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right into it today um I have an old-timey murder what I know this one old timey I'm saying it's
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new it's exciting for me but this one is called the burmanzi horror that is what
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it is known by horror horror did it sound like yeah that's not what I said horror sorry I don't know if it's
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like my the way I talk or something that it probably came out that way no it's hard I feel like we've said that before
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on screen like yeah like we're gonna have a horror discussion horror horror you know ours are really hard for people
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from Massachusetts so like just bear with us yeah we don't do well with us what's an ah kid what's an R anyway but
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let's talk about it okay this is from the 1800s we're gonna talk about a woman named Marie deroux isn't that a name
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that's a pretty name Marie daru uh she was born in 1821 in Switzerland actually uh we don't know a ton about her because
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it was 1821 um and you know there was not a lot going on apparently with her so she just
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kind of floated through she was just vibing unfortunately when she was a teenager both her parents passed away oh
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yeah I don't know how because again not a lot of information to do it she ended up though who knows really oh but yeah I
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was joking I was gonna say perhaps but she moved to London after this because she was like you know what I wanna I
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wanna get out of here I gotta start my life so she became what was known as a domestic servant so she became a maid of
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sorts to a woman named lady Polk okay and this was in a house that was referred to as Halden house and it was
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an Exeter oh Exeter Devin it's hard to understand how the counties and like places work in England because it's
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different from over here I'm lost so hopefully you guys know what that is I'm assuming if you're over there you're
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like yes or no no and I'm sorry if you're like no that's not how that works but I'm trying so
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she had a great time there she was really good at her job she liked it because she got to be involved in all
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like the luxurious ways of living even if it was on the fringes of it she got to experience it she became obsessed oh
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yeah living that lifestyle even though she was you know not making a ton of money herself she was able to live in
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the house she got the you know she got the experiences and so she was like I want to live this life I don't ever want
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to live in poverty that's my goal okay I mean that's a that's a fair goal to Great goal I guess so in 1846 she was
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around 23 years old this is she'd been working for a while she had gotten really good at it word had spread that
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she was really you know because they talk oh yeah these ladies of the households they talk high society and
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all that yeah so word got around that she was really good at her job she was also looking to kind of move on so she
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moved on to work at another home for somebody else she now worked for lady blanteer now lady blunt here was
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actually the lady of Stafford house and this was one of the most prestigious and
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extravagant homes in London at the time okay like and these are just like houses
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like Estates that's wild like yeah just nuts and these were I mean they were described as like you know covered in
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marble and Golds and just like yeah the most extravagant and luxurious thing ever I love it now this particular move
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for her was a huge jump up in society this was like a giant move it was not lateral this was a very much a promotion
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um she was still going to be you know a domestic servant in the home but she was
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at the home that was now run by the daughter of a duchess which was a [ __ ] big deal I've been watching Bridgerton I
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know what that means you know what that is so she had the [ __ ] Queen of England coming over for tea at that
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house damn like that's how big a deal this place was I mean she's a duchess she's a duchess she's a daughter of a
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duchess so she she loved it Marie treated she loved it she loved even just being attached to this kind of rich and
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luxurious lifestyle she would meet all these Royals and dignitaries and she started believing I'm part of this
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Society she was obsessed with it and becoming more and more obsessed with it they gave her dresses to wear for
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certain events because like she wanted all of her people all of her staff presentable so she would get these fancy
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dresses she got to go on fancy trips with her it was honestly like a really it was a it was a great job to Marie and
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I feel like it just wasn't enough for Marie it never is I'm getting that feeling you're getting that feeling it
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never is so in 1846 she went that's when she went over to work for lady blend here that same year she actually
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accompanied lady blunt here on a boat trip to France oh this was going to be like a big trip she was asked to be the
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maid on this trip because she was that good at her job and also because she spoke French oh so she was gonna help
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yeah so she's gonna be a big help on this trip she was super excited that she was chosen so they're on the boat on the
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way there obviously it's a Long Boat Trip anywhere back then you were just like you were in for the Long Haul so
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she's on the boat and she strikes up a conversation with a man oh a handsome man another passenger a man named
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Patrick O'Connor Irish Irish how did you how could you tell um he tells Marie that he is hailing
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from County Tipperary in Ireland and girl she was smitten oh hell yeah he's an Irishman also he was smitten they were
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both smitten okay that accent come on I mean come on undeniable now they chatted
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the entire way over and they soon she found out that he was a customs duty collector at the London docks but he was
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also making extra money as a Smuggler or a money lender of sorts which is like a
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little shady business but he was extraordinarily wealthy because of it he was 50 years old which makes him
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quite a bit older than her because she was 23 which was like such a thing back then but like all fine whatever you want
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to do and again he was super wealthy which was very attractive super wealthy super hot has an accent what's wrong
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with what else can you ask for and they just couldn't tear themselves away from each other during this boat trip they
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just were talking talking talking by the end of the boat trip they had made plans
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to meet up again with each other when they both arrived back in London and remember like this was gonna be a while
