Old Timey Crimey

Amber, Scott, and Kristy talk about Howard Unruh. There's a first time for everything, and unfortunately, thanks to Howard Unruh, that first time would reverberate through 20th century America and into the 21st century. 

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Sources:

Meyer Berger. NY Times. “Veteran Kills 12 in Mad Rampage on Camden St.” https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/090749nj-shoot.html

Patrick Sauer. “The Story of the First Mass Murder in U.S. History.” Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/

IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Findagrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7931504/maurice-j.-cohen

Northjersey.com https://www.northjersey.com/picture-gallery/news/new-jersey/2019/08/28/photos-howard-unruh-shoots-16-sept-6-1949-camden/2065185001/

Barbara Boyer. Philadelphia Inquirer. “Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13.” https://web.archive.org/web/20110310172044/http://www.dvrbs.com/Camden/CamdenNJ-HowardUnruh.htm

Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh

David M. Zimmer. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/28/wwii-veteran-became-americas-first-mass-shooter-1949/2139054001/

Biblegateway.com.   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NIV

Philly.com. “Howard Barton Unruh, examined.” http://media.philly.com/documents/Unruh.pdf

https://weirdnj.com/stories/howard-unruh/

https://murderpedia.org/male.U/u/unruh-howard.htm

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about the Jean Gianini case, a singular moment in American law. Also, things get philosophical. 

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Sources:

Crime Capsule. “Hoodwinking the Alienists.” https://crimecapsule.com/murder-in-the-adirondacks-murderer-jean-gianini-and-the-insanity-defense/

“Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.” https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/facts.html

Mark Gribben. Malefactor’s Register. https://malefactorsregister.com/wp/when-morons-kill/

Steven A. Gelb. Health & Place: An International Journal. “Sentenced in sorrow: the role of asylum in the Jean Gianini murder defence.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1353829297000063?via%3Dihub

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19140329.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

https://www.nytimes.com/1914/05/15/archives/gianini-confessed-he-killed-teacher-statement-sworn-to-by-lad-at.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43064/43064-8.txt

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about Marie Lafarge and the landmark poison trial that made arsenic enthusiasts start to think twice. 

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Sources:

Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-based Crime Literature by Albert Borowitz

Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, by Marie Lafarge.

Encyclopedia.com. “Lafarge, Marie.”

Wikipedia. “Marie Lafarge.” “Gum Arabic.” “Cholera.” “Le Glandier.”

Tabea Tietz on SciHi Blog. “Madame Marie Lafarge – The first “Victim” of the Marsh Test.”

Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”

Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman. 2014.

An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience by Elisa Bergslien.

Jess Romeo on JStor daily. “The Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge.” https://daily.jstor.org/the-arsenic-cake-of-madame-lafarge/

Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. Isis: a journal of the history of science society. “Managing Uncertainty in the Academy and the Courtroom: Normal Arsenic and 19th-Century Toxicology.”

Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. “Popularizing Controversial Science: A Popular Treatise on Poisons by Mateu Orfila (1818).” Medical History.

Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”

Martin Lynch. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal. “Analysis of Madame Lafarge's Trial, with Remarks on the Medical Evidence.”  

France Info.fr “The Chartreuse du Glandier in Beyssac in Corrèze is for sale.”

https://artoftoxicology.weebly.com/marie-lafarge.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lafarge

https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lafarge-marie.htm

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/09/marie-lafarge-a-frenchwoman-who-poisoned-her-husband-with-arsenic-and-was-put-on-the-most-popular-trial/

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Amber and Kristy talk about one of the most prolific serial killers, and how she turned a profit with her murders. Kristy also gets mad at society. SOCIETY. 

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Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

Tony Rennell on Murderpedia. “The baby butcher: One of Victorian Britain's most evil murderers exposed.” 

Wikipedia. “Typhus.” “Amelia Dyer.” “Poor Law Amendment Act.” 

Wikitree. “Amelia Elizabeth (Hobley) Dyer.” 

Little Falls Weekly Transcript via LOC. 

Sarah Lee. BBC. “Amelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies."

Donna Patricia Ward. History Collection. “The Horrifying Truth of Britain’s Baby Butcher Amelia Elizabeth Dyer Revealed.” 

