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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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As investigators interview more witnesses, someone comes forward and recalls a disturbing conversation with Rebecca Briggs Cornell. She feared her son, but she was also severely depressed. Had she even contemplated suicide? Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4dsqzI1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's Shopify. code-a slash special offer. In February of 1673, Thomas Cornell Jr. was in loads of trouble.

0:54.0

His mother, Rebecca Cornell, was dead, her body charred terribly in a tragic house fire.

1:00.0

It was initially ruled an accident by a coroner's jury in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,

1:05.5

but then after Thomas's uncle was visited by Rebecca's ghost,

1:09.5

he sounded the alarm about her death.

1:12.0

Her body was re-examined in a new coroner's jury. the burned flesh around it. The matrons who dressed the corpse for burial hadn't

1:24.6

noticed it before. Thomas and his mother did seem to have a strained relationship.

1:30.6

She couldn't stand his wife Sarah and she was depressed.

1:35.0

Rebecca might have also been in poor health.

1:40.0

But on February 16th, that second coroner's jury ruled that Rebecca's death was a suspicious one.

1:50.0

And a surprise witness would soon solidify the colony of Rhode Island's case against Thomas Cornell.

1:57.5

Thomas first faced a murder indictment and he would then go to trial.

2:02.1

That trial would take place at a tavern called the White be some rooms that they would rent out to travelers and you can see from the beams going

2:24.7

across the ceiling they're quite thick quite and they're original I'm actually surprised at the

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