The Woman They Tried to Erase - The Death of Emily Hal

Podcast: Malice in the Mitten · Tracy Preston

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

In 1895, a young Englishwoman named Emily Hall crossed the Atlantic and arrived at a house on Lincoln Avenue in Detroit while pregnant. Less than two weeks later, she was dead. But Emily Hall wasn't the name written on her death certificate. She became “Myrtle Cook”—a supposedly New York-born woman said to have died of pneumonia at an address where Emily had never lived. Then her embalmed body remained unburied for more than two months. When a newspaper reporter discovered it, the strange death began to unravel. Investigators uncovered letters from Englan...