The Man With The Twisted Foot
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Episode 23 revolves around a friendship between a socialite and an erudite, seemingly scholarly man who came to live in her hometown on the eastern shore of Maryland. The residents of Talbot County were shocked beyond belief when a pair of crab trappers pull the body of the newly-married young woman from the Chesapeake Bay and the newcomer disappears. Adapted from the April 1930 of True Detective Mysteries by Sheriff A.E. Walsh as told to K.S. Daiger.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | The Man with the Twisted Foot by Sheriff A.E. Walsh as told to K.S. Diger. |
| 0:14.0 | Mighty few major crimes ever take place on the eastern shore of Maryland. |
| 0:22.6 | The inhabitants of the Eastern Show are a quiet, peace-loving folk, |
| 0:27.6 | living simply, and running their unusually fertile farms. |
| 0:31.6 | The section is mostly open country, interspersed here and there by a few towns, and so little has the march of progress touched these little hamlets that even today you will find them roaring with the same rusticity that they did when the war was roaring on the other side of the bay. |
| 0:48.3 | The people have a fine ideal of honesty and squareness, an ideal which has communicated itself even to the people |
| 0:55.4 | they employ in their fields and canning factories. So you can easily see the sort of misdemeanor |
| 1:00.7 | which prevails, petty thieving for the most part, there is no need for any extensive policing, |
| 1:06.9 | and a police chief in one of the larger towns, with the sheriff and his assistance in the smaller ones, has always proved sufficient. |
| 1:14.3 | Yet it was in one of these quiet nooks that there occurred a crime unique in Maryland criminology. |
| 1:20.2 | It stands unequaled for its features of human interest, and it was spectacular enough to sweep the United States from coast to coast. |
| 1:27.6 | In the space of only a few hours, these people, who hate publicity as a cat does water, |
| 1:33.5 | were compelled to turn their town over to newspaper correspondents, photographers, and detectives |
| 1:38.9 | from as far north as New York and as far west as California. |
| 1:42.9 | This was, as I've said, not only because the murder |
| 1:46.6 | was brutal and shocking, but because the history of it was as romantic and mysterious as any |
| 1:52.3 | which has ever taken place. I venture to say that if I were to write up the amazing facts of this case |
| 1:58.0 | and offer them to an editor as fiction, they would be returned to me |
| 2:01.6 | with the cryptic comment too improbable. As a matter of fact, the eastern shore gained all |
| 2:07.6 | this unwelcome publicity no more justly than if a couple of Fiji Islanders had suddenly |
| 2:12.6 | swam up on their shore and killed themselves there. |
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