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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 past 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. Her head bowed and Putnam Jr. listened as the confession she'd written

was read out loud. It had taken her a long time, 14 years in fact, to reach this point,

to admit publicly that what she had said in court all those years ago was wrong and

tasked for forgiveness. She hadn't done it out of anger or malice, she said. She'd

just been a kid when it all happened, and she had no idea at the time that what she was

saying was a lie. Still, there was no room for an oops-my-bad apology here. What Anne

had said in a supposed court of law got 20 people killed. 19 were executed, and the last

died because of the awful conditions in the jail. A four-year-old girl had even been

arrested and held, and while she survived, her mother and her sister didn't, and she

was mentally disturbed for the rest of her life. Anne now confessed that she had lied about

everything, and she was sorry. What I did was, ignorantly, being deluded by Satan, the

confession read, I desired to lie in the dust and earnestly beg forgiveness of God, and

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