Crimes of the Centuries
By Amber Hunt and Audioboom
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Subscribers: 1068
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 203
Mar 23, 2025
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.
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S5 Ep9: John Reginald Christie and the Murders at Rillington Place
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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S5 Ep8: Journalist Spy: The Double Life of Pham Xuan An
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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*BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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S5 Ep1: Twins Torn Apart: The Kidnapping of Marion Parker
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Introducing: CRIME HOUSE TRUE CRIME STORIES
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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S4 Ep46: The Betrayal of Anne Frank
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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S4 Ep45: The Lysine Cartel: How an Informant (Sloppily) Exposed Archer Daniels Midland
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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S4 Ep44: At Any Cost: The Rise and Fall of Lance Armstrong
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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S4 Ep43: How Two Murders Became Three: The Story of George Stinney Jr.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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S4 Ep42: Aberfan's Lost Generation
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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S4 Ep41: The Stealing of 'The Scream'
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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S4 Ep40: The Murder That Scandalized Harvard
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Introducing The In Between Podcast
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Daniel Sickles: Temporarily Insane?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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S4 Ep39 Part 2: Claus von Bülow's Two Trials of the Century
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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S4 Ep39: The Decades-Long Death of "Sunny" von Bülow
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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S4 Ep38: The Nazi Plunder of World War II
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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S4 Ep37: Escape from Alcatraz
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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S4 Ep36: Brink's Heist: The Ultimate Caper
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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S4 Ep35: Firefighter-Turned-Arsonist John Leonard Orr
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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S4 Ep34: The Monster of Florence
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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S4 Ep33: The Unholy Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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S4 Ep32: How the 1919 World Series Blackened the Chicago White Sox and American Sports
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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S4 Ep31: You Have the Right to an Attorney ... Thanks to Clarence Earl Gideon
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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FRIDAY FOLLOW-UP: Sex, Lies, and Murder: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Harry Thaw
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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S4 Ep30: The Pastor and His Mistress: The Scandalous Hall-Mills Murder
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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S4 Ep29: Col. Tom Parker: The Fraud Who Made Elvis Presley
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Crimes Of The Centuries presents: The Burden
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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S4 Ep28: From 'Closer' to 'Crooked': NYC Detective Louis Scarcella's Fall from Grace
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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S4 Ep27: From Hero to Traitor: How Benedict Arnold Slid into Infamy
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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S4 Ep26: How the Horrifying Murder of Adam Walsh Changed America
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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S4 Ep25: The Clutter Family: The Case Behind Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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S4 Ep24: How Catherine of Aragon Changed Europe
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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S4 Ep23: Cassie Chadwick: The Impostor Heiress of the Gilded Age
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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S4 Ep22: The Largest Art Heist in American History
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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S4 Ep21: Sex, Lies and a Government Conspiracy: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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S4 Ep20: Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Games
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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S4 Ep19: The Time Mobile, Alabama, Sentenced a Man to Death For Stealing $1.95
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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S4 Ep18: The Pimlico Poisoning: The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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From Grab Bag Collab: The Catalyst
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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S4 Ep17: The Falcon and the Snowman
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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S4 Ep16: The Lonely Hearts Club Killers
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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S4 Ep15: Randy Ayers: The Case of the Lookalike
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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S4 Ep14: Voyage of the Damned: The M.S. St. Louis
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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S4 Ep13: Kidnapped and Buried Alive: The Nightmare in Chowchilla
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May 27, 2024 |
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S4 Ep12: The Tsavo Man Eaters
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May 20, 2024 |
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S4 Ep11: Marie Noe and Her Cradle of Death
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May 13, 2024 |
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S4 Ep10: The Walk of Death: Howard Unruh
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May 06, 2024 |
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S4 Ep9: The Monster of Wall Street
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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S4 Ep8: Charles Ponzi's Scheme
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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S4 Ep7: The Los Angeles Times Bombing
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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S4 Ep6: How the Assault of Recy Taylor Shaped Civil Rights Tactics
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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From Grab Bag Collab: The Catalyst
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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S4 Ep5: Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murderess
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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S4 Ep4: The Texas Tower Sniper
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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S4 Ep3: The Cold-Blooded Killing of the Candy Man
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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S4 Ep2: The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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S4 Ep1: Dr. Satan of Occupied Paris: Marcel Petiot
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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From Grab Bag Collab: Introducing The Catalyst
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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S3 Ep42: Uncovering the True Story of the Tulsa Massacre
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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S3 Ep41: The Death of Bob Crane: A Television Star's Secret Life
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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S3 Ep40: Anna Marie Hahn: Cincinnati's "Angel of Death"
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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S3 Ep39: The Lincoln Assassination's Forgotten Conspirators
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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S3 Ep38: The Defeo Murders: Behind the Amityville Horror - Part 2
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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S3 Ep37: The Defeo Murders: Behind the Amityville Horror - Part 1
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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S3 Ep36: American Black Widow Sharon Harrelson
