featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.

This is The Shocking Details.

Hey there.

Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.

I am Joe.

And that guy right over there is Vincent Caldoni.

Yeah, and prepare to be shocked this week because we're going to bring you a shocking murder story.

We're stepping into the old wayback machine. We're going to bring you all a true crime story from 18th century Scotland.

A brutal murder. There's nothing too exceptional there, but this particular murder involved a whole lot of people trying for the longest time to knock off one teenage girl. And eventually their

laborers bore fruit. The target of their evil machinations was indeed

bumped off. But cracky, there was a lot of fumbling around before the deed finally got done.

You know, I mean, would you not agree, Vincenzo? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. There were a lot, there were layers to this idiotic plan.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, but yeah, if you made a movie out of this story, it would be a comedy, except, of course,

for the very tragic ending of the whole thing.

Sorry, I'm giving away there.

Yeah, it would be, yeah, a very dark comedy.

Yeah.

I don't want to overhybey it, but I'm not sure we've ever covered a crime on this show where the criminal or criminals worked so hard to

get away with it for such a short period of time. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, anyway. Well, let's talk about

our, let's talk about our people here, our cast, our cast of criminals and victims. So our,

our perp, I mean, he's really our chief perp, was Nicole Mushat.

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