108. The Green Widow and The Double Headless Murders

Bloody Murder - A True Crime Podcast

Tara Sariban and Barney Black

Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Green Widow and The Maitland Double Headless Murders...

Realising she’d be better off financially as a widow than a divorcee, Mary Ellen Samuels orchestrated the murder of her husband, Hollywood camera operator Robert Samuels. Then to cover her tracks, she organised the murder of the man who she paid to have her husband killed, her daughter’s fiancé Jim Bernstein.

In 1941, 14 year old Eric Francis Bowles murdered his magician master “Davo the Magnificent." When Sydney Shelley and his wife Elva were found decapitated in their home in 1960, their heads were nowhere to be found and Eric was the prime suspect. Known as the "Headless Bodies" case, this horrific double murder would go on to spark a macabre fascination worldwide.

See our website! bloodymurderpodcast.com for all our social media links, contact details, a gallery, fabulous merchandise (check out our new Bloody Murder SHOES! and now STICKERS and BACKPACKS!!) and much much more.

Become a Bloody Murder Patron (for as little as $1 per month, which you cancel at anytime) and have access to dozens of Patron only episodes (including our whole first season!) with new patron only content added every month!

Go to https://www.patreon.com/bloodymurder

Levels $5 and over go into our monthly merchandise draws and get FREE stickers and hand-made Barney Badges!

Wanna buy us a drink? Here's a donate link.

True Crime Nerd Time, a segment on Bloody Murder, needs your help because it stars you! We want you, our listeners, to submit your recommendations for anything true cime related! It could be books, TV shows, movies, documentaries, exhibitions, graphic novels, art, music etc. So send us your brief story (we’ll read it out) or record your story (it can just be a recording on your phone, and we’ll play it!). We will also publish it on our website. Keep it to about 2 mins please or 200 words. Email here! [email protected]. Oh and if you give us your postal address we'll send you some stickers as a reward!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following program contains adult content, explicit language, and sexual themes.
0:06.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.4	And it contains murder. Lots and lots of murder.
0:14.8	You're stinking bastard.
0:18.3	People tell me, you're going to go die and go to hell, I guess I'm not blown.
0:21.6	Stamph, 9-11, where's your emergency?
0:24.6	Oh, this is a scary.
0:26.6	Look, put anyone, look,
0:28.6	Black to the road.
0:30.6	Send the police.
0:31.6	Send a police.
0:32.6	And he goes, don't be a hero, mate.
0:35.6	And I said, I'm not trying to be a hero, but the police are coming.
0:38.9	One in the chest, one in the hip, fired by Detective Sergeant Roger Rogers.
0:44.5	I was branching out.
0:46.8	That's when the cannibalism started, eating of the heart and the arm muscle.
0:51.9	I wear a male carwitted means will just be able to his back side.
0:56.0	Car Williams is a wobbly bottom little
0:59.0	chair of face,
1:01.0	who would who is alive with me.
1:05.0	I'd harm someone at the time
1:07.0	kill someone to be an enormous amount,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Sariban and Barney Black, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Sariban and Barney Black and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.