S5 Ep23: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Separating Fact from Fiction
In 1981, 21-year-old Danny Hansford was shot and killed inside one of Savannah’s grandest mansions. The man who pulled the trigger, antiques dealer Jim Williams, claimed self-defense. What followed wa...
18 Aug 202548min
S5 Ep22: The Green Bicycle Mystery
Bella Wright was a shy, working-class woman whose life was cut short on a summer night in 1919, just short of her 22nd birthday. At first, her death looked like a tragic accident – until a single bull...
11 Aug 202548min
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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 202538min
