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Travel restrictions and season season season. 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.

If you listened to last episode about the murders in Velisca, you'll know that authors Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James spent years

sifting through old newspaper accounts of grizzly axe murders. Several of the murders that they examined, but which they do not believe

was the work of the Velisca killer, are worthy of their own episodes. So much so that I probably could do half a season

just looking at various familiar sides in the early 1900s. But there was one case in particular that caught my attention

and seemed worthy of an offshoot episode. A case so unknown that there was no documentary or news reel to help tell the story.

And yet, it's a story with big political ramifications, plus the types of twists and turns usually reserved for the movies.

And that is the story of a woman and her son brutally slain in a small Oregon town called Skapuz.

About 30 miles north of Portland near the Washington border, at least today Skapuz is a small Oregon town.

Back then, it was an unincorporated village with fewer than 200 residents.

So there was a small family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wehrman, who lived in a tiny little mountain town in Oregon called Skapuz.

This is McCarthy James, from whom you heard last episode. She helped write the book The Man from the Train, which centered on the serial killer that she and her co-author dad, Bill James,

believed committed the crime in the list, Iowa. The James is also highlighted this case in a tangential chapter.

The year was 1911.

William Howard Taft was in the White House. America was a nation of 90 million. Life and his time was simpler. There was no television or radio and coal cost less than $5 a ton.

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