Queen Of The Darkened Room
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Episode 465, a classic locked-room mystery, takes place in the summer of 1901, when two bodies are discovered inside a mansion in Montreal’s exclusive Golden Square Mile. Ada Maria Mills Redpath and her son, Clifford, are dead. Authorities quickly ruled it a tragic murder-suicide, blaming a seizure. But the evidence was immediately buried—literally—as the family arranged a funeral within 48 hours.
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| 0:00.0 | Montreal, June 13, 1901. |
| 0:10.1 | The curtains in Ada Redpath's bedroom hadn't been opened in months. |
| 0:14.7 | Doctors' orders. No light, no visitors, no excitement of any kind. The richest woman in |
| 0:20.7 | Montreal lived like a prisoner |
| 0:22.4 | in her own mansion. Outside, the Golden Square Mile hummed with the business of empire, |
| 0:28.2 | sugar refineries, railroads, banks built on beaver pelts and bold speculation. The men who |
| 0:34.8 | owned this city kept their offices downtown and their families behind limestone walls where the money couldn't smell like the labor that made it. |
| 0:42.3 | The Redpath mansion on Ontario Avenue stood among the finest of them. |
| 0:47.3 | Everybody in Montreal knew the name. The sugar, the fortune. The family family crest on buildings from here to the harbor. |
| 0:56.0 | Everybody in Montreal knew the Redpaths. Nobody knew a damn thing about them. That was by design. |
| 1:02.0 | On this Thursday evening the household moved like clockwork, rose shallow clearing the supper dishes, |
| 1:08.0 | Amy Redpath, 32 and unmarried reading in the parlor, |
| 1:12.2 | her brother Peter nearby, the eldest son, an heir apparent, waiting out the hours until he could |
| 1:17.6 | retire to wherever he retired to. Upstairs in that darkened bedroom, Ada Maria Mills' Redpath |
| 1:24.2 | lay in bed, 59 years old. A confirmed invalid, the papers would call her, |
| 1:30.3 | suffering from nervous exhaustion and melancholia, words that meant a woman had been put away |
| 1:36.4 | without anyone having to say so. Then the front door opened. Clifford came through it like a man |
| 1:41.9 | with somewhere to be. 24 years old. |
| 1:45.3 | The baby of the family. |
| 1:47.0 | The one who still visited mother's room when his siblings had long since stopped trying. |
| 1:51.9 | He took the stairs two at a time, passed Amy and Peter without a word, without even a glance. |
| 1:57.8 | His face was a locked door. |
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