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472 // The Murder of Elma Sands w/ Gavin Whitehead

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with friend of the show, Gavin Whitehead. Gavin is the person behind the excellent podcast, The Art of Crime. Gavin brings the historical true story of Elma Sands, a woman who was murdered in December of 1799, her body discovered in January of 1800 in the disused Manhattan Well. Check out all episodes of The Art of Crime: https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/ Follow Gavin & The Art of Crime: Twitter: https://twitter.com/artofcrimepod Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:42.8

I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. We just had the Thanksgiving holiday, so we got some time to spend with our friends and family. I hope your holiday was good. I hope everyone listening. I hope they had a great holiday. But Tim, I want to know how was

0:55.0

your holiday? How are you doing? Great. Thanks a lot. I'm doing well over here. Holiday was wonderful.

1:00.8

And yeah, I'm excited to be back here releasing new episodes. And this one, Lance, is, it's quite a mystery.

1:07.5

We spoke with Gavin Whitehead of the podcast called The Art of Crime.

1:13.0

Great podcast. Great podcaster. He's very clear and very thorough. And this interview with him

1:19.2

was based off of the episode that he produced about the Manhattan Well Murder. And this is the

1:26.5

murder of Elma Sands. And he just lays this out in such

1:30.9

a storyteller fashion. Once he gets started, he's into it. So I want everyone who's listening to

1:36.9

get cozy and just be ready for a great historical mystery, a true story. It takes place.

1:44.2

I don't know if you said the year, 1799, in old Manhattan.

1:48.4

So if you're into that, like, I think I'm a sucker for it.

1:51.2

That historical mystery with a lot of elements, enough characters where you get a sense

1:58.0

of this person's surroundings and you get a sense of like what type of people

2:03.0

existed in this particular spot in Manhattan in this boarding house and all of those

2:08.9

individuals that contributed to the story so again like I say get yourself a cup of hot chocolate

2:14.6

or a glass of wine because this is about to be a pretty fascinating tale

2:20.5

that you're going to hear from a fascinating storyteller.

2:24.0

Yeah, Gavin's great.

2:25.2

And if you wanna check out his podcast,

2:27.3

you can do so on your favorite podcatcher,

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