
Bad Reputation
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Deathbed Confession
Catherine Van Horn is now living in Seattle. She's dying from a stomach obstruction and in the final days of her life. She wanted a deathbed confession documented that she was the one who killed Mary. Catherine: I did not live far from my mother. One day when my stepfather and the kids were away from home, I went to my mother's week world. I hit her over the head with a picket pen. Then I realized that she was dead. So I opened the trap door of the cellar, shoved her through the hole, carefully closed the door and fled. After I got outside, I noticed the picket pen was still in my hand. I threw it
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