S1 Ep3: Elma Sands: The Manhattan Well Murder

S1 Ep3: Elma Sands: The Manhattan Well Murder

When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. But when she still hadn't returned days later, all eyes turned to her lover -- whom she'd supposedly been set to marry the last time she was seen alive. Levi Weeks came from a family with money, so his rich brother did something that was unheard of at this point in American history: He hired fancy lawyers. And that's how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ended up on the same side defending a man against murder charges in 1800.

The case, referenced in Lin Manuel Miranda's award-winning musical "Hamilton," marks two firsts: The defense panel was America's first legal Dream Team, and the Weeks' case was the first recorded murder trial in the country's history.

"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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S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse

S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse

Almshouses in the 19th and early 20th centuries were meant to help society's most vulnerable, but in the 1880s, one in Tewksbury, Massachusetts was accused of such shocking treatment that the governor...

14 Mar 202241min

S2 Ep9: Ken McElroy: Murder in the Town Square

S2 Ep9: Ken McElroy: Murder in the Town Square

Ken McElroy was killed outside, in broad daylight, with some 60 witnesses watching -- and yet no one copped to having seen a thing. McElroy, who'd long been known as a town bully in Skidmore, Missouri...

7 Mar 202239min

S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato

S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato

The Roberts murder discussed in last week's episode wasn't the only murder tied to "Peyton Place," the fictional town depicted in Grace Metallious' 1956 book. Just after Hollywood legend Lana Turner e...

28 Feb 202238min

S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder

S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder

When the groundbreaking book "Peyton Place" hit bookshelves in 1956, the murder tale at its center was so scandalous that many stores banned it outright. But the truth is that author Grace Metallious ...

21 Feb 202237min

S2 Ep6: Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster

S2 Ep6: Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster

Carl Panzram had a rough life growing up, so he decided to make life hell for everyone around him -- especially innocent young boys. When Panzram finally owned up to his crimes, his confession was so ...

14 Feb 202237min

S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick

S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick

The most popular motives for murder are money and sex. That's as true today as it was in 1903 when Edwin Burdick was found brutally bludgeoned in the den of his home. Soon, the nation would learn that...

7 Feb 202234min

S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case

S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case

Theora Hix was an enigma to those who knew her. She was witty, intelligent, and ambitious, but fiercely secretive. So when she turned up dead in the summer of 1926, investigators at first had no idea ...

31 Jan 202239min

S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House

S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House

When a beloved 3-year-old boy went missing, only to be discovered soon after in an outhouse with his throat slit, suspicion at first settled on the child's nursemaid in a London-area town in 1860. Aft...

24 Jan 202240min

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