The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I am Connie, along with my own personal Aurora Borealis Meg.

And today she is going to tell us about Jesse Pomeroy.

You get that Midwest Northern Lights.

I laughed really hard last night when you texted me.

You're like, I'm crossing Iceland off my bucket.

Yeah, I, dude, it was so fucking awesome to watch those last night and we, I mean, we

sat out there, I didn't get home last night until like 2 a.m I was too cloudy up here I couldn't see anything.

Oh that sucks hey if it's clear tonight it's supposed to happen again tonight I guess.

Is it? I hope so. Yeah I just saw it. I walked around the block like trying to find it and I couldn't find it anywhere. I was like it's just too cloudy.

Use your phone too to look through it to see because like some of the pictures I got I couldn't see them with my naked eye but my camera picked up the color differentials

What that's crazy? Yeah, it was time to be alive. Yeah, I was so sick. All right, let's get to it.

Okay. Trigger warning on this one, crimes against children in case you need it.

In 1872, South Boston was hit with a string of

violent crime against children. In February, a seven-year-old boy named Tracy Hayden was beaten and left to fend for himself.

In May, an eight-year-old boy, Robert Meyer, was also beaten up and shoved into an abandoned outhouse.

Johnny Bouchwit missing, but he was found tied up and left for dead in another

abandoned outhouse.

The children all described the person

who had beat them up as a boy.

And this boy that had beaten them up

after Johnny was found, the press began to like report that

there was this violent fiendish big boy who was ruthlessly attacking other children.

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