The 30-year-old barrister Charles Bravo died after an excruciating three-day battle with poison. The case was doused in clues, a fact that detectives hoped would aid in their quest for justice, but only hindered it. The list of suspects grew, and investigators struggled to cross names off their lists for good. The problem was that there were far too many people with reasons to poison the man. It's a classic whodunnit.Who killed Charles Bravo? Sources:“A Mysterious Death in Balham: Charles Bravo and the Housemaid.” London Overlooked: Stories from the Old Smoke. https://london-overlooked.com/charles-bravo/Bridges, Yseult. How Charles Bravo Died (London: The Reprint Society, 1957).Ruddick, James. Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England (New York: Grove Press, 2001). Trevedi, Chriag. “Victorian Whodunnit Solved.” BBC News Online. 13 January, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2650651.stmMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The 1931 Massie Affair ended in a lynching that shocked the world and a murder trial that threatened the Hawaiian Islands. This is Part II of  "What Hast Thou Done." For Part I, listen to Episode 33.Sources:Black, Cobey. Hawaii Scandal (Waipahu: Island Heritage, 2002).Creel, H. G. Hawaii: An International Crime (Girard: Appeal to Reason, 1915).Hannon, Michael. “The Massie Case Territory of Hawaii v. Ahakuelo, et. al. (1931) Territory of Hawaii v. Grace Fortescue, et. al (1932).” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/MASSIE_CASE.pdf“A Sailor Confesses to Old Hawaii Killing.” Life Magazine. October 7, 1966. P. 39 Leong, Lavonne. “The Crime That Changed the Islands.” Honolulu Magazine. March 8, 2010. https://www.honolulumagazine.com/the-crime-that-changed-the-islands/ Linder, Douglas O. “The Massie Trials: An Account.” UMKC School of Law. https://www.famous-trials.com/massie/308-commentary“Massie Case - 1932” The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection. University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trialsid=5.html#top“THE NAVY AND THE Massie-Kahahawai Case: THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK! (Honolulu: Honolulu Record Publishing Co. Ltd.)Stannard, David E., Honor Killing: How the Infamous ‘Massie Affair’ Transformed Hawai'i (New York: Penguin, 2006). And “The Massie Case: Injustice and Courage.” The Honolulu Advertiser. October 14, 2001. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Oct/14/op/op03a.html“American Experience: The Island Murder.” PBS. 2005. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/island-murder/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1931, a prominent Navy wife stationed near Pearl Harbor accused five locals of assaulting her after leaving a Waikiki club. This is the story of the Massie Affair, in which decades of racial tension surfaced in a sensational murder trial and threatened the Hawaiian Islands with martial law.Sources:Black, Cobey. Hawaii Scandal (Waipahu: Island Heritage, 2002).Creel, H. G. Hawaii: An International Crime (Girard: Appeal to Reason, 1915).Hannon, Michael. “The Massie Case Territory of Hawaii v. Ahakuelo, et. al. (1931) Territory of Hawaii v. Grace Fortescue, et. al (1932).” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/MASSIE_CASE.pdf“A Sailor Confesses to Old Hawaii Killing.” Life Magazine. October 7, 1966. P. 39 Leong, Lavonne. “The Crime That Changed the Islands.” Honolulu Magazine. March 8, 2010. https://www.honolulumagazine.com/the-crime-that-changed-the-islands/ Linder, Douglas O. “The Massie Trials: An Account.” UMKC School of Law. https://www.famous-trials.com/massie/308-commentary“Massie Case - 1932” The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection. University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trialsid=5.html#top“THE NAVY AND THE Massie-Kahahawai Case: THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK! (Honolulu: Honolulu Record Publishing Co. Ltd.)Stannard, David E., Honor Killing: How the Infamous ‘Massie Affair’ Transformed Hawai'i (New York: Penguin, 2006). And “The Massie Case: Injustice and Courage.” The Honolulu Advertiser. October 14, 2001. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Oct/14/op/op03a.html“American Experience: The Island Murder.” PBS. 2005. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/island-murder/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Reports of an American woman slain in Italy's scenic Lake Como circulated across the globe in the summer of 1910. The murdered woman was Mary Scott: socialite, actress, and woman with a past so scandalous that the press blamed her for her own murder. This episode is about the life and death of Mary Scott. Sources:Adams,  J. Barfield. "The Crime of Porter Charlton [II Delitto di Porter Charlton].(Il Manicomio, April, 1916.) Valtorta, Dr. Dario." Journal of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry. October, 1917. p. 600-602. