Murder in the Ivory Tower
It’s 1849, and a gruesome murder has just happened at Harvard. As body parts turn up, the science of the day is put to the ultimate test to find out: who committed this brutal killing? Prof. Paul Collins tells us how this morbid mystery unfolds.
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) The murder that shocked Harvard
(02:35) A very rich man disappears
(06:08) The tea chest of horrors
(07:34) The professor
(09:33) The janitor
(12:00) The case against the professor
(14:25) The trial
(17:48) 1800s forensics enter the picture…
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