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Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer's Chicago home after the war hero's wife was shot dead in a holdup at their front door. Who was the Ragged Stranger who assaulted them? And why did he have Carl Wanderer's service weapon?Sources:Bigge, Lauren. “‘Shell Shock Treatments During World War I: A First Step Towards Modern Military Psychiatry.” National Museum of Health and Medicine. https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/index.cfm?p=media.news.article.2018.shell_shock_treatmentEghigian, Greg. “ The First World War and the Legacy of Shellshock.” Vol. 31, No. 4. Psychiatric Times. 28 February, 2018.Hecht, Ben. Charlie: The improbable Life & Times of Charles MacArthur (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957).Lesy, Michael. Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)Murray, George in The Chicago Crime Book Ed. Albert Halper. (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967).Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present (New York: M. Evans & Company, 1973).Schechter, Harold. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects (New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2023).As well as articles from the Washington Times, The Manning Times, Richmond TImes-dispatch, Chicago Tribune.And the Chicago Homicide database entry https://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/5270/Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston. Also featuring “It's a Long Way to Tipperary” by Jack Judge and “Old Pal” by Henry Burr.For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A boy's shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did she get there? Who killed her? And where is her head? Sources:Gold, Rachel Benson. “Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past Be Prologue?”Vol. 6. Issue 1. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2003/03/lessons-roe-will-past-be-prologueThe Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: The Headless Horror. (Barclay & Co., 1896).Wilhelm, Robert. So Far From Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder (Schroon Lake: Night Stick Press, 2021). And https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2012/01/mysteries-of-pearl-bryan.htmlYoung, Andrew. Unwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age (Yardley: Westholme, 2016). And “Our Rich History: Shoe dealer solves ghastly murder of Pearl Bryan, found missing her head, in 1893.” Northern Kentucky Tribune. 17 August, 2020. https://nkytribune.com/2020/08/our-rich-history-shoe-dealer-solves-ghastly-murder-of-pearl-bryan-found-missing-her-head-in-1893/The Most Notorious! Podcast Episode 248: The Murder of Pearl Bryan w/ Robert Wilhelm https://www.mostnotorious.com/2022/06/18/the-murder-of-pearl-bryan-w-robert-wilhelm/As well as articles from the Dayton Daily News, the Evening Bulletin (Kentucky), the Indianapolis Journal, Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonCheck out my girl Lizzie's podcast, Historical True Crime here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EoajP8947TJKmjEsCy5o8?si=64dbe3a2bc9b42f7For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court's first and only intervention in a state criminal trial.Sources:Curriden, Mark and Phillips, Leroy Jr. Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism (Faber & Faber, 1999).Hindley, Meredith. “Chattanooga versus the Supreme Court: The Strange Case of Ed Johnson.” National Endowment for the Humanities. Vol 35. No. 6. November/December 2014. https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/novemberdecember/feature/chattanooga-versus-the-supreme-courtPrice, Eric. “Chattanooga dedicates memorial to Ed Johnson more than a century after mob-lynching.” ABC News Channel 9. 19 September, 2021. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/chattanooga-dedicates-memorial-to-ed-johnson-more-than-a-century-after-mob-lynchingTranscript of Record in U. S. Supreme Court in Case of U. S. v Shipp, Docket Original No. 5. (National Archives). Webb, Michael D. “‘God Bless You All-I Am Innocent': Sheriff Joeseph F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Lynching of Ed Johnson.”Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Vol. 58. No. 2. Summer 1999. pp. 156-179White, J. Bliss. Biography and Achievements of the Colored Citizens of Chattanooga (Chattanooga, 1904).As well as articles from the Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga News, Voice of the People (Atlanta), and the New York Times.Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife's brutal slaying.Sources:“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L'Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville's Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul's.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper's Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.Savine, Albert. L'assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.comAs well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1847, servants of Paris's Hotel Sebastiani rushed to help Duchess Praslin after hearing her screams. This is part one of the murder that sparked a revolution. Sources:“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L'Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville's Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul's.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper's Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.Savine, Albert. L'assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.comAs well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his death.You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with code OBLOOD20 at checkout. You can claim it at: https://www.magicmind.com/OBLOOD20Sources:Hill, Kate. “Nelly Gone: KCQ Traces the Kidnapping of Nell Donnelly.” Kansas City Public Library. 20 October, 2021. https://kclibrary.org/news/2021-10/nelly-gone-kcq-traces-kidnapping-nell-donnelly McMillen, Margot and Roberson, Heather. Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.)Monaco II, Ralph. “Last Hand at Park Manor: The Trial of Myrtle Bennett.” The Jackson County Historical Society Journal. Vol. 53. Summer 2015. “Nelly Don by the Donnelly Garment Company, Kansas City, Missouri.” Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection, University of Missouri. https://mhctc.missouri.edu/collection/nelly-don/Pomerantz, Gary M. The Devil's Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, A Fatal Hand, and A New American Age. (New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2009).Other Sources:The Kansas City Star“The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression.” Kansas City Public Library. https://pendergastkc.org/Gary M. Pomerantz. https://www.garympomerantz.com/the-devils-ticketsMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Countess Caterina Sforza was raised in the Renaissance court of Milan and survived the assassination of her father and husbands. She then proceeded to confront Cesare Borgia and his father, Pope Alexander VI. Who would win: the papacy or a woman? Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with my link: https://www.magicmind.com/OLDBLOODJAN #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformanceSources:Allison, Charlie. “One Wrong Foot: An Alternate History of the Siege of Forli.” Sea Lion Press. 25 May, 2020. https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/one-foot-wrong-an-alternate-history-of-the-siege-of-forliBrunelli, Giampiero. “SFORZA, Caterina.” Treccani: Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. 2018. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/caterina-sforza_(Dizionario-Biografico)/Clarke, Michelle Tolman. “On the Woman Question in Machiavelli.” The Review of Politics 67, no. 2 (2005): 229–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25046410.Hairston, Julia L. "Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli'sCaterina Sforza," Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 687-712.Lev, Elizabeth. The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.)Zarevich, Emily. “Did Caterina Sforza Flash an Army?” JSTOR. 20 July, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/did-caterina-sforza-flash-an-army/Other links:https://www.caterinasforza.it/en/https://www.lacittadicaterinasforza.it/Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