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/889FAF3371DD3716AD9C2CA50F748C1D/S0368315X00180211a.pdf/the-crime-of-porter-charlton-il-delitto-di-porter-charlton-il-manicomio-april-1916-valtorta-dr-dario-the-crime-of-porter-charlton-il-delitto-di-porter-charlton-il-manicomio-april-1916-valtorta-dr-dari.pdf"Charlton V. Kelly." United States Supreme Court. 229 U.S. 447.  CHARLTON  v.  KELLY. Argued: April 18, 1913. Decided: June 10, 1913. Wikisource. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charlton_v._KellyColnaghi, Beniamino. "Moltrasio, 1910: un baule sospetto 'pescato' nel lago di Como" Storia e storie di donne e uomini. February 22, 2015. http://colnaghistoriaestorie.blogspot.com/2015/02/moltrasio-1910-un-baule-sospettopescato.htmlDuke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. (San Francisco:The James H. Barry Company, 1910)."Extradition of Porter Charlton, an American citizen, from the United States to Italy." PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS DECEMBER 6, 1910. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1910/ch69  Harding, John W. "The Sealed Trunk: How a Sex Scandal Shaped an American Icon." The Designated Virgin. 2019. http://thedesignatedvirgin.com/the-sealed-trunk/"Griffith's Secret Scandal." John W. Harding Author. August 2, 2017. https://www.johnwharding.com/griffiths-secret-scandal-part-3/"Il delitto di Moltrasio (1910)" Bibliotopia. February 16, 2010. https://bibliotopia.forumfree.it/?t=46239137"Lake Como's Moltrasio Trunk Murder." The Como Companion. November 7, 2019. https://comocompanion.com/2019/11/07/lake-comos-moltrasio-trunk-murder/"Mary Scott Crittenden Castle Charlton." Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228163753/mary-crittenden-charltonNewspapers (1897-1901, 1905, 1909, 1910-1913, 1915):The Chico RecordThe Colusa Daily SunThe Enterprise (Riverside)The Humboldt PressThe Minneapolis PressThe Los Angeles HeraldThe Press DemocratThe Morning PressThe New York TimesThe New York TribuneThe New York WorldThe Sacramento Daily UnionThe San Diego Union & Daily BeeThe San Francisco CallThe San Jose HeraldThe San Jose Mercury NewsThe Stockton IndependentMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

When women discovered newfound freedom on the streets of turn-of-the-century America, they also observed new dangers. When society failed to protect them from those perils, women demanded the right to defend themselves with increasingly violent and un-ladylike methods that sent men into a panic. This episode is about the "Hatpin Panic" and the murders of Elizabeth Mize and William Keller.Sources:Abbott, Karen. “‘The Hatpin Peril’ Terrorized Men Who Couldn’t Handle the 20th-Century Woman.” Smithsonian Magazine. April 24, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/Adler, Jeffrey S. “‘I loved Joe, but I had to shoot him’: Homicide by Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 92. 2003. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/LawJournal/JCLC12.pdfBowman, Cynthia Grant and Altman, Ben. “Wife Murder in Chicago: 1910-1930.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 92. 2003. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/jclc739-790.pdfBurnett, Zaron III. “Daggers in Their Hair: The Gilded Age Women Who Fought off Gropers With Deadly Sharp Hatpins.” Mel Magazine. 2022. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/hatpin-panic-1900s“Case Number: 1553.” Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930. Northwestern University School of Law. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/1541/Croyle, Jonathan. “1911: To Make City Safer, Syracuse Considers Taking on a Public Menace: ‘Bristling Hat Pins’.” Syracuse.com. 2021. https://www.syracuse.com/living/2021/01/1911-to-make-city-safer-syracuse-considers-taking-on-a-public-menace-bristling-hat-pins.htmlFreedman, Estelle. Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).Jones, Mother. The Autobiography of Mother Jones. (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1974).Rose, Shari. “Hatpin Panic: How Hat Pins Upended Gender Politics in the 20th Century.” Blurred Bylines. March 4, 2019. https://blurredbylines.com/blog/hatpin-panic-mashers-stabbings-hat-pins/Segrave, Kerry. Beware the Masher: Sexual Harassment in American Public Places, 1880-1930   (Jefferson: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2014).The Hatpin Menace: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920 (Jefferson: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2016).Temby, Anna. “‘With daggers in her bonnet’: The Australian Hatpin Panic of 1912. 3rd edition.” Australian Women’s History Network. July 20, 2017. http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/hatpin-panic/Newspapers: See oldbloodpodcast.com for a complete list.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

