S19 Ep25: Filthy Murders Of Ye Olde Rochester w/Michael Benson
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Filthy Murders Of Ye Olde Rochester tells the story of five murders, all taking place in the City of Rochester, N.Y., during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The first story, which takes up the first half of the book, is about the home invasion murder of a young wife and mother. Her body is found in the cellar, a flour sack tied tightly around her neck and her skirts hiked up. At first, of course, the husband was arrested, amid rumors that he and his wife, along with another couple, were swingers. But he was released in favor of a preferable suspect, a damaged young tramp. In another story, the resort town of Charlotte (that's Cha'LOT to Rochesterians) where the rich went to play along the crystal clear waters of Lake Ontario. At night it was where the pick pockets and the thugs went to fleece drunks who still had money in their pockets. After our victim checks into a hotel for the night complaining he'd been mugged, he dies overnight from brain swelling. Who bonked him on the head? The answer seems to come the next day when a man is going around trying to sell the victim's watch .Filthy Murders Of Ye Olde Rochester...spans the last years of the gallows in Monroe County, and the first of the new-fangled electric chair.
Author Michael Benson joins TCT to talk about the book, it stories, and interesting facts about the Rochester area in the late 1800's !!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome in the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dix. |
| 0:28.0 | I read an interesting book this past weekend. I got to tell you guys about it. You know a lot of times we in |
| 0:34.4 | true crime will reach back into history and we'll reach back into a popular era in |
| 0:40.7 | history and want to pull it forward and relate to some popular eras in history. |
| 0:45.5 | One of the ones that we like to reach back into is the Ripper era, the Jack the Ripper era. |
| 0:51.5 | And I was intrigued about this particular book |
| 0:55.0 | that was brought to my attention by Alan Warren. |
| 0:58.0 | It was called filthy murders of Ye Old Rochester, |
| 1:01.0 | Monroe County Homicide in the era of Jack the Ripper. |
| 1:05.0 | Now, Alan said, you got to read this book by Michael Benson. |
| 1:09.0 | It's intriguing and I'll tell you, there are some darn good stories in it. |
| 1:14.2 | And I took a look at it. |
| 1:16.4 | I read it and boy, he was right. |
| 1:19.2 | Michael has been on our program previously and brought some incredible books to our program. |
| 1:26.0 | And as soon as I read this, by the way, Michael is from Rochester, New York. |
| 1:30.6 | As soon as I read this, not only was I impressed, I said to myself, I didn't know that there |
| 1:36.2 | were this many stories about murders in Rochester, New York. |
| 1:40.4 | First of all, impressed by that, but second second the fact that there are this many bloody stories about |
| 1:46.4 | Rochester or stories of intrigue about Rochester so I want to bring Michael on right now let's talk about these bloody ties to old-time Rochester, New York. |
| 1:58.0 | Michael Benson was born in Rochester and raised in Chile, New York. |
| 2:02.3 | He is one of the world's most popular true prime writers. |
| 2:05.0 | His books include Nightmare Rochester Betrayal in Blood, |
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