On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of “The Richmond Murderess,” Kate Webster. This story has everything: a brutal murder, a dismembering, mysterious skulls, ghost nuns, cutting edge execution techniques and Sir David Attenborough intricately knitted into the very fabric of this bone chilling saga.
References for today's episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Julia_Martha_Thomas
https://www.theregister.com/2011/07/06/barnes_mystery/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296#:~:text=Nowadays%20it%20would%20seem%20almost,crime%20in%20England%20and%20Wales.
“Influence of Kate Webster” - The Illustrated Police News, August 23rd, 1879.
“The Richmond Murder” - Daily News, July 4th, 1879.
“The Richmond Murder, Trial of Catherine Webster” - The Guardian, July 4th 1879.
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Ep. 37 - They Died With Their Boots On
On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a number of love-sick murderers, bad words that we’re allowed to use, so many gun fights, so many brains, a corpse concealed in a glen, Rasputin’s favorite sex cult, waxed mustaches, a dead robber baron at a seance, and much more.
References for today's episode:
https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/07/dr.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)
“Matricide and Self-Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.
“Bad Tom” Smith - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1895.
“It’s Not Use Trying to be Good” - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.
“Criminal Capers” - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.
“A Married Man, After Cohabiting with a Young Lady, Kills Her With Poison” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.
“A Father Taken At His Word - What Whisky Did for a Young Man in Kansas” - The Illustrated Police News, November 16th, 1871.
“How the Liquor Law is Enforced in New Bedford, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, December, 7th 1871.
“A Lovesick Sunday Superintendent Blows His Brains Out” - The Illustrated Police News, November 23, 1871.
“Mysteries of Spiritualism” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.
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Ep. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea Blends
On today’s episode, Genevieve is talking about Victorian era cults: the bonkers beliefs, the scandals, manipulation, devil children, corpses in bath tubs, custom tea blends, and what inspired these cults to come about in the first place.
References for today’s episode:
https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites
https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%20love.htm
https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/henry-james-prince-john-hugh-smyth-pigott-agapemonite-messiahs/
https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/acsq/article/1490/&path_info=ACSQ_2021.02_130.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity
https://floridatraveler.com/koreshan-state-park/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/917741876/?match=1&terms=Agapemonite
https://medium.com/illumination/blurred-lines-how-our-culture-echoes-cult-like-patterns-181bcb9b600a
https://conflicttransformation.substack.com/p/responding-to-cults-as-a-social-conflict
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Ep. 35 - Where the Dead Delight to Help the Living
On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a deathbed confession, the accidental death of a horse fancier, a horrific elevator accident, a horrific mowing machine accident, naughty picture book advertisements, a butchered brother in law, a case of Victorian cat fishing, a hairbreadth escape, and more!
References for today’s episode:
“The Avondale Horror. A Deathbed Confession” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30, 1871.
“A Bottle of Horse Medicine Kills a Horse Fancier” - The Illustrated Police News, December 21, 1871.
“A Chambermaid Crushed by an Elevator” - The Illustrated Police News, December 14, 1871.
“A Man Butchers his Brother In Law in Tippecanoe, Ohio - Tragical Result of a Whisky Quarrel” - The Illustrated Police News, November 9th, 1871.
“Marrying By a Photographic Proxy - An innocent Nebraskan Ensnared by a Touched-Up Picture” - The Illustrated Police News, December 28, 1871.
“A Truly Terrible Death - A mowing machine Literally Slices a Man to Pieces” - The Illustrated Police News, August 29th, 1873.
“Affray Between Two Ladies of Fashion in the Streets of St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871.
“A Saddening Story” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.
“A Hairbreadth Escape - A Mississippi Girl Saves a Drowning Man in a Curious Manner” - The Illustrated Police News, August 28, 1873.
https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/09/fifth-avenue-hotel-opulence-atop.html
https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/10/i-sit-on-your-grave-new-yorks-hidden.html
https://wynninghistory.com/2019/03/04/avondale/
https://thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/obits/John%20Aston.htm
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Ep. 34 - Coffin Torpedos for Body Snatchers
On tonday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the repugnant trade of body snatching in the Victorian era, she’ll discuss the ways families fought back, she’ll introduce you to the 2 most infamous body snatchers of all time; Burke and Hare, and we’ll run into a few friends along the way.
References for today’s episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794
https://www.civilwarmed.org/bodysnatching/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1881-01-20/ed-1/seq-8/
https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/beating-the-bodysnatchers
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/grave-guns-coffin-torpedoes-vintage-defenses-aimed-foil-grave-robbers/
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=history
https://history.utk.edu/from-grave-robbing-to-giving-your-own-body-to-science-a-short-history-of-where-medical-schools-get-cadavers/
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Here you’ll find mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian Era. If you consider yourself an enthusiast of creepy Victorian history, you probably already know about the age of spiritualism, the grizzly murders, the grave robbers, twisted pseudo psychotherapy, and memento mori – But I try to dig a little deeper. This was a time full of lace corsetry, romantic poetry, and a deep reverence and affection for the dead. It was a culture of shared sorrow, ornament and elegance, prudishness and scandal, bone chilling children’s stories, and for whatever reason, I just feel at home there. There’s something strangely comforting about the heebie jeebies this era gives me. If you find yourself equally enchanted by things that most people would find horrifying, this podcast is probably for you. Join the community Instagram @myvictoriannightmare
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