Forgotten Darkness

In 1928 and 1929, two men named Sterling T. Dunn and Van Skelton were shot and killed in the course of “lover's lane” robberies in Memphis, Tennessee. After a series of false leads and rather unlikely coincidences, the murders were finally solved after several months. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 11, 1928. “Identify Floater as Murdered Fireman.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 22, 1929. “McCaslin 'Soldiered' While Family Mourned Him as Dead.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 13, 1929. “Murder List Growing.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 26, 1929. “Mystery Note Now Enters Dunn Slaying.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 10, 1928. “Mystery Surrounds Murder on Parkway.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 7, 1928. “Negroes' Confessions Clear Roadside Deaths.” Chattanooga Daily Times, October 12, 1929. “Police Closing in on Murder Witness.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 8, 1928. “Police to Renew Quiz of Skelton Suspect.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 11, 1929. “Sheriff's Force Idle in Probe of Murder.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 5, 1929. “Two Admit Slaying of Skelton and Dunn.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 12, 1929. “Woman is Held in Murder of Fireman.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 23, 1929. “Woman Named Hazel Still Evades Capture.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 9, 1928. Maddox, Myrtle. “My Escape from the Ghost Grove Terror.” True Detective Mysteries, September, 1930.  

The president of the post-WWII Japanese railway system dies under mysterious circumstances, and in the following weeks, two incidents of railway sabotage occur. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Added Violence Marks Japan Labor Crisis.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 7, 1949. Occupation of Japan - Wikipedia Japan's Red Purge: Lessons from a Saga of Suppression of Free Speech and Thought | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (apjjf.org) Red Purge - Wikipedia FOCUS: Mysterious 1949 disaster draws attention again. - Free Online Library (thefreelibrary.com) Shimoyama National Railways Governor's Memorial Monument (fc2.com) 70 yrs on, struggle for exoneration in Mitaka case continues (kyodonews.net) Hosei University Ohara Institute of Crime Case [Japan Labor Yearbook Vol. 24 674] (archive.org)

These five stories comprise the homicide cases in L.A. Noire. These are the murders of former aviator Jeanne French (“The Red Lipstick Murder”), teetotaller Dorothy Montgomery (“The Golden Butterfly”), soon-to-be-divorcee Rosenda Mondragon (“The Silk Stocking Murder”), housewife Laura Trelstad (“The White Shoe Slaying”) and the homeless Evelyn Winters (“The Studio Secretary Murder”). Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another Woman Slain, Victim of Mutilation Killer.” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1947. “Bus Driver's Story Clouds L.B. Murder.” Long Beach Independent, May 18, 1947. “Cab Driver Believes He Saw Mrs. Trelstad.” Long Beach Independent, May 30, 1947. “Church Friends of Slain Woman Checked as Baffled L.A. Policemen Open Probe.” Visalia Times-Delta, May 5, 1947. “Clothes of L.A. Victim Found.” San Francisco Examiner, July 10, 1947. “Clues Lacking at Montgomery Murder Inquest.” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1947. “Colorful Life of Jeanne French Ends in Death by Mystery Killer.” Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1961. “Companion of Nurse During Supper Sought.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 12, 1947. “Dark Man Who Had Late Date With Slain Woman Hunted.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 13, 1947. “Fiend's Victim Called Good Wife and Mother.” Long Beach Press-Telegram, May 13, 1947. “Horror Victim Last Seen With Sailor.” Los Angeles Daily News, May 13, 1947. “Husband Held in L.A. Slaying.” Ventura County Star, February 11, 1947. “Husband of Slain Woman Arrested.” Venice Evening Vanguard, July 1, 1948. “Inquest Leaves Evelyn Winters Murder Mystery.” Valley Times, March 18, 1947. “L.A. Man is Freed in Death of Wife.” Visalia Time-Delta, July 12, 1947. “L.B. Woman Attacked, Slain.” San Pedro News-Pilot, May 12, 1947. “Lead Sought to Killer of L.B. Mother.” Long Beach Independent, May 13, 1947. “Lie Test Fails to Link Husband in Nurse Killing.” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1947. “Man in Jail Questioned in Housewife's Murder.” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1947. “Missing Mother Found Murdered; Battered Body Left in Vacant Lot.” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1947. “Montgomery Freed in Wife's Death.” Los Angeles Daily News, August 1, 1947. “Montgomery Linked to Wife's Killing.” Los Angeles Daily News, July 25, 1947. “Mother of Three Choked to Death; Body Flung in Signal Hill Oil Field.” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1947. “Murder of Wife Finally Charged to Montgomery.” Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1947. “New French Murder Lead Uncovered.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 25, 1947. “New Sex Murders Shock Los Angeles.” Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, March 12, 1947. “Pawnshops May Answer Latest Dahlia Slaying.” Metropolitan Pasadena News, May 6, 1947. “Police Eliminate Sail as Suspect in Sex Slaying.” Sacramento Bee, May 14, 1947. “Police Question Husband in Brutal Slaying of Wife.” Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 11, 1947. “Police Seek Attempted Attacker As Suspect in French Murder.” Venice Evening Vanguard, February 26, 1947. “Quiz Confessed Murderer on Other Slayings.” Wilmington Daily Press Journal, February 18, 1947. “Reports on Molesters May Give Clue.” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1947. “Robbery, Attack Suspect Located.” Venice Evening Vanguard, June 27, 1947. “Sailor Cleared as Suspect in Murder.” Long Beach Independent, May 14, 1947. “Screams in Montgomery Home Heard by Witness.” Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1947. “Seek to Link Suspect With Lipstick Case.” Los Angeles Daily News, March 10, 1947. “Sixth Victim in Murder Cycle Found Mutilated in Southland.” Santa Maria Daily Times, July 8, 1947. “Slain Woman's Stripped Body Found in Gutter.” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1947. “Slayer Known, Police Declare.” Wilmington Daily Press-Journal, May 16, 1947. “Trio Questioned in Winters Case.” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1947. “Two Fiend Murders Stymie L.A. Police.” Valley Times. February 12, 1947. “Two More Women Slain; One Beaten, One Strangled.” Los Angeles Times, March 12, 1947. “Warrant Issued for Culver Gas Station Attendant.” Venice Evening Vanguard, May 10, 1947. “Winters Murder Case Centers on Drinking Friend.” Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1947. “Woman Slain in New L.A. Dahlia Murder.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 10, 1947. “Woman Slain in New L.A. Murder.” Oakland Tribune, May 12, 1947. 1947project: Slain Woman's Stripped Body Found in Gutter (archive.org) 1947project: Mother of Three Choked to Death; Body Flung in Signal Hill Oil Field

These are three of the stories that inspired cases in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire. Here are the stories of overstressed engineer Eugene White ("The Driver's Seat"), the accidental death of Jay Dee Chitwood and his wife's drunken confession ("A Marriage Made in Heaven"), and the avoidable disaster of O'Connor Electroplating ("Nicholson Electroplating"). Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “15 Identified Dead in Blast; One Missing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947. “Alleged Murder Victim Admits Burning House.” Hanford Morning Journal, August 5, 1947. “Chemist Cited Blast Peril, Inquest Hears.” Salt Lake Tribune, March 12, 1947. “Chitwood to Be Sentenced to Death.” Hope (Arkansas) Star, February 20, 1946. “Dead Chemist's Premonition of L.A. Blast Told At Hearing.” Los Angeles Daily News, March 11, 1947. “Driver Absolved in Pedestrian Death.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 15, 1944. “Engineer Arrested in Arson.” Valley Times, August 4, 1947. “Executive Feared Slaying Victim in St. Valentine's Day Car Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1947. “It Mushroomed Like Atom Blast.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 21, 1947. “Missing Businessman Confesses It Was Fake.” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1947. “Murdered One Mate Just to Scare Present One, Wife Says.” Los Angeles Daily News, January 22, 1947. “Obituaries – White, Eugene Hamilton.” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1995. “Only Kidding, Woman Says of Confession.” Metropolitan Pasadena News, January 23, 1947. “Pedestrian Death Inquest Set.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 11, 1944. “Plant Cleared of Negligence in Faital Blast.” Wilmington Daily Press Journal, March 13, 1947. “Police Discount Murder Story.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 22, 1947. “Prosecutor Seeks Blast Facts Prior to Inquest.” Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1947. “Psychiatrist to Examine Woodland Hills Arsonist.” Topanga Journal, August 29, 1947. “Reasons For Flight Told By Missing Angeleno.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1947. “Secret War Work Blast Cause Denied.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947. “Some Compare Blast to Quake, A-Bombing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947. “Television Used at Blast Scene First for Coast.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947. “Tool Plant Executive's Arson Case Arraignment Set Aug. 25.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, August 9, 1947. “Torrance Orders Sidewalk Built.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 25, 1944. “Traffic Death Turns Into Murder Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1947. “Woman Admits Spouse Murder Two Years Ago.” Pomona Progress Bulletin, January 22, 1947. “Woman Released After Confession Discounted.” Long Beach Independent, January 24, 1947. “Woman's Murder Story Proves False.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 24, 1947. “Woodland Hills Arsonist Sane; Held For Trial.” Topanga Journal, September 5, 1947. “Woodland Hills Man Charged With Arson.” Topanga Journal, August 8, 1947. Newsreel footage of aftermath of O'Connor Electroplating: (230) Deadly explosion, 1947, O'Connor Electroplating Co. Los Angeles - YouTube

John Frankford was a notorious thief of pretty much anything that wasn't nailed down.  His 30 year career in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is a series of crimes, arrests, and jailbreaks, punctuated with the occasional jail sentence that's actually served.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Lancaster Saturday Express, June 14, 1856, p. 4. “A Plucky Escape.” The Landmark (White River Junction, Vermont), July 14, 1883. “All Asked to Give Evidence.” Philadelphia Times, June 12, 1897. “Arrest of an Accomplished Horse-Thief.” Baltimore County Union (Towsontown, Maryland), May 26, 1883. “Arrest of a Noted Burglar.” Lancaster Intelligencer, May 25, 1874. “Arrest of a Noted Horse Thief.” Lancaster Intelligencer, June 19, 1877. “Arrested.” Lancaster Intelligencer, December 20, 1869. “At His Old Tricks.” Lancaster Examiner, May 19, 1880. “Attempted Escape from Prison.” Lancaster Examiner, March 15, 1854. “August Term of Quarter Sessions.” Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, August 25, 1877. “Caged Again.” Lancaster Intelligencer, September 8, 1880. “Catching One of the Escaped Convicts.” Philadelphia Times, May 26, 1882. “Caught Again.” Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, September 7, 1878. “Caught in the Act.” Lancaster Intelligencer, May 14, 1880. “City and County Affairs – Court of Quarter Sessions – August Term.” Lancaster Intelligencer, August 25, 1857. “City and County Items – John Frankford.” Lancaster Intelligencer, April 25, 1854. “Committee Probes Frankford's Case.” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 1897. “Court of Quarter Sessions.” Lancaster Daily Evening Express, August 18, 1874. ―. 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On December 12, 1911, a missed milk delivery led to the discovery of four dead bodies on a farm near Albany, New York.  The possible murderer can't be found. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “$1000 Reward For Murderer.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 16, 1911. “1911 Shocking Defreestville Murders Still Unsolved.” Albany Times-Union, April 10, 1966. “Another Morner Tragedy Reported.” Buffalo Enquirer, February 2, 1912. “Arrest Man at Williamstown.” Boston Globe, December 18, 1911. “Bloodhounds on Murderer's Trail.” Warren Times-Mirror, December 15, 1911. “Bloodhounds Trail Slayer of Family.” New York Times, December 15, 1911. “Caught As Slayer of Whole Family on Morner Farm.” New York Evening World, March 1, 1912. “Detectives Assert Murder Suspect is Guilty of Lesser Crime.” Meriden Record-Journal, August 29, 1912. “Dogs Lose Trail of Suspected Man.” Buffalo News, December 15, 1911. “Donato Has Not Been Caught.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 20, 1911. “Edward Donato a Man of Mystery.” Albany Evening Journal, December 22, 1911. “Funeral Resembles a Picnic.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 18, 1911. “Governor May Offer Reward For Murderer.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, December 17, 1911. “Family of Four Brutally Slain.” Buffalo Commercial, December 14, 1911. “Foully Slays Whole Family; Find Bodies in Manure Pit.” Elmira Star-Gazette, December 14, 1911. “Held For Morner Murders.” New York Times, December 16, 1911. “Jesse Morner Has Narrow Escape.” Glens Falls Post Star, August 21, 1912. “Link Morner Case With Dorp Suicide.” Glens Falls Post-Star, November 11, 1912. “Massena Italian May Be Donato.” Ogdensburg Journal, May 17, 1912. “Morgan Williams Back Home.” Scranton Times, December 22, 1911. “Morner Estates.” Berkshire Eagle, October 24, 1914. “Morner Murder Suspect Freed.” Albany Argus, May 19, 1912. “Morner Suspect is Released.” Buffalo News, December 20, 1911. “Mrs. Williams Says Her Son is Innocent.” Scranton Tribune-Republican, December 20, 1911. “Murder Suspect Held, Albany Police Notified.” Buffalo News, December 15, 1911. “Police File Still Remains Open in Morner Murders, 35-Year-Old Mystery.” Albany Times-Union, December 29, 1946. “Police Think They Have Slayer of Morner Family.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 1, 1912. “Sheriff Says Donato is Man.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 19, 1911. “Sleuthing Isn't Profitable.” Rutland Daily Herald, February 10, 1912. “Spurned Love Caused Hatchet-Fiend to Murder Entire Morner Family.” Pittsburgh Press, December 16, 1911. “State May Offer Reward For Slayer.” New York Times, December 17, 1911. “State Offers $2000 Reward.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 19, 1911. “Still in Doubt as to Suspect.” Ogdensburg Journal, May 18, 1912. “Suspect Denies Bomb Threat in Extortion Case.” New York Daily News, July 2, 1933. “Suspect Released on Word of a Girl.” Buffalo Commercial, December 16, 1911. “Tatasciore Released By Authorities.” Meriden Record-Journal, September 7, 1912. “Think Morner Family Slayer is in Custody.” Elmira Star-Gazette, May 17, 1912. “Three Women and Man Murdered; Hunt Farmhand as Insane Slayer.” Syracuse Herald, December 14, 1911. “Tony Tash Agrees to Settle With Henry Wyman.” Bennington Banner, December 5, 1913. “Verdict For $900 Was Given To Tony Tash.” Bennington Evening Banner, June 14, 1913. New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 - Ancestry.com Horatio D Mould - Facts (ancestry.com)

