A Corpse In The Attic Next Door
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Episode 331 is dedicated to listener Kalie Jansen who recommended this strange story of a Syracuse, New York woman who came up missing during a brutal snowstorm, and the surprising way in which the mystery unfolded.
Culled from the historic pages of the Syracuse Herald and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:07.0 | Syracuse, New York, December 17, 1938. |
| 0:12.0 | Detectives concluded a search along waterfronts in the Syracuse area |
| 0:19.0 | in their hunt for Mrs. Florence L. Ames, 53, as Boy Scouts from |
| 0:25.9 | two troops Saturday resumed their hunt for the woman in the underbrush and swamp lands on the |
| 0:31.9 | northern edge of the city. Mrs. Ames disappeared from her home at 116 Stedman Street Wednesday afternoon during the darkness which accompanied the start of a severe snowstorm. |
| 0:44.3 | Possibility was expressed that she was frightened into a panic when the sudden darkness occurred. |
| 0:51.3 | As he has done for the last two days, Millard R. Ames Jr., a scout commissioner |
| 0:58.6 | and son of the missing woman, Saturday led Boy Scouts in their search. He took the party to a |
| 1:05.9 | swampy area near North Syracuse Friday afternoon, widening search of the same region on Saturday. |
| 1:14.2 | Ames told police that he doubted his mother had gone to the home of relatives. |
| 1:19.3 | In a letter received from Mrs. Ames' brother, Frank Fuller of Brooklyn, |
| 1:24.5 | no mention is made of her, Ames said, adding that other relatives live in Virginia, |
| 1:30.7 | North Carolina, and Michigan. Furthermore, circumstances of Mrs. Ames' disappearance all point to |
| 1:38.8 | an intention to return home soon. She was wearing a house dress under her coat, she left the current turned on in |
| 1:47.0 | her iron and did not take her glasses or jewelry. It is believed that she had $20 in a purse. The |
| 2:03.6 | The True Crime Historian presents an eye for an eye, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme, inflicting the death penalty. Episode 331 is dedicated to listener Kaylee Jansen, who recommended this strange story of a Syracuse, New York woman who came up missing during a brutal snowstorm and the surprising way in which the mystery unfolded. |
| 2:53.6 | I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and for your information and indignation, I give |
| 2:59.6 | you a corpse in the attic next door, the $2.35-cent murder. |
| 3:21.4 | January 22nd, 1939. |
| 3:26.7 | When Mrs. Florence L. Ames disappeared from her home, she left not a single clue by which her |
| 3:33.7 | movements could be traced. Police are no nearer a solution of the case today than they were |
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