Episode 197: Mantrap

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. They put up “No Trespassing” signs, repeatedly complained to sheriffs in two different counties, nailed doors shut, and boarded up windows - but nothing worked. So they decided to try something else. 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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0:00.0	Hi, it's Phoebe.
0:02.3	I want to tell you about the new season of Cover Story, New York Magazine's hit investigative
0:07.4	podcast.
0:08.9	Their latest season explores the case of a controversial billionaire in a small town
0:13.5	in Montana accused of horrible crimes by his best friend.
0:18.7	It's a story about misogyny, deception, and the excesses of the super rich.
0:24.4	Listen to Cover Story from New York Magazine, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.8	Well everyone knew everyone in this very small town called Eddieville and everyone
0:38.8	apparently knew the brineys.
0:41.4	In 1957, a couple named Edden Bertha Briney inherited an old farmhouse from Bertha's
0:47.8	parents in a rural part of Iowa.
0:50.8	And they left it unoccupied for 10 years and it was not inhabited old farmhouse and out
1:00.0	in the middle of nowhere basically.
1:02.3	But they kept items of value apparently in there.
1:07.7	Bertha Briney's grandparents and parents had lived in the house.
1:12.0	After her parents died, Bertha Briney had wanted to keep things as they were down to the
1:17.6	plates and silverware on the kitchen table.
1:21.4	We're hearing about the brineys and their farmhouse from retired law professor Andrew McClurk.
1:27.5	People have repeatedly broken into this house.
1:30.7	According to the brineys, in the decades since they inherited the house, it had been broken
1:35.3	into 50 times.
1:38.7	Ed Briney later said he'd nailed doors and windows shut, posted seven no trespassing
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