The Basement Murder of Kate Conroy

[Note: This is an original format episode.  Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]

S1E8: On a Spring morning in 1896, while her young daughters were at school, Kate Conroy was confronted by her estranged and jealous husband in her basement tenement apartment in northern New York.  After a brief review of an earlier murder in Ogdensburg, learn about Kate's brutal murder and the events leading up to it.  These are the 1st and 2nd in our new Ogdensburg Stories series.

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