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because like they're both going to France for different reasons they're both going to be coming back at
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different times boat trips are long yeah there was no cell phones to just text each other and be like hey I'm back in
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London what's up imagine the excitement though like the whole time she was in France like oh when I get back to London
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see Patrick like so cute yeah Patrick just reminds me of shit's creek now right like
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Patrick is like where it's at yeah so and he looks so Irish that's all I'm pictures there you go now they had
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dinner and when they got back to London they were able to meet up and it was a long time like it was a long time before
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they could meet up so like I'm sure it was like the excitement was just everywhere so they had their dinner and
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it was right back it was right back full-blown romance but it was tricky though because remember like I just said
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it had been a while between the France trip they had gotten back at different times and between that like that whole
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interim time she had started seeing someone else she's playing the field I respect it no
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because there was there was like months in between yeah so while she's waiting you know she's not technically you know
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dating anymore and she's not like engaged yet or anything she's just seeing a man named
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Frederick Manning okay foreign [Music] it was a night like any other we ate some dinner we chatted for a bit about
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railway at the time but he was also someone who had some like shady business as well because she loved a shady fella
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she loved a shady fellow I feel back then that there was a lot of shady fellows so it's like really if you could
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like throw a rock and hit like 10. yeah uh but he was a suspected robber oh okay
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so he he had like a legitimate job and then also people were like I'm pretty sure he robs places
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he he also has a side hustle it's just not really respectable not a great side hustle he was suspected of robbing um a
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train that he was was actually on his Railway convenience so sure I get it thanks for that I was
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gonna help you out no so while he's like you know possibly a robber on the railway that he also works on
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um he's telling Marie you know what I have an inheritance that's about to hit no you're saying you know my father
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died in 1845 which was the year before and he said his mother was kind of given everything in his will but his mother
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was going to be transferring ownership of a huge property to him sure and he was like I promise this
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we're just going through the whole motion no you're not you know it's all gonna happen it's all happening Sheena
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Shea let's go you know so she's like wow that's great you're right I mean you're
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robbing places so you're getting money that's fun always good because Marie's just all she's concerned about it so
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much she's that's what she's looking for I don't care where you got it you have it and you know what at this point she's
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dating these two men they both have their Pros they both have their cons at this point and both have money and both
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have jobs to boot so it's like what you know what you're living um both were also kind of shady but you
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know well it's only a few like I think it was only like a couple of weeks and then Frederick proposes
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because I mean it's 18. oh that's true everybody's just like hey you you're cute you want to get married like it's
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literally just like hey cool we've gone out once I was like actually thinking that watching virgin the other day
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because they like dance a couple times and then they're like would you wed My Life Would You wedge my life
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I really wish that too but then it's just like and then you spend eternity together because you're not even allowed
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to get divorced that's why most of them hated each other because they didn't know each other to begin with and then
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they would suddenly be living with each other and be like wow you're insufferable like imagine you go on one
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date with someone you're like well we're betrothed imagine one dance and then it's like well that's that that sucks no
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thank you what a life so Frederick proposes so Marie is like cool um hold on a sec and then she's like hey
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Patrick Scott just proposed over here and Patrick's like wait a [ __ ] second I was gonna propose like that [ __ ]
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proposed before me excuse me so Patrick is like wed me so he proposes Patrick is
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a pick me guy so she's she's gotta choose yeah and she's like we got pros we got pecans here we got this guy who
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is like older and Wealthy but he's obviously wealthy due to Shady dealings he's got a job though but they're both
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Shady we got this younger guy I think this guy I think Frederick was only like a year within a year of her like
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age-wise sure so he's like got this guy that's more my age he's gonna last long he's got a job he's still doing some
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shady things but he's got that [ __ ] inheritance coming right that's what she was looking for she was like inheritance
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she loves it so she chose Frederick she said yes to Frederick which I immediately was like wrong choice yeah I
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hadn't even read this full thing yet this whole case and as soon as I read that she chose Frederick I was like oh
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no yeah I got like a wave of disappointment even though I don't know what's gonna happen yeah I just you
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always pick Patrick when faced with a Patrick you always pick you picked Patrick O'Connor yeah you pick him why
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wouldn't you but she did and here's the thing that's like yeah sure he's got this inheritance coming it's coming like
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you don't know if it's is it gonna arrive is it gonna get lost in the mail does it exist he's steady income he's
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got it locked and loaded exactly and you guys fell in love in like a really cute
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way and it was like Kismet you know yeah it was a meet cute so I don't know better story unfortunately she and
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Frederick were married May 27 1847 they got married at St James Church in Piccadilly London oh do you remember the
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Piccadilly Pub I hated that place oh what the [ __ ] is wrong with you I loved the Piccadilly bum the Piccadilly
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Pub I like I used to request to go there yeah I never liked any of the food there
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or The Vibes I mean I'm trash so like I hated the food and the Vibes there oh I loved the vibe you got a cute little cup
