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Episode 42 - Mary Carleton
Criminal Records Podcast
English - April 23, 2020 12:00 - 51 minutes - 52 MB - ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsHistory Education criminals crime history truecrime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 41 - "Typhoid" Mary Mallon
Next Episode: Episode 43 - Midhat Pasha
Meet the woman who claimed to be a German princess, scammed a handful of husbands, palled around with pirates, and played her scandalous self on the stage. Why were so many English men so easy to dupe when a stranger showed up claiming noble heritage? How did a con artist become a celebrity? How much do we really know about Mary as a person, and how much did this self-made woman construct herself as a character?