Show Notes
Ep 286 is loose! And a man lies dead in his home, two bullets in his body but is it suicide or something more sinister? Who would want Benjamin Burton dead? Who was in the house when he died? And did Garfield just have a terrible terrible doctor? The secret ingredient is...breakfast!
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Sources for this episode include the article Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness by Kay Adams and Nancy Markey. They also have a new novel based on this story called A Harbour of Deceit
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-gilded-age-tale-of-murder-and-money-180981192/ timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/12/06/issue.html www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-first-comprehensive-cove/51634630/ www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burton-14753 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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