#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered Brink's |
#7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as did accomplice Richard Loeb (Nathan) Leopold |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $200: Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to money laundering, fraud & a bunch of other stuff the 21st century |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $400: Charlotte Corday kills Marat, is not sad the 18th century |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $600: Lewis Payne causes William Seward pain, but even wounding the Secretary of State is not the biggest crime that day the 19th century |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $800: The Salem witch trials burn into history the 17th century |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $1000: William Wallace is condemned as a traitor, though he said he never swore allegiance to Edward the 14th century |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $400: The kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart the 21st century |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $800: The great Brinks robbery the 20th century |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $1,500 (Daily Double): The assassination of Jean-Paul Marat the 18th century |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $1600: Brutus earns an et tu from Julius Caesar the 1st century B.C. |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $2000: The murder of Thomas a Becket the 12th century |
#4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker & her sister by Raskolnikov Crime and Punishment |
#3056, aired 1997-12-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: "Burning Times" refers to the 15th-18th century persecution of women for this crime Witchcraft |
#2400, aired 1995-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: The main witness in a 1963 Senate investigation of organized crime, his "papers" were published in 1969 Joseph Valachi |
#1718, aired 1992-02-05 | SHERLOCK HOLMES $600: Holmes described this archrival as a "Napoleon of Crime" & "One of the Great Brains of the Century" Professor Moriarty |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600: In 1951 Senator Estes Kefauver led a Senate investigation of this organized crime, the Mafia |