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 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. The guest at the Oxford Hotel in Denver wasn't merely sick.

He was writhing in agony covered in his own vomit and feces clearly nearing death store.

Yet the woman and child staying with him didn't seem concerned.

Hotel staff members definitely were, on the other hand.

In fact, they got so concerned that after a few days they refused to even

enter the room. Their bosses finally intervened and told the woman sternly,

take that man to a hospital now.

Instead, Anna Marie Hahn took George Obendorfer,

a 67-year-old retired cobbler,

she had met in Cincinnati to another hotel in

Colorado Springs called the Midland. There staff members reportedly saw her

bring the frail obviously sick man watermelon in copious amounts.

It looked like she seasoned it with granules of salt.

That didn't set off any alarms.

Lots of people like salt on their watermelon. But if they had known that at the same

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