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We're finally back for 2025 and we're kicking off this new year with a Minnesota classic! In June of 1977, wealthy heiress, Elizabeth Congdon and her nurse, Velma Pietila were murdered in the iconic Glensheen Mansion on the shore of Lake Superior. The shocking murders became headline news and the truly devious plot became the stuff of local true crime legend.
Este episodio esta maravilloso. Esta conversación con la gran PHd Elizabeth Congdon hablamos sobre el habitad de los primates, de ciertas aves (flamingos) y lo mas esperado, los Capibara. Hablamos de conservación y especies invasivas, sin contar las maravillosas organizaciones de protección y educación de la Dra. Aquí abajo dejaremos los links donde puedes apoyar el movimiento y tal vez, adoptar algún bello perrito. Home - BEC Research vale.alva (@curiosidacientificapodcast) • Fotos y videos de Instagram curiosidad científica podcast | Linktree --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/agustin-valenzuela/support
In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Congdon and Dr. Jessica Owens describe how play therapy reduced salivary cortisol levels in shelter dogs and improved behavioral responses and emotional regulation. We discuss:Study design with Calmr dog toys and goalsHow play with improved relationships and wellness for shelter dogsSpecial design of Camlr toy mimics preyHow cortisol affects behaviorThoughts on developing programs for shelters involving play therapyDr. Elizabeth Congdon's bio and links:Dr. Elizabeth Congdon is an Associate Professor of biology at Bethune-Cookman University with an extensive background in behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and science education. She is particularly interested in the relationship between social structure and dispersal in neotropical mammals, specifically capybaras. Locally, Dr. Congdon works with animal shetlers to use data-driven strategies to improve the quality of life and adoption rates for the dogs and cats - especially the large dogs and 'bully breeds'. The latest results from her team show that therapeutic play as an enrichment strategy can bring down cortisol with a lasting effect. She founded BEC Research, Inc to help fund these efforts and support student research projects.APDT 2023 session description:Using interactive and therapeutic play leads to improved health and wellness in shelter dogsBEC Research, Inc www.becresearch.orgCalmr Dog Toys www.calmrdog.comDr. Jessica Owens' bio and links:Dr. Jessica Owens is an Experimental Psychologist studying animal behavior and communication. Their day job is serving as the lead behaviorist and CEO of Unleashed Training. They specialize in working with dogs and their guardians to overcome behavior and emotional challenges resulting from trauma – including abuse, neglect, lack of socialization, etc. www.unleashedtraining.org unleashedvolusia@gmail.comContact Behavior Vets tweet us @BehaviorVets follow us on Facebook follow us on Instagram Online courses Webinars and seminars Email Ferdie at ferdie@behaviorvets.com
Ever wondered what drives an individual to commit the unthinkable act of murder? Is it desperation, greed, or something else entirely? In our latest gripping episode, we invite you on a journey through the heart-stopping court case of Roger Caldwell. We dissect the prosecution's argument blaming Roger's extravagant lifestyle and mounting debts as the trigger for such a heinous act, bringing to light compelling physical evidence and captivating witness testimonies. Despite the defense attorney's relentless pursuit to discredit these testimonies, the evidence seems to mount against Roger.As the plot thickens, we bring in the big guns - experts from the Boulder District Attorney's Office, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and an FBI serology expert - to examine the handwriting and fingerprint evidence linking Roger to the murder. But, to turn the tide, defense attorney Thompson challenges these findings, calling them inconclusive. We give you a front-row seat to the jury selection process, the dismissal of a juror, and the strategic use of opening and closing arguments in this riveting trial.In a dramatic conclusion, we witness Thompson's emotional closing argument, urging for the presumption of innocence for Roger. He critiques the Duluth police investigation, proposes a theory about the real killers, and disputes the blood evidence. After days of deliberation, the jury delivers a verdict, leading to a tense courthouse scene. And this is just the beginning. Please tune in for our next episode as we continue this electrifying journey when Marjorie Caldwell goes on trial. Join us as we uncover the inner workings of the criminal justice system in this spine-chilling case. Support the show
Ever wondered what happens when intrigue, suspense, and family ties collide? Brace yourself for this thrilling journey as we peel back the layers of Marjorie Caldwell and Roger Caldwell's enthralling narrative. Prepare to be gripped by their second visit to the O'Toole house, Roger's strange behavior, and their eventual stay at the Holiday Inn Airport South in Bloomington. Discover the unexpected twist as Peter gives Marjorie $800 for a worthless personal check and how this plays out in the grand scheme. Feel the tension as we unveil discussions between Marjorie and Susan Leroy, Peter's wife, and the impact of these financial woes on the family. Experience the thrill as the Duluth Police close in on the couple's location.As we journey deeper into the story, we scrutinize Marjorie Caldwell's interrogation by Waller and Agent Harman. Get a front-row seat to a call between Marjorie and her attorney, David Arnold, where she attempts to deflect blame onto the Condom family. Hold your breath as we reveal the shocking discoveries from Marjorie's strip search and understand the implications of her statements on the murder case. Join us as we track Elizabeth's grandmother's charm bracelet and its compelling role in providing tangible evidence of Marjorie's involvement in her mother's murder. An episode of intrigue, suspense, and unexpected twists awaits you – buckle up for a wild ride!CreepTime the PodcastTrue stories of all things chilling, mysterious, and unexplainedListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show
