New Jersey & Kentucky: Industry and Ambition

Podcast: Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast · Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

October 1900, Paterson, New Jersey. A seventeen-year-old silk mill worker named Jennie Bosschieter walks to a drugstore on a Thursday evening. She never comes home. Four men from the city's wealthiest families drug her with chloral hydrate, assault her, and leave her body by the Wagaraw Bridge. The murder trial exposes a city where the families that owned the mills believed they owned the law, too. Eight hundred miles south, Perry County, Kentucky, 1887. Two merchants in a town called Hazard turn a dispute over coal mineral rights into a seven-year...