Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even

earn the label crime of the century.

But the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered today.

I remember 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.

This is the second of two episodes covering the murder of Heriokes.

If you haven't listened to the first part, go check it out and come back here for the

final part.

Even before Nancy Oaks learned of her father's brutal murder, her life had been in utter

disarray.

For starters, she was an 18-year-old woman who had married Alfred de Mourigny a man nearly

twice her age without her parents' consent.

So her folks, Sir Harry and Lady Eunice Oaks, didn't demand a divorce or an omen.

They made their displeasure known from the start, going so far as to set up separate

bedrooms for the married couple when they stayed at one of the Oaks's posh homes in their

adopted Bahamas home.

That did not go over well.

The friction drove a wedge between Nancy and her mother especially.

So much so that Nancy had even written a letter to Lady Eunice that basically said, hey,

if you make me choose just a heads up, I won't choose you.

But that wasn't the only strife in Nancy's life.

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