Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Eleven

This is “Fire and Brimstone,” the eleventh season of TENFOLD MORE WICKED, our oldest story yet. This time we’re traveling to colonial Rhode Island in 1673. This story came from a longtime Tenfold More Wicked listener and distant relative of the victim. Believe it or not, this case is still local lore for residents of the area.

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Episode Transcript

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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