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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 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Elise Crawford is dying in her aunt and uncle’s home in New Orleans. Aunt Mary is alarmed by Annie’s calmness. Elise and Annie are both keeping secrets. And soon, the police in New Orleans will learn about everything. Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com  If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com  Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram)  2023 All Rights Reserved

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:25.0

Okay, so this is the other house that I told you about where another person is sick. The sister?

0:26.0

Yeah, that's right.

0:28.0

So this is Jefferson Avenue and it used to be called Peter's Avenue when they were here and it took me a while to figure

0:34.7

that out that's why we've been driving around in a circle because they renamed it a

0:38.6

long time ago. Okay so who lived here? So Uncle Robert and Aunt Mary and Gertrude and Annie and Elise.

0:45.6

Five people, can you believe five people lived in this house?

0:48.7

And Elise was the one who was really sick.

0:52.4

What happened?

0:54.0

She was complaining of these stomach pains and she was kind of going in and out of consciousness.

1:00.0

In this house a hundred years ago, Can you believe that? Wow. Okay so remember that I took you to the other house where Mary Agnes and her parents died. That was at the other house.

1:10.0

Yeah. house.

1:25.8

Robert and Mary Crawford's home on Peter's Avenue uptown New Orleans was quiet. In the early morning hours of Saturday, September 23rd, 1911, Elise Crawford lay in her bed.

1:33.0

She had seemed destined to have a short difficult life.

1:37.0

Elise had a baby out of wedlock and then felt forced to place it for adoption.

1:41.0

Then the man she loved refused to marry her. In the aftermath

1:45.9

Elise had become secretly addicted to morphine and then she had gone on to spend the

1:50.8

last year mourning the deaths of both of her parents and her sister.

1:55.2

And now the 25 year old was dying. Their family physician Dr.

2:02.1

Maryan McGuire, carefully examined Elise's pupils.

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