Episode 31: The Unique Case of Nimrod O'Kelly
Cascadia Crime & Cryptids
English - July 18, 2022 23:57 - 43 minutes - 34.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTrue Crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sara takes us back to the 1800s with Oregon's first officially recorded murder case! Nimrod O'Kelly found himself an accused liar and murderer after he admitted to shooting his neighbor, Jeremiah Mahoney, over a land dispute. But what really happened that day, and was O'Kelly really the liar all his neighbors thought he was?
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https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/o_kelly_nimrod_1864_/#:~:text=On%20May%2013%2C%201852%2C%20he,to%20be%20hanged%20in%20August. https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/community_paid/offbeat-oregon-oregon-s-first-murder-defendant-was-saved-from-gallows-by-his-wife/article_1ac0a91e-f9d7-11e9-a687-5310d7e29e3e.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/20610960 - Nimrod’s declaration https://mckenziehistoryhwy.org/settlements/nimrod/ https://www.theresahuppauthor.com/blog/2019/11/27/murders-in-oregon-territory-history-is-stranger-than-fiction/ https://www.chronicle1909.com/posts/2530/oregons-first-murder-defendant-was-saved-from-gallows-by-his-wife https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/06jan/heritage.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/385170365/?terms=Nimrod%20O%27Kelly&match=1 Nimrod: Courts, Claim, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier by Ronald Lansing