S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House
Crimes of the Centuries
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
4.7 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:32.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:45.0 | because like your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:50.0 | and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:55.0 | Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks. |
| 1:06.0 | Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century. |
| 1:14.0 | But the stories that made headlines in decades passed are necessarily remembered today. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author. And in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case |
| 1:29.0 | that's maybe less so known today but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries. |
| 1:49.0 | Francis Savile Kent was a flex and haired, precocious little boy, absolutely adored by his family. |
| 1:56.0 | Even though his dad had had many children before him, seriously, Samuel Kent had 10 kids before and then another two after. |
| 2:04.0 | There was something about three-year-old Francis Savile that endeared him more than most. |
| 2:10.0 | So when his nurse made a woke one June morning and didn't see him in his bed, she didn't think twice about it. |
| 2:16.0 | Surely one of the boys' parents had heard him crying in the night and he, being the family favorite, was probably nestled in bed with them now. |
| 2:26.0 | But when the boys' mother woke up without him, panic enveloped the household, kicking off a terrifying case that would pit high class against low and influence literature for decades to come. |
| 2:38.0 | Now the start of this case might sound familiar, a little boy, still a toddler, disappeared from his own bed one night despite his whole family being home when it happened. |
| 2:47.0 | If you listen to season 1's Lindbergh baby episode, this might feel a bit deja vu. But this case came 72 years earlier than that one and it occurred in Old England, not the newer version. |
| 3:00.0 | Not only that, but the mystery surrounding who done it makes this one of the most compelling cases of the 19th century. |
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