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Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt

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....

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Episode list

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  • June 16, 2025

    54 min

    The Siege of Sidney Street

    In late 1910 and early 1911, a band of impulsive Latvian radicals fleeing persecution in Russia unleashed a wave of violence in London that left three policemen dead and part of a ...

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  • June 9, 2025

    43 min

    The Repairman's Ruse: The Kidnapping of Alice Speed Stoll

    When Berry Stoll returned from work on Oct. 10, 1934, the scene greeting him was pure chaos: His maid was tied up, his wife was missing and a terrifying pool of blood covered one o...

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  • June 2, 2025

    43 min

    Breach of Trust: Inside the Legendary Loomis Fargo Heist

    One Sunday morning in 1997, a security guard noticed the front fence at Loomis Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina, was ajar. So was the warehouse door. And the vault inside was fit...

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  • May 26, 2025

    46 min

    Silenced in the South: Ruby McCollum and the Murder of Dr. Adams

    In 1952, Ruby McCollum left two of her children in her car as she casually walked into a doctor's office in Live Oak, Florida, and shot Dr. C. Leroy Adams — a respected white physi...

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  • May 19, 2025

    47 min

    The Stolen Cells and Silent Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

    When Henrietta Lacks discovered a tumor inside of her in 1951, she turned to Johns Hopkins Medical Center for help. They examined her cells and discovered two things: First, she ha...

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  • May 15, 2025

    6 min

    Presenting: Murder True Crime Stories

    Murder: True Crime Stories explores the depths of history's most notorious murders, like you've never heard before. Go beyond the crime scene as we search for the real story, and ...

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