A Fatal Drinking Party
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Episode 301 is an especially sordid tale, and I don’t belive all of the lurid details were revealed, although many of them hinted at as police and people who knew her inadvertently reveal uncomfortable truths even as they try to protect the dignity of the victim. But I think she just went on a bender and things took a dark fatal turn. What do you think?
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Husband of Slain Woman says, |
| 0:12.0 | No Idea Who Killed My Wife by James F. Atkins. |
| 0:18.7 | September 26th, 1940 |
| 0:22.6 | I don't have any idea who killed my wife. |
| 0:26.6 | I told district attorney Smilly that, and he said that he believes me. |
| 0:31.6 | She was as good a woman as a man could want. |
| 0:34.6 | She was a good mother and a good housekeeper, and our two boys were |
| 0:39.2 | dressed as carefully and cared for as lovingly as any two children in the world. On Saturday, I had to |
| 0:46.7 | work at Baldwin's, and I left the house at seven o'clock in the morning. She left the house, about a |
| 0:52.2 | quarter after eight, wearing a blue polka dot dress. |
| 0:56.2 | She didn't take any coat or hat, and she left her pocketbook on the table, so I know she didn't intend to go very far or stay very long. |
| 1:05.7 | When I got home about a quarter after five, one of our boys said, Daddy, mummy's gone downtown. Are we going down to meet her? |
| 1:13.6 | I told him, no, we'll wait here for her. She'll be home soon. |
| 1:17.6 | Of course, I had to work Monday and Tuesday. |
| 1:21.6 | I was getting pretty worried, or maybe you'd just say, puzzled. |
| 1:25.6 | Tuesday night, though, I decided to talk to the police over |
| 1:29.0 | at 26th and York Streets. I was going to go over Tuesday night, but I met an officer I know, |
| 1:35.2 | and he said, let it go tonight, Jim, and then if she hasn't turned up by tomorrow, you can come |
| 1:40.5 | over to the station and report her missing. The next morning I got up at six o'clock |
| 1:45.8 | and I went down to get the milk in the paper, the inquire, by the way. I picked it up and ran my |
| 1:51.3 | eye over the headlines, the way a fellow will, and I saw this story about a woman being murdered. |
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