Welcome to So Dead, a podcast committed to creepy history.

I'm Jen Carpenter.

And I'm Danny Fairman.

Happy True Crime Tuesday.

And happy Taco Tuesday, girls and boys.

Today we're going to be talking about the Old Eaton County Courthouse, which is now a museum and an event venue.

The Courthouse Square Museum is located in downtown Charlott, Michigan,

a city about 20 miles southwest of Lansing. The courthouse was built in 1885 and has quite a haunting

history. It served as the Eaton County Courthouse for 90 years until 1976.

That's a long time.

Yeah.

On the same property was the sheriff's residence and women and children's jail, which

now serves as office base and the men's jail, which has since been torn down.

So a lot of heavy went on there.

Court cases that changed lives, wrongful convictions,

suicides in the jail. It's no wonder that the building is said to be haunted.

In a little bit, we'll be talking to Julie Kimmer, the museum's curator. But first, I want to tell you guys

about just one of the heartbreaking trials that took place in the old courthouse. For accuracy's

sake, the building that stands today is actually the second Eaton County Courthouse. The first

courthouse was a one-room clapboard shack that was built in 1845 and was moved to a local park when the new

courthouse was built. It is maintained as a historical landmark to this day. The story we're going

to talk about took place in the first courthouse building, but on the same property where the

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