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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.stm


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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/



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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/



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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._Kelly
Colnaghi, 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.html
Duke, 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-charlton


Newspapers (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.com
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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.pdf
Bowman, 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.pdf
Burnett, 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.html
Freedman, 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/


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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 Hemings
A 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_Page


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