In the summer of 1692 Gloucester, Massachusetts was under siege by a mysterious group of men even as the infamous witch trials occurred only a few miles away in Salem. The besiegers of Gloucester were never captured or even located, if they really existed at all... Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of our LORD, 1698. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1698. Ebenezer Babson (1667-1696) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Case files referencing Ebenezer Babson - New Salem - Pelican (virginia.edu)

For three years in the 1920s, the women of northwest Philadelphia were terrorized by a madman who entered homes and attacked or even killed whoever was within.  Were these killings work of serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson?   Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “2 More Women Are Attacked By Stranglers.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1925. “Boxer Suspect in Stranglings Held By Police.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1926. “Dragnet Out For Strangler of Philadelphia Woman.” Scranton Times-Tribune, April 28, 1927. “Fiend Suspect Tries to Enter W. Phila. Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 1927. “Girl's Bravery As Strangler Decoy Brings Capture.” Camden Morning Post, November 24, 1925. “Man in Camden Seized At Bank as Strangler.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 15, 1925. “New Attack Fans Strangler Terror.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1925. “Policeman Killed in Family Quarrel.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 1957. “Pugilist Goes Insane After Hard Grilling.” Camden Morning Post, December 20, 1926. “Pugilist is Held By Phila. Police As Strangler.” Camden Morning Post, December 18, 1926. “Rooming House Woman Strangled, Lodger Held.” Pittston Gazette, November 7, 1925. “Strangler Clues Lead Searchers to Digger of Subway.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 1925. “Strangler Suspect Believed a Maniac Frightens 2 Women.” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 1926. “Strangler Suspect Is Held for Probe.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 1926. “Strangler Suspect Raving Maniac as Alibi is Confirmed.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1926. “Strangler Thought Captured At Last in W. Philadelphia Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 1925. “Strangler Tries to Attack Widow.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 21, 1925. “Strangler's Attack Baffled By Woman.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 1926. “Suspect Identified.” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 1927. “Third Philadelphia Woman Falls Victim of Strangler.” Hanover Evening Sun, November 11, 1925. “Woman Slain By Strangler in Her Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1925. “Woman Strangled As Her Baby Sleeps.” Harrisburg Telegraph, October 16, 1925. “Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927. “Women in Fear As Strangler Eludes Police.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 1925. “Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927. “'Young Joe Wolcott' Dies of Rheumatism.” Salt Lake Tribune, December 27, 1933. “Young Woman Found Strangled.” Indiana Gazette, Nov. 7, 1925.

In 1889, tensions between the Polish and Lithuanian congregants of St. Mary's in Plymouth, PA were fanned to a fever pitch by a violent troublemaker, a Polish man named Martin Wilkes. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Plymouth Weekly Star, March 22, 1888. Plymouth Weekly Star, April 26, 1888. Plymouth Weekly Star, May 3, 1888. Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, April 5, 1886. Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, November 22, 1889. Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, March 5, 1890. Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, May 8, 1890. Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, March 25, 1892. “A Plymouth Riot.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, October 27, 1889. “And Yet There is No Peace.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 14, 1890. “Another Riot.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 21, 1890. “Burial Refused.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 28, 1890. “Court Proceedings.” Wilkes-Barre Record, June 19, 1891. “District Attorney Lenahan Makes a Point.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 27, 1886. “Graves Invaded.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 23, 1890. “Guns in the Parsonage.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, October 27, 1889. “Holding the Fort.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, October 27, 1889. “How Wilkes Gets Even.” Wilkes Barre Dollar Weekly News, March 1, 1890. “In Common Pleas Court.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, “Law Defying Poles.” Wilkes-Barre Record, January 21, 1890. “License Decisions.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 24, 1890. “Martin Wilkes Acquitted.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, June 22, 1891, “Martin Wilkes Convicted.” Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, March 5, 1888. “Martin Wilkes Leaves.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, March 27, 1892. “Martin Wilkes on Trial.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, June 19, 1891. “Martin Wilkes Wins One Case.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, April 30, 1890. “More Trouble Imminent.” Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, November 1, 1889. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, August 31, 1889. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, January 20, 1890. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, June 24, 1891. “Plymouth – Martin Wilkes Sat Upon.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 11, 1890. “Plymouth – Martin Wilkes' Latest Movement.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 12, 1890. “Plymouth Polanders.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, April 6, 1890. “Plymouth Tidings.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, February 23, 1890. “Polish Church Troubles.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 8, 1891. “Rioting Poles.” Hazelton Plain Speaker, January 22, 1890. “Sad Saloonmen.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, March 1, 1892. “Sentenced Monday Morning.” Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, March 16, 1888. “Sentences Imposed.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, March 13, 1888. “Some Resolutions.” Wilkes Barre Sunday News, January 5, 1890. “Sterner Measures Needed.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 24, 1890. “Still Hold the Fort.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 24, 1889. “The Martin Wilkes Faction Making Trouble in the Church Again.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, January 27, 1891. “The Plymouth Injunction Case.” Wilkes-Barre Record, January 28, 1890. “The Poles Defiant.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, October 29, 1889. “The Poles Surrender.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, October 23, 1889. “The Priest Got a Gun.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 1890. “The Priests Arrested.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, November 2, 1889. “The Wilkes Faction Again.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, June 19, 1891. “They Still Hold the Fort.” Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, October 25, 1889. “Two Plymouth Assault Cases.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, October 23, 1885. “Wilkes Convicted.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, April 27, 1890. “Wilkes in Jail.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 22, 1890. “Wilkes in the Toils.” Wilkes-Barre News Leader, January 24, 1890. “Wilkes on Trial.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, April 26, 1890. “Wilkes Sentenced.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, May 14, 1890. “Wilkes Still Holds the Keys.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, April 6, 1890. “Would Not Allow Burial.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, January 19, 1890. “Work of Polish Hyenas.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 23, 1890. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 - Ancestry.com Plymouth, Pennsylvania - History of Plymouth (1753-1972) - Years of Industrial Growth (1861-1900) - Martin Wilkes and The Polish-Lithuanian Church War | Martin Wilkes Polish-Lithuanian Church War (liquisearch.com) History - All Saints Parish - Plymouth, PA (allsaintsplymouth.com)

The annals of late Victorian era crime are usually dominated by one name, but another series of murders, ones lesser-known but more grisly, took place from 1886-1889 with some outlying cases that may or may not have been connected. Were these murders all the work of the same offender? In some cases, were they even murders at all? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Hull Daily Mail, June 12, 1902. “A London Mystery.” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, November 2, 1884. “A Thames Mystery.” The Daily Telegraph, May 13, 1887. ―. East Kent Gazette, September 15, 1888. “Another Murder and Mutilation in Whitechapel.” The Times, September 11, 1889. “Another Thames Mystery.” Staffordshire Daily Sentinel, September 11, 1874. “Atrocious Crime in London.” Birmingham Daily Mail, June 9, 1902. “Discovery of Human Remains.” Pall Mall Gazette, October 24, 1884. “Dreadful Discovery.” Christchurch Star (NZ), August 1, 1902. “Further Discovery of Human Remains in London.” Pall Mall Gazette, October 30, 1884. “Horrible Discovery at Rainham.” Essex Weekly Herald, May 23, 1887. “Lambeth Mystery.” The Weekly Dispatch, June 15, 1902. “Le Crime de Montrouge.” Le Radical (Paris), December 3, 1886. “Le Mystère de Montrouge.” Le Figaro (Paris), August 5, 1886. ―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 7, 1886. ―. La Lanterne (Paris), August 7, 1886. ―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 20, 1886. ―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 22, 1886. ―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 29, 1886. ―. La Lanterne (Paris), September 16, 1886. ―. La Lanterne (Paris), November 26, 1886. “Murder & Mutilation,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, October 11, 1887. “Murdered and Hacked to Pieces.” Atherstone Herald, August 13, 1886. “Suspicious Discovery in the Thames.” Acton Gazette, June 13, 1874. “The Chelsea Victim.” The Western Daily Press, July 26, 1889. “The Discovery of Human Remains.” The Times, October 31, 1884. ―. Central Somerset Gazette, June 11, 1887. “The Discovery of Human Remains in Lambeth.” The Evening Standard, June 18, 1902. “The Latest London Horror.” The People, June 30, 1889. “The London Mystery.” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, November 16, 1884. “The Murder in Whitechapel.” The Times, September 12, 1889. ―. The Times, September 25, 1889. “The Mysterious Murder and Mutilation.” London Daily News, September 16, 1873. “The Pimlico Discovery.” The Echo, September 12, 1888. “The Pimlico Mystery. - Another Discovery.” The Pall Mall Gazette, September 28, 1888. “The Rainham Mystery.” The People, June 12, 1887. “The Shocking Discovery at Dalston.” The Evening Standard, January 25, 1898. “The Supposed Murder and Mutilation.” London Daily News, November 4, 1884. “The Supposed Murder and Mutilation in London.” The People, November 16, 1884. “The Supposed Murder of a Woman.” The Morning Post, September 9, 1873. “The Thames Mystery.” The Morning Post, May 16, 1887. ―. Birmingham Weekly Mercury, June 15, 1889. “The Whitechapel Mystery.” The Times, September 13, 1889. ―. The Times, September 14, 1889. “The Whitehall Discovery.” Birmingham Daily Post, October 6, 1888. Gordon, R. Michael. The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London. London: McFarland & Company, 2002. Trow, M.J. The Thames Torso Murders. Barnsley: Wharncliffe Books, 2011. Shelley House Stables - Casebook: Jack the Ripper Forums

Hypothetical planets are those theorized to exist, whether by observation or prediction by means of examining gravitational fields. Several hypotheticals are discussed, with the story of the planet Vulcan, at one time thought to exist between Mercury and the Sun, discussed in-depth. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.

In 1910, Dr. B.C. Hyde was put on trial for the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, a wealthy Kansas City landowner the year before. Also included in the charges were manslaughter and several counts of attempted murder. This is a case I've gone back and forth on several times. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Col. T.H. Swope Goes to Rest.” Louisville Courier-Journal, October 4, 1909. “Col. Thomas Swope Dead.” Cherryvale Republican (Kansas), October 4, 1909. “Coroner's Jury Finds Dr. Hyde's Medicine Killed Swope.” St. Louis Star and Times, February 9, 1910. “Dr. Twyman Very Ill.” Kansas City Star, April 18, 1910. “For Third Time Dr. Hyde Will Face Trial Next Week.” Parsons Daily Sun (Kansas), May 24, 1912. “Hyde and Wife to Take Stand.” St. Louis Star and Times, April 19, 1910. “Hyde Trial Begins Again in Porterfield's Court.” Salina National Field (Kansas), October 23, 1911. “Juror's Escape May Halt Hyde Trial.” St. Joseph News-Press, December 11, 1911. “Kansas City Pioneer Gone.” West Plains Journal (Missouri), October 7, 1909. “Letter in Swope Case is a Serial Story of Horrors.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 4, 1910. “Mrs. Hyde Prompts Walsh.” Kansas City Star, April 23, 1910. “Nurse Who Attended Swope Swears He Took Patent Medicine Containing Strychnine.” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 8, 1910. “One of the Hyde Jury Ill.” Kansas City Star, November 30, 1911. “Story of Death of Crisman (sic) Swope.” Deseret News, April 22, 1910. “Stranger at Home of Missing Hyde Juror.” St. Louis Star and Times, December 13, 1911. “Swope Murder Case is Opened.” Hope Pioneer (North Dakota), April 14, 1910. “The Juror Returned.” Hutchinson News (Kansas), December 14, 1911. “The Nurse Confused.” Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor (Kansas), April 23, 1910. “The Rialto in Ruins.” Kansas City Star, December 23, 1909. “Typhoid Story Out?” Kansas City Times, April 20, 1910. “Witness Tells How Hyde Bought Disease Cultures.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 27, 1910. Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. San Francisco: The James H. Berry Company, 1910. Dr. Hyde & Mr. Swope – The Swope Murder Trial - HistoricalCrimeDetective.com Dr Bennett Clark Hyde Sr - Facts (ancestry.com)

