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The BrainFood Show

Taking the Mystery Out of Murder- A Couple of Dumbbells

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

History, Education

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at how exactly Al Capone got the scars that got him the nickname “Scarface”. Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into the rather interesting story behind one of the many so called “trial of the century” of the 20th century.  In this case involving a housewife and her lover and their plot to murder her husband. We also discuss the case of the first woman ever to be executed in an electric chair and one of the most iconic journalistic photos ever taken. In the Bonus Facts today, we look at the first two women ever to be sentenced to death via the electric chair, what they did to get that sentence, and how they both got off. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Taking the Mystery Out of Murder- A Couple of Dumbbells appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to another episode of the brain food show. Today. Well, what are we talking about today? It's...

0:10.0

I... Stupid people? Really stupid I mean kind yeah a couple of dumbbells is the is there probably some element that will go into the title I just I was reading through the notes that you prepared before we started

0:24.2

recording today. The number of times I felt like because we use a Google Drive document

0:29.6

together the number of times I almost highlighted the text and like put it a comment in the

0:34.2

side of like really exclamation point question mark yeah yeah pretty much

0:39.9

sort of a murder a non-murder mystery that took the cops no time at all to figure out what happened.

0:45.7

No, as everyone will see, it's very easy to see why.

0:50.1

But where are we starting? Are we quick facting it first?

0:54.6

We are quick facting it and uh...

0:56.4

hit me.

0:57.4

Yeah, we're gonna go with Capone on this one and Al Capone and how did he actually get

1:01.2

his scars to get the nickname Scarface?

1:04.0

So Kippone himself would actually long claim that he got them fighting in France during

1:09.4

World War I, but you know, that's not actually the case. He actually got them when he was 18 working as a bartender and a waiter and a bouncer at at the Harvard Inn owned by a mobster named Frankie Yale and so the the story behind this is much less heroic.

1:25.0

This seems more kapone.

1:26.0

Yeah, much less heroic than a war story.

1:28.0

Essentially, what happened was one Frank Galuchio

1:32.0

came into the bar with his date Maria Tanzo and his sister

1:36.6

Lena.

1:37.7

And Capone really liked the sister Lena and he kept trying to get her to talk to him and you know go for a walk with him on the

1:43.8

beach and stuff and she just kept turning him, turning him down and so finally he

1:47.9

you know just continues and finally Lena gets really annoyed and tells her

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