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Corpus Delicti

140: Dark Water 2: Muriel Collins Barnett

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, we bring you the last episode in the Dark Water 2 series. Muriel Barnett was a widowed socialite who was killed on a cruise ship. Her personal assistant was in the room at the time, but was passed out drunk and can't recall what happened. After several months, a motive was finally uncovered in a series of events that news outlets claim are "worthy of an Agatha Christie novel".



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Sources:



https://apnews.com/9937503585b115d7af44385e8534f665



https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/1989/08/19/muriel-collins-barnett-passenger-cruise-ship-death-murder-aboard-royal-viking-star/



https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-12-mn-3101-story.html



https://cruise-bruise.com/blog/2018/04/25/passenger-released-from-prison-after-alleged-cruise-ship-murder/



https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/12/us/san-franciscan-59-is-guilty-in-death-of-employer-on-ship.html



https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/24/Murdered-socialite-left-250000-to-her-accused-killer/2896493704000/



https://www.newspapers.com/image/472821918



https://www.newspapers.com/image/501972818



https://www.newspapers.com/image/508855188/?terms=muriel%2Bbarnett



https://www.newspapers.com/image/495164334/?terms=muriel%2Bbarnett



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is Jen.

0:25.6

And this is Lindsay.

0:27.1

And welcome back to the series finale of Darkwater 2.

0:31.5

Or is it?

0:32.5

That is for the general public.

0:35.1

But if you are on Patreon, we have said that we will be continuing

0:40.4

it there. Also, please stay tuned to the end of the show because we have a lot of announcements,

0:45.3

things coming up that we want to make sure everybody hears. Part of it is referring to Patreon.

0:51.0

So just hang tight till the end. But until then, we're going to bring you, like Jen said, the series finale of Darkwater

0:58.3

2, where we are talking about 80-year-old socialite Muriel Collins Barnett.

1:04.2

Now, this story has a lot of twists and turns.

1:09.2

And to some, those twist and turns might seem just a little bit judgy, but this all really

1:16.7

happened.

1:17.6

There's lots of personal details are divulged that today may not seem relevant, but back

1:23.5

when the story happened, this was a huge deal.

1:30.4

In fact, Edmonton Journal said twists and turns worthy of an Agatha Christie novel. That's intense. Yeah, so we are going to

1:38.8

start out with, like we said, Muriel Collins Barnett and her husband, Philip Barnett.

1:45.4

They were a well-to-do family, and he was a lawyer in San Francisco who had passed away in January

1:52.1

of 1984 of a heart attack. Now, the couple did not have any children. It was just the two of them

1:58.4

for their whole marriage. So when he passed away, he left his

2:02.5

wife Muriel $3.7 million. And they were well off before that as well. This is just what she got

2:09.5

when he passed. They lived in a very ritzy area. They were worth about $6 million aside from what

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