165: MYSTERY | Death At The Honeymoon Cabin

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A bride vanishes just 8 days after her wedding — and when she’s found, nothing makes sense and her husbands story is questionable. Even stranger, the husbands friend accompanied them along the entirety of their honeymoon. The true story of Christina Kettlewell, “The 8-Day Bride,” remains one of Canada’s most chilling mysteries....

From strange witness statements and unexplained fires.. this case continues to haunt investigators and the public nearly 80 years later

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0:00.0	Looking for a true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines.
0:03.6	When I interviewed her 20 years on, she said that Fred told her there were hundreds of bodies buried in Gloucester.
0:11.4	It's a deeply disturbed love story.
0:14.7	Join Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt and journalist Helen Fospero on true criminals,
0:22.7	a weekly deep dive into the cases that shook the world, with insights so shocking they still haunt our imagination today.
0:28.4	This is True Criminals. Looking for a true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines.
0:33.6	When I interviewed her 20 years on, she said that Fred told her there were hundreds of bodies buried in Gloucester.
0:41.4	It's a deeply disturbed love story.
0:44.5	Join Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt and journalist Helen Fospero on true criminals.
0:51.0	A weekly deep dive into the cases that shook the world with insights so shocking
0:56.0	they still haunt our imagination today.
0:58.0	This is True Criminals.
1:00.0	Just Just eight days after her wedding, Christina Kettlewell was found dead, face down, and nine inches of water outside her honeymoon cabin, accident or something much more sinister.
1:25.9	This is Avery After Dark, and I'm your host, Avery Ross.
1:28.7	We have an eerie mystery today, the case of the eight-day bride.
1:32.9	The deeper we go into this, the stranger it gets.
1:36.0	This is the mystery of the eight-day bride.
1:40.1	Christina Cecilia McCone was 22 years old, bright, soft-spoken, and religious. Her parents were
1:46.5	Polish immigrants living in Toronto, devoted Catholics that valued family, faith, and tradition.
1:52.8	She worked at a bank, and her co-workers said that she was very capable. When she fell in love with a man
1:58.3	named John Jack Kettlewell, her family disapproved.
2:02.6	The couple had been together for about three years, but Jack wasn't Catholic.
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