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🗓️ 31 October 2023
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advised. |
0:16.0 | This is 10-minute murder. |
0:21.6 | The concept of nature |
0:35.6 | is nature versus nurture is one that has been debated for years. |
0:39.3 | Are people taught to be evil, or are they born that way? |
0:43.3 | George Joseph Smith was born on January 11, 1872 in London. |
0:49.3 | At nine years old, he was sent to a reformatory for his behavior. |
0:53.3 | After his release from the reformatory, he was in to a reformatory for his behavior. After his release from the |
0:55.3 | reformatory, he was in and out of prison during his adolescent years for theft and larceny. |
1:02.0 | In 1898, Smith married Catherine Thornhill, and his marriage to Catherine was his only legal |
1:08.2 | marriage, despite the fact that he would go on to marry many, many more women. |
1:13.6 | Smith talked Catherine into working as a maid for wealthy families and stealing just enough |
1:18.6 | so that her employers wouldn't notice anything was missing. |
1:22.6 | They managed to make their scheme work for a few months before she was caught. |
1:26.6 | She served 12 months for her crimes, |
1:29.1 | but didn't take the fall alone. She turned in her husband as her accomplice and the mastermind. |
1:35.3 | He spent two years in prison and was released in 2001. After Catherine was released, she moved to |
1:41.9 | Canada. However, there was a stint of time between when |
1:45.5 | Catherine was arrested and Smith was imprisoned. During that time, Smith met a new woman. In 1899, |
1:52.8 | he used a fake name and married a woman that he met in London, although her name is not on the |
1:57.6 | records. Even though he spent two years in prison, that wife waited for him to be |
2:02.4 | released. Upon his release, he returned to her. Unfortunately, he only went back long enough to clear |
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