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The Black Sisters and the Murder of Ocey Snead | Morbid | Podcast

December 04, 2023 / 01:30:54

This episode covers the tragic and mysterious case of OC Sneed, the strange behavior of her family, and the eventual murder trial of her mother and aunts. Key discussions include the background of OC Sneed, the suspicious deaths in her family, and the bizarre actions of her mother Caroline and aunts Virginia and Mary.

OC Sneed, born in 1885, faced a troubled upbringing with a father who had a controversial past. The episode highlights the family's history of tragedy, including the suspicious deaths of OC's brother and father, which raised eyebrows about possible motives for financial gain through life insurance.

As the story unfolds, OC's mother Caroline and her aunts exhibit increasingly strange behavior, including dressing in black and engaging in odd rituals. Their treatment of OC worsens, leading to her eventual decline in health and the birth of her children, both of whom face tragic fates.

The episode reveals how OC's family took out multiple life insurance policies on her and how they manipulated her circumstances to benefit financially. The police investigation into OC's death uncovers a web of deceit, leading to the arrest of Caroline, Virginia, and Mary.

Ultimately, the episode concludes with the trial of the sisters, the shocking revelations about their actions, and the tragic end of OC's life, leaving listeners with a haunting tale of family betrayal and greed.

TLDR

The episode recounts the tragic murder of OC Sneed by her mother and aunts, revealing a web of deceit and family betrayal.

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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid this is morbid and oh boy is it a
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doozy that I have for you today you always get this certain look in your eyes when you're about to really [ __ ] me
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up story just I have oh even Mikey is making a face he's like oh it's I mean Dave when
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we were talking about it was like why is this not its own like movie series like
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it's a wild tale oh no there's so much to it n and like a lot of mystery but it's just really really intense so okay
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you know I think you need to buckle up for it but uh hold on to your butts hold on to those butts but before we get into
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it I just want to say um we got to go on stage with pod Meats world it was the coolest thing I think we've ever gotten
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to do we got to hang out with tapanga Eric and Shan from Bo meets worlds Harley and [ __ ] Harley ker and
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they are just the nicest people I'm telling you you know that whole thing we say it all the time we're like oh you
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always get scared you're like don't meet your Heroes don't do it cuz they can disappoint you and like Meet Your Heroes
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I was I'm just always scared cuz I'm like I I just really hope this doesn't like you know just like blow up in our
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telling you they were the sweetest people truly I like I'm 37 years old you guys know how many times I reference
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like Sabrina the Teenage Witch boy means it's always those too yeah it's always those that just like I go right back to
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cuz they were literally my adolescence and walking into a room and seeing just the squad Sean Hunter Tanga and Eric
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yeah just sitting there you were you acted you acted cool thank you for saying that because inside of my body
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was a [ __ ] a fright see I know that because I know you but like if you didn't know you I don't think you could
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tell also they all give really good handshake they do they give a strong handshake and they look you in the eye
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yes papa always taught me you give a strong handshake cuz nobody likes a little fishy nobody likes a little
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Sloppy Fish hand I was so impressed by all their handshakes they're just really kind people they're hilarious so funny
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very like welcoming it was a lot of fun sitting on a couch next to Eric I was like I don't just unal what the [ __ ]
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happened here so invited us to ice cream he did i' I'm still not over any of this
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and we're going we're going and oh well if you're walking Sammy oh hey hey and also hey to your wife Sue because she
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was awesome she was so sweet but she had swag too I loved her outfit yeah they were great and it's like and so this is
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all also to say like the only reason we are able to do this stuff is cuz you guys listen to this show which is still
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wild uh thanks for that thank you a lot cuz like that was a really cool experience weirdos making dreams and I
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only had it because of you guys so appreciate and apprciate should we tell them how it made us feel on
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stage made us feel some type of way it made us feel like maybe we wanted to do a show like a HomeTown show a HomeTown
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show not a tour yeah I we will not tour I'm about to be a wetted woman uh and you have like 70 kids I have three but
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similar honestly it feels like three kids and two dogs equates to 70 children you know what correct do yes you were
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right the first time trust me I've been here uh but yeah I think we want to do a
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HomeTown show we got the bug next year so we'll let we'll keep you guys updated on that so yeah definitely next year at
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some point it was just really fun to have to sneeze to go out there I wanted to warn you so that I
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appreciate that I have to sneeze yeah it was just really fun but um thanks to pod meets worlds thanks to
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all of them and thanks to you guys and thanks to everybody that was an awesome experience and again you guys are the
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best you guys are the uh I'm going to ruin your life with this story so I'm sorry that that I'm taking you here you
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should get a shirt that says that I'm going to ruin your life with this story so I'm sorry cuz I the amount of times
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you've said that to me in my life even about like things that are that we don't talk about on the show you're like I got
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a story that's going to R life or I'm like I have a fact that's going to and if I have to know it you have to know it
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now like I do that to John daily did I ever tell you guys about the time that Elena looked at me and she goes the sun
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could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know yeah if the sun explodes we won't won't know for8 minutes and I'm
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not going to be alone in knowing that no now you all know that love you and you're also going to have to
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know about the horrific case of ocne okay uh this is an older one but I promise you it's not lacking in uh drama
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okay so the death of OC Sneed in East Orange New Jersey what's up New Jersey oh um it was an it was an undeniable
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track tragedy but her death was really only be the beginning of what would become one of the early 20th Century's
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truly most captivating crime stories oh man like it's pulled directly out of the
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pages of some kind of like classic southern gothic horror novel got a lot of elements and like any
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good Gothic Horror Story the trial that followed was also full of unbelievable twists and ended up culminating in a
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pretty shocking conclusion really yeah I feel like we've had a a few cases where
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there's been like gnarly trials lately yeah usually a lot of times the olds the older cases have some Wy trials yeah cuz
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I feel like different things were admissible back then and like they tried to get away with different kinds of [ __ ]
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[ __ ] exactly and they had to change laws and [ __ ] yeah yeah all right so let's
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first begin with OC who is OC sne tell me now like many aspects of this story OC's date of birth and several other you
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know details about her are kind of shrouded in a little bit of mystery the 1900s of it all yeah she was born in New
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York New York in September of 1885 I don't know exactly what date it was we couldn't find one a Virgo exactly we
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couldn't find one that we felt comfortable being like this is definitely her birthday uh her name was
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oana wardlaw Martin that's a really pretty name I know oana yeah uh she was the daughter of Caroline
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wardlaw and Colonel Robert Maxwell Martin who who was a very celebrated conet Confederate veteran of the
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American Civil War now from the perspective of his Confederate peers got to be clear about
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that let let's be clear Robert Martin was a war hero oh again remember perspective is everything uh he served
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in many key battles in the war war he was severely wounded while saving the life of General John Hunt Morgan but
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managed to survive and went on to lead the Confederate plot to burn New York City oh fun when their attempt to uh
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burn New York City ultimately failed yeah it didn't work out cuz uh I don't know if you guys know it but uh New York
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City's still there still standing um he led an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice President Andrew Johnson wow he for
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that was eventually captured and imprisoned um and he was released from prison when the war ended and moved back
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to the South where he made and lost a fortune in the tobacco industry real interesting fell this one I guess
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so now it was during this post-war period that he met and married Caroline wardlaw now Roberts still had a fortune
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like he ended up he was never he was never in Dire Straits here um and Robert supervised the construction of a large
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mansion in Wilder Park Kentucky in the early 1880s tragedy struck because the family Mansion burned to the ground
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under suspicious circumstances that's ironic yeah I know the couple lived for a short amount of time in a much smaller
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house on the grounds of the Mansion but that quickly became a little unsustainable following the birth of the
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couple's first child okay so Robert relocated the family to New York City and Caroline gave birth to OSI oana in
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the fall of 1885 what a weird thing to like go live in the city that you plan to burn down yeah it's a little strange
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yes that is a little strange uh there was a brief period of success and calm for the family until about 1900 when