1806 Virginia sees a murder forgotten, a murder ignored, and a murderer set free.This is also the episode where you learn about Thomas Jefferson's secret murdered love child. Maybe.This is Part II of Monstrous Strange. For Part I, please listen to episode 29.Sources:Bailey, John. Jefferson’s Second Father:  (Pan, 2013).Berexa, Daniel. “The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe.” Tennessee Bar Association. https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=9542 . 2010.Boyd, Julian. "The Murder of George Wythe," in The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (The Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1955)Callender, James. “The President, Again” by James Thomson Callender (September 1, 1802). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-president-again-by-james-thomson-callender-september-1-1802.Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).Crawford, Alan Pell. “A House Called Bizarre.” The Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/2000/11/26/a-house-called-bizarre/4ea73982-5c3c-4599-9086-ea209464a666/ 26 November 2000.“George Wythe.” Colonial Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/"Our Lives, Our Stories: Legacy of the Randolph Site - Virtual Tour." Colonial Williamsburg. https://virtualtours.colonialwilliamsburg.org/randolph/ and https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/behind-the-scenes/newest-virtual-tour-randolph-site/Hemphill, Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 551–562.Longsworth, Polly. "Jefferson's "alleged child." Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Vol. 21, No. 02 (April/May 1999). “Lydia Broadnax.” Slavery and Remembrance: Colonial Williamsburg. https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP040"Monticello Affirms Thomas Jefferson Fathered Children with Sally HemingsA Statement by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/monticello-affirms-thomas-jefferson-fathered-children-with-sally-hemings/Mumford, George Wythe. The Two Parsons (Richmond: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884)."Sally Hemings." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/"Slavery FAQs." Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/“Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account.”  and “Sally Hemings.” Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/ and https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/ “Q&A with Bruce Chadwick.” C-SPAN Transcript Viewer. https://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=8188. July 6, 2009.Wolfe, Brendan. “Wythe, The Death of George (1806).” Encyclopedia Virginia.https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/wythe-the-death-of-george-1806/“Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia.” The Wolf Law Library. https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Main_PageMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1806, a founding father of the newly created United States was murdered. This episode is the story of a botched murder investigation, the fight for freedom, and a murderer’s forgotten victims.Sources:Bailey, John. Jefferson’s Second Father:  (Pan, 2013).Berexa, Daniel. “The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe.” Tennessee Bar Association. https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=9542 . 2010.Boyd, Julian. "The Murder of George Wythe," in The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (The Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1955)Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).Crawford, Alan Pell. “A House Called Bizarre.” The Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/2000/11/26/a-house-called-bizarre/4ea73982-5c3c-4599-9086-ea209464a666/ 26 November 2000.“George Wythe.” Colonial Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/Hemphill, Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 551–562.“Lydia Broadnax.” Slavery and Remembrance: Colonial Williamsburg. https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP040Mumford, George Wythe. The Two Parsons (Richmond: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884).“Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account.”  and “Sally Hemings.” Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/ and https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/ “Q&A with Bruce Chadwick.” C-SPAN Transcript Viewer. https://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=8188. July 6, 2009.Wolfe, Brendan. “Wythe, The Death of George (1806).” Encyclopedia Virginia.https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/wythe-the-death-of-george-1806/“Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia.” The Wolf Law Library. https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Main_PageMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