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to drink your meal out of and like to drink your meal out of it no I mean why I didn't like it yeah no no they didn't
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give you your meal in a cup see why I did not like their menus had fun games yeah I don't I was never I was never
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into the Piccadilly Pub I don't know what it was so if you have you have a taste for the Finer Things in life Marie
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apparently just call me no don't call me Maria no trust me it's an insult no they get
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married Yay good for them yeah Frederick then immediately quits his job oh he quit his job as a guard on the
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railway what and he quit his job and it was like not a good like hey I'm putting
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in my two weeks notice kind of thing it was like a bad I think there was like the rumors got around that he was like
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he was the robber and it was like it was a bad split between him and his job does
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he think that Marie is gonna support him on her income well then he did get a new
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job he got a new job as a manager of the white heart Pub in Taunton not Taunton in Massachusetts yeah yeah
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um but Marie you know she was like okay cool now at this time as well Marie found out that the inheritance thing was
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[ __ ] shocking yeah I know he's so surprised I know I know we're all like what what a plot twist oh my goodness no
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one saw that coming yeah it was [ __ ] it was never gonna come it was never coming he just trapped her he totally
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bullshitted her no he also was drinking heavily oh she did not realize loser she
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did not realize that she was marrying a full blown alcoholic who is now running a pub and was running it into the ground
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because he was just drinking all of the profits away oh my and it was also apparently he was also like flirting
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with all the ladies at the pub it was just like a bad situation she chose badly but it was a bad choice this is a
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predicament with a capital P it really is so they're trying to make it work she's trying to be like okay I made this
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decision I gotta go with it so they end up moving away from Taunton area and they move to uh burmansey in London and
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they found a home at three Miniver place but and they were renting this home now
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but the marriage is not getting better no they're moving away from the pub they're trying to do everything but it's
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not getting better Frederick is still a full-blown alcoholic and like not a nice
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Drinker like he's just a he's a dick not a happy no he's still drinking super heavily they
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weren't managing the money the The Inheritance isn't coming so they're struggling now it's just bad and she
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must have been like you lied to me you lied to me like this whole thing began on a lot this is all a sham this whole
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thing began with two very dishonest and very not like the way they went into this
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marriage was not like love and companionship it was like money yeah on both ends right so it was just bad so
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then Patrick comes back into the picture okay and Patrick wrote her because they
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started communicating again and Patrick wrote her a letter and said he always loved her he always would and he wished
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it was him who she had chose I bet she wished that too so a torrid love affair began because of course that's gonna
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draw her in she's very unhappy in her marriage it's happening and you know I feel like in the 1800s it
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was just like toward love affairs everywhere yeah because like you couldn't get unmarried no so you just
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kept having toward love affairs right it was just like the way of the world now Frederick knew these two were friends
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still like they had not broken off contact even when Frederick and her had gotten married like he knew about this
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in fact Patrick would come and have dinner with them often like the three of them would have dinner awkward we still
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don't know if there was like if he knew that there was a sexual aspect to this affair going on or if he was ignoring it
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or if he was completely clueless and just thought that they were still friends no matter what it was a very
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strange and complex situation for sure very much so and there's like rumors that later come down the line that I'll
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talk about that are like wild no spicy yeah yeah very spicy no in July 1849 Marie orders out of nowhere and receives
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delivery of there's like record of this at her home a massive amount of lime oh that's not good this is like a random
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delivery no it's not now remember this is a preparation yeah this is no good and remember this is what 1849 this is
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only a couple years after marriage now August 8th 1949 so the following month Marie orders and receives at her home a
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giant shovel bye Frederick thank you see you later now they so then Marie and apparently Frederick used this
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shovel to dig a giant hole in their kitchen floor wait Marie and Frederick yep what are they doing they better not be
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coming what do they do they better not be coming from Patrick no they dug this hole and people who came to the home
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like saw this at one point and were like what's that about and they're like oh we're just like rearranging the
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flagstone on the on the kitchen floor so we had to dig to like you know kind of uh make it more structurally sound
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because one of them was wobbly six feet down you know so they put the flagstone back on top of this hole and like
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everybody was like all right cool I guess that's what that is now that same day August 8th 1949 Patrick O'Connor
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received an invitation from Marie to have dinner at the Manning home not for both her and Frederick he went just like
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he always would just like he always would he would never have any reason to think anything different but he
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unexpectedly brought a friend with him he brought a friend named Pierce Walsh who he called walshie
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um while she had helped Patrick get payment from a loan recently like a big payout and the two of them were in a
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celebratory mood so they were like let's hang together all right cool so they so
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he brought him along they had a normal meal everything was fine when they left Marine Frederick were pissed because
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they wanted Patrick to come by themselves I wonder why why did they want Patrick to come alone well they
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have lime and us or well I always saying lime they have lye and they have a six foot hole in their kitchen before and I
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feel like it's because they want Patrick for his money I don't know so Marie decides to use her Wilds
