Criminal

The Divorce Colony

Aug 5, 2022

37:32

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Episode guests

April White

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Episode notes

No Fault Divorce in New York

01:44

Divorce in the Seventies

02:39

The Divorce Colony

01:35

Introduction

2min

The Trial of Roland Molina

2min

Henry Barnet's Death Imply That Molino Killed Kate Adams

2min

How to Get a Divorce in South Dakota

3min

What's the Worst Kitty Parry Song?

2min

Is Marriage a Failure?

4min

The Divorce Colony

2min

The Cataract House Hotel in Sufas

2min

Missus Molino Seeks Freedom in South Dakota

2min

10.

Why Did She Get Her Divorce in South Dakota?

3min

11.

The Divorce Colony in Sufals

2min

12.

The Rise of Divorce in America

2min

13.

Divorce in the Seventies

3min

14.

No Fault Divorce in New York

2min

15.

The Divorce Colony

4min

This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.

Blanche Molineux visited her husband while he was in prison for murder to keep up what she called the “ghastly pretense.” But eventually, she couldn’t keep it up anymore, and bought a train ticket to a place called "The Divorce Colony."

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

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