On January 11, 1902, 15-year-old Nora Fuller responded to a nanny wanted advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner. She called her family an hour later, saying that she was hired and at the man's home. When Nora never returned home, her brother visited the address to find it was a vacant lot. Sources:Dowd, Katie. “A want ad leads to an empty house–and a shocking murder that rocked San Francisco.” SFGATE. 17 October, 2016. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nora-Fuller-missing-San-Francisco-murder-history-9970198.phpDuke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The John H. Barry Company, 1910).Katz, Elena. Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in America. (Bloombury Publishing, 2010).Whittman, George W.  “Charles B. Hadley,” Tarrant County College Archives , accessed January 2, 2025, https://tccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/40.Newspapers: San Francisco CallSan Francisco Chronicle and ExaminerMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonGet 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with my link:https://www.magicmind.com/OLDBLOODJAN#magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformanceFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A man murdered a woman in rural Pennsylvania after claiming she had cursed him with black magic. How did this region become known as the Hex Belt? And how could such a tragedy occur as recently as 1934?Sources:“A Look Back in History: Practice of witchcraft among PA Dutch rarely accurately portrayed to public.” Reading Eagle. 22 August, 2021. https://www.readingeagle.com/2018/08/01/a-look-back-in-history-practice-of-witchcraft-among-pa-dutch-rarely-accurately-portrayed-to-public/Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York: W. W, Norton & Company, 1998).Magruder, Taj. In the Day of Trouble (Mechanicsville: Milford House, 2024).Taylor, Troy. “The ‘Hex House' Murder: Strange Tales of Pennsylvania Folk Magic & Murder.” American Hauntings. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/hexhouseUndine. “The Witch of Ringtown; a Medieval 20th Century Murder.” Strange Company. 28 September, 2015. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-witch-of-ringtown-medieval-20th.htmlWhipple, Madison. “Who Are the Pennsylvania Dutch? A Brief History of this Rural Community.” The Collector. 22 April, 2023. https://www.thecollector.com/history-of-the-pennsylvania-dutch/White, Thomas. Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore (Charleston: The History Press, 2013). Newspapers: La Opinion (Los Angeles)Republican and Herald (Pottsville)The Evening Star (D.C.)The Indianapolis TimesThe New York TimesThe Washington TimesMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Edith Thompson faces the death penalty for her lover's crime. How many deaths will there be before this affair ends? Sources:Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband's murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0qLusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic' death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.htmlStokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/Documentaries:Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A night out on the town turns deadly after a love triangle unravels in 1920s London. Sources:Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband's murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0qLusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic' death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.htmlStokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/Documentaries:Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1889, a father discovered his daughter dead at the home of Dr. Etienne Deschamps, a dentist-surgeon and hypnotist. Was the death truly an accident? Or was it, as most of New Orleans believed, a murder? Sources:Castellanos, Henry C. New Orleans As it Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life (New Orleans: L. Graham & Son., 1895).Meletio, Donna M. “Leona Queyrouze (1861-1938) Louisiana French Creole Poet, Essayist, and Composer.” 2005. Louisiana State University, PhD dissertation. Pena, Christopher G. The Strange Case of Dr. Etienne Deschamps: Murder in the New Orleans French Quarter (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017).Tallant, Robert. Ready to Hang: Seven Famous New Orleans Murders (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2012).Wozniak, Robert H. “Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Physical Research, 1766-1925.” Bibliographies in the History of Psychology and Psychiatry, A Series. 1988. https://www.esalen.org/ctr/animal-magnetismNewspapers:New Orleans Daily PicayuneNew Orleans Times-DemocratMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1940, a principal snapped and went on a shooting spree at his Southern California junior high school. Who or what was to blame?Sources:Barer, Burl and Frank Giradot Jr.. A Taste For Murder (Denver: Wildblue Press, 2016).Ban, Thomas A. “Bromides” International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology. 24 October 2013. https://inhn.org/inhn-projects/drugs/bromidesChurch, John. Pasadena Cowboy: Growing up in Southern California and Montana, 1925 to 1947 (Novato: Conover-Patterson Publishers, 1996).Cropeley, Thomas and Zachary Theroux. “The Old Bromides and Their 21st Century Refreshment.” JAMA Network. 2017. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/2629878Faith, Laura. “The Backstory: Mad School Principal Kills 5, Wounds 1.” Iloveyoupug (blog about Margie Alman). http://www.iloveyoupug.com/2011/01/backstory-mad-school-principal-kills-5.html“John Ernest Alman.”Grave Spotlight. https://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-johnalman.htmlPeters, William F. “The History of South Pasadena High School” SPHSAA. https://www.sphsaa.org/000/3/0/5/5503/userfiles/file/History%20of%20SPHS.pdfPlummer, Mary. “South Pasadena Students Recall 1940 Murder Spree.” KPCC. 19 September, 2014. https://archive.kpcc.org/blogs/education/2014/09/19/17256/pasadena-school-students-recall-murderous-rampage/Rai, Dr. Vandana. “What is Bromide Toxicity?” icliniq. 16 May, 2023. https://www.icliniq.com/articles/vitamins-and-minerals/bromide-toxicityRasmussen, Cecilia. “A Principal's Bloody Rampage.” Los Angeles Times. 20 July 1997. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-20-me-14688-story.htmlUnderwood, Agness. Newspaperwoman (New York: Harper, 1949).Williams, Janette. “After 72 years, notorious South Pasadena school shootings still resonate.” Pasadena Star News. 29 August, 2017. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2012/09/15/after-72-years-notorious-south-pasadena-school-shootings-still-resonate-with-survivors/Newspapers:The Los Angeles TimesSan Pedro News PilotSan Bernardino SunMadera TribuneCalexico ChronicleMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In October of 1789, a search for the owner of an abandoned carriage led to a gruesome discovery in the home of a wealthy merchant. Don Joaquin Dongo and his entire household had been slaughtered. Within days, Mexico City officials had located, arrested, and publically executed the murderers in the same plaza where laborers worked to unearth Aztec relics.Buy Nicole von Germeten's book Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Old-Mexico-Murders-History/dp/1009261525Sources:Rodriguez, Pablo. “Crímenes coloniales: codicia y crueldad en el asesinato del señor Dongo y sus dependientes (Ciudad de México, 1789)” Historia y Sociedad, no. 40, pp. 243-259. 2021.Von Germeten, Nicole. Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. This is PART II of a two-part episode. Be sure to listen to episode 58 first!Sources:“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). Schechter, Harold. The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.htmlNewspapers:The Evening World (New York)The New York Journal and AdvertiserThe New York TimesThe New York TribuneThe New York WorldMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. Sources:“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). Schechter, Harold. The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.htmlNewspapers:The Evening World (New York)The New York Journal and AdvertiserThe New York TimesThe New York TribuneThe New York WorldMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the summer of 1914, a fire broke out at the love bungalow of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick. When the smoke cleared, it became clear that a horrible massacre had taken place, leaving seven dead. Who wanted to kill everyone at Taliesin, and why?For Magic Mind's limited offer that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases, use code OLDBLOOD20 at checkout.You can claim it at: https://magicmind.com/oldbloodSources:Borthwick, Mark. A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).Drennan, William R. Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders (Madison: Terrace Books, 2007).Hendrickson, Paul. Plagued By Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2019).McCrea, Ron. Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012).Secrest, Merle. