The Salem Witch Trial of 1933 (In Stereo)
CLEWS The World's Worst Femmes Fatales - Season One
English - October 26, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBTrue Crime History true crime old true crime murder suspense literature Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
CLEWS takes you to Salem, Massachusetts, and the modern trial of a witch accused of poisoning her husband. Things sure look bleak for this dark-haired beauty, but Jessie Costello will cast a spell – on the jury. It’s a case that has been called the most luscious trial as any in the gaudy annals of American jurisprudence.
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Image of Salem defendant: a black-and-white portion from the painting "Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr)" by Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907). https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/witch-hill-salem-martyr Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
DESCRIPTION:
Oil painting on canvas depicting a young woman being led to her execution during the Salem, Massachusetts witchcraft terror.
GALLERY LABEL:
The young woman who posed as the condemned witch was a librarian in the Cincinnati library, and was a lineal descendant of a woman who was actually hanged as a witch in 17th century Salem.