Skullduggery

Detectives by the Decade

Nov 12, 2020•58 min•Season 2Ep. 2

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Episode description

Season 2 Episode 2: The Parkman-Webster murder trial scandalizes the upper class in Boston and becomes a landmark in the history of forensic anthropology.

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Sources:

Jim Fisher. “The Webster-Parkman Case.” http://jimfisher.edinboro.edu/forensics/webster1.html

Wikipedia. “George Parkman.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Parkman

Wilmington Journal; Vermont Watchman and State Journal; https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Dolly Stoltze. Strange Remains. “Discovering the pieces of Dr. George Parkman.” https://strangeremains.com/2015/03/19/discovering-the-pieces-of-dr-george-parkman/

Our First Men: A calendar of wealth, fashion, and gentility. Richard Hildreth. https://archive.org/details/ourfirstmenacal01hildgoog/page/n48/mode/2up

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery.

Elizabeth Watts Pope. Vignettes @ AAS: The Gentleman in the Purple Waistcoat. https://web.archive.org/web/20150711050628/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/vignettes110107.htm

Music:

Our Story Begins by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Prelude in C (BWV 846) by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4237-prelude-in-c-bwv-846-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Classical Piano Waltz Of Birds by MusicLFiles

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6238-classical-piano-waltz-of-birds

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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