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Two actors fled Hollywood for Salt Lake City in 1928. One was bludgeoned to death, and the other would call upon none other than Charlie Chaplin for help. As authorities scrambled to uncover what happened to the murdered Don Solovich, Hollywood's most famous actors fought to keep their secrets safe. Before long, the tiny Utah town learned that Chaplin had been subpoenaed to testify and prepared themselves for a Hollywood invasion. What exactly did the King of Comedy know about the murder of his homosexual butler?For Magic Mind's limited offer that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases, use code OLDBLOOD20 at checkout.You can claim it at: https://magicmind.com/oldbloodSources:Babcock, Muriel. “The Headline History of Chaplin: 1918-1932.” Movie Classic Vol. 3. No. 3. November, 1932.“Editor & Publisher: The Fourth Estate.” Vol. 61 No. 1. New York. 6 May, 1928.Grey Chaplin, Lita and Vance, Jeffrey. Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998).Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).“LGBTQ+ ‘Panic' Defense.” The LGBTQ+ Bar. https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/advocacy/gay-trans-panic-defense/ Painter, George. “The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers: The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States.” Sodomy Laws. 2004. https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/california.htmQuinn, D. Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996).Newspapers:Gunnison Valley NewsDeseret NewsSalt Lake TribuneManti MessengerDaily News (New York)Los Angeles TimesSan Pedro News PilotNew Britain HeraldImperial Valley PressSan Bernardino SunBismark TribuneEvening Star (Washington, D.C.)VarietyMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the summer of 1914, someone shot through the window of a Long Island doctor's office, killing a woman inside. When investigators found a dictaphone installed inside the office, they began to suspect the doctor's jealous wife, who claimed to have been upstairs the evening in question. When the wife's alibi changed her testimony, Americans had to decide whether to believe the jealous wife or the black maid who contradicted her. Who was the woman in white seen outside the doctor's office just before Lulu Bailey was murdered?For Magic Mind's limited offer that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases, use code OLDBLOOD20 at checkout.You can claim it at: https://magicmind.com/oldblood Sources:“Freeport History Encyclopedia.” Freeport Memorial Library. https://libguides.freeportlibrary.info/c.php?g=494599&p=3384485Hamilton, Marybeth. When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).Kemp, Kathryn W. “‘The Dictograph Hears All': An Example of Surveillance Technology in the Progressive Era” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 6, No. 4. October 2007. Pp. 409-430Philibert-Ortega, Gena. “Investigating the Murder Mystery of Louise Bailey with Newspapers.” Genealogy Bank. 28 June, 2013. https://blog.genealogybank.com/investigating-the-murder-mystery-of-louise-bailey-with-newspapers.htmlSelnes, Bill. “George Morton Levy Lawyer.” Mysteries and More From Saskatchewan. 3 August, 2016. https://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2016/08/george-morton-levy-lawyer.htmlNewspapers:The New York Times (July 1914- May 1915)The Day Book. 20 October, 1914The Evening World. 8 May 1915The Medford Mail Tribune. 5 May 1915The Tacoma Times, 29 May 1915Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Before Jack the Ripper, there was the Servant Girl Annihilator. The man who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885, preying upon the city's black servant girls. When he targeted two white women in a shocking Christmas Eve attack, all hell broke loose. Who was this servant girl killer, and was he the same man that terrorized London in 1888?Sources:Galloway, J. R. The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885 (BookLocker, 2010) and the book's website https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/History Detectives- HDSI- Texas Servant Girl Murders, 2014. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-hdsi-texas-servant-girl-murders/ Hollandsworth, Skip. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer (Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2015) and “Capital Murder” Texas Monthly, July 2000. https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/Psencik, Katey. “The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin's oldest unsolved murder case.” KVUE. 7 November, 2014. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hidden-austin/the-servant-girl-annihilator-austins-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/269-260196137Original Sources: Burt, Dr. W. J. “Autopsy Report for Susan Hancock, 1885” 29 December 1885. Susan Hancock Inquest. 29 December, 1885.State of Texas v. James O Phillips, 1886.Newspaper Articles: The Fort Worth Daily Gazette, The New York Times, The Austin Weekly StatesmanMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?Sources:Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901."JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).Broadsides:Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) The Stepney murder ; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesliyan Studios & the original by Viriginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?Sources:Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901."JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).Broadsides-Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) The Stepney murder; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesliyan Studios & the original by Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A decade-old murder mystery unravels when a secret is discovered in a Los Angeles attic. Even in 1930, the press declared the mystery of Dolly and the Bat Man Slayer as"Los Angeles' most startling murder story."Sources:Hapsis, Emmanuel. "Meet Walburga, the Married Woman Who Hid a Secret Lover in Her Attic for a Decade." KQED. 29 June, 2016. https://www.kqed.org/pop/27643/meet-walburga-the-married-woman-who-hid-a-secret-lover-in-her-attic-for-a-decadeLardinois, Anna. "The Legend of Milwaukee's Most Infamous Love Triangle." Milwaukee Mag. 13 April, 2021. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-legend-of-milwaukees-most-infamous-love-triangle/Noe, Denise. "Otto Sanhuber: The Man in the Attic Case." Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/otto_sanhuber/1.htmlRabe, John. "The Murderous Lover Who Lived In A Silver Lake Attic. A True Story." LAist. 15 April, 2022. https://laist.com/news/la-history/hidden-history-of-la-the-murderous-lover-who-lived-in-a-silver-lake-attic Rasmussen, Cecilia. "'Bat Man' Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death." Los Angeles Times. 20 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-me-44878-story.htmlStartling Detective Adventures. Vol. 5, No. 26. (Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Louisville). July 1930.Los Angeles Times (Issues from 1922-1930)Music: Credits to Fesilyan Studios, Holizna, and the original by Virginia Liston.For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the summer of 1933, 18-year-old Violette Noziere poisoned her parents before heading out to enjoy the Parisian nightlife. When she was arrested and gave the motive for her crime, Violette scandalized the country.Sources:Breton, Andre. Violette Nozieres (Brussels: Editions Nicolas Flamel, 1933).Maza, Sarah. Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).Reynolds, Sian. France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics (London: Routledge, 1996).Traub, Courtney. “La Coupole, a Montparnasse Brasserie Haunted With Artistic History.” Paris Unlocked. 10 October, 2023. https://www.parisunlocked.com/best-of-paris/inside-la-coupole-a-montparnasse-brasserie-haunted-with-artistic-history/Warner, Judith. “The Murder that Transfixed 1930s Paris.” Book Review - Violette Noziere. New York Times. 3 June, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-violette-noziere-by-sarah-maza.htmlMusic: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The Dark Strangler prowled the streets of Jazz Age San Francisco. His murder spree spanned nine states, two countries, and three years, resulting in the murder of anywhere from 22 to 31 women and children. This is the story of America's most prolific–and forgotten–serial killer, Earl Leonard Nelson.Sources:Esau, Alvin. The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (Altona: Friesen Press, 2022).And "Murders." Alvin A. J. Esau. https://www.alvinesau.com/murders.htmlGribben, Mark. "Earle Leonard Nelson: The Dark Strangler." Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods. https://crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/earle_nelson/1.htmlSchechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster (New York: Pocket Star Books, 1998) and And Ripped from the Headlines (New York: Little A, 2020).Music: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the summer of 1874, little Charley Ross disappeared after taking candy from a stranger. This is the story of America's first kidnapping and the nationwide manhunt that ended in a deadly shoot-out.Sources:“Charlie Ross - Gustave Blair - Nelson Miller” https://charleyross.com/“Court Identifies ‘Charley Ross' But Family ‘Disowns' Him.” Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), May 9, 1939, Page A-5. Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). Pp. 536-546.Fass, Paula S. Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).Hagen, Carrie. We is got him: the Kidnapping that Changed America (New York: The Overlook Press, 2011) and “The Story Behind the First Ransom Note in American History.” Smithsonian Magazine. December 9, 2013.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-behind-the-first-ransom-note-in-american-history-180948612/ Ross, Christian. The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child (Philadelphia: John E Potter and Company, 1876).Schechter, Harold. “The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874.” The Yale Review. May 14, 2018. https://yalereview.org/article/kidnapping-little-charley-ross-1874Zierold, Norman. Defy All the Devils: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom (Open Road Media, 2018).Music: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1897, sausage sales plummeted after the wife of the so-called Sausage King suddenly went missing. Chicago police investigated the factory and a mysterious vat filled with reddish-brown slime. Did the wife run away? Was she ground into sausages? Or perhaps something worse?Sources:Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). "Ghost Supply Thrills for Chicago Flat Dwellers." The Sun, August 31, 1913. p. 14Loerzel, Robert. Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). (And alchemyofbones.com)“Sausage Vat Murder.” Chicagology. https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/sausagevatmurder/.Schechter, Harold. "The 'Sausage Vat Murder,' 1897: Notes on a Killing." The Yale Review. 18 February, 2019. https://yalereview.org/article/sausage-vat-murder-1897"The Sausage Vat Murder." Murder By Gaslight. 20 November, 2009. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2009/11/luise-luetgert-sausage-vat-murder.htmlMusic: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

It was nearly midnight in May 1911 when crowds left the theater and gathered at the Brown Palace Hotel barroom. Within minutes, shots rang out and patrons scrambled for cover, but two would not survive. What prompted such a brazen shooting in Denver's most elegant hotel?Sources:Faulkner, Debra. Ladies of the Brown: A Women's History of Denver's Most Elegant Hotel (Arcadia Publishing, 2017).Kreck, Dick. Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003).The Rocky Mountain NewsThe Aspen-Democrat TimesThe Avalanche EchoCanon City RecordMusic: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the middle of the American Civil War, a horse trader was found in a south Texas river with his head axed in. Following the discovery, the town sheriff arrested an elderly woman by the name of Chipita Rodriguez. Was justice served?Sources:Abernethy, Francis Edward. Legendary Ladies of Texas (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1994).Correa, Tom. “Was Josefa ‘Chipita' Rodriguez a Patsy?” The American Cowboy Chronicles. September 30, 2021. http://www.americancowboychronicles.com/2020/02/josefa-chipita-rodriguez-texas-bandit.htmlDavies, Dave. “‘Cult of Glory' Reveals the Dark History of the Texas Rangers.” NPR. June 8, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers Hebert, Rachel Bluntzer. The Forgotten Colony: San Patricio de Hibernia (Burnet: Eakins Press, 1981).Givens, Murphy. “A black day in San Patricio when Chipita was hanged.” Corpus Christi Caller Times. April 6, 2017. https://www.caller.com/story/news/columnists/murphy-givens/2017/01/17/black-day-san-patricio-when-chipita-hanged/96556038/Guthrie, Keith. The Legend of Chipita: The Only Woman Hanged in Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1990).Jennings, Rachel. “Celtic Women and White Guilt: Frankie Silver and Chipita Rodriguez in Folk Memory.” MELUS. Vol. 28. No. 1. (Spring, 2003). Pp. 17-37. Torres, Alfred. Jr., “The noose plagued Mexican-Americans, too.” My San Antonio. November 25, 2017. https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/The-noose-plagued-Mexican-Americans-too-12381761.php Underwood, Marylyn. “Rodriguez, Josefa [Chipita].” Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rodriguez-josefa-chipita Wills, Matthew. “The Untold History of Lynching in the American West.” JSTOR. March 26, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/the-untold-history-of-lynching-in-the-american-west/ 1985 Texas Legislature docs regarding Chipita here: https://thewrongcarlos.net/wp-content/sources/texas-legislature-scr-14-69th-regular-session.pdf For more on the lynching of ethnic Mexicans: https://utrgv.libguides.com/SCA/lynching (Research Guide from the University of Texas)Lynching in Texas: https://www.lynchingintexas.org/ Music: Credits to David FesilyanFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A killer prowled the streets of London in 1811, 80 years before Jack the Ripper. But in 1811, there were no police to catch the fiend who brutally murdered seven people along Ratcliffe Highway. Would there be a victim eight?Sources:“Chapter 1. The Death of a Linen Draper.” Spitalfields Life. December 7, 2021-December 31, 2021. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/07/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders/ Fairburn, John. Fairburn's Account of the Dreadful Murder of Mr. Marr and Family. (London: John Fairburn,  1811.) James, P.D. and Critchley, T.A. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliff Highway Murders 1811 (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1971).Jeffries, Bob. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders December 1811.” Thames Police Museum. http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.htmlRamsland, Katherine. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/ratcliffe_murders/index.html “Ratcliffe Highway.” St. George-in-the-East Church. http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/ratcliffhighway.html Staveley-Wadham, Rose. “Horror and Hysteria: The 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” The British Newspaper Archive. April 22, 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/The Times, December 1811-February 1812Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke HoliznaFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The Gouffe Affair had attracted international interest by 1890, with the world wondering if Gabrielle's defense could be true. Could someone really be hypnotized and compelled to commit murder? Sources:Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.htmlLevingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouffPoisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.htmlStarr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke HoliznaFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Mysteries collide in 1889 France, as a bailiff goes missing and a bloody trunk is discovered in the countryside. Can Paris's best detectives solve the case?Sources:Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.htmlLevingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouffPoisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.htmlStarr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke HoliznaFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1892, 17-year-old Freda Ward was walking to the river landing when she was attacked with a razor blade and had her throat slit. The ensuing legal battles brought national attention to Memphis, Tennessee, and challenged her society's views on gender and love.Sources:Abate, Michelle Ann. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).Astor, Vincent. “Alice & Freda: In 1892, Memphis girls' young love ends tragically, creates national headlines.” Focus LGBT. February, 2018. https://focuslgbt.com/blog/alice-freda-1892-memphis-girls-young-love-ends-tragically-creates-national-headlines/Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis. (Minneapolis: Zest Books, 2014).“A Very Unnatural Crime.” The Toast. September 6, 2013. https://the-toast.net/2013/09/06/crime-history-alice-mitchell/ “Girl Slays Girl: An Excerpt From ‘Alice + Freda Forever'.” Jezebel. October 7, 2014. https://jezebel.com/girl-slays-girl-an-excerpt-from-alice-freda-forever-1643363496“How My Book Infected My Nightmares.” VICE. October 28, 2014. https://www.vice.com/en/article/znw8dj/alice-in-the-asylum-1027Cortez, Ali. “A Love Gone South in ‘Alice + Freda Forever'.” Deep South Mag. October 3, 2014. https://deepsouthmag.com/2014/10/03/a-love-gone-south-in-alice-freda-forever/Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000).Fowler, Russell. “Evil on the Bench: The Rise and Fall of Judge Julius J. DuBose.” Tennessee Bar Association. February 1, 2020. https://www.tba.org/?pg=Articles&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=52583“Jenny Higbee and the Memphis Higbee School.” Historic Memphis. http://www.historic-memphis.com/biographies/higbee/higbee.htmlLindquist, Lisa J. “Images of Alice: Gender, Deviancy, and a Love Murder in Memphis.” Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 6. No. 1. (July, 1995) pp. 30-61.Newspapers: The Bolivar Bulletin, The San Francisco Call, The New York TimesMusic: Credits to David Fesilyan For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In March of 1860, sailors found a bloody ghost ship floating in New York's East River. The discovery sparked a manhunt for a serial killer who had robbed and killed his way around the globe. This episode is the story of the last pirate and the original gangster, Albert Hicks.Sources:Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1927).Cohen, Rich. The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation. (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2019).“The Original Gangster Style Guy.” The New York Times. June 10, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/fashion/the-original-gangster-style-guy.html“A Walking Tour of New York, Circa 1860, Accompanied by the Cities' Last Pirate.” Vulture. June 11, 2019. https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/touring-the-new-york-of-albert-hicks-new-yorks-last-pirate.html“Meet the 19th-Century Pirate Who Taught New York's Tough Guys How to Flex.” Vanity Fair. June 4, 2019. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/meet-the-19th-century-pirate-who-taught-new-yorks-tough-guys-how-to-flexHicks, Albert W. The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks, the Pirate and Murderer… (New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1860).Articles from the New York Times, March to July 1860Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke HoliznaFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1937, Peking police discovered a British schoolgirl at the bottom of an ancient wall with her heart torn from her chest. The investigation unraveled multiple theories that increased tension between locals and the many foreigners living in China at the dawn of World War II.Sources:Cook, Isham. “Midnight in Peking and true crime fiction.” Isham Cook. 11 January, 2020. https://ishamcook.com/2020/01/11/midnight-in-peking-and-true-crime-fiction/Daugelait, Tautvile. “Author Graeme Shepard Disputes Paul French's Famed Peking Murder Book.” The Beijinger. 12 November, 2018. https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2018/11/08/its-great-story-he-wrong-graeme-shepard-opposes-infamous-peking-murder-conclusionsFrench, Paul. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).Jenne, Jeremiah. “Who Killed Pamela Werner?” The World of Chinese. 7 April, 2019. https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2019/04/who-killed-pamela-werner/Sheppard, Graeme. A Death in Peking: Who Killed Pamela Werner. (Earnshaw Books, 2018).“A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner.” Blog. https://www.pamelawernermurderpeking.com/blog“Who Really Killed Pamela Werner? Re-examining Old Beijing's Most Infamous Murder.” The China Project. 1 November, 2018. https://thechinaproject.com/2018/11/01/who-really-killed-pamela-werner-a-death-in-peking/Spence, Jonathan D. “Who Killed Pamela Werner in Peking?” ChinaFile. 21 March, 2013. https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-pamela-peking Perlez, Jane. “A Mystery Endures in Beijing's Old Legation Quarter.” The New York Times. 2 May, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/travel/a-mystery-endures-in-beijings-old-legation-quarter.htmlMusic: Fesilyanstudios.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1929, the son of oil magnate Edward Doheny was found dead beside his secretary in an apparent murder-suicide. The news exploded onto the papers for three days before the district attorney canceled the inquest and closed the case. When detectives decided there had been foul play, they were silenced, leaving everyone to wonder what truly went on that night at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills.Sources:Columbia, David Patrick. “The Continuing Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders.” New York Social Diary. April 12, 2022. https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/the-continuing-mystery-of-the-greystone-mansion-murders/Davis, Margaret Leslie. The Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny (Berkeley, University of California Press: 1998).“If These Walls Could Talk…” Los Angeles Public Library. July 30, 2013. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/if-these-walls-could-talkLockwood, Charles and Persic, Peter V. “Greystone Historical Report.” August 30, 1984. https://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/11/519277.pdfMarshall, Norman S. “Californians and the Military: The Forgotten Bagman of Teapot Dome: Edward ‘Ned' Doheny Lawrence Jr.” Cal Guard Military Museums. https://www.militarymuseum.org/Doheny.htmlMeares, Hadley. “We Shall Never Know: Murder, Money and the Enduring Mystery of Greystone Mansion.” KCET. July 25, 2014. https://www.kcet.org/history-society/we-shall-never-know-murder-money-and-the-enduring-mystery-of-greystone-mansionRasmussen, Cecilia. “D.A. Fitts Was Good Match For Scandalous 30s.” Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1999. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-19-me-12084-story.htmlRayner, Richard. A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age (New York: Anchor Books, 2010).Skene, Gordon. “1930s Los Angeles – Buron Fitts: L.A.'s Little Corruption Problem And Clifford Clinton's War On City Hall.” Past Daily. August 23, 2017. https://pastdaily.com/2017/08/23/1930s-los-angeles-clifford-clinton/Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990). Stein, Jean. West of Eden: An American Place (New York: Random House, 2016).White, Leslie T. Me, Detective. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.) Ch. 18. Welton, Benjamin. “Vintage Noir: The Tragedy at Greystone.” Crime Magazine. May 16, 2013. http://www.crimemagazine.com/vintage-noir-tragedy-greystoneVan Landingham, Andrea. Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Cover-ups From Tinseltown (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2022).Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke HoliznaFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The Blitz in Liverpool, England, unearthed a long-buried cylinder. When a child discovered a corpse inside, it ignited a century-old mystery.Sources:“The Blitz.” The History Place: World War II in Europe. 1998. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/about-blitz.htm“The Body in the Cylinder: How a Discovery During World War Two Revealed an Unsolved Victorian Era Mystery.” Creative History: Little Known Stories from the Past. January 10, 2021. https://creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-body-in-cylinder-how-discovery.html“Knock, Knock, Ginger: The History of the Ding-Dong-Ditch Prank.” Professional Moron. April 18, 2022. https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/“Liverpool and the Blitz.” National Museums of Liverpool. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of-liverpool/blitz/liverpool-and-blitz#section--you-may-also-like“Liverpool May Blitz 1941.” Old Mersey Times. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/blitz1941.htmlThe London Gazette for the Year 1885. Vol II. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1885). P. 4250. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_London_Gazette/vyVKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+cregeen+williams&pg=PA4250&printsec=frontcoverPye, Ken. Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours. (United Kingdom: Amberley Publishing, 2020.)  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Liverpool_Murders_and_Misdemeanours/i-bRDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0Seyd, Richard. Record of failures and liquidations in the financial, international, wholesale and manufacturing branches of commerce… (London: Seyd and Co., 1885). P. 445. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Record_of_failures_and_liquidations_in_t/_ZQNAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=thomas%20cregeen%20williams“Skeleton in Cylinder.” Old Mersey Times. 2016. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/skeletoncylinder.htmlSlemen, Thomas. Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People. (United States, Barnes & Noble, 1999.) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strange_But_True/uOXjAX0vzU0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=cregeenWhittington-Egan, Richard. Liverpool Colonnade. (London: Philip, Son & Nephew). 1955. https://archive.org/details/liverpoolcolonna0000rich/page/n7/mode/2up?q=thomas+cregeen+williams...For a complete list see oldbloodpodcast.comMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

