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 Ep44: Mary Meyer: The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress (00:54:34)
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 CIA. Her diary vanished. And the man accused of kill...
S5: From What If They're Wrong: The Justice Who Won't Let Go (00:50:55)
From Amber's other podcast, titled What If They're Wrong? After the Accusation: After charges against former death row inmate Elwood Jones were dismissed, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Joe Deters—the for...
S5 Ep43: The President's Silence: How Thousands Died Before Reagan Said 'AIDS' (00:55:08)
In October 1982, journalist Lester Kinsolving asked the White House press secretary about a mysterious disease that had already killed hundreds of Americans. The response? Laughter. For years, as the ...
S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer (00:51:41)
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 on with chilling regularity as children, husbands...
S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders (00:55:55)
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 official line held firm: it was an encounter with the...
S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices (00:52:37)
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 her and her three children. One child was dead, th...
S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock (00:33:26)
For this holiday week, we're releasing an episode that initially was available only to subscribers through GrabBagCollab.com and Apple Podcasts. In the 1970s, Gary Glitter was a glam rock sensation: s...
Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance (00:14:16)
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 her children, was instantly a suspect. Another youn...
S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell (00:51:14)
For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived like royalty—breeding champion horses, dripping i...
S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers (00:49:38)
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 both crimes lay the same forces—greed, arrogance, an...
S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County (00:47:23)
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 farm in 1921 exposed a brutal system hiding in plain...
S5 Ep36: Thomas Jefferson and the $157,000 Bottle (00:52:46)
In 1985, Christie’s auctioned off a dusty Bordeaux engraved with the initials “Th.J.” The seller claimed it had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, and the bottle fetched an astonishing $157,000. It wa...
S5 Ep35: The Saint and the Survivors: The Story of Junípero Serra (00:45:40)
He gave up comfort for a calling, left Spain for the wilds of California, and walked thousands of miles to bring the Gospel to Indigenous people. Father Junípero Serra is revered by some as a saintly ...
S5 Ep34: The Monster in Plain Sight: Jimmy Savile (00:53:58)
He was the BBC’s quirky golden boy — cigar in hand, tracksuit on, always ready to raise money for charity. Margaret Thatcher lobbied to get him knighted. The Queen pinned the honor on him. And all the...
More Like Ancient FAILiens: Underground Aliens with Guest Amber Hunt (01:08:34)
While Crimes Of The Centuries is dark this week, please enjoy this special episode of the podcast, More Like Ancient Fail-iens, where Amber Hunt was a special guest!
Whether you are in your enormous ...
S5 Ep33: The Nazi Killed at the Laundromat — and How It Shaped Modern Extremism (00:52:52)
In August 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell — founder of the American Nazi Party and one of the most hated men in America — was shot by a sniper while doing laundry at a suburban strip mall. His murder ma...
S5 Ep32: Horst Wessel: The Making of a Nazi Martyr (00:51:13)
When Horst Wessel died in 1930, he was an obscure 22-year-old member of the SA. Within months, Joseph Goebbels had elevated him into a saint of the Third Reich, complete with a theme song that would e...
S5 Ep31: Murder in the Mews: The Fall of Elvira Barney (00:43:58)
London in the early 1930s was captivated by the Bright Young Things — aristocratic sons and daughters whose glittering parties and endless scandals filled the tabloids. Among them was Elvira Mullens B...
S5 Ep30: The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 2: Blood Atonement (00:50:41)
Despite police informants thwarting one of his deadly plans, cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren’s appetite for violence couldn’t be satiated. When one target was out of reach, he simply shifted his sights t...
S5 Ep29: The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 1: The Birth of a Cult (00:50:54)
In 1980s Ohio, Jeffrey Lundgren wasn’t just studying scripture — he was twisting it into something dangerous. To outsiders, he was a soft-spoken tour guide at a historic church site. But behind closed...
S5 Ep28: Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Literary Forgeries of Lee Israel (00:45:05)
For a brief, dazzling moment in early 1990s New York, biographer Lee Israel became one of the most notorious literary forgers of all time. Out of money, out of friends, and with a sick cat to care for...
S5 Ep27: The Real Goodfellas Job (00:48:38)
It was the score of all scores: a $6 million haul in cash and jewels lifted from JFK Airport in 1978. The headlines called it the Lufthansa heist; Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas turned it into legend. B...
S5 Ep26: The Massacre Texas Tried to Erase (00:46:02)
In the piney woods of East Texas in 1910, a mob of white men stormed through the Black community of Slocum, murdering dozens — possibly hundreds — of unarmed residents. The killers faced almost no con...
Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY (00:07:43)
Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily.
Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, coveri...
S5 Ep25: The Hitler Diaries (00:52:24)
When a major German magazine announced it had uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost diaries, the world took notice. But what began as a journalistic coup turned into a scandal that rattled media empires ...