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tragedy struck again oh no that's when Robert's son died from brain fever intis oh uh that's what they used to call in
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sephtis um it he died after so he he has he had in sephtis and that's what he died from but it was after a
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particularly bad fall down the stairs in their home in New York do you think that
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could have had something to do with it people don't know what happened there okay can you also remind me what
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incilius is please um it's like inflammation of the brain oh okay so that's why they call it brain fever
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gotcha gotcha um like the fire that destroyed the family home in Kentucky before the circumstances under which you
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know the Robert's son died were somewhat suspicious okay I'm catching on to a theme here if you will what's more
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suspicious was the speed at which his father collected a payout from the 2200 ,000 life insurance policy damn and
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that's 20 when they could uh they could use money mhm they could have used money
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like it came in interesting timing yeah which it seems like insurance policies in this story come at man they just come
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at the right time dude insurance policies that's they're always on time they freak me out now that $22,000 life
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insurance policy now would be $700,000 holy [ __ ] sizable yeah I mean even just
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$22,000 like $700,000 that's on another level baby and it's like so there's a lot there now
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despite this and it all just went to plan despite this the insurance payout allowed the family to move to a much
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nicer home on Fifth Avenue actually imagine that 0 Fifth Avenue Silver Linings I guess yeah um unfortunately
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the excitement of the new home wouldn't last long before tragedy struck again because only a few months after moving
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in Neighbors heard a commotion coming from the Martin house and they ran over to see what was happening and found
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Robert had suffered a paralytic stroke and was being attended by a rather stern-looking Caroline his wife okay who
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immediately told her hysterical daughter OSI not to speak okay so was that like a stroke or
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was that something else you can't see me but I'm shrugging she's the shrug Emoji
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I don't know Robert did hold on for a little while and ended up living for a short period of time in very bad health
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and then finally ended up succumbing and dying on January 12th 1901 it's just weird that she told her daughter not to
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say anything cuz like what would she have to say if he was just having a stroke what would she have to say I
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wonder me as now following Robert's death Caroline packed up her daughter and moved them both back to her hometown
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of Murphreesboro Tennessee okay that's where Caroline's sister Virginia was actually in charge of the Murphreesboro
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Soul female college where Caroline's other sister she had two sisters Mary was a member of The Faculty cool so
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Virginia is the president of the school Mary run is part of the faculty Caroline
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hadn't let them know that she was coming but they took her in right away and they
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found her a job as the school's new bookkeeper so they're all working at this school together now it seems by all
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accounts that Virginia and Mary's existence at the school before this were fairly normal uh oh uh Su female college
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was touted as providing quote a traditional Southern education for women in cultural studies and social Grace oo
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social Grace now Virginia was named president of the school in 1892 and the school really thrived under her
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leadership and became very highly acclaimed she was well respected she ran the pro program with discipline with
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honor according to all who knew her at the time she was she was brought into this position because because of her the
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respect people had for her wow now Virginia had spent her adult life as what people called a spinster and
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focused on her responsibilities at school that was what she she really focused on AKA a boss [ __ ] yeah for now
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for now just gonna say I don't know anything I don't know what happens so yeah okay statement um and Mary had
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raised two sons and when they had grown and married she joined the faculty at school so everybody seemed like they had
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you know taken a good path okay again seem to be killing it then Caroline arrives okay Caroline seems to be the
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issue here the arrival of Caroline was like a weird reset button and no one really understood why like again
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everything seemed to be going pretty chill people said the sisters like Mary and Virginia could be like I just said
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Virginia you did uh I didn't mean to say that Virginia Virginia uh they seemed they were like a little strange but like
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okay but relatively you know they weren't like problematic or anything you know like they were just living you know
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existing okay but Mary in Virginia completely changed when Court Caroline showed up the three sisters began
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dressing in all black together what and wearing heavy Black Veils all the time what the [ __ ] just out of nowhere all of
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a sudden we're like yep COV like up and they were just like boom literally like a the [ __ ] and people were uh curious
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about this one might be more curious though was the very marked change in their behavior um once they were once
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known to keep very ordinary schedules they were you know a president of a female college and a part of the faculty
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after all it's not like they were doing these crazy things yeah but the sisters now had a habit of going out very late
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at night in the middle of the night and more disturbingly began entering students homes or rooms as they slept to
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just stand and stare at them no shut the [ __ ] up why this is not real this is real what the [ __ ] they would literally
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break into students rooms while they were sleeping and stand and stare at them for why I do not know what the [ __ ]
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there's some weird cult thing happening here something's going on because they also hired a driver to drop them off at
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Evergreen Cemetery every evening where they were said to carry on with strange rituals enchanting honestly [ __ ]
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metal as [ __ ] if you take the b& out of it yeah exactly that's what I said I was
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like up to this point like take the b& out of it and I'm like go off Queens like this is cool but man do they take
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it somewhere oh God and people saw them dancing around Graves and all manner of odd behavior and just like they would
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and later you'll see like the behavior gets even stranger they would like move people out of classrooms and into other
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classrooms and move them back and like they were just being weird it's never explained why they did this
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no what well and the thing is in 1904 the obvious and very dramatic and strange change in Mary and Virginia's
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Behavior was very unsettling to the students of Soul female college who had known them forever right as like pretty
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normal pretty normal and very disciplined and like you know respectful people yeah and one account said
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frightened students started to leave the school and it wasn't long before the school was in chaos and The Black
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Sisters as they were known to be called were asked to leave oh I mean yeah I I do understand why they were leave the
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the school was losing money left and right students were literally leaving the school because of their behavior
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because they're waking up in the middle of the night to nut ladies at the foot of their bed they're being beaned by the
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Supreme witch in her Coven in the middle of the night like that's a lot to handle there were also rumors that
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Caroline was maybe pocketing some money from the school okay allegedly now fortunately no she is not
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now fortunately the sister's great aunt oana polock who needed help at Montgomery female
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college in Virginia okay so she looked at this whole like them leaving in disgrace thing as like ah it's fine so
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she invited them all to join her she's like you're just cooky yeah it's okay they don't get you I love how Chic you
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are no when Virginia came to run the program it was like she fell back into her old ways her old ways of teaching
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her old ways of running things everything was great Virginia was back she was like oh I know I'm I'm kooky but
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like I'm back okay and it felt like okay the school is a boarding school in one program Des described it as the
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remarkable Purity and healthfulness of the atmosphere render the location peculiarly eligible for a seat of
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learning hot so I guess it's a great place to learn it sounds great but but Mary came after Virginia she joined the
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faculty and everything was still okay they seemed to fall back into their old things seems like Caroline's the common
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denominator here then Caroline joined I'm sorry all I can think of is the outcast song Caroline Caroline that's
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literally like she joins and it's like oh [ __ ] like [ __ ] and the thing is Caroline joined with osie her daughter
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okay and things [ __ ] up again what power did this woman have over her sisters I don't know she is the Supreme
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think she might be because apparently Caroline was in charge of administration she was put right in charge of
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administration that's and she messed with the curriculum immediately and this is when she began the strange behavior
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of like moving students from classroom to classroom like during the day for no reason just ripping them out of a
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classroom putting them in another then moving them back like she was just doing weird stuff and she would put like
