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Welcome to historical blindness.

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that will draw more listeners to pledge support. So enjoy this blind sight, a bonus look

at the sensational Red Barn murder case that featured recently as background in my episode on Springheeled Jack.

The day that William Carter was hanged for the murder of his betrothed, Maria Martin,

he stood on the gallows before a crowd of thousands who had been

enthralled by his trial. The rope from which he dangled would earn a pretty penny for the hangman

who sold it by the inch. Quarters' skull, his bones, his ear and scalp were all separately acquired to be sold and displayed,

while his skin would be used to bind a book about his crime.

Just what had this man done to Maria Martin to excite the morbid fascination of so many.

Cordor was the ne'er-do-well son of a farmer in Polstead, Suffolk, a young man with the nickname

Foxy given to such petty crimes as forging checks and stealing pigs.

He likely knew young Maria Martin as the scandalized daughter of the village mole-catcher,

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