Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast

The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Part 2

Twisted Roots Season 1 Episode 3

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

S1E3: In the summer of 1841, a beautiful shop girl from the heart of Manhattan went missing.  A few days later her body washed up along the shore of Hoboken.  In Part 2 of "The Beautiful Cigar Girl", based on original source documentation, we'll work through the weeks after the discovery as the police, justices, and political forces of New York and New Jersey worked though a multitude of suspects.  Will they discover what happened to Mary Cecilia Rogers? 

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All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.

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