappointed by the sarcastic judgements for people of different eras. Today's values don't apply to historical figures in any way. The context and times matter in stories like these.

JJ
 Feb 17, 2021
I've learned new details even about the cases I know. A great melding of history, true crime, and the justice system. I like the level of scholarship and journalism.

Description

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 today but was huge when it happened. The cases explored span the centuries and each left a mark. Some made history by changing laws. Others were so shocking they changed society.

Episode Date
S4 Ep5: Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murderess
Mar 25, 2024
S4 Ep4: The Texas Tower Sniper
Mar 18, 2024
S4 Ep3: The Cold-Blooded Killing of the Candy Man
Mar 11, 2024
S4 Ep2: The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Mar 04, 2024
S4 Ep1: Dr. Satan of Occupied Paris: Marcel Petiot
Feb 26, 2024
From Grab Bag Collab: Introducing The Catalyst
Feb 23, 2024
S3 Ep42: Uncovering the True Story of the Tulsa Massacre
Feb 11, 2024
S3 Ep41: The Death of Bob Crane: A Television Star's Secret Life
Feb 05, 2024
S3 Ep40: Anna Marie Hahn: Cincinnati's "Angel of Death"
Jan 29, 2024
S3 Ep39: The Lincoln Assassination's Forgotten Conspirators
Jan 22, 2024
S3 Ep38: The Defeo Murders: Behind the Amityville Horror - Part 2
Jan 15, 2024
S3 Ep37: The Defeo Murders: Behind the Amityville Horror - Part 1
Jan 08, 2024
S3 Ep36: American Black Widow Sharon Harrelson
Jan 01, 2024
S3 Ep35: The Kansas City Union Station Massacre
Dec 11, 2023
S3 Ep34: Bonnie and Clyde: The Real Story of the Notorious Duo
Dec 04, 2023
S3 Ep33: The Scourge of Thalidomide
Nov 20, 2023
S3 Ep32: Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Part 2
Nov 13, 2023
S3 Ep31: The Lincoln County War Part 1
Nov 06, 2023
S3 Ep30: The Lattimer Mine Massacre
Oct 30, 2023
S3 Ep29: Juana Barraza: Mexico's Little Old Lady Killer
Oct 23, 2023
S3 Ep28: Terror in the Big Top: The Hartford Circus Fire
Oct 16, 2023
Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
Oct 02, 2023
S3 Ep26: Elizabeth Báthory: The So-Called Blood Countess
Sep 25, 2023
S3 Ep25: The Eva Hamilton Scandal
Sep 18, 2023
S3 Ep24: Inside Dr. Brinkley’s Operating Room: A Deadly Pursuit of Virility
Sep 11, 2023
S3 Ep23: The Sultana Tragedy
Aug 28, 2023
S3 Ep22: Looking Back on Matthew Shepard: His Story and His Legacy
Aug 21, 2023
S3 Ep21: The Fall of the Everleigh Club
Aug 14, 2023
S3 Ep20: The Young Murders: Mrs. Clem's Secret Dealings
Aug 07, 2023
S3 Ep19: The Resurrectionists: Murder for Profit
Jul 31, 2023
S3 Ep18: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
Jul 24, 2023
S3 Ep17: The Double Indemnity Murder
Jul 17, 2023
S3 Ep16: Going to the Lordy: The Assassination of President James Garfield
Jul 10, 2023
S3 Ep15: Murder in the Bahamas Part 2
Jun 26, 2023
S3 Ep14: Murder in the Bahamas - Part One
Jun 19, 2023
S3 Ep13: The Massie Affair
Jun 12, 2023
S3 Ep12: Stolen Potential: The Murder of Alberta Jones
Jun 05, 2023
