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It was Christmas night, 1843, in the small rural village of Staten Island,

and the townsmen were celebrating the way they knew best by drinking at a local tavern.

But the merry festivities were cut short by the piercing scream of a teenage boy not far away.

The men rushed outside to investigate only to find thick black smoke and

blazing fire eating away at the house of Captain George Hausman. Captain Hausman was away on an

oyster trip. His wife, Emmeline, and baby Anne Eliza were believed to be away on travel as well.

But as the neighbors extinguished the flames and

investigated the scene, they were met with a horrifying sight. Within the scorched bones of the

houseman's kitchen laid the charred body of Emmeline Houseman. Her white broken bones were visible,

and her skull had been severely shattered.

Beside her was the small body of young Anna Eliza in even worse shape.

As investigators worked to piece together the haunting crime, the question remained in such a small town. Who would commit such a violent and evil murder? Who did commit such a violent and evil murder? Before long,

police had their suspect, a vampire, a monster, the witch of New York. Polly Bodine. I'm Emily

Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

Music and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. Polly Bodine, the sister of Captain Hausman, was a social pariah whose lifestyle was deemed highly unconventional by her peers on Staten Island.

She was a 33-year-old single mother of two who had separated from her husband who was an abusive drunk. Polly was known as a gin drinker and an adulteress who had multiple abortions, and for her

controversial ways, she was shunned by her community.

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