Welcome to Arcanum Obscura: A Podcast of Exploration. We’ll be talking about and discussing obscure subjects like strange unsolved cases, the paranormal and supernatural, cryptids, anything bizarre that interests us. And as we talk about the topics the conversations will almost 100% branch off into random things. We’re your hosts and friends Chris and Nate and we really hope you enjoy the stories we find and bring to you, hopefully get a few laughs along the way and feel like your here with ...
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Hello and welcome to our podcast. We hope that you enjoy listening. This podcast has no real focus, we’ll play games, get into random conversations, get into numerous discussion, and aim to have a good time while making it so you can feel like your just sitting and listening to friends. We all know that when your with friends and a discussion starts it transitions quickly from one topic to the next and sometimes makes a full circle. We hope you have fun, laugh, relax, and maybe, just maybe w ...
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Most board game shows focus on the latest-and-greatest, or time-tested classics. We have taken it upon ourselves to comb our local charity shops and salvage stores for the other stuff...join us as we review cheesy, weird, and obscure board games for your entertainment.
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Skinwalker Encounters
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We've talked about skinwalkers before but this week I thought it may be interesting to dig through some subreddits and find personal encounters with skinwalkers, so we come with a few stories of different peoples experiences with possible skinwalkers. I read through several and decided on a few that felt pretty interesting. --- Support this podcast…
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Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
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This is a pretty rough case like some others I have done, while reading and researching the case I found that thankfully a lot of the explicit details weren't presented in the sources I read from, this doesn't in anyway lessen how horrible this case was and what was done to these individuals but what I can only describe as monsters. I apologize for…
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Nate takes control this week and brings some stories of crimes committed through. We've all heard some of these stories, not necessarily the ones Nate brings today, but warnings and unfortunate events that happen due to people either giving out too much information on the internet and social media or being lured through chat to real life locations.…
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This was a tough episode, not as in hard to talk about, but hard to write anything for so we take a different approach this week. I have a list of strange possibly morbid traditions from around the world and tell them to Nate then we talk a little about each one. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/suppo…
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Florida Man Stories
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After a two week hiatus we are back with some Florida man stories. It is a crazy place down here and I'm sure you've all heard some crazy stories about this state so we decided to share a few crazy ones we found. The main one I cover is actually really close to where I live and I heard nothing of it until specifically looking for Florida man storie…
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Patty Hearst and a bit about Cheese
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First up the story of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese group. Was she a willing or unwilling participant? Did she have Stockholm syndrome? It's a tricky one to tell given some of the things that happened. After that I have a short snippet about the great Wisconsin cheese heist. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanu…
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The Hi-Fi Murders and The Geezer Bandit
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If you've listened to a good amount of our episodes you may know I tend to bring the horrific stories compared to what Nate brings to the table. This week is no exception, I start us of with The Hi-Fi Murders, what is initially believed to be a robbery in 1974 takes a much darker turn, sadly leaving three dead and two scarred for life. Following th…
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David Auchterlonie and Tom Justice
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True crime this week. Nate talks about something he found on reddit, the story of Tom Justice, a bank robber who was known as the Choir Boy and later the Bicycle Bank Robber, I do prefer the first name do to why they called him that and I also feel what he did with what he stole also fit that name. Then I talk about the murder David Auchterlonie. I…
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The Kurim Case and Mr. DuBoise
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Another true crime episode. This week I have The Kurim Case which is a pretty horrific case involving children, though not much for details on that part of the case. The was more focus on the perpetrators and the bizarre twist. Nate follows that up the the case of Mr. DuBoise, to be honest, this case pissed me off, not to give anything away but the…
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Another Soup Episode
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For anyone who doesn't know, a soup episode is where we just talk and joke and ramble on about anything. No stories, no creepy games, nor any true crime. Just us rambling about whatever. I explain the soup episode origins in the episode, but if the talking part of our podcast is your least favorite part I'd skip soup episodes. --- Support this podc…
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This week we have another creepypasta game. This time around it's The Devil Game, a little game/ritual to someone the devil in order to talk to him, asks questions, and possibly play some mind games. This one is a bit longer then the other "games" ones we've done but I enjoyed reading it and thought our listeners may as well. We recently missed a c…
