Elizabeth City: Nell Cropsey's Mysterious Case
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you take her deer form in your tender embrace? |
| 0:11.3 | Did you stoop low and kiss her beautiful face? |
| 0:15.2 | Did you sing lullabies down in the deep while the billowy waves rocked the loved ones to |
| 0:22.4 | sleep? |
| 0:25.3 | His gym well cocks set in a gel in the town of Elizabeth City. |
| 0:29.4 | Nell's body was released to her family. |
| 0:32.1 | Over 200 family members awaited her arrival at the Van Pelt Manor in Brooklyn, deep |
| 0:37.8 | blank with heavy white curtains. |
| 0:40.2 | The hers traveled across the North River to the Pennsylvania terminal. |
| 0:45.1 | Once the hers was at the terminal, it would await the arrival of the Southern Express |
| 0:50.0 | to take Nell to her final resting place, back home, back with her family. |
| 0:56.2 | As we travel back to Elizabeth City, back to the jail, Jim was cautious. |
| 1:01.4 | He was once again interviewed by the police, similarly telling the same story of how the |
| 1:06.9 | night began and at the end, leaving her on the porch, crying after returning her pictures |
| 1:13.0 | and parasols. |
| 1:18.2 | Mr. Adlet, Jim's attorney, spoke with him. |
| 1:22.2 | You know the serious charge that has been made against you. |
| 1:25.3 | Now tell whether you are guilty or not. |
| 1:28.2 | Jim answered, I am not. |
| 1:31.6 | His attorney asked him if he was afraid of being lynched, but Jim did not speak. |
| 1:37.7 | Mr. Adlet left the jail and spoke with reporters, telling the reporters that Jim had told him |
| 1:43.6 | no more than anyone else. |
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