My “(we don’t) color on the dog” co-host, Sena Maddison, shares the Florence Maybrick mystery. The 1889 trial of Maybrick, a Mobile, Alabama, socialite accused of poisoning her British husband James Maybrick, captivated Victorian society. But decades later, the case took an unexpected turn, linking it to one of history’s most notorious serial killers.
Florence’s trial was marked by prejudice and flawed justice. Despite weak evidence of arsenic poisoning — her husband was known to take arsenic recreationally — she was convicted largely due to Victorian moral outrage over her extramarital affair. Queen Victoria herself, offended by Florence’s adultery, only reluctantly commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.
But the most intriguing chapter of the Maybrick story emerged in 1992 when a purported diary surfaced, suggesting James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. Sena takes you down all the rabbit holes in this mystery.
And here is the audio version:
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