One Eyed Joe

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. People thought no jail was strong enough to keep him, but then in 1895 he was sentenced to Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary. At Eastern State, Frankford became the victim of a strange practice: the prison doctor, Dr. John Bacon, dissected his body and removed his brain. The Frankford case would just be one of many others in the region and would illuminate an underground cadaver network supplying medical schools across the state of Pennsylvania. Reporter Elana Gordon from WHYY's The Pulse has today's story. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	I imagined him kind of a horse whisper.
1:15.0	John Frankfurt was born in 1839 and grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1:21.0	He was a master at stealing and selling horses. He once joked to a
1:25.2	warden that he was responsible for every missing horse in Eastern Pennsylvania.
1:30.3	And he just keeps getting caught and escaping so it's almost like a running joke.
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