Tea Time Crimes
Murder by Mail
Episode Summary
Today’s case was an absolute sensation of “unbridled, vulgar passion” in 1898. Cordelia Botkin couldn’t help falling in love with war correspondent John Dunning, despite both parties being married. But what happens when one wants to end the affair? Join us with a saucy tea and enjoy this wild ride.
Episode Notes
Today’s case was an absolute sensation of “unbridled, vulgar passion” in 1898. Cordelia Botkin couldn’t help falling in love with war correspondent John Dunning, despite both parties being married. But what happens when one wants to end the affair? Join us with a saucy tea and enjoy this wild ride.
Tea of the Day: Queenly Conjure Chai (https://www.queenlyconjure.com/about)
Theme Music by Brad Frank
Source Notes:
- https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-heinous-crimes-of-cordelia-botkin-552d7d9e51d6
- https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-murder-poison-Cordelia-Botkin-9880884
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-80628
- https://www.almanac.com/victorian-era-etiquette-and-manners
- https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/spanish-american-war
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7533183/mary-elizabeth-dunning
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7724188/welcome-aplin-botkin
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7529112/ida-harriet-deane
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7536877/thomas-m-penington
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7536873/henry-penington
- Book: Dying for Chocolate: Codeila Botkin and the 1898 Poisoned Candy Murders by Kerry Segrave
- San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 13, 13 December 1898 - https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18981213.2.2&e
- San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 15, 15 December 1898
- https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18981215.2.2&e
- San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 16, 16 December 1898
- https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18981216.2.2&e
- San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 20, 20 December 1898
- https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18981220.2.3&e
- https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/candy-from-a-stranger-the-cordelia-botkin-case-of-1898/