A small town with secrets hidden for centuries.

You turn up in Danville just as the town sees its first real crime in decades?

And a curious stranger who may be their only chance for survival.

I'm talking about the murder and disappearance in small town, New Hampshire.

What do you think?

This is consumed, an all new supernatural audio thriller inspired by the novel by Aaron Mankey.

I did not wake up this morning prepared to deal with forces beyond my understanding.

Please, I call that breakfast. Listen to Consumed on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I-Heart radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised.

This is part two of our two-part series on Mary Eleanor Bowes, so if you haven't listened to

part one, you should probably start there.

And just a brief content warning, this episode contains descriptions of spousal abuse. In early February 1785 a scandal swept the coffee houses of Upper Crust Georgian London. Mary Eleanor Bowes, one of the richest

women in Britain, had disappeared. She had always been a little bit eccentric, but in the years after marrying Irish soldier Andrew Robinson Stoney, things had gotten, well, stranger.

Boz was known for being well spoken, elegant, and poised,

but recently she had been appearing at dinners in tattered clothes with cuts and bruises sometimes barely saying a word and then one day she was gone.

The most plausible hypothesis was that she had eloped with some other man, but even that was far-fetched.

No one had even heard a rumor about another swain or suitor, the truth was something no one could have guessed.

Mary Eleanor Bowes, wealthy heiress, was hiding out using a fake name with no money in a small apartment off an alleyway.

At the time of her disappearance, Mary Eleanor Bowes had been married to Andrew Robinson Stoney for eight years.

As she discovered soon after their shotgun wedding, he had wooed her under false pretenses, orchestrating an elaborate

scheme, including a fake psychic reading and a fake duel, to marry her and arrest control of her vast coal fortune.

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