This is a Scream Queen production.

I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead podcast.

Happy True Crime Tuesday, Deadheads. Welcome to the season two finale of So Dead.

For this episode, I picked a story that combines two of my favorite things, true crime and the paranormal.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy another dead time story. On the heels of the 137th anniversary of one of Michigan's most twisted massacres,

it's time to talk about the Crouch murders.

Jacob Crouch was born to Captain Henry Crouch and his wife, Susan,

in Orange County, New York, in 1809, the third of four children.

When he was just three years old, Jacob's father left home to fight in the war of 1812.

As is often the case, things did not go so well for Captain Crouch.

He was captured by the British at Fort Erie and was held in

Halifax, Nova Scotia as a prisoner of war. He was released in 1815 when the war ended, and he began

his long journey back home to his wife and their four young children. He made it all the way back to

New York, but then in the town of

Marcellus, he contracted smallpox and died on the road. The residents of Marcellus decided to

bury Captain Crouch with one of his comrades who died the previous fall, also of an illness,

Captain Benjamin Branch. The two men were buried alongside the Seneca Turnpike.

Their headstones are still there to this day, along with like a little raw iron fence and a historical marker.

It's a nice little two-person graveyard.

So Captain Crouch survived the war of 1812, but died before making it back to his family.

And at the age of 31, Susan Crouch was a widow and a single mother to four children, ages 11, 8, 6, and 3.

The youngest of the Crouch children, Pamela, was born in July 1812, just weeks

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