EP 61: Smoke And Shadows

On today's episode, Kate and Paul travel to 1845 Boston where a hysterical man emerges from a burning house leaving behind a single dead body. What should be a simple case becomes a wildly unique one thanks to a strategy by the defense. 

Sources:

“The Boston Murder” (The Evening Post, October 29, 1845) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/32608910/?terms=%22 albert%20 tirrell%22 match=1

“Horrible Murder of a Female and Attempt at Arson” (The New York Daily News, October 29, 1845) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/329350043/?terms=%22albert%20tirrell%22&match=1

“Murder” (The Hartford Courant, October 29, 1845)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/369027516/?terms=%22albert%20tirrell%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/329350093/?terms=%22albert%20tirrell%22&match=1

“Arrest of the Notorious Albert J. Tirrell” (The New York Times, June 18, 1855)

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/06/18/75436679.html?pageNumber=1

“Acquittal of Tirrell” (New-York Tribune, April 2, 1846)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/79063352/?terms=%22albert%20tirrell%22&match=1

“The Sleepwalking Defense” (Murder by Gaslight) 

http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2011/01/sleepwalking-defense.html

“The Case of the Sleepwalking Killer” by Karen Abbott (Smithsonian Magazine, April 30, 2012) 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-case-of-the-sleepwalking-killer-77584095/