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The Indiantown Creek Insurance Murder Plot
Episode 390 explores what was reported to be the first murder case in the English-speaking world where six men receive a guilty verdict on one indictment, the result of a plot to murder a man in order to receive the benefits of a bunch of insurance policies. It doesn’t really end well for anyone.
Culled from the historic pages of The Lebanon Daily News, the Philadelphia Times, and other newspapers of the era.
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