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S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release

Crimes of the Centuries

Mar 2, 202645:55Society & Culture

In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a cause célèbre, hailed as a wrongfully convicted intellectual. His release had be...

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S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release is an episode from Crimes of the Centuries. In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a...

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Published Mar 2, 2026, 45:55 long, audio available.