Mother Chose Murder (Part One)

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Cleveland Kaber Conspiracy
By Marjorie Wilson

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Episode 114

Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length story published in nineteen chapters in five parts by newspapers in 1921 when Eva Kaber was standing trial for leading a plot to murder her invalid husband. It’s a crazy, crazy story of Italian assassins, fortune tellers, and Pinkerton detectives conspiring with amateur spies to bring an elaborate murder plot to light.

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0:44.3	Catherine MacArthur was a divorcee, wise in the ways of men.
0:52.1	She attracted men.
0:54.1	She sparkled. She was aggressive of manner. She attracted men. She sparkled.
0:55.9	She was aggressive of manner.
0:58.3	A spirited young woman, dark of eye and hair.
1:02.5	Even in her early teens, she was having affairs.
1:06.8	A shadow had been cast upon her girlhood by some time spent into correction school
1:11.6	because of her parents' inability to curb her will.
1:14.6	Perhaps it was this shadow that made her a suspicious and rebellious spirit,
1:19.6	rebellious against people and circumstances and conventions.
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