A daughter of the New York elite is accused of orchestrating her husband's murder after he was shot through a second-story window at the historic Cherry Hill estate. The resulting trial culminated in the state's last public hanging in 1827.Sources:Please visit oldbloodpodcast.com for a complete list of our sources.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The 30-year-old barrister Charles Bravo died after an excruciating three-day battle with poison. The case was doused in clues, a fact that detectives hoped would aid in their quest for justice, but only hindered it. The list of suspects grew, and investigators struggled to cross names off their lists for good. The problem was that there were far too many people with reasons to poison the man. It's a classic whodunnit.Who killed Charles Bravo? Sources:“A Mysterious Death in Balham: Charles Bravo and the Housemaid.” London Overlooked: Stories from the Old Smoke. https://london-overlooked.com/charles-bravo/Bridges, Yseult. How Charles Bravo Died (London: The Reprint Society, 1957).Ruddick, James. Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England (New York: Grove Press, 2001). Trevedi, Chriag. “Victorian Whodunnit Solved.” BBC News Online. 13 January, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2650651.stmMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The 1931 Massie Affair ended in a lynching that shocked the world and a murder trial that threatened the Hawaiian Islands. This is Part II of  "What Hast Thou Done." For Part I, listen to Episode 33.Sources:Black, Cobey. Hawaii Scandal (Waipahu: Island Heritage, 2002).Creel, H. G. Hawaii: An International Crime (Girard: Appeal to Reason, 1915).Hannon, Michael. “The Massie Case Territory of Hawaii v. Ahakuelo, et. al. (1931) Territory of Hawaii v. Grace Fortescue, et. al (1932).” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/MASSIE_CASE.pdf“A Sailor Confesses to Old Hawaii Killing.” Life Magazine. October 7, 1966. P. 39 Leong, Lavonne. “The Crime That Changed the Islands.” Honolulu Magazine. March 8, 2010. https://www.honolulumagazine.com/the-crime-that-changed-the-islands/ Linder, Douglas O. “The Massie Trials: An Account.” UMKC School of Law. https://www.famous-trials.com/massie/308-commentary“Massie Case - 1932” The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection. University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trialsid=5.html#top“THE NAVY AND THE Massie-Kahahawai Case: THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK! (Honolulu: Honolulu Record Publishing Co. Ltd.)Stannard, David E., Honor Killing: How the Infamous ‘Massie Affair' Transformed Hawai'i (New York: Penguin, 2006). And “The Massie Case: Injustice and Courage.” The Honolulu Advertiser. October 14, 2001. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Oct/14/op/op03a.html“American Experience: The Island Murder.” PBS. 2005. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/island-murder/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1931, a prominent Navy wife stationed near Pearl Harbor accused five locals of assaulting her after leaving a Waikiki club. This is the story of the Massie Affair, in which decades of racial tension surfaced in a sensational murder trial and threatened the Hawaiian Islands with martial law.Sources:Black, Cobey. Hawaii Scandal (Waipahu: Island Heritage, 2002).Creel, H. G. Hawaii: An International Crime (Girard: Appeal to Reason, 1915).Hannon, Michael. “The Massie Case Territory of Hawaii v. Ahakuelo, et. al. (1931) Territory of Hawaii v. Grace Fortescue, et. al (1932).” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/MASSIE_CASE.pdf“A Sailor Confesses to Old Hawaii Killing.” Life Magazine. October 7, 1966. P. 39 Leong, Lavonne. “The Crime That Changed the Islands.” Honolulu Magazine. March 8, 2010. https://www.honolulumagazine.com/the-crime-that-changed-the-islands/ Linder, Douglas O. “The Massie Trials: An Account.” UMKC School of Law. https://www.famous-trials.com/massie/308-commentary“Massie Case - 1932” The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection. University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trialsid=5.html#top“THE NAVY AND THE Massie-Kahahawai Case: THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK! (Honolulu: Honolulu Record Publishing Co. Ltd.)Stannard, David E., Honor Killing: How the Infamous ‘Massie Affair' Transformed Hawai'i (New York: Penguin, 2006). And “The Massie Case: Injustice and Courage.” The Honolulu Advertiser. October 14, 2001. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Oct/14/op/op03a.html“American Experience: The Island Murder.” PBS. 2005. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/island-murder/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Reports of an American woman slain in Italy's scenic Lake Como circulated across the globe in the summer of 1910. The murdered woman was Mary Scott: socialite, actress, and woman with a past so scandalous that the press blamed her for her own murder. This episode is about the life and death of Mary Scott. Sources:Adams,  J. Barfield. "The Crime of Porter Charlton [II Delitto di Porter Charlton].(Il Manicomio, April, 1916.) Valtorta, Dr. Dario." Journal of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry. October, 1917. p. 600-602. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/889FAF3371DD3716AD9C2CA50F748C1D/S0368315X00180211a.pdf/the-crime-of-porter-charlton-il-delitto-di-porter-charlton-il-manicomio-april-1916-valtorta-dr-dario-the-crime-of-porter-charlton-il-delitto-di-porter-charlton-il-manicomio-april-1916-valtorta-dr-dari.pdf"Charlton V. Kelly." United States Supreme Court. 229 U.S. 447.  CHARLTON  v.  KELLY. Argued: April 18, 1913. Decided: June 10, 1913. Wikisource. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charlton_v._KellyColnaghi, Beniamino. "Moltrasio, 1910: un baule sospetto 'pescato' nel lago di Como" Storia e storie di donne e uomini. February 22, 2015. http://colnaghistoriaestorie.blogspot.com/2015/02/moltrasio-1910-un-baule-sospettopescato.htmlDuke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. (San Francisco:The James H. Barry Company, 1910)."Extradition of Porter Charlton, an American citizen, from the United States to Italy." PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS DECEMBER 6, 1910. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1910/ch69  Harding, John W. "The Sealed Trunk: How a Sex Scandal Shaped an American Icon." The Designated Virgin. 2019. http://thedesignatedvirgin.com/the-sealed-trunk/"Griffith's Secret Scandal." John W. Harding Author. August 2, 2017. https://www.johnwharding.com/griffiths-secret-scandal-part-3/"Il delitto di Moltrasio (1910)" Bibliotopia. February 16, 2010. https://bibliotopia.forumfree.it/?t=46239137"Lake Como's Moltrasio Trunk Murder." The Como Companion. November 7, 2019. https://comocompanion.com/2019/11/07/lake-comos-moltrasio-trunk-murder/"Mary Scott Crittenden Castle Charlton." Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228163753/mary-crittenden-charltonNewspapers (1897-1901, 1905, 1909, 1910-1913, 1915):The Chico RecordThe Colusa Daily SunThe Enterprise (Riverside)The Humboldt PressThe Minneapolis PressThe Los Angeles HeraldThe Press DemocratThe Morning PressThe New York TimesThe New York TribuneThe New York WorldThe Sacramento Daily UnionThe San Diego Union & Daily BeeThe San Francisco CallThe San Jose HeraldThe San Jose Mercury NewsThe Stockton IndependentMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

