Crimes of the Centuries with Amber Hunt

Hosted by @ReporterAmber Hunt, Crimes of the Centuries investigates forgotten crimes that changed history. Season 3: Now Playing.

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HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Our first COTC book, Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us, is now available at the link below and wherever books are sold. If you tag us in any photographs of you holding your copy, we’ll reshare them! 📖

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@pkdodimead Thank you so much. That was an enlightening case for me, too. - A

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@cindyjoy68 Thank you!! - A

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@jeremy_gans Just seeing this. We don’t monitor X much because it’s generally a cesspool. I’ll note the case, though! Thanks for the suggestion! - Amber

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The saga of Elwood Jones -- the suspect at the center of the fourth season of @AccusedPodcast -- continues. Prosecutors say his overturned conviction should be reinstated.

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This week's episode: When leaking luggage arrived at a Los Angeles train depot in 1931, the woman who’d traveled with the items feigned ignorance — and then disappeared, leading to a nationwide search. Learn about Winnie Ruth Judd, the 'Trunk Murderess' https://t.co/970JFzvKmg

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Ever wonder what @ReporterAmber does day to day as a journalist? Today, she and a colleague expose how Cincinnati homicide cases have unraveled after police & prosecutors relied on testimony by self-serving informants. https://t.co/gOKdf3qjLm

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@pokypinkdog @ReporterAmber Thank you so much. <3

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The morning of Aug. 1, 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed atop the University of Texas observatory tower and relentlessly began picking off pedestrians below in an attack unlike any before witnessed in America. #history #truecrime #texastowersniper https://t.co/AJ7FGgaWy0

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@jdavidson874 snagged his copy of our brand new book, Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us! Have you? 📖 Visit https://t.co/2O9Ur6wvlu to order your copy, or visit your local bookstore!

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Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/dJpxdjQw4v

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For years, the violence that occurred in the area known as "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921 was remembered as the "Tulsa Race Riot" - when it was even remembered at all. But that name, promoted by the media and government officials…

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…was at best a misleading description of what we've now started to reveal over the past few decades as a massacre perpetrated on a thriving Black community that took generations to recover.

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Don’t forget to pick up your copy of @ReporterAmber’s book, Crimes of the Centuries, on shelves and online now! Visit the link below
for more. 📖

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My @centuriespod: making nerds even nerdier since 2020.

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But as these men fell ill - or worse, starting dying - the motives behind Anna Marie Hahn's friendly overtures proved to be far more devious.

Listen now: https://t.co/MylMwyBkxW

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Her story seemed innocent at first, if not charming. A young immigrant woman from Germany befriending older gentlemen in Cincinnati's German community and providing them memories of home with her Old World cooking.

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@MsHDay You can buy on Amazon! Here’s the link: https://t.co/pO6QAHmNfB

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Listener @joeshwartz816 got his hands on a copy of our debut book… have you?? Tell us in the comments below your favorite chapter! 📚

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…assassinate multiple members of Lincoln's administration and throw a country just starting to recover from the Civil War into chaos.

Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/y8p1gSgqnh

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It's a story every American grade school student learns - how the actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in his box at the Ford's Theater, jumped down to the stage, and fled Washington DC until he was killed by the authorities in a barn in rural Virginia.

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But it's not widely known that Booth wasn't acting alone, and that President Lincoln was only one of several targets he and his conspirators planned to murder on the night of April 15, 1865. In this episode, we tell the story of the others involved and their plot to…