Episode 194: The Divorce Colony

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. Blanche Molineux visited her husband while he was in prison for murder to keep up what she called the “ghastly pretense.” But eventually, she couldn’t keep it up anymore, and bought a train ticket to a place called "The Divorce Colony." April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier. Take our survey: vox.com/podsurvey Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	This episode picks up from our last episode, episode 193.
0:41.1	It's called a ring in the bottle.
0:42.9	If you haven't listened to that episode yet, you may want to go back and listen to them
0:46.4	in order.
0:49.4	Roland Molano was on trial for the murder of Kate Adams, who had died quickly after taking
0:54.5	a medicine that was sent to her cousin, Harry Cornish.
0:59.2	But the prosecution repeatedly linked this crime to another.
1:03.8	The murder of Roland's one-time rival for his wife Blanche's attention, Henry Barnett,
1:10.2	and pointed to Blanche as the motive.
1:12.8	She was really put up there as the cause of the death that was not actually even on trial.
1:19.1	Author and historian, April White.
1:21.7	So it was a wide-reaching court case that really covered lots of ills in Roland Molano's
1:28.5	life, lots of perceived ills in Blanche's life in the attempts to convince the jury that
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