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several padlocks on random doors what so it made people like very un unnerved and
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like unsettled cuz they're like what the [ __ ] behind that door and like why are
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there three pad locks on it what the [ __ ] and then they were doing the same peekaboo routine with sister with the
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sisters and the residance Halls they're breaking in yeah like doing the same like woo I'm just looking in on you what
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the [ __ ] ladies so everybody just fell back into the old like strange [ __ ] I
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need an answer you won't get one I need I require one I also kind of required one but I wasn't given one like why the
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[ __ ] did like history will not give me an answer God damn Caroline is OC's mom
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marrying Virginia's sister she's the problem gotcha it's her she's the problem she the problem Caroline uh so
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Caroline ended up visiting Mary's son John Sneed okay who was her nephew oh the look in your eye tells me we in
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danger oh God I'm so upset your weird face right now I'm so nervous Reports say she quote unquote caused trouble and
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quote unquote interfered in John's marriage that just means that she didn't like his
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wife and she said get out of here right totally nothing else happened right what
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happened here I don't know what does it mean what does it mean what does it mean
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there are even reports that John told the neighbors and I quote that he wouldn't let her wreck his
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home okay I don't know if you've ever heard of the term home wrecker I sure have I
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sure have I'm sorry what oh no there's a lot of uh when you read about this particular time in this in
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this story nothing's outwardly said but it's all said well because they didn't say
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[ __ ] like that there it's it's she was so was she trying to wreck the home and
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he wouldn't let her so while she was she was interfering and you know while she was interfering and not wrecking her
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nephew's Home Gross um she was trying to convince him to come teach at Montgomery
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female college in Virginia with all of them and leave his wife uhhuh and he refused at first he
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was like no yeah I'm not going to run away with my aunt stop I don't like it I'm not going to do that but she
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returned a couple of weeks later and uh interfered again and this time her uh interference convinced him to leave his
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[ __ ] wife Anna she a cosmo article come with her and he did he came with her and left Anna just abandoned her you
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know what Anna was better off yeah apparently Anna had like struggled though I guess like she had some yeah
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too if my man's left me for his aunt yeah it really did a number so curiously though Jon became seriously injured on
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the way back to Virginia oh no he fell or was pushed that's strange from the train as it approached Rowan Oak oh
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Rowan o he survived but weeks later he was found almost drowned in a sistern on the school's campus by his aunt Virginia
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and his aunt Virginia was like oh don't worry he was checking the water supply for the school oops don't worry that he
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fell in there and the lid went over and I'm the one who found him yeah don't worry about that he managed to survive
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that how does Mary feel about all this isn't that her kid uh I don't think any of them are mother of the year I would
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say uh but he managed to survive that and then one week later he was found on fire in his
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bed what the [ __ ] is happening here this man was on fire in his bed he was doused
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with kerosene oh my God but they claimed it was an accident and who found him who
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found him uh Caroline of course was his aunts of course how do you accidentally douse someone in
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kerosene you don't uh where are where are where are we is correct I don't I've quite literally never heard a tale such
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as this it is this is for reals this is for real legend no the newspapers to back this up there's trials to back this
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up I would also like to put this out here I had never heard of this case and then a one Mikey you found this was the
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one to bring this up and I said holy [ __ ] yeah where the [ __ ] did you find this
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in the depths of hell I to say he said in Hell In Hell in Hades what the [ __ ] it is a
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tale that just keeps you guessing till the very end but I want answers I need concrete answers and unfortunately in
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the beginning it's like wild and kooky and like it starts getting really dark and then it gets dark at the end so it's
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like in the beginning you're like what is happening and then at the end you're like what the [ __ ] happened like you're
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just like oh God keep going so yeah so keep going going so his aunts are the one who called that in now remember he
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fell from a trained approaching Rowan Oak that Caroline was on weird he almost drowned in a sistern on campus where
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Virginia found him coincidence and then he was lit on fire with kerosene in his bed and his aunts were the ones who
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found him like Virginia and Caroline interesting that Mary's never around Mar's just like whoopsie now following
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his death the sisters all three of them collected uh an insurance payout those [ __ ] love insurance which they had
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taken out so strange now in 1906 around the time of John sneed's unexpected and very tragic death because he died after
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the fire obviously sure did um Caroline paid a visit to his brother Fletcher her
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other nephew stop I love the name Fletcher um he was still living in Tennessee he this is Mary's other son
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her other NE neew Caroline explained that there would be some family property near Chattanooga that needed looking
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after and asked whether Fletcher would be willing to pay a visit to the property okay but Fletcher's wife was
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like I heard about you well and she was like okay but she was like I'm you can go but like I want to make sure we're in
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constant contact yeah cuz I heard about this girl cuz I heard about what's happening here so about Auntie over here
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she attempted to contact him on the phone a few weeks later and Caroline answered oh and told her no he can't
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come to the phone right now and she was like what the [ __ ] do you mean he can't
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come to the phone right now and she was like he died he's sick and he was she was like well I want to talk to him and
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he she was like too sick to talk and he she was like the [ __ ] do you mean too sick to talk and she was like I don't
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know [ __ ] and then she hung up the phone Direct quot that's literally like the transcript so she was like I don't
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know about that so she contacts again and she's like how's he doing can I talk to him and she's like nah still can't
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talk to him still too sick and then she's he's like you know what he'll he'll I'll send him home in a few weeks
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when he's better a few weeks so in a few weeks had come and gone with no word from Fletcher call the police Fletcher's
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wife set out for Chattanooga and was like said I'm coming I'm coming I'm coming for you baby oh my God now when
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she arrived at the boarding house that he had supposedly been staying at the woman there was to told her that
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Fletcher had indeed been there oh my go but she had but then he had been moved to another house
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by Caroline Caroline loves moving people places moved her to another house him to
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another house so Fletcher's wife follows she [ __ ] Sherlock Holmes it good for this girly she detective abber lines
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this love it like she follows Caroline's Trail always a few steps behind but following her she's like I'm going to
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find my husband but eventually she ran out of leads no and she couldn't find him without any information regarding
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her husband's whereabouts about and seemingly no [ __ ] way to find him and he didn't exist anymore she had she was
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granted a divorce cuz she was likeand she didn't involve the police I guess she was like there's nothing to really
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CU she was just like I guess Caroline later was just like yeah he just left what and it's like no he didn't
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what no he did not why is Caroline like this I do not know but she couldn't find
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him because he was already on his way to rejoin the sisters in Virginia with Caroline he fell in love with
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Auntie I don't know I don't know what's happening so deeply upset by this but she was convincing him now once there
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Caroline began encouraging a romance between Fletcher and OC cousins her daughter they are first cousins oh
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that's heinous that's illegal in many many places so let me just back back back it up go ahead she goes after
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after interfering in her first nephew's marriage get convincing him bamboozling him into following her bamboozling she
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tries to kill him twice [ __ ] and then eventually they succeed and light him on
00:28:09
fire in his bed collect that insurance payment she goes to the other nephew Mary's other son Mary's just letting
00:28:17
this all happen that's the thing I'm like Mary how many sons you got goes to her other son convinces him to come back
00:28:23
to the the Virginia with her yeah then ices out his wife pretends that Fletcher just up and was sick first of all too
00:28:31
sick to talk and then just abandoned her and who knows where he went and instead
00:28:36
she takes Fletcher back to the school in Virginia with her and then encourages OC
00:28:43
and Fletcher to get married first cousins and it seems as though like there was already something romantic
00:28:48
happening between Caroline and Fletcher there's something weird happening there what I don't know what like I don't know
00:28:54
I wasn't there this is real this is real life you know in Bluey when they go for
00:28:58
real life for real life that's how I feel I felt that the entire time I read this story I said for real life every 5
00:29:06