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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S3 Ep35: The Kansas City Union Station Massacre
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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S3 Ep34: Bonnie and Clyde: The Real Story of the Notorious Duo
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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S3 Ep33: The Scourge of Thalidomide
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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S3 Ep32: Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Part 2
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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S3 Ep31: The Lincoln County War Part 1
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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S3 Ep30: The Lattimer Mine Massacre
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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S3 Ep29: Juana Barraza: Mexico's Little Old Lady Killer
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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S3 Ep28: Terror in the Big Top: The Hartford Circus Fire
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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S3 Ep26: Elizabeth Báthory: The So-Called Blood Countess
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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S3 Ep25: The Eva Hamilton Scandal
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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S3 Ep24: Inside Dr. Brinkley’s Operating Room: A Deadly Pursuit of Virility
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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S3 Ep23: The Sultana Tragedy
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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S3 Ep22: Looking Back on Matthew Shepard: His Story and His Legacy
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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S3 Ep21: The Fall of the Everleigh Club
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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S3 Ep20: The Young Murders: Mrs. Clem's Secret Dealings
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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S3 Ep19: The Resurrectionists: Murder for Profit
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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S3 Ep18: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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S3 Ep17: The Double Indemnity Murder
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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S3 Ep16: Going to the Lordy: The Assassination of President James Garfield
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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S3 Ep15: Murder in the Bahamas Part 2
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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S3 Ep14: Murder in the Bahamas - Part One
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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S3 Ep13: The Massie Affair
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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S3 Ep12: Stolen Potential: The Murder of Alberta Jones
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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From Strange and Unexplained: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
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May 29, 2023 |
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S3 Ep11: The Last Call Killings
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May 22, 2023 |
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S3 Ep10: Finding Her Voice: Sabella Nitti of Murderess Row
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May 15, 2023 |
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S3 Ep9: The Mysterious Case of Edward Earl
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May 08, 2023 |
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S3 Ep8: The Case Behind Stockholm Syndrome
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May 01, 2023 |
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S3 Ep7: The "Fireproof" Theatre: Tragedy at the Iroquois
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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S3 Ep6: Deadly Blaze: The Thiokol Factory Explosion
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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S3 Ep5: The Deaths of Herman and Irving Arthur
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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S3: Nannie Doss: The Murderous Giggling Granny
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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S3 Ep4: The Chippendales Murder - Separating Fact from Fiction
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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S3 Ep3: Dorothy Stratten: A Playmate Murdered
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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S3 Ep2: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago Gang Wars of the 1920s
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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S3 Ep1: Dr. Thomas Cream: The Forgotten Victorian Serial Killer
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Introducing... I Think Not! (A New True Crime Comedy Podcast)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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S2 Ep42: The Case of Kirk Bloodsworth: America’s First DNA Exoneration
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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S2 Ep41: Illegal Luck: How the New Hampshire Sweepstakes Went Haywire
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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S2 Ep40: The True Story Behind 'Murder Ordained'
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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S2 Ep39: Soul Leaves Body: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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S2 Ep38: The Bender Family: A Suspicious Band of Innkeepers
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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S2 Ep37: Linda Hazzard, the Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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S2 Ep36: The Tragedy of Selena: Fandom Gone Too Far
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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S2 Ep35: Hilma Marie Witte: Fatal Manipulation
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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S2 Ep34: Ramon Novarro: The Life and Death of a Screen Idol
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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S2 Ep33: Murder Aboard the Ohio Belle
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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S2 Ep32: Trapping a Killer: Could a Psychic Help Catch a Serial Killer?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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S2 Ep31: Chasing a Ghost: Hunting the Killer of Chief Greg Adams
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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S2 Ep30: Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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S2 Ep29: Alfred Packer: The Colorado Cannibal
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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S2 Ep28: The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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S2 Ep27: Billy Milligan and His Multiple Personalities
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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S2 Ep26: The Hillside Stranglings Part 2
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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S2 Ep25: The Hillside Stranglings
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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S2 Ep24: The Murder of Phil Hartman
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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S2 Ep23: The Easter Sunday Massacre
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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S2 Ep22: The Notorious Case Against Dr. Sam Sheppard
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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S2 Ep21: The Heartbreaking Slayings of Nancy, Melissa, and Angela Newman
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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S2 Ep20: Arthur Fried and the 'Kidnap Years'
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet
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May 30, 2022 |
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S2 Ep19: The Reid Technique and the Wrongful Conviction of Darrel Parker
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May 23, 2022 |
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S2 Ep18: Patty Cannon's Murderous Gang: Selling People for Profit
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May 16, 2022 |
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S2 Ep17: George Remus: Lawyer, Bootlegger, Killer Pt. 2
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May 09, 2022 |
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S2 Ep16: George Remus: Lawyer, Bootlegger, Killer Pt. 1
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May 02, 2022 |
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S2 Ep15: The Great Train Robbery: A Brilliant Success or Sloppy Failure?