As the rest of the world unfurled their newspapers to read about the sinking of the Titanic, Argentines opened their papers to learn of a tragedy closer to home. A father discovered his three-year-old boy murdered and abandoned in a vacant home. The baby was only one casualty in a wave of attacks against the children of Buenos Aires.Sources:Beran, Arantza Margolles. "La Triste Felicidad de Cayetano Godino." la cantera de babí. 31 December, 2013. http://www.amargolles.net/?p=3255Brookes, Elisabeth. "Cesare Lombroso: Theory of Crime, Criminal Man, and Atavism." Simply Psychology. 20 July, 2021. https://www.simplypsychology.org/lombroso-theory-of-crime-criminal-man-and-atavism.htmlDovio, Mariana. "El Instituto de Criminología y la 'mala vida'  entre 1907 y 1913." Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual. 16 November, 2013. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuariohistoria/article/view/8389/9260"El Petiso Orejudo." Historia Hoy. 15 November 2018. https://historiahoy.com.ar/el-petiso-orejudo-n538/"El 'Petiso Orejudo', el primer asesino en serie de Argentina" BBC News Mundo. 11 December, 2012. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/12/121211_argentina_asesino_en_serie_petiso_orejudo_vhMoreno, Maria. El Petiso Orejudo (Tusquets Argentina, 1994). Rettew, David M.D.. "Nature Versus Nurture: Where We Are Now." Psychology Today. 6 October, 2017. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abcs-child-psychiatry/201710/nature-versus-nurture-where-we-are-nowRivas, Ricardo. "'El Petiso Orejudo'  Crónica trágica de un niño enfermo en el arrabal de la Tierra." La Nacion. 22 December 2019. https://www.lanacion.com.py/gran-diario-domingo/2019/12/22/el-petiso-orejudo-cronica-tragica-de-un-nino-enfermo-en-el-arrabal-de-la-tierra/Smith, Anna. "What is the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy?" Medical News Today. 6 July, 2021. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/psychopath-vs-sociopath#aspd"What is Epigenetics?" Center for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm#:~:text=Epigenetics%20is%20the%20study%20of,body%20reads%20a%20DNA%20sequence.Zapiola, Maria Carolina. "Niños asesinos de niños: el caso del Petiso Orejudo." Open Edition Journals. July 2006. https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/2827Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

After an elderly woman was discovered brutally murdered in her upscale Glasgow apartment, police charged a 38 year-old Jewish-German immigrant with her murder. The arrest sparked a century-long battle for justice and was championed by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.Sources:"The Case of Oscar Slater." National Records of Scotland. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/the-case-of-oscar-slater"Correspondence of Oscar Slater, the Jewish Prisoner Championed by Arthur Conan Doyle." Carpe Librum Books. https://www.carpelibrumbooks.com/correspondence-of-oscar-slater-the-jewish-prisoner-championed-by-arthur-conan-doyleDoyle, Arthur Conan.The True Crime Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Berkley Prime Crime: New York, 2001.) https://archive.org/details/truecrimefilesof0000doylThe Case of Oscar Slater (Hodder & Stoughton: New York, 1912.)Fox, Margalit. Conan Doyle for the Defense: How Sherlock Holmes' Creator Turned Real-Life Detective to Free a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder (Random House: New York, 2018.)"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Wrongfully Imprisoned Man." Medium. 21 June, 2018. https://medium.com/s/story/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-case-of-the-wrongfully-imprisoned-man-dc5eb26b0331Hunt, Peter. Oscar Slater: The Great Suspect (Carroll & Nicholson: London, 1951.)Kilday, Anne-Marie. "‘Circumstances of Unexplained Savagery’: The Gilchrist MurderCase and Its Legacy, 1908–1927." Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800–1940:Microhistories of Justice and Injustice. Ed. David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday. London:Bloomsbury academic, 2020. 137–175. Bloomsbury Collections. 21 Jan. 2022. dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350050976.ch-007>.McPherson, Hamish. "The Oscar Slater Frame-Up: How a Murder Trial Changed Scots Law." The National. 10 October, 2017. https://www.thenational.scot/news/15585823.the-oscar-slater-frame-up-how-a-murder-trial-changed-scots-law/Roughead, William. The Trial of Oscar Slater (William Hodge & Company: Glasgow, 1915.)Toughill, Thomas. Oscar Slater: The Mystery Solved (Canongate Books Ltd., 1994). Whittington-Egan, Richard. The Oscar Slater Murder Story: New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice (Neil Wilson Publishing, 2011.)Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

When the LA Times exploded in 1910, a labor war erupted in Los Angeles. At stake was nothing less than the future of their city.This is part two of the two-part episode, Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing.Sources:Blum, Howard. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008).Butler, Kirstin. “When California’s Water Wars Turned Violent” PBS: American Experience. March 24, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-california-water-wars-violent/Hannon, Michael. “McNamara Bombing Trial.” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/McNamara_LA_Times_Bombing.pdfIrwin, Lew. Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America’s Forgotten Decade of Terror. (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2013).King, Eddie. “The Los Angeles Times Building Fire: October 1, 1910.” The Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1910_1010_LATimesFire/100110_TheLosAngelesTimesFire_gv_11001960.htmO’Higgins, Harvey. “Detective Burns’ Own Story of His Great Case: The Dynamiters” McClure Magazine. Vol. XXXVI, No. 4. August, 1911. Pollack, Alan. “Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Santa Clarita Valley History. https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/al1301.htmSt. Johns, Adela Rogers. Final Verdict (Los Angeles: Doubleday, 1962).Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1910, the city of Los Angeles was an inferno of unrest. A handful of powerful men used coercion, corruption, and outright theft to build their dream metropolis in the middle of a desert. But when labor unions shifted their focus to California, these powerful men realized that their furtunes would be ruined if they did not keep union men out of LA. What followed next was an all-out battle for the city that killed twenty-one innocent people.This is part one of the two-part episode, Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing.Sources:Blum, Howard. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008).Butler, Kirstin. “When California’s Water Wars Turned Violent” PBS: American Experience. March 24, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-california-water-wars-violent/Hannon, Michael. “McNamara Bombing Trial.” University of Minnesota Law Library. http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trialpdfs/McNamara_LA_Times_Bombing.pdfKing, Eddie. “The Los Angeles Times Building Fire: October 1, 1910.” The Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1910_1010_LATimesFire/100110_TheLosAngelesTimesFire_gv_11001960.htmKincheloe, Jennifer. “The Woman who Captured the Real Boyle Heights Rape Fiend.” Jennifer Kincheloe. August 10, 2016. https://www.jenniferkincheloe.com/post/2016/08/10/the-woman-who-captured-the-real-boyle-heights-rape-fiendMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

How did ancient Greeks obtain justice during a century known for bloodshed and turbulence? And how did the Athenians reconcile such senseless violence with their society's high values of justice and truth? Two ancient Athenian murder trials answer these questions and show how the city’s so-called Golden Age was just as ruthless as the rest of ancient history.Sources:Antiphon.  Against the Stepmother For Poisoning. Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0020&redirect=trueOn the Murder of Herodes. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0020%3Aspeech%3D5Dobson, J.F. The Greek Orators (London: Clarendon Press, 1919).Freeman, Kathleen. The Murder of Herodes: And Other Trials From The Athenian Law Courts. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991).Gagarin, Michael. “Athenian Homicide Law: Case Studies.” Demos. March 27, 2003. https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_homicide@page=3&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.htmlGraves, Robert. The Greek Myths. (New York: Penguin Books, 2012).Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. (New York: Warner Books, 1999).“Katharsis & Miasma.” Hellenic Faith. https://hellenicfaith.com/katharsis-miasma/“Law and Courts in Ancient Athens: A Brief Overview.” The Kosmos (Harvard). September 20, 2018. https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/law-and-courts-in-ancient-athens-a-brief-overview/Plutarch and Fowler, H.N. Trans. Lives of the Ten Orators. Attalus.org. 1936. http://attalus.org/translate/orators1.htmlSpencer, McDaniel. “Ancient Greek Murder Mysteries.” Tales of Times Forgotten. October 2, 2019. https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/10/02/ancient-greek-murder-mysteries/Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1909, New York City Police discovered the corpse of a white woman stuffed into a trunk. Because cops found the corpse in a Chinese man’s apartment, the murder ignited a ‘war’ against Chinese Americans, who the press claimed were out to steal and spoil white women. This episode is the story of the Chinatown Trunk Mystery, the ‘Yellow Peril,’ and the destruction it caused for America’s immigrant communities.This episode is in honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.......#history #herstory #historian #historylover #historybuff #historicaltruecrime #truecrimehistory #truecrime #truecrimepodcast #historypodcast #americanhistory #ushistory #newyorkhistory #newyorkcityhistory #chinatown #chinatownhistory #manhattanhistory #chineseamerican #aapiheritagemonth #elsiesigel #chinatowntrunkmystery #chinatowntrunkmurder Sources:Bovsun, Mara. “The Chinatown Trunk Mystery.” Daily News. 25 March 2008. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/chinatown-trunk-mystery-article-1.269236Chow, Kat. “How The White Establishment Waged A ‘War’ on Chinese Restaurants in the U.S.” GBH. 16 June 2017. https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/06/16/how-white-establishment-waged-war-chinese-restaurants-usFuchs, Chris. “The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country: Recovering an erased history.” NBC News. 22 April 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/recovering-erased-history-chinese-railroad-workers-who-helped-connect-country-n991136Lui, Mary Ting Yi. