James Dunham & The McGlincy Murders

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Campbell, California. Lying in the heart of Santa Clara County, a periphery city of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of E-Bay. In 1896, 100 years before websites facilitating the auctioning of used underwear and haunted paintings had been dreamt up, Campbell was the scene for a gruesome family killing that saw posses of bounty hunters and bloodhounds, looking to cash in on the reward placed on the head of the murderer, embark on manhunt across mountains and valleys that would span years and eventually, decades. SOURCES: Gilman, T. (2018). The McGlincy Killings in Campbell California: An 1896 Unsolved Mystery. The History Press, Charleston, SC “Hattie B. Wells Dunham (1868-1896) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10998742/hattie-b_-dunham. Special dispatches to the Chronicle. (1896) ‘The Sextuple Murder Near San Jose’, The San Fransisco Chronicle, 28 May, p.1-3. San Jose, Cali, May 27. (1896) ‘Dunham a Maniac’, The San Fransisco Call, 28 May, p.2. San Jose, Cali, June 01. (1896) ‘Price for Dunhams Body’, The San Fransisco Call, 01 June, p.2. San Jose, Cali, May 01. (1901) ‘Murderer Dunham or His Double is a Prisoner in San Jose Jail’, The San Fransisco Call, 01 may, p.1. William Campbell (1793-1885), http://philnorf.tripod.com/william.htm. ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:47.0	Campbell, California, lying in the heart of Santa Clara County,
0:51.0	a periphery city of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of eBay.
0:56.2	In 1896, 100 years before websites facilitating the auction have used underwear and haunted
1:02.4	paintings have been dreamt up.
1:04.0	Campbell was the scene for a gruesome family killing that saw possies of bounty hunters and
1:09.7	bloodhounds looking to cash in on the reward placed on the head of the murderer.
1:14.7	They embarked on a manhunt across mountains and valleys that would span years and
1:19.7	eventually decades.
1:21.9	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:27.0	Hello and welcome to season 3 episode 16 of Dark Histories I'm then as always
1:38.2	it's a pleasure to be back and really looking forward to this episode actually.
1:43.0	We're pretty much jumping forward in time by several hundred years from last episode,
1:48.0	but it's a period of time sort of like the American frontier that I really like a period in an area of history that I really enjoy.
1:56.7	The only problem I have with it is trying to, a few of it seriously when all I can really imagine is everyone like
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