Old Timey Crimey

You know that one couple? That one that is constantly super weird and you don't want to deal with them again this weekend and Oh My God here they come not now look away? Now imagine they just murdered over and over and over! This week Kristy, Scott, and Amber dig deep into the Lonely Hearts Killers! Don't forget to follow the show FB, Insta, or Twitter. Come check out the Patreon and see what extras you can get for a few bucks a months! Or check out our Amazon Wishlist to buy us a book--making the episode topic YOUR CHOICE!  Huge thank you going out to Best Fiends for sponsoring this episode and say hello to our new friends over at the Page Turners and Button Mashers Podcast!

Sources - 

Scott

https://www.ranker.com/list/lonely-hearts-killers-facts/amandasedlakhevener

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

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha-photos-1.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/serial-killer-couples/7

http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/the-honeymoon-killers-raymond-fernandez.html

Amber

https://www.criminallyintrigued.com/blog/2018/8/12/the-lonely-hearts-killers

https://the-line-up.com/lonely-hearts-killers-raymond-fernandez-martha-beck

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha.htm

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27327468/martha-jule-beck

Kristy

History.com. “The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed.” 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-lonely-hearts-killers-are-executed

Time.com. Top 10 Crime Duos. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1900368_1900369_1900362,00.html

Richard Stockton. All That’s Interesting. “‘Til Death Do They Part: The Nine Most Gruesome Serial Killer Couples.” https://allthatsinteresting.com/serial-killer-couples/7

Murderpedia “Martha Beck.” https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha.htm

Wikipedia. “William Seabrook.” “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Seabrook

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck

Findagrave. https://bit.ly/2RAYTbh

Neuroskills.com “Frontal Lobes.” https://www.neuroskills.com/brain-injury/frontal-lobes/

UH Peters. National Biobehavioral Review.” The pseudopsychopathic personality and the limbic system.”  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6669325/

American Murder: Homicide in the Early 20th Century by Gini Graham Scott. https://amzn.to/3mvXdht

Ahmed Al Awlaqi et al in the International Journal of Women’s Health and Reproduction. http://ijwhr.net/pdf/pdf_IJWHR_151.pdf

 Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

This week, a man who would do anything for power. Backstab? Sure. Cozy up to dictators? Why not. Steal from his country in wartime? Hey, that's just a Tuesday.

Plus, stay tuned to the end for fun mob nicknames!

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Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

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Sources:

The Mob Museum. “Vito Genovese.”

The Mafia at Apalachin, 1957 By Michael Newton

Wikipedia. “Catallammerarese War.” “Vito Genovese.” “Mordecai Brown.” “Eunice Carter.” “Anna Genovese.”

National Crime Syndicate. “20 Mobsters With The Weirdest Mob Nicknames.”

“Tufino.” Italy Heritage.

https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/vito-genovese-biography/

https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/Vito_Genovese

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12643-new-york-mobster-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/organized-crime/vito-genovese/

https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/Vito_Genovese

Hellooooo, nurse! No wait...go away, nurse, go away! This week, Scott, Amber, and Kristy talk about Jolly Jane Toppan, a nurse who cared about her patients in quite the opposite way a nurse should. 

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Music:

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

Scott, Kristy, and Amber talk about Francis Rattenbury, an architect who knew his geometry. Specifically, triangles. Looooove triangles. Unrelatedly, they also talk about his wife, Alma Pakenham, and their chauffer, George Percy Stoner. 

Bonus: Some terrible names, one or two decent ones, and not one but TWO Brit Pub Names sessions! 

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P.S. The podcast mentioned is Ear Hustle, and it's episode 144 of Criminal. 

Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:

Wikipedia: “Francis Rattenbury.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Rattenbury.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Rattenbury, Francis Mawson. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rattenbury_francis_mawson_16E.html

Findagrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195058761/florence-eleanor-rattenbury

Paula Kully in Currents Magazine. “The Prodigy and the Architect – A Haunting Love Story.” https://paulakully.com/published-articles/currents-magazine/

“Bournemouth’s most sensational murder.” https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2006/08/bournemouths-most-sensational-murder/

Jesse Donaldson in Monte Cristo Magazine. “The Outrageous Life And Death Of Francis Rattenbury.” https://montecristomagazine.com/community/the-outrageous-life-and-death-of-francis-rattenbury

