132: The Murder of Sarah Graham (& the Scandal of Emma Molloy) w/ Larry Wood - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Emma Barrett Molloy was a well-known Evangelical Christian, temperance and women's rights activist in the 1870s and 1880s. But in 1885 she found herself embroiled in a lurid scandal involving a con-artist named George Graham. Graham married Emma's foster daughter, Cora Lee, but without divorcing his first wife, Sarah. When Sarah eventually found and confronted him, Graham murdered her and attempted to cover up the crime. Emma, of course, would be caught up in the drama, front-line fodder for a scandal-hungry press.

My guest is Larry Wood, author of "Bigamy & Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham". He gets into the nitty-gritty of this shocking story on this week's episode of Most Notorious.

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0:30.0	and
0:35.7	home
0:45.2	welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious podcast
0:49.0	i'm Eric drivenis appreciate you tuning in got a good one for you
0:53.5	today but before we get to it another shout out
0:57.2	needs to be shouted out to one of my new news hown tiered patrons on
1:04.2	patreon.com thank you megie poffin barger from california for your
1:11.1	support at patreon.com slash most notorious and a big thank you always to all
1:17.3	of my patrons i appreciate you so much remember if you like the idea of ad
1:22.0	free episodes on both most notorious and minnesota's most notorious
1:27.2	you can find them there along with other cool stuff all right let's get to
1:31.4	the interview so glad to have as my guest today lary wood he is the
1:37.2	prolific author of fifteen nonfiction history books two historical novels and
1:42.8	over four hundred magazine stories and articles his the two civil war
1:48.0	battles of newtonia won the Walter Williams award in 2011 he is here to talk
1:54.0	about his most recent release a book called bigamy and bloodshed the scandal
2:00.4	of Emma mulloy and the murder of Sarah Graham so great to have you here thank
2:06.9	you so much thanks Eric thanks for having me so this was a story that was
2:12.1	pretty sensational during its time but it is not necessarily all that well
2:17.9	no now how did you first hear about it and what led you to write a book about
2:23.6	i first heard about it i think right around two the year 2000 i was just kind
2:29.6	of perusing a green county Missouri history from 1915 and it described the
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