An unidentified, mostly noncommunicative man in a Minnesota mental hospital, known as J.C.R., was the plaintiff in a case to prove his identity as a North Dakota rancher's son.  Who was J.C.R.?  Will we ever know? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Accused of Writing Bogus Checks.” Washington Post, January 7, 1905. “Aphasia Victim May Be Naval Officer.” New York Tribune, May 26, 1913. “Are Positive of Identity.” Long Beach Telegram (California), May 23, 1913. “Bullets Write New Chapter in 'J.C.R.' Mystery.” Leavenworth Times (Kansas), May 4, 1917. “Caldwell Will Case Postponed.” Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota), August 27, 1917. “Dorothy Harris Claims to be Daughter of 'J.C.R.' and Heir to a Large Fortune.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 16, 1919. “Famous Identity Case Concluded Late Last Week.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), January 20, 1917. “Found Paralyzed.” La Crosse Tribune (Wisconsin), July 13, 1907. “Four Others Identify 'Aye-Hee' as Ramsey.” Oregon Daily Journal, May 23, 1913. “Girl, 18, Claims 'J.C.R.' Mystery man as Father.” Maurice Times (Iowa), December 11, 1919. “Hopes of Fortune Depend on Flute.” Spokane Daily Chronicle, November 17, 1919. “Insane Prisoner Attacks Sheriff.” Billings Gazette (Montana), August 10, 1917. “Is He? Or Is He Not? Week of Court Serves to Deepen Mystery of 'J.C.R.'.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), January 6, 1917. “'J.C.R. Again in Our City.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), July 31, 1915. “'J.C.R.' Face to Face With Lost Identity.” Chicago Inter Ocean, January 17, 1914. “J.C.R. Identified as James Harris Now Making Home with Former Wife.” Ward County Independent (Minnesota), August 26, 1920. “'J.C.R.' in Visit to Dickinson.” Bismarck Tribune, November 14, 1921. “'J.C.R.' on Co. Wants to Let Go.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), April 10, 1915. “'J.C.R.,' the Man of Mystery, Declared Seen in Spokane.” Spokane Chronicle (Washington), January 24, 1920. “'J.C.R.' Walks to Dickinson.” Williston Graphic (North Dakota), August 5, 1915. “Man of Mystery Found.” Seattle Star, January 27, 1920. “Mrs. Pitkin Has an Unenviable Record.” Fargo Forum and Daily Republican (North Dakota), December 14, 1914. “Mysterious 'J.C.R.' Identified as Man Missing since 1906.” St. Louis Star and Times (Missouri), November 19, 1914. “Mystery Man for 13 Years is Brought Home.” Minneapolis Morning Tribune, August 18, 1920. “Mystery Man of Stark is Paralyzed.” Bismarck Tribune, January 31, 1921. “Noted Murder Case in North Dakota.” Rapid City Journal (North Carolina), June 19, 1917. “Says She is Wrong.” Long Beach Telegram (California), May 22, 1913. “'Silent Man' an Oklahoman?” Oklahoma Weekly Leader, May 29, 1913. “Slayer of Two Caldwells Held Insane by Jury.” August 14, 1917. “State News and Comment.” Bismarck Daily Tribune (North Dakota), April 10, 1915. “Strange Case of 'J.C.R.' the Man of Mystery Who Has Apparently Lost All Track of Himself.” Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina), November 9, 1913. “Trial of Mike Chumack Likely to be Postponed.” Hope Pioneer (North Dakota), June 14, 1917. “Wife Looks for Jas. P. Harris.” Tampa Times, January 13, 1920. Burnett, W. Fulton. “The Case of the Mysterious J.C.R.” North Dakota Law Review, volume 25, number 4 (1949). Callahan, Edward W. List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps, from 1775 to 1900. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1901. James H. Caldwell - Facts (ancestry.com) Waseca County Minnesota Railroad Stations (west2k.com) Strange Company: Who Was J.C.R.?

The “woman in black” stalked the streets of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and other towns and villages in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties in the winter of 1886-1887 and into the 1930s. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 1886. Scranton Republican, December 15, 1886. Wilkes-Barre Record, January 5, 1887. “Attacked For the Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, December 27, 1886. “Caught At His Tricks.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, February 6, 1887. “Caught the Woman in Black.” Scranton Republican, November 6, 1886. “He Wasn't Afraid.” Carbondale Daily News, December 9, 1886. “Lackawanna's Mystery.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, November 30, 1886. “Local Brevities.” Carbondale Daily News, December 4, 1886. “Local Gleanings.” Pittston Evening Gazette, December 18, 1886. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 25, 1886. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 27, 1886. “Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 28, 1886. “Scared by a Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 30, 1886. “Slammer Coleman as the Woman in Black.” Scranton Republican, December 9, 1886. “The Bunko Men.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News-Dealer, October 31, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” New York Times, November 10, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, November 23, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Dollar Weekly News, December 25, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 30, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 31, 1886. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, January 2, 1887. “The Woman in Black.” New York Times, January 7, 1887. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Weekly Dollar News, January 22, 1887. “The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, February 5, 1893. “Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 27, 1886. “Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News-Dealer, January 2, 1887. “Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Dollar Weekly News, January 15, 1887. Peter VON WEISENFLUE - Facts (ancestry.com) Wright J. Horton - Facts (ancestry.com) Ancestry.com - U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 – Scranton 1886 Ancestry.com - U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 – Wilkes-Barre 1882 Luzerne County 1873 Pennsylvania Historical Atlas (historicmapworks.com) Coal mining in Plymouth, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia In the passage describing the attack on Wright Horton, the name of the sheriff's son is incorrectly given as Jules. His name was actually Julius, and I've corrected it to such.

  In the winter of 1891-1892, a series of slashing attacks - and one murder - took place in the rough streets of the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, barely a stone's throw from the seedy hotel where “Old Shakespeare” was slain only a few months before. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Arraignment of the Slasher.” New York Sun, January 20, 1892. “Carson's Slayer.” New York Evening World, January 18, 1892. “Caught Cutting a Throat.” New York Tribune, January 18, 1892. “Dowd Was Mad, the Jury Say.” New York Sun, January 30, 1892. “Jack the Slasher Again.” Passaic (NJ) Daily News, January 16, 1892. “Jack the Slasher in Court.” New York Evening World, January 28, 1892. “Masterson a Roundsman Now.” New York Sun, January 20, 1892. “Men Whom Dowd Slashed.” New York Evening World, January 29, 1892. “Murder or Suicide?” New York Evening World, January 15, 1892. “Red Revenge Day By Day.” Pittsburgh (PA) Dispatch, January 18, 1892. “Saloon Keeper Flynn's Frenzy.” New York Sun, July 6, 1887. “Slasher Dowd's Defense.” New York Evening World, January 21, 1892. “Slasher Dowd's Trial Put Off.” New York Evening World, January 25, 1892. “The Slasher's Brother Sane.” New York Evening World, January 28, 1892. “The Weather.” Brooklyn Times-Union, January 18, 1892. “Who Killed Lawyer Carson?” New York Evening World, January 16, 1892. Dekle, George. The East River Ripper. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. New York, U.S., Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939 - Ancestry.com Daytonian in Manhattan: The 1894 House of Relief -- Nos. 67-69 Hudson St. (daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com)

In the early 1700s, the Lincolnshire rectory of Reverend Samuel Wesley, whose son John went on to found the Methodist Church, was haunted by a poltergeist, one which the Wesley children named Old Jeffrey. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Bruce, H. Addington. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908. Yates, Kelly Diehl. “Jeffrey the Jacobite Poltergeist: the Politics of the Ghost That Haunted the Epworth Rectory in 1716-7.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 50:2 (Fall 2015). The Epworth Poltergeist: 1 - The Wesley Home - Ghosts, Ghouls and God (ghostsghoulsandgod.co.uk) The History of Epworth Old Rectory - Epworth Old Rectory At the Roots of Methodism: Escape from fire shaped Wesley's life (gcah.org)

In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Amazing Attempt of the Great Eleven Cult to Raise the Dead.” Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, April 6, 1930. “Angel Gabriel Girls Quizzed.” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1925. “Apostles of Doom to Wait Whole Week.” Pomona Bulletin, February 7, 1925. “Believe Body May Be That of H. Balcom.” Santa Ana Register, October 8, 1929. “Cult Leaders Face Charges.” Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1929. “Cult Queen Tells of Being Chained Two Months to Bed Post.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1929. “Cult's Poison Rites Investigated as Rainbow Tells of Leader's Quest for Potion.” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1929. “Death Theory is Switched.” Long Beach Sun, October 10, 1929. “Four Women Feared Slain in Cult Rites.” Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1929. “Heart Murder Victim Seen as Rancher.” Long Beach Sun, October 18, 1929. “Human Heart in Mail May Solve Crime.” Long Beach Sun, October 30, 1929. “Kidnapping of Woman Feared.” San Francisco Examiner, March 21, 1927. “Murder Victim Found on Ranch Near Westminster.” Santa Ana Register, October 7, 1929. “Mystery of Simi Woman Revived.” Ventura County Star, December 17, 1937. “New Chapter Written in Louise Volz Disappearance.” Ventura County Star, March 28, 1938. “Pair Describe Death in Oven.” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1929. “Police on Search at Venice Cottage for Secret Grave of Young Cult Priestess.” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1929. “Probe L.A. Doom Cult.” Los Angeles Record, February 6, 1925. “Sheriff Has New Theory.” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1929. “Vogel Adjudged Mentally Sick; to be Confined.” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1925. Fort, Samuel. Cult of the Great Eleven. Omaha: Nisirtu Publishing, 2019. ESDA | Rowen, Margaret Matilda Wright (1871–1939) (adventist.org) Secrets of Los Angeles, 1932-33: The Anton Wagner files | Esotouric As Above So Below: The Meaning of The Esoteric Phrase | Mysterium Academy Pioneer Era – Strathearn Historical Park and Museum (simihistory.com) People v. Blackburn, 214 Cal. 402 | Casetext Search + Citator Mary Harlene Satoris - Facts (ancestry.com)

In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Oregon Daily Journal, August 5, 1917. “Body of Cult Priestess Discovered Under House.” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1929. “Police Probing Weird Burial by Cult.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, October 7, 1929. “Priestess Snubs Ex-Swain.” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1929. “Rhoads is Known at Klamath Falls.” Salem Statesman Journal, October 10, 1929. “Vancouver Marriage Licenses.” Oregon Daily Journal, May 28, 1915. Fort, Samuel. Cult of the Great Eleven. Omaha: Nisirtu Publishing, 2019. Fremont Everett - Facts (ancestry.com) Ruth Angeline Wieland - Facts (ancestry.com)

The White Star Line lost many ships over the years, most famously the Titanic in 1912.  But over its century of existence, it had only one ship vanish without a trace.  Did it sink in a storm?  Explode due to its volatile cargo?  This is the story of the Naronic. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another Naronic Hoax.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 3, 1893. “Fears for Ocean Steamers.” Delaware Gazette and State Journal, March 9, 1893. “Is She Still Afloat?” Wilkes-Barre Record,March 8, 1893. “Nine Sailors Saved.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893. “No News of the Naronic.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 8, 1893. “No Tidings of the Naronic.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893. “Put Into Halifax.” Boston Globe, February 26, 1893. “Regarded as a Hoax.” Norfolk Virginian, March 31, 1893. “Rosseau Admits He Sent Dynamite to Liner.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 1905. “Rosseau, Dynamiter, Guilty, the Jury Says.” New York Times, March 28, 1905. “She is Lost.” Boston Globe, March 20, 1893. “The Naronic.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), August 30, 1893. “The Naronic's Boat Picked Up.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), January 18, 1894. ”The Naronic Mystery.” The Australian Star, March 27, 1893. “Thinks They Blew Up Maine.” New York Times, March 29, 1905. “To Dynamite British Ships.” Kendrick (ID) Gazette, January 20, 1905. “Toilers of the Sea.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 25, 1893. “What To Do With Cranks.” New York Times, January 17, 1905. “With an Infernal Machine Man Called at Kelly Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 1905. What Happened to the Naronic? (titanic-whitestarships.com) NARONIC MYSTERY UPDATED. | Waratah Revisited Ever wonder what Frederick the Great is doing in Carlisle? - pennlive.com

In 1894, an injured young girl arrives on the doorstep of a Missouri farmhouse. She was Nellie Meeks, and she was the sole survivor of the murder of her entire family. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Burnt Clothing of Gus Meeks.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 27, 1895. “Crime of Fiends.” St. Joseph Herald, May 12, 1894. “Final Pleas Being Made.” Kansas City Star, August 1, 1895. “Jerry South Gets His Reward.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1896. “Jury Receives Instructions.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 2, 1895. “Looks Black for the Taylors.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 26, 1895. “Story of the Taylors.” Larned (KS) Eagle-Optic, September 13, 1895. “Taylor Is Hanged.” St. Joseph Herald, May 1, 1896. “Taylor Makes a Statement.” Mexico Weekly Intelligencer, April 30, 1896. “Taylor Taken to Carrollton.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1896. “The End of the Famous Meeks-Taylor Case.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 8, 1926. “The Taylors' Defense.” St. Joseph Weekly Gazette, April 2, 1895. “William Taylor Executed.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1896. “William Taylor in Kansas City.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 11, 1896. Nellie L. Meeks - Facts (ancestry.com) John Blackwell Hale - Wikipedia Thomas Miles Bresnehen (1860-1926) - Find A Grave Memorial History in Hannibal: Folktale relates town's horror over Meeks' family murders | Article | hannibal.net

