Tea Time Crimes

The Mysterious Death of Ocey Snead: Part 2

Episode Summary

24-year-old Ocey Snead was found dead in a bathtub in her East Orange, NJ home. A note near her body points to a suicide, but a simple visual inspection of the house says otherwise. As investigators dig deeper into Ocey’s past, they quickly discover that the three women closest to her, her mother, aunt, and mother-in-law, seem to have a strange hold over Ocey. It’s not long before everyone is asking, what really happened to Ocey Snead? Listen in for part two of two of this very strange case.

Episode Notes

24-year-old Ocey Snead was found dead in a bathtub in her East Orange, NJ home. A note near her body points to a suicide, but a simple visual inspection of the house says otherwise. As investigators dig deeper into Ocey’s past, they quickly discover that the three women closest to her, her mother, aunt, and mother-in-law, seem to have a strange hold over Ocey. It’s not long before everyone is asking, what really happened to Ocey Snead? Listen in for part two of two of this very strange case. 

Content Warning: This episode contains suicide ideation.

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Tea of the Day: Chestnut Tea

Theme Music by Brad Frank

Sources:

• Three Sisters in Black: The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy by Norman Zierold and narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85942398/fletcher-wardlaw-snead
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• The Murfreesboro Post - 27 Oct 2014, Mon · Page 23 https://www.newspapers.com/image/694769134/
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 30 Nov 1909, Tue · Page 2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/55381702/
• Times Union - 01 Dec 1909, Wed · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/556004272/
• The New York Times - 02 Dec 1909, Thu · Page 2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/20470744/
• The Washington Post - 03 Dec 1909, Fri · Page 11 https://www.newspapers.com/image/28948838/
• St. Louis Globe-Democrat - 05 Dec 1909, Sun · Page 7 https://www.newspapers.com/image/571543061/
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 06 Dec 1909, Mon · Page 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/54453151/
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 07 Dec 1909, Tue · Page 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/54453707/
• The Washington Post - 08 Dec 1909, Wed · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/28954399/
• The Washington Post - 12 Dec 1909, Sun · Page 22 https://www.newspapers.com/image/28958331/
• The Topeka State Journal - 16 Dec 1909, Thu · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/323200332/
• The Baltimore Sun - 18 Dec 1909, Sat · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/372957797/
• The Roanoke Times - 26 Dec 1909, Sun · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/911686526/
• The Morning Post - 10 Jan 1910, Mon · Page 8 https://www.newspapers.com/image/447369020/
• The Washington Herald - 07 Feb 1910, Mon · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/48229848/
• The Boston Globe - 12 Aug 1910, Fri · Page 9 https://www.newspapers.com/image/430842486/
• The Charlotte News -09 Jan 1911, Mon · Page 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/58493450/
• The Roanoke Times - 09 Dec 1909, Thu · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/911685418/