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she got Patrick alone for a moment during this dinner she like brings him aside and she tells him you know I was
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really looking forward to an evening with just you coming and she says you know but you brought your friend that
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really like put me off I'm like very upset about it and he was very apologetic oh and he offered to come the
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next night alone so he was like then we can have an evening together and he's like I'm sorry like I didn't I was just
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celebrating I was excited Patrick don't be sorry yeah so the next evening no he's coming to dinner again but this
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time he's coming by himself don't so he comes everything's normal like they normally do but when it comes time to
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eat dinner Marie tells Patrick you have to go wash your hands you've been at the
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dock all day go wash your hands for dinner and he's like all right so Patrick is of course down to be clean
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for Marie so he goes to the sink he's washing up he's finishing you know that second time singing happy birthday when
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you're supposed to really get those germs off I'm sure um because back then we'll talk about it
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things were so sanitary so I'm sure he was definitely washing his hands for that long yeah he's definitely getting
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the finger pit yeah for sure um that's a heavy dose of sarcasm in case you couldn't tell but as he's doing
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this Marie creeps up behind his ass no and literally shoots him in the back of the head with a revolver oh my God this
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is a man that she once loved yes I don't think she knows what love is no she does
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not execution at Point Blank Range to the back of that it's insane he fell to the floor and just started convulsing he
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did not die oh so Frederick comes in with a crowbar and beats the hell out of him until he was dead
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he hit him at least 17 times in the head with a crowbar oh my God yeah they then
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threw his body into that hole they dug into the middle of their [ __ ] kitchen floor and covered it with lime they
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purchased then they buried Patrick and they put the flagstone just right back over it and sealed it off and they're
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just gonna like walk throughout their kitchen day to day oh yeah and after that they sat and had whiskey together
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in the kitchen what the [ __ ] yep that's the thing when I was reading this I did
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not see it coming that Patrick was the one that was going to go down I thought Patrick and her were going to kill
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Frederick that's what I thought what I was gonna say whoa so yeah so the next day Marie went to
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where Patrick O'Connor had been living and she convinced his landlady to give her the keys to his place what she had
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been there before because of fair of course and this landlady was said to despise her oh but she allowed it
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anyways because she was like I guess like Patrick says it's fine and she went through everything in Patrick's home she
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found money jewelry Railway shares that Patrick owned and she stole it all oh my
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God she was so cold oh and she was so money hungry that she actually went back the next day to make sure she didn't
00:27:52
miss anything to steal this is like not a human being this is a full-blown monster and the plan was going to be for
00:27:59
Frederick to go sell those shares under Patrick's name and collect the wealth before anything questioned anybody
00:28:06
and you don't think that nobody's gonna question you and all of a sudden you go from living like like you do like such a
00:28:12
big class joke yeah like nobody's gonna notice that and people love Patrick he has friends and like clients and he has
00:28:20
like people who know him yeah he's not just some random guy that nobody's gonna give a [ __ ] hell he showed up the day
00:28:26
before with his friend she's gonna wonder where he is and they had just settled a big deal so that's telling
00:28:31
exactly well it was pretty immediately after they killed him that people started searching for Patrick like
00:28:37
nobody was waiting very long to be like what the [ __ ] because why would you and
00:28:42
like I said Pierce Walsh came to the Manning household asking about him and said did he come to dinner at your home
00:28:49
the Thursday after we came to dinner like that next day and Marie was like no he never came to dinner that night liar
00:28:56
and while she was like hmm that's weird because he said I've been talking to people because I'm worried about Patrick
00:29:03
and he said I went to the dock and he said everyone at the Docks where he was working on Thursday said that he told
00:29:10
them he was on his way to your house for dinner that night yeah so like and then
00:29:14
they just lie to me oh yeah and then he was like and also I talked to people on London Bridge who were working there and
00:29:21
they said on the way to your house on London Bridge he told people I'm on my way to the Mannings wow so he was like
00:29:28
people know of course he was coming here so he was like do you wanna like I don't
00:29:32
know change that up a little bit and she was like oh well no he never came and she was like but I did invite him he was
00:29:39
supposed to come but he never showed up and he was like well that's not what you
00:29:42
said initially but okay so you're being shady yeah so immediately everyone is like
00:29:47
um this is suspicious now friends of Patrick's also spoke to his landlady because they they're trying
00:29:54
to find him they gave a [ __ ] about him and landlady reveals well Marie Manning
00:30:00
came to the home and asked for the keys twice back to back after he went missing
00:30:05
and she came in here and was in here for a while that's pretty damning so they were like okay so after speaking with
00:30:13
Marie and seeing that she lied about him coming to dinner and the night when the
00:30:17
wit when they had Witnesses who told them that or who he told where he was on his way to their home for dinner and
00:30:23
talking to the lady I'm like the lady the landlady saying Marie was there twice after he went missing they were
00:30:30
like okay we have enough to call the police and say something Shady about these people like please this wasn't
00:30:38
just like a bunch of random collection of like this is like everything is pointing to like the landlady Marie was
00:30:44
here she was here twice the people at London Bridge yeah he was on the way to the Mannings people at the Docks he was
00:30:49
on the way to the man right what else can you say so he calls the Metropolitan Police
00:30:55
tells them everything the Metropolitan Police were actually like very new at this time I think they were only like 20
00:31:00
years old at this point too it was just interesting now soon Frederick and Marie start turning on
00:31:08
each other I knew that was gonna happen because remember they didn't like each other to begin with no I don't know why
00:31:14
they thought killing her lover was going to like bring them together in any way shape or form they [ __ ] hated each
00:31:20
other they're both shitty people yeah what what did you think was gonna happen here
00:31:24
so they're turning on each other and now again they have his Railway shares because that's basically what they have
00:31:31
killed him for but [ __ ] is not going to go smoothly they think this is just going to be like hey I'm Patrick
00:31:37
O'Connor you're gonna say with your English accent right phone and like try to sell his shares and nobody's gonna
00:31:44
question it so Marie tells Frederick you know what we gotta get out of here we gotta get out of town so she's like you
00:31:51
need to go and you need to sell the furniture in our house so we can get more money so we can take these shares
00:31:56
and run the [ __ ] out of here it's like you don't think anybody is gonna be like
00:31:59
hey they're selling all their Furniture police maybe head down there no she's like let's sell everything we got get
00:32:04