Several mysterious deaths are described here – two with hints of conspiracy and cover-up, those of Allyn King Foster and Rudolph Bogovich, and another case of apparently not-so-spontaneous combustion. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Allyn King Foster – January 17, 1942 “Authorities Probe Doctor's Death at Bellevue Hospital.” Hartford Courant, January 20, 1942. “Autopsy Clears Bellevue in Death.” New York Daily News, May 12, 1938. “Doctor's Death Being Probed.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 19, 1942. “Experiments With Death Ray Seen Clue to Doctor's Insanity and Death.” Camden Morning Post, February 3, 1942. “Fears Death Ray Work Drove Surgeon Insane.” Brooklyn Eagle, February 2, 1942. “Probe Demanded in Bellevue Death.” New York Daily News, May 5, 1938. “Mystery Veils Violent End of Death Ray Inventor.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 8, 1942 “Refugee Inventor of 'Death Ray' Dies.” St. Louis Star and Times, September 1, 1942. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXhy5EqjHw   Rudolph Bogovich – January 6, 1945 “Eerie Red Death Plot Here Alleged.” Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, March 4, 1954. “F.B.I. Probes War Worker's Bomb Death.” Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, January 7, 1945. “Human Bomb Death Unsolved.” Pittsburgh Press, January 14, 1945. “Probe Human Bomb Death of Westinghouse Worker.” Sunbury Daily Item, January 9, 1945. “Queer War Plant Death Stumps FBI.” Unionville (MI) Crescent, January 13, 1945. “Westinghouse Fires Five Accused Reds.” Pittsburgh Press, January 4, 1955. explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-3A0#:~:text=During World War II the Westinghouse Electric and,in plastics%2C radar%2C x-rays%2C bombsights%2C and atomic energy.   Harold Hall – April 28, 1956 “Benicia Death Laid to Cleaning Fluid.” Contra Costa Gazette, May 2, 1956. “Harold Hall of Benicia Fire Victim.” Contra Costa Gazette, April 30, 1956. “Mystery Burns Fatal to Benicia Man in Apartment.” Oakland Tribune, April 30, 1956. 1956, April 28: Harold Hall's Fiery Death | Anomalies: the Strange & Unexplained (anomalyinfo.com)

Several mysterious deaths are described here – a quartet of cases described by Charles Fort, those of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the English case of Lavinia Farrar, Lillian Green and her death at the Lake Denmark Hotel in New Jersey, and the “locked door” death of New York launderer Isidore Fink. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Captain George M. Colvocoresses “A Tragical Enigma.” New York Times, July 1, 1872. “Colvocoresses – Murder or Suicide?” Hartford Courant, August 5, 1872. Lavinia Farrar “Inquest.” The Times, March 16, 1901. Lillian Green “Erskine Hotel Burned.” Passaic Daily News, December 26, 1916. “Miss Green Died Accidental Death.” Paterson Morning Call, December 28, 1916. “Mystery in the Death of Dover Woman.” Paterson News, December 27, 1916. “Mystery Shrouds Burned Woman.” Paterson Morning Call, December 27, 1916. Isidore Fink “Laundryman Killer Flees Locked Room.” Brooklyn Times-Union, March 11, 1929. “Man Killed; All Openings Locked; Police Baffled.” Arizona Republic, March 12, 1929.

The election of 1934 saw Democrats gain headway nationally in the wake of the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  But Republicans in Kelayres, Pennsylvania, dominated by the Bruno family, weren't going to go down without a fight. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “2 Commissioners Arrested for Plot in Bruno's Escape.” Reading Times, December 24, 1936. “14 Year Old Girl of Kelayres Has Flag Recognized.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 15, 1935. “50 Republican Votes Gained in Kline Twp.” Pottsville Republican-Herald, November 13, 1933. “A Proclamation.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934. “Bruno Trial to Reach Jury By Next Friday.” Pottsville Republican and Herald, September 17, 1935. “Contest Kline Twp. Election.” Pottsville Republican, December 6, 1933. “Dramatic Scene as Woman Shouts Answer to Bruno.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 29, 1935. “Eye-Witnesses in Kelayres Case Ready to Testify.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 14, 1935. “Four Bruno Men Hear Murder Writ in County Prison.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934. “Joseph Bruno Found Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter; Carries Six to Twelve Years.” Shenandoah Evening Herald, February 7, 1935. “Kline Township Recount Stands.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, November 14, 1933. “News of the South Side.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, December 30, 1933. “Mandamus Action in Kline Township.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, August 31, 1933. “Three Are Dead in Voting Feud.” New Castle News, November 6, 1934. “Unspeakable Outrage, Declares Gov. Pinchot of Hazleton Slayings.” New Castle News, November 6, 1934. “Voice in Broken English Vividly Outlined Rat-Tat-Tat of Gunfire.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 18, 1935. “Witnesses Back in Kelayres Homes.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934. Cerullo, John and Gennaro Delena. “The Kelayres Massacre.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 107:3 (July 1983). Hoover, Stephanie. The Kelayres Massacre: Politics & Murder in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Coal Country. Xxx Newsreel Report about the Massacre - (1) 1934 Kelayres Massacre - YouTube The woman interviewed towards the end is, I think, either Irene Condor or Sarah Fiorilla. The scruffy man shown lying in a hospital bed is most likely Edward Vespucci.

The Tuileries Palace in Paris was supposedly haunted by a red, dwarfish figure that warned inhabitants of imminent catastrophy.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Red Man: The Tuileries Palace Ghost - Geri Walton The Little Red Man | dix-neuviémiste (wordpress.com) Cosimo Ruggeri - Wikipedia The Palais des Tuileries, in search of a missing Palace - French Moments Assassin's Creed Unity Murder Mystery Guide: Page 15 | GamesRadar+ The crimson fairy and the red | British Fairies (wordpress.com)

In 1909, in the book Pennsylvania Mountain Stories, Henry W. Shoemaker recounted the tale of “The Black Wolf of Oak Valley.” The names in this story were changed, and after digging around, I found the original tale that this story was based on: the 1896 saga of outlaw William Etlinger. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Altoona Tribune, May 2, 1896. Lewisburg Journal, July 8, 1885. Perry County Democrat, May 27, 1885. “A Desperate Outlaw.” Murfreesboro (NC) Index, March 13, 1896. “A Dramatic Tragedy.” Lancaster Intelligencer, March 11, 1896. “A Monument to Barner.” Lewisburg Journal, March 20, 1896. “As A Museum Curio.” Indiana Progress, March 11, 1896. “Death Rather Than Capture.” Perry County Democrat, March 11, 1896. “Defiant to the Last.” Lock Haven Evening Express, March 7, 1896. ―. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 1896. “Defies Half a Hundred.” Lancaster Intelligencer, March 7, 1896. “Etlinger's Body Not Removed.” Philadelphia Times, March 11, 1896. “His Body is Undisturbed.” Washington (DC) Times, March 11, 1896. “Man Who Reports Deaths in Chair Never Saw One.” Pittsburgh Press, January 16, 1938. “No Tears For Him.” Wilkes-Barre News, March 9, 1896. “Robbed of About $4,000.” Lewisburg Chronicle, February 25, 1905. “School Funds Missing.” Millheim Journal, April 23, 1885. “Sequel to a Tragedy.” Aspen (CO) Daily Times, March 18, 1896. “The Sheriff Must Pay Damages.” Mount Union Times, September 22, 1899. “Tragedy at Woodward.” Lewisburg Journal, March 13, 1896. Atlas of Centre County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: A. Pomeroy & Co., 1874. Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania. Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1898. Pennsylvania Superior Court Records, Vol. 12. New York: Banks Law Publishing Co., 1911. The Woodward Shoot-Out – The Pennsylvania Rambler William Ettlinger, the Desperado of Woodward (paoddities.blogspot.com) Howard Orndorf - Facts (ancestry.com)

In 1854, heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, Roger Tichborne, disappears after a shipwreck.  He's presumed dead until, in 1865, an Australian butcher comes forward and announces himself to be the missing nobleman. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Sir Roger Tichborne.” Sydney Morning Herald, January 31, 1868. “The Claimant & the Tichborne Case.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, March 30, 1872. “The Claimant of the Tichborne Baronetcy.” Wrexham Advertiser, January 19, 1867. “The Tichborne Baronetcy.” Melbourne Age, September 12, 1867. “The Tichborne Case.” Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, November 9, 1867. “The Tichborne Dole.” London Daily News, September 6, 1855. “The Tichborne Heir.” Indiana (PA) Progress, September 24, 1930. “Tichborne Claimant's Story to be Subject of Coming British Film.” Montreal Gazette, September 5, 1936. The books of Dr E. V. Kenealy (occult-mysteries.org) Theresa Doughty Tichborne - Wikipedia

In 1919, 21-year old Bella Wright was shot on a roadside near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England. The man thought to have committed the crime was acquitted. But the question remains: did he do it? Or if not, exactly what did happen that July evening? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Brown, Antony M. The Green Bicycle Mystery. London: Mirror Books, 2017. Humphries, H. Trueman. “The Green Bicycle Case.” The Strand Magazine 63 (Jan.-June 1922). Green Bicycle Mystery Map - Google My Maps

Scientists and laymen alike have long sought to build a machine capable of perpetual motion. Several attempts are described here, especially focusing on the well-documented, and still controversial, efforts of Johann Bessler, better known as Orffyreus. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Dircks, Henry. Perpetuum Mobile; or, A History of the Search for Self-Motive Power. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1870. Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Facts. New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, 1965. Hicks, Clifford B. “Why Won't They Work?” American Heritage Magazine 12:3 (April 1961). Jenkins, Alejandro. “The Mechanical Career of Councillor Orffyreus, Confidence Man.” American Journal of Physics 81:421, January 2013. Phin, John. The Seven Follies of Science: A Popular Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities. New York: Van Nostrand and Company, 1906. Shaffer, Simon. “The Show That Never Ends: Perpetual Motion in the Early Eighteenth Century.” British Journal for the History of Science 28:2 (June 1995). Verance, Percy. Perpetual Motion. 20th Century Enlightenment Specialty Company, 1916. (104) Johann Bessler Perpetual Motion Machine Bessler Rad - YouTube (104) Redheffer machine à mouvement perpétuel - YouTube Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia The Mysterious Stranger – Part 1 - TFOT (thefutureofthings.com) Orffyreus and Leibniz - Part 2 - TFOT (thefutureofthings.com) ORFFYREUS ( BESSLER) AND HIS PERPETUL MOTION WHEELS (tripod.com)  

