Episode 129: Murdered Maiden

In this week’s episode, Paul and Kate head to 1875 New Hampshire, where a young girl doesn't make it home on time, enacting large search parties. Despite not having today’s technology, will the sharp townspeople be enough to find the missing person?

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 Sources:

“Josie Langmaid - ‘The Murdered Maiden Student’” (Murder by Gaslight, February 21, 2010) 

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/02/josie-langmaid-murdered-maiden-student.html

“Taking the Tour of the Josie Langmaid Murder” by Marshall Hudson (New Hampshire, September 11, 2024) 

https://www.nhmagazine.com/taking-the-tour-of-the-josie-langmaid-murder/

“The Latest Horror” (The Boston Globe, October 6, 1875)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/428244785/?match=1&terms=%22josie%20langmaid%22%20%22coroner%22

“The School Girl Murder” (Northumberland Public Press, October 15, 1875) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/512014796/?match=1&terms=josie%20langmaid

“The Pembroke Tragedy” (The St. Albans Advertiser, November 5, 1875) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/444569167/?match=1&terms=josie%20langmaid

“Another Murder” (Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal, July 28, 1874) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/403771337/?article=86f6a477-4663-4079-9d49-083b321999b2&terms=%22marietta%20ball%22%20

State v. LaPage

https://casetext.com/case/state-v-lapage

“The Murdered Schoolgirl in New Hampshire” (The Buffalo Daily Republic, October 8, 1875)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1140624147/?match=1&terms=%28%22breastpin%22%20and%20%22josie%20langmaid%22%29

“Franklin County” (The Woodstock Post, July 31, 1874) 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/489057212/?match=1&terms=%22marietta%20ball%22%20%22mask%22

“A Fiendish Murder” (The New York Herald, April 9, 1878) 

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1878-04-09/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1878&sort=date&date2=1878&words=Joseph+La+Page&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=4&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Joseph+LaPage&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2