186: The Montana Murders of John & Florence Sprouse w/ Kelly Suzanne Hartman - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the autumn of 1920, two couples pulled into a campsite in Central Park, Montana, but only one left alive. Seth and Iva Danner would eventually turn on each other with their own versions of how John and Florence Sprouse were murdered, but only Seth would be tried, convicted, and put to death. And questions still linger - about whether justice was truly served.

My guest, Kelly Suzanne Hartman, author of "Murder Along the Yellowstone Trail: The Execution of Seth Danner" chats with me about the case. More information about her and her book can be discovered at: https://www.mountainstudio308.com/

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0:00.0	On this episode of Most Notorious, a 1920 double murder in Montana that sends a man to
0:07.6	the gallows.
0:09.1	But was he innocent?
0:10.4	I have a new that she needed to defend herself so she had hit Florence with the axe and Seth
0:17.4	had tried to get the gun away from Florence.
0:20.8	And to me this is one of the most interesting points that Seth notes that the part of the
0:25.8	trigger mechanism gets caught on Florence's hands and almost rips off her finger as he's
0:31.5	trying to get it out of her hand so she won't shoot.
1:01.3	Welcome everyone to another episode of The Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes,
1:05.5	thank you for joining me.
1:08.0	My guest today is Kelly Suzanne Hartman.
1:12.3	She is an artist, a historian, and curator of the Gallatin History Museum in Boseman, Montana.
1:21.2	And she is here to talk about her book Murder on the Yellowstone Trail, the execution of
1:26.0	Seth Danor.
1:28.2	Great to have you.
1:29.2	Thank you for coming on.
1:30.2	Thank you, Eric.
1:33.2	So I want to start by asking you, it's a case that I've never heard of, a very interesting
1:39.1	one, but one that I'm sure a lot of listeners haven't heard of before either.
1:44.8	Where when did you first come across this crime?
1:48.5	Yeah, I actually work at the Gallatin History Museum which used to be the old Gallatin
1:54.7	County jail and when I first started work there, I was presented with walking past the
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