Should Connecticut's Witch Trial Victims be Exonerated‪?‬ Witch Hunt

Description
Retired police officer Tony Griego and Author Beth Caruso return with witch trial advocate and historic tour guide Mary-Louise Bingham.  We discuss the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project's efforts to clear the names of those accused of witchcraft in colonial Connecticut.
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Citations
John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England 
Paul B. Moyer, Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern 
Cotton Mather Magnalia Christi Americana
CT State Library Samuel Wyllys Papers
CT State HIstorian Walter W. Woodward


Links
Windsor Historical Society
State Representative Jane Garibay
Please sign the petition to exonerate those accused of witchcraft in Connecticut
Mary-Louise Bingham’s YouTube video at Proctor's Ledge about Connecticut victims
CT W.I.T.C.H. Memorial
Salem Witch-Hunt
The Witch Trials Hysteria History of the American Colonies 
Diana DiZoglio Senate Floor Speech Exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson, Jr. 05/26/22
AfAW


Historical Sites with witch trial ties
First Church in Windsor
Connecticut's Old State House
Barnard Park also known as South Green
Hartford Ancient Burial Ground


Activism Timeline:
2005: “ad hoc committee”
2008/2009 attempted legislation
2016 CT W.I.T.C.H. Memorial  Witch Interrogations Trials Colonial Hangings
2022 Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project


Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast links
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