Alfred Knapp: Five Murders and a Confession

About this episode

The episode discusses Alfred Knapp's confessions to multiple murders, including that of his wife Hannah Goddard Knapp, and the societal reactions to his actions in the early 1900s.

Send a message to Monica and Olivia! A woman’s body floats more than 150 miles downriver before finally being recovered near New Albany, Indiana. By the time she is identified as Hannah Goddard Knapp, her husband—Alfred Knapp—has already confessed to murdering her. But Hannah wasn't the first—Not by a long shot. In 1903, Alfred Knapp shocked the country with confessions involving multiple women and children across Ohio and Indiana. Newspapers called him insane. Doctors blamed brain injuries, ...

Topics covered

• murder
• confession
• true crime
• historical crime
• mental health
• newspapers

Keywords

• Alfred Knapp
• Hannah Goddard Knapp
• murder
• confession
• true crime
• Ohio
• Indiana
• 1903

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Albany, Indiana, Ohio, Indiana

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