E222: Kate Warne & the Murder of ”George Gordon”

Fresh Hell Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Kate Warne, a pioneering figure in the field of private investigation, is best known as the first female detective in the United States. She was hired by Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, in 1856. This week Annie tells us about the case she and her fellow detectives solved in "Atkinson" Mississippi, involving the murder of bank teller George Gordon and a $130,000 theft. George's body was found in the morning, the detectives are certain: the victim must have known the killer! Learn all about the time Allan Pinkerton used a ghost to get a confession.

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1:09.0	Hi, I'm Annie in America.
1:10.0	And I'm Johanna in Austria and you're listening to your
1:15.1	favorite international podcast. You just heard the promo for Mortal
1:19.9	Musing an up-and-coming podcast I think they have like 13 episodes out now and they also cover
1:26.4	strange and macabre stories so please go and check them out and I'd say let's jump right in because Annie has a plane in the boat to catch, right?
1:37.0	I do. Yeah. What do you have for us today?
1:41.0	So today I have a story for you and for all of our listeners out there and oh boy, this is really something.
1:49.6	I can't wait to tell you about it.
1:51.4	I'm so excited. There's a lot. There's a lot. So the primary
1:56.4	source for today's episode is actually Alan Pinkerton's book, his account of the case, which is The Detective and the Somnambulist.
2:07.0	And I know that we have a full episode on Alan Pinkerton and the Pinkerton Detective Agency on our list for the future.
2:15.4	Yes.
2:16.4	Yeah, that's one we definitely want to cover.
2:19.5	But today we're just going to be discussing one of the cases that they covered. We are not going to get into
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