From Strange and Unexplained: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
May 29, 2023
S3 Ep11: The Last Call Killings
May 22, 2023
S3 Ep10: Finding Her Voice: Sabella Nitti of Murderess Row
May 15, 2023
S3 Ep9: The Mysterious Case of Edward Earl
May 08, 2023
S3 Ep8: The Case Behind Stockholm Syndrome
May 01, 2023
S3 Ep7: The "Fireproof" Theatre: Tragedy at the Iroquois
Apr 24, 2023
S3 Ep6: Deadly Blaze: The Thiokol Factory Explosion
Apr 17, 2023
S3 Ep5: The Deaths of Herman and Irving Arthur
Apr 10, 2023
S3: Nannie Doss: The Murderous Giggling Granny
Apr 03, 2023
S3 Ep4: The Chippendales Murder - Separating Fact from Fiction
Mar 27, 2023
S3 Ep3: Dorothy Stratten: A Playmate Murdered
Mar 20, 2023
S3 Ep2: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago Gang Wars of the 1920s
Mar 13, 2023
S3 Ep1: Dr. Thomas Cream: The Forgotten Victorian Serial Killer
Mar 06, 2023
Introducing... I Think Not! (A New True Crime Comedy Podcast)
Jan 05, 2023
S2 Ep42: The Case of Kirk Bloodsworth: America’s First DNA Exoneration
Dec 05, 2022
S2 Ep41: Illegal Luck: How the New Hampshire Sweepstakes Went Haywire
Nov 28, 2022
S2 Ep40: The True Story Behind 'Murder Ordained'
Nov 14, 2022
S2 Ep39: Soul Leaves Body: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Nov 07, 2022
S2 Ep38: The Bender Family: A Suspicious Band of Innkeepers
Oct 31, 2022
S2 Ep37: Linda Hazzard, the Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death
Oct 24, 2022
S2 Ep36: The Tragedy of Selena: Fandom Gone Too Far
Oct 17, 2022
S2 Ep35: Hilma Marie Witte: Fatal Manipulation
Oct 03, 2022
S2 Ep34: Ramon Novarro: The Life and Death of a Screen Idol
Sep 26, 2022
S2 Ep33: Murder Aboard the Ohio Belle
Sep 19, 2022
S2 Ep32: Trapping a Killer: Could a Psychic Help Catch a Serial Killer?
Sep 12, 2022
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Sep 05, 2022
S2 Ep31: Chasing a Ghost: Hunting the Killer of Chief Greg Adams
Aug 29, 2022
S2 Ep30: Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers
Aug 22, 2022
S2 Ep29: Alfred Packer: The Colorado Cannibal
Aug 15, 2022
S2 Ep28: The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer
Aug 08, 2022
S2 Ep27: Billy Milligan and His Multiple Personalities
Aug 01, 2022
S2 Ep26: The Hillside Stranglings Part 2
Jul 25, 2022
S2 Ep25: The Hillside Stranglings
Jul 18, 2022
S2 Ep24: The Murder of Phil Hartman
Jul 11, 2022
S2 Ep23: The Easter Sunday Massacre
Jun 27, 2022
S2 Ep22: The Notorious Case Against Dr. Sam Sheppard
Jun 20, 2022
S2 Ep21: The Heartbreaking Slayings of Nancy, Melissa, and Angela Newman
Jun 13, 2022
S2 Ep20: Arthur Fried and the 'Kidnap Years'
Jun 06, 2022
Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet
May 30, 2022
S2 Ep19: The Reid Technique and the Wrongful Conviction of Darrel Parker
May 23, 2022
S2 Ep18: Patty Cannon's Murderous Gang: Selling People for Profit
May 16, 2022
S2 Ep17: George Remus: Lawyer, Bootlegger, Killer Pt. 2
May 09, 2022
S2 Ep16: George Remus: Lawyer, Bootlegger, Killer Pt. 1
May 02, 2022
S2 Ep15: The Great Train Robbery: A Brilliant Success or Sloppy Failure?
