Episode 85: Jeanie Seton
Murder She Spoke
English - March 07, 2022 02:07 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBTrue Crime Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode 85: Jeanie Seton. This week Emma takes a trip back in time to bring us the story of Jeanie Seton and the Murder of Ratho in the year 1864.
We hear how Jeanie was killed in a crazed attack by George Bryce - a former love interest of a friend of Jeanie's - who blamed her for the breakup of the relationship.
Emma describes how - after a failed plea of insanity - George was sentenced to death and would go on to have one of the most infamous executions in Scottish history.
Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise
Sources of research:
https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/george-bryce/
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/quiet-edinburgh-road-surprisingly-gruesome-21228819
https://www.criminalhistorian.com/a-peculiar-man-the-ratho-murder-of-1864/
https://medium.com/@diarmidmogg/the-only-picture-of-the-ratho-murderer-d741fd81741e
https://www.witcherytours.com/blog/2015/06/21/day-21-june-1864-a-drop-too-much
https://www.proquest.com/openview/31ef07388e972369/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=6932
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qusDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA511&lpg=PA511&dq=The+ratho+murder+jeanie&source=bl&ots=myM59gtkP6&sig=ACfU3U3mQUYvyR83MszcRn6hUYzfrcWBiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjH1PnYmaD2AhVlolwKHVj5BrEQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20ratho%20murder%20jeanie&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6BFPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=The+ratho+murder+jeanie&source=bl&ots=AIbRCccEvI&sig=ACfU3U1kMbsVfSkf5Nq6ph4w_3cgE4Pjbw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjH1PnYmaD2AhVlolwKHVj5BrEQ6AF6BAgcEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20ratho%20murder%20jeanie&f=false
https://www.konect.scot/post/the-ratho-murderer-last-public-hanging-in-edinburgh
http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/wp-content/uploads/chapter-two-a-lively-boy.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltoun_House