{"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":264,"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":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689"},"episode":{"title":"S6 Ep6: The Murder That Sparked the Zoot Suit Riots","slug":"s6-ep6-the-murder-that-sparked-the-zoot-suit-riots","published_at":"2026-04-06T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689/s6-ep6-the-murder-that-sparked-the-zoot-suit-riots","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8882815","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/8882815.mp3?modified=1775236809&sid=5034723&source=rss","summary":"In August 1942, 22-year-old Jose Diaz was found dying near a Los Angeles reservoir called Sleepy Lagoon. He'd been beaten and stabbed the night before he was set to report to the U.S. Army. His death became the excuse the LAPD needed to launch a massive crackdown on Mexican American youth—rounding up 600 people, trying 22 young men with questionable evidence and igniting racial tensions that exploded into the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. But who really killed Jose Diaz? And why did a fashion choice become a crime?","meta_description":"In August 1942, 22-year-old Jose Diaz was found dying near a Los Angeles reservoir called Sleepy Lagoon. He'd been beaten and stabbed the night before he…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3357,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crimes-of-the-centuries-1330689/episodes/s6-ep6-the-murder-that-sparked-the-zoot-suit-riots/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-ep6-the-murder-that-sparked-the-zoot-suit-riots.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}