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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S4 Ep40: The Murder That Scandalized Harvard

S4 Ep40: The Murder That Scandalized Harvard

On Thanksgiving week in 1849, Boston doctor and Harvard graduate George Parkman went for a walk and never returned home. The last place he'd been spotted was near the college's medical school, where h...

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Introducing The In Between Podcast

Introducing The In Between Podcast

Host Mel Barrett investigates a famous murder case that has split the community in her home state of New Hampshire right down the middle for thirty-four years. It’s a closed case, but based on what Me...

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Daniel Sickles: Temporarily Insane?

Daniel Sickles: Temporarily Insane?

Crimes of the Centuries presents one of Amber's favorite episodes from Season One. Happy holidays everyone! In 1859, two of Washington, D.C.'s highest-profile men were in love with the same woman -- ...

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We are bringing you part two of the "Sunny" von Bülow story as a Bonus episode!  When heiress and socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bülow was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor, her husband seemed a...

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S4 Ep39: The Decades-Long Death of "Sunny" von Bülow

S4 Ep39: The Decades-Long Death of "Sunny" von Bülow

To outsiders, Claus and Martha "Sunny" von Bülow seemed an idyllic couple on the upper echelons of high society, but those who knew them best were growing increasingly concerned in the late 1970s when...

16 Dec 202441min

S4 Ep38: The Nazi Plunder of World War II

S4 Ep38: The Nazi Plunder of World War II

We all know Adolph Hitler as a mediocre artist-turned-genocidal dictator, but did you know that he pulled off the greatest art heist the world has ever seen? As World War II unfolded across Europe, Hi...

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S4 Ep37: Escape from Alcatraz

S4 Ep37: Escape from Alcatraz

The morning of June 12, 1962, alarms sounded at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island when guards conducting a head count came up three inmates short. In the prisoners' beds were decoy heads that boug...

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S4 Ep36: Brink's Heist: The Ultimate Caper

S4 Ep36: Brink's Heist: The Ultimate Caper

On January 17, 1950, a throng of men wearing superhero Halloween masks stormed into the headquarters of Brink's in Boston, Massachusetts, and made off with nearly $2.8 million. For years, the case baf...

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