Get ready for a wild ride through the labyrinth of a murder investigation that stretches from Denver to Duluth! Will Detective Gary Waller uncover the evidence to prove Royer Caldwell's innocence? As we journey alongside Waller, we'll encounter intriguing characters, including local law enforcement officers and Marjorie's horse trainer, who might hold critical insights into the puzzling mystery.The puzzle pieces start to come together as we explore various pieces of evidence—an envelope, a gold coin, the ominous note discovered in the suspects' hotel room. We'll take you behind the scenes of the meticulous investigation carried out in the rooms of the Holland House where the prime suspects lived. Each clue uncovers a new layer of the mystery, drawing us closer to the truth behind the murders. So, buckle up and join us on this riveting exploration into the heart of a murder investigation! Support the show
Welcome to this thrilling episode of Murder Book that's bound to keep you on the edge of your seat. Can you piece together the clues? What does the hauntingly stopped watch on Mrs. Petilla's wrist mean? Could it reveal the exact time of the gruesome murders of Elizabeth Condon and her nurse? We'll guide you through the puzzle, uncovering each piece, from the crime scene to the chilling autopsy reports. Here, we enter the Condons' world and navigate the chilling silence of Glensheen's mansion, where money and murder intertwine. You'll hear about the eccentric spending habits of Marjorie Congdon, Roger Caldwell's desperate demand for money, and the family's complicated dynamics, all wrapped in a shroud of suspicion.As we peel back the layers of this chilling tale, we spotlight the shady behaviors of Roger and Marjorie. We'll reveal the undercurrents of a shaken Duluth community grappling with the gruesome reality of two murders. This episode is more than just a journey into a murder case; it's a deep investigation into human behavior, community reactions, and the lengths some would go for money and power. Listen in as we unravel the twisted truth behind the murders of Elizabeth Condon and her nurse, Mrs. Petilla. Prepare for an episode that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the Condon family and the haunting Glensheen mansion. Support the show
Have you ever stepped into a mansion steeped in rich history, only to be chilled to your bones by a gruesome tale of double murder? Walk with us through the grand doors of the Glensheen mansion as we share the riveting story of Elizabeth Condon, the last surviving child of the affluent Condon family, and the heinous crime that occurred in her family home. Stride down the opulent halls of Glensheen mansion as we unravel the layers of the Condon family's wealth and the architectural marvel that is their residence. Explore Chester Condon's journey from Rochester, New York, to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, culminating in creating the remarkable Glensheen Estate. But within is a tale darker and more chilling than the cold Minnesota winters. Dive into the heart-stopping details of the night the intruder entered the mansion and the gruesome morning that followed, shaking the town of Duluth and the country beyond.Join us as we navigate the murky waters of this high-profile case. The scene of the crime, the frantic call to the police, and the gripping trial that ensued - we'll explore it all. So, prepare to be intrigued, shocked, and perhaps even a little scared as we delve into the power, wealth, and tragedy surrounding the Condon family and the eerie Glensheen mansion. This is an episode you won't want to miss. Support the show
Today, we welcome Elizabeth Congdon-McGee, the 2021 Alaska School Counselor of the Year and a professional school counselor for the Anchorage School District. Elizabeth talks about how she and the principal of her school have collaborated, and how investing in relationships and using data has made a difference in their work. She also provides insight into how school counselors can advocate for their work by intentionally sharing their story with different groups in the community. Elizabeth also offers advice on how to get more involved on a local and state level. Elizabeth Congdon-McGee was the 2021 Alaska School Counselor of the year. Elizabeth Congdon-McGee is a professional school counselor for the Anchorage School District with over 20 years of experience in education and counseling. Mrs. McGee began her career as a clinical therapist working with young children and at-risk youth, as well as a classroom teacher. Currently, she is a professional school counselor at Whaley K-12 School. She has presented at many statewide conferences and participated in many workgroups to enhance the profession and increase awareness of the role of a school counselor. She has recently moved her presentations to outside of Alaska-NWPBIS Conference and Washington School Counselor Conference. She will be presenting at the Nevada School Counselor Conference in March 2023. Elizabeth has enjoyed being the President of the Alaska School Counselor Association (AkSCA) from 2015-2016, Chair of AkSCA Membership Committee 2015-2021 and currently chairs the AkSCA Advocacy and Public Policy Committee-2015--present a NEA-AK Delegate for many years, and the Anchorage Education Association school counselor committee chair.
