S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men who'd offered him candy and fireworks, police at first told his father to wait it out. Surely the men had no bad intentions. Then came the first ransom letter. And another. And another. In 1874, the Charley Ross case marked the first time in American history that a child had been stolen for money. The case terrified parents, made kidnapping a crime and served as macabre inspiration for future criminals.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

For much of their outlaw careers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid weren't the inseparable duo that Hollywood made us believe with its 1969 depiction of the pair. But the movie isn't the only reason...

7 Huhti 202544min

 *BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR

*BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR

Crimes Of The Centuries is dark this week, but we hope you'll enjoy this episode of Strange And Unexplained with Daisy Eagan. In the 1930s, some shadowy figures approached a decorated and beloved Ma...

31 Maalis 202542min

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

As the audience was settling in for an evening of entertainment in one of the swankiest nightclubs in the Midwest, a busboy approached the mic and asked everyone to exit the sprawling building. Soon, ...

24 Maalis 202543min

S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman

S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman

To outsiders, John List was a mild-mannered, church-going father of three whose oddest trait was mowing the lawn in a suit and tie. But then the bodies of his wife, mother and three children were unco...

17 Maalis 202544min

S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster

S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster

William Mulholland was summoned to the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon early March 12, 1928, to inspect some leaks that workers found worrisome. Mulholland shrugged off the concerns and dec...

10 Maalis 202543min

S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

Sex workers began disappearing in the Rochester, New York, area at an alarming rate in the late 1980s. When their strangled and mutilated bodies were later discovered, it was clear they were being tar...

3 Maalis 202544min

Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

On this Friday Follow-Up, we update with information brought to us by two descendants of an important latter-day figure in the case.  After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men ...

28 Helmi 202543min

S5 Ep1: Twins Torn Apart: The Kidnapping of Marion Parker

S5 Ep1: Twins Torn Apart: The Kidnapping of Marion Parker

When a well-dressed man approached a Los Angeles junior high school in 1927 asking for his coworker Perry Parker's daughter, the woman at the front desk should have immediately sensed something was of...

24 Helmi 202546min

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