the money and let's get the [ __ ] out of here so he goes and while he's gone she
00:32:09
steals all the railway shares all the valuable [ __ ] and she dips before Frederick gets back wow she just doesn't
00:32:18
give a [ __ ] about anybody she cares about Marie yeah Marie only so she [ __ ] him over and he left on his own
00:32:25
after that as well as soon as he came back and saw that she had taken everything he was like well [ __ ] he was
00:32:30
like well now I have to go so he got out of there so they're now taking off in separate directions on the run on the
00:32:37
run in two's totally separate worlds right which is like bad because now you're spreading your [ __ ] everywhere
00:32:42
instead of staying together bad so shortly afterwards on August 17th this was only like days after
00:32:50
the police come knocking at the Manning's house they went into the home after the
00:32:55
landlady allowed them in and it was clear that the Mannings had left the place in a very big hurry they took most
00:33:00
of their stuff but what was left was in complete disarray it's like they had just ransacked and laughed because they
00:33:06
very much did because they did they soon so they're going through the house they're trying to find anything they
00:33:11
soon make their way into the kitchen they were struck with the condition of the floor it was so clean
00:33:19
no flagstone floor was this clean and tidy girl and it's not like it matched the rest of the home which wasn't like a
00:33:26
[ __ ] pigsty but it wasn't like house beautiful either yeah like it was just a very normal house yeah this is like very
00:33:32
much like this was cleaned in particular so this is pretty big for the police at
00:33:37
this time because again they're very young police force and they notice this they look closer and it appears that one
00:33:43
flagstone in particular the edges were damp and they were like this is weird it looks like it wasn't properly sealed
00:33:50
like the rest of them or that it was recently sealed and the rest of them were sealed a long time ago right so
00:33:56
they're like hmm so they stick something in there they like you know use like some kind of sharp instrument to kind of
00:34:02
cut away that seal and they kind of just hoisted up and they immediately see a human toe sticking out of the dirt oh my
00:34:10
goodness when they uncovered this they see that it was Patrick O'Connor his body was face down in the dirt he
00:34:18
was naked so they had stripped him and his feet were hog-tied to his thighs oh my gosh yep his hands were tied
00:34:26
behind his back and they were able to identify him by his Dentures which they left in like stupid idiots okay now the
00:34:35
best thing about this I was I was telling John this and he was like this is amazing so I was watching this like
00:34:42
documentary about this and there were all these like older British historians that were talking about this case this
00:34:48
particular point they found [ __ ] hilarious and I couldn't stop laughing because they were all it's all these
00:34:56
older historian like British men yeah being like these [ __ ] stupid potatoes didn't take out his [ __ ] teeth like
00:35:03
they were just like what idiots like who does that who just leaves fake teeth in
00:35:07
this dead body for them to find like they were and every time they would go to one another guy who would be like
00:35:14
laughing hysterically about it and I was like wow I was like the British are the
00:35:19
cheekiest [ __ ] I appreciate it so hard because they were like this these [ __ ] dummies
00:35:26
didn't take his teeth out who wouldn't think to do that and I'm like I love that you're so appalled by that I would
00:35:31
not think to take somebody's teeth out I mean I wouldn't think to murder someone
00:35:35
so also I guess I'd never get there this was no this was in the 1840s I don't think that like the first thing on these
00:35:41
like idiot first of all they're dummies anyways but they're they're like burying
00:35:45
him in their actual floor right um but like I don't think in their action their actual kitchen not the figurative flower
00:35:52
like nowhere else they're not taking him into the woods or something just like in
00:35:55
the floor right they didn't want to do it and it's like so you think these dummies
00:36:00
are gonna be like hmm we should probably take his fake teeth out because you never know when dental
00:36:06
technology could advance in the next year or so and they could identify him through those you know they're not
00:36:10
thinking that of course they're not they aren't thinking that they think of that
00:36:13
lime is going to take care of everything that's all they were thinking about they're idiots but I could not stop
00:36:17
laughing at how [ __ ] funny these older British historians found this particular I love that they were just
00:36:25
like ripping on them like they was like it was like a Comedy Central roast it was amazing anytime I could do like a
00:36:31
British case I feel like it's always interesting because the humor the humor is wonderful it really is so now they
00:36:39
look now they're looking at the Mannings obviously who they're like okay we now know that they did this this happened
00:36:46
but they don't know that they're on the Run separately right they think they're on the run together of course they do
00:36:51
because why wouldn't they be so Home Secretary Sir George Gray offered a 100 pound reward for any information leading
00:36:58
to their capture their descriptions were released drawings were released of the them descriptions of the valuables that
00:37:05
they had stolen were published the public was on the case along with the detectives this was like a a huge thing
00:37:12
so now they bring Scotland Yard onto this I knew it was coming you got to bring Scotland yet of course you do so
00:37:20
you're gonna call they find out Scotland Yard is like on it and they find out from a cab driver who saw their
00:37:26
descriptions in the paper because it was really smart of them to release their descriptions the drawings of them
00:37:32
everything like that and their names for that matter they find out from a cab driver that he had driven a Woman
00:37:38
matching Marie's description to catch a train to Scotland believable yep and she
00:37:44
had told him that she was headed for Edinburgh now they follow this and find find out
00:37:49
that a woman matching her description did indeed catch a 6 15 a.m train to Edinburgh that day and was doing so
00:37:57
under the name Mrs Smith now Witnesses who saw her said she was acting very strange she was very nervous
00:38:04
acting very off dropping [ __ ] like just acting like something was wrong then following that lead they find out that
00:38:11
some luggage was seen in Edinburgh at a train station and it was with a woman whose description matched Maurice
00:38:18
perfectly and it also had the tag Mrs Smith on it so these Scotland Yard baddies now use the brand new system of
00:38:28
telegraph to Telegraph up to Edinburgh and the Edinburgh detectives were able to track down Marie under the fake name
00:38:35
she was using there wow this is Iconic also the fake name she decided upon was Mrs Smith yeah really girlfriend yeah
00:38:43
Mastermind not a lot of neurons firing up there none they also caught her while she was in the process of trying to sell
00:38:49
the [ __ ] Railway chairs in Edinburgh stop it she was living in a fancy-ass hotel because she'd sold some of the
00:38:56
stuff right and they arrested her and brought her right back to London when they searched her possession she was
00:39:02
holding all of Patrick's Railway shares and now this was a huge milestone for police work at this time the
00:39:08
Metropolitan Police like I said had only been around for like 20 years right the
00:39:12
electric telegraph was brand new as well and it had been invented around 1837. so
00:39:19
this was all new they also were breaking barriers by by using leads from boat records and Railway records for this
00:39:26
case which was like a step forward for police war of course yeah and the way that all the leads lined up and they
00:39:32
were able to use all that was like a huge groundbreaking case yeah now so she was brought right back to London
00:39:39
Frederick was found pretty quickly as well shocking he had caught a boat to the island of Jersey and was just hiding
00:39:45
out there he had been hanging in Saint helier Jersey and was drinking like a fish again he had run into someone he
00:39:52
knew from London there and that old friend called police because they saw the murder news in the papers and also
00:40:00
someone used the new Telegraph system to let detectives in Scotland Yard know that they saw Frederick on a steamer
00:40:06
making his way to the islands wow these dinguses just like got away for like a minute and a half and he was even
00:40:15
stupider because he acted like a dick to someone who just asked him for directions on the way there and that
00:40:20
person remembered his description in the the paper and they called police as well
00:40:24
and were like this [ __ ] wouldn't even give me directions the ultimate Revenge yeah so he got scared by that old friend
00:40:30