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/amelia-dyer-34349.php

https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1836

https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=9197.93&From=GBP&To=USD

https://allthatsinteresting.com/amelia-dyer

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-39330793

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While Scott's out sick, Kristy tells Amber about the still-unidentified victims found in Middlebury, Vermont, 85 years ago. And then we make a decision. 

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

Detective Kris Bowdish and State Archivist Tanya Marshall. Burlington Free Press. https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2016/10/30/history-space-middlebury-cold-case/92958366/

Jillian Kuzma. Unsolved Vermont. https://unsolvedvermont.com/2019/11/29/the-east-middlebury-does/

Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1938/1/6/harvard-anthropologists-give-important-clue-in/

The Sun community News. https://suncommunitynews.com/news/15651/a-vermont-triple-murder-mystery/

John Flowers. Addison County Independent. https://addisonindependent.com/1935-murder-victims-buried-mystery-persists-0

Associated Press in the DC Evening Star, accessed via Library of Congress.

Kristy & Amber talk about the mysterious disappearance of Paula Jean Welden, a Vermont college student who went for a hike and never returned home. Plus, the Bennington Triangle—was the Welden case only the beginning?

If you have any info about Welden’s disappearance, call the Vermont State Police at 802-722-4600.

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Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

All That’s Interesting. “Inside The Unsolved Disappearances Of The Bennington Triangle.” https://allthatsinteresting.com/bennington-triangle

The Charley Project. “Paula Jean Welden.” http://charleyproject.org/case/paula-jean-welden

Bennington.edu. Housing. bennington.edu/life-bennington/housing

Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jean_Welden

History of Bennington College. https://sites.google.com/site/theresearchofbenningtoncollege/ourcompany/history-of-bennington-college

Weather.gov. https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=btv

Diana Formisano Willett.  A Supernatural Condition. https://bit.ly/2HzG1YZ

Chad Abramovich. Obscure Vermont. “Off The Beaten Path in Southern Vermont.”  https://obscurevermont.com/tag/glastenbury/

Wilmington Morning Star from Library of Congress.

New England Historical Society. “Paula Jean Welden and the Birth of the Vermont State Police.” https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/paula-jean-welden-birth-vermont-state-police/

Strange Outdoors. “The Strange Disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon in the Bennington Triangle.” https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2019/12/12/the-strange-disappearance-of-paulajean-weldon-in-the-bennington-triangle

https://the-line-up.com/paula-jean-welden-disappearance

https://www.historicmysteries.com/disappearance-of-paula-jean-welden/

https://themorbidlibrary.com/2020/05/10/the-missing-paula-jean-welden/

https://unsolvedvermont.com/2019/11/30/missing-paula-jean-welden/

Amber, Scott, and Kristy look at perhaps the most famous phantasmagoric photograph, and a talking mongoose appears along the way. 

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Sources:

Randolph Churchill. Women’s Illustrated 1952. “Raynham Hall.” http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/raynham.htm

Rebecca Northfield. Engineering and Technology. “Explaining the unexplained: 10 famous mysteries solved.” https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/10/explaining-the-unexplained-10-famous-mysteries-solved/

Townshend Family Website. Bio of Charles Townshend. http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/turnipbio1.htm

Townshend Family Website. Tony Ellis. “Ghosts of East Anglia.” http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/dorothywalpole.htm

Jonathan Thompson. “The spectre of the Brown Lady will haunt us no more.” The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-spectre-of-the-brown-lady-will-haunt-us-no-more-419176.html

Miss Jessel. Haunted Palace Blog. “Part one: The Mysterious Brown Lady of Raynham Hall – who was she?” https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/part-one-the-mysterious-brown-lady-of-raynham-hall-who-was-she/

Edd Smith. BBC. “The vast history of Raynham Hall.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8058000/8058145.stm

Hoaxes.org. http://hoaxes.org/raynham.html

LOC. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085421/1906-06-04/ed-1/seq-2/

https://the-line-up.com/raynham-hall-brown-lady by Jessica Ferri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price#Gef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynham_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Townshend

http://www.whistlingshade.com/1302/The_Brown_Lady.htm

https://hyperallergic.com/411197/uncanny-images-from-an-investigation-into-the-case-of-gef-a-talking-mongoose/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71816/strange-story-gef-talking-mongoose

Pdsh.fandom.com

Katdevitt.com

Whistlingshade.com by Joel Van Valin

Music: 

We visit the Tower of London and meet its many, many, many ghosts. OOOooOOoOoo! 