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Japanese Folklore and Yokai
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We missed a couple weeks of recording, first Nates work schedule interfered with one week, then the next week I was dying of an illness.... see... a witch turned me into a newt..... I got better though. So we are back and this week we have some fun stories, we have a very tall woman who makes a very strange sound and hunts children, then we have so…
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Some more reddit stories this week. Everyone loves some r/nosleep stories! I won't go into too much about the stories. One is the story of someone playing one of those cursed games, mainly one involving an elevator. The second story is one that involves voices in your head and big money prizes! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c…
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Old Solar Eclipse Beliefs
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Since we had the big Solar Eclipse last week I thought it may be cool to go over some different beliefs about Solar Eclipses from around the world. Some blame the actions of disgruntled gods, others giant celestial animals, and even one with an angry kid. We hope you enjoy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumob…
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The Flatwoods Monster, Fresno Nightcrawlers and The Brownie
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Some interesting Cryptids this week. First up is the strange flatwoods monster, I personally hate this thing now, but Nate brought it to the table so I'll just add my hate for this thing onto Nate, he could use some more. Then we have the creepy looking Fresno Nightcrawlers, I've seen videos and even a few shows looking into these things. I'm not g…
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Marcus Wesson and The Bloody Benders
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Another true crime week. First, Nate reads a story about Marcus Wesson, I really can't say much about this aside the guy is a monster, disgusting, a murderer, amongst many many other things. I've personally covered some pretty bad stories here and now it's Nates turn. Aside from the few descriptive words of this man, he's a cult leader who had chil…
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The Wanda Beach Murders and Christopher Wilder
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This week we dive back into true crime. First we head to Australia for the horrific murder of two young girls, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock. This sadly unsolved case took place in 1965 when two girls who went to the beach with family never returned home. There was a few suspects but to this date it remains unsolved. The second case branc…
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The Axeman of New Orleans
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Back to true crime this week. This is another unsolved case where everyone gets accused, arrested, and released, except the killer. For a short time in New Orleans and surrounding areas the people were gripped by fear as a man was sneaking into homes and murdering a total of six people. One day he breaks his silence with a message to the media whic…
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Cursed Games 4: Ben Drowned Part 5
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We wrap up the first ARC of the Ben Drowned story this week. Well, technically Nate wraps it up. This has been an easy few weeks for me since he chose a story he enjoys and its been multi episodes, and for me its just been pretty cool to hear the full story since I had only previously known of it by name and not much about it. --- Support this podc…
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Cursed Games 3: Pokemon Black and Lavender Town Syndrome
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Another week of cursed games. This week we took a break from Ben Drowned but that will be back next week with the final part. This week we have Pokemon Black and also the Lavender Town Syndrome. Neither are in depth or as long as Ben Drowned but I had never heard the Pokemon Black story and thought it was rather interesting. It's a bit different th…
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Cursed Games 2: Ben Drowned Parts 2-4
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We continue with the Ben Drowned cursed Zelda game this week. Making it through pats 2-4. It's pretty interesting, I had heard of it before but never read it so nice to be able to hear it now. Next week we will finish the last part and have the game I found as well, Pokemon Black. I also scheduled the previous weeks episode for thr wrong date so it…
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Cursed Games 1: Ben Drowned Part 1
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We covered a cursed game a while back, the whole Herobrine story in Minecraft. But we decided to go a little deeper now and cover a couple more. First up, and a multi part series since it's a long story is Ben Drowned. A strange Zelda game, sold by a strange man, with a pervious save already on it from someone named Ben. --- Support this podcast: h…
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Super Humans Part 2
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We get to do the rest of the people we had for last weeks episode this week, we may do a third part to this soon. Not to give any details because these peoples stories are pretty short, so we have Tsutomu Yamaguchi, followed by Aimo Koivunen. Then we take a slight detour to the horse, Staff Sergeant Reckless, and finally we finish with the "unlucki…
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So we've been going for two weeks, I was in the ER on new years eve into new years day, I don't really want to get into it but it involved fireworks and a "hold my beer" moment..... not really, but I was in the ER. The following week Nate wasn't feeling well but, I also presented Nate with his Christmas present which he didn't appreciate, but now w…