when he ran into that old friend he was like they're gonna remember me yeah and like that's gonna be a problem and so he
00:40:37
had actually run to St Lawrence Jersey at this time he's just like running around inside I'm just he's Forrest
00:40:42
gumping he literally is he spent his time getting even drunker and causing a lot more people to notice him because he
00:40:48
was like causing trouble I love that their motto was be so suspicious be so suspicious the most conspicuous people
00:40:56
you will ever meet meanwhile the entire time that this is happening that he's like running around these islands like
00:41:02
causing Havoc but thinking he's one step ahead of the police yeah the police were
00:41:06
on the island the entire time just following his movements stop it was like good police work and they also were
00:41:12
shocked that he didn't even attempt to leave knowing that they were looking for him that's the other thing I was waiting
00:41:18
for you to say like and then he left no he was just hopping around the island wow now the telegraph from the newspaper
00:41:24
describing his apprehension said this because they immediately apprehended him on the island of course it said quote
00:41:30
the Southwestern Company steamer Courier has just arrived here bringing intelligence of the arrest of Frederick
00:41:36
George Manning last night at Jersey on the charge of murdering O'Connor Manning was apprehended whilst in bed at half
00:41:44
past nine o'clock amazing I love that they waited at a public house in Saint heliers but the chief of police of the
00:41:51
island in conjunction with officers Langley and lockyer officers of the Metropolitan detective police
00:41:58
so when he was found there by police he admitted everything of course he did everything he said he beat Patrick
00:42:04
O'Connor over the head with a crowbar but he said Marie shot him in the back of a head he said quote I never liked
00:42:10
him so I battered his head with a ripping chisel that's not anything and it's like dude
00:42:16
sir okay he apparently also asked if Marie was arrested like immediately and was pleased when they told her him that
00:42:23
she had been arrested he had said quote has the wretch been taken the rush has the wretch been taken and when they said
00:42:31
yeah he said quote I'm glad of it it will save my life what this is the marriage marriage for real I'm like girl
00:42:40
you should have just married I mean like you don't deserve Patrick so I'm glad you didn't but you should just married
00:42:45
Patrick and like avoided all of this idiot you're just it's your fault that you're all idiots the other stupid one
00:42:52
Frederick and her are the biggest idiots they are now he kept saying that she deserved it he was telling the police
00:42:58
like she deserves it because she was the real perpetrator here even though he had
00:43:02
bashed O'Connor's head in 17 times that's fine like she was the bad one you deserve it too and like yeah she's bad
00:43:09
too you're also a [ __ ] bag yeah equal he was also pissed that she left him and
00:43:14
took the money so he was like I'm pissed which is like you're also not helping your case of pretending you had nothing
00:43:19
to do with this because you're pissed at her for abandoning you and taking the money right now in the telegraph it
00:43:25
explains his confession as well it says quote Manning confessed his guilt to the
00:43:30
officers upon his apprehension adding that he was instigated to the deed by his wife and affirming that Mrs Manning
00:43:37
fired the pistol and shot at the unfortunate Mr O'Connor Manning moreover stated that it was his intention to have
00:43:43
surrendered on Wednesday if he had not been apprehended yet totally if you guys didn't get me today I was totally gonna
00:43:50
surrender tomorrow he was like I was just gonna hit the pub one more time yeah and then I was trying to be out of
00:43:56
here and I would have shown up and confess the whole thing should have just given me a second but like good on you
00:44:00
guys for getting me yeah great job guys but I was gonna do it anyways so it's fine okay Frederick Dingus now both of
00:44:06
them were locked and new locked up in new gate prison uh Frederick requested while sitting in jail on murder murder
00:44:12
charges that a guard give him a pipe and some smoking tobacco no and they were like no thanks though thank you for
00:44:20
asking that though you [ __ ] idiot now from appearances guards and those who saw him in jail said it was obvious that
00:44:28
he was very addicted to alcohol because now without it he was very pale and very
00:44:32
sick uh which I'm like he could have died uh like it's actually crazy that he didn't yeah now because it sounds like
00:44:40
he was very addicted of course now immediately this is when the burmanzi uh horror title came like through all the
00:44:48
newspapers this is what this was called and it's still known of that today now everyone went nuts over this story and
00:44:55
of course Marie was the one that they really honed in on because it's usually the woman that they hone in on these
00:45:02
cases she's a terrible piece of [ __ ] but also Frederick was a terrible piece of
00:45:07
[ __ ] as well they're equal pieces of [ __ ] now the trial was at Old Bailey on
00:45:11
October 25th 1830 39 Witnesses were brought up to identify them both now what I found interesting I watched
00:45:20
something called Murder maps on this it's a really like crazy uh show that like goes through like old-timey murders
00:45:27
and it like Maps it out for you it's cool and they were talking about how an Old Bailey these trials would only last
00:45:34
like like minutes quick but this one lasted longer but I just had no idea that these
00:45:40
trials were so quick there yeah it's interesting I had never heard that so Witnesses were brought up to identify
00:45:46
them both and the superintendent of the Edinburgh police was one of the witnesses uh he was Richard John Moxie
00:45:52
he stated on the stand that it was Marie who was in Scotland when he questioned her about the whereabouts of her husband
00:45:59
she had told him her name was Mrs Smith she had run from her cruel abusive husband Frederick because he drank and
00:46:06
she worried that he would murder her that's why she was in Edinburgh she said oh he also said that she just ran her
00:46:12
[ __ ] mouth once everything came out and she was being arrested she started talking about how Patrick O'Connor was
00:46:18
the kindest man she knew and he acted as a father to her uh uh remember they were [ __ ] on the
00:46:27
regular guys like what what why are you saying he acted like a father to you that's weird that's weird
00:46:35
she definitely was saying it to be like she was trying to come off more innocent
00:46:39
like this was a father right if she says that she's having an affair with him they're gonna it gets spicier right it's
00:46:45
the salaciousness of it all exactly yes now this is when she said he was invited
00:46:50
to dinner that day but he never came and she had gone to his home afterwards she
00:46:55
was like yes of course the landlady is right I went to his home and she said but I was just looking for him I went to
00:47:00
some to see where he was and then did she say it's just so crazy that he ended up in my floorboards yeah it's wild I
00:47:06
didn't check there yeah I I would have looked there had I known but I look I went to his house now two clerks
00:47:13
testified that Frederick Manning was the man who had called under the name Patrick O'Connor to cash out some of his
00:47:19
Railway stocks they were like stock broker clerks yeah now side note to this uh at the time cholera was rampant at
00:47:28
this time in London gross one witness to testified on the Friday that Frederick called pretending to be Patrick and then
00:47:35
that witness had died by Saturday from cholera oh my goodness isn't that wild yeah the second clerk got it and died by
00:47:43
Sunday Jesus so they testified on a Friday both were dead by Sunday of Cholera whoa now cholera on case you
00:47:50
don't know it causes like severe dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea it's like from usually from a shitty
00:47:56
drinking water oh okay now just as a little side note because this was interesting to me because I was like um
00:48:02
excuse me two witnesses died within a weekend of testifying that's how bad this was right there was a cholera
00:48:08
outbreak that lasted two years starting the year before this in 1948 and it was said to be the worst outbreak in the
00:48:15
city's history wow so while this was going on it was like the worst outbreak so they're trying to deal with that and
00:48:21
they're trying and trying to like keep people alive right in England and Wales over 14 000 people died oh my gosh
00:48:28
during this outbreak and a guy named Edwin Chadwick was a social reformer at the time and he was like guys there is
00:48:36
clearly a link between sanitation and disease in cholera and in 1842 he had actually wrote about this in his
00:48:43
publication the sanitary conditions of the laboring population He was discussing life expectancy in
00:48:51
relation to disease and living conditions in it and this led to the 1948 Public Health act that appointed
