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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 Nov 12, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #139: The Guay Affair - “Decaying Moral Standards”
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
The year is 1949 and the place is Quebec, Canada. We're talking about J. Albert Guay, a man who never met a murdery cliché he didn't like.
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Sources:
Roger Lemelin in Macleans.
EJ Kahn Jr in the New Yorker
Knights of Columbus
Catherine Lachaussee on CBC
Canada’s History
Joseph Guay – The Worst Mass Murder in North America | Canada History and Mystery
ExecutedToday.com » 1951: Albert Guay
History Collection
A Monstrous Plot
CBC
My Friend Guay, the Murderer | Maclean's | MAY 1 1951
NY Daily News
A Husband, a Wife, a Time Bomb
Newspapers.com:
The Gazette
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/
Marty Gots A Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4992-marty-gots-a-planLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #137: Helen Duncan - “Crafty Science”
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
We finish off Spookyween with a discussion on Helen Duncan, also known as Britain's Last Witch, and how she attracted the UK military's ire for one of her seances.
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Sources:
The Scotsman
HMS Barham Explosion & Sinking
Wiki: HMS Barham
Ben Johnson on Historic UK
The Statues Project
Debbie Wojciechowski on Medium Debbie
Charlotte Hodgman on History Extra Magazine
Laura Brown in Scots Magazine
Ectoplasm
Newspapers.com:
Boston Globe
Evening Standard
The Guardian
Severin Carrell in the Guardian
From ectoplasm to 'dead' aunts - the story of Scotland's last convicted witch
Helen Duncan
Helen Duncan Official Site
A British Woman Was Convicted Under a Witchcraft Law During WWII
The Helen Duncan Story, Clan Duncan Society - Scotland UK
Music:
Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisyLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: 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 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 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 24, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #132: Clementine Barnabet - ”Gray Linings”
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 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 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/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Old Timey Crimey #131: Victor Licata - ”Dope Evil”
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 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 MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Headless Horseman by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horsemanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/