Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

Well so are we.

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

and some horrific true crime cases.

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and join us every Tuesday,

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

perplexed. A Mysterious.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

And this is Ghost Town.

Yeah. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. It seems inevitable that rich, powerful families attract, well, their own brand of scandal.

But scandal around religion, money, famous feuds, missing persons, and even murder, those are

a bit rarer in our experience. Enter Edith Wolfskill, a beautiful heiress to one of

California's richest and most important families. A controversial life led to an even more

puzzling, vanishing, and death. Today on Ghost Town, the life and death of Edith Irene Wolfskill. Edith's heiress legacy in California

began with her grandfather, Mathis Wolfskill, who, along with his brothers, bought 17,000 acres from

Mexico in Yolo County, California. The siblings, who were some of the first English-speaking settlers

in California, used this land to cultivate an agricultural empire, making them one of the most wealthy and influential families in California.

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