Healthy vision is crucial to a child’s development and ability to learn- and the path to healthy vision starts with regular eye exams. In the latest episode of The Bay Care Clinic Podcast, Dr. Elizabeth Congdon, optometrist with BayCare Clinic Eye Specialists talks about discuss just how important routine eye exams are for our children and why screenings, either in school or part of a routine physical, might not be enough. For more information about BayCare Clinic Eye Specialists, visit:https://baycare.clinic/33bslv0 For more information about Dr. Elizabeth Congdon, visit:https://baycare.clinic/3kZ7YY0 Find BayCare Clinic on Facebook: https://baycare.clinic/2g4hDFB Find BayCare Clinic on Twitter: https://baycare.clinic/2uMlLTW Find BayCare Clinic on LinkedIn: https://baycare.clinic/2SkC0Zx Find BayCare Clinic on YouTube: https://baycare.clinic/2vGO7YT
At AotB 2020, Elizabeth Congdon gave a talk on mindfulness. In this episode she expands on that concept as she describes what is possible once you've started to develop a mindful presence. Jakub & Joe learn about Consciousness Coaching and Conversational Intelligence as they listen to Elizabeth weave the importance of choice in the human experience to being an effective team. In this episode you'll learn: • What is Consciousness Coaching and how does it apply to team development? • What is the difference between running on automatic and being in flow? • What is true Choice and how is it enabled by mindfulness? • What are the 5 levels of responsibility in Consciousness Coaching? • How does all this fit into the life of an Agile Coach? Please join Joekub in getting to know Elizabeth better as we learn about the fantastic tools set she brings to the agile coaching practice. The best way to reach Elizabeth is thought her LinkedIn page at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-congdon-b51b9915/
It’s October of 2014, and the people of Duncan, Oklahoma, are concerned. They haven’t seen the Hruby family all weekend. The Hruby’s are usually everywhere. They own the local newspaper. They’re actively involved in the community. But on Monday morning, their longtime housekeeper made a gruesome discovery. John, Tinker, and 17-year-old Katherine Hruby were dead. Everyone in the Hruby family was dead. Everyone but Alan. Then, Brandi tells us about a murder mystery at the Glensheen Historic Estate. The 20,000 square foot mansion is something to behold. It’s now a museum, operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth. But for a long time, the mansion was home to the Congdon family. In the late 60’s, the original owner’s youngest daughter Elisabeth promised the home to the university upon her death. But her death came sooner than anticipated. Late at night on June 27, 1977, Elizabeth Congdon and her nurse Velma Pietila were murdered. Who could have carried out such a senseless crime? And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases. In this episode, Kristin pulled from: American Greed episode “Blood Relatives” “Man to spend life in prison for killing parents, sister,” by Nolan Clay for The Oklahoman In this episode, Brandi pulled from: “Trail of clues, legal twists kept Glensheen murder case going for years” by Candace Renalls, Duluth News Tribune “Blood money: The grisly murders at Duluth’s Glensheen mansion” by Hannah Jones, City Pages “Man’s Suicide Note: ‘I Didn’t Kill Those ’Girls’” Associate Press “40 years later, Glensheen murders still grip Duluth” by Dan Kraker, MPR News
Join us this week as we discuss a local Minnesota spoop. The Gleensheen Mansion is located just outside of Duluth, MN along Lake Superior and is the site where the murder of Elizabeth Congdon took place. Was her attacker a complete stranger, of was it someone much closer than she thought? Interested in helping us out? Check out our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/twospookybroads Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/two-spooky-broads
Glensheen Mansion lies on the north shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. It was built by mining magnate, Chester Congdon and his wife, Clara in 1906 and home to their 7 children. Their daughter Elizabeth Congdon, along with her nurse Velma Pietila, were viciously murdered in the now tourist attraction of east end Duluth. In part 2, we talk about the life of emotionless machine that is Marjorie Congdon LeRoy Caldwell Hagen, how she could never have enough money and how she would do anything to get more.
