Season 1 Episode 6: She had one true friend, and it came in powder form. 

Voice acting: 

Lynne Kearney and Scott Mort

Music: 

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

To the Ends by Kevin MacLeod

Trio for Piano Violin and Viola by Kevin MacLeod

Wagner Bridal Chorus by Kevin MacLeod

The Snow Queen by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

World Famous Gaslight Murders by Colin and Damon Wilson, accessed via murderpedia. 

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter. 

The North American Review. United States, University of Northern Iowa, 1895. 

Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection. Colin and Damon Wilson. 

Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials. Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and Lady Lucie Duff Gordon. 

Alexa R. Shipman on Science Direct.com

Season 1 Episode 5: Vidocq puts his education, as it were, and his reputation to good use. 

Find me on FB, Insta, and Twitter and tell me what you think of Vidocq's amazing life and accomplishments. Check out Old Timey Crimey wherever you get podcasts. 

Music:

Divertissement - Pizzicato (from the ballet Sylvia) by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3664-divertissement---pizzicato-from-the-ballet-sylvia-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Music: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-rouletteLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parisian by Kevin MacLeod

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4194-parisian

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Ashley, Mike. “The Great Detectives: Vidoqc.” The Strand Magazine. Issue 4. https://strandmag.com/the-magazine/articles/the-great-detectives-vidocq/

Blazeski, Goran “Eugene Vidocq: The ex-convict who became the world’s first private investigator.” The Vintage News. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/03/eugene-vidocq-the-ex-convict-who-became-the-worlds-first-private-investigator/

“Eugene Francois Vidocq.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq

FlourishingAnyway. “Eugène Vidocq: The Convict Who Became the Father of Modern Criminal Investigation.” Owlcation. https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Eugne-Franois-Vidocq-The-Convict-Who-Became-the-Father-of-Modern-Criminal-Investigation

Friendly, Michael “A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis” by https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4263.pdf#page=31&zoom=100,0,657

“Galley Slave.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slave

Memoirs of Vidocq by Eugene Francois Vidocq. 5v

Season 1 Episode 4: A man who loved to escape so much, he'd put Houdini to shame. 

Find me on FB, Insta, and Twitter and let me know what you think of Vidocq and some of his wilder tales! Or just pop by and say hello. 

Music:

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

Duet Musette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3685-duet-musette

Parisian by Kevin MacLeon

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4194-parisian

Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda

Licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Ashley, Mike. “The Great Detectives: Vidoqc.” The Strand Magazine. Issue 4. https://strandmag.com/the-magazine/articles/the-great-detectives-vidocq/

Blazeski, Goran “Eugene Vidocq: The ex-convict who became the world’s first private investigator.”

The Vintage News. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/03/eugene-vidocq-the-ex-convict-who-became-the-worlds-first-private-investigator/

“Eugene Francois Vidocq.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq

FlourishingAnyway. “Eugène Vidocq: The Convict Who Became the Father of Modern Criminal Investigation.” Owlcation. https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Eugne-Franois-Vidocq-The-Convict-Who-Became-the-Father-of-Modern-Criminal-Investigation

Friendly, Michael “A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis” by https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4263.pdf#page=31&zoom=100,0,657

“Galley Slave.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slave

Episode 3: Bite marks and witches. Bullets and ballad sheets. Warren and walrus teeth. Footprints and a foolish man. 

Find the show on FB, Insta, and Twitter. Come by and say hi!

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Music:

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery

Irrefutable Evidence: A History of Forensic Science by Michael Kurland

William and Robert Chambers. Chambers Edinburgh Journal. “Discovery and Punishment of Murder by Circumstantial Evidence.” https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/NYc3AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA41&dq=%E2%80%9CDiscovery+and+Punishment+of+Murder+by+Circumstantial+Evidence%22+%22chambers+edinburgh+journal%22

Dwane S. Hilderbrande. International Association for Identification: Iowa Division. “Four Basic Components of a Footwear Examination.” http://www.iowaiai.org/four-basic-components-of-a-footwear-examination-2/

William J. Bodziak. Forensic Footwear Evidence: Detection, Recovery, and Examination. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/DghEDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT30&dq=1786+richardson+case

Radley Balko. Washington Post. “It Literally Started with a witch Hunt: A history of Bite Mark Evidence.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/17/it-literally-started-with-a-

witch-hunt-a-history-of-bite-mark-evidence/

“George Burroughs.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burroughs

Rebecca Beatrice Brooks. “The Witchcraft Trial of Reverend George Burroughs.” History of Massachusetts Blog. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/reverend-george-burroughs-salem/

Jone Johnson Lewis. Thoughtco. “Rev. George Burroughs and the Salem Witch Trials.” https://www.thoughtco.com/george-burroughs-3529133

Barbara J. Starmans. The Social Historian. “CSI: The Prologue.” https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/csi-the-prologue/

“General Joseph Warren.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Warren#Legacy

Leeds Intelligencer. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000236/17840127/012/0003

Episode 2: Mary Blandy falls in love at last, but there are no happy endings here. There are, however, a scientifically-minded doctor and a housemaid whose first name by all rights should have been Sherlock. 

Find me on FB, Insta, and Twitter and let me know what you think of Mary's culpability. Was she blinded by love or lucre? Did she know what she was doing? And what happened to the kitty?!

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Music:

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/blandy.html

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/blandy-mary.htm

Amy Watkin. McSweeneys. “Mary Blandy:The O.J. Simpson Of The 18th Century.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mary-blandy-the-oj-simpson-of-the-18th-century

David Nash Ford.

The Tryal of Mary Bandy, Spinster: For the Murder of Her Father, Francis Blandy, Gentleman. https://bit.ly/2XvT8Q9

Mary Blandy. Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun. https://bit.ly/2MuN3Na

Wikipedia. “Arsenic Poisoning.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_poisoning

Bank of England Inflation Calculator. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

Episode 1: The murder of Thomas Arden and how the ensuing investigation made forensic history.

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Music:

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Irrefutable Evidence: Adventures in the History of Forensic Science by Michael Kurland

“The 1551 Murder of Thomas Arden - Faversham, Kent, UK.” Waymarking. https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WME733_The_1551_Murder_of_Thomas_Arden_Faversham_Kent_UK

“Thomas Arden.” Faversham.org. https://www.faversham.org/history/people/thomas-arden

Edward Jacob. “The history of the town and port of Faversham: in the county of Kent.”

Alice Arden. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arden

Petty Treason. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_treason

Catherine Belsey. “Alice Arden’s Crime.” University of Chicago Press. https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/rd.13.43264630

Anonymous. “Arden of Faversham.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-h/43440-h.htm

A podcast exploring the history of forensic science, tracing the timeline from primitive toxicology to DNA. Host Kristy Baxter discusses the scientists, detectives, and cases that drove the development of investigative techniques from the 1500s to the 21st century.

Premiering June 25, 2020. New episodes release every Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Music: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

“Forensics in antiquity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensics_in_antiquity

“Lollia Paulina.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollia_Paulina

Kristina Killgrove. “These Three Forensic Science Techniques From Ancient Rome Reveal Shocking Gaps In Modern Methods.” Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/11/28/these-three-forensic-science-techniques-from-ancient-rome-reveal-shocking-gaps-in-modern-methods/#22a754df58fe

William Garrett Cothran. “CSI: Rome - a dive into ancient forensics.” Sea Lion Press. https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/csi-rome-a-dive-into-ancient-forensics