Episode 359: On a warm summer evening in June 1887, 17-year-old Mary Pickering Tuplin vanished from her family's farm in Margate, PEI. A search and a grim discovery followed that would rock the quiet farming community to its core. Mary's body was found in the Southwest River, weighed down by a heavy stone, with two gunshot wounds to her head. The subsequent investigation would uncover a web of secrets, including the fact that Mary was six months pregnant. Circumstantial evidence led to 19-year-old William Millman's arrest, allegedly Mary’s lover. The shocking facts of the crime and its investigation led to a sensational trial that captivated the entire country. Millman was convicted and sent to the gallows in April 1888. Was justice indeed served, or, as some speculate, was an innocent man sent to the gallows?

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’They hung the wrong boy’: New questions in 1887 murder of pregnant P.E.I. girl

Ceremony reunites head with murdered owner 129 years later

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Mary Pickering Tuplin, 1887 murder victim, properly laid to rest

Skull of murdered P.E.I. teen finally reunited with her body after 129 years

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Mary Pickering Tuplin

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