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Speaker 1 (00:03):
On the next season of tenfold More Wicked, a longtime
listener reaches out with a tragic family story that's been
passed down through the centuries.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
My first name is Carrie, my last name is Nulty Nolte,
and I am a descendant of Rebecca Briggs murder victim.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
About an English Puritan separatist fleeing religious persecution who arrives
in colonial New England to face an even greater danger.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You do get these kind of instances where families kind
of turn on themselves and any member can kill anyone
else where, it does spill over into violence.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Rebecca Briggs Cornell survives the harsh landscape of the early colonies,
the sudden loss of her husband and a horrifying massacre,
only to be found burned to death in her own home.
But was it an accident or was it murderer?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I think that she was stabbed. I think he's set
her on fire to cover up the wound.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
A harrowing historical true crime that takes a turn toward
the supernatural.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He opens his eyes and he sees his sister kind
of bathed in an ethereal light, and she says, look,
how I am burned with Fire.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'm Kate Winkler Dawson and this is season eleven of
tenfold More Wicked. Join us as we uncover the details
of a murder investigation from a time when belief in
the spirit world was commonplace.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They were burning which is ninety miles away, and the
entire population believed in the supernatural.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And when folklore was trusted as fact.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
There is something called cruentation and what that is is
the belief that the body will tell when the murderer
is near and.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
A time when a ghostly vision could be used as
testimony to break a murder case wide open, appointing the
alleged killer for who he truly is a member of
the family. Season eleven of Tinfold More Wicked premieres April
first on Exactly Right. New episodes out every Monday. Listen
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