Crimes of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby, the Mona Lisa Heist, and the Fatty Arbuckle Scandal

Why have only a few particular murders and heists and scandals been immortalized in popular culture? Join Shane and Duncan for a dive into three famous capers of the 1900s to help uncover the x-factors that elevate a garden-variety crime to legend status. 

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In this episode: 

• Charles Lindbergh
• The Aerial Daredevil Lindbergh
• Aviator Worship
• Air Mail ServiceThe Orteig Prize
• John Alcock and Arthur Brown
• The Kidnapping of the Lindburgh Baby
• The Ransom Notes
• John Condon, Intermediary
• The Body is Found
• Gold Certificates Break the Case
• Bruno Richard Hauptmann
• The Trial
• Theft of the Mona Lisa
• The Louvre in the Early 1900s
• Louis Beroud
• Leonardo da Vinci and the History of the Painting
• Francesco and Lisa Giocondo
• Louis Lepine
• Pablo Picasso, Suspect
• Vencenzo Peruggia
• Alfredo Geri and Giovanni Poggi
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
• Fatty, Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops
• Memorial Day at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco
• Virginia Rappe
• Bambina Maude Delmont
• The Death
• First Trial
• Second Trial
• Third Trial and Exoneration
• William B Goodrich

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