Episode 243: The Scarlet Letter Murder

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On September 22, 1986, 23 year old Beth Barnard was brutally murdered in her home on Phillip Island, Australia. Beth was left with an “A” carved into her chest in reference to The Scarlet Letter, an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which the main character is marked as an adulterer by being forced to wear an A on her chest. Beth had been having an affair with Fergus Cameron, a well-known member of the community who was married to a woman named Vivienne. Vivienne Cameron is Beth’s alleged killer, but she went missing after the murder and still has never been seen or heard from again… and some of the evidence doesn’t add up. Who killed Beth that night, and was Vivienne’s disappearance a cover-up?

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is inhuman a true
0:05.4	crime podcast.
0:08.2	All right welcome back everybody real quick before we get into today's episode I
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0:59.3	that and with that let's get into the case
1:03.2	okay if you attended high school in the united states in the last
1:06.9	25 plus years you likely read the scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1:12.4	oh yes it is a book set in the 1640s it was written in 1850
1:20.8	um and in the book hester print is unwed and has a daughter so as punishment
1:26.6	we're having a child out of wedlock she is forced to wear a scarlet letter
1:31.5	A on her clothes on her chest for the rest of her life
1:36.2	yep because that's just so shameful especially back then
1:39.6	yeah it was such a big deal and it is a uh a doozy of a book there's lots of
1:44.7	literary I mean it's a literary masterpiece
1:47.6	right but we had to read it in high school I feel like makes it just like
1:53.2	everybody's just like oh the scarlet letter yeah it's uh
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