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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

184: The England Family Massacre w/ Glen Sample Ely - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In late August of 1876, an eighty-two-year-old Methodist minister, William England, his wife Selena, and two of their children were slaughtered on their North Texas farm. Selena, on her deathbed, insisted that one of the murderers was their neighbor, Ben Krebs, with whom they had suffered some ongoing troubles. But was he the actual killer, or did someone else, with another motive, murder the England family that hot summer night?

My guest is Glen Sample Ely, and in his book, "Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice & Retribution in Texas", he lays out evidence to suggest that Ben Krebs and his friends were wrongly convicted in the slayings.


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On this episode of Most Materias, the England Family Massacre in 1876, Texas.

1:08.0

She is wounded, but she keeps running. She runs back to the house, and at the house,

1:14.0

she sees a terrible scene. She sees one of these other men who have the bandanas around

1:20.0

their face, holding her husband, who's seated in a chair, pulling his head back by his hair,

1:27.0

and slitting his throat from ear to ear with a knife.

1:31.0

And so, that scares her terribly. She hears her husband screaming for help,

1:37.0

bleeding out, and so she runs away again.

1:52.0

Welcome everyone to another episode of The Most Materias Podcast.

2:10.0

I'm Eric Rivenes. I appreciate so much you choosing to spend some of your precious time with me today.

2:16.0

Well, I am grateful to have with me Glenn Sample Ealy. He is the award-winning author of

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