Ep. 37 - Love-Sick Murderers & Victorian Sex Cults

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have a number of love-sick murderers, bad words that we’re allowed to use, so many gun fights, so many brains, a corpse concealed in a glen, Rasputin’s favorite sex cult, waxed mustaches, a dead robber baron at a seance, and much more.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/07/dr.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)

“Matricide and Self-Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“Bad Tom” Smith - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1895.

“It’s Not Use Trying to be Good” - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

“Criminal Capers” - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A Married Man, After Cohabiting with a Young Lady, Kills Her With Poison” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“A Father Taken At His Word - What Whisky Did for a Young Man in Kansas” - The Illustrated Police News, November 16th, 1871.

“How the Liquor Law is Enforced in New Bedford, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, December, 7th 1871.

“A Lovesick Sunday Superintendent Blows His Brains Out” - The Illustrated Police News, November 23, 1871.

“Mysteries of Spiritualism” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.