Murder mystery novels would have you believe that crimes only happen in dark, dreary places in the dead of night, but today we’re examining the tragic killing of a young girl in broad daylight on a sunny August afternoon in 1867. How did this happen in such a small, quiet town?

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Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

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Sources:

Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Hoskins, John; Southern Daily Echo, “Brutal Slaying of Sweet Fanny Adams”, 7th February 2008
Journal of the Hampshire Genealogical Society, Volume XII, No. 4, February 1986
Mukerji, Jenny: “Who was Sweet Fanny Adams?” Hampshire Genealogical Society website

https://www.hgs-familyhistory.com

In 1989, students at the Ecole Polytechique in Montreal were looking forward to their Christmas break. But the hopes and dreams of 14 ambitious young women were shattered that day by a gunman on an ideologically driven rampage. We’ll pay tribute to the dead and we’ll also look at why he did it. Marc Lépine wanted to be a martyr, but he made himself into a monster. As we’ll learn, things are rarely black and white.

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Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]



Credits:

Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Disclaimer read by Jessica

Character Voices: Jessica and Eric

Recommended Podcasts:

True Crime Island https://www.truecrimeisland.com/

Music:

https://www.dl-sounds.com/



Night Break by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4125-night-break

Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3611-dark-times

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5048-stay-the-course

Screen Saver by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5715-screen-saver

A Very Brady Special by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5760-a-very-brady-special

All music by Kevin Macleod as per License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada website https://bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/about-us/



Chauvin, Pierre, “Let hate go, says mother of Montreal Massacre shooter Marc Lépine”, 2015, The Globe and Mail Newspaper



Deseret News, “Canadian Gunman’s Father beat wife, kids, divorce papers show,”, 1989, https://www.deseret.com/1989/12/10/18836121/canadian-gunman-s-father-beat-wife-kids-divorce-papers-show



Dowson, Anne Lagacé, “Ecole Polytechnique: Legacy of a Hate Crime”, 2014, Ricochet, https://ricochet.media/en/245/legacy-of-a-hate-crime



Gaysina, Darya & Thompson, Ellen Jo, 2017, “Are your parents to blame for your psychological problems?”, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/are-your-parents-to-blame-for-your-psychological-problems-81203



LeBlanc, Daniel & White, Patrick, 2020, “Canada set to ban assault style weapons, including AR-15 and the gun used in Polytechnique massacre,” The Globe and Mail, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawas-gun-ban-to-target-ar-15-and-the-weapon-used-during/



“Marc Lépine”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine



Mellor, Lee, “Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing,” 2013, Dundurn Press, Canada



Patel, Arti, “11 Canadian Women Who Were ‘Firsts’ In Their Fields”, 2016, Huffington Post, https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/30/famous-canadian-women_n_10758238.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADcoU_CoVeBJXmhwHnIwe6eoaDZVjsy0DzspJKlphuQZL6E20IjagIALE5MLfsPUT8ZnIcBfl01TcYqcMhumTQgE3FZbo7hIJEsoeYSzRKtgwLbn78G44hTs4z5qJB_uWhUway1u1g9ReLeW42MhSV4RTZhdgF6vReXDZe1axWRK



“Polytechnique” film, 2009, directed by Denis Villeneuve https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194238/



The Fifth Estate Montreal Massacre Legacy Of Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I





“True North: 12 Amazing Canadian Women”, 2019, A Mighty Girl Blog https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12590



Wallace, Bruce, “The Making of A Mass Killer”, 1989, Maclean’s Archive, https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1989/12/18/the-making-of-a-mass-killer



“Women at War”, 2019, Veterans Affairs Canada, https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/women

He said he hated women…but then he became one. In this episode, we delve deep into psychology, profiling and gender dysphoria in the case of the Frankston Killer, who terrorised a quiet suburb of Australia in the early 90s but could be released in 2023. We’ll look at nature versus nurture and what could have turned Paul Denyer into a serial murderer.

Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: [email protected]
Visit www.prashganendran.com

Credits:

Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Character Voices: Simon, Jack Timothy, Tanya O’Sullivan

Music:

https://www.dl-sounds.com/

Sources:

Booker, Chloe, 2015, “Someone must know: cold case murder probe into disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid”, The Age, https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/someone-must-know-cold-case-murder-probe-into-disappearance-of-sarah-macdiarmid-20150711-gia1rg.html

Catter, 2008, “Paul Denyer Police Interviews”, Crimblog

http://wwwcrimblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/paul-denyer-police-interviews.html

Deery, Shannon, 2011, “Family of Paul Denyer tell of killer’s death threat”, Daily Telegraph

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/killers-family-dont-let-him-out/news-story/59e38892e8170309ccd633d1da3ffca4

