S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till

S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till

A fun-loving Chicago teenager convinced his mom to let him visit relatives in Mississippi over the summer of 1955. Three days after his arrival, 14-year-old Emmett Till was viciously murdered. Because his mother insisted that the world see the violence inflicted upon her son, the case made international news and galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States.

"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 Ep15: Randy Ayers: The Case of the Lookalike

S4 Ep15: Randy Ayers: The Case of the Lookalike

Randy Ayers was a 17-year-old high school senior when he was spotted at school and identified as the man who raped and tried to kill a 15-year-old girl in November 1981. It would take nine agonizing y...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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