The Twisted Case of the Beautiful Minnie Wallace Walkup

Podcast: Tale Foundry Mysteries · Tale Foundry Mysteries

Opublikowano: 2026-11-15

She was sixteen, beautiful, and standing trial for poisoning her wealthy husband just one month after the wedding. The twisted case of Minnie Wallace Walkup shocked Gilded Age America and made her a national sensation. In this episode, we reconstruct the arsenic-laced marriage to James Walkup in Emporia, Kansas, the courtroom tears that won over the jury, and the acquittal that let her walk away with a fortune. But that was only the beginning of her trail of broken hearts and corpses. Press play and meet one of history's most elusive black widows.