S5 Ep21: Gun on the Ferry: The Ruin of Laura Fair
Laura Fair wanted what many women in Gilded-Age San Francisco wanted: security, respectability, and a husband who told the truth. What she got instead was a years-long affair and a heap of public scor...
4 Aug 202548min
S5 Ep20: The Fox in the Henhouse: Klaus Fuchs and the Secret That Changed the World
You’d think the guy helping build the deadliest weapon in history would be someone the Allies vetted carefully. You’d be wrong. Klaus Fuchs was a physicist, a refugee, and a trusted member of the Manh...
28 Jul 202552min
S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up
In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood left her home with a binder full of evidence and a plan to blow the whistle on dangerous conditions at the plutonium plant where she worked. She never arrived. What...
21 Jul 202546min
S5 Ep18: Reckoning at Penn State: The Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Jerry Sandusky was a legend at Penn State University. As the right hand of head football coach Joe Paterno, he was known not only as an exceptional coach but also as a big-hearted philanthropist and a...
14 Jul 202550min
S5 Ep17: Faith Vs. Flag: How the Gobitis Case Tested the Limits of Religious Freedom
In 1935, 12-year-old Lillian Gobitas and her little brother William were kicked out of their Pennsylvania public school — not for misbehaving, but for quietly refusing to salute the flag, which they b...
7 Jul 202544min
The Murder of Phil Hartman
Crimes Of The Centuries is dark again this week, so here is an episode that you might not have heard previously... or might just want to listen to again. When news spread that a high-profile comedian...
30 Jun 202538min
Guest Episode: The Wild Tale of Black Jack Ketchum
While Crimes of the Centuries takes a brief summer break, enjoy a guest episode from Josh at The Wild West Extravaganza. This one’s a doozy: It’s the story of "Black Jack" Ketchum — a train robber who...
23 Jun 202530min
S5 Ep16: 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 quiet city block in ...
16 Jun 202549min
