Show Notes
In Part 2/2 of our series on The Charles Manson "family" cult murders, we detail the “LaBianca murders”, explain how the Manson Cult evaded capture by hiding out in the dunes of Death Valley, recount the trial of the century during which Charles Manson flying squirrel style LEAPS from his witness box to attack the judge, and finally share the personality tests and psychiatric analyses of one of America’s more infamous cult leaders.
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The Salem Witch Trials took place over 330 years ago, when within just 16 months, between February 1692 and May 1693, almost 200 people in a population of around 2000—mostly women—were accused of practicing witchcraft, 30 of whom ended up being convicted, and 20 executed, 19 by hanging, and 1 pressed to death with heavy stones. From baseless accusations to wide-spread panic, how is it that an entire community lost its sense of reality, using the LEGAL system of indictments, warrants of arrest and trials to justify the torture and execution of the innocent? We’ll speak to themes of groupthink and mass hysteria, phenomena spurred on by the highly oppressive Puritanical theocracy which governed their lives at this time and place in history.
The three headlines we discuss this week are: Alex Murdaugh's judge warning him that his retrial won't become a circus; Russell Brand standing trial for rape in London; and a former Chicago homicide detective named as the man who killed an 8-year-old girl 65 years ago!
The Red Barn Murder became a thing of legend after it happened in 1827 in the British countryside. Then 25 year old, Maria Marten, met her lover, William Corder, in a red barn from where they planned to elope, when instead she met her end. The discovery of her body almost a full year later is where things take a turn for ethereal. Did the stepmother play a role in Maria’s murder, or did she truly dream of the location of her step daughter’s body? Either way, Polstead, UK quickly became the murder tourism capital of the United Kingdom—plays and ballads written and performed about the case, soon to be movies and books.
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This case was the first ever homicide in the small town of Brookefield, Connecticut’s 193 year history. While the February 16th, 1981 murder of 40 year old Alan Bono was open and shut as far as who committed the murder, the year leading up to the murder is one of the most bizarre paranormal stories we have on record. This case earned national attention as the first (and last) time that demonic possession was used as a legal defense strategy in a United States court.