seconds and it is for real life [ __ ] like we need the bluey clip that says for real life do your kids have a toy
00:29:12
that says go find it for real life that's so that's happening so now she's encouraging osie and Fletcher to get
00:29:20
married she's like first cousins never heard of him so before the so then before long the two like and OC were
00:29:28
married in a secret ceremony because they had to make it secret they in Christianburg Virginia they had to make
00:29:35
it secret because they are first cousins I don't is there even anywhere that you
00:29:39
can marry your first cousin not sure but I don't want to go I'm not going there where it is remember that true life yes
00:29:45
oh my God anyway it's very upsetting it is people were already suspicious of this Trio of Wild Women this Trio of
00:29:53
incest in Wy Wy women and so when this happened they had to do it in secret because it was just really going to and
00:30:01
who know I'm like what was your endgame here but when the fir when they first arrived at the Montgomery female college
00:30:07
things at the school like I said had seemed stable and well managed yeah they were fine but just as it had been at Su
00:30:13
family college it didn't take long for Caroline's influence to cause even more problems well because they're still
00:30:19
going into the rooms and like doing all the things pad locking the doors not long after they arrived rumors began
00:30:25
spreading around town about like their weird Behavior about them holding midnight rituals in the cemeteries
00:30:32
around I mean there were even there was there were like rumors about like a quote unquote illegitimate baby that was
00:30:39
born at the school that disappeared what and they believed like something might have happened that those are rumors but
00:30:45
like these are the things people were talking about this is one of those things where it's like all the rumors
00:30:49
are true it's really scary oh my God within two years of their arriving there and all this crazy strange Behavior the
00:30:56
sisters again had started to frighten students yeah I would be frightened students were dropping out again cuz
00:31:02
they were like I'm not going to the like this is too well for [ __ ] this school by
00:31:05
1908 the school had to close they had to close they had to close why didn't anybody intervene before that I do not
00:31:13
know damn but having once again found themselves in dire Financial Straits they K yeah the sisters well first they
00:31:21
tried to sell off the school's minor assets okay like five pianos a church organ in Rosewood wardrobes make and the
00:31:29
school itself do they the thing there's no evidence to indicate that they had any
00:31:37
ownership the [ __ ] or the property sell it they're like do you have the deed they're like [ __ ] that
00:31:46
they they were like hey you want this building oh my God who are these women who raised these women are these
00:31:56
Lucifers children I think it's like a confidence thing if you just walk up to a building and you're like hey you want
00:32:05
this like they hired a real estate agent and everything it comes time to sign the
00:32:11
paperwork they're like what paperwork like what take the building give me the check take the building whatever sound
00:32:17
like weird Tommy hord Vibes it's so strange but they sold the school no a man named Sydney sh sheltman who
00:32:30
was so confused Sydney Sydney was so confused it's so wild he's like you own this place they're like no you do oh man
00:32:39
it's wild now when the school was abandoned cuz it was abandoned at the time even when he bought it it became a
00:32:45
popular spot for vandals and older Boys on marauding Expeditions now they tore through the halls and classrooms took
00:32:53
everything out of there like the whole place had been destroyed um in the mean me time the the sisters were like what
00:32:58
can we do next we can woo some older men into marriage that's true and get some money they weren't gaining any traction
00:33:06
on that front because uh they didn't have the loop they're they're a little strange I feel like their methods might
00:33:14
be weird love like guys love a little they love a you know what I'm saying that I feel like maybe they they were
00:33:22
approaching it the wrong way I guess can I look them up and like see what they look like I think so and you and I think
00:33:28
a lot of like the the rumors that were swirling about them were keeping people's distance away from them well in
00:33:34
the fact that you know um like any man in a 5 foot radius of them like weirdly got kerosene D all over them ex probably
00:33:40
didn't help so they had creditors growing impatient not being paid and they were going to be taking legal
00:33:47
action against them at this point so the sisters in Fletcher and oi began leaving
00:33:52
town anytime something like this would happen Okay so they went off in the direction of New York and they didn't
00:33:58
all go at once they went one after the other so not to arouse suspicions all righty now they were trying to put some
00:34:04
space so Fletcher and OSI were trying to put space between themselves and their aunts and her mother um so they settled
00:34:14
in East Orange New Jersey in 1908 and by some accounts they were happy I don't want to know about that is so pretty
00:34:21
though I know I I don't know what has happening It's upsetting oh my God this friend is should of
00:34:30
Caroline no this just sent me stop it that's why they weren't having luck with the men's
00:34:39
baby oh my God oh my God oh my God that's so terrifying oh my God oh my God this is a lot to unpack
00:34:51
I'm so upset um St Virginia is fine up until this point we've had some tragedies we've had some deaths that
00:34:59
have been very sad and like very scary correct but it's about to get real dark okay let me just like bre so we got it's
00:35:08
this is all wacky crazy but then it gets like oh like all of a sudden you're just
00:35:13
going to go oh and it gets like real so osie and Fletcher are living in Orange New Jersey New Jersey and the aunts are
00:35:21
still in the South yes they're and they're they're making their way to New York because they're trying to get away
00:35:26
from the creditors that are now after them okay okay but they're doing it like one after the other yeah got it and
00:35:31
again this is all up until this point this would just be a wacky cooky at times tragic story definitely but it
00:35:38
then now it's just like oh my man it's about to go down and it's it's still wacky like it's they are wacky humans
00:35:44
yeah you can't take that out of it but you can't take the wacky out of them but uh but unfortunately
00:35:51
so and again Fletcher and OC are first cousins um you don't have tell I'm going to keep reminding you that you don't
00:35:59
have to uh a few months later OC gave birth to a baby girl they named Mary after Fletcher's mom and and uh her aunt
00:36:08
yep but the child unfortunately died shortly after she was born that's really sad I'm sure there was some
00:36:13
complications and things only got worse when Virginia Mary and Caroline showed up at OC and Fletcher's doorstep in
00:36:19
early 1909 I would say we don't have anything for you they were out of money and they said hi we're here uh their
00:36:27
arrival reminded Fletcher of the last time the sisters had found themselves in financial trouble I don't know if you
00:36:34
can remember that time um it all it coincided with the mysterious and very brutal death of his brother John yes um
00:36:41
and an insurance payout came after that very conveniently for the sisters and you know what it solved all their
00:36:46
problems at the time sure did yeah so Fletcher saw this and said oh hi I'm getting out of here aunties and Mom and
00:36:55
said [ __ ] this and he fled the country to Canada no he didn't in March 1909 but
00:37:01
did he leave OC he left OC that's your wife cousin it was also that's your wife cousin you don't just abandon your wife
00:37:08
cousin that's your wife cousin you don't do that well what's sad is that OC had not had a chance to tell him that she
00:37:17
was pregnant again oh God now to she's abandoned by her husband at this point cousin cousin and left in the care of
00:37:28
three people who had always treated her like [ __ ] oh they weren't nice to her because they were never nice to her it's
00:37:34
a lot of people thought that they were jealous of her well she's her mother and her aunts were jealous of her I bet they
00:37:39
were um they had always kind of treated her like [ __ ] so her mental health began
00:37:44
to decline in the spring she's pregnant and her physical needs are increasing because of the pregnancy which makes it
00:37:50
even worse um and to make it even worse the sisters had taken OC out of the comfort of her home that she had with
00:37:57
Fletcher and brought her back to Brooklyn to live with them in some like sparsely furnished building oh and they
00:38:03
had they had like created their own space yeah and aware that they you know luckily they were aware that they locked
00:38:09
L lacked any knowledge of or resources to provide any basic level of care for a pregnant woman or really anyone else for
00:38:18
that matter because they are wild the sisters did call a doctor Dr William Pettit who started treating OC that
00:38:26
spring okay well that's good now OC does die obviously at the end of this that's
00:38:32
we talked about that in the beginning oh I literally forgot that so after her death later Dr Pettit would recall the
00:38:39
incredibly strange experience of arriving at the Sneed house that spring oh no now at the time only Virginia and
00:38:45
Mary were living in the house with osie not her mother Caroline sus but he said at the time a third woman who he
00:38:53
believed to be OC's mother would occasionally stop by and check on her yeah um he said all these women must
00:39:01
have slept on the floor for the only cot in the house on the second floor was occupied by the ailing niece okay and he
00:39:08
said aside from meager Furnishings in OC's room the house was pretty much empty of anything else damn which only
00:39:16
made everything even stranger right and you're like he's like you're bringing a baby into the F what are we going to do
00:39:21
with the baby and Dr Pettit also found the three sisters Behavior really strange and puding like what were they
00:39:27
doing after he initially evaluated OC who appeared very frail and very depressed oh pedit um diagnosed her as
00:39:35
suffering from General weakness the result of lack of nutrition and proper care and that's not good because she's
00:39:41
if she's male nurse and the baby is so what he had prescribed for her was fresh air a restorative diet and Medicine okay
00:39:49
he was like this will improve her but upon a follow-up visit he found that the women had made no effort to provide even
00:39:57
one of those things to her oh no when he asked why they hadn't made even the slightest effort to do any of his
00:40:03
recommendations one of the women he said said later he believed it was Virginia told the doctor they couldn't afford the
00:40:09
medicine due to all their money going to the high premiums they were paying an insurance what that doesn't even make
00:40:15
any sense so during this period OC was dealing with the emotional pain of losing her husband and also losing a
00:40:22
daughter yeah and the physical pain of a very difficult cult pregnancy of which she is malnourished and sick oh man and
00:40:31
also living with three women who are jealous of her and have been her whole life and have treated her like [ __ ]
00:40:36
that's a thing and it's for all of these reasons all those stressors that she's under that she probably this is why she
00:40:41
probably didn't have any idea that after Fletcher left the sisters had taken out
00:40:46
three life insurance policies on OC with Equitable life insurance Society each in
00:40:51
the amount of $7,500 how are they going to how did they get three out on on her nobody
00:40:58
double checked it damn I have no idea but it's wild now a few months later in late spring Dr petet became concerned
00:41:06
about OC's declining health and her ability to even give birth to a baby successfully she's so weak at this point
00:41:13
so Pettit was on hand to guide OSI through the process of giving birth to her baby in the home um and it was on
00:41:21
August 1st 1909 she gave birth to a baby boy who she named David poock need okay
00:41:27
um unfortunately the labor process was very difficult and the baby was born quote unquote sickly and when Pettit
00:41:34
told the two aunts that OSI actually might need a very risky postnatal operation that could prove fatal for her
00:41:41
oh no he said he was very surprised and very disgusted with how the women reacted he said they were fairly jumped
00:41:47
at the idea cuz they wanted her they wanted to cash in now despite David the little baby's poor health at the time of
00:41:55
his birth Dr pet and OC were both confident that with the right diet right care he would survive and eventually
00:42:02
Thrive that's great um but that would require the sisters to provide anything any support uhhuh that they clearly were
00:42:09
not capable of including spending money on the baby's care and instead over the objections of Pettit and DOI they quote
00:42:17
fed the baby condensed milk and other Foods at variance with those Dr pedit specified oh my God Weeks Later David
00:42:24
was still in poor health and was taking to St Christopher's Hospital by Virginia