Strangulation Training Institute. Stavra Ketchmark. https://www.strangulationtraininginstitute.com/all-abusers-are-not-equal-new-ipv-research-reveals-an-indicator-of-deadly-abuse/

John Mackie. Vancouver Sun. “This Week in History: 1935: Sex, drugs, murder and suicide — the Rattenbury case had it all.” https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1935-sex-drugs-murder-and-suicide-the-rattenbury-case-had-it-all

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stoner-george-percy.htm

http://www.murderuk.com/female_alma_rattenbury.html 

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19350605.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

http://www.julianburnside.com.au/law/r-v-rattenbury-stoner/

Kristy reads weird, wacky, and frequently frustrating old timey newspaper articles to Scott and Amber. 

Come join us in finding the weirdest, wildest old timey newspaper articles that America has to offer! Check out Chronicling America from the Library of Congress. You can use the search function to dig up some bonkers stories from your hometown or state. Email screenshots/links of the best stuff you can dig up from 1951 and before to [email protected].

Let's go find the weirdness!

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Was it treason? Was it a friendship gone wrong? Or was it MORE than friendship? The world may never know. This week we talk about Alger Hiss who maaaaybeee committed espionage but maaaaybeee didn't. 

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Sources: 

John Lowenthal. “Venona and Alger Hiss.” http://algerhiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/lowenthal.pdf

FBI.gov. “Alger Hiss.” https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alger-hiss

A Tissue of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss. Morton & Michael Levitt. 

Wikipedia. Alger Hiss, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss. International Juridical Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Juridical_Association. Navy V-12 program, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-12_Navy_College_Training_Program#Notable_graduates

James Thomas Gay. History net. “Was Washington official Alger Hiss a Communist Spy?” https://www.historynet.com/the-alger-hiss-spy-case-mayjune-98-american-history-feature.htm

Historynewsnetwork.org

CIA.gov

PBS.org

History.com

Janny Scott. New York Times. “Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92.” https://web.archive.org/web/20091224132157/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/16/nyregion/alger-hiss-divisive-icon-of-the-cold-war-dies-at-92.html

Three ladies. Three cases. Three fascinating/badass/bonkers stories. 

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 Sources: 

https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/abe-sada.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sada-abe

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

Wikipedia

Crimeandinvestigation.co.uk

Southwarknews.co.uk

Stmuhistorymedia.org by Natalie Flores

Benjamin Welton. Listverse. 10 Lesser-Known Murders from the Roaring 20s.” https://listverse.com/2015/10/04/10-lesser-known-murders-from-the-roaring-twenties/

Mara Bovsun, Daily News. “Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King, dead in bed with her jewels gone.” https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/broadway-butterfly-dorothy-king-dead-bed-jewels-article-1.116132

Mark Gribben. Malefactor’s Register. “The Butterfly Murders.” http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/the-butterfly-murders/

Findagrave. “Dot King.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198849874/dot-king

Scott, Amber, and Kristy talk about not one, but two Colorado miners' strikes, in Ludlow and Columbine, that led to tragedy. 

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Sources:

Charles Bayard. Pacific Historical Review. “The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike.” https://www-jstor-org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/stable/4492179?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Howard Zinn. Zinn Education Project. “Ludlow massacre.” https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ludlow-massacre/

Wikipedia. “Ludlow massacre.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre; “John Chase” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chase_(general)#Chase_and_Mother_Jones; “Columbine Mine Massacre,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_Mine_massacre; “Milka Sablich,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Milka_Sablich

Ben Mauk. The New Yorker. “The Ludlow Massacre Still Matters.” https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-ludlow-massacre-still-matters

Caleb Crain. The New Yorker. “There Was Blood.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/01/19/there-was-blood

PBS. “American Experience: The Rockefellers. “http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_8.html

Perry Eberhart. Lafayette History “The 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre: Trouble in Serene.” https://www.lafayettehistory.com/the-1927-columbine-mine-massacre-trouble-in-serene/

Sam Lowry on Libcom. https://libcom.org/history/1927-colorado-miners-strike-and-columbine-mine-massacre

University libraries/University of Washington

https://timeline.com/rockefellers-hired-militias-to-shoot-at-strikers-in-ludlow-massacre-115ae488164c

https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/social/id/3023/

Findagrave.com

Scott, Amber, and Kristy discuss the Lawson family murders of 1929, with bonus hatred for dried grapes. 

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