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Friday Apr 09, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #108: Violet Gibson - "Trains and Ladies"
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
A woman born into privilege tries to change history and comes closer than anyone else to doing so--and she doesn't even travel in time! That we know of.
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Music:
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Secret of Tiki Island Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Sources:
"Dear You," short story about Gibson: https://accenti.ca/dear-you/
Kate Hickey. “The Irish woman who shot Mussolini in the face.” Irish Central. “https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-woman-shot-mussolini
Wikipedia – Edward Gibson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibson,_1st_Baron_Ashbourne. Mortification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_in_Catholic_theology. Bellamy Salute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute. Mussolini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini. Assassination Attempts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Benito_Mussolini
Frances Fahy. “Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini.” Italics Magazine. https://italicsmag.com/2021/01/29/violet-gibson-the-woman-who-shot-mussolini/
Council Grove Republican, The Plain Speaker, The Age, Albuquerque Journal, Yonkers Herald via Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/image/343683720/?terms=%22violet%20gibson%22&match=1
Society of Saint Francis. “Saint Francis and Brother Ass.” http://www.franciscanarchive.org.uk/1996jan-angelossf.html
Nora McGreevy. Smithsonian Mag. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1926-irish-woman-shot-benito-mussolini-and-almost-altered-history-forever-180977286/
Michael Sheils McNamee. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56111443
NYTimes Magazine on Twitter. https://mobile.twitter.com/NYTmag/status/657618681204244480
Brian Koberlein. Forbes Magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2015/10/23/why-its-impossible-to-go-back-in-time-and-kill-baby-hitler/?sh=499e972229c0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Gibson
https://www.openculture.com/?p=1088130
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1134640?seq=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/loscaa/violet_gibson_the_irish_woman_who_shot_benito/
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-woman-shot-mussolini
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1926-irish-woman-shot-benito-mussolini-and-almost-altered-history-forever-180977286/
https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-03-17/woman-who-shot-benito-mussolini-was-forgotten-decades-ireland-wants-change
https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/violet-gibson
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/a-shot-to-nothing-an-irishman-s-diary-on-the-dublin-woman-who-tried-to-assassinate-mussolini-1.2603844
https://www.irishpost.com/violet-gibson
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #101 - Lizzie Borden Part 2: "Flea Rags"
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
PART 2 of the infamous murders of Abby and Andrew Borden looks at the trial, the aftermath, some weird shit that happened because people are weird, and finally--THEORIES!
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Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_River,_Massachusetts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeleton_in_Armor
Evening World via LOC
Deborah Allard. Herald News. https://www.heraldnews.com/article/20150601/NEWS/150609465
Professor Douglas O. Linder and law students. Famous Trials. https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden
Chronology. Lizzieandrewborden.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145937/http://lizzieandrewborden.com/crimelibrary/chronologies/chronology1789-1892.htm
Diana Griffiths. The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies. https://ochm.medium.com/lizzie-borden-and-the-taunton-jail-d8224024666f
William F. Hanna. Old Colony History Museum. https://ochm.medium.com/lizzie-borden-and-the-taunton-jail-d8224024666f
Boston Globe. https://www.newspapers.com/image/430858491/?terms=Lizzie%20Borden&match=1
https://newengland.com/today/living/homes/lizzie-borden-house-fall-river/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lizzie-borden/
https://www.biography.com/news/lizzie-borden-life-after-murder-trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/lizzie-borden-trial-1892
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2019/07/21/how-did-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-become-a-household-name/ideas/essay/
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/lizzie-borden
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/borden-parents-found-dead
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/lizzie-borden/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/
https://www.livescience.com/lizzie-borden-house-for-sale.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/81765/how-lizzie-borden-spent-her-life-after-being-acquitted
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-happened-to-lizzie-borden-after-the-murders-lizzie-gives-yet-another-take-on-the-story-11881038
Unresolved Mysteries, Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/kodcvs/whats_your_weirdest_theory/
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Old Timey Crimey #87: Amelia Dyer - "SOCIETY"
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Amber and Kristy talk about one of the most prolific serial killers, and how she turned a profit with her murders. Kristy also gets mad at society. SOCIETY.
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Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Tony Rennell on Murderpedia. “The baby butcher: One of Victorian Britain's most evil murderers exposed.”
Wikipedia. “Typhus.” “Amelia Dyer.” “Poor Law Amendment Act.”
Wikitree. “Amelia Elizabeth (Hobley) Dyer.”
Little Falls Weekly Transcript via LOC.
Sarah Lee. BBC. “Amelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies."BBC. “Victorian baby killer Amelia Dyer evidence found in loft.”
Donna Patricia Ward. History Collection. “The Horrifying Truth of Britain’s Baby Butcher Amelia Elizabeth Dyer Revealed.”
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/amelia-dyer-34349.php
https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1836
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=9197.93&From=GBP&To=USD
https://allthatsinteresting.com/amelia-dyer
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-39330793
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Old Timey Crimey #78: Jolly Jane Toppan - "Vegan Caramel"
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Hellooooo, nurse! No wait...go away, nurse, go away! This week, Scott, Amber, and Kristy talk about Jolly Jane Toppan, a nurse who cared about her patients in quite the opposite way a nurse should.
