S3 Ep2: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago Gang Wars of the 1920s

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In Prohibition Era Chicago, competing gangs of bootleggers battled for supremacy. In February 1929, notorious gangster Al Capone set up a brazen trap to mow down a slew of his rivals in what would become one of the most infamous crimes of the time. It would also lead to the creation of America's first-ever crime laboratory, and mark the beginning of the end for some of the most powerful criminals in American history.

"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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0:00.0	Hey, Crimes of the Century's listeners.
0:04.2	Have you heard the news?
0:05.3	Our sister podcast Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Egan is going on tour.
0:10.3	The live show will be in New York City on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington, D.C.
0:15.5	on April 23.
0:17.0	If you don't know Strange and Unexplained, it's a hilarious storytelling podcast where
0:22.2	each week Daisy takes her listeners on a journey through an unsolved mystery.
0:26.6	Sometimes it's earthly, like an unsolved murderer or disappearance.
0:30.2	Sometimes it's paranormal, like she looks into bigfoot sightings or alien encounters.
0:34.6	For the live show, she's diving into the 1962 escape from Alcatraz when three men
0:39.8	escape from what was supposed to be an escape proof Supermax Prison in the middle of San
0:44.8	Francisco Bay.
0:46.2	The men were never seen again, so did they pull off the impossible?
0:50.5	Or did they die in the water?
0:51.7	Either a hypothermia or by the jaws of sharks.
0:55.1	Daisy premiered this live show at ObsessedFest 2022 to rave reviews, and she is so excited
1:01.3	to be taking it on the road.
1:02.8	For information and tickets, go to Strange and UnexplainedPod.com.
1:15.3	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or
1:23.2	even earn the label Crime of the Century.
1:27.5	But the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered today.
1:34.1	I remember hunt, a journalist, and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine
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