When women discovered newfound freedom on the streets of turn-of-the-century America, they also observed new dangers. When society failed to protect them from those perils, women demanded the right to defend themselves with increasingly violent and un-ladylike methods that sent men into a panic. This episode is about the "Hatpin Panic" and the murders of Elizabeth Mize and William Keller.Sources:Abbott, Karen. “‘The Hatpin Peril' Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman.” Smithsonian Magazine. April 24, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/Adler, Jeffrey S. “‘I loved Joe, but I had to shoot him': Homicide by Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 92. 2003. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/LawJournal/JCLC12.pdfBowman, Cynthia Grant and Altman, Ben. “Wife Murder in Chicago: 1910-1930.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 92. 2003. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/jclc739-790.pdfBurnett, Zaron III. “Daggers in Their Hair: The Gilded Age Women Who Fought off Gropers With Deadly Sharp Hatpins.” Mel Magazine. 2022. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/hatpin-panic-1900s“Case Number: 1553.” Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930. Northwestern University School of Law. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/1541/Croyle, Jonathan. “1911: To Make City Safer, Syracuse Considers Taking on a Public Menace: ‘Bristling Hat Pins'.” Syracuse.com. 2021. https://www.syracuse.com/living/2021/01/1911-to-make-city-safer-syracuse-considers-taking-on-a-public-menace-bristling-hat-pins.htmlFreedman, Estelle. Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).Jones, Mother. The Autobiography of Mother Jones. (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1974).Rose, Shari. “Hatpin Panic: How Hat Pins Upended Gender Politics in the 20th Century.” Blurred Bylines. March 4, 2019. https://blurredbylines.com/blog/hatpin-panic-mashers-stabbings-hat-pins/Segrave, Kerry. Beware the Masher: Sexual Harassment in American Public Places, 1880-1930   (Jefferson: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2014).The Hatpin Menace: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920 (Jefferson: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2016).Temby, Anna. “‘With daggers in her bonnet': The Australian Hatpin Panic of 1912. 3rd edition.” Australian Women's History Network. July 20, 2017. http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/hatpin-panic/Newspapers: See oldbloodpodcast.com for a complete list.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

1806 Virginia sees a murder forgotten, a murder ignored, and a murderer set free.This is also the episode where you learn about Thomas Jefferson's secret murdered love child. Maybe.This is Part II of Monstrous Strange. For Part I, please listen to episode 29.Sources:Bailey, John. Jefferson's Second Father:  (Pan, 2013).Berexa, Daniel. “The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe.” Tennessee Bar Association. https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=9542 . 2010.Boyd, Julian. "The Murder of George Wythe," in The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (The Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1955)Callender, James. “The President, Again” by James Thomson Callender (September 1, 1802). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-president-again-by-james-thomson-callender-september-1-1802.Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).Crawford, Alan Pell. “A House Called Bizarre.” The Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/2000/11/26/a-house-called-bizarre/4ea73982-5c3c-4599-9086-ea209464a666/ 26 November 2000.“George Wythe.” Colonial Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/"Our Lives, Our Stories: Legacy of the Randolph Site - Virtual Tour." Colonial Williamsburg. https://virtualtours.colonialwilliamsburg.org/randolph/ and https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/behind-the-scenes/newest-virtual-tour-randolph-site/Hemphill, Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 551–562.Longsworth, Polly. "Jefferson's "alleged child." Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Vol. 21, No. 02 (April/May 1999). “Lydia Broadnax.” Slavery and Remembrance: Colonial Williamsburg. https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP040"Monticello Affirms Thomas Jefferson Fathered Children with Sally HemingsA Statement by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/monticello-affirms-thomas-jefferson-fathered-children-with-sally-hemings/Mumford, George Wythe. The Two Parsons (Richmond: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884)."Sally Hemings." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/"Slavery FAQs." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/“Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account.”  and “Sally Hemings.” Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/ and https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/ “Q&A with Bruce Chadwick.” C-SPAN Transcript Viewer. https://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=8188. July 6, 2009.Wolfe, Brendan. “Wythe, The Death of George (1806).” Encyclopedia Virginia.https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/wythe-the-death-of-george-1806/“Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia.” The Wolf Law Library. https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Main_PageMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1806, a founding father of the newly created United States was murdered. This episode is the story of a botched murder investigation, the fight for freedom, and a murderer's forgotten victims.Sources:Bailey, John. Jefferson's Second Father:  (Pan, 2013).Berexa, Daniel. “The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe.” Tennessee Bar Association. https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=9542 . 2010.Boyd, Julian. "The Murder of George Wythe," in The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (The Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1955)Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).Crawford, Alan Pell. “A House Called Bizarre.” The Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/2000/11/26/a-house-called-bizarre/4ea73982-5c3c-4599-9086-ea209464a666/ 26 November 2000.“George Wythe.” Colonial Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/Hemphill, Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 551–562.“Lydia Broadnax.” Slavery and Remembrance: Colonial Williamsburg. https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP040Mumford, George Wythe. The Two Parsons (Richmond: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884).“Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account.”  and “Sally Hemings.” Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/ and https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/ “Q&A with Bruce Chadwick.” C-SPAN Transcript Viewer. https://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=8188. July 6, 2009.Wolfe, Brendan. “Wythe, The Death of George (1806).” Encyclopedia Virginia.https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/wythe-the-death-of-george-1806/“Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia.” The Wolf Law Library. https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Main_PageMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

As the rest of the world unfurled their newspapers to read about the sinking of the Titanic, Argentines opened their papers to learn of a tragedy closer to home. A father discovered his three-year-old boy murdered and abandoned in a vacant home. The baby was only one casualty in a wave of attacks against the children of Buenos Aires.Sources:Beran, Arantza Margolles. "La Triste Felicidad de Cayetano Godino." la cantera de babí. 31 December, 2013. http://www.amargolles.net/?p=3255Brookes, Elisabeth. "Cesare Lombroso: Theory of Crime, Criminal Man, and Atavism." Simply Psychology. 20 July, 2021. https://www.simplypsychology.org/lombroso-theory-of-crime-criminal-man-and-atavism.htmlDovio, Mariana. "El Instituto de Criminología y la 'mala vida'  entre 1907 y 1913." Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual. 16 November, 2013. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuariohistoria/article/view/8389/9260"El Petiso Orejudo." Historia Hoy. 15 November 2018. https://historiahoy.com.ar/el-petiso-orejudo-n538/"El 'Petiso Orejudo', el primer asesino en serie de Argentina" BBC News Mundo. 11 December, 2012. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/12/121211_argentina_asesino_en_serie_petiso_orejudo_vhMoreno, Maria. El Petiso Orejudo (Tusquets Argentina, 1994). Rettew, David M.D.. "Nature Versus Nurture: Where We Are Now." Psychology Today. 6 October, 2017. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abcs-child-psychiatry/201710/nature-versus-nurture-where-we-are-nowRivas, Ricardo. "'El Petiso Orejudo'  Crónica trágica de un niño enfermo en el arrabal de la Tierra." La Nacion. 22 December 2019. https://www.lanacion.com.py/gran-diario-domingo/2019/12/22/el-petiso-orejudo-cronica-tragica-de-un-nino-enfermo-en-el-arrabal-de-la-tierra/Smith, Anna. "What is the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy?" Medical News Today. 6 July, 2021. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/psychopath-vs-sociopath#aspd"What is Epigenetics?" Center for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm#:~:text=Epigenetics%20is%20the%20study%20of,body%20reads%20a%20DNA%20sequence.Zapiola, Maria Carolina. "Niños asesinos de niños: el caso del Petiso Orejudo." Open Edition Journals. July 2006. https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/2827Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

