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Friday Jan 07, 2022
Old Timey Crimey #144: Barbara Graham - “Sweet Candy Pants”
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Burbank, California, 1953: A woman with an incredibly troubled past meets a former roller-skating vaudevillian. Chaos and tragedy ensue.
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Sources:
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/graham.html
Rage and Revenge Murders in California by Marques Vickers
Girls on the Rampage by Wenzell Brown
Clark Howard on the Crime Library, accessed via Murderpedia
Robert Walsh on Crimescribe
Newspapers.com:
San Francisco Examiner
Valley Times
LA Daily news
Mirror News, 1
NY Daily News by Mara Bovsun.
Please Kill Me
Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: 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 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 Dec 10, 2021
Old Timey Crimey#143: Arthur Warren Waite - “Dr. Dingus”
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
New York, 1916: A newly married couple suffer two unexpected tragedies in quick succession--but who's to blame? Cruel twists of fate, the young superstar dentist...or an ancient Egyptian man with a score to settle? This case just gets wilder at every turn.
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Sources:
Poisoning The Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot by Tobin T. Buhk
Findagrave
Wikipedia, Aimee Crocker
Garret Ellison on mlive
Daily News by David J. Krajicek (URL contained a lovely pun—“awful tooth article”)
Kevin Taylor on AimeeCrocker.com
Newspapers.com:
Johnson City Staff
Evening World
Star Gazette
Fall River Daily Evening News
New York Tribune
John & Hannah Peck
Hektoen International by Lisa Mullenneaux
Malefactor's Register by Mark Gribben
Crime Magazine by Robert Walsh
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sneaky by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4385-sneakyLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #141: Mary Frances Creighton - “Everybody Faints”
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
New Jersey, 1935: A tangled web of relationships, all stuffed into one small house, lead to a dramatic trial for Mary Frances Creighton. But this is old hat to her. It's not her first rodeo, after all....
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Sources:
Casetext.com.
Mark Gribben, Malefactor’s Register
Crime Library by Mark Gado
Murderpedia
Newspapers.com:
Daily News
Times Union
Strange Bedfellows |
Mary Frances Creighton
Baldwin Inside | Another new update...Ruth Creighton, age 13 at the time all this happened, has her 100th birthday today today
George Robert Bull + Ruth Jean Creighton – Dillahunty Family Tree
Ruth Jean Creighton Dillahunty (1919-1990)
ExecutedToday.com » 1936: Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Applegate
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/
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #140: The Germond Family Murders - “Mysterious Ratbastard”
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
New York, 1930: A small town is shook when a local family is brutally murdered the night before Thanksgiving. Naturally, they react by pointing fingers at every immigrant they can find, calling in the Pinkertons, and roping in a future president.
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Sources:
Death on a Dairy Farm: This Murder Case from 1930 Is Still Unsolved
A Forensic Solution to a Cold Case: The Germond Family Murders by Vincent P. Cookingham, Ph.D.
Cold Case- The Germond Murder House – Little Witchaus
10 Hudson Valley Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day
A personal mystery - who killed my cousin and his family in 1930? : r/UnresolvedMysteries
Newspapers.com:
Daily News Jan 8 1933
Ithaca Journal
Poughkeepsie Eagle News and 2
Rasheed Oluwa Poughkeepsie Journal
Larry Hughes Poughkeepsie Journal
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #134: The Hammersmith Ghost - “Perfectly Dead”
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Spookyween continues with an examination of the Hammersmith Ghost, which terrorized people in a London village until someone paid the ultimate price. Plus, Kristy tells Amber the creepy, ridiculous details of an old superstition, the Dead Man's Hand.
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Sources:
Jane Alexander in Londonist
Claire Feikert-Ahalt on LOC Blog
Apparitions: or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, by Joseph Taylor
Sara Luehmann on Hammersmith & Fulham
BBC.
Newgate Calendar
Wiki: Hammersmith
Ross Macfarlane at the Wellcome Library.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
Old Bailey Online.
George Dillard on History of Yesterday.
The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost — 1804 | by Jed Graham | Genius in a Bottle
Frank Baker MD in The American Anthropologist Journal
Newspapers.com: The Times
Music:
Headless Horseman by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horsemanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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 Aug 20, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #127: Brooke Hart - "Beep Beep"
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
A young man is kidnapped, and an entire town loses its mind.
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Sources:
Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town by Harry Farrell
Findagrave.
Nor Call Media Museum.
Newspapers.com:
Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
San Francisco Examiner
Brooklyn Times Union
Oakland Tribune
California Digital Newspaper Collection:
San Jose Mercury News
Amanda Sedlak-Hevener on Ranker
Bob Calhoun on SF Weekly.
Scott Herhold on Mercury News.
Carl Nolte on SF Gate.
Timothy Hughes on Rare and Early Newspapers.
Jack Major on Major Smolinski
Wikipedia.
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/