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Music:Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Kate Hickey. IrishCentral.com. “The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane.” New England Historical Society."Jolly Jane Toppan, the Killer Nurse Obsessed With Death." Measuring Worth.comCrime Museum. “Jane Toppan.” Boston Female Asylum Records, transcribed by Ann S Lainhart.. Joseph P Healey Library Digital Collections. “Jane Toppan.” Emily Allen, Alana Averill, Emmeline Cook. Department of Psychology, Radford University. Harold Schechter. Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer. Atropine. K. McLendon & CV Preuss. National Institutes of Health. Jennifer Myers. Lowell Sun. “For 10 years, ‘Jolly Jane’ Poured Her Poison.” Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162743788/elizabeth-stanford-brighamhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162740485/ann-c-toppanBianca Myrtil. Film Daily. Amanda Sedlak-Hevener. Ranker. “13 Disturbing Facts About Jane Toppan, AKA 'The Angel Of Death.” St. Paul Globe on LOC. Chronicling America « Library of Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_ToppanAllthatsinteresting.com by Katie Serena. Deadly women wiki
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Old Timey Crimey #76: Alger Hiss - "Ideo-la-la-la-logies"
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Was it treason? Was it a friendship gone wrong? Or was it MORE than friendship? The world may never know. This week we talk about Alger Hiss who maaaaybeee committed espionage but maaaaybeee didn't.
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Sources:
John Lowenthal. “Venona and Alger Hiss.” http://algerhiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/lowenthal.pdf
FBI.gov. “Alger Hiss.” https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alger-hiss
A Tissue of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss. Morton & Michael Levitt.
Wikipedia. Alger Hiss, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss. International Juridical Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Juridical_Association. Navy V-12 program, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-12_Navy_College_Training_Program#Notable_graduates
James Thomas Gay. History net. “Was Washington official Alger Hiss a Communist Spy?” https://www.historynet.com/the-alger-hiss-spy-case-mayjune-98-american-history-feature.htm
Historynewsnetwork.org
CIA.gov
PBS.org
History.com
Janny Scott. New York Times. “Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92.” https://web.archive.org/web/20091224132157/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/16/nyregion/alger-hiss-divisive-icon-of-the-cold-war-dies-at-92.html
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Old Timey Crimey #66: Francis Tumblety - "The Joe Exotic of Medicine"
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Scott, Kristy, and Amber delve into the weird, wild shenanigans of Francis Tumblety, the Joe Exotic of medicine. This guy started in porn, moved on to "medicine," and finished up as...possibly Jack the Ripper. (But probably not Jack the Ripper.) Thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ Don't forget to come see us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Insta. Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tumbletyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_P._BlackburnFrom LOC Chronicling America: Magnolia Gazette, Alexandria Gazette, NY Herald, New Ulm Weekly Review, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Evening Star, Evening Journal, Evening World (NY), The Sun (NY), New York Tribune, St. Louis RepublicR. Michael Gordon. “The American Murders of Jack the Ripper.” https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/3TECJxTxXfwC?hl=en&gbpv=0Jack the Ripper Tour. “Is This the Face of a Killer?” https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/the-face-of-jack-the-ripper/Casebook.org. “Francis Tumblety.” https://www.casebook.org/suspects/tumblety.htmlhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/francis-tumblety.htm
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Introducing Detectives by the Decade
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
A podcast exploring the history of forensic science, tracing the timeline from primitive toxicology to DNA. Host Kristy Baxter discusses the scientists, detectives, and cases that drove the development of investigative techniques from the 1500s to the 21st century.
Premiering June 25, 2020. New episodes release every Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Music: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
“Forensics in antiquity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensics_in_antiquity
“Lollia Paulina.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollia_Paulina
Kristina Killgrove. “These Three Forensic Science Techniques From Ancient Rome Reveal Shocking Gaps In Modern Methods.” Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/11/28/these-three-forensic-science-techniques-from-ancient-rome-reveal-shocking-gaps-in-modern-methods/#22a754df58fe
William Garrett Cothran. “CSI: Rome - a dive into ancient forensics.” Sea Lion Press. https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/csi-rome-a-dive-into-ancient-forensics
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Old Timey Crimey #64: John George Haigh - "Worst Game of Cinderella Ever"
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
This week we delve into the fraud, murder, and body disposal tactics of John George Haigh, aka The Acid Bath Murderer. It's finger-lickin' good...
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Sources:
John Haigh. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haigh
Katie Serena. All That’s Interesting. “The Story Of John George Haigh, The Acid Bath Murderer, Is Just As Gruesome As His Nickname Suggests.” https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-george-haigh
Outwood. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outwood,_Wakefield
Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. Thoughtco. “How to Make a Sulfuric Acid Formula at Home.” https://www.thoughtco.com/make-sulfuric-acid-at-home-608262
Murderpedia. “John George Haigh.” https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/haigh-john.htm
Dr. Jonathan Oates and Dave Walker. The Library Time Machine. “Haigh—a handsome stranger arrives at your hotel.” https://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/tag/onslow-court-hotel/
The Advertiser (Adelaide) via Trove. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36677026
The Evening Star via LOC. https://bit.ly/2ZMTdAi
Crime and Investigation. “John Haigh.” https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/john-haigh-the-acid-bath-murderer/arrest
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/haigh-john.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haigh
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-acid-bath-murders/
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Haigh.html
https://boredomtherapy.com/acid-bath-murderer-of-britain/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9VHansGsDI