00:42:28
and Mary who returned home a short time later to inform OSI that the baby had died oh though it would later be learned
00:42:38
that was a lie they just got and they had simply left David at St Christopher honestly in a horrible way that was
00:42:46
probably the best thing for that baby but so horrible that's like you just kidnapped
00:42:52
her baby yeah and then told her she it died like wow now in the the wake of what she believed was another child's
00:42:59
death yeah she's going to lose it declined mentally physically and at his insistence the sisters allowed pedit to
00:43:08
perform the postn natal surgery on OC uh but when he were attempted to return you
00:43:13
know a little time later to remove the stitches and do some after care cuz she managed to get through it wow the
00:43:19
sisters refused to let him inside the house but they did allow periodic visits from a nurse okay and just a week or so
00:43:27
later petett returned to the house when he learned that Virginia had dismissed the nurse wouldn't allow her back and
00:43:33
his attempts to reach the women went unanswered my God and it's like he I'm like can you involve the police like
00:43:41
yeah don't worry he does okay good um now cuz from the moment he had been summoned to treat her in the first place
00:43:48
he was very uncomfortable with those three women yeah and he said they made him feel very unwelcome each visit he
00:43:55
went to that house he was more and more unwelcome more unnerved and he said it wasn't just like bad attitudes and like
00:44:01
weird Behavior which they had comments that troubled him but he said the fact that the women were intentionally
00:44:06
treating OC poorly and seemed to care very little whether she lived or died and on one particular visit pedit
00:44:14
recalled Virginia showing him OC's will that's strange and in it OC had left the
00:44:21
majority of her stuff to her grandmother leaving aside one ,000 to pay pet it for
00:44:28
his services so she had put in her will I want him paid for what he's done for me just in case now the doctor was like
00:44:33
oh that's far too much for what I've provided like I you don't need to give me that much like and also she's alive
00:44:39
yeah um but more importantly he was like this is weird and suspicious that you're
00:44:42
showing me this like why do you have her will what are you doing I don't get it so he reported the treatment of OC and
00:44:49
this whole thing to the police good and later he recalled that officers quote made a routine inquiry and it leted
00:44:56
nowhere and this is also the police failed on an epic level here now it was his suspicions that led the doctor to
00:45:05
take Extreme Measures upon his last visit to the house so after knocking and ringing the bell several times and not
00:45:12
getting an answer Dr Pettit became concerned for safety and he went into the house through an open front window I
00:45:19
love this man I love this doctor this man's for the wind so he reached the girl's bedroom and he said he was
00:45:23
shocked to find her quote nearly star D with no food in the house despite her serious condition he said that OSI was
00:45:31
so happy to see him and said she wanted to talk to him about something important
00:45:36
Oh but before she could say anything one of the sisters came in the room and forced ped it out of the room I wish he
00:45:42
could have like rescued her and taken him with her right they said they were willing to Plate him by being like fine
00:45:48
we'll have food delivered to the house for wow like what the [ __ ] they were like you need to leave now and like
00:45:54
don't come back or work calling the police so he knew he was like OC's in danger like she's going to die so he
00:46:00
felt it I'm going to report it again so he reported it to the police again I was
00:46:04
like you need to [ __ ] do something about this seriously and he was so the police went Brooklyn Police checked on
00:46:09
the women found no evidence of anyone having committed a crime so they said there's nothing we can do what yeah
00:46:16
failures huge failures shame truly like they should be ashamed of themselves by fall of 1909 the sisters found eles
00:46:26
again needing money their regular position in life with creditors beginning to call on them regularly and
00:46:32
in late October the sisters were no longer able to hold these creditors off so they resorted to their typical
00:46:38
strategy you know picking up and moving before the creditors could find them and
00:46:42
get what they needed yeah now when he when the doctor uh learned that the Brooklyn Police had been unable to do
00:46:49
anything Dr Pettit returned to the home again himself to check on OC cuz he was going to go in there and he was like
00:46:55
like I don't know what I was going to do but I was going back myself cuz no one was doing anything he found it
00:47:00
completely abandoned oh no so he he didn't know where she went that's terrible and he was probably so so
00:47:06
worried now on November 29th 1909 only the next month uh police in East Orange New Jersey received a call from quote an
00:47:15
elderly woman with a Southern accent explaining that an accident had occurred at 89 North 14th Street and they needed
00:47:22
a coroner huh the assisant County physician Dr Herbert Simmons went three blocks to the address and he was greeted
00:47:31
at the door by Virginia who was dressed in the typical black attire with the Black Veil they're so weird and she led
00:47:38
him through the house and Simmons noted that the building seemed to have no heat
00:47:41
or furniture and appeared as though no one had lived there in a long time okay they
00:47:47
reached the bathroom and Virginia just points at the bathtub where he sees the nude emaciated body of OC laying beneath
00:47:56
just a few inches of water oh God now Simmons now this is the county physician Simmon Dr Simmons he scanned the scene
00:48:04
for any information that might be useful and found a pile of clothing with what appeared to be a very neatly written
00:48:11
suicide note attached to it the note said last year my little daughter died Others near and dear have gone before I
00:48:20
been prostrated with illness for a long time when you read this I will have committed suicide do not grieve me
00:48:26
Rejoice with me that death brings a blessed relief from pain and suffering greater than I can bear o
00:48:32
wmne doubt it now Virginia explained to the doctor that OC had lost her daughter
00:48:38
the previous year and her son had been placed in the hospital four months earlier and then she said she had also
00:48:43
become a widow seven months prior H Fletcher didn't die right right no not that we know of so Virginia told the man
00:48:54
that she shared the house on 14th Street with her niece giving the impression that it was just Virginia and osie yeah
00:49:00
uh and that they had recently moved in now as an agent of the coroner's office Dr Simmons had seen a lot of dead bodies
00:49:07
and he had seen a lot of scenes and he said something's not right here well the fact that she's emaciated is one thing
00:49:14
for one thing OC had been dead in the bathroom in the only bathroom in this place for at least 24 hours so
00:49:22
immediately that's sus Virginia saying she just discovered the the only bathroom for 24 hours there's
00:49:29
been a dead body in the bathroom and you didn't know and there was also the house
00:49:32
itself she's saying that they moved in weeks earlier but the house was virtually empty it appeared like no one
00:49:38
had been living there for years so he was very suspicious of your Virginia and he was like something's up here so
00:49:45
Simmons stopped at the nearest phone he could find and place to call to Sergeant
00:49:49
William O'Neal of the East Orange Police and explained everything that he found all his thoughts and noted all his
00:49:55
suspicions to them now knowing that Simmons was definitely not the type of man to jump to conclusions he was a
00:50:01
trustworthy guy he'd been to a lot of these scenes he wouldn't be bringing them out if he didn't need to Sergeant
00:50:08
O'Neal uh took this very seriously and immediately went to the house good now Sergeant O'Neal arrived at um the house
00:50:15
around 6:00 p.m. and Virginia opened the door and she demanded immediately to know what business he had there and
00:50:22
O'Neal explained that he had been ordered to inspect the premisis so Virginia reluctantly let him inside and
00:50:28
brought him to the bathroom and she's like there she is showed him M now after reading the note O'Neal asked Virginia
00:50:36
to show him the rest of the house starting with the attic MH so going room by room he was struck by how empty this
00:50:43
house felt and he said not just empty in the sense he's like it was empty there was nothing in there but he was like it
00:50:49
felt empty like there was a there was a palpable feeling to this house and in fact he said the only sign that
00:50:57
anyone actually lived there was found in what he assumed to be OC's former bedroom on a small table next to a cot
00:51:04
was a locket bearing the photo of a baby on one side and a lock of hair on the other that's so sad beside it was a
00:51:10
small strip of paper that read lock of David sneed's first hair August 1809 that's the saddest thing ever now
00:51:18
Virginia followed O'Neal quietly from room to room and she was using like a gas lamp like you if you just picture
00:51:25
this she's so scary wearing her full attire with the Black Veil he was probably like where the [ __ ] he was
00:51:31
proba this is a house of hores now there were a few pieces of broken furniture or
00:51:36
what maybe could have been personal items scattered about but it looked more like it was like long ago somebody had
00:51:41
lived there and when they'd finished going through the whole thing O'Neal began to question Virginia about why
00:51:47
they'd moved to East Orange and you know why she'd only noticed her niece was dead a few hours earlier when it's the
00:51:53
only bathroom in the [ __ ] house mhm so the woman was short with the sergeant and gave him very simple very direct
00:52:01
answers but also making it very clear that his presence was not [ __ ] wanted in that house now if Virginia thought
00:52:07
she could simply call the coroner be like hey sorry I have a dead body here can you go ahead and grab that and
00:52:15
thought she was just going to be done with the whole thing after that which she definitely did she must have been
00:52:20
pretty surprised when Sergeant O'Neal explained that she was going to have to come with him to the station to answer
00:52:26
Virginia went she grabbed a small bag some belongings and went out of the house now at the East Orange Police
00:52:33
Department she went through a whole interview and this time she was interviewed by police chief James Bell
00:52:39
now deell the entire this was all [ __ ] this was all suspicious well she's sitting there in her [ __ ] black veil
00:52:45
he said that Virginia seemed to have an answer for everything she had a quick answer for everything but it still
00:52:52
didn't explain what happened in the house she was cuz cuz he was like she herself was very poised very polished
00:52:59
but O'Neal had described them living in squalor right it just didn't match up and there was also the manner of the
00:53:07
whole thing like if they're claiming this is suicide how could OC had managed to hold herself underwater long enough
00:53:13
to drown herself especially in such a frail and fragile state and again your body is going to want to take yourself
00:53:20
and sit up yeah and she's not strong enough to keep herself underwat mhm so these are all unanswered questions
00:53:27
and they're nagging him so Belle booked Virginia as a material witness that evening and she was taken to ess6 county
00:53:33
jail rro now the following day November 30th an autopsy was performed on OC and it confirmed that the cause of death was
00:53:41
drowning but it also raised a few more questions right the medical examiner noted that OC was emaciated to the last
00:53:49
degree like that of a person suffering from starvation and she only weighed 80 pound at the time of her death oh it's
00:53:56
such a haunting picture to think of her being discovered in the bathtub in that state yeah and in that state
00:54:02
investigators wondered whether she again would have had the strength to do this but also had the strength to write a
00:54:08
clear and concise suicide note with a steady hand yeah it was very steady there was no shakiness to it that's
00:54:15
there's no way no while the coroner examined the body investigators with the East Orange Police started tracing the
00:54:22
two women's movements from the moment they arrived in the City a few weeks earlier right they managed to track down
00:54:27
a cab driver who' taken them from the St train station to the house but also took
00:54:32
Virginia to see a local doctor by the name of Charles Teeter when they interviewed Dr Teeter he said Virginia
00:54:39
had shown up at his house at a late hour on the evening of November thir 24th okay not long ago and asked that he
00:54:47
accompany her back to the house to provide a health certificate for OC a health certificate now Al Al though he
00:54:55
initially protested it was clear she wasn't going to take no for an answer so he agreed to go with her now at the
00:55:01
house the doctor examined DOI and noted that she was incredibly frail and appeared to have bronchitis but