00:48:57
Edwin as the first director of the general Board of Health because of his findings in research get it Edwin now he
00:49:05
later because no he later actually became the sanitary Commissioner of London for sure but in fact at the time
00:49:13
newspapers were saying cholera was actually the best sanitary reformer because it did inspire people to try to
00:49:20
live in the cleanest conditions they could at the time okay because it wasn't always within everybody's control at the
00:49:26
time right considering what was going on but unfortunately only very limited improvements were actually made to
00:49:33
ventilation and drainage in the city after he became commissioner he tried but he didn't wasn't able to do a whole
00:49:39
lot so actually because of the changes more runoff went into the River Thames which was like the main Supply and
00:49:49
further contaminated the drinking water which led to more of an outbreak and again the worst outbreak in the city's
00:49:55
history in those two years starting in 1948. yay so that was just like an interesting side note of what was going
00:50:01
on at the time [ __ ] was bad uh so back to the trial they launched separate defenses they were not even going to do
00:50:09
the defenses together they were just going to go after each other wow I love that they're just like no longer married
00:50:15
[ __ ] right off and that's I'm like you are the Mannings like you are still fully married right now but Frederick
00:50:22
Frederick Frederick uh Frederick decided to just blame the entire thing on Marie
00:50:27
because he figured the Press was leaning that way anyways so he was just gonna play into it saw that coming now he
00:50:32
reminded everyone that it was Marie who invited Patrick for dinner that evening not him he was like it's totally her
00:50:39
the defense made sure she appeared to only be the hungry the money-hungry villain that yeah money hungry that she
00:50:47
really was like they I'm hungry that's the thing you knew where it was of course they did we're just helping each
00:50:53
other out with our made-up words today I appreciate it uh but they were really hammering in on that fact yeah because
00:50:58
it's you know the truth now they brought Francis Stevens to the stand and he was
00:51:03
Patrick's stockbroker in heat so he had a very close relationship with Patrick he identified his own signature on those
00:51:10
shares that were found in Marie's possession and he kept saying she then he was like those are my shares that I
00:51:17
gave Patrick like I can guarantee you so why would she [ __ ] have those on her person when she was arrested have him
00:51:24
under her floorboards I would be like why are we here right now the body was found under her floorboards in her
00:51:31
kitchen it's because the two of them are going after each other saying I didn't do it he did it I didn't do it she did
00:51:37
it right right so now they need to be like what the [ __ ] but she kept saying she only went to Patrick's place after
00:51:43
he was missing because she was looking for him and she kept to that story but this whole thing shattered that
00:51:48
completely because Francis Stevens being on the stand saying yeah those are the start those are the shares that I gave
00:51:55
him I signed those off she only has those in her possession because she went to his home and stole
00:52:01
them those weren't that whole story she's telling about like I went there just to check on him and that shattered
00:52:07
now because while she was there she stole those shares he didn't give them to her and why would you do that so that
00:52:12
was just gone but Marie's defense was that she wasn't there when Patrick was murdered now she's saying I wasn't even
00:52:18
there and she said the whole she was part of the cover-up and you know sure maybe I stole some things afterwards but
00:52:25
like I didn't kill him but then after the whole you know she went to Patrick's place to steal his [ __ ] after he was
00:52:31
murdered thing came out she pivoted and she said okay but this was just Frederick's deal
00:52:37
and I just covered it up like so now she's like okay yeah sure I went there afterwards whatever like I but because
00:52:45
now she's like okay I'm gonna take a step back I'm gonna say I didn't do the murder but I had to cover it up because
00:52:52
he's my husband and he made me and he made me do it and you see in Britain at this time women had to obey their
00:52:59
husband's orders and therefore a law was actually in place that said a wife could
00:53:04
not be charged with being an accessory to murder if her husband committed the murder and ordered her to Aid him in
00:53:11
covering it up dude so they were gonna try to use that law that's a dangerous ass that's all because it was basically
00:53:18
like that's a loophole like I I have to be loyal to my husband first as a wife so I had to do this like by law I am
00:53:27
compelled to help him cover this up but you can't charge me with accessory because by law I have to help him that's
00:53:32
just giving people a little while and loophole a murder loophole the loopiest move pull but they just said okay that
00:53:41
still doesn't explain why you then stole all of Patrick's [ __ ] and also invited
00:53:45
him to dinner yourself right like what was the plan there so she then testified to the fact that
00:53:51
Patrick O'Connor meant more to her than her husband ever did oh she is so she was just throwing for the gonads in
00:53:58
those wounds and she said because of this he was murdered by Frederick who just went nuts from jealousy
00:54:05
and it was all about the fact that Patrick or Frederick could not handle the affair with Patrick that's scary
00:54:10
because I honestly feel like if I were a juror I would believe that it's a d it's
00:54:14
a decent defense it is it really is like I think I I could definitely see that being a thing yeah I mean we know it is
00:54:21
not because we're looking at this from no of course not but imagine like sitting in a juror seat back then you
00:54:27
could be like yeah maybe he did go crazy from Josie that's a reasonable doubt right there but I think the fact that
00:54:34
she has all the railway shares and she like actively ran to Edinburgh and changed her name and all that kind of
00:54:40
goes against her little dance would have been a decent defense had she not done that now this is when the newspapers
00:54:46
went Buck Wilds when it started getting into the Affairs [ __ ] they said let me
00:54:50
get buck in here suddenly rumors went wild that this was not just a torrid Affair between Patrick and Marie no now
00:54:58
people in the papers were suggesting that there was a three-way sexual relationship happening here and that
00:55:04
something went wrong with within that complex Affair I knew from the beginning of my story that you were gonna say that
00:55:10
it was scandalous at the time on a level no one had ever seen and no matter what
00:55:16
it was going to be taken as partially true because it was said right rumors are said they become truth to a lot of
00:55:22
people which is dumb but it's the that it happens that's actually the the theme of my entire upcoming case well there
00:55:29
you go now of course they all denied that Frederick denied that Marie denied that right there was no but of course
00:55:38
it's just something that maintains to this day that it was like a big rumor I don't think that's true I don't think
00:55:43
that was true at all but I think it's like they did it just to make it even more scandalizing you know right sell
00:55:49
the tabloids of the time so it only took the jury 45 minutes of deliberation both
00:55:55
of them were found guilty of murder both of them were sentenced to hang wow yeah
00:56:00
which is wild now later the defense team for Marie said which is just funny I think Frederick's defense team was like
00:56:07
yeah we gave it a shot like sure Marie's defense team came out later and was like
00:56:11
oh we never for one second believed she was innocent like we there was really nothing we could have
00:56:17
done like they were like we I'm surprised we got that far with it they were like yeah we were prepared to take
00:56:22
a hella Big L yeah they were like we figured this was gonna be a loss and that's fine oh man now during the time
00:56:28
between trial and execution Marie did attempt suicide in jail oh uh she tried to strangle herself and Pierce her
00:56:35
windpipe with her own fingernail what but she was stopped oh yeah she then wrote a letter to Queen Victoria
00:56:43
asking for her girl remember me it literally did that like was like you because they did have a previous yeah
00:56:51
some kind of relationship even if it was staff and queen you know they they had known each other so she had written to
00:56:58
her asking for her to use her power to give her reprieve from hanging uh in Queen Victoria wrote her back because
00:57:04
she knew who she was and she was like no you're a filthy murderer and you're gonna hang you [ __ ] it was
00:57:10
literally like I think Justice is served here it's like I just got like a picture
00:57:13
in my head of Ever After like spoiler ahead so like don't listen if you don't want that but when when she becomes