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).“The Murder of Elsie Sigel by her Chinese Lover, 1909.” Historical Crime Detective. https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-murder-of-elsie-sigel-by-her-chinese-lover-1909/Powell, J. Mark. “The Body in the Trunk: Who Killed Elsie Sigel?” 29 October 2015. http://www.jmarkpowell.com/the-body-in-the-trunk-who-killed-elsie-sigel-2/“Why Social Workers in the Slums Become Depraved.” The Star Company. 1914.Newspapers:Day Book. 6 January 1912. P. 23.Evening Star. June 20 and 25 1909.Los Angeles Herald. 27 June 1909.New York Times. June 19 to 28, 1909.New York Tribune. 23 June 1909.Orange County Observer. 1 July 1909.Palestine Daily Herald. 21 June 1909.Princeton Union. 8 July 1909.San Jose Mercury News. 23 June 1909.Spokane Press. 26 June 1909.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

While World War I erupted throughout Europe, the Caillaux scandal plunged France into a chaotic murder trial that overshadowed the coming global conflict. What else do you expect to happen when a wife of the former Prime Minister murders her husband’s greatest political rival?Sources:Allain, Jean-Claude, Joseph Caillaux, 2 vols (Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1978-81).Beatty, Jack. “The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914The story of the Caillaux affair—a murdered newspaper editor, a web of adultery, and the road to World War I.” Lapham’s Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/scandal/cleopatras-nose-1914Berenson, Edward. The Trial of Madame Caillaux (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992).“Caillaux, Joseph.” Encyclopedia.com. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/caillaux-josephDeWaleffe, Maurice and Dulac, Jean. “L’affaire Caillaux.” Comoedia Illustre. 5 August 1914. https://criminocorpus.org/en/library/page/116658/Kershaw, Alister. Murder in France (London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1955).“La Belle Epoque: France and the Rise of Modernism.” Washington & Lee. 25 June 2017. https://my.wlu.edu/office-of-lifelong-learning/alumni-college/la-belle-epoqueLe Figaro, various issues from 1914. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k290183r/f1.image.r=caillauxMartin, Benjamin. The Hypocrisy of Justice in La Belle Epoque (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984).Moran, Tracy. “When a Paris Newspaper Pushed a Housewife to Murder.” OZY: A Modern Media Company. 20 August 2016. https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-a-paris-newspaper-pushed-a-housewife-to-murder/70987/Raphael, John. The Caillaux Drama (London: Max Goschen Ltd., 1914). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52680/52680-h/52680-h.htmSimkin, John. “Henriette Caillaux.” Spartacus Educational, September 1997. https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWcaillauxH.htmUdovic, Edward. “Famous Prisoners of Saint-Lazare: Henriette Caillaux.” DePaul Vincentian Collections. https://resources.depaul.edu/vincentian-collections/story/footnotes/Pages/Caillaux.aspxWilde, Robert. “Belle Époque or the ‘Beautiful Age’ in France.” ThoughtCo. 30 January 2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-belle-epoque-beautiful-age-1221300Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In the very early hours of September 9, 1739, a group of slaves digging a drainage ditch for the Stono River near Charleston, South Carolina, decided to break into a general store for a drink to celebrate their hard (and unpaid) work. The events that followed culminated in the largest and bloodiest slave rebellion in colonial American history.Sources:“Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade.” Enslaved Peoples of Historical Slave Trade, 31 May, 2013. https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-92889/. Hoffer, Peter Charles. Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).Mutti-Burke, Diane. “What the Stono Revolt Can Teach Us About History.” H-South, H-Net Reviews. October, 2006. Niven, Steven J. “The Stono Slave Rebellion Was Nearly Erased From US History Books.” The Root, February 22, 2016. https://www.theroot.com/the-stono-slave-rebellion-was-nearly-erased-from-us-his-1790854336. “Resource Bank Contents.” Africans in America. Public Broadcasting Service, n.d. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/index.html. Smith, Mark M., ed. Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005).“The Stono Rebellion.” Bill of Rights Institute. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-stono-rebellion. “The Stono Rebellion: Crash Course Black American History #6- YouTube.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pND-9KhM1Xw. “Two Views of the Stono Slave Rebellion South Carolina, 1739.” Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763. National Humanities Center. http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text4/stonorebellion.pdf. Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

