Murder At The Furrier
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Episode 292, in which we pay our respects to a quartet of murdered wives:
Sarah Yargus, murdered by her husband John Yargus, July 13, 1849;
Pauline Schmitt, murdered by her husband Germain Schmitt, January 21, 1919;
Ida Jech, murdered by her husband Frederic Jech, July 22, 1930;
Anna McDowell Gentry, murdered by her husband Sam Gentry, February 1, 1935.
Recorded live at Miami University Hamilton Downtown, October 29, 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | True Crime Historian presents Hometown Horrors, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring |
| 0:10.3 | the scandals, scoundrels, and scourges of my beloved hometown of Hamilton, Ohio. |
| 0:16.0 | Episode 293 takes a look at four historic wife murders, drawn more or less at random from my list |
| 0:22.7 | of Hamilton crimes, but not the first wife murders that I've researched. |
| 0:27.6 | In fact, I have a couple books about them. |
| 0:29.6 | Hannah Knapp was murdered by her husband Alfred Knapp on December 22nd, 1902. |
| 0:34.6 | It's the subject of my book, the first celebrity serial killer. |
| 0:38.9 | Alfred was executed for his crime. |
| 0:41.4 | February 14th, Valentine's Day, 1903, Bertha Keeler was murdered by her husband, Samuel J. Keeler. |
| 0:48.9 | Samuel was given a guilty of second degree murder and served 10 years for his crime. He's the subject of my book, |
| 0:55.6 | The Sleepwalking Slasher. Mamie Sherman was murdered by her husband Charles Victor Sherman on |
| 1:02.0 | August 24, 1904. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree and served seven years for his |
| 1:09.2 | crime. |
| 1:16.2 | Ethel King was murdered by her husband Charles King on October 29, 1929, |
| 1:18.9 | along with four of their five sons. |
| 1:24.3 | Charles was executed for his crime, and he's the subject of my book, |
| 1:28.3 | The $2 Terror Edition of the Gas Fume Fugitive. We're going to start tonight's program with a historic murder. In fact, this is supposed |
| 1:34.3 | to be the first recorded spouse murder in Butler County. This version of it is taken from a |
| 1:41.3 | historic column on February 11th, 1904 by Stephen Decatur Cone, |
| 1:47.0 | who is one of Hamilton's historians about 100 years ago. |
| 1:53.0 | John Yargus was considered a feeble-minded man. |
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