S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell
For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived like royalty—breeding champion horses, dripping i...
22 Dec 202551min
S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers
When two wealthy brothers from the same family were murdered three years and 8,000 miles apart, it seemed too strange to be coincidence. But behind both crimes lay the same forces—greed, arrogance, an...
15 Dec 202549min
S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County
A boy’s discovery in the Yellow River launched one of the South’s most shocking murder investigations. What authorities found on John S. Williams’s farm in 1921 exposed a brutal system hiding in plain...
8 Dec 202547min
S5 Ep36: Thomas Jefferson and the $157,000 Bottle
In 1985, Christie’s auctioned off a dusty Bordeaux engraved with the initials “Th.J.” The seller claimed it had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, and the bottle fetched an astonishing $157,000. It wa...
1 Dec 202552min
S5 Ep35: The Saint and the Survivors: The Story of Junípero Serra
He gave up comfort for a calling, left Spain for the wilds of California, and walked thousands of miles to bring the Gospel to Indigenous people. Father Junípero Serra is revered by some as a saintly ...
24 Nov 202545min
S5 Ep34: The Monster in Plain Sight: Jimmy Savile
He was the BBC’s quirky golden boy — cigar in hand, tracksuit on, always ready to raise money for charity. Margaret Thatcher lobbied to get him knighted. The Queen pinned the honor on him. And all the...
17 Nov 202553min
More Like Ancient FAILiens: Underground Aliens with Guest Amber Hunt
While Crimes Of The Centuries is dark this week, please enjoy this special episode of the podcast, More Like Ancient Fail-iens, where Amber Hunt was a special guest! Whether you are in your enormous ...
10 Nov 20251h 8min
S5 Ep33: The Nazi Killed at the Laundromat — and How It Shaped Modern Extremism
In August 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell — founder of the American Nazi Party and one of the most hated men in America — was shot by a sniper while doing laundry at a suburban strip mall. His murder ma...
3 Nov 202552min
