Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do?

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty guilty of love in you.

Hello, hello everyone

everyone welcome to criminal broads a true crime in history

podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

Last episode we were on the right side of the law with a story of

Eunice Hunt and Carter today we're going back to the wrong side of things. I

would like to give a shout out right here in the intro up top to the person who inspired this episode.

So this episode is a very special reader request.

A couple months ago I got an email from Holly Reynolds who is a who has a master's in history from the University of Colorado and she told me about this very interesting Victorian era case which was in some ways like a lot of other

cases from the time but then in other ways very different in that it was

mysterious the woman at the center of it is a bit unknowable and it involved cutting edge science for the time.

So I, Holly, thank you so much. I used her paper, which is again from the University of Colorado.

It's called Science and Masculinity, the 1886 Pimlico Mystery Revisited.

I use that as one of my sources, so you'll see it all in the show notes.

So without further ado listeners let's go back in time to Victorian England. Oh the site

the site of oh so many crimes and just weird happenings.

And we're going to hang out in the middle class for a while in a marriage that on the surface looks happy and carefree but

hides some dark secrets. Darling I am growing old.

Still for a threat among the gold. of all

Sign upon my brown today.

Life is fading Is fading Is fading far away. In Victorian England, people were obsessed with a lot of things,

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