Denyer, Julie, “True Story of Serial Killer Paul Denyer”, Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/True-Story-of-serial-killer-Paul-Denyer-195830497244618/?hc_ref=ART1CQmM_dfTjuZvIXUTT9BierabnDWenYn-rtwks7kzJA1Zx0khkVQS7-m8fdnAHT4&fref=nf&__tn__=kC-R

Denyer, Paul, 2003 – 2004, letters from prison

http://media.heraldsun.com.au/multimedia/2013/april/denyerletters/index03.html

Evil Clown TV, 2014, “Serial Killer Paul Denyer – Australian Killer – Documentary”, YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGqBApTjWk

Hull, Megan, 2019, “Gender Dysphoria Statistics,” The Recovery Village

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/gender-dysphoria/related/gender-dysphoria-statistics/#gref [medically reviewed by Paula Cookson LCSW]

Kennard, Julia, 2010, “Carshalton couple haunted by their serial killer relative”, Sutton and Croydon Guardian

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/5015765.carshalton-couple-haunted-by-their-serial-killer-relative/

Pelly, Julia, 2019, “What is disorganized attachment?”, Healthline Parenthood

https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/disorganized-attachment [medically reviewed by Karen Richardson Gill, MD, FAAP]

What do we really know about the poignant death of the girl who inspired one of Edgar Allan Poe’s novels, The Mystery of Marie Roget? Join me in New York in 1838 to investigate the unsolved murder of the enigmatic Mary Rogers, loved by all and remembered as the Beautiful Cigar Girl.

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Poe’s ‘The Raven’



Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]



Credits:

Research, writing, original Mary Rogers poem(“The Beautiful Cigar Girl”), narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Character Voices: Ben(Daniel Payne, LaForge), Steve (Edgar Allan Poe)

Sources:

“Edgar Allen Poe: Was Mary Rogers his muse or his victim?”, 8 October 2015

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena-history-famous-people/edgar-allan-poe-was-mary-rogers-his-muse-or-his-murder-020557



Duke, Thomas; “The Mysterious Murder of Cigar Girl Mary Rogers”, 1910, Celebrated Criminal Cases of America Part III Cases East of the Pacific Coast

http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-mysterious-murder-of-cigar-girl-mary-rogers-1841/



Geary, Rick; “A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II”, 2015, NBM Publishing Inc. New York



Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” 1978

https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom3t001.htm



“Murder of Mary C. Rogers”, New York Tribune 12 August 1841, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19483347/murder_of_mary_c_rogers/



Nickell, Joe; “Historical Whodunnit – Spiritualists, Poe, and the real Marie Roget”, Skeptical Inquirer July/August 2010



Poe, Edgar Allen; “The Mystery of Marie Roget”, 1842 (Audible version)



Semtner, Chris; The Poe Blog, November 16 2016

http://www.thepoeblog.org/poe-museum-announces-loser-of-its-latest-poll/



Stashower, Daniel; “The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder,” 2006, Dutton Books



Steiner, Henry John; “The Ghosts and Mr Anderson,” October 15 2014, Headless Horseman Blog

http://headlesshorsemanblog.com/ghosts-edgar-allen-poe-john-anderson/



Various articles from archived New York newspapers

https://stupit.github.io/text/Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers/The_Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers_in_newspapers.htm#1837-09-18

The American frontier could be a perilous place, but most stout-hearted travellers were expecting nothing worse than tumbleweed, rattlesnakes and boredom on their long ride. When people started to go missing in the Osage area, suspicion fell on a family who were not all that they seemed. A local legend says red corn grows on the prairie to this day as the very land is saturated with the blood of their innocent victims, so join me as we investigate one of the greatest puzzles of the Old West.



Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]



Credits:

Research, writing, original Benders Song, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Character Voices: Natasha and Ben

Sources:

Cappello, Nile; “The Bloody Benders: America’s First Family of Serial Killers”, August 2019

https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/



Geary, Rick; “A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II”, 2015, NBM Publishing Inc, New York



Kansas Historical Society; “The Bender Knife”, December 2006, Kansapedia



https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bender-knife/10106



Martin, Michelle M; “Dinner with Death: Kate Bender, Murder and Mayhem on the Kansas Prairie”, August 2019

https://nursingclio.org/2019/08/15/dinner-with-death-kate-bender-murder-and-mayhem-on-the-kansas-prairie/



Rivenes, Erik; “The Bloody Benders”, June 2016, Most Notorious Podcast



“The Bloody Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family”, January 2018

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53672/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers

Seeing as I enjoy writing lyrics and poems, I thought i'd write a song for Mike & Gibby at True Crime All The Time. Incorporating some of the cases they've covered. My small way of saying thanks to them to keep doing what they do so well and spreading a little joy during dark times. I really hope you enjoy listening to this as I did writing it.

