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 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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 223
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
S1: The Death of Kendrick Johnson (from "Strange and Unexplained")
Hey, COTC listeners! We're taking a break for the holiday this week, but we wanted to share an episode from another Obsessed Network show with you. From "Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan," t…
00:35:57 |
Mon 06 Sep 2021
S1 Ep38: Susan Smith: More than a Monster
A distraught young mother pounded on the door of a stranger's house and told a story that riveted the nation: She'd been carjacked while driving an empty stretch of road, and the man who'd held her a…
00:37:07 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
S1 Ep37: Cold War Espionage: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
To outsiders, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg seemed like a typical, if not downright boring, American couple. But then the U.S. government got a tip that the parents of two young boys had provided top-se…
00:40:45 |
Mon 23 Aug 2021
S1 Ep36: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
People enjoying a warm, sunny Saturday in New York City first noticed smoke arising from a building at about 4:40 p.m. and rushed to gather at the base of a 10-story building that was quickly engulfe…
00:39:28 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
S1 Ep35: The Massacre at Taliesin
For years, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had made headlines for his personal life. After all, he'd left his wife and six children for a married woman during the Victorian era, and made no apolog…
00:43:36 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
S1 Ep34: Satanic Panic and the McMartin Preschool Case
Judy Johnson was horrified when her 3-year-old son told her he'd been abused by a teacher at his preschool. So, too, was her community. Soon, hundreds of parents throughout Manhattan Beach, Californi…
00:40:13 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
S1 Ep33: The Murder of William Guldensuppe: The Headless Torso that Sparked a Media Furor
When a group of kids cooling off along New York City's East River spotted a parcel in the water, they figured a passing freighter had dropped some goods. When they opened the package, however, they d…
00:39:37 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
S1 Ep32: The Bath Massacre
Andrew Kehoe really didn't like the new property taxes being leveled to pay for his community's fancy new school. This was well known throughout his hometown of Bath Township, Michigan.
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00:37:27 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
S1: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason (from "Strange and Unexplained")
Hey, COTC listeners! We're taking a break for the holiday this week, but we wanted to share an episode from another Obsessed Network show with you. From "Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan," t…
00:32:59 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
S1 Ep31: Doris Duke's Dark Secret
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke got upsetting news on Oct. 7, 1966. Her longtime friend and art curator, Eduardo Tirella wanted to end their work relationship. Within hours, Tirella was dead, having been …
00:40:35 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
S1 Ep30: Patty Hearst: Murder, Terror, and the Taking of an Heiress
When the granddaughter of one of America's best-known publishing magnates was kidnapped in 1974, the news of course grabbed headlines. But that was nothing compared to the attention the case would re…
00:43:09 |
Mon 21 Jun 2021
S1 Ep29: John Arthur Pender: The Pardoned Killer?
The book The Man from the Train describes dozens of axe slayings in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many of which authors Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James believe were committed by what w…
00:37:05 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
S1 Ep28: The Villisca Murders
The Moore house seemed awfully quiet one June morning in 1912, prompting neighbors to investigate. Inside, they discovered a horrific scene: All eight people who'd been inside -- a mother, father, th…
00:43:52 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
S1 Ep27: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Charles Lindbergh became an American and worldwide hero after becoming the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. But five years later, his world was upended when his toddler so…
00:42:52 |
Mon 24 May 2021
S1 Ep26: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Kill His Family?
The sight that greeted arriving medics in February 1970 was so upsetting that at least one had to rush from the scene to vomit. Inside of Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald's home were three dead bodies …
00:40:42 |
Mon 17 May 2021
S1: Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water"
Hey, Crimes of the Centuries listeners! We're so excited to bring you the new show from the Obsessed Network, "Murder in Alliance." We've got the first episode here for you in this feed, and two more…
00:28:55 |
Thu 13 May 2021
S1 Ep25: Belle Gunness: Butcher of Men
When an Indiana home caught fire and burned to the ground in 1908, townspeople mourned the poor mother and two children believed trapped inside. But then someone started to dig on the property, they …
00:37:45 |
Mon 10 May 2021
S1 Ep24: The Dark Tale of the Radium Girls
In the early 20th century, one of the best jobs for a young woman to land in America involved a new discovery: radium. The substance discovered by Marie Curie could be tweaked and turned into glow-in…
00:37:34 |
Mon 03 May 2021
S1 Ep23: Jane Britton's Mysterious Murder
Though 23-year-old Jane Britton had no enemies when she was violently killed in 1969, her case somehow had no shortage of suspects. Who killed the brilliant and feisty Harvard grad student — was it t…
00:37:29 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
S1 Ep22: H.H. Holmes and His Macabre "Murder Castle"
He was born Herman Webster Mudgett, a bright boy beloved by his teachers because of his kind demeanor and thirst for knowledge. Later, the world would know him as H.H. Holmes, a man so determined to …
00:52:32 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
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