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Crimes of the Centuries

S4 Ep29: Col. Tom Parker: The Fraud Who Made Elvis Presley

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Music legend Elvis Presley never knew it before he died, but the man he trusted with his career and money was not who he said he was. Col. Tom Parker had been born in the Netherlands, not in Huntington, W. Va., as he'd claimed. Parker -- born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk before arriving in the U.S. illegally -- upended the music industry with the unorthodox contracts he demanded, which lined his pockets more than anyone else's.

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I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,

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and in each episode of this show,

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I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today

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but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries. Oh, And Andreas Van Coouye may or may not have bludgeon to death,

1:35.4

Anna Van Den Enden, a newlywed who lived behind her fruit shop in Holland in the late 1920s. The 23-year-old Green Grocer's wife, who probably had known

1:47.3

Andreas from their earliest years together in their small Dutch town of Breda, died on Friday, May 17th, 1929, while she was at her kitchen

1:57.5

sink in the home that adjoined the shop.

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A man had been seen leaving the shop around the time the murder occurred,

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wearing what one witness described as a fantasy coat,

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very much in the style of Kuyet's typical dress.

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Or maybe it was an unusual yellow rain. style of Kuyay's typical dress.

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