Investigating A Shocking 280-Year-Old Murder Case!

Eugene Aram was an 18th-century schoolmaster who got away with murder for fourteen years. Then a skeleton was unearthed, and a case that had been forgotten burst into life & created a legend. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story this week. 0:00 The Mystery of the Disappearing Shoemaker (1744) 1:55 Knaresborough: A Town of Caves and Secrets 5:40 Eugene Aram: The Intellectual Prodigy 8:15 Financial Ruin and the Great Jewellery Heist 11:50 The 14-Year Disappearance & Life on the Run 14:30 The Farmer’s Discovery: Unearthing the First Skeleton 17:45 A Wife’s Revenge: Anna Aram Breaks Her Silence 21:10 The Confession & The Secret of St. Robert’s Cave 25:50 Tracking the Scholar: The Arrest at Kings Lynn 28:15 The Trial of the Century: Aram’s Poetic Defence 31:40 The Confession and the "Scholar Murderer" Legacy Research by Phoebe Joyce. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. Edited by Anna Brant. The senior producer was Freddy Chick. After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. All music from Epidemic Sounds. #HistoryHitPodcast #AfterDark #TrueCrime