S5 Ep10: Did Britain Hang an Innocent Man? The Murders at Rillington Place Part 2

S5 Ep10: Did Britain Hang an Innocent Man? The Murders at Rillington Place Part 2

When 25-year-old Tim Evans was hanged for killing his wife and 14-month-old daughter in 1949, few outside of his family questioned whether justice had been done. After all, Evans had at one point confessed to the crimes. But during his trial he recanted, saying that a neighbor had killed his 20-year-old wife Beryl during a botched abortion attempt. It seemed a ludicrous attempt at diversion -- until that same neighbor was himself revealed to be a serial killer just three years later. The questions sparked by the case helped fuel a movement to halt the death penalty in Britain.

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S4 Ep20: Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Games

S4 Ep20: Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Games

After Munich, Germany, was named the host of the 1972 Olympic Games, organizers were determined to highlight the country's softer side after the horrors of World War II. This was, after all, the first...

29 Heinä 202442min

S4 Ep19: The Time Mobile, Alabama, Sentenced a Man to Death For Stealing $1.95

S4 Ep19: The Time Mobile, Alabama, Sentenced a Man to Death For Stealing $1.95

When a handyman from Mobile, Alabama, was accused of stealing $1.95 from a woman who employed him in 1957, no one could have guessed the fervor it would cause, not just nationally but overseas. Jimmy ...

22 Heinä 202436min

S4 Ep18: The Pimlico Poisoning: The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett

S4 Ep18: The Pimlico Poisoning: The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett

Soon after London bade farewell to 1885 and welcomed the new year, a woman named Adelaide Bartlett roused her sleeping house with screams. Her husband, Edwin, who had seemed to have turned a corner on...

15 Heinä 202443min

From Grab Bag Collab: The Catalyst

From Grab Bag Collab: The Catalyst

Hey, Crimes of the Centuries listeners! COTC is dark for the next two weeks, but as a special bonus, here is another episode of The Catalyst, a true-crime podcast that publishes every other Friday exc...

1 Heinä 202435min

S4 Ep17: The Falcon and the Snowman

S4 Ep17: The Falcon and the Snowman

In the 1970s, an aerospace firm in Redondo Beach, California, had the clever idea of handing over access to highly classified spy satellite secrets to a 20-something named Christopher Boyce. It didn't...

24 Kesä 202441min

S4 Ep16: The Lonely Hearts Club Killers

S4 Ep16: The Lonely Hearts Club Killers

After World War II stole a great many men from their loving wives, Lonely Hearts clubs were all the rage for lonely widows looking for love. A number of them thought they'd met their soul mates when t...

17 Kesä 202439min

S4 Ep15: Randy Ayers: The Case of the Lookalike

S4 Ep15: Randy Ayers: The Case of the Lookalike

Randy Ayers was a 17-year-old high school senior when he was spotted at school and identified as the man who raped and tried to kill a 15-year-old girl in November 1981. It would take nine agonizing y...

10 Kesä 202436min

S4 Ep14: Voyage of the Damned: The M.S. St. Louis

S4 Ep14: Voyage of the Damned: The M.S. St. Louis

The 937 passengers aboard the M.S. St. Louis had every reason to be optimistic as they left Hamburg, Germany, on May 13, 1939. After years of their rights being slowly stripped away, the Jewish men, w...

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