In late 1930s Philadelphia, a murder-for-profit ring rivalling the French Affair of the Poisons, run by two cousins named Petrillo, is uncovered.  This is the story of the Poison Ring. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “15 more poisoners face arrest as ring’s toll mounts hourly; crowd threatens Mrs. Favato.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1939. “2 more confess poison killings, third admits drowning plot; U.S. May enter investigation.” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1939. “3 confess arsenic plot as 7 others deny guilt.” Lancaster New Era, May 25, 1939. “3rd widow freed in insurance ring.” Reading Times, December 12, 1939. “Arsenic suspect believed slain to balk justice.” Allentown Morning Call, May 10, 1939. “Bail is denied in poison case.” Wilmington News Journal, September 7, 1939. “Beach slayer dies in cell.” Delaware County Daily Times, January 11, 1936. “Death threats menace son of triple slayer.” Kokomo (IN) Tribune, April 24, 1939. “Calls uncle, who sent him up, a poisoner.” New York Daily News, February 10, 1939. “Commutation saves woman from chair.” Latrobe Bulletin, June 20, 1941. “Completing jury in another poison trial.” Mount Carmel Item, December 13, 1939. “Convict Swartz for murder of mother in law.” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, June 14, 1940. “'Customer' of murder syndicate starts term.” Scranton Times-Tribune, October 29, 1940. “Enters guilty plea in mass murders.” Danville Morning News, February 27, 1940. “Faces 30-year term for husband's poison death.” St. Louis (MO) Star and Times, December 14, 1939. “Fast hearings stun suspects in poison cases.” Baltimore Sun, May 11, 1939. “Five police win Inquirer awards for smashing poison ring.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 1939. “Follow poison murder ring's trail to N.Y.” New York Daily News, May 14, 1939. “Framed to hide poison deaths, prisoner says.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1939. “Gets 2-20 years in poison deaths.” Reading Times, December 13, 1939. “G-men to enter probe of Phila. mass murders.” Delaware County Times, May 15, 1939. “Hold 'death rose;' 12 more indicted.” New York Daily News, May 20, 1939. “Insurance plot suspect linked with deaths of 3.” Allentown Morning Call, January 9, 1936. “Jury given case of Reading man in N.J. drowning.” Reading Times, October 13, 1939. “Kiss of death woman is held without bail.” Bristol Daily Courier, May 19, 1939. “Last principal jailed in arsenic murder ring.” Scranton Times, December 13, 1945. “Life sentence given Rodia in drowning case.” Camden Morning Post, October 14, 1939. “'Love healer' gives up in poison ring probe.” New York Daily News, May 2, 1939. “Man, woman convicted in murder-for-insurance trials.” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, September 28, 1939. “Murder-for-profit ring sets record in American crime.” New York Daily News, May 21, 1939. “Murder gang used hemlock.” Salt Lake Telegram, May 4, 1939. “Murder ring doctor makes guilty plea.” Harrisburg Evening News, February 26, 1940. “Nab long-sought widow in mass-murder probe.” York Gazette and Daily, May 19, 1939. “Nine New York murders laid to poisoners.” Pittsburgh Press, May 12, 1939. “Petrillo dies in electric chair.” New Castle News, October 20, 1941. “Petrillo's boast of arsenic murders revealed by witness.” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 1939. “Philadelphia police hunt sources of 'witch's brew.'” Racine (WI) Journal-Times, May 13, 1939. “Poison ring plotted death of Phila. aides.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, May 3, 1939. “Poison slayer pleads guilty.” York Daily Record, September 16, 1939. “Police arrest 2 more widows in poison quiz.” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 1939. “Quaker city starts arraigning mass-murder suspects.” Baltimore Sun, May 11, 1939. “Rodio case is given to jury.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 13, 1939. “Rodio guilty of murder; doctor tries suicide.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 14, 1939. “Rose Carilli convicted of manslaughter.” Wilmington Morning News, December 14, 1939. “Rose Carilli drops fight for freedom.” Wilmington Morning News, January 23, 1940. “Rose Carina freed in $2500 bail for new murder trial.” Camden Morning Post, January 3, 1940. “Says Swartz asked facts on poisons.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 1939. “Seeress and collegian held in murder probe.” Pottsville Republican and Herald, June 20, 1939. “Spared from chair.” Carlisle Sentinel, July 1, 1941. “Survivors got lesser dose to postpone doom.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, May 3, 1939. “Suspect brought to N.J. for trial in insurance murder.” Camden Morning Post, June 7, 1939. “Suspect in mass murders taken in Cleveland.” Carlisle Sentinel, May 17, 1939. “Swartz insane; trial called off.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 21, 1939. “Two more admit their parts in death syndicate.” Sayre Evening Times, April 29, 1939. “Two offered jobs as executioners expose vast murder corporation.” Racine (WI) Journal-Times, May 13, 1939. “Two poison ring leaders admit part in deaths.” Harrisburg Evening News, April 29, 1939. “Wife held in plot to poison husband.” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 1938. “Wife of former Scranton man is held for murder.” Scranton Times-Tribune, May 12, 1939. “'Witch' sobs at life term for poison.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1940. “'Witch' swayed mind, wife-poisoner pleads.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 1940. “Witness mailed death threats.” Wilmington (DE) News, January 6, 1939. “Woman, 28, is shot by former suitor during a quarrel.” Brooklyn Eagle, December 14, 1936. “Woman arrested climaxing probe of arsenic ring.” Wilmington Morning News, September 2, 1939. “Woman poisoner twice attempts to take life.” Harrisburg Evening News, April 29, 1939. Young, R.J. “Arsenic and No Lace: The Bizarre Tale of a Philadelphia Murder Ring.” Pennsylvania History 67:3 (Autumn 2000). Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 12 A.2d 317, 338 Pa. 65 – CourtListener.com Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 16 A.2d 50, 340 Pa. 33 – CourtListener.com Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 19 A.2d 288, 341 Pa. 209 – CourtListener.com Commonwealth v. Giovanetti, 19 A.2d 119, 341 Pa. 345 – CourtListener.com Commonwealth v. Giacobbe, 19 A.2d 71, 341 Pa. 187 – CourtListener.com Philadelphia Poison Ring Murders: a Virtual Cemetery - Find A Grave

From 1925-1927, the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut was terrorized by an individual who came to be known as the “Phantom Stabber.” This unidentified person stabbed at least 25 people, mainly teenage girls. None of his victims were seriously injured, though. But in the wake of the Bridgeport attacks, other cities in Connecticut begin to experience assaults of their own, leading to the question: just how many victims did the Stabber really have?   Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: www.straightupstrange.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500   Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Alarming new outbreak of strange stranglers, stabbers and clippers.” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, December 18, 1927. “Attacks woman in street; may be phantom stabber.” Hartford Courant, January 4, 1928. “Bridgeport, Conn., 'phantom stabber' gets 25th victim.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, December 8, 1927. “Bridgeport's phantom stabber again active.” New Britain Herald, December 4, 1926. “Bridgeport's phantom stabber is again on rampage, girl attacked.” New Britain Herald, July 26, 1927. “Bridgeport phantom stabber out again.” New Britain Herald, May 31, 1928. “Bridgeport stabber gets 18th victim.” Hartford Courant, January 7, 1927. “Bridgeport woman cut; 'phantom' is suspected.” Hartford Courant, June 1, 1928. “Certain stabber story was hoax.” New Britain Herald, June 5, 1928. “Danbury 'phantom stabber' classed as mental child.” Hartford Courant, September 28, 1929. “Danbury's phantom stabber claims his third victim.” Meriden Record-Journal, May 9, 1929. “Doubt that stabber embraced girl.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 8, 1927. “Ernest Horn, 75, dies.” Bridgeport Post, June 18, 1957. “Fiend stabs boy, escapes in darkness.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 27, 1925. “Girl, face torn in embrace, says stabber attacked her upon street.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 7, 1927. “Girl stabbed at Bridgeport.” Barre (VT) Daily Times, July 26, 1927. “Girls stabbed by 'phantom'.” Meriden Journal, August 14, 1926. “Gripped by terror of the 'phantom stabber'.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6, 1927. “Hartford boy not stabber of Bridgeport.” Hartford Courant, February 18, 1928. “Mad stabber flees; posses in manhunt.” New York Daily News, March 21, 1929. “Man could have caught stabber, victim asserts.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 8, 1927. “Man stabs girl and gets away.” Hartford Courant, January 25, 1928. “Man, under cover of fog, stabs woman; wound serious.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 31, 1927. “Man, who struck teacher,, is held pending inquiry.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 6, 1927. “Maniac, missing since March, caught in N.H.” Hartford Courant, November 8, 1929. “Mystery of Bridgeport's 16 stabbed girls.” San Francisco Examiner, December 26, 1926. “News of Southington.” Meriden Journal, January 26, 1928. “'Phantom stabber' again.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, January 7, 1928. “'Phantom stabber' again walks; boy is victim.” Palm Beach (FL) Post, November 28, 1925. “'Phantom stabber' appears in city again, strikes at girl.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 6, 1926. “Phantom stabber escapes.” Cincinnati Enquirer, January 4, 1928. “'Phantom stabber' gets 25th victim, strikes at girl on Pequonnock St.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 8, 1927. “Phantom stabber gets 26th victim.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, December 31, 1927. “Phantom stabber hits again, girl in Stamford is victim.” Meriden Record-Journal, October 17, 1928. “'Phantom stabber' in Bridgeport cuts twenty-third girl.” Hartford Courant, August 28, 1927. “Phantom stabber reappears in Derby, girl is injured.” Bridgeport Telegram, July 1, 1927. “'Phantom stabber' rumor excites women of city.” New Britain Herald, January 11, 1928. “Phantom stabber suspect arrested, held for examination.” Hartford Courant, December 23, 1927. “Phantom stabs girl in Beardsley Park, makes good his 24th escape.” Bridgeport Telegram, September 30, 1927. “Police busy running down phantom stabber rumors.” Meriden Journal, January 19, 1928. “Police close on stabber's trail.” New Britain Herald, December 9, 1927. “Police must be futile, hampered, priest declares.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927. “Police reticence on 'stabber' is seen as concealment coup.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 12, 1925. “Police seek two who saw stabber.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 7, 1926. “Tells of attack by stabber here two weeks ago.” Hartford Courant, January 5, 1928. “Tennis star, 14, 24th victim of ghost stabber.” New York Daily News, September 30, 1927. “The phantom stabber.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927. “The phantom stabber returns.” Hartford Courant, September 5, 1926. “Stabber again plys his game.” Billings (MT) Gazette, December 31, 1927. “Stabber victims will be called to look at suspect.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 23, 1927. “Stabber wounds two more girls; nearly captured by steeple-jack.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 13, 1926. “Stabber's victim would 'slap him good and hard.'” Bridgeport Telegram, September 30, 1927. “Stabbing fiend lies low as police net is drawn.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 25, 1925. “Stabbing fiend suspect freed of major charge.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 4, 1925. “Stabs girl at entrance of church.” Rutland (VT) News, October 8, 1926. “Two more girls stabbing victims; total now eight.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 24, 1925. “Withdraw all but few men from routine work is Behrens' suggestion.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927. “Woman asserts she was stabbed over month ago, police question theory.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 12, 1927. Levins, Peter. “What has happened to justice? How phantom stabber terrorized Bridgeport in three-year reign.” New York Daily News, April 13, 1930. History - Bridgeport, CT  

In the midst of the furor in the press, British and otherwise, circulating around the notorious Jack The Ripper murders in Whitechapel, references are made to a number of murders attributed to the same killer. Several of these cases are discussed here, and the particulars of them examined to determine whether the notion of their being Ripper murders is a theory with any merit. SOURCES “A Jack the Ripper in Holland.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, November 25, 1898. “Another Jack the Ripper.” Mound Valley (KS) Herald, September 8, 1893. “Brutal Murder in St. Catherine.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 1, 1889. “De drievoudige moord te Marolleput.” Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. November 17, 1893. “De moord te Marolleput.” Dagblad van Zuidholland en 's Gravenhage, September 1, 1893. “De moord te Marolleput.” Opregte Haarlemsche Courant, September 11, 1893. “El Destripador Asturiano.” El Imparcial, April 6, 1895. “Fiendish Murder of a Young Woman Near Gateshead.” Hull Daily Mail, September 24, 1888. “Jack At Work Again.” Mitchell (SD) Daily Republican, January 23, 1889. “Jack el Destripador en España.” El Imparcial, April 5, 1895. “Jack The Ripper.” Atchison (KS) Daily Globe, February 7, 1889. “Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 1, 1893. “Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 6, 1893. “Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 12, 1893. “Murder At Birtley.” Illustrated Police News, September 29, 1888. “Spanish Town.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 11, 1889. “Spanish Town.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 14, 1889. “The Gateshead Murder.” Eastern Morning News, September 26, 1888. “The Murder of Estina Crawford.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 16, 1889. “The Tragedy Near Gateshead.” Hull Daily Mail, September 25, 1888. Begg, Paul and John Bennett. Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Machiel Lampier (1858 - 1931) - Genealogy (geni.com) Maria Theresia Banckaart (c.1819 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com) Rosalia Bert (c.1853 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com) Melanie Octavie Bert (c.1852 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com) Casebook: Jack the Ripper - A Ripper Victim That Wasn't: The Capture of Jane Beadmore's Killer El blog de "Acebedo": Francisco Martínez Incógnito ,"el Botas"

In 1828, a young man wandered into the city of Nuremberg. No older than fifteen or sixteen, he told a strange story, of how he had been kept in a dungeon for years, ignorant of where he was or who was keeping him there. And one day, he was pulled from his prison and sent to the city. For the next several years, controversy raged as to who this young man was. And in 1833 he would die, his death, like his life, amystery. Was he a noble plucked from death and hidden away? Was he a foundling exiled from his home? Or was he simply a trickster?   Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES Bondeson, Jan. The Great Pretenders. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Lang, Andrew. Historic Mysteries. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905. Stanhope, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina. The True Story of Kaspar Hauser, from Official Documents. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Stanhope, Philip Henry. Tracts Relating to Caspar Hauser. London: James S. Hodson, 1836. Valbert, M.G. “The History of a Delusion.” Popular Science Monthly 30 (April 1887). von Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter. Caspar Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated From All Communication With the World, From Early Childhood to About the Age of Seventeen. Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1832. https://travel.sygic.com/en/poi/neutorturm-poi:14991936 http://threeman.org/?p=39 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Pilsach https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kaspar-hausers-raetsel-zweiter-teil-sargverlust-in-der-fuerstengruft-11822206.html https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser

San Francisco, 1895. One of the more notorious trials of the 19th Century was that of Theo Durrant, "the Demon of the Belfry," for the murders of two young ladies in Emmanuel Baptist Church. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “A Bloody Shoe is Found in the Church.” San Francisco Call, April 21, 1895. “A Dreadful Affair!” Boston Globe, May 24, 1875. “A Horrible Tragedy in a Church.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, 1895. “A Murderer Hanged.” Morrisville (VT) News and Citizen, June 1, 1876. “Alleged Expose of Theo. Durrant.” Spokane Spokesman-Review, August 21, 1895. “Blacker Grows the Cloud Over Emmanuel Baptist Church.” San Francisco Call, April 15, 1895. “Blanche Lamont's Ring.” Downs (KS) Times, September 26, 1895. “Blood Stained Coat Found in Berkeley.” San Francisco Call, April 23, 1895. “Durrant and His Girl Companion Traced Beyond Church Gate.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 1895. “Durrant Rode With A Bundle.” San Francisco Examiner, April 21, 1895. “Durrant Will Hang.” Fort Wayne Gazette, May 16, 1897. “Durrant's Story Ended.” Topeka Daily Capital, October 12, 1895. “Five Years of Undetected Crimes.” San Francisco Call, August 7, 1898. “Flimsy Yarn.” Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette, October 28, 1895. “Fluegel is in a Fix.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 1895. “Forging the Chain.” Vancouver Daily World, April 17, 1895. “George King to Testify To-day.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 1895. “Her Aim Was Bad.” San Francisco Call, June 9, 1891. “Martin Quinlan's Victim.” San Francisco Examiner, September 16, 1891. “Missing From Home.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 1895. “Planning Alibis for Durrant.” San Francisco Examiner, October 29, 1895. “Press Privileges.” Champaign (IL) Daily Gazette, October 4, 1895. “Quinlan Pugilistically Inclined.” San Francisco Call, August 5, 1891. “Rev. J. George Gibson Pays His Respects to Eugene Deuprey.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 1895. “Secretary McCoy of the Y.M.C.A. Is a New Figure in the Durrant Trial.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1895. “She Tried To Keep Her Secret.” San Francisco Examiner, September 14, 1895. “Slayer of M.D. Foley Becomes a Bride.” San Francisco Examiner, January 5, 1899. “Still After Gibson.” San Francisco Call, April 26, 1895. “Taken Into the Mission.” San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1895. “The Durrant Trial.” Chilliwack (BC) Progress, October 2, 1895. “The Missing Lady.” Anaconda (MT) Standard, April 11, 1895. “The New Witness Against Durrant.” San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1895. “Theo. Durrant's Double.” Saint Paul Globe, August 3, 1895. “Think He is Insane.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 25, 1895. Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American Fraud: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quacks. New York: P.F. Collier & Sons, 1905. Jackson, Joseph Henry and Lenore Glen Offord. The Girl in the Belfry. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1957. Peixotto, Edgar D. Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant. Detroit: Collector Publishing, 1899. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/08/the-boston-belfry-tragedy.htm https://casebook.org/dissertations/rip-teascandal.html#:~:text=In%20a%20book%20I%20haven%E2%80%99t%20read%2C%20The%20Bell,Gibson%2C%20resigned%20his%20parish%20in%20Scotland%20in%201887.

