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so you can decide if we're a community you'd like to join. 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. When Bernie Madoff finally confessed what he had

done to his wife Ruth and their two grown sons, what's a Ponzi scheme, she asked.

The sons, Mark and Andrew, knew what it was.

They also knew in that instant their lives as they had always known them were over.

Both sons left their parents lush Upper East Side penthouse and never spoke to or saw their father again.

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