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Crimes of the Centuries

S6: TRUTH DEFERRED S1E1: Love Lost & Justice Unraveling

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 1884 Cincinnati, a string of brutal murders and a verdict that outraged the public set off a chain of events that would end in one of the darkest moments in American history — the largest massacre of unarmed civilians by National Guard troops on U.S. soil. In Truth Deferred, historians Mike and Amy Morgan investigate what actually happened — and present the truth that was deliberately buried for over 140 years. While Amber's on vacation, we share Episode 1 of Truth Deferred: The story starts on Monday, March 31, 1884. The streets are covered in blood. Over 50 people are dead, and some are dying in the hallways of the hospital. Every window has been smashed out of the jail, and the county courthouse is a smoldering ruin. To find out how we got here, we travel back to an imperfect love story ending in a public murder, and how the case of William McHugh illustrates a growing distrust of the criminal justice system. (Truth Deferred began as a Grab Bag Collab podcast available only at GrabBagCollab.com. After its initial run, it was released wherever you get podcasts, so subscribe today.)

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Stephen Fry.

0:03.0

Today it's my pleasure to be your guide on this quite interesting tour of London.

0:09.0

Find out how Big Ben keeps accurate time with the help of a handful of pre-decimal coins,

0:15.0

like pennies, farthings and shillings from 1933.

0:20.0

And that's...

0:21.2

London's classic red phone boxes were actually based on a tomb.

0:26.5

Join Stephen Fry and the makers of QI

0:29.1

for fun-filled and fact-laden GPS-enabled audio tours.

0:34.5

Enjoy on location or at home.

0:37.1

To get started, visit q.i.com

0:40.1

slash walking tours. Hey, Crimes of the Century's listeners, Amber here. I'm still on vacation,

0:47.1

but I don't like leaving this feed empty, so I'm dropping in something I think you'll love.

0:51.3

This is the first episode of Truth Deferred, a historical true

0:55.7

crime podcast by Mike and Amy Morgan that started over at Grabback Club. That's my creator collective.

1:02.0

It's now available wherever you get podcasts. I wanted to share it here because if you're a

1:07.3

Katsy listener, this is exactly your kind of show. Mike and Amy dig into a series

1:12.9

of grisly murders and a wave of public hysteria that culminated in what became the largest

1:19.3

massacre of unarmed civilians by National Guard troops in U.S. history, an event usually called

1:26.0

the Cincinnati Courthouse Riot. The accepted story is

1:30.1

pretty tidy, a corrupt lawyer, a bribe jury, an outrage public, and soldiers heroically restoring order.

1:37.8

But Mike and Amy make a pretty compelling case that most of that story is wrong, and the truth's

1:43.2

been buried for over a century. There's

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