00:55:07
otherwise he was like okay that's really all I have to say about her to B and O'Neal the request for the health
00:55:13
certificate for OC only made Virginia seem more suspicious and what is that I've never for like insurance reasons
00:55:20
okay it's just like like almost like a physical kind of yeah now in just a few days
00:55:25
their investigation had turned up several people who interacted with Virginia in and around East Orange and
00:55:31
always in the context of her asking questions about medical treatment and local doctors which seemed in keeping
00:55:38
with the situation at the house but when they checked the registers of local hotels in New York City they were
00:55:45
surprised to find that Virginia was staying in several of the city's fanciest hotels in recent months and had
00:55:51
been dining at high-end restaurants so there's like wait a second this woman is living in expensive
00:55:59
hotels and leaving this emaciated sick frail niece alone in in abandoned house place what the [ __ ] shut up cold broken
00:56:09
house in New Jersey and how is she even living in these expensive hotels with no
00:56:12
money because she was using the insurance money that she got before she's I'm sure she's scamming some [ __ ]
00:56:18
there's tons of fraud charges that come up wow eventually B and O'Neal's search Led them to a house in Brook that the
00:56:25
neighbors had taken to calling the house of mystery they my God it reminds me of
00:56:30
that Tik Tok you with your kids when they're like the ball of mystery my God uh they called this house
00:56:38
the house of mystery because the three women in black who occup occupied it were very strange and had a lot of
00:56:44
strange Behavior according to the neighbors on both sides of this house they'd often heard strange noises and
00:56:50
banging coming from the house all hours of the night what are they doing the windows had been blacked out stop stop
00:56:58
it and the yard was so overgrown that nobody could see inside like are they witches they're bad witches some some
00:57:06
[ __ ] is going down there darked witches dor sided not not sin white witches given Sinister Vibe like white magic
00:57:13
yeah like Sinister Vibe oh my God now once the investigators had located the janitor responsible for managing the
00:57:20
home cuz they used to have like certain you know like a super almost yeah yeah they got inside of it and they found
00:57:25
that this place was as Bleak and empty as the one in East Orange and they were about to leave but then they were
00:57:32
approached by a reporter from the New York World who'd been put on the story by one of his New Jersey peers was like
00:57:38
heard all about this cuz you knew this was going to get reported on the reporter is like wait a second why are
00:57:43
you guys leaving don't you notice those small spots of like what looks like blood on the floor by the door I love
00:57:51
like hey guys like hey investigators did you notice that so they follow the faint Trail through
00:57:57
the hall and up the stairs into one of the bedrooms but it just LED nowhere what meanwhile the reporter on the first
00:58:05
floor opened the oven in the kitchen and disc discovered a mass of yellow hair wrapped up in its Center were two
00:58:13
irregularly shaped bones one resembled a femur and the other resembled resembled
00:58:20
a skull and they were small what you could see they said you could see nose bones in the socket of an eye like
00:58:29
and like this is like a child skull it appeared to be what the [ __ ] and obviously this isn't OC because we have
00:58:36
her body now what the [ __ ] is going on so they asked the janitor they're like what the [ __ ] has been going on in this
00:58:42
like what's going on and the janitor explained that OC and her husband had moved into that house about a year and a
00:58:48
half earlier and then were joined remember yeah by the two older women always dressed in black
00:58:55
and a few months later a third woman who was also dressed in black came to live with them Caroline Caroline the janitor
00:59:02
didn't know much else but he did mention that OC's husband eventually left and the women were constantly behind on the
00:59:09
rent so when Fletcher left when they showed up was like no I'm not dying he left for Canada they moved into that
00:59:17
house and turned it into whatever [ __ ] cult [ __ ] while OC's living there they turned it into that okay and
00:59:24
then they ripped OC out of the house made her live in that abandoned place while they kept living in that house oh
00:59:30
so they didn't live in the house with OC in they were just keeping her in a house
00:59:34
by herself ailing and sick and unable to move and starving her oh and that that was the whole time that she was pregnant
00:59:42
yep and they said they and reports had said they had been starving OC essentially since she was born what like
00:59:50
that that girl had never been adequately taken care of what the [ __ ] yeah yep and so the janitor says when OC's
00:59:58
husband eventually left the women were always behind on the rent and then they would suddenly come into a large sum of
01:00:04
money right before they were about to be evicted what the [ __ ] so they were doing
01:00:07
some more [ __ ] yeah they were and who the [ __ ] is the skull in the oven well
01:00:11
the house in Brooklyn and the information given by the janitor eventually LED them to Dr Pettit my guy
01:00:18
who filled in a lot of the gaps here and petted explained that he had been on hand when OC gave birth to her second
01:00:24
child and from that point forward he said I just couldn't stop thinking about her I was I was so worried for her
01:00:30
safety my concerns grew and grew and he said at no time was I able to find out from Mrs Sneed anything about herself
01:00:38
meaning OC okay he had never found anything about OC out from herself well because they were always lingering he
01:00:44
said every time I asked a question one of the older women was always ready to give up an answer Mrs Sneed seemed
01:00:50
afraid to talk and he said he tried to follow up several times until one day he arrived at the house in Brooklyn and it
01:00:57
was abandoned which he was presumably when they moved OC to East Orange MH now Dr pettit's nurse uh Elizabeth Moog told
01:01:06
a similar story she said she'd been assigned to care for OC after the baby was born and the surgical procedure had
01:01:11
been performed yeah but she said it was so difficult to take care of her because
01:01:15
the sisters were constantly hovering over her she said whenever I went wherever I went one of them kept tagging
01:01:21
after me I was not alone with Mrs sne for single moment Mrs Sneed seemed afraid of someone or something oh that's
01:01:29
and just the air of like her being afraid being followed by these women and then you add on their appearance to it
01:01:35
and they're terrifying like Black Veils and all all the time just silently following you oh I hate it now B and
01:01:43
O'Neal explained that what they'd found at the house in Brooklyn and were like what the [ __ ] is do you have any idea
01:01:48
what that could be and asked you know for Pettit to come with him to look at it Pettit agreed
01:01:55
and it didn't take long before you know they figured out what was happen what happened there not what happened there
01:02:02
but what that was now according to Dr Pettit the stains in the hall he said he didn't think they were blood okay he
01:02:09
thought they were uh tobacco juice he said probably left by a careless worker oh okay he's like that's why there's no
01:02:15
like end with a crime scene yeah yeah yeah um the bones in the oven were bizarre but he said he didn't believe
01:02:22
they were human okay he thought they were animal bones but he said still don't know why they're in the oven yeah
01:02:28
and there's also like a massive hair that he was like I don't know what that is did he think it was human hair he he
01:02:32
couldn't tell he was like I don't know but he's like I think some of these are animals so I'm assuming they're animal
01:02:37
bones what the [ __ ] but so Dr pet tried to clear up some man some Mysteries and
01:02:42
did a couple but uh it didn't stop the New York world uh the New York world news uh publishing a ton of Sensational
01:02:51
stories about this I mean how do you not in this [ __ ] cas the Brooklyn house a
01:02:55
baby Farm which you know they didn't really have a lot to go on on that uh they did mention the occult overtones of
01:03:02
the whole thing and thanks to the information provided by Neighbors in Brooklyn and especially that of Dr
01:03:07
petett and his nurse a picture was beginning to emerge for the detectives it was clear that three women had been
01:03:13
abusing OC and by all accounts she seemed terrified of them but what they what they couldn't kind of figure out
01:03:20
was why they had done this right like they like this is this is like a long process and it didn't take them long to
01:03:28
figure out a motive during an interview with William fee a Brooklyn attorney it was revealed that the lawyer had been
01:03:35
recommended to Virginia by someone she'd met at church and she'd summoned him to
01:03:39
the house just a few months before OC's death I can't believe Virginia was at church yeah now according to fee
01:03:46
Virginia had wanted him to help OC write a new will this was before OC died mhm Virginia produced the old will completed
01:03:55
by OC just a few months earlier and explained they wanted to write a new one because the previous version didn't make
01:04:00
any provisions for OC's baby mhm now 's only like I think she was only 20 I want to say she was between 23 and
01:04:09
26 yeah and she also was told that her baby died which like that is why well fee thought that the explanation was
01:04:17
like whatever he's like okay that sure yeah uh but he did think it was strange that the details of the new will were
01:04:23
all being dictated by Virginia right not OC yeah now according to fee on that day
01:04:29
Virginia was in the company of Caroline OC's mother the girl appeared to be very
01:04:34
on the verge of death at the time and fee was really moved by the sad story that the sisters were spinning to him
01:04:42
right so he agreed to write the new will CU he thought that's she's dying yeah this is what he say this is her mother
01:04:48
and her aunts right now in the new will OC apparently declared that all her debts should be paid out of her estate
01:04:55
and that her son should be in uh should inherit $500 okay and that the rest was to be
01:05:00
left to her grandmother Martha that was her original thing yeah with new evidence in hand Chief Bell paid a visit
01:05:07
to Virginia in her cell at ex Essex County jail and interrogated her about the will Virginia flatly denied the
01:05:15
accusations of neglect and any insinuation that she would conspire to kill her niece for any inheritance I
01:05:21
mean but and Belle hoped that the woman would C back when presented with the evidence but he had underestimated how
01:05:29
how much she would uh he had underestimated her will yeah I will say and you will find out what I mean by
01:05:37
that in a minute okay uh he was just about to give up when O'Neal entered his office and presented him with documented
01:05:44
evidence and witness testimony confirming medical neglect and all evidence of Mal treatment uh Mal
01:05:51
treatment and malnourishment of OC yeah so all the evidence was there he didn't need the confession and he said Belle
01:06:00
said at first I believe Mrs Sneed attempted to take a bath was discovered in the tub by her murderer and held
01:06:06
underwater until drowned makes sense but after careful examination of the evidence which directly contradicted
01:06:12
Virginia's story he believed OC had never intended to take a bath but had instead been placed in the tub was too
01:06:19
weak to fight back and was held under a few inches of water by Virginia Jesus Christ until she drowned so she
01:06:26
literally carried her like dragged her into the bath and drowned her this is one of the most darkest oh based on the
01:06:32
information collected at this point Belle made the decision to charge Virginia with the murder of os Sneed
01:06:38
yeah rightfully so it sounds so the news of Virginia's arrest made readers go crazy all over the East Coast they had
01:06:44
been following All The Sensational stories coming out of here and honestly the the news of her behavior and the way
01:06:52
she dressed only made it even more maob of um and law enforcement were talking also about how strange and uncooperative
01:06:59
Virginia was being Police Commissioner sharp said in a statement to the Press I tried to question her but she blunt
01:07:06
bluntly told me that she saw no reason why she should answer my questions and in his assessment of Virginia sharp
01:07:12
described her as cool calm and resourceful and cunning now in an attempt to get back at
01:07:20
the negative portrayals of Virginia Mary sne the the other idiot here yeah granted an interview with several
01:07:28
reporters saying family Pride should be laid aside and the public should learn the truth about the sisters in
01:07:34
Black tell us Mary said in the hope of lightening lightening the burden of an innocent woman speaking of Virginia
01:07:42
doubt I will tell all I know but hardly she told said nothing she told nothing in fact she flat out refused to address
01:07:49
any questions regard regarding the family's Financial history and the the fact that Virginia had not only taken
