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Friday Feb 18, 2022
Old Timey Crimey #150: The Gouffé Affair - “Treacherous Tart”
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Paris, 1889: A successful businessman disappears, leading to a riveting investigation and a landmark trial.
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Sources:
Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Epoque Paris by Steve Levingston
Executed Today by Harry Brodribb Irving
Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Sort of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos
Music:
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Old Timey Crimey #145: Jake Factor 1 - “Maybe He’s Born With It”
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Chicago, 1933: A young man is kidnapped, and his father will go to great lengths to get him back. But does he even need to?
Check out Keystone State of Mind wherever you get podcasts. Hi Steph!
Check out more on the Nelson Miller aspect of the Charley Ross story over at CharleyRoss.com.
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Sources:
Max Factor. John Factor.
The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic that Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout
John Touhy on My Family Business and on Roger Touhy, Gangster
Dr. Matthew Partridge in MoneyWeek.
Bank of England Inflation Calculator
Along the Gradyent.
Major Smolinksi
Casetext
Chicago Sun Times
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Newspapers.com:
Evening Standard
Evening News
Daily News
Chicago Tribune
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Old Timey Crimey Bonus: Old Timey Newspapers
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Just a sampling of what you can get over on the Patreon.
Keep an eye on this space--we'll be throwing up little treats every Friday until we return from our holiday hiatus on January 7.
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #136: France‘s Teen Werewolf - “Indecent Headdress”
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Jean Grenier, a teen boy in 17th century France, had a troubled home life. When he left home to try to survive on his own, no one could have guessed he'd make history as the youngest person ever convicted of lycanthropy.
Also, Amber explains how a headdress can be indecent, and we discuss the devil's proclivities.
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Sources:
Jan Machielsen on Not Even Past.org and on Taylor & Francis Online
The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day by Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie
Wikipedia: Witch’s mark
Lapham’s Quarterly
Gary Zabel’s essay Witchcraft and the Occult, 1400-1700
Richard Payne Knight – Pierre de Lancre’s Full Account of the Witches’ Sabbath
Not Just the Tudors
Music:
Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisyLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Dark Impression by Horst HoffmannLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/8409-dark-impressionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #130: Mary Bateman - ”Else It Will Not Do”
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
The tale of Mary Bateman, aka the Yorkshire witch: a woman who was chronically incapable of going to the store. She also never met a scam she did like or a sheet she couldn't steal.
Sources:
Catherine Curzon on Mental Floss.
Extraordinary Life and Character of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch From the Earliest Thefts of her Infancy, Through a Most Awful Course of Crimes and Murders, Till Her Execution at the New Drop, Near the Castle of York, On Monday the 20th of March 1809 (12th Edition)
Vision of Britain Through Time
Ellen Castelow on Historic UK
Kelly Buchanan on LOC.
Wikipedia. Digoxin.
National Library of Scotland.
Hull Packet via Gale Primary Sources
Murderpedia
The Lineup
On Yorkshire Magazine
Newspapers.com:
Lancaster Gazette/Leeds Mercury
Morning Chronicle
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Tavern Loop One by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6282-tavern-loop-oneLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Friday May 21, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #114: The Princes in the Tower (Pt 2) - "Princeducken"
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
We continue to delve into one of history's greatest mysteries--what happened to the young would-be king of England after his uncle sent him and his brother to the tower? We finish up this two-parter with a discussion of theories and bones. Featuring special guest, Hugo-nominated fanzine editor Chris Garcia!
Find more of Chris: Dial-a-Crime, Zodiac Speaking, Short Story Short Podcast, Journey Planet, The Drink Tank & Claims Department
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Music:
Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-waveLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Ben Johnson. Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Princes-in-the-Tower/
Meilan Solly. Smithsonian Mag. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-richard-iii-order-deaths-his-nephews-they-slept-tower-london-180976930/
Rebecca Starr Brown. https://rebeccastarrbrown.com/2017/03/02/edward-ivs-marriage-to-elizabeth-woodville-in-context/
Historic Royal Palaces. https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-princes-in-the-tower/
Matt Lewis. History hit. https://www.historyhit.com/what-led-to-george-duke-of-clarences-execution-by-wine/
“George Northcroft.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Northcroft#Orthodontics
English Monarchs. https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_12.htm#menu
Magalshi. Adventures of a Tudor Nerd. https://adventuresofatudornerd.com/tag/anthony-woodville/
Matthew Lewis. The History Press. https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/what-if-the-princes-in-the-tower-survived-into-tudor-england/
David Crowther. The History of England. https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/the-1483-timeline/
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society. https://www.mkheritage.org.uk/wdahs/docs/edward.html
Bruce Heydt. British Heritage. https://britishheritage.com/history/pretender-throne-perkin-warbeck
Leanda de Lisle. Tudor Times. https://tudortimes.co.uk/guest-articles/lady-margaret-beaufort-hero-or-villain
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/did-richard-iii-really-kill-princes-in-tower-debate-historians/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/historian-bolsters-case-that-richard-iii-murdered-the-princes-in-the-tower/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/princes-tower-will-ultimate-cold-case-finally-be-solved-after-more-500-years-10466190.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower
https://www.livescience.com/richard-iii-nephew-murders.html
Croyland Chronicles
Chronicle of London
The usurpation of Richard the Third: Dominicus Mancinus ad Angelum Catonem de occupatione Regni Anglie per Ricardum Tercium libellus
History Extra Podcast: Princes in the Tower
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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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 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