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Crimes of the Centuries
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Today: #183 in True Crime on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 6 | #183 | #165 |
About the show
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.
Latest episodes
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Dirty Secrets at Dublin Castle
October 5, 2026 · 57 minIn 1907, Ireland’s Crown Jewels vanished from Dublin Castle just days before a royal visit. The hunt for them led into the private lives of aristocrats, con men and royal insiders — and whispers of secret relationships, blackmail and a…
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S6: ENCORE: Massacre at Taliesin
September 28, 2026 · 45 minFor 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 apologies for the two "living in sin" in a…
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Catch the Devil: The Murder of Shelly Boggio
September 21, 2026 · 51 minFourteen-year-old Shelly Boggio was found stabbed and drowned off a Florida beach in 1985. Two men were convicted of her murder — but the case against one of them depended heavily on the word of Paul Skalnik, a serial con man and prolific…
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Johnny Gosch: The Paperboy Who Never Came Home
September 14, 2026 · 57 minOn September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch left his West Des Moines home to deliver newspapers. He never made it back. What followed was a police chief with his own violent history, an FBI that wanted nothing to do with it, and a…
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Abscam: The True Story Behind ‘American Hustle’
September 7, 2026 · 57 minA con man with a gift for talking fast and a knack for never getting caught made himself invaluable to the FBI in the late 1970s — and the FBI made him the centerpiece of the biggest political corruption sting in a generation. It never…
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Charles Harrelson and the Assassination of "Maximum John"
August 31, 2026 · 56 minIn 1979, a federal judge in San Antonio was known for one thing above all else: He did not show mercy. John H. Wood Jr. had earned his nickname the hard way, one maximum sentence at a time. Just before he was set to face off with a…
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S6: ENCORE: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood
August 27, 2026 · 49 minThe roaring '20s of last century were fueled in part by a new industry: filmmaking in Hollywood. Directors were rolling in dough, as were the silver screen's first stars. But in 1921, the future of cinema would forever be altered after…
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S6: Norman Thorne: Cold-Blooded Killer or 'Martyr to Spilsburyism'?
August 24, 2026 · 34 minA young woman named Elsie Cameron vanished after delivering an ultimatum to her fiancé, chicken farmer Norman Thorne. Weeks later, investigators dug up his property and found her dismembered remains buried in an unmistakable place — the…