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Sources

Fascinate.com by Stephanie Kelsey

When will we know the truth of Poe's death? Well, the man said it himself...nevermore. Scott, Kristy, and Amber talk about his weird life and mysterious death as SPoOoOokyween continues. 

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Sources:

Natasha Geiling.  Smithsonian Magazine. “The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/

Kat Eschner. Smithsonian Mag. https “Who Was the Poe Toaster? We Still Have No Idea”  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-was-poe-toaster-we-still-have-no-idea-180961820/

The Poe Museum. https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-biography

Findagrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4074/elizabeth-hopkins-poe

Wikipedia. “Sarah Royster.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Elmira_Royster

New England Historical Society. “Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe.” https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/sarah-helen-whitman-providence-poet-dumped-edgar-allan-poe/

Poetry Foundation. “Sarah Helen Whitman.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sarah-helen-whitman

Wash times. 'Toaster' rejects French cognac at Poe's grave.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jan/19/20040119-100633-6879r/

Providence Athenaeum . “Poe & Whitman.” https://providenceathenaeum.org/about/history/poe-whitman/

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. “The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” https://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poedeath.htm

Michele Debcsack. “Baltimore’s New Poe Toaster Honors Edgar Allan Poe.” Mental Floss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/73908/baltimores-new-poe-toaster-honors-edgar-allan-poe

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/edgar-allan-poes-greatest-mystery-was-his-death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe

https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-death

https://www.biography.com/news/edgar-allan-poe-death-facts

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-die

Britannica.com

openculture.com

icytales.com

nbc12.com

biography.com

nps.gov

He was a manly man's man, and then a man of a different kind took him on a little trip. A man covered in hair. A man...with large feet. 

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Sources: 

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/ostman.htm

https://www.ufoinsight.com/cryptozoology/bigfoot-encounters/sasquatch-abduction-albert-ostman

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/adultlitfundreader3/chapter/searching-for/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlock,_Alaska

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/scary-abandoned-town-port-chatham-ak/

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Genoskwa

https://www.reddit.com/r/MysteriousUniverse/comments/dp3a55/an_interesting_comparison_of_missing_411_cases/

Animalplanet.com

Newspapers.com (The Province, Saturday, May 4, 1957

Findagrave.com

nytimes.com

NYTimes. David C. Anderson. “It’s hard to prove that something, even a monster, doesn’t exist.”  https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/stalking-the-sasquatch-its-hard-to-prove-that-something-even-a.html

Wikipedia. “Toba Inlet.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Inlet “Portlock.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlock,_Alaska. “Albert Ostman.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ostman

Canberra Times, 1982. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130838866?searchTerm=albert%20ostman

Carey Seward. “This Abandoned Ghost Town In Alaska Is Downright Bone Chilling.” Only in Your State. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/this-abandoned-ghost-town-is-downright-bone-chilling-ak/

“Mysteries of Portlock Alaska and the Abandonment of the Small Town in the 1900s.” KINY radio. https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news-of-the-north/mysteries-of-portlock-alaska-and-the-abandonment-of-the-small-town-in-the-1900s/

Animal Planet. “Top 10 Hairiest Bigfoot Stories.” http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/finding-bigfoot/lists/9-the-tale-of-albert-ostman/

Don Lory. “Kidnapped by a Sasquatch.” Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=44400288&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjUwMTMwNTQwMiwiaWF0IjoxNjAxNTA4OTUxLCJleHAiOjE2MDE1OTUzNTF9.2wmFv8gkExT22U-dfxNsHyIRtet67vjDbSelZ_4WQWU

Tim Flight. “The Hairy History of Bigfoot in 20 Intriguing Events.” History Collection. https://historycollection.com/the-hairy-history-of-bigfoot-in-20-intriguing-events/7/

Daily Colonist. https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist18840704uvic/18840704#page/n2/mode/1up

Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist's Search for Modern Apemen by Bryan Sykes (genre: “controversial literature” lol)