01:07:56
three life insurance policies out on OC just before her death but had also had her will changed she wouldn't talk about
01:08:02
any of that instead Mary told some stupid sob story of family tragedy and Misfortune that more or less upheld the
01:08:09
lies the women had told osie including that her husband was almost certainly dead Fletcher which he's not he's just
01:08:16
that's Mary's son yeah as for OC's death Mary insisted that it was suicide motivated by profound loss and you know
01:08:24
her declining health I don't know about that now as news of the story spread people in New York New Jersey Virginia
01:08:30
and Tennessee came forward to tell their tales of the sisters a former student at
01:08:35
the Nashville female school where Mary was once employed described her as being quote regarded by all pupils as being
01:08:41
queer now queer meaning strange back then yeah um and in Christian verberg Virginia one resident described the
01:08:50
sisters as quote crazy eccentric and exceedingly smart exceedingly Smart in ties with all of
01:08:56
that is horrible now reporters followed every lead in the story and they began reporting on all the mysterious aspects
01:09:02
of the women's lives including all the things we had talked about before the weird standing over people's beds at
01:09:08
night the bnes the the cemetery things having one driver to bring them to the cemetery all the time I forgot that they
01:09:14
had a [ __ ] driver to bring them to the cemetery and so they started piecing together a story that included a large
01:09:20
amount of fraud very disturbing behavior and if you two suspicious deaths and a lot of insurance [ __ ] mhm there was the
01:09:27
tragic death of Caroline's first child after falling down a flight of stairs y the unexpected early death of Robert
01:09:34
Martin her husband Jon sneeds multiple brushes with Death Before Dying by being lit on fire in his bed I know did the
01:09:42
police ever like investigate that no they said in fact they could smell kerosene and nobody thought it was
01:09:47
suspicious what the fu they said it was an accident and then finally OC's drowning all of these things were
01:09:54
followed by large Insurance payouts that were received just in the nick of time to avoid Financial ruin right so in an
01:10:04
effort to combat the growing amount of strange stories in the Press Virginia's lawyer Franklin Fort presented the Press
01:10:11
with two unmailed letters that Virginia supposedly had written to family members
01:10:16
okay in each letter Virginia is expressing her deepest sympathies for the recent losses there were statements
01:10:22
like what what a flood tide of loving sympathy slows to you this beautiful Sabbath afternoon and I would love to
01:10:29
hold you dear head on my lap and run my fingers through your hair and so charm away brain worry brain worry brain worry
01:10:37
like people talk so wild back just like feeding her uh fort's intention was to demonstrate that Virginia was far from
01:10:45
this bizarre spinster she had been portrayed as the press and that no woman who writes such letters would commit
01:10:52
murder totally totally now despite you know what seemed like a rock solid way to
01:11:00
influence the press the public perception of Virginia for it simply couldn't hold back the constant
01:11:05
Sensational news coverage because uh she was weird wild uh moreover the more the
01:11:11
Press learned about the family through their investigations and the police the more began to look as though Virginia
01:11:18
was not the only one involved in all this yeah I'm also like where the [ __ ] is Caroline cuz Mary is out here talking
01:11:24
to the Press where's Caroline about her only child now dying so as the New Year rolls over the prosecutor's office had
01:11:31
begun to put together a theory as to the events leading up to and resulting in OC's death they believe that all four
01:11:38
women had been living in the house in Brooklyn when they concocted a scheme to kill OC and collect on the insurance
01:11:45
money yeah now according to the prosecutor one old woman hired the unfurnished house hired the unfurnished
01:11:52
house in East orange another took the poor girl there and a third planned her murder so they o they rented that house
01:12:00
in b in a East Orange brought OC there and left her there let her starve there for a while and planned her entire
01:12:07
murder and then told the police we are living here together even though they're not now by dividing up the tasks because
01:12:15
one of them hired the house one of them brought her there one of them planned the Murder by dividing up those tasks
01:12:21
the women had hoped to avoid suspicion yeah and I don't know why they would have gone through all the lengths when
01:12:30
they could like to bring her to East Orange when they could have just committed this crime in New York yeah I
01:12:35
don't know I wonder if they thought maybe like her traveling in such a frail state would just end up with her death
01:12:41
maybe you know but it's like even then it's like that would have been great for them oh yeah actually yeah you know like
01:12:49
that either way so it's like it just doesn't make like like why wouldn't you just like do it yeah like why' you bring
01:12:58
her somewhere else and like evolve another place and like no that's what I meant by that I
01:13:03
think oh you meant going from Brooklyn to East Orange sorry I I was thinking the other way around no you are correct
01:13:08
like that that is also a good point but even investigators now they're like I still don't get why they didn't just
01:13:13
like cuz you didn't really need anything to happen you had already done the starvation and the poor treatment and
01:13:20
the withholding medical treatment from her mhm at this point it's like it looks like what they did was they just dragged
01:13:27
her to a bathtub and drowned her they could have done that they could have done that all along but maybe the
01:13:32
financial thing was like heating up at that point maybe they were like okay like she's not going to die soon enough
01:13:38
from starvation so we need to speed this along but that's what I mean they could
01:13:41
have just drowned her in the house that they already had yeah like it doesn't make sense but what's also unknown to
01:13:49
investigators at this point was the whereabouts of like you were asking Caroline yeah like where is she they
01:13:54
believe she was obviously an active participant in her own daughter's death I mean yeah now despite her absence or
01:14:00
perhaps because of it the Press was able to paint a picture of Caroline as a kind
01:14:04
of ring leader among the sisters it sounds like she is because again they were quote unquote normal before until
01:14:11
her arrival the sister's lives seemed pretty functional odd a little bit but functional yeah I mean she was the
01:14:18
president of the school the other one worked there like but once Caroline entered the picture her manipulation
01:14:23
overbearing personality completely changed Virginia and Mary according to Luanne R the newspapers described
01:14:30
Caroline as an intelligent and highly emotional woman perhaps with mental illness who manipulated her family yeah
01:14:38
she was a hoarder she clung on to everything she owned rather than sell them even when she was financially
01:14:44
desperate and most importantly she lacked any real human connection even with the closest members of her family
01:14:51
her husband her son and her daughter she had no connection to them it sounds like
01:14:56
she has more of a connection to her sisters yeah and this was a strange little thing by mid December Caroline
01:15:02
had been located in New York City and she was registered at a hotel as Mrs mayck Mrs mayck now remember the case of
01:15:11
Florence maybrick yeah James mayb yeah who some people believe to be Jack the Ripper he's not get this Florence May's
01:15:21
daughter was named Carol wait what so Caroline our bad Caroline is living in New York City in a
01:15:32
hotel under the name Mrs mayck Florence mayri was married to James mayri and was
01:15:42
accused of poisoning him uhhuh her daughter's name was Caroline okay I don't know what the
01:15:49
connection is there but Mrs mayri is a strange name to pick yeah and and the fact that the Caroline
01:15:57
is going under Mrs maybrick and the real Mrs maybrick has a daughter named Caroline is a little strange that is and
01:16:06
it was like it was heavily reported even oh yeah like he people thought he was Jack the Ripper right what the [ __ ] and
01:16:14
it was like a big deal because they thought that Florence had murdered him right and sorry was that in the states
01:16:19
or no because they thought he was Jack the Ripper so that was in Europe and it was reported over here because okay yeah
01:16:25
sorry that was like a lot what yeah like it's just a weird I was like what is this and I tried to find any other
01:16:35
kind of connections there but I was like I couldn't find and though it's weird too is I
01:16:42
think it was a big deal the Florence mayri stuff because Florence mayri was from um
01:16:48
Alabama oh and they're from sou she from the south and it's like so that was is definitely reported over here because it
01:16:54
was like a an American woman you know um but yeah like that's [ __ ] a weird interconnection here that
01:17:03
I can't quite put my finger on but weird can very like coincidental yeah and it's
01:17:10
also if she did do that on purpose which to me it kind of sounds like she did that's that's a weird [ __ ] thing to
01:17:15
do on purpose because people are going to want to like you're you're trying to float below the radar but you're picking
01:17:21
that as a cover name yeah I don't know what it's very strange do you think she just thought it was like
01:17:27
funny yeah or like a like she just did it to be like I don't know cuz they love that spooky Persona they've got their
01:17:36
maybe it was just like their black dress with the Black Veil right so maybe it's
01:17:40
just part of the whole like it sounds very mental illness very strange you know like it sounds like she was there
01:17:45
there's definitely something well I when I saw Mrs maybrick I was like Mrs mayb and I was like oh Florence mayri James
01:17:50
mayri and I started thinking about it and then I was like huh and I was like wait Lawrence was from the United States
01:17:56
I was like wait she was from the south yeah wait a second and I started looking into it again like just being like
01:18:01
refreshing and then I was like holy [ __ ] her daughter's name was Caroline that's
01:18:06
too I feel like that's too weird to be a coincidence right I would I think yeah too many connections there but anyway
01:18:14
that was my little like Florence ended up getting out of jail eventually and then moving back to the states right she
01:18:20
ended up living like you know like a quaint life pretty quiet life yeah um interesting now Caroline was under
01:18:28
surveillance by New Jersey authorities until they had justification to arrest her we love a surveillance moment right
01:18:35
that that evidence finally came in the form of several letters written by Caroline that Chief Bell believed bore a
01:18:41
remarkable resemblance to the handwriting in OC suicide notes she wrote her child fake suicide note
01:18:49
finally by the end of December Mary sne and Caroline were taken into custody by New York authorities and held for the
01:18:56
murder of OSI wow on December 22nd a grand jury indicted all three women for first-degree murder um at this time
01:19:05
prosecutor Wilbur mot began drawing up the papers to have Mary and Caroline extradited to New Jersey to stand trial
01:19:12
the most compelling piece of evidence presented to the grand jury according to the Press was more than
01:19:17
50 quote unquote suicide notes discovered in Caroline Martin's New York hotel room so she kept writing them over
01:19:25
and over and over again pring what the [ __ ] that's her daughter her child I mean she was already starving her so I
01:19:33
don't know why I'm shocked but who that's [ __ ] now while all three women continued to be held in prison pending
01:19:40
trial investigators in East Orange kept turning up evidence in the case that strongly supported the theory that OC's
01:19:47
death was a murder in addition to the insurance policies taken out on her life and other evidence of cons iracy when uh
01:19:54
when he first searched the house Sergeant O'Neal had found a glass by the bathtub that contained a small amount of
01:20:00
liquid when the autopsy was conducted a small amount of that same liquid was discovered in OC's stomach now it took a
01:20:07
long time for the analysis to be completed but in mid January the results came back and found that that liquid was
01:20:14
morphine oh the discovery of the morphine answered the nagging question of how OC had managed to drown in such a
01:20:22
shallow amount of water right especially since the body would instinctively fight
01:20:27
to stay alive with this new so they had sedated her that's easy and that was probably how they even got her into the
01:20:33
bath in the first place now with this new evidence the prosecutor announced their belief that the women had been
01:20:37
administering the morphine for several days and that when she was put in the bathtub OSI was unconscious of what was
01:20:45
uring occurring which I guess is the only blessing here that she didn't know what was happening now they built their
