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 in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist, an 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.

Thank you. This is Crimes of the Centuries. It was still dark at Indian Dunes when Frank Marshall left.

He had been there for the filming of the big climactic scene.

The one director John Landis had promised would be huge.

Marshall was the highest ranking person on set,

the executive producer with the most at stake and the most to lose.

Spielberg's producing partner,

the man Warner Brothers expected to make sure things went smoothly.

He had watched the scene unfold.

He had been standing close enough to understand in that first terrible moment exactly what had happened.

And then, according to accounts that would emerge years later,

he walked into the shallow water, pulled six-year-old Renee Chen's crush body from beneath its surface and placed her on the shore.

And then he walked to his car and drove away.

If you listen to Part 1 of this two-parter, you know that by the time the sun came up on

July 23rd, 1982, three people were dead. Renee, seven-year-old Mika Lee, and 53-year-old actor

Vic Morrow. The Santa Clara River Wash at Indian Dunes quickly became a crime scene, but before it made

that shift, several people quietly left. Marshall was the most noteworthy, because by departing when he did,

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