The Ghost Testimony That Got a Man Hanged | Rebecca Cornell | Ep. 2
One winter night in 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found dead in her home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Authorities ruled it an accident. Then Rebecca's brother claimed she appeared to him in a dream and insisted she had been murdered.
What followed became one of the most extraordinary murder investigations in early American history. A body was exhumed. A son stood accused. And testimony from a ghost helped send a man to the gallows.
In this episode of Notes From The Dead, we dig into the unsettling true story of Rebecca Cornell, the blurred line between superstition and justice in colonial New…
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