A Trial Without Music
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Episode 156 is the scandalous tale that begins with the charred body of a young woman, identified only by a mole on an unburned leg. Turns out she was married. And had a boyfriend. Police solve the case quickly, but the decision of the jury is to be whether it was a crime of passion, manslaughter, or premeditated first degree murder. Here are the facts. You decide.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | From |
| 0:04.6 | Joseph Selby, a 19-year-old steamfitter's helper, was driving with his brother along the main road between Scarsdale and Ardsley. |
| 0:24.7 | He stopped the car, got out, and climbed over the stone wall into a thicket. He was white when he returned, but he was unable to tell his brother |
| 0:32.4 | what frightened him. Six hours later, he said he had seen something smoldering and on looking closer saw that it was a body. |
| 0:42.7 | Police were sent at once to the place, a neighborhood of large estates and fine homes. |
| 0:49.5 | There are houses not far from the spot, but police said the fire probably could not have been seen |
| 0:55.3 | from any of them because of the trees and shrubbery. Police made clear that Selby was in no way |
| 1:02.6 | implicated. The only clue police could find when they reached the scene was a scrap or two of |
| 1:09.4 | the flowered material from which her dress had been made. |
| 1:13.7 | No hat was found and no shoes, nor was there any jewelry. An autopsy performed by medical |
| 1:21.7 | examiner Otis O. Squire showed the young woman had been strangled. Police believed she was killed elsewhere, |
| 1:30.7 | carried to the ravine where kerosene was poured over her clothing and a match applied. |
| 1:37.8 | Police were attempting to establish the identity of the young woman, apparently not more than |
| 1:43.2 | 22 years old. Investigators denied the victim of the young woman, apparently not more than 22 years old. |
| 1:46.0 | Investigators denied the victim of the pyre killing case fought for her honor or her life |
| 1:52.0 | before she was struck down by her assailant and strangled before being set of fire, either |
| 1:57.0 | to ensure death or an attempt to prevent identification. |
| 2:02.2 | Prince of a woman's high-heeled slippers, plain in the damp soil, were found by detectives |
| 2:08.1 | about 30 feet from an apple tree under which the body was discovered by Joseph Selby at 2 p.m. Saturday. |
| 2:15.5 | The prints were numerous in one spot, suggesting the victim had been |
| 2:19.4 | engaged in her unequal struggle at a point a good hundred feet from the highway. The murdered |
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