Old Timey Crimey #136: France‘s Teen Werewolf - ”Indecent Headdress”

October 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 MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisy
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Dark Impression by Horst Hoffmann
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8409-dark-impression
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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #134: The Hammersmith Ghost - ”Perfectly Dead”

October 8, 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 Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #132: Clementine Barnabet - ”Gray Linings”

September 24, 2021

A series of brutal murders terrorized a whole region of the U.S. in the 1910s. Were they really committed by one teenage girl?

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Sources:

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James

Vance MacMcLaughlin, Homicide Research Working Groups Annual Symposium Proceedings

Findagrave

Wiki: St Martinsville, Lafayette

Charles Swenson on Camptown Cemetery

Stephanie Weber on Mental Floss.

Nina M. Hoffpauir on Acadiana Historical

Karen Corday on Grunge

Newspapers via LOC

New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer

Newspapers via Newspapers.com

Times-Democrat, Galveston Daily News, Weekly Advocate, Crowley Signal, Monroe News Star, Town Talk

Music:

Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
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Old Timey Crimey #131: Victor Licata - ”Dope Evil”

September 17, 2021

One night of horrifying violence that would have a reverberating effect on American attitudes toward marijuana for decades. Plus a rant, some snark, and reminiscing about the DARE program.

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Sources:
Paul Guzzo in the Tampa Bay Times, and also here, Inside Detective Magazine via Reefer Madness Museum, JAMA Psychiatry, Earl Perkins in Thursday Review, Laura Smith on Timeline, Assassin of Youth via Herb Museum, Crimedoor, Mara Bovsun on NY Daily news

Wiki: Ybor City. Assassin of Youth. Decriminalization of Marijuana.

Newspapers.com:

The Brainard Clipper, Knoxville Journal, Anniston Star, El Paso Times.

Chronicling America:

Times-News

Music:

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #130: Mary Bateman - ”Else It Will Not Do”

September 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 20^th of March 1809 (12^th 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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6282-tavern-loop-one
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Old Timey Crimey #127: Brooke Hart - “Beep Beep”

August 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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #126: Jessie Costello - “Jawdropper”

August 13, 2021

The woman who captivated America--and more importantly, twelve American men with a taste for barbershop quartets.

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Sources:

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe.

New England Historical Society.

Peabody. Wiki.

Findagrave.

Jack Major. Major Smolinski.

Undine. Strange Company.

Stephanie Almazan. The Lineup.

CDC 1C, CDC 2

Ontario Beekeepers’ Association.

Salem News.

Newspapers.com:

Rutland Daily Herald (RDH) 1. RDH 2. RDH 3. RDH 4. RDH 5. RDH 6. RDH 7. RDH 8, RDH 9, RDH 10, RDH 11

North Adams Transcript

LOC:

Waterbury Democrat

Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #124 - Timey After Timey in Pennsylvania

July 30, 2021

In the first official Timey After Timey, Amber talks about Irene Schroeder's bonkers crime spree in the 1930s, and Kristy discusses the murder of Laurie Show in the 1990s.

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Sources:

Irene Schroeder

https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/schroeder-irene.htm

https://www.wvgenweb.org/marshall/dague-schroeder.pdf

https://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/local_news/schroeder-dague-executed-85-years-ago-today/article_bdeb542a-2c5d-5e61-851b-3d27c442d92d.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99299417/irene-schroeder

The book Family & Lies: Before there was Bonnie and Clyde There Was Gramma and Glenn by DJ Everette

Laurie Show Murder

Paul Smith. Fox43

Keith Schweigert. Fox43.

Niki T. Ingram. Philadelphia Bar. (review of book)

Jed Reinert. Lancaster Online.

Lambert v Blackwell et all. Judyrecords.

Murderpedia.

Ted Anthony. Herald-Journal

Laura Fries. Variety.

Tom Jicha. Sun Sentinel.

Kristal Hawkins. TruTV.

The Stalking of Laurie Show on YouTube.

Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #123: Charley Ross - “Tea Party”

July 23, 2021

The kidnapping that changed kidnapping in America.

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Sources:

Heather Thomas. Library of Congress Blog.

PBS: Whyy.

Findagrave.

Thomas Everly. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.

Carrie Hagen. SmithsonianMag.

Carrie Hagen. We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping that Changed America

Ryan Fin. Medium.

Meaghan Good. The Charley Project.

Jason Lucky Morrow. Historical Crime Detective.

History.com.