Lindsay and Madison discuss the matricide of Caroline Sharkey at the hands of her son, Elmer, as well as how “prolific” insanity was in 1800s Ohio, why you shouldn’t stage a crime scene, and how to die in a way so horrifying that it makes your state’s history.
Information pulled from the following sources
2018 Executed Today post by H.M. Fogle
1892 The Cleveland Leader
1890 The Cincinnati Enquirer (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
1890 The Cleveland Leader
1890 The Dayton Herald
1890 The Evening Post
1890 The Journal News
1890 The Miami Leader
1890 The Plain Dealer
1890 The Zanesville Signal
1889 Darke County Democratic Advocate
1889 The Dayton Herald
1889 The Greenville Democrat
1889 The Miami Helmet
1889 Richmond Weekly Telegram (1)
1889 The Vincennes Sun-Commercial
Find a Grave (1)
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