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Bridgeport, Connecticut, August 30th, 1920.

Continual playing of a pianola in the home of George E. Knott, 266 Judson Avenue, for four hours following the shots

heard by neighbors at 8.15 o'clock Sunday morning, a most unusual occurrence owing to Knott's

custom of sleeping days and working nights. The presence of Elwood B. Wade's milk truck on an adjoining street during the same period,

and its reported use as the truck which carried away a trunk from the not home at 10.15 o'clock that night,

and the denial of Ethelnot that afternoon to neighbors that any shots had been

fired in her home are among the relevant and peculiar developments in the murder of Not Sunday.

Continual quarreling between the couple, the basis of which, according to neighbors, was the

presence of Elwood Wade in the Not Home during the absence of which, according to neighbors, was the presence of Elwood Wade in the

Not home during the absence of Knott, and the fact that Elwood, Wade, and Ethel

Knott went on automobile rides in Knott's car, and added to the fact that George Knott

and his friend Daniel Ferguson spied from an adjoining house on Mrs. Scott and Wade

several times during the past month

were other facts brought to light by an investigation.

Music True Crime Historian presents an eye for an eye, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme, inflicting the death penalty.

Episode 389 details one of the clumsiest murder plots we've yet to encounter, and it's jam-packed with some of our favorite tropes. A love triangle gone awry and a trunk murder to name just a couple,

but there's also a large dose of crowded courtroom hijinks, including a very inappropriate

kiss between defendants in open court.

I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and for your horror and indignation, I give you

the dim-witted milkman and the gambler's wife. Murder in the attic with pipe, gun, and knife.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, August 30th, 1920.

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