Old Timey Crimey

Old Timey Crimey #141: Mary Frances Creighton - “Everybody Faints”

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
 
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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 #140: The Germond Family Murders - “Mysterious Ratbastard”

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/
 

Old Timey Crimey #139: The Guay Affair - “Decaying Moral Standards”

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

Old Timey Crimey #138: Martha Ray and the Earl of Sandwich - “Mayor McCheese”

Two men, one woman, two guns. With special guest Joel!
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Sources:
 
Lenora on haunted palace blog
John Knox Laughton. Dr. Marjorie Bloy’s “A Web of English History.”
Kristeen Cherney MD on Healthline.
Corrosion Doctors.
Cleveland Clinic.
Wiki: Francis Seymour, John Montagu, Hellfire Club, Love in a Village
Watford Observer.
Old Bailey Online Trial Transcripts
Newspapers.com:
Manchester Weekly Times
Our Fake History by Sebastian Major
The Martha Ray murder case
Rev. James Hackman
Fatal Triangle | History
The Murder of Martha Reay: Victim Blaming in 18th Century England
Music:
Waltz Of The Rising Daylight by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6346-waltz-of-the-rising-daylightLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisyLicense: 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/

Old Timey Crimey #137: Helen Duncan - “Crafty Science”

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
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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/

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

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/
 
 

Old Timey Crimey #135: International Hauntings - “Raining Henrys”

Amber and Kristy take the ghost chat overseas, talking about haunted places in France and Norway. Locales include: Chateau de Commarque, Abbaye de Mortemer, Jardin des Tuileries, Akershus Fortress, Nidaros Cathedral, Hotel Union Oye, Frikesten Fortress, and Dalen the Fairytale Hotel. 
Apologies for the echoes on the zoom call. We tried to fix it where we could. 
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The Travel by Elena Alston
Werewoofs
I love Bergen
Pinterest
Norwegian American
Minimalist Sometimes
Insider
Smithsonian
The Nordic Escape 
Seeks Ghosts Blog
Wikipedia
Travel Versed 
Paul McQueen on Culture Trip.
Commarque.
Abbaye de Mortemer.
The World’s Creepiest Places By Bob Curran, Ian Daniels
The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley
Geri Walton on Geri Walton.com
Wiki: Tuileries Garden
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Volume 43, 1889
Hauntings: The Shadowlands and Non-UFO Related Paranormal Material
Less Than Zero
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Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisyLicense: 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/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktimeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 

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

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/