Episodes

  • Almon and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 3)

    Almon and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 3)
    Mar 13 2020

    Duxbury, 1880. Following the discovery of the body, a woman and her son stand trial for the murder of Alice Meaker.
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    48 mins
  • Atherton and Almon (Alice Meaker, Part 2)

    Atherton and Almon (Alice Meaker, Part 2)
    Mar 13 2020

    Duxbury, 1880. A Sheriff’s Deputy searches for the missing Alice Meaker and a suspect agrees to lead him to the body. A story of two late night carriage-rides into the Little River district of Waterbury, culminating in an awful discovery.
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    33 mins
  • Alice and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 1)

    Alice and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 1)
    Mar 13 2020

    Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.
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    30 mins
  • Agnes Willis: The Cherry Court Murder

    Agnes Willis: The Cherry Court Murder
    Dec 19 2019
    December 11, 1899 dawned gray and cold, rain blowing in waves with the winds up Cherry Street. Agnes Willis spent the day at work as a “scrub woman,” or cleaner, before meeting up with Gilbert Farmer and returning with him to her Cherry Street tenement. They took supper with the neighbors. A blade was needed to cut the chicken and Gilbert offered up his knife, a folding dirk. Its edge glittered. Sources: Guyette, Elise A. Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890. University Press of New England, 2010. Williamson, Jane. “African Americans in Addison County, Charlotte, and Hinesburgh, Vermont, 1790–1860.” Vermont History Vol. 78 No. 1: 15-42, 2010. Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “African Americans in Burlington, Vermont, 1880–1900.” Vermont History Vol. 75, No. 2: 101-123, 2007.
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    32 mins
  • In the Barn: Luman & Alma Smith

    In the Barn: Luman & Alma Smith
    Nov 1 2019
    It’s early afternoon, not yet two o’clock on October 23, 1879, when Luman Smith returns to his farm in Williston. His little girl runs out to meet him and they go to the barn together, talking of this or that, then turning at the sound of footsteps, his father-in-law coming over.
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    36 mins
  • The Suncook Town Tragedy (Marietta Ball, Part 2)

    The Suncook Town Tragedy (Marietta Ball, Part 2)
    Oct 8 2019
    October 6, 1875. Wednesday morning in St. Albans and Aldis Brainerd is reading the paper. He’s at his house on North Main Street or at his offices in the Brainerd Block. He’s taking breakfast, perhaps, or sitting at his desk when he unfolds The Daily Messenger to its second page, a headline reading: Another New Hampshire Horror A School Girl Outraged & Murdered
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    40 mins
  • The East Hill Murder (Marietta Ball, Part 1)

    The East Hill Murder (Marietta Ball, Part 1)
    Sep 23 2019
    On Friday, July 24, 1874, Marietta Ball dismissed her class and closed up the No 2 schoolhouse. As usual she intended to pass the weekend with Clara Paige and left directly from the school, carrying her nightdress, slippers, and underclothes in a bundle under arm.
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    32 mins
  • The Murder of Perry Russell

    The Murder of Perry Russell
    Sep 4 2019
    The moon was in the window. The bedroom swam silver in its light.  Half-past eight o’clock on October 3, 1868, and Hannah Russell lay awake, her husband Perry beside her. He slept deeply and didn’t stir, though wind shook the roof-slates and rattled the shutters and somebody rapped at the side-door. 
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    29 mins