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117: The Galápagos Affair | Ecuador

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 1929 an eccentric doctor, Friedrich Ritter and his mistress, Dore Strauch Koerwin, left Berlin to start a life on an uninhabited island in the Galápagos. They wrote articles about their life, surviving on nothing but hard work, philosophy and vegetables. Soon, more people followed to experience the same lifestyle. When a boisterous self-proclaimed Viennese baroness and her two lovers arrived on Floreana Island, tension rose. When she picked her favourite lover and crowned herself as Empress of the Galápagos, a storm erupted.
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Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Audio editing: Blackwell Post
Music: “Nordic Medieval” by Marcus Bressler
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This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.

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0:00.0

You are listening to the evidence locker.

0:10.0

Her cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

0:14.4

It deals with true crimes in real people.

0:16.8

Some parts are graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised.

0:20.6

Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

0:27.0

If you were to arrive in the Galapagos Islands in the early 1930s, Floriana Island would be one of the few places

0:35.4

you could stop and meet some people.

0:38.0

There were three homes, all built by their European inhabitants.

0:41.7

The landing beach was post office bay where a large mailbox stood. The mailbox was built in the 18th century by whalers hoping to send or receive mail to and from England. In 1932 1932 a sign on the letterbox said,

0:55.1

whoever you are friends two hours from here is Hacienda Perideso a little spot

1:01.6

where the weary traveler is happy to find some rest, refreshment, and peace on his way through life.

1:07.0

Life, this little bit of eternity chain to a clock is so short after all,

1:11.0

so let us be happy, let us be good. At Paradise, you have no name but one. Friend.

1:18.1

We will share with you the salt of the sea. The vegetables of our little garden, the fruits of our trees, the

1:24.5

fresh water running down from the rocks. We will share with you what other friends who

1:29.0

passed by gave us. We will spend with you some moments of life and give you the happiness and peace that God put into our heart and mind.

1:37.0

Since we have left the restless turmoil of the metropolis to the quiet of centuries, which has laid its mantle upon the Galapagos.

1:45.0

Baroness Wagner, Robert Philipson, Rudolph Lorenz.

1:50.0

People from Far and Why knew about Baroness Wagner, who would claim the title of Empress of the Galapagos for herself.

1:57.0

She lived on Floriana Island with her two lovers and love living a scandalous lifestyle.

2:02.0

Also on the island, were the Ridders and the Whitmers,

2:05.8

two German families with vast differences themselves. The island was too small for these

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