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Episode 125: Paper Trails (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2019-10-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTCEveryone longs for someone. That special partner who can enter their life and make is something better, something more. And while dating has taken many forms over the years, nothing is like a good, old fashioned personal ad—or the people who took advantage of them.
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Further Reading:
- Beth L. Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (The John Hopkins University Press, 1989) p. 13, 25.
- Thomas Samuel Duke, Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (The James H. Barry Co. 1910). p. 431-436.
- “Passion Victim,” Psychology Today, October 18, 2013, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201310/passion-victim.
- “This is How Newspapers Helped Us Find Love—And Deception—Before Online Dating,” Newspapers.com, https://blog.newspapers.com/lonely-hearts.
- Lindberg, Richard C. Heartland Serial Killers (Northern University Press, 2011) p. Kindle, introduction, book description.
- "Liners to America,” Smithsonian National Museum of History, https://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibition/5_2.html.
- “Crime History: Lonely Hearts Killers executed at Sing Sing,” Washington Examiner, March 7, 2013, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/crime-history-lonely-hearts-killers-executed-at-sing-sing.
- “Johann Hoch: The Lady Killer, 50 Possible Victims 1890-1905,” Historical Crime Detective, http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/johann-hoch-the-lady-killer.
- Charles Perrault, Blue Beard (Barbin, 1697) p. 5-61.
- Perrault, Charles. “The Story of Blue Beard,” American Literature, https://americanliterature.com/author/charles-perrault/fairy-tale/the-story-of-blue-beard.
- Harvey Rosenfeld, Depravity: A Narrative of 16 Serial Killers (iUniverse 2009) p. 13-19.
- A. I. Shutzer, “The Lady-Killer,” American Heritage, October 1964, Volume 15, 6, https://www.americanheritage.com/lady-killer.
- “Matrimonial Ads: The Interesting Results of the Experiment of a Venturesome Reporter,” Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1884.
- John Harris Trestrail, Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys (Humana Press, 2007) p. 11.
- Moira Wiegel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (Macmillian, 2016). p. 12, 15, 16.
- West Publishing Company, “The Northeaster Reporter. Volume 76” (1906) Page 356.
- “Remarkable Career of Bluebeard Hoch,” Perrysburg Journal, February 24, 1905, p. 3.
Comments
Rich Jester
This is one of my favorite episodes. Karma is a bitch.
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