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

Alice and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 1)

Mar 13th, 2020 30m 28s

Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.

Agnes Willis: The Cherry Court Murder

Dec 19th, 2019 31m 58s

December 11, 1899 dawned gray and cold, rain blowing in waves with the winds up Cherry Street. Agnes Willis spent the day at work as a “scrub woman,” or cleaner, before meeting up with Gilbert Farmer and returning with him to her Cherry Street

In the Barn: Luman & Alma Smith

Nov 1st, 2019 36m 5s

It’s early afternoon, not yet two o’clock on October 23, 1879, when Luman Smith returns to his farm in Williston. His little girl runs out to meet him and they go to the barn together, talking of this or that, then turning at the sound of foots

The Suncook Town Tragedy (Marietta Ball, Part 2)

Oct 8th, 2019 40m 1s

October 6, 1875. Wednesday morning in St. Albans and Aldis Brainerd is reading the paper. He’s at his house on North Main Street or at his offices in the Brainerd Block. He’s taking breakfast, perhaps, or sitting at his desk when he unfolds The

The East Hill Murder (Marietta Ball, Part 1)

Sep 23rd, 2019 31m 57s

On Friday, July 24, 1874, Marietta Ball dismissed her class and closed up the No 2 schoolhouse. As usual she intended to pass the weekend with Clara Paige and left directly from the school, carrying her nightdress, slippers, and underclothes in

The Murder of Perry Russell

Sep 4th, 2019 29m 16s

The moon was in the window. The bedroom swam silver in its light. Half-past eight o’clock on October 3, 1868, and Hannah Russell lay awake, her husband Perry beside her. He slept deeply and didn’t stir, though wind shook the roof-slates and ra

The Starch Box Mystery

Aug 13th, 2019 28m 46s

Henry Beumond worked at Guild & Wetherbee’s paper mill in Westminster, Vermont. Late in the afternoon of June 12, 1895, he descended to the mill-race to rake out the debris and spied a starch box caught up on the racks. He fished it out and was

The Disappearance of Victory Ploof

Jul 30th, 2019 22m 43s

The hills were on fire. It was the spring of 1877, windy and dry. In West Jay, Vermont, Mitchell Ploof was at work in his clearing when he smelled smoke and heard a rustling in the undergrowth. Rabbits. They poured out of the forest, “whole dro

Clarence Adams

Jul 13th, 2019 28m 13s

July 28, 1902, a Monday evening. Clarence Adams was driving home from Chester village when two men stopped his wagon. He couldn't make out their faces but one of them had a shotgun. They wanted money, they said, or they'd shoot.

The McCaffrey Murders

Jun 27th, 2019 36m 13s

Tressa was up. Lillian Gallup heard movement upstairs and assumed it was her houseguest Tressa Dustin. It was just after eight in the morning. Lillian waited but Tressa didn’t come down. An hour later, Lillian went upstairs and found the guest

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