78: The Woman Who Tortures - July 17 2019 - Morning Cup of Murder True Crime

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com The murder of Gianni Versace on July 15th 1997 is one of those crimes that everyone knows about. It was brutal, unexpected, and extremely sad. But what about the crimes serial killer, Andrew Cunanan committed before his final murder shot him into fame? Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow us on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer The show is produced and edited by Dillon Biemesderfer IG: @dungeonsanddillons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.8	When we survived by telephone and electricity lines,
0:05.5	a weird, described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.5	A cup of murder.
0:10.8	Old-timey crimes can sometimes be considered boring.
0:14.8	But a sensational thing happened on July 17, 1903, when a woman was executed in a rural area that is now Oklahoma.
0:23.6	A crime that caused an uproar because many believed, up until that day,
0:28.1	that a woman could never act so barbarically, especially to a child.
0:32.7	So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,
0:36.0	sit back and start your day with a morning
0:37.7	cup of murder.
0:42.2	Dora Wright was the primary caregiver of a seven-year-old girl who was presumed to be her stepdaughter,
0:48.0	though in fact it was later found that she was her niece.
0:51.3	To an observer, she was caring and loving to Annie Williams.
0:56.1	However, behind closed doors, she would whip the child unmercifully with large switches, striking her in the hands
1:01.4	and face. She would burn holes in her thighs with a heated poker amongst other unspeakable crimes.
1:08.2	She tortured this girl for several months before finally whipping the girl to death in February of 1903.
1:15.3	A local paper called this crime the most horrible and outrageous ever committed in their area, and Dora
1:21.3	Wright was labeled as a demon. At her trial, the jury only needed 20 minutes of deliberation
1:27.1	before condemning her to be hanged.
1:29.3	Citizens were shocked when they heard the news of the crime. No one could ever expect a woman to commit such a gruesome crime.
1:35.3	The idea of a pardon was thrown around because they believed that the infliction of the death penalty upon a woman would be a shock to the moral sense of the people in the
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