The Last Woman Hung in Connecticut - December 20 2020 - Daily True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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December 20th: Hannah Ocuish Executed (1786) When you are a child, it feels like the whole world is against you. On December 20th 1786 a young girl who grew up in a difficult situation was hanged for her crimes against another young girl. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: Wikipedia, Murderpedia, todayincthistory.com, connecticuthistory.org, horrorhistory.net, gizmodo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:32.7	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:36.1	We have a weird homicide.
0:38.9	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:42.3	When a cop of murder...
0:44.3	When you are a child, it feels like the whole world is against you.
0:48.3	On December 20th, 1786, a young girl who grew up in a difficult situation, was hanged for her crimes against
0:57.0	another young girl. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and
1:02.8	start your day with a morning cup of murder. As with most stories it took place in this time period, finding accurate information can be difficult.
1:15.8	The story of Hannah Ackyush's life is no exception.
1:20.0	We do know that she was born in March of 1774 in Connecticut to a Native American mother from the Pquot tribe who chose alcohol over motherhood,
1:29.5	and according to sources, sent her daughter to work as a servant with a white family.
1:34.3	She was considered a malicious child who struck fear within the other children she came into
1:38.7	contact with, though historians would later say that this was a product of an undiagnosed
1:43.5	mental disability.
1:45.1	When she was just six years old, she was accused of beating one of the children in the home
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