Murder She Spoke

Episode 34: Madeleine Smith


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Episode 34: Madeleine Smith. This week Emma delves into the history books to bring us the case of Madeleine Smith, a prominent Scottish socialite whose clandestine romance would result in scandal and one of the most famous murder trials of its time.

Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise

Sources of research:

https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2017/07/18/madeleine-hamilton-smith-1835-1928-the-accused/#:~:text=On%2030%20June%201857%20the,and%20once%20in%20March%201857.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/glasgow-woman-who-laced-her-lovers-cocoa-arsenic-822830

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2016/01/was-madeleine-smith-guilty-as-charged.html

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/historic-scottish-unsolved-murder-mystery-12406482

https://amostcuriousmurder.com/madeleine-smiths-trial-a-scotland-murder-mystery/

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p656zb8b

http://oldglasgowmurders.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-sensational-story-of-madeleine-smith.html

https://www.historyscotland.com/history/the-murder-trial-of-madeline-smith-began-on-this-day-in-history/

https://www.scotiana.com/illegibility-of-glasgow-postmark-saves-madeleine-smith-from-the-gallows/

https://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSDH04

https://www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/madeleinesmith.htm

http://lawcollections.library.cornell.edu/trial/catalog/sat:3320

http://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/03/16/486/

http://wludh.ca/ams/crime/?p=1156

http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sat:3320#mode/1up

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/s/madeleinesmith.html

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1767&context=penn_law_review

http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sat:3320#mode/1up
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