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This week we went back to reddit for some more creepy stories. We found two christmas ones that are good as well as three other, so a total of 5 short horror stories this week. Also, we most likely will not be recording this week so no new episode next week, I spent news years eve into new years day in the ER and still recovering so most likely won…
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The Red Barn Murder
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In 1827 in Polstead, Suffolk, England, a woman, Maria Marten, was murdered at a local landmark known as the Red Barn. The story has some weird turns, such as Maria loving a man and having his child to later loving his brother and being with him. Letters written to the family after she had been murdered to keep up the lie of what happened. Down to s…
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I heard a bit of this story a while back, I believe I saw it in a little short video, like a youtube short or something and what I heard of her has stuck with me and I've wanted to cover it for some time now and finally decided to do it this week. I also believe, even though I talk about it in the episode, that the saying "hell hath no fury liked a…
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Staying in the realm of sleep issues Nate talks about sleep deprivation today. We go over causes and effects as well as some stories from people who have experienced weird things when sleep deprived. And spiders, there's spiders in this one! And sorry, no arachnophobia toggle to make them silly or cute! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.…
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Sleep Paralysis and Legends Surrounding It
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I was researching a story for this week an it moved into sleep paralysis so I thought it may be interesting to talk a little about Sleep Paralysis, then branch into some legends from around the world that came from this condition that wasn't understood at the time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/sup…
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Virginia Dare and Roanoke
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We continue on with missing children this week with Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first english born child in America in 1587, then she went missing. Not only did she go missing but the whole colony of Roanoke went missing and it all still remains a mystery to this day. When we were looking for stories we both found this one odd since articl…
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The Sodder Children
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This is a strange true crime episode about missing children. The Sodder family was a large family with a total of 10 children. The father came to America and did well for himself, he bought a house and married and his family began to grow. He was very outspoken about his beliefs and this may have been what led to a strange series of events leading …
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The nothing episode!
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This episode is literally about nothing. We used to do two podcasts a week, this one of course as well as "Listen or the Kitten Gets it!" which was just playing games and rambling. And since we ramble quite a bit throughout each episode we had the idea of doing a "nothing" episode once a month where we just ramble on about whatever, once a month se…
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Halloween Special 2023!
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We're back with our fourth Halloween Special! And posting a day early to release on Halloween! This year we of course stuck with the creepy, it is for Halloween, the best holiday ever after all! And I'm using lots of exclamations! For this years episode we dove into reddit, and coincidentally we both went to the same subreddit, r/ShortScaryStories,…
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Empousa, Hecatoncheires, Skiapodes, Erinyes
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We changed things up a little this week from the past couple weeks. We still wanted to stay around the cryptid type lore, but a slight step off of the path and into strange creatures from Greek myths. So we start with the Empousa (Empusa), a creature said to be a flesh eating beautiful shape shifter who can take on many forms and many combinations …
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Veggieman, Walking Sam, The Squonk, and Le Loyon
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More cryptids this week! First up is a creature from West Virginia, Veggieman! Veggieman may not be as well known as other West Virginian cryptids, yeah, I'm talking to you Mothman! stop stealing all the limelight! Although lesser known he is a pretty unique character all on his own, with very alluring jaundice eyes! We follow the legend of veggiem…
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Stikini, Penelope, and Octo-squatch
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We are heading back into cryptids this week and next week definitely. For this weeks episode we went looking for some lesser known cryptids, at least ones we haven't heard of and we found a few. First up is the Stikini, the Stikini is a Seminole legend of a powerful witch who could change into an owl creature by night. Following that we move on to …
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Stupid Criminals #2
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After our last two episode we decided we needed a palette cleanser. So, to break from the darker episodes we are still staying with true crime but taking a trip back to an older episode of ours where we covered some criminals who aren't so good at being criminals. Coincidentally this episode, about criminals who are bad at what they do and generall…
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Junko Furuta and Mutsuo Toi
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This week we're sticking with true crime. First I bring you the horrible and sad story of Junko Furuta, also known as "concrete-encased high school girl murder case". This was a rough one to cover especially near the end and the aftermath, at the end there's a letter written by a friend and I had a hard time holding it together when reading and wri…
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Sada Abe and The Hello Kitty Murder
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Two more true rime cases this week. First is the case of Sada Abe, this story comes from Japan and its pretty odd but also in a way a bit sad just like the second story. Sada was prostitute and a Geisha and was never able to find what she wanted. In the end things get pretty dark. The second case is the Hello Kitty Murder, named after a plush toy t…
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Betal Pachisi and Bhuta
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This week is some more legends and folklore, we decided to aim for India this week. First up we have a story called Betal Pachisi, there's other names for this story but its from a collection of short stories that compile one large story. It deals with betrayal, a weird backwards riddle game and a different take on vampires. After that we talk abou…
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Chinese Folklore - Biyiniao and Liu Feng
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This week we head overseas for some more folklore, specifically Chinese folklore and some of the oldest known folklore. I heard the object of my story from the anime Darling in the Franxx and was interested so dug more into it and bring you the story this week of Biyiniao also known as the Jian Bird, its a bit different then my usual stories since …
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The Wampus Cat and The Moon-Eyed People
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Hello! This week we're doing some legends from the Appalachians. First up we have Nate with the Wampus Cat, and two different legends and depictions of the cat. The Wampus can is well known for his two front pugilist arms and his extreme talents in the fine art of fisticuffs.... or not at all, we shall see! Following the Wampus Cat I talk about the…
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Teresita Basa and Ryan Waller & Heather Quan
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This week we're still covering some true crime. First I bring you a strange story, the story of Teresita Basa and how she helped solve her own murder from beyond the grave. It's an interesting and strange story and definitely not what I had expected. After, Nate brings the sad story of Ryan Waller and Heather Quan, this one involves murder and some…
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Lets Not Meet and Christman Genipperteinga
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More true crime this week, we have two more stories for you. Nate brings us a story from the reddit "lets not meet" community of a creepy Norman Bates sounding story, mothers, and medicines, and soda oh my! The reddit description for the community describes the stories best "A place to read spine-tingling, unusual, terrifyingly true stories about p…
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Human Experimentation and Military Conspiracies
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So this week we decided to focus on military conspiracies. However, I (Chris) couldn't find anything interesting that wasnt just political nonsense. So I broke from our chosen subject and went with two cases of illegal and unethical human experimentation, one perpetuated by the government and the other by a psychologist. So this week I have Project…
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We decided we wanted to talk about Yokai this week. If you don't know what Yokai are they are supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. Nate talks about four different Yokai, Tomoe, Kanibozu, and Akateko. After the break we come back and I tell the story, and some variations or changes that occurred throughout the years of an Oni know…
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Creepypasta Stories- Herobrine and The Infinity Game part 1
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We are back! Nate was ill last week so we had to take a week off but we have returned. This week we read a couple creepypasta stories. Nate brings us Herobrine, a story involving strange occurences in Minecraft. After that I have a bit of a long story, The Infinity Game (part 1) by Page Turner, check out her other stories they're all pretty damn go…
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Puzzles, Viral Marketing, and Cicada oh my!
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For this weeks episode I wanted to do something a little different so we went with puzzles. We start with a book from '82 called The Secret: A Treasure Hunt. Then move to the viral marketing game/advertisement ILoveBees which was for the game Halo 2. Lastly, the one that brought the idea of this episode to mind, no ones really sure what this is, a …
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The Harpe Brothers
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This week Nate brings the story of the Harpe brothers. Joshua Harper aka Micajah "Big" Harpe, and William Harper aka Wiley "Little" Harpe. Considered to be the first american serial killers, or at least documented ones. They were British Crown Loyalists who terrorized settlers near the Appalachian Mountains during the American Revolution. After a b…
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Back to true crime again this week. I was looking for a case that I hadn't heard of before and came across the case of Timothy Evans. This is an interesting case with a twist and an example of the miscarriage of justice. Timothy Evans was accused of killing his wife and infant daughter, he went to trial and was convicted and sentenced to death for …
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