I want to take a moment and extend hearty thanks to you for bringing us such informative videos. I discovered your channel about a year ago and have binged every episode. Also, my husband commented on how stylish you are and how professional your voice is. You are a very debonair gentleman! Thank you, again, for your amazing channel!
Oh wow--"impecunious" is a word i haven't heard in a long time. There are so many things i love about this channel, and your phrasing/vocabulary choices are definitely part of that.
Somebody reminded me of the term 'wordsmith' recently, and i thought about what a noble profession i consider that to be. I subsequently realised how anachronistic my existence has become, and i watched a bunch of Victorian-themed docos to console myself. Then Paul Brodie said "impecunious" and suddenly all was right with the world again because a wordsmith is a magician, amiright? :) @@franciebelcher4594
My mom took me to see Arsenic and Old Lace at Drurylane theater. I was 8 and was given no info on the play. I just kept thinking the old ladies were geniuses! Was clueless poisoning was so trendy back in the day!
Just found your channel this week, Paul. Appreciate your unique way of presenting these stories. I find myself relaxing to them as I wind down and go to sleep...and then I'll have to rewatch to get the entire story if I nod off 😊
Awe the good ol' days.........when you didn't have to divorce em, you just had make their favorite dish, and then drop em in the back yard, under some rose bushes. And better still, afterwards, make a few bucks for your trouble! Bahahahaha :) lol JK ;)
Don't forget that you also just had to move one town over to either side of the one u committed your crimes in!! It would have probably been way easier to get away with all sorts of stuff!! Especially if you happen to be a nice, quiet woman with a sweet natured demeanor to you and the world could be yours for the pickings!😂😂😂 Fortunately for me, I am a pretty tall girl so I'd most likely would of had to dress up as a man before I went off and had myself a good ol' feloniously crazy time that may or may not have made it into the history books 😂😂..... still waiting on y'all to do a video on Lavinia Fischer (suspected serial killer and slave trader/seller from back in the late 1700s, I believe) talk about some serious antisocial behavior!😂😅
You cannot imagine the effect of listening to your beautiful voice has on my health: physical and mental. I live for my family and my garden, but illness has isolated me from much company. You make the day so much more interesting! Thank you Sir!
Awe. 😢 I'm glad you find comfort here too. My illness keeps me Iso a lot too. Too much stress 😢. Before the internet I suffered a lot more with depression from being isolated too much. I'm happy you can find interest and enjoyment too.
@@Beelzebubba1983 I’m sorry to know that you & OP are so isolated. I know how that is, too. I wish you two all the best in every area of your lives❤️🩹.
I know that arsenic was heavily used in the color green in that time. Anything colored green, books, clothes, wallpapers. However, if there was enough "green" items around to kill all of those people around her, how exactly did she survive??? She totally did it!
Mr. Brodie, I would like to make another video request if you please. I recently read about the murder of the actor William Terris by fellow actor Richard Prince, who was jealous of him. It happened in the 19th century. It's quite an interesting story. I have not found any good videos about the story and I think you would tell it to perfection. I hope you like this idea I love your channel. Much love from Brazil 🇧🇷❤️
I have heard, watch, and read about these cases before, but your video provided more information. Thank you for another interesting look at historic crimes.
I’m worried about myself because I enjoy your channel so much. My hubby gets nervous when I tell him about some of these arsenic stories. He’s starting to smell his coffee before drinking it 😂😊. Thank you?
My wife asked if you serve him almond cookies with his coffee....I had to point out that the connection with almonds and poison is cyanide, not arsenic.
Hello Paul! I’ve missed seeing your handsome face and hearing your voice tell tales of murder & mystery. Thank you for all you do in bringing these marvelous videos to us! Take care……blessings always! ❤️😊✝️
OMG I just love your videos. I'm trying to watch them all and I've been telling my fellow crime enthusiasts about your channel!! Keep up the great work!
I just ordered a Cup from your Merch. I’m looking forward to enjoying a coffee while I watch your videos. You are now my favourite RU-vidr. Thank you for your informative and interesting videos ❤
Just discovered you Channel. I am impressed. Love your deep dives which put all the Crimes in to their Historical, Societal and Cultural contexts. Also I enjoy it when you include Images, particularly Drawings, of the people involved, as well as Old Photographs. It is interesting when you go out in The Wild to show is where events took place. I love Old Buildings. LOVE your Scottish accent and your particularly clear way of speaking. Thank you. Hugs
I just want you to know that I love your channel and if you don't do audio books, you really should do audio books. I wouldn't care what it was about I would just want to hear you reading the text for me.😊
Mr. Sherlock Holmes spoke of these types of cases especially the use of poison by women and that goes back in to early history as well. Good show. Thank you for your work.
@peggedyourdad9560 a good sign that they're dumb is that they assume you believe a fictional character is real because of a reference to a literal storybook. I don't mean that, I just said it because it was a witty rejoinder.
The woman in the first story, we had one of those in my city as well during the 1880's. Her name was Maria Catherina Swanenburg (born 09-09-1839, died 11-04-1915). She was initially viewed as a good samaritan (her nickname was "Goeie Mie" which roughly translates to "Mie the Good") because she took care of the elderly and the sick. It was established that she poisoned at least 102 people. 27 of her victims died, however there were 90 suspicious deaths related to the investigation. 45 of the survivors suffered chronic health issues after they were poisoned. Her motive was to collect health insurence payouts. In December of 1883 she was apprehended and on the 23rd of April 1885 she was convicted with 3 counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison where she died in 1915. #Wellinever
Mary Ann Cotton is one of the most interesting and loved the series Dark Angel about her, although in real life she wasn't anywhere near as beautiful as the actress who played her
Amazing storyteller!❤ I also love hearing about the 18th and 19th hundred stories! ❤ Thank you for the work you do, investigating! Imagine in 100 years your stories will be knowledge learned!
