PREVIEW: A Corpse In The Morris Canal
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
The Work Of The Mormon Butcher
Episode 451 begins in the summer of 1902, when a woman’s mutilated body is pulled from the Morris Canal, and the trail leads to a blood-soaked missionary’s flat in Manhattan. The suspect: William Hooper Young, grandson of Mormon patriarch Brigham Young, whose notebook bore the chilling phrase “Blood Atonement.” This is a rich episode about the strange descent of a scholar turned tramp, and the murder that made headlines thunder with scandal, scripture, and slaughter.
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 451 begins with a woman's mutilated body floating in a New Jersey canal. |
| 0:07.5 | The trail leads to a blood-soaked missionaries flat in Manhattan. |
| 0:11.8 | The suspect, William Hooper Young, grandson of Mormon patriarch Brigham Young. |
| 0:19.4 | This is a rich episode about the strange descent of a scholar turned tramp and the murder |
| 0:26.6 | that made headlines thunder with scandal, scripture, and slaughter. |
| 0:32.6 | Episode 451, A Corpse in the Morris Canal will be available on your favorite podcast player, October 8, |
| 0:38.3 | 2025. |
| 0:39.3 | But right now, you can hop on over to the safe house, |
| 0:42.3 | www. |
| 0:43.3 | www.p.p.com forward slash true crime historian, |
| 0:47.3 | where you can hear this episode now and dive deep into the case with a summary of research |
| 0:53.3 | and transcript of this episode. |
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| 1:00.5 | these historic cases alive and have access to over 400 chilling episodes of True Crime |
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| 1:17.6 | The past is present. |
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