S5 Ep7: S05E07: America's First Serial Killer

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

415885, True Crime

4.4 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

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This week's episode is about a killer suggested by our listener Christine White. H. H. Holmes was born in 1861. He became notorious for crimes which were greatly mythologised and exaggerated. What is his true story? How many people did he really kill?BOOK: "The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor.CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0	I'm David Soucher and this is Blood Ties.
0:06.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father, Geoffrey Wansall.
0:11.3	Hello everyone. Welcome back. Thank you for listening to another extraordinary story.
0:17.4	This one is quite remarkable. But before that, how's your week been though uh busy busy i'm very busy busy busy
0:25.6	i went to see a play that lasted three hours and fifty minutes good lord just i think a little too long yes it's like lear isn't you have to make a commitment
0:36.6	your life commitment to seeing another Lear.
0:39.8	Yeah, but that's Shakespeare, so you sort of know what you're in for, don't you?
0:43.3	Yes.
0:44.0	I don't love Shakespeare controversially.
0:47.5	Oh, I'm not desperate to see another Romeo and Juliet.
0:52.5	I got sent one book this week, which I really am very interested to read.
0:56.5	This is called The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattonbury by Sean O'Connor.
1:02.0	Now, Alma Rattonbury was a famous case, which we'll do as a podcast, but not in this current season.
1:07.8	Okay.
1:08.6	But it was an absolute... Where's Alma from?
1:13.1	Oh, it's English.
1:14.1	Oh, it's English?
1:14.5	It's English.
1:16.2	She and her lover, the chauffeur,
1:21.2	conspired to kill her husband.
1:23.4	The question is, which one did it?
1:27.3	Does it matter?
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