The White Slavery Suicide Pact

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In Episode 57, we get an unusual glimpse into the world inside a bordello at the turn of the previous century, when a young prostitute reneges on a suicide pact with another, and allegedly kills a third girl to keep her secret safe. One of the things I like about this story is the outrage and indignation expressed by the newspaper editors that seems both quaint and relative to many of today’s social issues.

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0:44.3	Tuesday, October 1st, 1912, the Evansville, Indiana Press. In Schaefer's morgue, on cold slabs side by side, are the bodies of two young women, just girls. Soon, perhaps, both will rest in unmarked
0:59.9	graves in the potter's field. But who were these two girls? They both had good homes, perhaps. But like many
1:09.7	girls, they didn't have the fine gowns, fine feathers, flashy jewelry.
1:16.3	They didn't care for the little home. They probably thought mother and father were harsh with them,
1:22.4	and when, as a matter of fact, the parents were pointing the right path for them to travel like many
1:30.3	girls the scent of gasoline the quaffing of champagne the company of a daredevil
1:37.0	auto driver the great white way appealed to them they left their homes to see the
1:44.0	world to enjoy life to see the world, to enjoy life. They saw the world, yes, they enjoyed
1:50.0	life. What was the result? Girls, it doesn't pay. Jesse and Katie are dead, and other girls are
2:00.8	held behind prison bars in Evansville,
2:02.6	suspected of knowing how these two wrecks died.
2:06.6	Isn't that a sad picture?
2:09.6	The press has tried to tell the girls of Evansville many, many times that this enjoying life idea doesn't pay. You girls who stroll the streets of Evansville many many times that this enjoying life idea doesn't pay you girls who stroll the
2:20.9	streets of Evansville every night looking for male companions and there are fully a
2:26.0	thousand such girls are hitting the trail to hell at a fast clip you are fooling your
2:33.0	mothers and your fathers now but girly you are fooling your mothers and your fathers now, but, girlie, you are
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