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Crimes of the Centuries

S1 Ep35: The Massacre at Taliesin

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

For years, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had made headlines for his personal life. After all, he'd left his wife and six children for a married woman during the Victorian era, and made no apologies for the two "living in sin" in a home he built on family land in Wisconsin. Then, on a hot August day in 1914, Wright's whole world came crashing down: A murderer had attacked his so-called Love Cottage dubbed Taliesin. The case not only riveted the nation but it also changed the course of architecture -- at least temporarily -- in America.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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Transcript

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Travel restrictions and season season season. Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking

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that they earn the label crime of the century. But the stories that made headlines in decades past

0:47.0

aren't necessarily remembered today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author. And in each episode

0:57.0

of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.

1:04.0

This is crimes of the centuries.

1:20.0

The carnage was like nothing the people of spring green was constant had ever seen.

1:26.0

Mutilated and burned bodies were strewn across the property. Some of the victims were still alive, more solicitly so.

1:34.0

They emitted inhuman groans their forms barely recognizable as people anymore. Most would eventually die,

1:42.0

though for an unfortunate few, that release for Magni would take days.

1:47.0

The neighbors who had arrived when they'd heard there was trouble searched the property for a culprit but found none.

1:53.0

So a good number of them broke off to search the fields and forest nearby. Eventually someone thought to look in the home's furnace

2:00.0

where they discovered a man covered in blood, hiding. He too was moaning, having gulp down myriotic acid in a suicide attempt.

2:10.0

With the arrest of that man, Julian Carlton, the mystery of who killed seven people inside of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's home was quickly resolved.

2:20.0

But another question would linger for more than 100 years. Why did he do it?

2:31.0

I can't imagine anyone who hasn't at least peripherally heard the name Frank Lloyd Wright, and yet this horrific chapter of his life has largely been forgotten.

2:41.0

Wright is considered one of America's most prestigious and influential architects. He had likely been born with a different middle name, Lincoln honoring his father's side of the family,

2:53.0

but he had good reason to want to shed reminders of his old man.

2:58.0

William Kerry Wright had been a fine father until he up and left. He was a musician, composer, preacher, and lawyer who married Anna Lloyd Jones around 1866.

3:10.0

The couple had three children, of which Wright was born first. Some biographies give his year of birth as 1869, but in reality it was June 8th, 1867.

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