S3 Ep11: The Last Call Killings

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Multiple murders, violent assaults, and a new forensic fingerprint technique. In today's episode we visit the killings, the acquittals, and eventually the conviction of Richard Rogers, a cold-blooded serial killer whose suspected crimes span from 1973 to 1993, and whose final victim count may never be known.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from the Obsessed Network exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even
0:14.5	earn the label crime of the century.
0:18.5	But the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:25.1	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine
0:30.2	a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
0:36.7	This is crimes of the centuries.
0:50.2	And bicyclists found the blood-spattered body of a young man 20 feet off a seemingly remote
0:55.7	road.
0:56.7	It was immediately clear he had met a violent end.
1:00.9	Frederick Spencer's skull had been smashed with a hammer multiple times.
1:06.0	Not only that, but he had a plastic bag tied around his head, as though whoever killed
1:10.9	him was desperate to make sure that Frederick had breathed his last.
1:16.2	It took it had longer, but not much, for investigators to figure out who had killed Frederick.
1:22.2	As far as homicides went, this one was not well concealed.
1:26.4	The road off which the body was found might have looked backwards to an out of towner,
1:31.6	but it was actually quite popular with local bicyclists, two of whom spotted the body
1:36.0	just hours after it had been left there.
1:39.2	Not only that, but on the body was a post office box key easily traced to a man who lived
1:45.3	in a rooming house shared by four college students in total, so Frederick and three housemates.
1:52.4	Inside the house, blood was found in just one of those mate's bedrooms.
1:57.1	The only way it could have been any clearer who had killed Frederick Spencer would have
2:01.8	been if the killer had literally been caught in the act.
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