The Circleville Poison Pen Letters Mystery

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For 20 years, a tiny town in Ohio was held enrapt by the prolific author of a series of unhinged letters. By the time they abruptly stopped, the letters – which revealed terrible secrets – had claimed a life and sent a possibly innocent man to prison.

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0:52.4	True Crime.
0:53.4	Yeah.
0:54.4	It's a bit say sort of but it really is true crime.
0:57.9	It's just it's not necessarily murdery.
1:02.5	No but it's stalky and I hadn't really realized it until I saw it spelled out a few times.
1:08.1	This is a huge stalking case.
1:10.0	One of the weirdest creepiest most mysterious stalking cases of all time.
1:14.2	Yeah but I think I know who did it.
1:17.4	Let's hold it.
1:18.4	Wait.
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