Unearthly: The Murder of Patricia Mery

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Literature is full of snakes in the grass masquerading as friends. Shakespeare’s evil bastard Iago is disgruntled about his boss Othello passing him over for a promotion and giving it to Cassio instead. So he manipulates Othello into thinking his wife is having an affair with the guy. A pretty clever way to drive a wedge between the boss and his favorite employee—and to position himself as Othello’s most trusted adviser, while secretly tearing him down. There are lots more examples: Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings, The Talented Mr. Ripley…It’s seductive to have a trusted adviser, someone who seems to admire you and have only your best interests at heart. But sometimes those indispensable sidekicks can have their own hidden agendas. Sometimes they’re not so much weaving a safety net, as they are building a web. And if you’re not careful, you can walk right into it and never come out again. Join us for the story of Anne Trovato, whose friendship with a self-proclaimed "psychic" and her daughter led to the brutal murder of her mother.Sources:Telegram: https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2007/09/27/dna-points-to-accused-in/52784450007/The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/nyregion/08teacher.htmlCourt documents: https://casetext.com/case/people-v-trovato-4Oxygen's "Snapped," Episode "Anne Trovato"Investigation Discovery's "Death By Gossip," Episode "Mother's Day Murder"Investigation Discovery's "True Conviction," Episode "Mother's Day Murder"Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfireFacebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:22.3	Literature is full of snakes in the grass masquerading his friends.
0:26.9	Shakespeare's evil bastard, Iago, was disgruntled about his boss Athello, passing him over
0:31.7	for a promotion, given it to Casio instead.
0:34.8	So he manipulates Athello and to think in his wife is having an affair with the guy.
0:39.1	A pretty clever way to drive a wedge between the boss and his favorite employee, and to
0:43.2	position himself as Athello's most trusted advisor while secretly tearing him down.
0:48.8	There are lots more examples, worm tongue and Lord of the Rings, the talented Mr. Ripley.
0:54.2	It's seductive to have a trusted advisor, someone who seems to admire you and have only
0:58.9	your best interests at heart.
1:01.1	But sometimes those indispensable side-kicks can have their own hidden agendas.
1:06.4	Sometimes they're not so much weaving a safety net, as they are building a web.
1:10.6	And if you're not careful, you can walk right into it and never come out again.
1:15.1	This is unearthly, the murder of Patricia Mary.
1:32.7	So campers, for this one, we're in Austin, New York, a mostly pleasant little town about
1:37.4	30 miles north of Manhattan.
1:39.4	I say mostly pleasant, because up until they changed the name in 1901, the town was called
1:44.2	Singsing, and it's still the home of that notorious maximum security prison.
1:49.5	It was Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 2006, and the family of Patricia Mary were starting
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