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The Twisted Roots podcast is hosted by genealogist Dale Sheldon. He shares true crime stories with the facts and descriptions coming directly from the original source documentation. From famous unsolved cases, to small town murders lost for a century, here you will discover what really happened. When the truth is stranger than fiction, there is no need to make it up.
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S2E9: In this episode we will have a brief announcement on the future of Twisted Roots and will explore some interesting updates on some previous episodes about Lizzie Halliday (The Talented Mrs. Halliday), and Pearl Osten. All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation su…
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S2E8 - In the true old west of Sacramento, California in 1855 - an abusive father and a desperate daughter - with a gentle but proud young man caught between them. There wasn't room enough for all of them in that town. Was justice really done? For the first time, you can hear the story of the killing of Amiel Brickell, quoted directly from the acco…
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S2E7 - On a cold drizzly night in Manhattan, 1857, the attractive and strong Dr. Burdell returns to his once fashionable marble stooped 4-story home on Bond St, shortly before midnight. He would never be seen alive again. The murderer must be one of the several residents of the house. Was it the cook? The fop? The politican? The widow? The butcher?…
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S2E6: This episode is the third in our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this episode we will focus on Mrs. Annie Chapman, aka Annie Eliza Smith, aka Annie Sivvey, the second of the "Canonica…
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S2E5 - The tale of Sweeney Todd that most of us are familiar with today takes place on Fleet Street in London in about 1846. The murderous barber serviced dozens of the citizens of that grand city, sent them falling through a trap door into the deep basement below, where his neighbor Mrs. Lovett would grind them down into her meat pies. But what is…
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S2E4: In Atlanta, Georgia in the Fall of 1928, a brief crime spree leads to the death of two young clerks. The story of the handsome young killer will take us through an unexpected journey of wealth and privilege that will end in a surprising but perhaps familiar setting. Genealogist Dale Sheldon shares the story of the Handsome Thrill Killers of 1…
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S2E3: On a brisk October's night in 1927, the smell of rain in the air, a fashionable young lady had recently arrived in the city of Minneapolis to attend college for piano. After finishing a long night attending to a party at the Jolly Peasant Tea Rooms, a job she had aquired only days before, she headed home. She stepped off the streetcar, just a…
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S2E2: This episode is the second in our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this episode we will focus on Martha Tabram, whom many was the first victim of Jack the Ripper. We will travel throug…
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The Fainting Widow, or the Murder of Heinrich Werner
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S2E1: In this new format episode of Twisted Roots, genealogist Dale Sheldon tells the true story of a murder within his own family. In the barn of a secluded ranch in Washington State in 1914, a man is brutally murdered by persons unknown. His wife, (and Dale's 2nd great-aunt), is put through the ordeal of a trial - her four children scattered to v…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E16: In this episode we discover the lost origins of Susannah Sheldon, never before discovered or shared. She was an "afflicted girl" who has been largely forgotten compared to other figures in the trials and yet was one of the mo…
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The Tulsa Murder of Charles Reuter, Never Underestimate a Stenographer!
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E15: At just an hour past midnight, on a cool pleasant evening in an opulent neighborhood that edged along the Osage Country of Tulsa, Oklahoma - the sound of shots and a woman screaming were heard. A talented young lawyer had bee…
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Jack the Ripper Files: Mary Ann Nichols
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E14: This episode marks the beginning of our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E13: In this episode we explore a new story and reveal information that has not been discovered in well over a century. The earliest and most successful of the extreme stage mothers, a predecessor of the ladies in the wings who ex…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E12: In this episode of Twisted Roots, Dale and CT explore the truth behind the famous nursery rhyme "The Muffin Man". Originating from the Gullet Shut in Shrewsbury, England we go on a journey through time to Bath, London, and ev…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E11: After decades of unfair treatment, hardship, and imprisonment - a grandfather must face the tragic death of his beloved granddaughter at the hands of her jealous boyfriend. In this episode we share clips of our interview with…
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Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E10: In 1895 the literary genius Oscar Wilde was confronted and publicly antagonized by the brutish John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry - the father of Oscar's lover Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas. When Oscar filed a ca…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E9: On a snowy evening in 1926, in the North Country of New York State on the Canadian border - the city of Ogdensburg, the only US city on the St Lawrence River: an older gentlemen sits alone in his kitchen smoking a pipe and wri…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E8: On a Spring morning in 1896, while her young daughters were at school, Kate Conroy was confronted by her estranged and jealous husband in her basement tenement apartment in northern New York. After a brief review of an earlier…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E7: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 3 of 3) Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in upstate New York w…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E6: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 2 of 3) Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in upstate New York w…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E5: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 1 of 3) Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in New York with excu…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E4: The conclusion of The Beautiful Cigar Girl (Part 3)! In the summer of 1841, a beautiful shop girl from the heart of Manhattan went missing. A few days later her body washed up along the shore of Hoboken. In the final part of t…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E3: In the summer of 1841, a beautiful shop girl from the heart of Manhattan went missing. A few days later her body washed up along the shore of Hoboken. In Part 2 of "The Beautiful Cigar Girl", based on original source documenta…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E2: On a summer Sunday morning in Manhattan, 1841, as a storm begins to roll in from the distance, a young woman leaves home to visit a cousin. Mary Cecilia Rogers, having previously worked at a cigar shop popular with literary so…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E1: In 1912 rural Wisconsin, a young man is tired of his family being decimated by consumption. So he decides to take matters into his own hands. Listen to the story, as told from the facts found in original source documentation, …
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