Caroline Crachami, "The Sicilian Fairy," was one of the earliest identified cases of primordial dwarfism known.  She was barely a foot and a half feet tall.  The Mexican Lucia Zarate had a similar condition. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Little People Make Mark On History.” Binghamton (NY) Press and Sun-Bulletin, February 5, 1978. “Two Human Wonders.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 10, 1876. Bondeson, Jan. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. Wood, Gaby. “The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness.” London Review of Books 19:24 (December 11, 1997). http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/2009/tgod-Lucia-Zarate-1.html http://casagrande-museo.blogspot.com/

The story of Helen Eiker, a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania woman who was the first woman convicted of homicide in Adams County.  At only 18, she was one of the youngest people convicted, as well.  There was a loose connection with the Pennsylvania Dutch magical tradition known as pow-wow. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Accuses Daughter-in-Law of Faith in Pow-wowism; Girl Adds to Revelations.” Gettysburg Times, December 10, 1928. “Bar Reporters from Talking To Mrs. Eiker.” Gettysburg Times, March 18, 1929. “Court Reserves His Decision in Motion for New Eiker Trial.” Gettysburg Times, October 16, 1928. “Eiker Estate Valued At $300.” Gettysburg Times, July 18, 1928. “Eiker Killed Himself in Struggle to Wrest Gun from Girl-wife, is Defense Plea in Trial of Widow.” Gettysburg Times, August 29, 1928. “Fatal Shot An Accident, She Says.” Carlisle Sentinel, August 30, 1928. “Mrs. Eiker Blamed For Husband's Death By Coroner's Jury.” Gettysburg Times, July 18, 1928. “Mrs. Helen Eiker is Buried Today.” Gettysburg Times, November 21, 1932. “Mrs. Helen Eiker Denies Faith in 'Pow-wowism'; Reveals Fake Treatments.” Gettysburg Times, December 8, 1928. “Mrs. Helen Eiker Dies This Morning After Long Illness.” Gettysburg Times, November 18, 1932. “Mrs. Helen Eiker Sentenced to 5-10 Years in Prison.” Gettysburg Times, March 4, 1929. “Mrs. Helen Eiker Starts Sentence.” Hanover Evening Sun, March 22, 1929. “Percy Eiker, Killed by Wife, Tries to Shield Her With Story of Suicide Attempt.” Gettysburg Times, July 10, 1928. “Shoots Husband.” East Berlin News-Comet, July 13, 1928. “Slain Man Buried; Widow Views Body.” East Berlin News-Comet, July 20, 1928. “Slayer of Spouse is Critical in Hospital in Philadelphia.” Gettysburg Times, June 18, 1930. “Slayer Sinks Lower, Report At Hospital.” Gettysburg Times, June 19, 1930. “Swope Claims Court Biased in His Charge.” Gettysburg Times, September 1, 1928. “Young Convicted Widowed-Mother Was 'Pow-wowed'.” Gettysburg Times, December 7, 1928. “Young Mother is Convicted of Second Degree Murder; Jury is Out Only 4 Hours.” Gettysburg Times, August 30, 1928. “Young Mother is Indifferent About Verdict.” Gettysburg Times, August 31, 1928. “Young Wife Charged With Husband's Murder.” Adams County Independent, July 12, 1928.

In the summer of 1951, a housing project in southeastern Baltimore claims to be the haunt of a hunchbacked, black-clad phantom which leaps extraordinary distances a la Spring-Heeled Jack. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “400 Pupils Out in 'Strike' For School Bus.” Baltimore Evening Sun, January 3, 1946. “8,170 Children Get Only Part-Time Schooling Here.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 8, 1950. “City Inaction on Unsanitary Drains Scored.” Baltimore Sun, June 24, 1948. “O'Donnell Heights Greets Roof-Climbing Phantom.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 25, 1951. “O'Donnell Heights Pupils in School.” Baltimore Evening Sun, January 8, 1946. “'Phantom' Hunters Fined $10 Each.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1951. “'Phantom' Looms Atop School; Police Find Ventilation Pipe.” Baltimore Sun, July 27, 1951. “Phantom Makes Himself Scarce.” Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1951. “Phantom Prowler Terrorizes O'Donnell Heights Residents.” Baltimore Sun, July 25, 1951. “Sherbow Imposes $25 Fines For Betting On Horses.” Baltimore Evening Sun, September 25, 1951. “Third Turnover is On At O'Donnell Heights.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 10, 1948. “When the Phantom Roamed.” Baltimore Evening Sun, February 28, 1962. Schneck, Robert Damon. The President's Vampire. San Antonio: Anomalist Books, 2005. https://www.climatespy.com/climate/summary/united-states/maryland/baltimore-washington-intl/july/1951 https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/spring-heeled-jack-in-america/

1909. 24-year-old Oceana Wardlaw Martin Snead is found in a bathtub in a nearly-vacant house in East Orange, New Jersey. The only other inhabitant, her aunt, claims she committed suicide. Was it suicide, murder, or a weird hybrid of the two? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Alienists Declare Mrs. Martin Insane.” New York Times, September 21, 1910. “Back to Jail for Xmas.” Baltimore Sun, December 25, 1909. “Bathtub Mystery No Murder, She Says,” New York Times, December 2, 1909. “Chief Justice To Try Women.” New York Times, January 23, 1910. “Claims Dead Girl Wrote Those Notes.” Buffalo Commercial, December 17, 1909. “Dead in Bathtub.” Asbury Park Press, November 30, 1909. “'Death Welcome,' Says Mrs. Martin.” Knoxville (TN) Sentinel, December 16, 1909. “Declared A Foundling.” Baltimore Sun, December 18, 1909. “Finds Mrs. Martin Insane.” New York Times, November 19, 1910. “Fletcher Snead Found.” Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1909. “Fletcher Snead's Son Will Claim Wardlaw Jewels.” Murfreesboro (TN) News-Journal, January 31, 1930. “Grand Jury Has Snead Case.” New York Times, December 15, 1909. “Jesse James' Lawyer Accused.” Kansas City Star, March 6, 1911. “Jesse James' Lawyer Asks For Freedom.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Evening News, December 10, 1929. “Let Me Die, Mother Asks.” Kansas City Star, December 16, 1909. “May Hold Bathtub Suspects Here.” New York Times, December 5, 1909. “Miss Wardlaw Dies; Starved Herself.” New York Times, August 12, 1909. “Miss Wardlaw Near Nervous Collapse.” New York Times, August 6, 1910. “Mrs. Martin Charged With Snead Murder.” Lancaster (PA) Examiner, December 18, 1909. “Mrs. Martin in Court.” Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1909. “Mrs. Martin Fights.” Washington Evening Star, December 23, 1909. “Mrs. Martin Pleads to Manslaughter.” New York Times, January 10, 1911. “Mrs. Martin Raves As She is Sentenced.” New York Times, January 24, 1911. “Mrs. Martin Snead May Be in Virginia.” New York Times, December 10, 1909. “Mrs. Mary Snead Set Free.” New York Times, February 8, 1911. “Mrs. Ocey Snead's Mother Dies in N.J. Madhouse.” York (PA) Daily, June 21, 1913. “Mrs. Snead's Family Full of Fatalities.” New York Times, December 9, 1909. “Mystery is Deep About the Murder of Ocey Snead.” Washington Times, December 12, 1909. “Mystery Murder Case Revived By Jewel Discovery.” Chattanooga News, January 31, 1930. “No Delay in Snead Case.” New York Times, August 13, 1910.“Ocey Snead Murder Case.” Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, December 16, 1909. “Ocey Snead Trial April 11.” New York Times, January 30, 1910. “Ocey Snead Was Drugged.” New York Times, January 21, 1910. “Physician Finds Mrs. Martin Sane.” New York Times, November 24, 1910. “Poison Mother Gave Killed Ocey Snead.” New York Times, January 22, 1911. “Snead Case to Grand Jury To-day.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, December 21, 1909. “Snead Death Baffles.” Washington Post, December 12, 1909. “Snead Mystery Complex Tangle.” Indianapolis Star, December 19, 1909. “Snead's Brother Found.” New York Times, December 10, 1909. “Starved Herself to Evade Prosecution.” St. Joseph (MO) News-Press, August 12, 1910. “Stolen Gems Found, Revive Old Mystery.” Oakland Tribune, February 4, 1930. “Talks of Suicide.” Topeka State Journal, December 16, 1909. “Thief's Cold Comfort.” York (PA) Dispatch, June 24, 1911. “Think Snead A Suicide.” Indiana (PA) Evening Gazette, January 10, 1910. “Third Arrest in Snead Mystery.” Wilmington (NC) Morning Star, December 17, 1909. “To Pass on Snead Note.” New York Times, December 10, 1909. “Two Fletcher Sneads Mystify N.Y. Police.” New Castle (PA) Herald, December 17, 1909. “Two More Arrests in Snead Murder.” New York Times, December 17, 1909. “Wardlaw Sisters Will Stand Trial.” Owensboro (KY) Messenger, May 8, 1910. Ziebold, Norman. Three Sisters in Black. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sisters-black-murder-ocey-snead-1909-article-1.432667 https://www.murfreesboropost.com/community/fearless-confederate-died-mysteriously-in-nyc/article_eaf8ba36-cc9a-5b75-93a3-5295b2acf73d.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85942398/fletcher-wardlaw-snead https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/new-york-city/articles/a-city-ablaze-the-19th-century-confederate-plot-to-burn-new-york-city/ https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/it-was-a-vast-and-fiendish-plot-the-confederate-attack-on-new-york-city https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Oceana_Wardlaw_Martin_(1885-1909) http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/does-this-black-dress-make-me-look-fat-2/

In 1855, in new-fallen snow in Devonshire, a trail of small hooflike footprints led for miles. Similar footprints have been found on several occasions, most notably during the 1909 Jersey Devil sightings. But what are these mysterious footprints? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Footprints in the Snow.” Barrow’s Worcester Journal, March 21, 1891. “Mysterious Footmarks.” Nottinghamshire Guardian, March 1, 1855. “Singular Animal.” London Times, March 14, 1840. Busk, R.H. “Phenomenal Footprints in Snow, S. Devon.” Notes and Queries 7:8 (December 28, 1889). –. “Phenomenal Footprints in the Snow, S. Devon.” Notes and Queries 7:9 (January 25, 1890). Dash, Mike. “The Devil’s Hoofmarks: Source Material on the Great Devon Mystery of 1855.” Fortean Studies 1:1 (1994). Freeman, Richard. “Other Historical Accounts of the Devil’s Footprints.” https://torridgeside.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-freeman-other-historical.html Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. University Books: New Hyde Park, NY, 1965 ed. https://issuu.com/landmarkpress/docs/welcome_to_perthshire_bedroom_folde https://www.wideopenspaces.com/tell-difference-squirrel-rabbit-tracks/    

