Bonus Episode – Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Tiffany Link, Collections Curator for the Maine Historical Society and co-curator of the exhibition “Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940” joins the show. Tiffany discusses how the exhibition was developed and why the cases were chosen. We explore how crime reporting evolved from broadsides to newspapers to early photojournalism, and how the public’s relationship with crime has changed, and in some ways stayed the same.
Tiffany also talks about the artifacts featured in the exhibition, the challenges of presenting historical crimes ethically, and why this exhibition resonates with today’s true crime audiences.
Notorious runs through the end of December at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine. For more information, visit the Maine Historical Society website: https://www.mainehistory.org/all-exhibitions/notorious-maine-crime-in-the-public-eye/
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| 0:00.0 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder. |
| 0:08.9 | Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children. |
| 0:12.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler. |
| 0:36.2 | Before we get started today, I just want to remind listeners that we |
| 0:39.5 | have a Patreon. So if you'd like early and add free access to our episodes, you can go to |
| 0:44.7 | patreon.com slash the consult pod. And there's also a Facebook fan page called Unsubs. And that was |
| 0:52.4 | created by fans for fans of the consult where listeners |
| 0:56.1 | can discuss our episodes and other true crime topics. So today is a bonus episode. I know |
| 1:03.2 | everybody's probably checking the schedule. It's not Wednesday. What's going on? Why do we have |
| 1:07.3 | this extra episode? But I wanted to do this episode because I'm joined by Tiffany Link, who is the collections curator for the Maine Historical Society and co-curator of their current exhibit on true crime in Maine. |
| 1:23.3 | And it covers cases roughly from 1690 through 1940. |
| 1:30.0 | So Tiffany had reached out earlier this year and asked if we might be interested in covering one or more of the cases that are featured in the exhibit, |
| 1:41.2 | because some of them are technically unsolved. So Tiffany and I sat down and we picked |
| 1:46.8 | out a couple of cases that we are going to try to do on the show. One of those cases will be |
| 1:53.0 | coming up on the show week after next, hopefully. We'll see how that goes. But I wanted to get the |
| 2:00.0 | word out a little sooner than that because the exhibition is running through the end of December. |
| 2:06.5 | So it'll be ending. |
| 2:07.7 | And I just wanted to make sure people were aware of it. |
| 2:11.5 | So I invited Tiffany on to tell us a bit more about the exhibit and the stories behind it because I think it's a fascinating exhibit. |
| 2:20.6 | You don't see that very often. |
| 2:22.7 | So welcome, Tiffany. |
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