Ep 23: Fictitious and Real Monsters: Mary Shelley & The Cheshire Murders

Author: Farz Sokhansanj, Taylor Pineiro
Published: Mon 05 Jun 2023
Episode Link: https://doomed-to-fail.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-23-fictitious-and-real-monsters-mary-shelly-the-cheshire-murders-3jYIO2rt

This week Taylor goes back to the Gothic tale of Mary and Percy Shelley. There’s a lot of poetry, free love, and that odd ‘poor but rich-poor’ way of traveling around Europe. There’s also so much sadness, many babies that never got to grow up, dreams that never came true, and a string of broken hearts.

But also Frankenstein! It’s a story about a man who gave humanity science that quite possibly humanity doesn’t deserve. (We’ve been through this with the Curies!)

Farz delves into the randomness of life to tell the story of the murders of the Petit Family in Connecticut - The Cheshire home invasion murders. When two criminals see the Petit family at a store they follow them home and commit the most atrocious crime. It’s ‘In Cold Blood’ all over again - but this time, the police had a chance to save the family, and 110% failed.

We’re doomed.

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So my main source was the book Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour

Shelley’s in the public domain

Petit family from Today, Oprah

Linda Hayes - from The New Haven Register

Joshua Komisarjevsky - from the AP

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