The Canadian authorities put Earle Leonard Nelson on trial for the two Winnipeg murders, and he meets his eventual fate. There’s also discussion of his bizarre past, and some other crimes that may or may not be his handiwork.   Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.   SOURCES “Apron-String Murder Gives Police Puzzle.” Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1926. “Buffalo to Move for Trial of Strangler.” Windsor (Ont.) Star, June 21, 1927. “Chain of Evidence Against Nelson Welded.” Regina Leader-Press, November 3, 1927. “Detectives Get New Clews To Carlson Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, March 27, 1920. “Earle Nelson Sentenced to Hang Jan. 13.” Montreal Gazette, November 7, 1927. “Girl Routs Stranger in Battle.” Oakland Tribune, March 30, 1920. “Girl Slain Is Theory of Becker.” Oakland Tribune, March 19, 1920. “’Gorilla Man’ Believed Bay Girl’s Slayer.” San Francisco Examiner, September 13, 1927. “Insanity Trump Card in Nelson’s Defence.” Regina Leader-Press, November 4, 1927. “Knife a Clue in 2 Murders.” Detroit Free Press, June 24, 1927. “’Murder or Pneumonia?’ Ask Probers.” San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1925. “Nelson Guilty; Dies on Gallows on January 13th.” Calgary Herald, November 5, 1927. “Nelson’s Trial Tragic, Swift Moving Drama.” Regina Leader-Press, November 4, 1927. “New Mystery Stirs Probe in S.F. Murder.” San Francisco Examiner, October 3, 1926. “Newark Murderer Left Cigarettes.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 10, 1926. “Photo Proof of Beating By Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, March 23, 1920. “Police Seek Friend of Slain Widow.” Oakland Tribune, October 2, 1926. “Seek Clues in Murder of Apartment House Manager.” Colton (CA) Daily Courier, September 17, 1925. “Slayer of Girl Is Still At Liberty.” Sacramento Bee, March 16, 1920. “Thug Winds Gems Around Victim’s Neck.” San Francisco Examiner, August 24, 1925. “Warrant Issued For ‘Gorilla Man’ At Philadelphia.” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, June 23, 1927. “Wealthy Widow Found Killed in Apartment.” Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1926. “Wealthy Woman Beaten to Death; Curtain Rod Used.” New York Daily News, May 12, 1926. “Woman Slain By Strangler in Her Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1925. “Woman, Victim of Strangling, Now Declared to Have Committed Suicide.” Los Angeles Evening Express, November 12, 1926. “Woman’s Death From Natural Causes.” San Francisco Examiner, August 25, 1925. “Young Woman Fought Assailant Until Her Breath Stopped.” Oakland Tribune, Match 15, 1920. Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998. Tredgold, A.F. “The Definition and Diagnosis of Moral Imbecility.” British Journal of Medical Psychology 6:1 (1926). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1926.tb00622.x http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/mathers_tg.shtml http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/macdonald_da.shtml http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/dysart_ak.shtml https://psychologydictionary.org/constitutional-psychopathic-inferior/

The police are on the trail of “Adrian Harris,” even as Earle Leonard Nelson leaves the West Coast behind for a cross-country killing spree at a considerably quickened pace. But his spree comes to an end in June, 1927... Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Intro music “Strange Dream” by David Hilowitz. Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Assailant Uses Telephone Cord.” Owensboro (KY) Messenger, June 3, 1927. “Buffalo Murderer Eludes Detectives in All-day Search.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 1, 1927. “Buffalo Police Cannot Find the Murderer.” Dunkirk (NY) Evening Observer, May 31, 1927. “Butcher’s Helper Quizzed in Slaying.” Washington Evening Star, June 3, 1927. “Clues Lacking in Dual Killing.” Detroit Free Press, June 7, 1927. “Crime Puzzles Police.” York (PA) Dispatch, April 28, 1927. “Detroit Police and a Double Murder.” Greenfield (IN) Daily Reporter, June 7, 1927. “Dragnet Out For Strangler of Philadelphia Woman.” Scranton Times-Tribune, April 28, 1927. “Fiend Suspect Tries to Enter W. Phila. Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 1927. “Find Strangler Placed Another Woman in Terror.” Davenport (IA) Daily Times, December 25, 1926. “Find Woman Dead Behind Furnace.” Lincoln (NB) Journal Star, December 24, 1926. “Finds Wife Slain in Home.” Kansas City Times, December 28, 1926. “Funeral Rites For Mrs. Ida Ann Clements Held Friday Afternoon.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, July 1, 1948. “’Gorilla’ Kills Woman.” Arizona Republic, June 3, 1927. “Housewives Murdered By ‘Phantom Strangler’.” New Castle (PA) News, January 3, 1927. “Mrs. John Berard, Former Hennessey Woman, Murdered.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, December 30, 1926. “Murder in Chicago is Not Solved.” Sioux City Journal, June 5, 1927. “No Sign of Fight Found By Police.” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, April 29, 1927. “Police on Strangler’s Trail.” Winnipeg Tribune, June 13, 1927. “Shirt Murder Still Baffles Bluffs Police.” Des Moines Register, December 26, 1926. “Take Up Murder Theories.” Kansas City Star, December 29, 1926. “Which Will Be Next City to Harbor Death Fiend Now Crossing Country?” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, January 6, 1927. “Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927. “Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927. Atlas of Kansas City, Missouri and Environs. Tuttle-Ayers-Woodward Co., 1925. Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

Throughout 1926 and 1927, a so-called "Dark Strangler" roamed up and down the West Coast and eventually across the country.  Earle Leonard Nelson was one of the more prolific American serial killers, but his name isn't as well known as many others.  In the first part, I'll look at his crimes on the West Coast. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “6th Murder Laid To New Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, August 19, 1926. “Admits Attack On Many Women.” Muncie (IN) Star-Press, August 13, 1926. “Aged Victim, Choked, Ribs Crushed, is Found Dead.” San Francisco Examiner, June 11, 1926. “Alameda Girl Routs Attacker.” Oakland Tribune, June 13, 1926. “Bay Woman Will Bury Slain Sister.” Oakland Tribune, October 25, 1926. “Cafe Owner of San Jose is Held As Strangler.” Sacramento Bee, October 20, 1926. “Dark Killer Strangles S.F. Woman.” Oakland Tribune, November 19, 1926. “Dark Strangler Suspect Laborer on Merced Ranch.” Modesto News-Herald, August 19, 1926. “Dark Suspect Identified As Old Offender.” San Francisco Examiner, August 22, 1926. “Death Witnesseses To Face Suspect.” Oakland Tribune, August 22, 1926. “Finds Mother Murdered in Attic Trunk.” Salem (OR) Capital Journal, October 20, 1926. “Fingerprints Only Clues in Strangling.” San Francisco Examiner, February 22, 1926. “Foster Kin of Mystery Victim Finds Body in Attic.” San Francisco Examiner, February 21, 1926. “Jewels Held As New Clew to Strangler.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 2, 1926. “Key, Jewels Give Clue To Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, November 20, 1926. “Landlady of Yoloan is Victim of Strangler.” Woodland Daily Democrat, March 6, 1926. “Man Sentenced For Attack.” San Francisco Examiner, December 11, 1926. “Maniac Held For Slaying; Doubt Sanity.” Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald, August 12, 1926. “Mysterious Strangler Kills Woman in Portland.” Sacramento Bee, November 30, 1926. “New Clues Spur Search For Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, August 17, 1926. “Police Sure ‘Strangler’ Was Fulton St. Slayer,” San Francisco Examiner, November 20, 1926. “Says Suspect Not Slayer of His Aunt.” Modesto News-Herald, June 16, 1926. “S.F. Woman Attacked in Bed at Home.” San Francisco Examiner, June 14, 1926. “S.F. Woman Strangled to Death.” Oakland Tribune, February 21, 1926. “Spouse Finds Rich Woman Strangled.” San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 1926. “Strangler Identified.” Pottsville (PA) Republican, August 12, 1926. “’Strangler’ Kills S.F. Woman, 63.” Oakland Tribune, June 11, 1926. “Third Woman Found Victim of Strangler.” San Francisco Examiner, March 5, 1926. “Two Women Beat Off Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, March 6, 1926. “Wealthy Widow Slain in Home.” Spokane Chronicle, November 25, 1926. “Withers Case Jury Fails To Reach Verdict.” Roseburg (OR) News-Review, October 28, 1926. “Woman Foils Strangler in Apartment House Attack.” San Francisco Examiner, March 14, 1926. “Woman Found Strangled in San Jose Home.” Stockton Independent, March 3, 1926. Graysmith, Robert. The Laughing Gorilla: The True Story of the Hunt for One of America’s First Serial Killers. New York: Berkley, 2009. Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

In the 1930s, a flying creature haunted Maryland, one whose name became almost synonymous with freakish beings. And thirty years later, another animal, one which was connected in some people’s minds to the previous one. These are most of the original accounts of these two creatures as described in the newspapers. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Bovalopus Scares Emmitsburg Folks.” Hagerstown Daily Mail, March 6, 1909. “Bovalopus Snallygaster Swoops Down on Village.” Baltimore Evening Sun, November 25, 1932. “Dwayyo Could Be A Modern Snallygaster.” Frederick News, December 3, 1965, “Dwayyo Hunt Flops.” Frederick News, December 9, 1965. “Dwayyo Hunt Planned.” Frederick News, December 6, 1965. “Dwayyo Hunt Tonight.” Frederick News, December 8, 1965. “Dwayyo Monster is Still Running Loose.” Frederick News, December 1, 1965. “Elusive Dwayyo Still Uncaptured.” Frederick News, December 2, 1965. “Hark! Ghastly Bovalopus Terrorizes Mountain Folk.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, November 26, 1932. “John Barleycorn Ends Career of Snallygaster.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 1, 1932. “Marylanders Oil Their Guns To Hunt That Danged Bovalopus.” Pittsburgh (PA) Press, November 27, 1932. “Mysterious Dwayyo On Loose in County.” Frederick News, November 29, 1965. “Saw the Vampire.” Cumberland Evening Times, February 8, 1909. “Snallygaster Made First Boonsboro Visit Back in 1909.” Baltimore Evening Sun, November 25, 1932. Opsasnick, Mark. The Maryland Bigfoot Digest: A Survey of Creature Sightings in the Free State. Xlibris, 2004. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/dwayyo/ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/snallygaster/

Called a “notorious quack,” Dr. Francis Tumblety was a peddler of fake medicines, an abortionist, part of the Lincoln assassination plot, or even Jack the Ripper – depending on who you believe. We’ll look at his career and crimes and whether or not he’s even viable as a Ripper suspect. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. “Anguish” and "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Buffalo (NY) Evening Post, July 25, 1856. London Times, December 1, 1873. New York Herald, February 8, 1869. Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser, April 4, 1881. Saint John (New Brunswick) Morning Freeman, October 16, 1860. “Dr. Tumblety.” Buffalo Evening Courier and Republic, March 13, 1862. “Dr. Tumblety.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1888. “Dr. Tumblety’s Case.” Montreal Pilot, September 25, 1857. “Dr. Tumblety Has Flown.” New York World, December 6, 1888. “Dr. Tumblety in New York.” St. Thomas (Ontario) Weekly Dispatch, March 28, 1861. “Dr. Tumblety Kills A Man and Runs Away.” Detroit Free Press, October 7, 1860. “Dr. Tumblety Talks.” Troy (AL) Messenger, February 7, 1889. “Eccentricities of Dr. Tumblety.” Pittsburgh Dispatch, June 6, 1889. “Fortune Won By Herbs Root of Bitter Fight.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 28, 1903. “Herbs, Salts and Cider.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 27, 1890. “Inquest.” Saint John (New Brunswick) Morning Freeman, September 29, 1860. “Jack is Back.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, November 10, 2002. “Law Intelligence.” Montreal Pilot, September 28, 1857. “Legal Medicine – Tumblety Affair.” Le Courier du Canada, November 4, 1857. “Legal Medicine – Continuation of the Report of Mr. LaRue.” Le Courier du Canada, November 6, 1857. “Mendacity of Quacks.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 91 (1875). “Police.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 6, 1864. “Police Court.” Montreal Pilot, September 26, 1857. “Recollections of a Police Magistrate.” Canadian Magazine, vol. 54 (November 1919 – April 1920). “The ‘American Doctor’ and His Patients.” Liverpool Mercury, January 19, 1875. “The Arrest of Dr. Tumblety, the Indian Herb Doctor, on a Charge of Attempting to Procure an Abortion.” Montreal Pilot, September 23, 1857. “The Assassination.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 4, 1865. “The Case of Mr. Tumblety.” Montreal Pilot, September 24, 1857. “The ‘Eccentric’ Dr. Twomblety.” New York World, November 19, 1888. “The Indian Doctor in Court.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 10, 1864. “The Missing Tumblety.” Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, December 3, 1888. “The Search for the Whitechapel Murderer.” Pall Mall Gazette, December 31, 1888. “The Tumblety Case.” Montreal Pilot, September 30, 1857. “The Whitechapel Murders.” Quebec Daily Mercury, November 22, 1888. “To the Editor of the Pilot.” Montreal Pilot, September 16, 1857. “Tumblety Arrested.” New York Evening World, June 5, 1889. “Tumblety is in the City.” New York World, December 3, 1888. “Tumblety is Missing.” New York World, December 2, 1888. “Watch Him.” St.Louis Evening Star-Sayings, December 3, 1888. Riordan, Timothy B. Prince of Quacks: The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2009. Shelley, Thomas J. “Twentieth Century American Catholicism and Irish Americans.” In Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, eds.). Tumblety, Francis. A Few Passages in the Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, the Indian Herb Doctor. Cincinnati: Published by the Author, 1866. https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-life-and-crimes-of-francis-tumblety/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34152435/ezra-j-reynolds http://jtrforums.com/archive/index.php/t-6440.html https://www.historicmysteries.com/dr-francis-tumblety/ http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=2880 https://abrahamlincolnatgettysburg.wordpress.com/tag/david-herold/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Caine https://stevenhager.net/2014/09/27/charles-dunham-is-a-key-to-the-lincoln-assassination/ https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-fenian-invasion-of-canada

