Podcast Episodes

The Real Goodfellas Job

Season 5 Episode 27

It was the score of all scores: a $6 million haul in cash and jewels lifted from JFK Airport in 1978. The headlines called it the Lufthansa heist; Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas turned it into legend. …

Published on 8 hours ago

The Massacre Texas Tried to Erase

Season 5 Episode 26

In the piney woods of East Texas in 1910, a mob of white men stormed through the Black community of Slocum, murdering dozens — possibly hundreds — of unarmed residents. The killers faced almost no co…

Published on 1 week ago

Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY

Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily.
Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, cover…

Published on 1 week ago

The Hitler Diaries

Season 5 Episode 25

When a major German magazine announced it had uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost diaries, the world took notice. But what began as a journalistic coup turned into a scandal that rattled media empires…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Who Killed Barbara Hamburg? The True Story Behind El Dorado Drive

Season 5 Episode 24

The murder of Barbara Hamburg might read like fiction — a bitter divorce, a mysterious pyramid scheme, a family full of secrets — but for her son Madison, it was all too real. In 2010, Barbara was fo…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Death of John O’Keefe and the Trials of Karen Read

This week on Crimes of the Centuries, we’re breaking from tradition. Instead of a crime from decades past, we’re looking at a case that’s still shaping headlines — and raising questions that may take…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Separating Fact from Fiction

Season 5 Episode 23

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 w…

Published on 1 month ago

The Green Bicycle Mystery

Season 5 Episode 22

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 bul…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Gun on the Ferry: The Ruin of Laura Fair

Season 5 Episode 21

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 sco…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Fox in the Henhouse: Klaus Fuchs and the Secret That Changed the World

Season 5 Episode 20

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 Man…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago