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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?
Sources:
History Of The Blackhorse Corner Tavern
Kensington Locomotive | PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation
The history of Margate, Prince Edward Island
Apr 11, 1888, page 2 - Telegraph-Journal at Newspapers.com
Verbatim report of the Millman-Tuplin Murder Trial | Canadiana.ca
Mary Tuplin - Search - Newspapers.com™
’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
'We finally got it right': 1887 murder victim's skull re-united with rest of remains | CBC News
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
English Folk Dance and Song Society: The National Organisation for the Development of the Folk Arts
Mary Pickering Tuplin
Millman and Tuplin Song, The
9780774817530
Murder of Mary Tuplin
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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?
Sources:
History Of The Blackhorse Corner Tavern
Kensington Locomotive | PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation
The history of Margate, Prince Edward Island
Apr 11, 1888, page 2 - Telegraph-Journal at Newspapers.com
Verbatim report of the Millman-Tuplin Murder Trial | Canadiana.ca
Mary Tuplin - Search - Newspapers.com™
’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
'We finally got it right': 1887 murder victim's skull re-united with rest of remains | CBC News
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
English Folk Dance and Song Society: The National Organisation for the Development of the Folk Arts
Mary Pickering Tuplin
Millman and Tuplin Song, The
9780774817530
Murder of Mary Tuplin
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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