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Adultery and the Murder of An Earl - May 11 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

May 11th: Josslyn Hay Born (1901) Sometimes a lifestyle choice can place someone in the crosshairs of danger. On May 11th 1901 a man was born who would go on to live quite the salacious lifestyle. One that made him the enemy of many and the victim of one mystery individual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josslyn_Hay,_22nd_Earl_of_Erroll, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-454133/White-Mischief-murder-finally-solved-66-years.html, https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/josslyn-hay-the-murder-of-the-22nd-earl-of-erroll/, https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790178,00.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:13.0

A cup of murder...

0:15.0

Sometimes a lifestyle choice can place someone in the crosshairs of danger.

0:20.2

On May 11, 1901, a man was born who would go on

0:23.9

to live quite the salacious lifestyle, one that made him the enemy of many and the victim of one

0:31.4

mystery individual. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:38.9

morning cup of murder.

0:41.8

Jocelyn Victor Hay, born May 11, 1901, was the eldest son of diplomat Victor Hay, Lord Kilmarnock,

0:50.0

and his wife, Lucy, the only daughter of the second baronet, Sir Alan McKenzie.

0:56.5

Eventually becoming the 22nd Earl of Errol, in 1920, Jocelyn was appointed as the honorary attache at Berlin under his father,

1:05.5

who was soon appointed High Commissioner to the Rhineland.

1:09.3

Now staying in Berlin and serving under a Lord

1:12.5

Diabernon until 1922, once Jocelyn passed his foreign office examinations, he was expected to follow

1:19.5

in his father's footsteps and enter into diplomacy. But after long cementing his reputation as the

1:25.8

wild child, he became absolutely obsessed with the daughter of the 8th Earl Dela War, Lady Idina Sackville, who also just so happened to be the ex-wife of a politician and the current wife, a man named Charles Gordon.

1:43.2

Wealthy, attractive, and older than him, Idina would eventually leave her husband in 1923 and marry

1:50.6

the younger Jocelyn Hay that September.

1:54.3

The love triangle slash age gap romance caused quite the stir among the English high society.

2:00.8

So in 1924, the ostracized couple

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