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How Catherine of Aragon Changed Europe
Season 4 Episode 24
The Catholic Church lost its grip on England largely thanks to a woman who refused to quietly let her husband trade her in for a younger model. Cathe…
1 year, 4 months ago
Cassie Chadwick: The Impostor Heiress of the Gilded Age
Season 4 Episode 23
Cassie Chadwick of Cleveland wasn't who she said she was. Even she admitted that -- though in her version, she wasn't the con artist daughter of a Ca…
1 year, 5 months ago
Introducing... World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer
Introducing a NEW investigation from the BBC’s World of Secrets podcast: The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 1…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Largest Art Heist in American History
Season 4 Episode 22
When several men dressed as cops entered the Isabella Gardner Museum in March of 1990, the nighttime security detail didn't think much of it -- until…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sex, Lies and a Government Conspiracy: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Season 4 Episode 21
In 1932, hundreds of men in Tuskegee, Alabama, signed up for something they'd never had much access to: healthcare. The best part? It was free. Told …
1 year, 5 months ago
Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Games
Season 4 Episode 20
After Munich, Germany, was named the host of the 1972 Olympic Games, organizers were determined to highlight the country's softer side after the horr…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Time Mobile, Alabama, Sentenced a Man to Death For Stealing $1.95
Season 4 Episode 19
When a handyman from Mobile, Alabama, was accused of stealing $1.95 from a woman who employed him in 1957, no one could have guessed the fervor it wo…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Pimlico Poisoning: The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett
Season 4 Episode 18
Soon after London bade farewell to 1885 and welcomed the new year, a woman named Adelaide Bartlett roused her sleeping house with screams. Her husban…
1 year, 6 months ago
From Grab Bag Collab: The Catalyst
Hey, Crimes of the Centuries listeners! COTC is dark for the next two weeks, but as a special bonus, here is another episode of The Catalyst, a true-…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Falcon and the Snowman
Season 4 Episode 17
In the 1970s, an aerospace firm in Redondo Beach, California, had the clever idea of handing over access to highly classified spy satellite secrets t…
1 year, 6 months ago