This is a scream queen production.

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

Happy Taco Tuesday, Deadheads.

Are you guys surprised to hear me in your headphones during an off week?

So here's the thing.

This whole bi-weekly episode thing hasn't really been sitting well with me.

I miss you guys too much during the off weeks.

At the same time, especially right now, weekly episodes researched and told with the time and attention to detail that

you guys deserve just is not a feasible thing. Alas, a compromise. Taco breaks. These will be shorter

episodes that cover a range of topics that aren't typically covered on so dead. Current events,

out-of-state stories, gasp, basically anything that can be told quickly

and makes for good lunchtime listening while you're eating those reheated tacos in the office

break room. For our first taco break, we are going to discuss the internet. Ah, the internet. A dirty

worldwide cesspool of lies and deception and fake news, and yet, we love it and we couldn't function without it.

Tell me something, though, guys. Do you always fact-check the things that you reshare on social media?

It is so, so important. It's easy to see something funny or interesting or shocking and hit that share button, but that's how misinformation spreads. And I think there's enough of that out there right now in the world, don't you? I recently re-shared a post on the so-dead Facebook page that definitely sounds a lot more like an urban legend than true crime.

A lot of people weren't sure whether or not to believe it, and yet they shared and shared away.

So today, I thought we'd talk about that post and the true story behind it.

It's the story of the Erdington murders, and the story circulates on social media probably every six months or so.

It goes like this. Two women, born on the same day but 157 years apart died on the same day they both met with a friend put on a new

dress went to a dance and met their killers they were both killed the same way in the same spot

both by men named thornton who were acquitted of the murders in both cases.

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