Grace Quackenbos Humiston, aka Mrs. Sherlock ...

This 2022 episode covers Giordano Bruno, a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and according to the Catholic church of 16th-century Italy, a heretic. He met a bad end because of his views, but he started out as a friar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform ...  Show more

Tracy ponders how Sara Weiss knew some of the things she knew and whether her husband characterized her as less informed than she was. Holly talks about a possible relative of Theophilus Brome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Lucy Worsley investigates the ordinary lives and extraordinary crimes of Victorian women. This story is about a young servant, Grace Marks, accused of two brutal murders that generated enormous attention in the new world of Upper Canada in 1843. In that time and in that place, mu ...  Show more

"Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" is the fascinating true-life story of Grace Humiston, a New York lawyer and detective who broke gender rules at the turn of the century and solved the famous cold case of 18-year-old Ruth Cruger. Author Brad Ricca tells the story so well. 

A woman leaves work and would never be seen alive again. For decades, her murder remained a mystery. Patience paid off, and over 40 years later, answers were finally delivered to her family.

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In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. Bu ...  Show more