Old Timey Crimey

An unaired episode of Detectives by the Decade I had laying around. If you like what you hear, there's more where that came from wherever you listen to podcasts (or just click that handy link in the previous sentence). Also, don't forget to check out Short Story, Short Podcast. 

Happy holidays! 

Sources:

Douglas MacGowan on CrimeLibrary, accessed via murderpedia. 

Wikipedia. Arsenic Act. Not Proven. 

Edinburgh News. 

Undiscovered Scotland. 

Li, J., Guo, Y., Duan, X. et al. Biological Trace Element Research. 

Bill Greenwell

Ian the Pict. 

Kristy Dorsey. Insider. 

Joseph M. Barbato. Indiana International & Comparative Law Review. 

Newspapers.com:

Atlas Obscura.

Cheshire Observer. 

The Glasgow Herald.

The Observer. 

The Caledonian Mercury. 

Music

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan

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Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

Trio for Piano Violin and Viola by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4546-trio-for-piano-violin-and-viola

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Elegant Classical Piano Waltz by MusicLFiles

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7938-elegant-classical-piano-waltz

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Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3863-heartbreaking

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Emotional Romantic Classical Piano by MusicLFiles

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7667-emotional-romantic-classical-piano

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Background Sensible Waltz Piano by MusicLFiles

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7285-background-sensible-waltz-piano

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Laendler in C Minor (Hess 68) by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3961-laendler-in-c-minor-hess-68-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Air Of Mystery  by chilledmusic

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7119-air-of-mystery-

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Just a sampling of what you can get over on the Patreon.

Keep an eye on this space--we'll be throwing up little treats every Friday until we return from our holiday hiatus on January 7. 

New York, 1916: A newly married couple suffer two unexpected tragedies in quick succession--but who's to blame? Cruel twists of fate, the young superstar dentist...or an ancient Egyptian man with a score to settle? This case just gets wilder at every turn. 

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Sources: 

Poisoning The Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot by Tobin T. Buhk

Findagrave

Wikipedia, Aimee Crocker

Garret Ellison on mlive

Daily News by David J. Krajicek (URL contained a lovely pun—“awful tooth article”)

Kevin Taylor on AimeeCrocker.com

Newspapers.com:

Johnson City Staff

Evening World

Star Gazette

Fall River Daily Evening News

New York Tribune

John & Hannah Peck

Hektoen International by Lisa Mullenneaux

Malefactor's Register by Mark Gribben

Crime Magazine by Robert Walsh

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Sneaky by Kevin MacLeod

West Virginia, 1915: Three men try to pull off a daring heist for one last big haul--and miss the mark. By a lot. 

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Sources: 

Mike Valente on WDTV

WV Archives & History

West Virginia Histories by Gerald D. Swick

Wikipedia: Nat’l Bank Note

Newspapers.com:

Sheboygan Press

Choctaw Advocate

Montgomery Advertiser, 1    

Birmingham News

Anniston Star

Kansas City Star

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

New Jersey, 1935: A tangled web of relationships, all stuffed into one small house, lead to a dramatic trial for Mary Frances Creighton. But this is old hat to her. It's not her first rodeo, after all....

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Sources: 

Casetext.com.

Mark Gribben, Malefactor’s Register

Crime Library by Mark Gado

Murderpedia

Newspapers.com:

Daily News

Times Union

Strange Bedfellows |

Mary Frances Creighton

Baldwin Inside | Another new update...Ruth Creighton, age 13 at the time all this happened, has her 100th birthday today today

George Robert Bull + Ruth Jean Creighton – Dillahunty Family Tree

Ruth Jean Creighton Dillahunty (1919-1990)

ExecutedToday.com » 1936: Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Applegate

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

New York, 1930: A small town is shook when a local family is brutally murdered the night before Thanksgiving. Naturally, they react by pointing fingers at every immigrant they can find, calling in the Pinkertons, and roping in a future president. 

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Sources:

Death on a Dairy Farm: This Murder Case from 1930 Is Still Unsolved

A Forensic Solution to a Cold Case: The Germond Family Murders by Vincent P. Cookingham, Ph.D.

Cold Case- The Germond Murder House – Little Witchaus

10 Hudson Valley Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

A personal mystery - who killed my cousin and his family in 1930? : r/UnresolvedMysteries 

Newspapers.com:

Daily News Jan 8 1933

Ithaca Journal

Poughkeepsie Eagle News and 2

Rasheed Oluwa Poughkeepsie Journal

Larry Hughes Poughkeepsie Journal

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

The year is 1949 and the place is Quebec, Canada. We're talking about J. Albert Guay, a man who never met a murdery cliché he didn't like. 

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Sources:

Roger Lemelin in Macleans.

EJ Kahn Jr in the New Yorker

Knights of Columbus

Catherine Lachaussee on CBC

Canada’s History

Joseph Guay – The Worst Mass Murder in North America | Canada History and Mystery

ExecutedToday.com » 1951: Albert Guay

History Collection

A Monstrous Plot

CBC

My Friend Guay, the Murderer | Maclean's | MAY 1 1951

NY Daily News

A Husband, a Wife, a Time Bomb

Newspapers.com:

The Gazette

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Marty Gots A Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Two men, one woman, two guns. With special guest Joel!

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Sources:

Lenora on haunted palace blog

John Knox Laughton. Dr. Marjorie Bloy’s “A Web of English History.”

Kristeen Cherney MD on Healthline.

Corrosion Doctors.

Cleveland Clinic.

Wiki: Francis Seymour, John Montagu, Hellfire Club, Love in a Village

Watford Observer.

Old Bailey Online Trial Transcripts

Newspapers.com:

Manchester Weekly Times

Our Fake History by Sebastian Major

The Martha Ray murder case

Rev. James Hackman

Fatal Triangle | History

The Murder of Martha Reay: Victim Blaming in 18th Century England

Music:

Waltz Of The Rising Daylight by MusicLFiles

Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeod

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

We finish off Spookyween with a discussion on Helen Duncan, also known as Britain's Last Witch, and how she attracted the UK military's ire for one of her seances. 

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Sources:

The Scotsman

HMS Barham Explosion & Sinking

Wiki: HMS Barham

Ben Johnson on Historic UK

The Statues Project

Debbie Wojciechowski on Medium Debbie

Charlotte Hodgman on History Extra Magazine

Laura Brown in Scots Magazine

Ectoplasm

Newspapers.com:

Boston Globe

Evening Standard

The Guardian

Severin Carrell in the Guardian

From ectoplasm to 'dead' aunts - the story of Scotland's last convicted witch

Helen Duncan

Helen Duncan Official Site

A British Woman Was Convicted Under a Witchcraft Law During WWII

The Helen Duncan Story, Clan Duncan Society - Scotland UK

Music:

Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeod

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Jean Grenier, a teen boy in 17th century France, had a troubled home life. When he left home to try to survive on his own, no one could have guessed he'd make history as the youngest person ever convicted of lycanthropy. 

Also, Amber explains how a headdress can be indecent, and we discuss the devil's proclivities. 

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Sources: 

Jan Machielsen on Not Even Past.org and on Taylor & Francis Online

The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day by Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie

Wikipedia: Witch’s mark

Lapham’s Quarterly

Gary Zabel’s essay Witchcraft and the Occult, 1400-1700

Richard Payne Knight – Pierre de Lancre’s Full Account of the Witches’ Sabbath

Not Just the Tudors

Music: 

Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeod

Dark Impression by Horst Hoffmann

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod