EP 86: Smoke Screen

On today’s episode, Paul and Kate head to 1836 New York where there's a suspicious fire in a brothel and a hyper-vigilant Madam spots a figure in a long coat. With one fatality that night, can the technology and investigative techniques of the time find the culprit?

 Sources:

The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen.

“Coroner’s Inquest: Murder and Arson” (The Evening Post, April 11, 1836)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/38214275/?match=1&terms=%22Rosina%20Townsend%22

Small item in the Evening Post (The Evening Post, April 13, 1836)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/38214355/?match=1&terms=jewett

“Court of Oyer and Terminer, Trial of Richard P. Robinson” (The Evening Post, June 3, 1836)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/38216663/?match=1&terms=jewett

The Family Parmelee

https://www.thefamilyparmelee.com/f-jewett.html