Old Timey Crimey

Old Timey Crimey #92: The Somerton Man - "Juicy Fruit"

Scott, Kristy, and Amber talk about the "Taman Shud" case, also known as the Somerton Man. 
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/new-twist-in-somerton-man-mystery-as-fresh-claims-emerge/news-story/18b3fe551a0b50d1adad4b42646a1748
https://archives.sa.gov.au/finding-information/discover-our-collection/stories/%E2%80%9C-what-poison%E2%80%9D-mystery-somerton-man
https://aux.avclub.com/the-victim-of-taman-shud-case-is-as-much-a-mystery-as-w-1798242732
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-14/somerton-man-cold-case-could-be-one-step-closer-to-solved/9245512
http://www.thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/tag/taman-shud/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-body-on-somerton-beach-50795611/
https://ciphermysteries.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-grave-of-the-taman-shud-man-adelaide-australia
Mike Dash. Smithsonian Mag. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-body-on-somerton-beach-50795611/
“Digitalis Toxicity.” https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000165.htm
The woman who smashed codes by Jason fagone,
Sandra Bill. https://omarkhayyamrubaiyat.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/why-george-marshalls-rubaiyat-is-not-a-false-imprint/
Jessica Bineth. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-14/somerton-man-cold-case-could-be-one-step-closer-to-solved/9245512
Meagan Dillon and Daniel Keane. ABC.au.net https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-08/new-animation-shows-face-of-mystery-somerton-man/12717590
Craig Cook. Northern Star. https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/found-the-pathologists-report-in-somerton-man-case/3897169/
Craig Cook. Adelaide Advertiser. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/scientist-at-centre-of-dna-breakthroughs-in-cold-case-appeals-for-government-to-exhume-the-body--somerton-man-to-finally-give-him-name/news-story/dfdbc3ca837001758808a7502a1239ee
Prof. John Burton Cleland. Somerton Man Pathologist Report. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yFWG-kelPmm4mzHIoE8Xn8vqGD0Uj5Vj/view
 
Music: 
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #91: Madalynne Obenchain - "The Last Two Minutes"

Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about the face that launched five murder trials. 
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Sources:
Cecilia Rasmussen. LA Times. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-19-me-40457-story.html
Mark Gribben. Malefactor’s Register. https://malefactorsregister.com/wp/a-face-that-let-her-get-her-way/
Charles Higham. “Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery.” https://www.google.com/books/edition/Murder_in_Hollywood/wuIHUA2CrOQC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Pensacola Journal, South Bend News Times, New York Trib, New York Herald, Ariz Republican, Jamestown Weekly Alert, the Washington Times, Great Falls Tribune, and the Seattle Star via LOC
Desert Sun & San Bernardino Sun, via California Digital Newspaper Collection
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/dlc_chihuahua_ver02/data/sn84026749/00280764887/1922072301/0339.pdf
http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2013/04/los-angeles-favorite-murderesses-part_8.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHvPs_-40c
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204831947/madalynne-donna-conner
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-19-me-40457-story.html

Old Timey Crimey #90: Howard Unruh - "Pay in Pennies"

Amber, Scott, and Kristy talk about Howard Unruh. There's a first time for everything, and unfortunately, thanks to Howard Unruh, that first time would reverberate through 20th century America and into the 21st century. 
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Sources:
Meyer Berger. NY Times. “Veteran Kills 12 in Mad Rampage on Camden St.” https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/090749nj-shoot.html
Patrick Sauer. “The Story of the First Mass Murder in U.S. History.” Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Findagrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7931504/maurice-j.-cohen
Northjersey.com https://www.northjersey.com/picture-gallery/news/new-jersey/2019/08/28/photos-howard-unruh-shoots-16-sept-6-1949-camden/2065185001/
Barbara Boyer. Philadelphia Inquirer. “Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13.” https://web.archive.org/web/20110310172044/http://www.dvrbs.com/Camden/CamdenNJ-HowardUnruh.htm
Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
David M. Zimmer. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/28/wwii-veteran-became-americas-first-mass-shooter-1949/2139054001/
Biblegateway.com.   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NIV
Philly.com. “Howard Barton Unruh, examined.” http://media.philly.com/documents/Unruh.pdf
https://weirdnj.com/stories/howard-unruh/
https://murderpedia.org/male.U/u/unruh-howard.htm
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
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/

Old Timey Crimey #89: Jean Gianini - "The Bidet Scale"

Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about the Jean Gianini case, a singular moment in American law. Also, things get philosophical. 
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Sources:
Crime Capsule. “Hoodwinking the Alienists.” https://crimecapsule.com/murder-in-the-adirondacks-murderer-jean-gianini-and-the-insanity-defense/
“Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.” https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/facts.html
Mark Gribben. Malefactor’s Register. https://malefactorsregister.com/wp/when-morons-kill/
Steven A. Gelb. Health & Place: An International Journal. “Sentenced in sorrow: the role of asylum in the Jean Gianini murder defence.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1353829297000063?via%3Dihub
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19140329.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
https://www.nytimes.com/1914/05/15/archives/gianini-confessed-he-killed-teacher-statement-sworn-to-by-lad-at.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43064/43064-8.txt
 
Music: 
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #88: Marie Lafarge - "Provincial Knobs"

Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about Marie Lafarge and the landmark poison trial that made arsenic enthusiasts start to think twice. 
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Sources:
Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-based Crime Literature by Albert Borowitz
Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, by Marie Lafarge.
Encyclopedia.com. “Lafarge, Marie.”
Wikipedia. “Marie Lafarge.” “Gum Arabic.” “Cholera.” “Le Glandier.”
Tabea Tietz on SciHi Blog. “Madame Marie Lafarge – The first “Victim” of the Marsh Test.”
Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”
Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman. 2014.
An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience by Elisa Bergslien.
Jess Romeo on JStor daily. “The Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge.” https://daily.jstor.org/the-arsenic-cake-of-madame-lafarge/
Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. Isis: a journal of the history of science society. “Managing Uncertainty in the Academy and the Courtroom: Normal Arsenic and 19th-Century Toxicology.”
Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. “Popularizing Controversial Science: A Popular Treatise on Poisons by Mateu Orfila (1818).” Medical History.
Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”
Martin Lynch. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal. “Analysis of Madame Lafarge's Trial, with Remarks on the Medical Evidence.”  
France Info.fr “The Chartreuse du Glandier in Beyssac in Corrèze is for sale.”
 
https://artoftoxicology.weebly.com/marie-lafarge.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lafarge
https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lafarge-marie.htm
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/09/marie-lafarge-a-frenchwoman-who-poisoned-her-husband-with-arsenic-and-was-put-on-the-most-popular-trial/
 
Music: 
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Old Timey Crimey #87: Amelia Dyer - "SOCIETY"

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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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
 

BONUS: The Middlebury Does

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While Scott's out sick, Kristy tells Amber about the still-unidentified victims found in Middlebury, Vermont, 85 years ago. And then we make a decision. 
Music: 
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Detective Kris Bowdish and State Archivist Tanya Marshall. Burlington Free Press. https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2016/10/30/history-space-middlebury-cold-case/92958366/
Jillian Kuzma. Unsolved Vermont. https://unsolvedvermont.com/2019/11/29/the-east-middlebury-does/
Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1938/1/6/harvard-anthropologists-give-important-clue-in/
The Sun community News. https://suncommunitynews.com/news/15651/a-vermont-triple-murder-mystery/
John Flowers. Addison County Independent. https://addisonindependent.com/1935-murder-victims-buried-mystery-persists-0
Associated Press in the DC Evening Star, accessed via Library of Congress.

Old Timey Crimey #86: Paula Jean Welden - "Interdimensional Werewolves"

Kristy & Amber talk about the mysterious disappearance of Paula Jean Welden, a Vermont college student who went for a hike and never returned home. Plus, the Bennington Triangle—was the Welden case only the beginning?
If you have any info about Welden’s disappearance, call the Vermont State Police at 802-722-4600.
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Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
All That’s Interesting. “Inside The Unsolved Disappearances Of The Bennington Triangle.” https://allthatsinteresting.com/bennington-triangle
The Charley Project. “Paula Jean Welden.” http://charleyproject.org/case/paula-jean-welden
Bennington.edu. Housing. bennington.edu/life-bennington/housing
Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jean_Welden
History of Bennington College. https://sites.google.com/site/theresearchofbenningtoncollege/ourcompany/history-of-bennington-college
Weather.gov. https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=btv
Diana Formisano Willett.  A Supernatural Condition. https://bit.ly/2HzG1YZ
Chad Abramovich. Obscure Vermont. “Off The Beaten Path in Southern Vermont.”  https://obscurevermont.com/tag/glastenbury/
Wilmington Morning Star from Library of Congress.
New England Historical Society. “Paula Jean Welden and the Birth of the Vermont State Police.” https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/paula-jean-welden-birth-vermont-state-police/
Strange Outdoors. “The Strange Disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon in the Bennington Triangle.” https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2019/12/12/the-strange-disappearance-of-paulajean-weldon-in-the-bennington-triangle
https://the-line-up.com/paula-jean-welden-disappearance
https://www.historicmysteries.com/disappearance-of-paula-jean-welden/
https://themorbidlibrary.com/2020/05/10/the-missing-paula-jean-welden/
https://unsolvedvermont.com/2019/11/30/missing-paula-jean-welden/