The Ghastly Stockton Trunk Episode
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Episode 157 tells the scandalous tale of a California woman who loved not wisely but too often. It’s hard to say from the newspaper reports and court records how the corpse in the trunk actually met its demise, but Emma Le Doux would never escape the consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | The trunk in which the body was found was first noticed by the baggage master in front of the depot about two o'clock this afternoon. |
| 0:22.6 | It was conspicuous by its size. |
| 0:25.6 | It stood on a small truck together with a number of other pieces of baggage, which later were all called for. |
| 0:33.6 | It is the custom of the expressmen to wheel the trucks loaded with trunks alongside the depot entrance |
| 0:40.3 | where their owners call for them or have them checked on outbound trains. |
| 0:45.3 | But no one paid any attention to the big trunk, so the baggage man wheeled it into the freight room shortly before 10 o'clock tonight. As he deposited it in a corner of the |
| 0:57.1 | room, the baggage man detected a strange odor. His suspicions were at once aroused, and he |
| 1:04.4 | telephoned to police headquarters. Captain Walker and a squad of men went to the depot, upon opening the trunk the officers drew back, horror-stricken. |
| 1:15.6 | The glassy eyes of a dead man stared into their faces. |
| 1:20.6 | The body lay upon its back in the trunk and the legs had been cramped and doubled up so that they would fit into the receptacle. |
| 1:28.3 | The body was fully clothed in a dark suit of fine texture that had evidently not been much worn. |
| 1:35.3 | The shoes had been removed, but the socks were still upon the feet. |
| 1:40.3 | A careful search of the clothing failed to reveal a single clue. |
| 1:45.7 | Every label had been removed. |
| 1:47.9 | On the white shirt bosom were found a couple of laundry marks that may prove to be a valuable |
| 1:53.0 | clue. |
| 1:54.0 | The trunk is a brand new one, but the several labels which evidently bore the name of the |
| 1:58.6 | maker and seller had been removed. The body bore the name of the maker and cellar had been removed. |
| 2:01.6 | The body bore no marks of violence. |
| 2:04.6 | The chest of the man was blood-stained and the clotted blood about the nose showed that he had blood profusely from that organ. |
| 2:12.6 | The dead man was evidently about 38 or 40 years of age, about 6 feet one inch in height, and weighed about 200 pounds. |
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