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 night Joachim Goshinau was set to leave Paris, he spent precious time with his wife René.

The two ate dinner together, then wandered the streets near the Arc de Triumpf, holding hands more like new lovers than a middle-aged married couple.

When the time came, they sweetly kissed goodbye with Joachim promising to send his wife

word of his safe arrival in Argentina as soon as he was settled.

Two months later in March 1942, a sense of unease grew in Renee.

She'd heard nothing from her husband, so she went to chat with a man who had facilitated

Joachim's trip.

That man happened to be Joachim's personal doctor, Marcel Petio, who assured the distraught wife that there was nothing to worry about.

Petio said he himself had received word from Joachim and that he'd safely made his way through

Marseille and Casablanca before reaching Buenos Aires.

In fact, Petio said, he'd received a postcard from Joachim to prove it.

The message on it read, I have arrived, I got sick during the crossing, but I am completely healed.

You can come.

At least, that's what the doctor said, it read.

The message had been written in a secret code, so Renee had to take his word for it, which

she did.

Joachim, after all, was a Jewish man fleeing occupied Paris, and Petio was a trusted friend and reputed resistance fighter, and this was trust fall time.

Joachim had already endured so much at the hands of the Third Reich. He had been forced to first label his

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