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Back to SearchDorothy Stratten: A Playmate Murdered
Season 3 Episode 3
Months after being named "Playboy Playmate of the Year" in 1980, Dorothy Stratten was poised to make the transition from model to Hollywood actress. …
2 years, 10 months ago
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago Gang Wars of the 1920s
Season 3 Episode 2
In Prohibition Era Chicago, competing gangs of bootleggers battled for supremacy. In February 1929, notorious gangster Al Capone set up a brazen tra…
2 years, 10 months ago
Dr. Thomas Cream: The Forgotten Victorian Serial Killer
Season 3 Episode 1
In Victorian England, a serial killer preyed on sex workers and other vulnerable women. But unlike the infamous Jack the Ripper, this serial killer, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Introducing... I Think Not! (A New True Crime Comedy Podcast)
Hey Crimes of the Centuries listeners! The Obsessed Network has as a brand new podcast from the former hosts and creators of Obsessed with: Disappear…
3 years ago
The Case of Kirk Bloodsworth: America’s First DNA Exoneration
Season 2 Episode 42
After the 1984 discovery of 9-year-old Dawn Hamilton’s body in the woods, police began their search for a tall, muscular, curly-haired man. Kirk Bloo…
3 years, 1 month ago
Obsessed Fest 2023 Tickets Are On Sale NOW!!!!!
Hey, Crimes of the Centuries listeners!! Tickets are on sale NOW for Obsessed Fest 2023, taking place in Dallas Texas from October 20th - 22nd. You c…
3 years, 1 month ago
Illegal Luck: How the New Hampshire Sweepstakes Went Haywire
Season 2 Episode 41
In the summer of 1964, the first modern lottery was off to the races in New Hampshire. The “Sweeps,” as they were called, were a sensation of nationa…
3 years, 1 month ago
The True Story Behind 'Murder Ordained'
Season 2 Episode 40
Film adaptations of true crimes have to strike a tricky balance between authenticity and drama. 1987’s Murder Ordained depicts the 1983 incidents wit…
3 years, 2 months ago
Soul Leaves Body: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Season 2 Episode 39
Singing his way through the 1950s and early 1960s, appealing to audiences across a segregated music industry, churning out hits of dreamy quality lik…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Bender Family: A Suspicious Band of Innkeepers
Season 2 Episode 38
Inside a modest cabin on the vast prairies of Kansas lived a family, or at least four individuals claiming to be one. The Benders were an odd bunch: …
3 years, 2 months ago