{"podcast":{"title":"Crimes of the Centuries","slug":"crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689","podcast_index_feed_id":1330689,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5034723.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5034723","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/41419318.jpg","author":"Amber Hunt and Audioboom","episode_count":275,"summary":"Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each episode of Crimes of the Centuries, award-winning journalist Amber Hunt will examine a case that’s lesser known today but was huge when it happened. The cases explored span the centuries and each left a mark. Some made history by changing laws. Others were so shocking they changed society.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T20:22:35.066214+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689"},"episode":{"title":"S6: ENCORE: The Manhattan Well Murder","slug":"s6-encore-the-manhattan-well-murder","published_at":"2026-07-02T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689/s6-encore-the-manhattan-well-murder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8920599","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8920599.mp3?modified=1782337193&sid=5034723&source=rss","summary":"When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. But when she still hadn't returned days later, all eyes turned to her lover, whom she'd supposedly been set to marry the last time she was seen alive. Levi Weeks came from a family with money, so his rich brother did something that was unheard of at this point in American history: He hired fancy lawyers. And that's how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ended up on the same side defending a man against murder charges in 1800. The case, referenced in Lin Manuel Miranda's award-winning musical \"Hamilton,\" marks two firsts: The defense panel was America's first legal Dream Team, and the Weeks' case was the first recorded murder trial in the country's history.","meta_description":"When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. But when she sti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2752,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689/episodes/s6-encore-the-manhattan-well-murder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689/s6-encore-the-manhattan-well-murder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}