Glensheen Mansion lies on the north shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. It was built by mining magnate, Chester Congdon and his wife, Clara in 1906 and home to their 7 children. Their daughter Elizabeth Congdon, along with her nurse Velma Pietila, were viciously murdered in the now tourist attraction of east end Duluth. In part 1 of a 3-parter, we talk about the history and wealth that is Glensheen and the Congdon family, of Elizabeth's generosity and commitment to the Duluth community and her brutal demise.
In this special interview episode from the files of Where Blood Runs Cold, I interview Sharon Henry Darby, author of Glensheen's Daughter, about the notorious Minnesota murderer and arsonist Marjorie Congdon, who besides allegedly conspiring to murder her mother Elizabeth Congdon at the famous Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, also left a trail of fire and death for the next three decades across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special interview episode of Where Blood Runs Cold, I interview Sharon Henry Darby, author of Glensheen's Daughter, about the notorious Minnesota murderer and arsonist Marjorie Congdon, who besides allegedly conspiring to murder her mother Elizabeth Congdon at the famous Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, also left a trail of fire and death for the next three decades across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus episode! Elizabeth Congdon, a millionaire was found dead with her nurse in her 20,000 estate mansion. Elizabeth adopted 2 girls. One of the girls was troubled and deaths surrounded her. Was it pure coincidence or was she a factor in her mothers death? For more episodes like this visit Your Morning After on Patreon
He was just 30 years old and only four years out of law school when Duluth heiress Elizabeth Congdon was discovered smothered to death in her bed at Glensheen Mansion, her night nurse Velma Pietila fatally beaten with a candlestick. Forty years later, then chief prosecutor John DeSanto joins the podcast this week to share his firsthand experience with Duluth's most well-known murder case. "The day of June 27, 1977, Monday. I remember it like it was yesterday," DeSanto said. To get in touch with the Pressroom Podcast, email us at podcast@duluthnews.com.
On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys start off talking about Zenkerella insignis, the critter caught on Bioko, is one of the world's most ancient and mysterious mammals. Until now, it was known only by its fossils and 11 scattered specimens, many of which had been languishing in natural history collections for over 100 years. Researchers who were interested in the species (and there aren't many) had little to go on aside from a hind limb here, a few teeth there. No scientist in history has ever seen it alive. Then, according to biologist Elizabeth Congdon, an assistant professor at Bethune-Cookman University, the state of Florida could have a serious capybara problem—and it might be the fault of exotic pet owners. Then, it's been a year since two treasure hunters claimed to have found a Nazi gold train buried under Poland and yet no Nazi gold train has actually been produced. That isn't stopping a team of 35 people, who plan to resume the hunt Monday, Deutsche Welle reports. Then, care to learn more about 400-foot tsunamis on Mars? Now you can, after Nasa announced it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. The space agency has set up a new public web portal called Pubspace, where the public can find Nasa-funded research articles on everything from the chances of life on one of Saturn’s moons to the effects of space station living on the hair follicles of astronauts. After the break Cam and Kyle talk about the iconic "Skinwalker Ranch". In northern Utah there exists a “ranch” so strange, so bizarre, that the National Institute for Discovery Science (owned by Las Vegas businessman and billionaire Bob Bigelow) purchased it solely for scientific research purposes. Located in the Uintah Basin near the town of Fort Duchesne, paranormal phenomenon such as strange creatures, bizarre objects, flying black triangles, animal mutilations, and telepathic messages, have been reported on the 480 acre Skinwalker Ranch for hundreds of years. It is estimated that over half the population in the area surrounding the ranch have witnessed unusual paranormal activity on, or near what became known as the “Strangest Place on Earth”. Even the local Ute Indians believe the land to be cursed – and tribe members are strictly forbidden to enter the property. Thanks for listening to Expanded Perspectives! Show Notes: Scientist Finally Found Zenkerella, The World's Most Mysterious Mammal Florida About to be Swamped with Capybara Treasure Hunters to Finally Find That Nazi Gold Train, Maybe NASA Just Made All It's Research Available Online for Free Skinwalker Ranch Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided by Pretty Lights. Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com. Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Understand Me Now Short Cut Sweet Long Life