Under The Haunted Oak

True Crime Historian

Pulpular Media

True Crime

4.5 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The Brutal Murder of Gussie Pfeiffer

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Episode 115 is a baffling case indeed. The body of a young factory girl who had been missing for three days is found “brutalized,” as the euphemism goes, before being murdered and her body dumped near a historic tree in the Bronx. How long had she been there? How long had she been dead? With few clues to go on, police head to the mountains upstate, and to the sea, and who knows where else to find the elusive man the press called “a human gorilla”.

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0:31.2	Popular.com. History of the Bronx Borough, City of New York, compiled for the Northside News by Randall Comfort.
0:54.1	Northside News Press, 1906.
0:59.6	Chapter 22, The Devil's Stepping Stones, the Spy Tree and its legends.
1:08.3	Perhaps halfway between Westchester and Pelham Bridge stands one of our most historic oaks,
1:14.6	the famous spy tree.
1:17.6	Reports state that it is the largest of its kind east of the Rocky Mountains, and together with one or two others it is classed as the last remaining vestige of the vast
1:28.6	primeval forest that once covered this entire region of Westchester County.
1:34.5	What a magnificent race of giants they must have been.
1:38.9	History tells us that during the long struggle of the revolution, a British spy, captured in the neighborhood,
1:46.6	was brought to this gigantic tree and summarily hanged from one of its branches.
1:53.0	I well remember seeing the noble branch on which the luckless spy met his fate.
1:59.9	The historians relate that it was withered by the curse of him
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