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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Fire and Brimstone: Innocent

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Cornell Junior is arrested and put on trial for his mother’s murder. Rebecca’s spirit, which visited her brother, was a central witness. Would Thomas be wrongfully convicted? Would he get away with murder? Or was he really guilty? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:05.0

Forgive me for interrupting.

0:09.0

I'm Bridger Weineger, host of I said no gifts on exactly right.

0:12.0

Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over to chat,

0:15.0

and they always bring a gift.

0:17.0

We're coming up on our 200th episode,

0:19.0

and every episode is a gem.

0:21.0

I have welcomed all kinds of great guests, Cola Scola, Bo and Yang,

0:25.3

Robbie Hoffman, it goes on and on and on, and you don't want to miss the 200th episode with

0:29.7

The Great Maria Bamford. What does she bring me? Find out April 25th. New episodes every

0:35.1

Thursday. Follow. I said no gifts wherever you get your podcasts. We are on Mayana Tanomi Hill, which is the location of where Thomas Cornell Jr. was hanged.

0:58.5

So they would hang people where?

1:00.6

They would hang people at a place where everybody could see them as a warning.

1:05.0

And they did that in England as well as in the colonial Americas.

1:10.0

Rebecca Cornell's relative, Carrie Nolte, has taken me to the spot in Newport, Rhode Island,

1:16.0

where public executions used to take place.

1:20.0

And you'll see that also in Salem.

1:23.0

In about 20 years, they did the same thing

1:26.0

and hung them at the bottom of a hill,

1:29.0

not on top of a hill,

1:31.0

usually because the convicted would be in a cart and it just wouldn't make sense

1:36.0

to haul everybody up there.

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