S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For much of their outlaw careers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid weren't the inseparable duo that Hollywood made us believe with its 1969 depiction of the pair. But the movie isn't the only reason the two are inextricably linked: The two members of the Wild West crew known as The Wild Bunch were wanted men when they opted in 1901 to disappear together. The official story is that the pair died in a shoot-out with the Bolivian army, but more than a century later, questions remain.

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0:07.1	therapist, coach and TV personality. One in five people have admitted to having an affair.
0:14.0	Each episode features a different real-life affair story told by the people involved and offers
0:20.1	insights into the emotions, causes and
0:22.4	consequences of infidelity in today's world.
0:26.0	Available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.6	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking, they change laws, change society, or even
0:45.4	earn the label, Crime of the Century. But the stories that made headlines and decades
0:51.4	past aren't necessarily remembered today. I'm Amber Hunt, a
0:56.6	journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe
1:01.8	lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is Crimes of the Centuries.
1:20.8	When I came here, you were nothing.
1:22.4	You weren't even a gang. I formed you.
1:23.0	Who says?
1:24.8	Well, read them a clipping news.
1:26.7	Which one? Any of them.
1:28.9	This one here's from Salt Lake Harrow.
1:31.4	Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang struck. Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, that's me.
1:35.4	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid weren't actually all that famous until the movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford came out in 1969. Truth is, they weren't even
1:46.5	much of a duo for most of their criminal escapades, but were just two guys who hung around some
1:52.2	other people they knew who loosely, and I do mean very loosely, made up something called
1:57.6	The Wild Bunch. None of this takes away from the glamour and glory that
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