From about 15 years on and

15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were,

basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am. Not 100% but I am you. Not a hundred percent, but I am you. My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

This is serial killing, a podcast.

Hey Murder

fam and welcome back to Serial Killing a Podcast.

My name is Alyssa Carroll and this is Serial Saturday

Where every Saturday we go through the life stories of serial

killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their famous vile and disturbing behaviors.

This week's podcast will be on John and Sarah Macon. John and Sarah Megan were both born in 1845 so let's get into some history for that time.

This year Edgar Allan Poe's work, The Raven, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. State. An earthquake

destroyed part of Mexico City and some other cities along its fault line. A suspension bridge in Great Yarmouth, England

collapsed and killed around 80 people, most of which were children.

Frederick Douglass's autobiographical narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, was published by the Boston Anti-Slavery Society.

The Aberdeen Act was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, empowering the British Royal Navy to search

Brazilian ships as part of the abolition of the

Manifest destiny so US President James K Polk announced a Congress

that the Monroe doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the

United States should aggressively expand into the West. Some other notable people born in 1845 were Emperor Alexander the

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