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Nov 2024
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135: The Perfect Crime - The Murder of B...

Justin Drown
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Listener, I have a special multi-part series in store for you. For this episode we cover the players. Those involved. It’s an older story. With its murder taking place in 1924. At the time it was called The Crime of the Century, with a trial the likes the world had never seen. A full-blown media spectacle. And the victim caught up in a senseless scheme.

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