After an elderly woman was discovered brutally murdered in her upscale Glasgow apartment, police charged a 38 year-old Jewish-German immigrant with her murder. The arrest sparked a century-long battle for justice and was championed by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.Sources:"The Case of Oscar Slater." National Records of Scotland. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/the-case-of-oscar-slater"Correspondence of Oscar Slater, the Jewish Prisoner Championed by Arthur Conan Doyle." Carpe Librum Books. https://www.carpelibrumbooks.com/correspondence-of-oscar-slater-the-jewish-prisoner-championed-by-arthur-conan-doyleDoyle, Arthur Conan.The True Crime Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Berkley Prime Crime: New York, 2001.) https://archive.org/details/truecrimefilesof0000doylThe Case of Oscar Slater (Hodder & Stoughton: New York, 1912.)Fox, Margalit. Conan Doyle for the Defense: How Sherlock Holmes' Creator Turned Real-Life Detective to Free a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder (Random House: New York, 2018.)"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Wrongfully Imprisoned Man." Medium. 21 June, 2018. https://medium.com/s/story/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-case-of-the-wrongfully-imprisoned-man-dc5eb26b0331Hunt, Peter. Oscar Slater: The Great Suspect (Carroll & Nicholson: London, 1951.)Kilday, Anne-Marie. "‘Circumstances of Unexplained Savagery': The Gilchrist MurderCase and Its Legacy, 1908–1927." Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800–1940:Microhistories of Justice and Injustice. Ed. David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday. London:Bloomsbury academic, 2020. 137–175. Bloomsbury Collections. 21 Jan. 2022. .McPherson, Hamish. "The Oscar Slater Frame-Up: How a Murder Trial Changed Scots Law." The National. 10 October, 2017. https://www.thenational.scot/news/15585823.the-oscar-slater-frame-up-how-a-murder-trial-changed-scots-law/Roughead, William. The Trial of Oscar Slater (William Hodge & Company: Glasgow, 1915.)Toughill, Thomas. Oscar Slater: The Mystery Solved (Canongate Books Ltd., 1994). Whittington-Egan, Richard. The Oscar Slater Murder Story: New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice (Neil Wilson Publishing, 2011.)Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

When the LA Times exploded in 1910, a labor war erupted in Los Angeles. At stake was nothing less than the future of their city.This is part two of the two-part episode, Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing.Sources:Blum, Howard. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008).Butler, Kirstin. “When California's Water Wars Turned Violent” PBS: American Experience. March 24, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-california-water-wars-violent/Hannon, Michael. “McNamara Bombing Trial.” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/McNamara_LA_Times_Bombing.pdfIrwin, Lew. Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror. (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2013).King, Eddie. “The Los Angeles Times Building Fire: October 1, 1910.” The Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1910_1010_LATimesFire/100110_TheLosAngelesTimesFire_gv_11001960.htmO'Higgins, Harvey. “Detective Burns' Own Story of His Great Case: The Dynamiters” McClure Magazine. Vol. XXXVI, No. 4. August, 1911. Pollack, Alan. “Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Santa Clarita Valley History. https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/al1301.htmSt. Johns, Adela Rogers. Final Verdict (Los Angeles: Doubleday, 1962).Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1910, the city of Los Angeles was an inferno of unrest. A handful of powerful men used coercion, corruption, and outright theft to build their dream metropolis in the middle of a desert. But when labor unions shifted their focus to California, these powerful men realized that their furtunes would be ruined if they did not keep union men out of LA. What followed next was an all-out battle for the city that killed twenty-one innocent people.This is part one of the two-part episode, Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing.Sources:Blum, Howard. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008).Butler, Kirstin. “When California's Water Wars Turned Violent” PBS: American Experience. March 24, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-california-water-wars-violent/Hannon, Michael. “McNamara Bombing Trial.” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/McNamara_LA_Times_Bombing.pdfKing, Eddie. “The Los Angeles Times Building Fire: October 1, 1910.” The Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1910_1010_LATimesFire/100110_TheLosAngelesTimesFire_gv_11001960.htmKincheloe, Jennifer. “The Woman who Captured the Real Boyle Heights Rape Fiend.” Jennifer Kincheloe. August 10, 2016. https://www.jenniferkincheloe.com/post/2016/08/10/the-woman-who-captured-the-real-boyle-heights-rape-fiendMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

How did ancient Greeks obtain justice during a century known for bloodshed and turbulence? And how did the Athenians reconcile such senseless violence with their society's high values of justice and truth? Two ancient Athenian murder trials answer these questions and show how the city's so-called Golden Age was just as ruthless as the rest of ancient history.Sources:Antiphon.  Against the Stepmother For Poisoning. Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0020&redirect=trueOn the Murder of Herodes. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0020%3Aspeech%3D5Dobson, J.F. The Greek Orators (London: Clarendon Press, 1919).Freeman, Kathleen. The Murder of Herodes: And Other Trials From The Athenian Law Courts. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991).Gagarin, Michael. “Athenian Homicide Law: Case Studies.” Demos. March 27, 2003. https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_homicide@page=3&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.htmlGraves, Robert. The Greek Myths. (New York: Penguin Books, 2012).Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. (New York: Warner Books, 1999).“Katharsis & Miasma.” Hellenic Faith. https://hellenicfaith.com/katharsis-miasma/“Law and Courts in Ancient Athens: A Brief Overview.” The Kosmos (Harvard). September 20, 2018. https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/law-and-courts-in-ancient-athens-a-brief-overview/Plutarch and Fowler, H.N. Trans. Lives of the Ten Orators. Attalus.org. 1936. http://attalus.org/translate/orators1.htmlSpencer, McDaniel. “Ancient Greek Murder Mysteries.” Tales of Times Forgotten. October 2, 2019. https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/10/02/ancient-greek-murder-mysteries/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1909, New York City Police discovered the corpse of a white woman stuffed into a trunk. Because cops found the corpse in a Chinese man's apartment, the murder ignited a ‘war' against Chinese Americans, who the press claimed were out to steal and spoil white women. This episode is the story of the Chinatown Trunk Mystery, the ‘Yellow Peril,' and the destruction it caused for America's immigrant communities.This episode is in honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.......#history #herstory #historian #historylover #historybuff #historicaltruecrime #truecrimehistory #truecrime #truecrimepodcast #historypodcast #americanhistory #ushistory #newyorkhistory #newyorkcityhistory #chinatown #chinatownhistory #manhattanhistory #chineseamerican #aapiheritagemonth #elsiesigel #chinatowntrunkmystery #chinatowntrunkmurder Sources:Bovsun, Mara. “The Chinatown Trunk Mystery.” Daily News. 25 March 2008. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/chinatown-trunk-mystery-article-1.269236Chow, Kat. “How The White Establishment Waged A ‘War' on Chinese Restaurants in the U.S.” GBH. 16 June 2017. https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/06/16/how-white-establishment-waged-war-chinese-restaurants-usFuchs, Chris. “The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country: Recovering an erased history.” NBC News. 22 April 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/recovering-erased-history-chinese-railroad-workers-who-helped-connect-country-n991136Lui, Mary Ting Yi. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).“The Murder of Elsie Sigel by her Chinese Lover, 1909.” Historical Crime Detective. https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-murder-of-elsie-sigel-by-her-chinese-lover-1909/Powell, J. Mark. “The Body in the Trunk: Who Killed Elsie Sigel?” 29 October 2015. http://www.jmarkpowell.com/the-body-in-the-trunk-who-killed-elsie-sigel-2/“Why Social Workers in the Slums Become Depraved.” The Star Company. 1914.Newspapers:Day Book. 6 January 1912. P. 23.Evening Star. June 20 and 25 1909.Los Angeles Herald. 27 June 1909.New York Times. June 19 to 28, 1909.New York Tribune. 23 June 1909.Orange County Observer. 1 July 1909.Palestine Daily Herald. 21 June 1909.Princeton Union. 8 July 1909.San Jose Mercury News. 23 June 1909.Spokane Press. 26 June 1909.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com