Podcast Episodes

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 shapi…

11 months, 2 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 J…

11 months, 3 weeks 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 …

1 year 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 instea…

1 year 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 phy…

1 year ago

Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up

Season 5 Episode 19

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 pluton…

1 year ago

Reckoning at Penn State: The Jerry Sandusky Scandal

Season 5 Episode 18

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 c…

1 year ago

Faith Vs. Flag: How the Gobitis Case Tested the Limits of Religious Freedom

Season 5 Episode 17

In 1935, 12-year-old Lillian Gobitas and her little brother William were kicked out of their Pennsylvania public school — not for misbehaving, but fo…

1 year, 1 month ago

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 ag…

1 year, 1 month ago

Guest Episode: The Wild Tale of Black Jack Ketchum

While Crimes of the Centuries takes a brief summer break, enjoy a guest episode from Josh at The Wild West Extravaganza. This one’s a doozy: It’s the…

1 year, 1 month ago