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Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century,

but the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered today.

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine

a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is crimes

of the centuries.

On April 10, 1834, word spread in New Orleans that a house was on fire at the corner of

royal and hospital streets. Neighbors rushed to the scene in a few brave ones even made

their way inside. There, they found a woman in the kitchen in chains. Her brown skin made

darker by bruises. It appeared it was she who set the fire. The sight of this woman

was shocking, and yet there had been rumors about this house in New Orleans. Rumors that

the slaves inside were treated even more cruelly than others in the slave-holding state of Louisiana.

So the townspeople ran through the house opening one door after another. They finally

reached an apartment that had been rumored to serve as a sort of makeshift prison and

found seven human beings so badly tortured that, though they were alive, they barely

looked like people at all. The victims were carried from the home and taken to the city

hall where they were laid beneath the arches that surrounded the building. The sight of

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