Crimes of the Centuries

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S6: The Faith Hedgepeth Trial: Future COTC? Nov 09, 2026

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Faith Hedgepeth was 19 when she was beaten to death in her off-campus apartment in September 2012. It took nine years to make an arrest, and five more to get Miguel Salguero-Olivares in front of a jury. At trial, Faith’s former roommate, long the internet’s favorite suspect, took the stand while the defense suggested she had killed her best friend. Testimony also exposed mistakes investigators made, and some of them are hard to forgive. (No regular COTC this week, so Amber is bringing you this update on a case we first covered as a Future COTC?.)

S6 Ep32: A Death at Calumet: The Story of Alydar Nov 02, 2026

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In November 1990, something terrible happened inside a stall at one of the most storied farms in Kentucky. The victim was worth millions. The people around him were drowning in debt. And when an injury that initially looked survivable turned fatal, the questions started almost immediately: Was this really an accident? Or had someone at Calumet Farm decided a death was worth more than a life?

Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history. You can get early and ad-free episodes and more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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S6: ENCORE: The Candy Man Oct 31, 2026

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Happy Halloween, everybody. I thought I'd mark the occasion by revisiting one of the most chilling stories we've ever covered, that of Ronald O'Bryan, the man who came dangerously close to ruining Halloween for everybody. Because while we spend this time of year dressing up as monsters and pretending to be scared of things that go bump in the night, this story is a reminder that sometimes the scariest monsters are the people closest to us. So grab some candy, check for tampering, and settle in for this encore episode of Crimes of the Centuries.

S6 Ep31: LIVE: A Deadly Christmas Eve at the American Saloon Oct 26, 2026

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On Christmas Eve 1870, a chaotic brawl inside a Hamilton, Ohio gambling saloon left notorious ruffian Thomas Myers dead from a mysterious gunshot. The state quickly pinned the murder on political operator Thomas McGehean, triggering a sensational series of Gilded Age trials wrapped up in a multi-million-dollar federal whiskey ring. Defense attorney Clement L. Vallandigham was so sure of his own theory about the shooting that he staged a demonstration to prove it — and shot himself in the process.

Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history. You can get early and ad-free episodes and more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

Order the Crimes of the Centuries book at your favorite bookstore or at www.centuriespod.com/book!

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S6 Ep30: Too Rich to Save: The Kidnapping of John Paul Getty III Oct 19, 2026

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When 16-year-old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped from a Roman street in 1973, his captors thought they’d chosen the perfect target: the grandson of the richest man in the world. They hadn’t counted on J. Paul Getty refusing to pay. As weeks turned into months and the kidnappers grew increasingly desperate, a teenager already struggling under the weight of his famous name would pay a horrifying price for his family’s fortune.

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S6 Ep29: The Serial Killer Every Cop Knew Oct 12, 2026

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Through the 1970s and ’80s, women were being raped and murdered in northwest Fort Lauderdale, and police kept hearing the same name: Eddie Lee Mosley. He was arrested, questioned, identified and released again and again. And somehow, while Mosley remained free, two other men paid for his crimes instead.

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S6 Ep28: Dirty Secrets at Dublin Castle Oct 05, 2026

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In 1907, Ireland’s Crown Jewels vanished from Dublin Castle just days before a royal visit. The hunt for them led into the private lives of aristocrats, con men and royal insiders — and whispers of secret relationships, blackmail and a scandal nobody in power particularly wanted dragged into the light.

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S6: ENCORE: Massacre at Taliesin Sep 28, 2026

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For years, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had made headlines for his personal life. After all, he'd left his wife and six children for a married woman during the Victorian era, and made no apologies for the two "living in sin" in a home he built on family land in Wisconsin. Then, on a hot August day in 1914, Wright's whole world came crashing down: A murderer had attacked his so-called Love Cottage dubbed Taliesin. The case not only riveted the nation, but it also changed the course of architecture in America.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

S6 Ep27: Catch the Devil: The Murder of Shelly Boggio Sep 21, 2026

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Fourteen-year-old Shelly Boggio was found stabbed and drowned off a Florida beach in 1985. Two men were convicted of her murder — but the case against one of them depended heavily on the word of Paul Skalnik, a serial con man and prolific jailhouse informant who claimed his fellow prisoners had a remarkable habit of confessing to him. Skalnik would help send dozens of people to prison and four men to death row. Journalist Pamela Colloff, author of the new book Catch the Devil, joins us to examine Shelly’s murder, the case that followed, and what happens when the justice system decides to believe a professional liar.

S6 Ep26: Johnny Gosch: The Paperboy Who Never Came Home Sep 14, 2026

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On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch left his West Des Moines home to deliver newspapers. He never made it back. What followed was a police chief with his own violent history, an FBI that wanted nothing to do with it, and a mother who refused to let the case go quiet — even when the few answers she found led somewhere far stranger than anyone expected.

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