Apr 25, 2022
S2 Ep14: The Murder of "Diamond Bessie"
Apr 18, 2022
S2 Ep13: Don't Say His Name: A Serial Killer Out for Notoriety
Apr 11, 2022
S2: What Lurks Inside the Walls: Hidden Rooms (From "Strange & Unexplained”)
Apr 07, 2022
S2 Ep12: Mary McKnight: Surrounded by Death
Apr 04, 2022
S2 Ep11: Buck v. Bell: When the Courts Decided Who Could Have Kids
Mar 28, 2022
S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse
Mar 14, 2022
S2 Ep9: Ken McElroy: Murder in the Town Square
Mar 07, 2022
S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato
Feb 28, 2022
S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder
Feb 21, 2022
S2 Ep6: Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster
Feb 14, 2022
S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick
Feb 07, 2022
S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case
Jan 31, 2022
S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House
Jan 24, 2022
S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till
Jan 17, 2022
S2 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders
Jan 10, 2022
S1 Ep42: The Osage Nation Murders
Oct 04, 2021
S1 Ep41: Richard Biegenwald: The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer
Sep 27, 2021
S1 Ep40: Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
Sep 20, 2021
S1 Ep39: The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Sep 13, 2021
S1: The Death of Kendrick Johnson (from "Strange and Unexplained")
Sep 06, 2021
S1 Ep38: Susan Smith: More than a Monster
Aug 30, 2021
S1 Ep37: Cold War Espionage: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Aug 23, 2021
S1 Ep36: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Aug 16, 2021
S1 Ep35: The Massacre at Taliesin
Aug 02, 2021
S1 Ep34: Satanic Panic and the McMartin Preschool Case
Jul 26, 2021
S1 Ep33: The Murder of William Guldensuppe: The Headless Torso that Sparked a Media Furor
Jul 19, 2021
S1 Ep32: The Bath Massacre
Jul 12, 2021
S1: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason (from "Strange and Unexplained")
Jul 05, 2021
S1 Ep31: Doris Duke's Dark Secret
Jun 28, 2021
S1 Ep30: Patty Hearst: Murder, Terror, and the Taking of an Heiress
Jun 21, 2021
S1 Ep29: John Arthur Pender: The Pardoned Killer?
Jun 14, 2021
S1 Ep28: The Villisca Murders
Jun 07, 2021
S1 Ep27: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
May 24, 2021
S1 Ep26: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Kill His Family?
May 17, 2021
S1: Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water"
May 13, 2021
S1 Ep25: Belle Gunness: Butcher of Men
May 10, 2021
S1 Ep24: The Dark Tale of the Radium Girls
May 03, 2021
S1 Ep23: Jane Britton's Mysterious Murder
Apr 19, 2021
S1 Ep22: H.H. Holmes and His Macabre "Murder Castle"
Apr 12, 2021
S1 Ep21: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood
Apr 05, 2021
S1: Introducing "Strange and Unexplained: Ep. 1 The Watcher House"
Apr 02, 2021
S1 Ep20: The Enduring Legacy of the Salem Witch Trials
Mar 29, 2021
S1 Ep19: The Murder of Marie Smith
Mar 15, 2021
S1 Ep18: Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet
Mar 08, 2021
S1 Ep17: Daniel Sickles: Temporarily Insane?
Mar 01, 2021
S1 Ep16: Richard Speck: Born to Raise Hell
Feb 22, 2021
S1 Ep15: The Landmark Case of the Scottsboro Boys
Feb 08, 2021
S1 Ep14: The Million-Dollar Kidnapping of Ginny Piper
Feb 01, 2021
S1 Ep13: Edward Rulloff: The Genius Psychopath
Jan 25, 2021
S1 Ep12: The Tylenol Murders: Over-the-Counter Killers
Jan 18, 2021
S1 Ep11: Sex, Lies, and Murder: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Harry Thaw
Jan 11, 2021
S1 Ep10: The Torture Chamber of Delphine LaLaurie
Jan 04, 2021
S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
Dec 21, 2020
S1 Ep8: Kitty Genovese: A Murder with 38 Witnesses
Dec 14, 2020
S1 Ep7: The Mysterious Beheading of Pearl Bryan
Dec 07, 2020
S1 Ep6: Bob Berdella: The Serial Killer Known as the Kansas City Butcher
Nov 30, 2020
S1 Ep5: Prohibition Murderers: The Karpis/Barker Gang
Nov 16, 2020
S1 Ep4: Nannie Doss: The Murderous Giggling Granny
Nov 09, 2020
S1 Ep3: Elma Sands: The Manhattan Well Murder
Nov 02, 2020
S1 Ep2: Leopold & Loeb: Jazz Age Killers
Oct 26, 2020
S1 Ep1: The Murder of Mary Phagan
Oct 26, 2020
S1: PREVIEW: Crimes of the Centuries
Oct 13, 2020