S2 Ep30: Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers
Crimes of the Centuries
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
4.7 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 39 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 | Tis the season. Christmas lights are sparkling, drinks are flowing, and somewhere in the heart of London. |
| 0:06.2 | One drag queen and one spooky expert are cooking up cookie cases that will keep you company all through the festive season. |
| 0:13.5 | What? Killer's Golds and Queens is your refreshingly-strange true crime podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | Join Cheryl Hole and Nikki Drew's as they travel to the weirdest corners of the world to look at crazy colds. |
| 0:24.4 | The fact that Charles Manson is five foot two means the world to move. Caros Maddo Killers. I'm at a loss for words. |
| 0:31.9 | And the supernatural. He's feeling spooky, okay? |
| 0:36.6 | What could be more festive than that? Find Killers, Colts, and Queens wherever you get your podcast |
| 0:41.2 | and remember to hit follow so you never miss an episode. |
| 0:44.0 | Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century. |
| 0:59.6 | But the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered today. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's |
| 1:14.9 | maybe less known today, but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries. |
| 1:35.5 | There had been a time when Porter Rogers lived with his neighbors considered an |
| 1:40.0 | enviable picture-perfect life. Porter had grown up a poor child with enough smarts and drive to become a doctor. |
| 1:47.1 | And he was a generous one at that. When patients couldn't put their bills, Porter figured out a way |
| 1:52.2 | to help them anyway, sometimes waving their fees altogether. His kindness paid off in the long run, |
| 1:58.0 | earning him patients whose loyalty ultimately made him a millionaire. With that money, Porter bought |
| 2:04.4 | a hospital, named it after himself. With his whipsmart wife, Furn, he also had two children, |
| 2:11.1 | son Porter Jr. and daughter Anne, and the Rogers family was as close to royalty as you could get |
| 2:17.1 | in their small town of Sierra-Circone saw. For a while, anyway. The apex was probably the 1930s and |
| 2:25.2 | 40s. The Porter and Furn were still rich as sin and wildly influential in the 50s, 60s, and into |
| 2:32.4 | the 70s. Their sheen had definitely faded. It was common knowledge that Porter wasn't the most |
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