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Corpus Delicti

60: Back in Crime: Elizabeth Bentley

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week our true crime time machine takes us to look at Elizabeth Bentley, an American spy, who was also a Russian spy, who ended up turning in dozens of other people spying against the US. What led her to such a dual life? Today's sponsor:Beautycounter - Feel good about what you put on your skinwww.beautycounter.com/britneyritchey Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones" Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners" This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. Transition Music by:Nick ScarantinoScarytino.com

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley
https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/elizabeth-bentley
http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/alumni/elizabeth-bentley.html
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAbentleyE.htm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/dece_bentley.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Austin, and this is Repi, from the Helen High Horror podcast.

0:04.5

You're listening to the Murderly Network.

0:07.2

Podcasts to Die For.

0:38.0

Thank you. Hey, everyone is Jen. And this is Lindsay.

0:42.3

And this is Corpus Delicti where I forget what the heck we're doing.

0:44.4

Where she forgot how to introduce a podcast.

0:47.0

We're off to a great start.

0:51.6

It has been the worst two weeks.

0:57.6

It's been pretty crappy on my end to just sickness and busyness and kids stuff and yeah. Yeah, my husband's on storm duty, so I'm like super mom. Yeah,

1:06.1

I don't envy you. I don't envy myself either. I told him it was like, on, when you come home, when you get to come home, you bring two balls of wine once for me.

1:15.9

So to that, we've actually got a really interesting story. I had to sneak this one in before Lindsay takes control over Halloween.

1:25.0

We decided that, you know, we said we were going to take a break from back in crime

1:31.1

and do like haunted ones, but we got to looking at them and all the ones we're looking at are

1:37.9

still historical. So we are going to go with back in crime historical hauntings. So we're not deviating from back in crime,

1:48.3

but October will be the month of back in crime. What did I say? Historical hauntings.

1:54.2

Historical hauntings. I forgot my own title.

1:57.7

Guys, you're going to love the story. It has mystery, intrigue, it has an affair, it has Russian spies.

2:04.3

It has everything that I totally went 180 degrees under the earth and was digging and digging and digging.

2:13.1

And I caught myself in such a huge rabbit hole that I had like 14 resources and I finally narrowed it

2:20.5

down to what six? Yeah. I finally, I had to because some of it I couldn't substantiate or I couldn't

2:27.9

back up or fact check. And so I wanted to make sure I only presented the facts. Now, if you

2:33.9

like this story, oh my gosh,

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