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In the summer of 1914, someone shot through the window of a Long Island doctor’s office, killing a woman inside. When investigators found a dictaphone installed inside the office, they began to suspect the doctor’s jealous wife, who claimed to have been upstairs the evening in question. When the wife’s alibi changed her testimony, Americans had to decide whether to believe the jealous wife or the black maid who contradicted her. Who was the woman in white seen outside the doctor's office just before Lulu Bailey was murdered?

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Sources:
“Freeport History Encyclopedia.” Freeport Memorial Library. https://libguides.freeportlibrary.info/c.php?g=494599&p=3384485
Hamilton, Marybeth. When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Kemp, Kathryn W. “‘The Dictograph Hears All’: An Example of Surveillance Technology in the Progressive Era” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 6, No. 4. October 2007. Pp. 409-430
Philibert-Ortega, Gena. “Investigating the Murder Mystery of Louise Bailey with Newspapers.” Genealogy Bank. 28 June, 2013. https://blog.genealogybank.com/investigating-the-murder-mystery-of-louise-bailey-with-newspapers.html
Selnes, Bill. “George Morton Levy Lawyer.” Mysteries and More From Saskatchewan. 3 August, 2016. https://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2016/08/george-morton-levy-lawyer.html
Newspapers:
The New York Times (July 1914- May 1915)
The Day Book. 20 October, 1914
The Evening World. 8 May 1915
The Medford Mail Tribune. 5 May 1915
The Tacoma Times, 29 May 1915


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Before Jack the Ripper, there was the Servant Girl Annihilator. The man who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885, preying upon the city’s black servant girls. When he targeted two white women in a shocking Christmas Eve attack, all hell broke loose. 
Who was this servant girl killer, and was he the same man that terrorized London in 1888?


Sources:
Galloway, J. R. The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885 (BookLocker, 2010) and the book’s website https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/
History Detectives- HDSI- Texas Servant Girl Murders, 2014. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-hdsi-texas-servant-girl-murders/ 
Hollandsworth, Skip. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer (Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2015) 
and “Capital Murder” Texas Monthly, July 2000. https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/
Psencik, Katey. “The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin’s oldest unsolved murder case.” KVUE. 7 November, 2014. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hidden-austin/the-servant-girl-annihilator-austins-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/269-260196137


Original Sources: 
Burt, Dr. W. J. “Autopsy Report for Susan Hancock, 1885” 29 December 1885. 
Susan Hancock Inquest. 29 December, 1885.
State of Texas v. James O Phillips, 1886.


Newspaper Articles: 
The Fort Worth Daily Gazette, The New York Times, The Austin Weekly Statesman


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A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.
"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874
McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).


Broadsides:
Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)
Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 
The Stepney murder ; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesliyan Studios & the original by Viriginia Liston


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A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.
"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874
McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).


Broadsides-
Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)
Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 
The Stepney murder; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)



Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesliyan Studios & the original by Virginia Liston


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A decade-old murder mystery unravels when a secret is discovered in a Los Angeles attic. Even in 1930, the press declared the mystery of Dolly and the Bat Man Slayer as"Los Angeles' most startling murder story."


Sources:
Hapsis, Emmanuel. "Meet Walburga, the Married Woman Who Hid a Secret Lover in Her Attic for a Decade." KQED. 29 June, 2016. https://www.kqed.org/pop/27643/meet-walburga-the-married-woman-who-hid-a-secret-lover-in-her-attic-for-a-decade
Lardinois, Anna. "The Legend of Milwaukee's Most Infamous Love Triangle." Milwaukee Mag. 13 April, 2021. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-legend-of-milwaukees-most-infamous-love-triangle/
Noe, Denise. "Otto Sanhuber: The Man in the Attic Case." Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/otto_sanhuber/1.html
Rabe, John. "The Murderous Lover Who Lived In A Silver Lake Attic. A True Story." LAist. 15 April, 2022. https://laist.com/news/la-history/hidden-history-of-la-the-murderous-lover-who-lived-in-a-silver-lake-attic 
Rasmussen, Cecilia. "'Bat Man' Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death." Los Angeles Times. 20 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-me-44878-story.html
Startling Detective Adventures. Vol. 5, No. 26. (Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Louisville). July 1930.
Los Angeles Times (Issues from 1922-1930)


Music: Credits to Fesilyan Studios, Holizna, and the original by Virginia Liston.


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In the summer of 1933, 18-year-old Violette Noziere poisoned her parents before heading out to enjoy the Parisian nightlife. When she was arrested and gave the motive for her crime, Violette scandalized the country.


Sources:
Breton, Andre. Violette Nozieres (Brussels: Editions Nicolas Flamel, 1933).
Maza, Sarah. Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
Reynolds, Sian. France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics (London: Routledge, 1996).
Traub, Courtney. “La Coupole, a Montparnasse Brasserie Haunted With Artistic History.” Paris Unlocked. 10 October, 2023. https://www.parisunlocked.com/best-of-paris/inside-la-coupole-a-montparnasse-brasserie-haunted-with-artistic-history/
Warner, Judith. “The Murder that Transfixed 1930s Paris.” Book Review - Violette Noziere. New York Times. 3 June, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-violette-noziere-by-sarah-maza.html


Music: Credits to David Fesilyan 


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