The 2010 discovery of a skull in broadcaster David Attenborough's backyard finally closed a 130-year-old case that enraged Victorian London. When a box of boiled and mutilated human remains washed up on the bank of the Thames in southwest London in 1879, no one could have imagined who was responsible for the heinous act. When police finally arrested the Barnes Mystery murderer, Victorian Britain became disgusted and enraged, but mostly terrified. How well does anyone really know the people they allow into the safety of their home? Sources:"The Jury of Matrons." First Hundred Years. 27 June, 2016. https://first100years.org.uk/the-jury-of-matrons/"Kate Webster - The 'Barnes Mystery'" Capital Punishment- U.K.. http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/webster.htmlKontur, Daniel, director. Murder Maps: The Richmond Case. Dark Crimes, 2020. 43 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWn1r00E5zMMcKinnell, Ellie. "The Victorian murder victim whose skull was found in David Attenborough's Richmond garden." MyLondon News. 2 September, 2019.https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/victorian-murder-victim-whos-skull-16838132O'Donnell, Elliot. The Trial of Kate Webster. (William Hodge & Company, Ltd.: Glasgow, 1925).Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 February 2022), June 1879, trial of CATHERINE WEBSTER (29) (t18790630-653)."Trial, sentence & execution of Kate Webster for the murder of Mrs Thomas, at Richmond" London, 1879.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

Count Francesco Cenci, a 16th-century Roman nobleman, had a long record of cruel and violent behavior. In September of 1598, villagers found the count's body in a ravine at the bottom of his castle. His family claimed that he accidentally fell from the castle's balcony, but the inconsistencies in their stories led the villagers of La Petrella to believe that Francesco had not died by accident. Had Francesco's beautiful 21-year-old daughter Beatrice Cenci finally tire of her father's abuse and have him murdered?Sources:"Beatrice Cenci" Murderpedia. https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cenci-beatrice.htmGuerrazzi, Francesco Domenico. Beatrice Cenci: Storia del secolo XVI. (Pisa, 1854). Jack, Belinda. Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci  (New York: Other Press, 2005.)The New York Times"Beatrice Cenci Rescued From Prejudice and Myth" 20 December, 1925."The Legend of Beatrice Cenci Disproved by New Facts." 22 July, 1923.Nicholl, Charles. "Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci." The London Review of Books. 2 July, 1998. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n13/charles-nicholl/screaming-in-the-castle-the-case-of-beatrice-cenci"The Rack." Torture Museum. http://torturemuseum.net/en/the-rack/Ricci, Corrado. Trans. Morris Bishop and Henry Longan Stuart. Beatrice Cenci. Vol. 1 &2. (London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd., 1925).Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts. (London : C and J Ollier Vere street, Bond street, 1821).Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

In 1864, a small city in southern Brazil witnessed what many have called “the greatest crime on earth.” The legend of what occurred in a Porto Alegre slum still haunts the city to this day, as do many questions. Is the crime true, or is it simply national folklore? Did the famous biologist Charles Darwin really comment on these murders as he read about them an ocean away? And, how much do we really know about what is in the food we consume?Sources:ANB. “Human sausage in 1863 Porto Alegre (no, really! true story)” Repository. 24 August 2010. http://random-anb.blogspot.com/2010/08/human-sausage-in-1863-porto-alegre-no.htmlArvoredo Street Crimes. 7 November, 2013. https://crimesdaruadoarvoredo-blogspot-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=scBayer, Diego Augusto. “Crimes on Rua do Arvoredo: sausages made from human flesh- Historical Judgments” Jusbrasil. 9 May 2017. https://diegobayer-jusbrasil-com-br.translate.goog/artigos/456091552/crimes-da-rua-do-arvoredo-as-linguicas-de-carne-humana?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc“The crimes of Rua do Arvoredo: sausages made from human flesh” Litera. https://litera-mus-br.translate.goog/os-crimes-da-rua-do-arvoredo-as-linguicas-de-carne-humana/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=scDe Lucena, Eleonora. “The Greatest Crime on Earth” Folha de S. Paulo. 23 November, 1996. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1996/11/23/opiniao/4.htmlFonseca, Jose. “A Brief History of Brazil.” The New York Times, 2006. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/fodors/top/features/travel/destinations/centralandsouthamerica/brazil/riodejaneiro/fdrs_feat_129_9.html?n=Top%252FFeatures%252FTravel%252FDestinations%252FCentral+and+South+America%252FBrazil%252FRio+de+JaneiroGearini, Victoria. “THE UNUSUAL CRIMES OF RUA DO ARVOREDO, IN PORTO ALEGRE” Aventuras na Historia. 