S1: PREVIEW: Crimes of the Centuries

S1: PREVIEW: Crimes of the Centuries

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.

Full episodes of "Crimes of the Centuries" premiere on October 26, 2020.

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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...

3 Jun 202440min

S4 Ep13: Kidnapped and Buried Alive: The Nightmare in Chowchilla

S4 Ep13: Kidnapped and Buried Alive: The Nightmare in Chowchilla

When 26 California schoolchildren and their bus driver failed to show up after a swimming trip on the penultimate day of summer school, authorities launched a search that grew much more frantic after ...

27 Mai 202436min

S4 Ep12: The Tsavo Man Eaters

S4 Ep12: The Tsavo Man Eaters

In 1898, a pair of killers stalked a worksite in the Tsavo region of Kenya. They evaded blockades and booby traps to torment hundreds of men who'd simply signed up to do a job but instead found themse...

20 Mai 202437min

S4 Ep11: Marie Noe and Her Cradle of Death

S4 Ep11: Marie Noe and Her Cradle of Death

In the 1960s, after losing all 10 of the babies they'd conceived, Marie Noe and her husband, Arthur, became the most famous bereaved parents in America, with most of the deaths attributed to "crib dea...

13 Mai 202438min

S4 Ep10: The Walk of Death: Howard Unruh

S4 Ep10: The Walk of Death: Howard Unruh

On September 6, 1949, 28-year-old World War II veteran Howard Unruh ate the breakfast his mother made him, then armed himself with a Luger pistol and walked calmly through his Camden, New Jersey, neig...

6 Mai 202437min

S4 Ep9: The Monster of Wall Street

S4 Ep9: The Monster of Wall Street

While the grift he deployed had been named for another man, Bernie Madoff took the concept of a Ponzi scheme and pumped it full of steroids, allowing it to keep him -- and plenty of others -- filthy r...

29 Apr 202441min

S4 Ep8: Charles Ponzi's Scheme

S4 Ep8: Charles Ponzi's Scheme

Italian-born Charles Ponzi had grown up hearing from his mother that he was destined for greatness, so it was no surprise to her when she visited him in America to find him wealthy beyond her wildest ...

22 Apr 202441min

S4 Ep7: The Los Angeles Times Bombing

S4 Ep7: The Los Angeles Times Bombing

In the midst of nationwide bombings that pit union backers against anti-union bosses, an explosion at the Los Angeles Times building crossed a line that changed everything. At 1:07 a.m. on Oct. 1, 191...

15 Apr 202438min

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