Criminal

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Sep 27, 2019

30:31

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Episode guests

Brad Ricca

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Episode notes

The Story of Julius Crone

02:20

Antoinette's Execution Was Put on Hold for 30 Days to Give Grace a Chance to Petition the New Jersey Supreme Court

02:20

Antoinette's Gun Goes Missing

01:35

Introduction

2min

Bruth Cruger's Story

2min

Ruth Cruger's Father Criticized the Mayor of New York, the Commissioner and the Ny P D

2min

Law School - Grace's Story

2min

Antoinette Tola's Story

2min

Antoinette's Gun Goes Missing

2min

Antoinette's Execution Was Put on Hold for 30 Days to Give Grace a Chance to Petition the New Jersey Supreme Court

2min

Shopefy - The All in One Commerce Platform to Start, Run and Grow Your Business

3min

The Story of Julius Crone

2min

10.

A New Plan for Julius Crone and Grace

2min

11.

Grace Humiston Finds Ruth Cruger

2min

12.

Are You Alfredo Coche?

2min

13.

The N Y P d'S Most Extensive, Eternal Audit

2min

14.

The New York Sun Man Profile on Grace

4min

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do whatever it took to find her. She became known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.”

Brad Ricca’s book is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation.

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