Ye Olde Sapphic Slashing: Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892 Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources:
1. Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever. Millbrook Press, 2019.
2. News 3 Channel, https://wreg.com/news/1892-memphis-teen-female-love-affair-turned-murder-is-new-opera/. Accessed 3 May 2026.
3. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15638529/frederica-ward. Accessed 3 May 2026.
4. Public Ledger, 26 Jan. 1892.
5. The Commercial Appeal, 29 May 1898.
6. Bolivar Bulletin, 8 Apr. 1898.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jessie, last week I got to tell you about a murder in Ireland. |
| 0:03.9 | What do you have for us this time? |
| 0:05.8 | A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892, Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Andy Cassette. |
| 0:16.1 | And I'm Jesse Prey, and this is love murder. |
| 0:57.8 | Thank you. I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about gosh darns, sultry harms, and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook by searching Love Murder Podcast. |
| 0:59.8 | If you are enjoying this show, pretty please love slash murder, a five-star rating on your |
| 1:04.2 | podcast app, subscribe and review to help new people discover the show. |
| 1:08.1 | Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, head on over to patreon.com slash lovemuripod, where you can learn all about the different |
| 1:14.5 | tiers of support. This week, we are thrilled to shout out an amazing new group of patrons. |
| 1:19.5 | So a big old thank you to Sarah B, Donna L. and Dagmara W. |
| 1:24.7 | Another awesome group of new patrons. So thank you everyone and thank you for listening. |
| 1:30.3 | And Andy, as always, thank you for being here with me. It's great. I think by the time this comes out, |
| 1:37.2 | we will be back from CrimeCon. We will. That's crazy. And it is also June. This is the first |
| 1:43.2 | episode of June. So happy pride, everyone. |
| 1:45.6 | Happy pride. Today's episode takes place in 1892, but it will be shockingly similar to modern episodes |
| 1:52.9 | in that there will be obsessive love, jealousy, casual cruelty, lies that we tell ourselves |
| 1:59.8 | and our loved ones, and of course, a once |
| 2:02.8 | ecstatic union ending cataclysmically in shocking violence. Difference here is that the lovers in |
| 2:09.2 | question are young women, girls really, because they're both teenagers, who loved each other |
| 2:13.9 | in a time that had absolutely no understanding words or context for women |
| 2:19.0 | loving women. So while this is obviously we're going to face some bigotry in this episode, |
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