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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S2 Ep14: The Murder of "Diamond Bessie"
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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S2 Ep13: Don't Say His Name: A Serial Killer Out for Notoriety
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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S2: What Lurks Inside the Walls: Hidden Rooms (From "Strange & Unexplained”)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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S2 Ep12: Mary McKnight: Surrounded by Death
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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S2 Ep11: Buck v. Bell: When the Courts Decided Who Could Have Kids
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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S2 Ep9: Ken McElroy: Murder in the Town Square
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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S2 Ep6: Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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S2 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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S1 Ep42: The Osage Nation Murders
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S1 Ep41: Richard Biegenwald: The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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S1 Ep40: Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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S1 Ep39: The Theft of the Mona Lisa
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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S1: The Death of Kendrick Johnson (from "Strange and Unexplained")
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1 Ep38: Susan Smith: More than a Monster
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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S1 Ep37: Cold War Espionage: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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S1 Ep36: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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S1 Ep35: The Massacre at Taliesin
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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S1 Ep34: Satanic Panic and the McMartin Preschool Case
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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S1 Ep33: The Murder of William Guldensuppe: The Headless Torso that Sparked a Media Furor
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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S1 Ep32: The Bath Massacre
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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S1: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason (from "Strange and Unexplained")
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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S1 Ep31: Doris Duke's Dark Secret
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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S1 Ep30: Patty Hearst: Murder, Terror, and the Taking of an Heiress
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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S1 Ep29: John Arthur Pender: The Pardoned Killer?
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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S1 Ep28: The Villisca Murders
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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S1 Ep27: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
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May 24, 2021 |
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S1 Ep26: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Kill His Family?
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May 17, 2021 |
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S1: Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water"
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May 13, 2021 |
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S1 Ep25: Belle Gunness: Butcher of Men
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May 10, 2021 |
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S1 Ep24: The Dark Tale of the Radium Girls
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May 03, 2021 |
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S1 Ep23: Jane Britton's Mysterious Murder
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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S1 Ep22: H.H. Holmes and His Macabre "Murder Castle"
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 Ep21: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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S1: Introducing "Strange and Unexplained: Ep. 1 The Watcher House"
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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S1 Ep20: The Enduring Legacy of the Salem Witch Trials
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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S1 Ep19: The Murder of Marie Smith
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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S1 Ep18: Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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S1 Ep17: Daniel Sickles: Temporarily Insane?
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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S1 Ep16: Richard Speck: Born to Raise Hell
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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S1 Ep15: The Landmark Case of the Scottsboro Boys
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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S1 Ep14: The Million-Dollar Kidnapping of Ginny Piper
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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S1 Ep13: Edward Rulloff: The Genius Psychopath
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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S1 Ep12: The Tylenol Murders: Over-the-Counter Killers
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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S1 Ep11: Sex, Lies, and Murder: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Harry Thaw
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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S1 Ep10: The Torture Chamber of Delphine LaLaurie
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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S1 Ep8: Kitty Genovese: A Murder with 38 Witnesses
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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S1 Ep7: The Mysterious Beheading of Pearl Bryan
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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S1 Ep6: Bob Berdella: The Serial Killer Known as the Kansas City Butcher
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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S1 Ep5: Prohibition Murderers: The Karpis/Barker Gang
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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S1 Ep4: Nannie Doss: The Murderous Giggling Granny
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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S1 Ep3: Elma Sands: The Manhattan Well Murder
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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S1 Ep2: Leopold & Loeb: Jazz Age Killers
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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S1 Ep1: The Murder of Mary Phagan
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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S1: PREVIEW: Crimes of the Centuries
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Oct 13, 2020 |