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May 18, 2022·edited May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Jeffrey Epstein and/or Harvey Weinstein, I think, although obviously their crimes started well before this century. Or maybe Bernie Madoff? The opioid crisis is too diffuse a subject for me to really get behind that choice; I categorize books about the opioid crisis as "social science" rather than "true crime".

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September 11th?

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Enron

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Paul Ryan’s tax cut for the .001%. This will fuck up America for decades to come.

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Not a crime, but the solve of the century is the Golden State Killer. It's sort of amazing that crimes that were "unsolvable" when they happened, are now wrapped up because the future caught up with him. And will be the start of more to come.

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Mass shootings (too many to chose from, but Sandy Hook comes to mind for the sheer horror), Bernie Madoff, husbands murdering their pregnant wives (not a new phenomena but wow has this been all over the media in the last 22 years...Chris Watts, Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, etc.)

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Wikileaks?

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

His election. (No, even I know he won that election.) The war on drugs would be my real answer.

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

I love listening to Amber Hunt’s Crimes of the Centuries podcast because it constantly reminds me that - like a soul mate - there’s always more than one. What about the unchecked spread of COVID-19? Or maybe that was stupidity of the century.

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May 18, 2022Liked by Best Evidence

Apparently I'm incapable for remembering which century I'm in.

I'd have loved it to be the Panama Papers, but that was a damp squib.

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