87: The Colt-Adams Murder Trial (Part 3)
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
When John Colt went on trial for the murder of Samuel Adams, it felt like all of New York was watching. The media shared inflammatory, and often inaccurate stories about the defendant. The public clamored for more. Courtroom antics ranged from theatrical to downright gross. John Colt sat at the center of it all, shielded by a defense team that argued he hadn’t murdered Samuel Adams. He’d simply been defending himself.
Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Dunphy, Thomas. Remarkable Trials of All Countries. Diossy & Company, 1870.
Edwards, William. The Story of Colt’s Revolver. Stackpole Co, 1953.
Phelps, M. Devil’’s Right Hand: The Tragic Story of the Colt Family Curse. Lyons Press, 2013.
Schechter, Harold. Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend. 1st ed. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc, 2010.
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| 0:00.0 | Hear ye, hear ye. |
| 0:02.3 | You are listening to an old-timey podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Norman Caruso. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Kristen Caruso. |
| 0:07.8 | And on this episode, I'll be talking about the trial of John Caldwell Cult. |
| 0:12.9 | I am excited, Norman. |
| 0:15.2 | But you know how I'm feeling right now, Kristen? |
| 0:17.3 | How? |
| 0:18.4 | Findicated. |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, why? |
| 0:21.3 | What? |
| 0:21.8 | Oh, because a bunch of losers are on your side about something? |
| 0:24.8 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:25.1 | You know, Kristen, in part one of this series, you gave me a bunch. |
| 0:31.8 | You basically made fun of me for 20 minutes about how I pronounced the word futon and you said oh that's so weird and awful |
| 0:41.6 | the American pronunciation is futon right right I would pronounce it as futon which we could |
| 0:49.3 | all agree is weird really so you think Japanese is weird? No, that is no. Let me explain something to you, history hose. Okay, here we go. I had no idea, actually. Folks, go ahead and tune out. Just turn this off right now. Futon. Futon is a Japanese word. He's on the highest horse. It's a horse on top of a horse. And it would be pronounced in Japan, Futon. Futon. My mother was a foreign exchange student in high school. I'm sorry, |
| 1:18.0 | is your mom Japanese? No, no, no, no, no, no. But I'm explaining. She's a foreign exchange |
| 1:23.1 | student in high school. And so growing up, she always pronounced it as futon. |
| 1:28.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:29.6 | And I guess I just picked up on that. |
| 1:32.1 | And who knew, Kristen, I've been a genius this whole time, pronouncing it the way it was intended to be pronounced. |
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