Ep. 161 - The Murderous Dr. Cream

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In 1892, a convicted serial killer named Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was led to the gallows. One story goes that just before the hangman pulled the lever, Dr. Cream was in the middle of confessing to being the most famous serial killer of all time, Jack the Ripper. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cream-thomas-neill.htm https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GFZQ442/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.police1.com/bizarre/articles/15-infamous-last-words-from-criminals-on-death-row-SSCSJ5XRWVk2Osva/ https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-evil-deeds-of-dr-cream Music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3863-heartbreaking License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3641-despair-and-triumph License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3568-cryptic-sorrow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Relaxing Piano Music by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4273-relaxing-piano-music License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Dexter Britain, The Tea Party https://dexterbritain.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign.
0:02.4	If you love old movies, Hollywood history
0:04.4	or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place.
0:07.4	This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown
0:10.5	from another era and fascinating conversations
0:12.9	with writer-producers Steve Cubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.
0:16.7	So Steve, did Eva Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?
0:21.1	Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.
0:23.8	What?
0:24.3	Well, don't worry, she's hitting back with an ash tray.
0:26.3	From Beneath the Hollywood Sign is the gin joint for you.
0:30.0	Life is short, and every one of us in our lifetimes
0:41.2	tries to find a place in this world and make our mark on it.
0:45.0	When it's all over, perhaps if we've done something noteworthy,
0:50.0	there will be others who choose to celebrate our lives and remember them.
0:54.0	Sometimes people will keep a record of what dying individuals' last words were.
0:59.0	Perhaps just out of sheer remembrance, or in the hope that others can
1:03.0	glean some final insight into who they were as a person,
1:07.0	or perhaps even to catch a glimpse of where they were going
1:10.0	as they gave out their final breath.
1:13.0	Joseph Wright, a linguist who edited the English dialect dictionary
1:17.0	summed up his life by uttering the word dictionary just before dying.
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