My Victorian Nightmare

Ep. 37 - They Died With Their Boots On

46 min • 7 april 2025

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.


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.

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