I am new to your channel and I just want to tell you that I am so glad that I found you. These videos are so interesting and I enjoy your narration so much.
She killed him, he had her letters if he wanted to get revenge on her, that would have hurt her more. He was probably blackmailing her with them as she wanted to marry someone else.
@@janetpendlebury6808 Killing him would make no sense, precisely because he had her letters -- if he's dead, all those come to light, which was exactly what happened. I think he committed suicide expecting her to be convicted of murder.
Mary Cotton's husband suspected she had something to do with the children's deaths but decided not to dwell on it. But her selling off a few household items was where he drew the line.
Mary Anne. Deffo guilty! Biggest mystery is how the pumpkins moved across the table? 😅. Love it Paul well presented and told. Thank you from someone housebound. Graham.
I would love to see a compilation video of all the bloopers from this channel. You can't convince me that he made that joke at 35 mins without laughing the first time xD
If the arsenic from the wallpaper had carried the potential to kill one person in a house, it would have poisoned others in the household. Mary Ann Cotton was always breathing the same air, and she lived. So even if coloring of wall paper had the potential to cause death, that explanation, for these cases, makes absolutely no sense. It is surprising that a writer of our time would try for that explanation.
Thank you so much for highlighting this sadly too often horror. It must be harrowing for you to do all your work. But Of Course, we are all still here to discuss this, these souls are not, the families and friends will have to Try and live with this forever 😢😢
She was a witch- never underestimate the extent of evil in an individual that's gotten away with murder for a season. She wasn't sorry for her crimes, she was sorry she got caught. The hangman knew what he was doing..
‘devil worship’ or so they thought back then. Mostly hysteria, superstition, ignorance, and scapegoating. I definitely would not classify her as a witch. She alines better with the definition of what a sociopath is.
Poor Mary Blandy! I think she was young, a bit spoiled, and very naive. She loved her father and wanted to please him. She had no idea that she was being used by a greedy suitor who loved her money, not her.
If i recall correctly, Paul used to change his vest and neckwear frequently when telling his tales. I found this very entertaining and looked forward to the patterns and colors in his clothing. Keep on bringing the stories of the murdering reprobates of the past, i love it.
Bathory was extremly rich, very influential, and of a different religion than the people who slandered and then murdered her. They took her assets and pissed on her reputation... and it worked.
That first woman was too much for me. So much murder, so far reaching and seemingly casual, a matter of convenience maybe. That maid, Susana Gunnel was a hero, saving the letters and poison from burning! Mary Blandy was smart so I think she knew she was giving people poison. Thanks for including the pics with Mary in irons, they are fascinating. You all are so great! Great job on Adelaide’s possible father’s name, what a pretentious doozy. Lol That minister allowed for the purchase of poison but acted all innocent when others noticed the purchases. Hmm. I wonder if she got away with a reckless accident that she was afraid to admit to, but this happened at a time it was hard to get out of a marriage for a woman. Either way, I hope they got it right. Maddy was between a rock and a hard place, that’s what makes her look guilty. Again, I hope they got it right.
Wow . Mary Ann Cotton was in a league of her own huh . I watched the drama about her last wk and it was really good but harrowing too . . Ty for such an interesting video xx Jo
Personally, I suspect that the relationship with Edwin and Adlaide was probably one where Adelaide was his beard. The whole story makes a lot more sense if Edwin was gay, and the two of them were friends with an understanding.
@@tubsy346to be fair i’m a modern gay woman and i know approximately 45 of us with her exact haircut (i know you can’t apply modern trends to those days im just being silly)
I've had an extremely stressful and overwhelming health situation for the past few years. You have a very soothing and calming voice. Thank you!! 😊😊 Excellent french pronunciation! Trés bien monsieur!! 😊❤
If you want medieval and early modern serial killers, you have to keep an eye on stories about robbers. In eras, where even towns had largely tightly knit social networks where everyone knew everyone, serial killers only had a chance to be serial killers if they preyed on outsiders and travelers.
I think that Paris Green wallpaper would kill slowly over time not suddenly like with the last Cotton boy. I think the author of Dark Angel is greatly mistaken. All that Paris Green wallpaper didn't make Maryanne Cotton ill, did it?🇺🇸
Don't let the Watch / Like ratio assume your compilations are unloved, I like many watch them multiple times. While awake they're most pleasant to watch or listen too and most relaxing while trying to sleep. Seems odd that tales of murder or disasters are pleasantly relaxing but Well, I Never has by far my most loved voice on RU-vid.
All of us only get one chance at life, just one. Some of us don’t get much of a chance do they. It’s a bit heartbreaking to realise that some lives are just a few months or years of misery and pain. An entire life never knowing one single look of love, one warm touch, one soft word.
I've read about four different books about Madeleine Smith, and I am quite convinced she was not guilty. Emile was a raging hypochondriac who regularly dosed himself up with all manner of drugs and potions, and had also threatened to do away with himself over a failed love affair years before. I believe he was setting her up, to take the blame for his death, or at least, his illness, via another 'try' at ending it all (by his own hands). It may be, he did not intend to actually lose his life, merely to cause himself some ill health, which he could pin on her, as revenge. He did once say to a friend, "if she were to poison me, I would forgive her." So poison was on his mind. I believe he was planning to take enough to cause illness, for which she could be blamed (revenge), and it would ruin her chances with the richer man and Emile would get her back. That is, if he survived it, but he didn't. The book "A Scottish Murder" has the most detailed account. Madeleine died in the USA in 1928.
I live in Rhu and my dad's office was on Blythswood Square and he told me this story from when I was little, he was a lawyer and used this story to explain the not proven verdict in Scotland
