All posts tagged "jury"
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14.7KMassachusettsMary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northampton
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
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20.5K1ConnecticutNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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16.5K1Crime and ScandalThe Merry Widow Murder of 1936
On Oct. 5, 1936, Boston police got a call to the waterfront at Jeffery Field, now Logan Airport. Two men had found...
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