Cryptograms - Henry Debosnys

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Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In 1882, a man calling himself Henry Debosnys arrived in the Adirondacks. He was cultured, spoke half a dozen languages, and claimed to be a Portuguese aristocrat. But beneath the charm was a trail of dead wives that stretched across the East Coast. Within weeks of marrying a local widow named Betsey Wells, she was found brutally murdered—and Debosnys was the only suspect.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.7	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.1	Yeah, I had a buddy tell me about something. It's, I can't remember what the name of it is i can't i don't know
0:24.8	the name up to the second window and we'll see you next crime welcome to true crime to go i am john
0:34.9	here with maybe a confused jamy i am Jamie and I am confused. This is a true
0:41.6	crime story about a man with no real name. All right. Sometimes I wish I didn't have a name.
0:47.4	Did he have a horse with a name? That song is in my head really bad. So it was all I could do not to
0:53.0	say it at the drive-thru, but that lady's
0:54.9	really mean. So it is what it is. Well, why don't you get the ball rolling? We are going to go
1:00.6	back a little bit. That's all right. To the year of 1882. How old were you? Well, I was about
1:07.3	102 years away from being thought about.
1:17.2	So we're going to talk about a mysterious man that arrived in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.
1:18.3	Really like their chairs.
1:19.5	Adirondacks.
1:21.3	He spoke several languages.
1:23.7	He claimed to be a world traveler. He said he had fought wars across Europe.
1:26.5	And he said he came from a very wealthy family
1:29.6	in Portugal. However, we have no reason to believe that any of that was true. What nobody in
1:37.3	Essex County knew at the time was that the strange, intelligent, and charismatic drifter
1:42.5	appeared to leave a trail behind him,
1:45.5	a trail of dead wives, that is,
1:47.8	also false identities and secrets
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