The Bigamist And Her Murderous Husband
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 145 minutes
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“The Bigamist And Her Murderous Husband: The Sweetwater Double Homicide” is the sordid tale of a love octangle (or something like that) when the suspiciously widowed husband of a girl married five times without a divorce gets fed up from the legal harassment from his wife’s elderly suitor. Culled from the historic pages of the Abilene Reporter and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Sweetwater, Texas, July 25th, 1935 |
| 0:23.6 | Clarence Duncan, 24, was recovering today from a strange accident, |
| 0:29.6 | apparently a shock from lightning. |
| 0:32.6 | While he was swimming in Lake Sweetwater with two companions, a severe electrical storm came up. |
| 0:40.1 | The companions made for sure to find that Duncan was missing. A three-hour search by divers and |
| 0:46.9 | boatmen failed to recover his body. But meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Williams' friends found the supposed drowning victim wandering |
| 0:56.5 | in a daze a mile from the lake and on the opposite side from where he had disappeared. |
| 1:04.0 | He was revived at the Lake Clubhouse and said he remembered a bolt of lightning and a great |
| 1:09.6 | clap of thunder. He recalled, |
| 1:12.6 | My mind went blank after that. |
| 1:15.6 | ... True Crime Historian presents Sunday Magazine number six, a collection of true crime historian presents Sunday magazine number six, a collection of true crime short stories. |
| 1:50.0 | First up is the sordid tale of a love, I don't know, octangle or something like that, |
| 1:56.0 | when the suspiciously widowed husband of a girl married five times without a divorce |
| 2:01.9 | gets fed up with the legal harassment from his wife's elderly suitor. |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah, that's not going to end well. |
| 2:10.5 | Following that, the storybook taxi band it begins with a fidgety stranger walking into an Indiana |
| 2:17.1 | cafe, soon followed by an |
| 2:19.7 | interstate manhunt. And our finale, stalking the tiger girl, tells of a Los Angeles |
| 2:26.4 | detective's pursuit of a sassy, Auburn-haired holdup artist who suddenly finds repentance |
| 2:33.0 | after her arrest. |
| 2:35.0 | I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and first up I give you |
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