01:20:53
case against the three sisters and the prosecutor announced the trial would begin April 1910 but things started to
01:20:59
fall apart because a ton of things delayed the trial first the sister's elderly mother died followed by the
01:21:06
unfortunate death of OC's son David at St Christopher's Hospital then in the spring it became clear to authorities
01:21:15
that Virginia's Health had started to take a turn for the worse and she's in custody right okay they discovered she
01:21:22
was star in herself what that is so like just maob yep in August the prosecutor announced it is feared Virginia Ward law
01:21:34
may not live to be brought to trial wow by the summer she had been removed from the House of Corrections and taken to a
01:21:40
hospital she was frequently unconscious required oxygen and a few days later on August 12th she had died from starvation
01:21:48
Jes she had starved herself to death in custody that is wild cuz that takes a long time yeah now prison officials had
01:21:57
tried to give her enough food like they were they were serving her food she just
01:22:01
wouldn't eat they said she had intentionally killed herself and they said quote having starved herself to
01:22:07
avoid being placed on trial wow now things became even more complicated a month later in late September when
01:22:14
Franklin Fort produced a document signed by two psychiatrists that declared Caroline Martin insane I mean we knew
01:22:22
that the defense argued this is a case of whether a woman should be confined in a jail or in an asylum Asylum we have
01:22:29
carefully considered all the details of the case and with the relatives of Mrs Martin and with the relatives of Mrs
01:22:35
Martin believe that she is not now in her right mind the request request for a new hearing on Caroline sanity
01:22:42
conflicted with the schedule for the acting judge so the case was transferred to another judge judge J1 e and
01:22:49
scheduled for early August now when it finally went underway Caroline's Behavior whether real or an act to
01:22:58
bolster this claim because people do believe it was did little to contradict the ways in which she'd been portrayed
01:23:05
in the Press at one point while a former representative from Ward Law College was
01:23:10
testifying um about how Caroline had negatively affected the school and its finances Caroline jumped out of her seat
01:23:17
and shouted I never said a thing he is telling and then was ordered to sit down by the courtroom yeah Caroline would
01:23:24
continue to have outbursts over and over she would challenge any and all testimony given and when Caroline's
01:23:30
brother Reverend Albert wardlaw was called To The Stand he testified that Caroline had always been controlling
01:23:37
manipulative and strange we heard that he said she directed both my school and daily life in New York oh uh he said of
01:23:45
his earlier experience with his sister that um he said that he told the court that around 1890 or 18 1991 he noticed a
01:23:54
marked change in his sister's Behavior huh she was irrational bizarre and very quick to anger and at one point she said
01:24:01
to him that she was quote equal to her Creator and called herself salvator what Albert word Law's
01:24:09
testimony was interrupted Again by Caroline outbursting and the judge had to call her recess now throughout the
01:24:17
trial Caroline was seen to lift her veil a lot cuz she was wearing her Veil mhm and basically she would like lift her
01:24:25
veil subtly during one of her outbursts to kind of evaluate the judge's reaction
01:24:31
gauging how far she could carry it or to act out like this is very clear that she's doing it on purpose like she would
01:24:39
look at him and be like and like see how far she could take it and after multiple
01:24:43
outbursts in the courtroom the sanity hearing finally concluded in late November and the judge concluded Mrs
01:24:49
Martin is sane within the meaning of of the statute competent to advise councel and assist in the preparation of Defense
01:24:57
that's the thing if like if you can sit there and jump up and out burst to everything and be like looking to see
01:25:02
how far you can take it then hello so without a formal Declaration of insanity to Shield her Caroline's lawyers
01:25:09
encouraged her to plead guilty to a lesser charge smart and on November 9th 1911 she pleaded no contest to a charge
01:25:16
of manslaughter but manslaughter when the plea agreement for manslaughter was read
01:25:20
in court she interrupted the prosecutor and said involuntary manslaughter please
01:25:25
sir you can't just change the charge that you're pleading to and the prosecutor raised his voice and said
01:25:32
manslaughter Madam so the exchange brought on another aggressive Outburst from Caroline but
01:25:39
the judge had had [ __ ] enough of this and was like we're going to get delayed again so he literally like yelled at
01:25:45
Caroline this is not the time for you to talk and she just slinked back in her chair oh man now Caroline Martin was
01:25:54
sentenced to 7 years in the State Penitentiary for women and began serving her term
01:26:00
February 8th 1911 7 years after a little more than a year in prison officials noted that
01:26:08
Caroline was doing very poorly and her mental health had declined considerably so in May 1912 she was declared insane
01:26:16
and transferred to the New Jersey state hospital for the insane to finish out her sentence okay on June 10th 1913 only
01:26:23
in the next year Caroline Martin died from heart disease at the age of 67 wow now because the law didn't allow for
01:26:32
co-conspirators to manslaughter right The Joint indictment of Caroline and Mary had to be severed as a result the
01:26:39
prosecutor had to drop the accessory charge against Mary sne and she was free to go she just walked with her husband
01:26:47
and one of her sons dead and Fletcher living in Canada Mary only option was to move to Colorado where she went to live
01:26:55
with a third son that no one knew about what the [ __ ] Mary resurfaced in 1930 when a number of diamonds were
01:27:03
discovered in an unclaimed bank vault in Murphy's bville Tennessee this would be
01:27:08
the way that this [ __ ] thing is now according to Mary quote Miss Virginia Ward law Virginia yeah her sister Miss
01:27:15
Virginia wardlaw's diamonds were lost or stolen from Su college and she believed
01:27:20
them to be the same diamonds found The Vault no as the only living Sister Mary claimed herself the heir to her sister's
01:27:28
estate those aren't hers and attempted to claim the diamonds no baby no it's unclear whether she was successful
01:27:34
really at the time she was known to be quote a church worker living in Oakland California Mary sne died in
01:27:43
1937 wow 1937 that's and that's the end of the story what the [ __ ] [ __ ] dude
01:27:51
that that is first of all one of the darkest tales that you've ever told and I shouldn't say Tales cuz it's true and
01:27:58
secondly what the [ __ ] [ __ ] what the [ __ ] [ __ ] is right holy [ __ ] that's
01:28:03
one of the strangest the fact that OC was wrapped up in this I know cuz it sounds like she was just like a sweet
01:28:10
girl and she just wanted like a happy normal life it pisses me off that Fletcher was like oh I'm not going to
01:28:15
die like let me get out of here it's like [ __ ] you flet take her with you yeah like Jesus like
01:28:20
she godamn like you got you you had to get married you agreed to get married yeah you must have loved her in some
01:28:25
capacity your first cousin get her out of there like Jesus if you're worried about these women and what they did to
01:28:31
your brother you should be worried about what's going to happen to your family member exactly you
01:28:37
know wow he just runs up to Canada I'm like nice Fletcher that's the thing it's like take her to Canada with you Jesus
01:28:42
Christ that feels very much like a Fletcher thing to do though I know you like that name but like it feels like a
01:28:47
Fletcher thing to do you're not wrong you know I think that's the guy's name and like something bar who like cheats
01:28:52
on his woman oh I think you might be right yeah I'm not going to name my kid Fletcher sorry D the Fletcher sorry D
01:28:58
the Fletch it's a cool name lie but I don't know something about it Fletch yeah wow so that is the story of
01:29:07
holy bananas the quote unquote black sisters because that's what they were called and the murder of os Sneed that I
01:29:16
can't I just can't even stop saying how Wild that was I've never heard anything like that took me out my friend for real
01:29:23
Mikey just like found that in the Mikey just found it was like you should look at this story and I was like are you
01:29:27
[ __ ] kidding me written all over how did I miss that I was like I've never came across this
01:29:33
that's wild crazy had a driver to [ __ ] you want to do that when we're old let's hire a driver drive us to the
01:29:39
graveyard we won't dance around like headstones though that's [ __ ] up no that's kind of disrespectful that's
01:29:44
super disrespectful he can drive us somewhere else I do love a graveyard though love to walk around a graveyard
01:29:49
let's dress an all black when we're older not murder anybody just get a four for four at one for fall I know going to
01:29:55
back there's a lot of souls happening today I had a weird Accent on my fall there fall earlier I said Insanity she
01:30:02
did I don't know I don't know well we hope you keep listening holy Fu we hope you keep it's weird but not so weird
01:30:09
that you hire a driver to bring you to the cemetery in the middle of the night and you dance around Graves and then you
01:30:12
like wake up in the middle of the night to people standing over your bed and not
01:30:16
so weird that you kill your own daughter by starvation and then write all the suicide notes for her because wow that's
01:30:20
like super [ __ ] up [Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • Meeting Heroes
    Ash and Elena share their experience meeting their childhood heroes from 'Boy Meets World'.
    “They were the sweetest people!”
    @ 01m 35s
    December 04, 2023
  • The Mysterious Death of OC Sneed
    The story of OC Sneed's tragic death unfolds, leading to a captivating crime tale.
    “It's pulled directly out of classic southern gothic horror.”
    @ 05m 36s
    December 04, 2023
  • Aunt's Interference
    Jon's aunt convinces him to leave his wife for her, leading to chaos.
    “Anna was better off, yeah.”
    @ 21m 31s
    December 04, 2023
  • Mysterious Injuries
    Jon suffers a series of bizarre accidents after leaving his wife.
    “He survived but weeks later he was found almost drowned.”
    @ 21m 56s
    December 04, 2023
  • Tragic Deaths
    OC suffers from neglect and jealousy from her aunts, leading to her demise.
    “She was dealing with the emotional pain of losing her husband.”
    @ 40m 18s
    December 04, 2023
  • The Birth of David Poock
    On August 1st, 1909, OC gave birth to a baby boy named David, but the labor was difficult and the baby was born sickly.
    “She gave birth to a baby boy who she named David.”
    @ 41m 21s
    December 04, 2023
  • A Shocking Discovery
    Dr. Simmons found OC's emaciated body in the bathtub, raising suspicions about her death.
    “He sees the nude emaciated body of OC laying beneath just a few inches of water.”
    @ 47m 56s
    December 04, 2023
  • The House of Mystery
    Investigators found a house filled with strange behavior and dark secrets, leading to shocking discoveries.
    “They called this house the house of mystery because the three women in black were very strange.”
    @ 56m 27s
    December 04, 2023
  • Virginia's Arrest Shocks the East Coast
    The news of Virginia's arrest sends shockwaves across the East Coast.
    “The news of Virginia's arrest made readers go crazy all over the East Coast.”
    @ 01h 06m 40s
    December 04, 2023
  • Caroline's Strange Alias
    Caroline is found living under a mysterious name in New York City.
    “Caroline is living in New York City in a hotel under the name Mrs mayck.”
    @ 01h 15m 02s
    December 04, 2023
  • The Discovery of Morphine
    The autopsy revealed morphine in OC's stomach, explaining her drowning in shallow water.
    “Oh, the discovery of the morphine answered the nagging question.”
    @ 01h 20m 17s
    December 04, 2023
  • Mary's Attempt to Claim Diamonds
    Mary resurfaced in 1930, claiming diamonds believed to belong to her sister.
    “Miss Virginia Wardlaw's diamonds were lost or stolen from Su college.”
    @ 01h 27m 13s
    December 04, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • The sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know.
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  • He was lit on fire with kerosene in his bed!
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  • That's so terrifying!
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  • Oh my God, that's so sad.
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  • Jesus Christ until she drowned.
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  • Having starved herself to avoid being placed on trial.
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Key Moments

  • Strange Behavior14:10
  • Dark Secrets23:49
  • Insurance Payouts24:29
  • Jealousy and Neglect37:39
  • Medical Neglect1:05:47
  • Indictment1:19:00
  • Murder Charges1:19:02
  • Trial Delays1:20:59

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