8 December 2021. https://aventurasnahistoria-uol-com-br.translate.goog/noticias/reportagem/os-insolitos-crimes-da-rua-do-arvoredo-em-porto-alegre.phtml?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc“History - Porto Alegre, From Past to Present” About Brasil. http://www.aboutbrasil.com/modules/brazil-brasil/rio-de-janeiro_sao-paulo_fortaleza.php?hoofd=3&sub=19&art=197James. “The Crimes of Rua do Arvoredo.” Blogspot. 20 July, 2012. https://oscrimesdaruadoarvoredo-blogspot-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=sc“Jose Ramos and Catarina Palse in 1864 Porto Alegre” Fuck n’Words. 2012. https://fucknwords.tumblr.com/post/13297328110/jos%C3%A9-ramos-e-catarina-palse-em-1864-porto-alegre“Porto Alegre, Brazil” Sustainable Cities. 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100605214840/http://sustainablecities.net/plusnetwork/plus-cities/porto-alegre-brazil Rubi. “The Crimes of the Rua do Arvoredo.” Blogspot. 16 January, 2009. https://oscrimesdaruadoarvoredo-blogspot-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=sc“The Sausage Murders” The Horror Tree. 5 May, 2013. http://thehorrortree.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20storyWeber, Jessica Rebeca. “No human sausage: crimes on Rua do Arvoredo inspire coffee project in the Historic Center” GZH Porto Alegre. 31 October 2019. https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/porto-alegre/noticia/2019/10/sem-linguica-humana-crimes-da-rua-do-arvoredo-inspiram-projeto-de-cafe-no-centro-historico-ck26or65w09vs01r2azf48z3s.htmlMusic: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com

New York's Adirondack Mountains have long been praised for their tranquility and restorative powers on the body and soul. But in 1906, a tragedy shattered this illusion and brought a girl’s heartbreak to the front page of newspapers across the country. Sources:Brandon, Craig. Murder in the Adirondacks: An American Tragedy Revisited. (Utica: North Country Books, 2003).Brownell, Joseph W. and Wawrzaszek, Patricia A.,  Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906. (Heart of the Lake Publishing, 1906).The Daily Sentinel. “‘Poor Little Girl’ Said the World.” March 26, 1908.Herman, Susan N., “People v. Gillette and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy: Law v. Literature.” Judicial Notice. Issue 11. 2016.The Post Standard. “Made No Effort to Save Drowning Girl, Gillette Confesses.” December 1, 1906.“Chester E. Gillette Guilty of Murder in First Degree: Verdict Found in Five Hours.” December 5, 1906.“Chester Gillette Dies To-Day in the Electric Chair.” March 30, 1908.“First Shock Sends Slayer into Eternity.” March 31, 1908.Schechter, Harold. Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes. (New York: Little A, 2020).The Syracuse Herald.“Girl Drowned; Escort Missing,” July 13, 1906The Washington Times. “Gillette Pays Death Penalty for his Crime.” March 30, 1908.The Westbury Evening Democrat. March 30, 1908.Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

In 1899, Allen Britt did Frankie Baker wrong. The consequence of his betrayal was murder and a ragtime song from St. Louis that became a cherished part of American folklore. Sources:“Britt, Allen [Frankie and Johnny],” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2234.Cooperman, Jeanette. “The story of segregation in St. Louis.” St. Louis Magazine. October 17, 2014. https://www.stlmag.com/news/the-color-line-race-in-st.-louis/Merkel, Jim. “THIS WEEK IN SOUTHSIDE HISTORY: 1899 shooting here may have inspired famous song” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 16, 2008. https://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/metro/news/this-week-in-south-side-history-1899-shooting-here-may-have-inspired-famous-song/article_5e2ce4d4-6cb0-53ba-8665-746a9b0ba0d4.htmlMorgan, Stacy. Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017).“Murder Ballads (A visit to a bad neighborhood) Part 2.” Riverside Blues Society. https://trueblueser.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/murder-ballads-a-visit-to-a-bad-neighborhood-part-2/Smith, Jessie Carney. Ed. Encyclopedia of African American Culture. Vol. 1. (Oxford: Greenwood, 2011.)St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 19, 1899.“Contends Targee Street Frankie is One Done Wrong.” October 14, 1939.“Frankie’s Inquest Story in ‘99 to be Used in Suit.” October 16, 1939.“Al’s Friend Says Frankie Just an Ordinary Girl.” October 21, 1939.October 28, 1939.“George Britt Testifies Al a Good Boy.” November 11, 1939.“Shot Her Man at 212 Targee Frankie Says.” February 13, 1942.“Testifies ‘Frankie’ Ballad May Stem Back to Africa.” February 18, 1942.“Frankie Says She Hopes Her Man is in Heaven Now.” February 20, 1942.“Frankie Loses Again.” February 25, 1942.“Lovers’ Spat Turns into Famous Ballad.” October 17, 2010.Young, Perry Deane. The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged? (New York: ASJA Press, 2005.)Music: Dellasera by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com