00:57:20
Queen and then they're like will anybody speak for you and then Drew Barrymore goes I'll speak for you it gives me that
00:57:27
that's the vibe yeah there you go anybody that hasn't seen ever after is like what yeah like I'll I'll say
00:57:33
Bridgerton the queen on there no spoilers what no but it's not a spoiler but she's awesome I love her I love the
00:57:41
queen on there and I can picture her just being like no you filthy murderer she would go say it in person 100 so her
00:57:49
next move was to write Frederick and to try to seduce him again she's like sorry
00:57:54
that during the trial I said it was all your fault it was just a little joke she
00:57:59
was like you know what everyone goes through a rough patch in their marriage okay you know the first year is the
00:58:05
hardest it's tough now when he began responding because they started corresponding she then was like
00:58:12
hey baby Honey Sweetie Pie would you maybe want to take like all the responsibility for this like one of
00:58:20
us might as well get out of here do you think that would be something and he immediately wrote her back and
00:58:25
was like [ __ ] off which I was like no I just picture him like with like the paper like this way just like [ __ ] off
00:58:32
yeah like no thank you so that ended right away yeah I bet so November 13th night or 1849 they were taken to the
00:58:40
Gallows together before they went to The Gallows Marie asked to have her black silk kerchief tied around her eyes
00:58:48
because she didn't want to see the actual Gallows or the crowd which was said to have been a crowd of between 30
00:58:56
000 and 50 000 people waiting Jesus Christ that's why everybody was sick what are you doing in a group of 30 000
00:59:01
people ever I'm like that's just a petri dish that's too many people also stop watching public execution that's a hold
00:59:08
up debate they did this for her so they did do this for her they tied the kerchief around her eyes yeah but the
00:59:13
crowd was a [ __ ] crazy ass nightmare in and of itself yeah they actually crushed a woman to death in the crowd oh
00:59:20
um and like a few other like people got really injured um reports said that Marie leaned over
00:59:26
at the last second and kissed Frederick weird and they took this as like a a thing between them like if All Is
00:59:33
Forgiven kind of thing which is strange but both were hanged on the roof of horse Monger Lane jail Frederick died
00:59:41
immediately when he was hanged Marie strangled for a while before dying oh I feel like that's like weirdly like I
00:59:48
know the universe like some kind of symbolic thing weirdly Herman Melville was in the crowd during this you know
00:59:56
Moby Dick oh yeah you know that little little tale I think I've heard of it yeah like once he watched this he paid
01:00:03
money for a spot on a rooftop because people would pay money to like for spots to watch this [ __ ] wow um yeah and he
01:00:09
later wrote in his journal about it what he wrote quote the man and wife were hung side by side still unreconciled to
01:00:16
each other what a change from the time they stood after being married together you're like that's [ __ ] crazy imagine
01:00:24
that it's like here's the dear diary yeah I've got some hot tea some hot tea and Charles Dickens actually watched
01:00:32
this what the [ __ ] what is up with like literary now in the Crowd Charles Dickens was this was actually he was
01:00:38
never really into the public execution thing but this really turned him against it oh um he was watching it and he
01:00:45
actually wrote a letter to the times speaking of how barbaric public executions were and the way the crowd
01:00:51
reveled in it repulsed him yeah because it is gross I have to read the letter he
01:00:55
wrote Because it's like yeah he wrote I was witness of the execution of horse Monger Lane this morning I went there
01:01:01
with the intention of observing the crowd gathered to hold it and I had an excellent I had excellent opportunities
01:01:07
of doing so at interviews intervals all through the night and continuously from Daybreak until the spectacle was over I
01:01:15
believe that a site so inconceivably awful is the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that
01:01:21
execution this morning Could Be Imagined by no man and could be presented in no Heathen land under the sun the horrors
01:01:28
of the jibbet and of the crime which Brought The Wretched murderers to it faded in my mind before the atrocious
01:01:34
bearing looks and language of the assembled Spectators when I came upon the scene at midnight the shrillness of
01:01:40
the cries and howls that were raised from time to time denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls
01:01:46
already assembled in the best places made my blood run cold as the night went on screeching and laughing and yelling
01:01:54
in strong chorus of parodies parodies of Melodies with substitutions of Mrs Manning for other things was like
01:02:02
or excuse me and the like were added to these when the day dawned thieves low thieves low sex workers he said
01:02:11
prostitutes Ruffians and vagabonds of every kind flocked onto the ground with every variety of offensive and foul
01:02:18
Behavior fightings faintings whistlings imitations of punch brutal jokes tumultuous demonstrations of indecent
01:02:26
Delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by police with their dresses disordered gave a new zest to
01:02:32
the general entertainment when the sun rose brightly as it did it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned
01:02:39
faces so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth of or callousness that a man had caused to feel ashamed of the
01:02:46
shape he wore and to shrink from himself as fashioned in the image of a devil when the two miserable creatures who
01:02:53
attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air there was no more emotion no more pity
01:03:00
no more thought that two Immortal Souls had gone to judgment no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities than
01:03:07
if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world and there were no belief among men that if they perish
01:03:13
that they had perished like beasts I am solemnly convinced that nothing that Ingenuity could devise to be done in
01:03:19
this city in the same Compass of time could work such ruin as one public execution does and I stand astounded in
01:03:27
appalled by the wickedness it exhibits I do not believe that any Community can prosper where such a scene of horror and
01:03:34
demoralization as this enacted this morning outside horse Monger Lane jail is presented at the very doors of good
01:03:40
citizens and is passed by unknown and forgotten beautiful I mean Charles Dickens yeah
01:03:48
but he literally was like this is a [ __ ] Scourge on society I mean and it needs to stop like he was not wrong and
01:03:56
he was not wrong and because of this he became a very UNS outspoken advocate for
01:04:01
ending public executions completely he was also inspired by watching the hangings of the Mannings to write
01:04:08
um the novel Bleak House which is like a very big novel of his um the one of the characters in the book
01:04:14
Hortense is actually inspired by Marie Manning that's crazy like directly Marie actually this is just a last little
01:04:21
thing Marie wore a black satin uh dress when she was hanged and the fabric went like totally out of style for a while
01:04:28
because of it nobody would buy it oh wow um sales like plunged and she was called
01:04:33
the woman who murdered black satin for a while how dare she isn't that wild that's insane so though they were hanged
01:04:42
together side by side a married couple and I think they were only like the second married couple to be hanged
01:04:47
that's not and just the fact that they gave each other a smooch before yeah that's like so at least a lot of Reports
01:04:53
say that of course yeah but a lot of reports do say that that happened so creepy yeah so that is the burmanzi
01:05:01
horror or Patrick O'Connor I know huh I just feel bad for him I do too that's just sad it is and so senseless it is
01:05:10
like we say all murder is senseless but some of them you're just like this especially when it's for money it's like
01:05:16
yeah just go make your own money like just you were enjoying hanging out with the family that you worked for so just
01:05:21
continue working yeah exactly you'll get a fancy dress out of it and you can hang
01:05:25
out with the queen yeah a scoundrel a scoundrel a cad scoundrel or a cad so yeah that was a wild
01:05:33
old-timey one for you it was well God we hope that you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird but not so
01:05:44
worried that you get two husbands and then you decide to kill one of them with the other one and then you leave the
01:05:47
other one because you're like no I don't want to be with you anymore but let me steal all this guy's stuff and then bury
01:05:51
him underneath my floorboards I'm like you just can't be doing that out there like stop you can't bye bye and before
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