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. Moreenose has husband never believed that she could have done what they said she had done.

Arthur hadn't known why the crimes occurred, but he damn sure knew that Marie couldn't be responsible.

He had not even suspected it.

Later, when she said she was, he didn't believe it then either.

But much, much later, Marie remembered the details of four of those crimes. The others, well,

they remained kind of vague in Marie's memory, but yeah, she said she'd probably done those too.

Which is astonishing and horrifying and unbearably sad all at the same time

because Marie knows crime was killing eight of her ten children all before they reached the age of two.

The other two children she bore, well she never had the chance to kill them.

One was still born and the other died a few days after birth in the hospital under medical care.

The eight that went home with Maria and Arthur sooner or later perished, making them for most Americans who by then

had read about the parents awful experiences in the newspapers, the unluckiest and most

pitied couple alive.

For the few who knew the specifics of those baby's deaths,

though, bad luck became increasingly less likely.

But proof otherwise was elusive. It was true that none of the

eight had evidence of child abuse or neglect. The babies were, when seen alive in

public, usually healthy, clean, well-dressed and burbling along like

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