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.

Paul Snyder really wanted a gun.

First he borrowed a revolver from a friend named Chip, but Chip was leaving town and asked

for his gun back.

Next Snyder asked a private investigator about how he might buy a machine gun for home

protection, he explained.

The freelance detective he consulted talked him out of that idea.

Finally, Snyder saw a classified ad for a 12-gauge Mossberg Pump Shotgun.

He circled the ad, called the owner, and drove to the San Fernando Valley to pick up

the weapon, but returned home empty handed after he got himself lost.

Like he for him, the gun's owner was happy to deliver the shotgun to Snyder instead,

meeting him at a construction site where he even taught Snyder how to load and fire the

powerful weapon.

A few days later, Paul Snyder used that shotgun to blast his estranged wife in the face,

filling the Statuesque model in burgeoning Hollywood star in a horrific murder suicide

that would shock the nation, Rattle Hollywood, and draw scrutiny upon and lawsuits against

one of America's richest, most influential men.

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