Sometime around the middle of the First Century AD, the Ninth Legion of the Roman army completely disappears from all records. In the oldest story I've yet covered on the podcast, I'll take a look at the known history of the Ninth Legion, as well as the theories on what happened to it. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Cassius Dio. Roman History. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html Mantel, Hugo. “The Causes of the Bar Kokba Revolt.” The Jewish Quarterly Review 58:3 (January 1968). Tacitus. Agricola. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/tacitus-agricola.asp ̶. Annals. http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html Thornbury, Walter. Old and New London (vol. 2). London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana https://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-viiii-hispana/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomannic_Wars

Cities during wartime often eliminate outdoor lighting, and severely limit indoor lighting, to cut down on the effectiveness of air raids. Most famous of these blackouts are those utilized in Britain during the two World Wars, and particularly in London during the German raids of the Blitz. The Australian government used a similar tactic to combat Japanese air raids, though these restrictions were eased in the middle of 1942. Around that time, a killer prowled the streets, taking advantage of the darkened conditions. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Albert Park Mystery.” Melbourne Age, May 8, 1942. “Another Woman Murdered.” Melbourne Argus, May 11, 1942. “Charge Against U.S. Soldier.” Melbourne Age, June 8, 1942. “Hunt for Killer of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 13, 1942. “Inquiries Into Death of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 6, 1942. “Murder Clue Sought.” Melbourne Argus, May 22, 1942. “Murder Inquiry Continued.” Melbourne Argus, May 19, 1942. “Murdered Bendigo Woman.” Riverine Herald, May 12, 1942. “Mystery Death of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 5, 1942. “Sanity Tests of U.S. Soldier Completed.” Melbourne Argus, July 11, 1942. “Signed Confession By Leonski Alleged.” Melbourne Age, July 14, 1942. “Spring St. Murder Mystery.” Melbourne Argus, May 14, 1942. “The Parkville Tragedy.” Melbourne Age, May 21, 1942. “Woman Murdered in Melb. Suburbs.” Border Morning Mail, May 4, 1942. “Woman's Body in Doorway.” Melbourne Age, May 11, 1942. “Woman's Death Puzzling Police.” Brisbane Telegraph, May 4, 1942. Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1990. Schechter, Harold. Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of. New York: Ballantine, 2012. Shaw, Ian W. Murder at Dusk: How US Soldier and Smiling Psychopath Eddie Leonski Terrorised Wartime Melbourne. Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2018. http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00247b.htm https://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/afraid-darkness https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/look-for-a-guy-who-walks-on-his-hands-melbourne-stranglers-cryptic-clue-for-police/news-story/bd65e24e5714361c91c3151cf8ee791d

In 1889, a lonely farmhouse in southern Quebec was afflicted by a series of ghostly manifestations, which seem to be centered on a Scottish orphan girl living in the home. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Dagg's demon.” Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1889. “Dagg's dupes.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889. “Dinah a ventriloquist.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889. “Is it Beelzebub?” Vancouver Daily World, December 5, 1889. “Mayor Geo. Dagg of Portage passes.” Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 1938. “Mysterious noises in home had whole country on edge.” Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 1939. “Outstanding personalities of the Ottawa district.” Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 1935. “This beats them all.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 1890. “Remarkable spontaneous manifestations.” Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research (December 28, 1889). Lackner, Chris. “The strange ghost that spooked Shawville.” Ottawa Citizen, November 18, 2014. Playfair, Guy Lyon. This House Is Haunted. Guildford: White Crow Press, 2011. Thormahlen, Judy. “Revived Shawville ghost mystery divides community into two camps.” Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1959. Wilson, Colin. Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Haunting. Llewellyn, 2009. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176738034/george-dagg http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/dagg-poltergeist/ https://arlenestaffordwilson.wordpress.com/tag/dagg-ghost/

On November 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma was stabbed and killed among the bookshelves of the Pattee Library at Penn State University. 50 years later, the case remains unsolved, with the main suspect having died in 2002. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “5 refused help, says girl who found slain coed.” New York Daily News, December 1, 1969. “Beaten coed said improved slightly.” Port Clinton (OH) News-Herald, December 2, 1969. “Clarion coed admits wounds self-inflicted.” Franklin News-Herald, December 17, 1969. “Clarion coed slashed.” New Castle News, December 4, 1969. “Co-ed knifing baffles police.” Oberlin (OH) Review, December 5, 1969. “Coed buried while slayer hunt continues.” Port Huron (MI) Times-Herald, December 3, 1969. “No evidence of an intruder at Clarion.” Kane Republican, December 11, 1969. “Oberlin coed 'fair' in vicious knife attack.” Dover (OH) Daily Reporter, December 1, 1969. “Ohio U co-ed found beaten.” Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal, November 25, 1969. “Out of hospital.” Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal, December 11, 1969. “Probe of attack being continued.” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, December 12, 1969. “Robert G. Durgy.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, December 22, 1969. “Six killed on state highways.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, December 21, 1969. “Stab death hunt tries drawings.” Pittsburgh Press, December 5, 1969. “Stabbing of college co-ed in Arb labelled as attempted murder.” Oberlin (OH) Review, December 2, 1969. Glembocki, Vicki. “Who Killed Betsy Aardsma?” The Penn Stater, September/October, 2009. https://pennstatermag.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aardsma_so_09.pdf Hogge, Erin. “Murder in the Stacks: 50 Years Later, Still No Answers.” The Daily Collegian, December 10, 2019. https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_b6280ed6-1a18-11ea-a966-2b1ac6ebcdcb.html Sherwood, Derek. Who Killed Betsy? Uncovering Penn State University's Most Notorious Unsolved Crime. Pine Grove Press, 2011. Williams-Herrman, Elizabeth. “Haunted Libraries of Pennsylvania.” Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania (Thomas White, ed.). Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19328800/betsy-ruth-aardsma https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20070708/281934538539278

Shortly after the signing of the treaty of Schönnbrun in October of 1809, bringing an end to Austrian involvement in the Fifth Napoleonic War, a British official on a mission to the Austrian court vanished without a trace. He was in Germany, on his way back to British territories, and while examining his horses at an inn near Berlin, he walked around to the other side of his horses – and disappeared, never to be seen again. Or that's the way it's usually told. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Dance" and "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “A century old mystery.” London Observer, December 18, 1910. “A mysterious crime.” Hull Packet and East Riding Times, September 26, 1862. Baring-Gould, Sabine. Historic Oddities and Strange Events. London: Methuen & Co., 1889. Dash, Mike. “The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst.” Fortean Times 54 (Summer 1990). Fraser, Mary Crawford. Storied Italy. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1915. Lang, Andrew. The All Sorts of Stories Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. Machen, Arthur. Dreads and Drolls. New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 1927. https://www.svz.de/lokales/spurlos-in-perleberg-verschwunden-id4680756.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Alexandre_de_Launay,_comte_d%27Antraigues http://www.notableabodes.com/abode-search-results/abode-details/139177/dantraigues-27-the-terrace-barnes-london

In December 1811, two households in the borough of Wapping, one of the docks districts of east London were annihilated in a pair of brutal and apparently motiveless crimes. After the crimes, the murderer was disposed of in a novel and unusual fashion. Twenty years later, they were described in Thomas De Quincey's satirical essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” as “the sublimest and most entire in their excellence that ever were committed.” Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Classic Horror 1" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Caledonian Mercury, September 21, 1812. Ipswich Journal, December 28, 1811. “Another horrid murder!” Bury and Norwich Post, December 25, 1811. “Another massacre – coroner's inquest on the dead bodies of Mr. Williamson, and family.” Leeds Mercury, December 28, 1811. “Important examination.” Leeds Mercury, December 28, 1811. “Murder of Mr. Marr and family.” Caledonian Mercury, December 14, 1811. “Murder of Mr. Marr and family.” Hull Packet and East Riding Times, December 17, 1811. “Murder of Mr. Marr's family in Ratcliff Highway.” London Observer, December 15, 1811. “Murders in New Gravel Lane.” London Morning Chronicle, December 24, 1811. “Murders in New Gravel Lane, &c.” London Times, December 24, 1811. “The late murder in Ratcliffe Highway – examination of suspected persons.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, December 21, 1811. “The late murders.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, January 4, 1812. “The Marr's murder.” Exeter Flying Post, June 1, 1815. “Williams, the murderer.” Caledonian Mercury, January 4, 1812. “Williamson's murder.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, February 1, 1811. De Quincey, Thomas. “Postcript to 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.'” On Murder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. https://books.google.com/books?id=sww0kGQ5AFkC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=postscript+to+murder+as+one+of+the+fine+arts&source=bl&ots=LZhKTGKaaB&sig=ACfU3U11QoFgOth13xjI_QQr-qRjmWEZKg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdwPKYhNrnAhUaknIEHWPnDdE4FBDoATAAegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=postscript%20to%20murder%20as%20one%20of%20the%20fine%20arts&f=false The Literary Panorama, Vol. XI. London: Cox and Baylis, 1812. https://books.google.com/books?id=UZLfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA359&lpg=PA359&dq=Roxburgh+Castle+(1809+ship)&source=bl&ots=KxKyfUQM-l&sig=ACfU3U1r4OtmDCpT60PvubrRTDn9PqSp2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjX7tWbq9nnAhVslXIEHdV7DUYQ6AEwBXoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=Roxburgh%20Castle%20(1809%20ship)&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliff_Highway_murders https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/mapping-the-ratcliffe-highway-murders/ http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_8.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxburgh_Castle_(1809_ship)

The HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus disappeared on the Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Six years later, a ship bound for Canada from Ireland saw two ships on an iceberg off Newfoundland. Were they the lost Franklin Expedition? Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Floating Cities" and "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Barr, William and Glenn M. Stein. “Frederick J. Krabbé, last man to see HMS Investigator afloat, May 1854.” 2017. https://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/krabbe.pdf Carney, Peter. “Further Light on the Source of the Lead in Human Remains from the 1845 Franklin Expedition.” 2016. https://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/carney_franklin.pdf Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. University Books: New Hyde Park (NY). 1964 ed. O'Farrell, Joe. “The Search for HM Ships 'Erebus' and 'Terror'.” 2008. http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/Search_for_H_M_Ships.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)  

Lucille Miller was a California housewife who, in 1964, was accused of murdering her dentist husband in a fiery accident on a lonely road through a lemon grove. The ensuing case is one of the most muddled and morally-unclear I have ever come across. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Giant Wyrm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another death factor in murder trial.” Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, December 7, 1964. “Attorney Hayton tells trial of affair with Mrs. Miller.” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1965. “Attorney to ask federal hearing in Miller case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 10, 1964. “Attorneys keep vigil in auto fire death case.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1964. “Civil rights of arrested woman said violated.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, December 16, 1964. “Coroner declares Dr. Miller murdered.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964. “Cremation in a car; murder quiz of wife.” San Francisco Examiner, October 11, 1964. “Decision due today on dentist's auto death.” Los Angeles Times, October 13, 1964. “Defense presses for Mrs. Miller's release.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 23, 1964. “Dentist dies in auto blaze; wife arrested.” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1964. “Dentist dies in flaming car, wife held.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 9, 1964. “Dentist's wife indicted after jury hearing.” Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 21, 1964. “Dentist's wife indicted for car fire death.” Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1964. “Exam indicates suspect pregnant.” Santa Maria Times, December 21, 1964. “Hearing for wife held for murder.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, October 14, 1964. “Miller trial loses juror; 'discharged.'” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. “Motel romance loveless on his part, Hayton says.” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1965. “Mother of three faces indictment.” Ukiah Daiy Journal, October 20, 1964. “Mother to go on trial.” Roseville Press-Tribune, November 5, 1964. “Mrs. Miller arraigned in dentist's car death.” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1964. “Mrs. Miller loses another freedom bid.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 17, 1964. “Mrs. Miller to enter plea on Friday.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 28, 1964. “Mrs. Miller's defense may seek trial delay.” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1964. “Murder charges filed against Mrs. Miller.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 13, 1964. “New trial scheduled.” Hanford Sentinel, December 9, 1964. “New trial set Jan. 11 in Miller murder case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 8, 1964. Hartsfield, Jack. “Attorneys clash during Miller trial arguments.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Debbie Miller, friends take witness stand.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 10, 1965. ─. “Doctor Miller's funeral first quiet in case.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964. ─. “Foley tears into Turner and Mr. Hayton.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Lucille Miller may gain freedom.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 6, 1972. ─. “Lucille Miller's 5-year fight for freedom.” Ontario Daily Report, October 18, 1970. ─. “Miller murder trial goes to jury today.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965. ─. “Mrs. Miller's murder trial opens tomorrow.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 1, 1964. ─. “Turner claims defense using double talk.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965. ─. “Turner says Mrs. Miller's story baloney.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Uproar sweeps court as verdict announced.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 6, 1965. ─. “Was wife of S.B. attorney murdered?” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1964. Didion, Joan. “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream.” The Literature of Reality (Gay Talese & Barbara Lounsberry, eds.). New York: Harper Collins, 1995. Hertel, Howard. “Mrs. Miller takes witness stand to deny killing mate.” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1965. Hertel, Howard and Henry Sutherland. “Mrs. Miller had two love affairs, prosecutor implies.” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1965. ─. “Mrs. Miller's fate rests with jury.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1965. Miller, Debra J. “A Mother's Crime.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-02-tm-dreams14-story.html Murphy, Mike. “Supreme Court to review Lucille Miller's S.B. trial.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1967. "People v. Miller (1966).” https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/245/112.html Yetzer, Carl. “Policewoman 'plant' may get new trial for Lucille Miller.” San Bernardino County Sun, June 8, 1969.