Podcast Episodes

The Monster in Plain Sight: Jimmy Savile

Season 5 Episode 34

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 knigh…

2 months ago

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…

2 months, 1 week ago

The Nazi Killed at the Laundromat — and How It Shaped Modern Extremism

Season 5 Episode 33

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 do…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Horst Wessel: The Making of a Nazi Martyr

Season 5 Episode 32

When Horst Wessel died in 1930, he was an obscure 22-year-old member of the SA. Within months, Joseph Goebbels had elevated him into a saint of the T…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Murder in the Mews: The Fall of Elvira Barney

Season 5 Episode 31

London in the early 1930s was captivated by the Bright Young Things — aristocratic sons and daughters whose glittering parties and endless scandals f…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 2: Blood Atonement

Season 5 Episode 30

Despite police informants thwarting one of his deadly plans, cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren’s appetite for violence couldn’t be satiated. When one targ…

3 months ago

The Prophet of Kirtland, Part 1: The Birth of a Cult

Season 5 Episode 29

In 1980s Ohio, Jeffrey Lundgren wasn’t just studying scripture — he was twisting it into something dangerous. To outsiders, he was a soft-spoken tour…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Literary Forgeries of Lee Israel

Season 5 Episode 28

For a brief, dazzling moment in early 1990s New York, biographer Lee Israel became one of the most notorious literary forgers of all time. Out of mon…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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; Ma…

3 months, 4 weeks 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…

4 months ago