About this episode

The episode discusses the murder of a mother and her infant daughter on Staten Island in 1843 and the subsequent arrest of Polly Bodine, dubbed The Witch of Staten Island by P.T. Barnum.

On Christmas 1843, a horrific discovery was made on New York's Staten Island. Inside a cottage, the bodies of a young mother and her infant daughter were discovered. Whoever killed them had tried setting the house on fire to cover up the crime. Soon a woman named Polly Bodine would be arrested for the crime. It was none other than P.T. Barnum who gave her the nickname she would forever be known by, The Witch of Staten Island. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Witch-New-York-Tabloid-Justice/dp/1639363912 https://boroughsofthedead.com/edgar-allan-poe-witch-staten-island/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: The Conspirators Podcast

Topics covered

• murder
• historical crime
• New York history
• 19th century
• witchcraft
• P.T. Barnum

Keywords

• murder
• Polly Bodine
• P.T. Barnum
• Staten Island
• 1843
• witchcraft
• crime

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Places: New York, Staten Island

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