Investigating A Shocking 280-Year-Old Murder Case!
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
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Eugene Aram was an 18th-century schoolmaster who got away with murder for fourteen years. Then a skeleton was unearthed, and a case that had been forgotten burst into life & created a legend.
Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story this week.
0:00 The Mystery of the Disappearing Shoemaker (1744)
1:55 Knaresborough: A Town of Caves and Secrets
5:40 Eugene Aram: The Intellectual Prodigy
8:15 Financial Ruin and the Great Jewellery Heist
11:50 The 14-Year Disappearance & Life on the Run
14:30 The Farmer’s Discovery: Unearthing the First Skeleton
17:45 A Wife’s Revenge: Anna Aram Breaks Her Silence
21:10 The Confession & The Secret of St. Robert’s Cave
25:50 Tracking the Scholar: The Arrest at Kings Lynn
28:15 The Trial of the Century: Aram’s Poetic Defence
31:40 The Confession and the "Scholar Murderer" Legacy
Research by Phoebe Joyce. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. Edited by Anna Brant. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.
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I see nothing has changed in 300 years.
Investigating A Shocking 280-Year-Old Murder Case!
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
36,497 views
Eugene Aram was an 18th-century schoolmaster who got away with murder for fourteen years. Then a skeleton was unearthed, and a case that had been forgotten burst into life & created a legend.
Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story this week.
0:00 The Mystery of the Disappearing Shoemaker (1744)
1:55 Knaresborough: A Town of Caves and Secrets
5:40 Eugene Aram: The Intellectual Prodigy
8:15 Financial Ruin and the Great Jewellery Heist
11:50 The 14-Year Disappearance & Life on the Run
14:30 The Farmer’s Discovery: Unearthing the First Skeleton
17:45 A Wife’s Revenge: Anna Aram Breaks Her Silence
21:10 The Confession & The Secret of St. Robert’s Cave
25:50 Tracking the Scholar: The Arrest at Kings Lynn
28:15 The Trial of the Century: Aram’s Poetic Defence
31:40 The Confession and the "Scholar Murderer" Legacy
Research by Phoebe Joyce. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. Edited by Anna Brant. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.
Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.
All music from Epidemic Sounds.
#HistoryHitPodcast #AfterDark #TrueCrime