S2 Ep47: Trunk Murder Mystery

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When a young girl from a small town in the south fell in love with an international con-man and jewel thief, madness ensued. A gruesome discovery at a New York City train station in 1920 led to one of Michigan's most mysterious unsolved mysteries.

Case: The Trunk Murder Mystery

Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Intro/Outro Edits: Ben Goldman

RESOURCES:
The Disappearance of Agnes Tufverson (The History Press)
Missing or Murdered: The Disappearance of Agnes Tufverson (R. Barri Flowers)
Daily News (8/16/1919), The Oregon Daily Journal (8/16/1919), The Oregon Daily Journal (8/20/1919), The Evening World (7/23/1920), The Washington Times (7/24/1920), The New York Times (7/24/1920), Lancaster Intelligencer (7/24/1920), Buffalo Morning Express (7/25/1920), Buffalo Courier (7/26/1920), New York Tribune (7/26/1920), The Selma Times Journal (7/27/1927), The Boston Globe (7/27/1920), The Birmingham News (7/27/1920), The Ogden Standard Examiner (7/29/1920), San Francisco Chronicle (7/29/1920), Ironwood Daily Globe (7/29/1920), The Hanford Sentinel (7/30/1920),
The Cincinnati Enquirer (7/30/1920), The Post Crescent (7/30/1920), The Town Talk (7/31/1920), The Morning Call (9/10/1920), Detroit Free Press (12/22/1921), Detroit Free Press (12/23/1921), Sioux City Journal (2/15/1925), The Oklahoma News (6/29/1934), The Spokesman Review (8/26/1934)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a scream queen production.
0:13.1	I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead Podcast.
0:18.6	Happy True Crime Tuesday, Deadheads.
0:20.9	I've got a disclaimer for today's episode.
0:23.3	If you were at the last so-dead live show, you've heard this one already.
0:27.8	Kind of it.
0:30.2	So we were not able to record the last live show like we've been able to do in the past.
0:34.7	And this one is such a good story that I wanted to be able to share it with all of you, even those that weren't able to make it to the live show.
0:42.2	So today I'm going to be telling you guys about the trunk murder mystery of 1920.
0:48.1	For those of you that were at the live show and are getting ready to turn this episode off,
0:53.2	pause, this is an extended version of the
0:56.5	story. So there are a lot of new details that we didn't talk about at the live show. And I mean,
1:01.7	you know, if you were there, you know, live shows are a bit different because there's people
1:05.7	talking. There's a lot going on. It's easy to get distracted. So you're going to hear some new stuff you probably
1:12.3	didn't catch the first time around. It's definitely worth another listen. The trunk murder mystery
1:17.2	actually begins in New York City on July 23, 1920. It was mid-morning at the Grand Central
1:24.4	Terminal of the American Railway Express Company. Workers in the unclaimed baggage department on the third floor of the warehouse noticed an
1:33.3	objectionable smell coming from a trunk that had been sitting unclaimed for over a month.
1:39.3	The trunk was bulging at the seams and wrapped tightly with cheap clothesline rope.
1:47.9	It was roughly four feet long, two feet deep, and two feet wide.
1:54.7	According to the address label, it was from an AA Tatum of 105 Harper Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.
1:59.6	It was simply addressed to James Douglas, New York City, New York.
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