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Nov 2021
49m 37s

Edward William Pritchard Pt. 2

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It takes a certain type of evil to poison a person, but a far greater kind to do it repeatedly, and to one's own wife nonetheless. It wasn't that Dr. Pritchard loathed the woman he married. She simply stood in the way of the inheritance he was after… and the maid he'd taken as his consort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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