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🗓️ 28 January 2025
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This is the story of the unsolved death of Mabel Greenwood; who killed her, and why no one knows what really happened 100 years later. The prime suspect in the case? Harold Greenwood, her husband of more than 20 years, was arrested on June 17, 1920, accused of fatally poisoning her. Let's look at what happened, the messy trial, and the one detail that got Harold acquitted.
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0:33.8 | Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with IHeartRadio. |
0:44.1 | This is the story of the unsolved death of Mabel Greenwood, who killed her and why is still unknown 100 years later. |
0:54.0 | The prime suspect in the case? |
0:56.6 | Harold Greenwood, her husband of more than 20 years, was arrested on June 17, 1920, |
1:02.8 | accused of fatally poisoning her. |
1:05.2 | Let's look at what happened, the messy trial, and the one detail that got Harold acquitted. |
1:13.5 | Welcome to criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarky. |
1:21.1 | And I'm Holly Fry. Let's get to know the Greenwoods first. Harold Greenwood was born on New Year's Day of 1874 to William Greenwood, a landed gentleman and his wife Isabella, at Inglton in Yorkshire, England. |
1:29.5 | Mabel Bowwater was born on September 3, 1871, to William and Eliza Bowwater of the prosperous |
1:36.2 | Bowwater Multinational Paper Milling Company. In June of 1896, Harold and Mabel married, and they went on |
1:44.0 | to have four children. Edith Irene Isabel,, Harold and Mabel married, and they went on to have four children. |
1:45.8 | Edith Irene Isabel, Mabel Eileen, Norman Ivor, Van Sittart Bowater, and John Kenneth. |
1:53.9 | At the time of our story, Edith, known as Irene, was the only child living at home. |
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