E272: MURDER - Lizzie Halliday (part II)

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Lizzie Halliday is back, and somehow, she’s only getting started. In this episode, we pick up where we left off—with Lizzie abandoning another husband, scamming her way into new homes, and setting literal fires along the way. She takes her insurance fraud scheme to new levels, makes a scene at her father’s grave, and leaves a path of destruction across the Northeast. Meanwhile, a traveling peddler is found murdered in the Shawangunk Mountains, and Lizzie starts spending time with a new crowd. By the time she crosses paths with Paul Halliday, her next husband and soon-to-be victim, things are about to get much, much worse.

Lizzie Halliday, serial killer, true crime, 19th-century crime, female killers, historical murder, New York crime, arson, insurance fraud, con artist, scammer, peddler murder, Shawangunk Mountains, Romani history, Paul Halliday, Philadelphia fire, prison escape, Fresh Hell Podcast

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Fresh Hell podcast.
0:14.6	Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.
0:20.6	Please don't let your kids listen to this, or they might turn out like us.
0:30.9	Hello, I'm Annie in New England in the USA.
0:35.3	And I'm Johanna living in the Austrian countryside and you're listening
0:38.8	to Fresh Hell your favorite international podcast. That's right. And today we are back and we're
0:46.9	talking about Lizzie Halliday. And if you missed last week, please do go back and give that a listen.
0:54.0	This is part two. and our primary source,
0:57.6	again, for this episode, is a book by, I have it right, Kevin Owen, called Killing Time in the
1:05.6	Catskills. So definitely go check that out. You'll find a link in our sources. It's a great book.
1:11.9	Johanna, you want to give us a little bit of a recap from last week, just the tiniest.
1:16.1	I'd love to. I'd love to. So Lizzie and her family immigrated from Northern Ireland and settled in Philadelphia before moving to the New York countryside.
1:26.7	Lizzie now has a bit of a history as a maybe
1:29.5	black widow and she definitely has a violent temper. She burned all her bridges with her family
1:35.3	and was expected as women were at the time to find a job or find a husband. So she takes in washing
1:42.8	which is a great way to meet single men or widowers, and has
1:48.0	so far ahead four husbands and one child. And at this time she's maybe early 20s, if even.
1:57.1	Crimes she's suspected of committing or being an accomplice in include the death of her first
2:02.0	husband's former flame as well as two of her husbands who may or may not have been helped
2:06.8	along to their death she's also suspected of trying to poison her fourth husband george smith before
2:12.5	running off with husband number three again and i think that's pretty much where we left of are you
2:17.4	still able to follow all of that I think that's pretty much where we left off. Are you still
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