Pack your tent and sleeping bag, because in this episode we’re going to spend a night on the shores of Lake Bodom, the scene of one of Finland’s most famous unsolved murder cases. But it’s not the rustling leaves or the hoot of an owl that you should fear, as a vicious killer stalks the campsite. You’d better leave your flashlight switched on…

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Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: [email protected]

Credits:

Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Character Voices: Simon Hensby, Ian and Jurgen.

Translations from Finnish to English by my friend Marcus who burnt the midnight oil to transcribe everything I threw at him including audio and video interviews. Thank you Marcus!

Recommended Podcast:

True Crime Finland  https://truecrimefinland.squarespace.com/

Music:

Randolph Smeets

https://www.dl-sounds.com/

"Heartbreaking" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/



Sources:

“Archaeology students plan dig at Lake Bodom murder site,” https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/archaeology_students_plan_dig_at_lake_bodom_murder_site/10780763

IncapableofGuile; “The Lake Bodom Murders,” April 2015, https://imgur.com/gallery/ToNes

“Lake Bodom murders” https://solvedandunsolvedcrimes.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/lake-bodom-murders-1960/

Lahettananyt T.K., “Case- Bodomjarven Murhat 1960”, http://rikos-uutiset.blogspot.com/2016/07/case-bodomjarven-murhat-1960.html

Serena, Katie; “The Lake Bodom Murders: Finland’s Most Famous Unsolved Triple Homicide”, August 2019 https://allthatsinteresting.com/lake-bodom-murders

Yle Uutisten artikkeliarkisto, “Suspect in 1960 murder case pleads innocence,” June 2008, https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5156265

https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2016/10/28/esbopolitiker-ar-saker-pa-att-han-vet-vem-bodommordaren-var


https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2or0mp/another_unsolved_finnish_crime_the_murder_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3ecpwe/in_1960_three_teenagers_were_murdered_at_lake/ctdvjly/

https://pastebin.com/raw/9s48TBY9



https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/09/08/bodomjarven-surmaajaa-etsittiin-poliisin-ja-vapaaehtoisten-voimin



https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/09/08/professori-palo-ei-uskonut-gustafssonin-syyllisyyteen

https://www.murha.info/rikosfoorumi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5833&sid=0162e8467c60c0c204030438837fe135&start=15


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMM9CHrxlw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqMEDm6gkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YNI-1bw6I&feature=youtu.be

https://www.murha.info/rikosfoorumi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22161

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLesOFn5RU

https://truecrimefinland.squarespace.com/new-blog/2018/1/26/episode-013-bodom-lake-murders

The sinister Ratcliffe Highway in South East London was home to violence, prostitution and danger. 7 murders in as many days. Man, woman or child…nobody was safe.



Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]



Credits:

Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash

Character Voices by Prash



Music:

Long Note By Two by incompetech, Kevin Macleod



Sources:

Jeffries, Bob; “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders”; Thames Police

http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_4.html



Nicholas, Dean; “200th Anniversary of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders”, December 2011, The Londonist

https://londonist.com/2011/12/200th-anniversary-of-the-ratcliffe-highway-murders

In Victorian Brighton, eating chocolate was about to get dangerous… and it wasn’t just toothache people had to worry about. Triggered by a romantic obsession with her local doctor, vain and conniving Christiana Edmunds masterminded a poisoning spree and was smugly convinced she would never be caught…


Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]

Credits:

Research, writing, original song, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Sources:


Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing


“Christiana Edmunds 1829 – 1907”, Berkshire Record Office, 2009

https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/storage/app/media/pdfs/Christiana-Edmunds.pdf

David, Rowland; “Christiana Edmunds”, Old Police Cells Museum, 2012

https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/sussex_murders/christiana_edmunds

Jones, Kaye; “The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds”, 2016, Pen & Sword History

Music:

Black Fingerprint (copyright and royalty free)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk5zngU-aAE

In 1939, Germans were reeling from the declaration that their country was at war. But soon, train travellers on the S-Bahn had more to fear than the darkness of the blackout, as a remorseless serial killer stalked the tracks. Don’t forget your ticket, and remember not to trust everyone who wears a uniform…



Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

https://prashganendran.com

Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap

Email: [email protected]

Credits:

Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash

Voice of Paul Ogorzow: Louis Coyote

Music:

https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/ethereal-flight/

https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/bed-bugs/

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3661-distant-tension

Sources:

Selby, Scott Andrew, 2014, “A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S Bahn Murderer”, Berkley Publishing Group