Episode 200 - Two Hundred Year Old Crimes

For our 200th episode we decided to go back to the old format of doing two cases on one theme on one episode. We also had Beck, Mike's original cohost back as a guest! JT covered the execution of Louis-August Papavoine in Paris France. Sources • AN EXECUTION IN PARIS (Essay by Dr. Robert Macnish). Accessed via Executed Today. • AN EXECUTION IN PARIS (Excerpt mentioning Victor Hugo's reference to Papavoine). Accessed via Executed Today. • Diminished responsibility and enforcing the death penalty (France, 19th-20th centuries) (Article by Nicolas Picard on the Napoleonic Penal Code, Article 64, and the 1832 reforms). Accessed via ResearchGate. • Procès criminel de Louis-Auguste Papavoine (Trial proceedings information). Accessed via Criminocorpus. • Procès et interrogatoires de Louis-Auguste Papavoine (Source regarding crime details). Accessed via Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) Catalogue. Louis-August Papavoine (Biography snippet). Accessed via Wikipedia. • Louis Auguste PAPAVOINE (Dates and occupation information). Accessed via Drouot Estimations. • 1825: Louis August Papavoine, An Execution in Paris (Date and crime location details). Accessed via Executed Today. • The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Victor Hugo novella reference and commentary on the anguish of execution). Accessed via Executed Today tag page. Mike covered the Kentucky Tragedy the Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy of 1825. Sources ● Beauchamp, Jereboam O. The confession of Jereboam Beauchamp (written by himself) who was executed at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp. Kentucky: H.T. Goodsell. (Accessed via Cornell University Law Library Trial Pamphlets Collection). ○ https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sat1109 ● EBSCO Research Starters. “World Enough and Time: Analysis of Setting/Major Characters.” ● iHeart.com. “Beauchamp-Sharpe Tragedy of 1825.” Stuff You Missed in History Class (Podcast). ● Kentucky Historical Society. “Romantic 1825 Tragedy.” Historical Marker Program. https://history.ky.gov/markers/romantic-1825-tragedy. ● Kimball, William J. “The Kentucky Tragedy: Romance or Politics?” The Filson Club History Quarterly. https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/publicationpdfs/48-1-3_The-Kentucky-Tragedy-Romance-of-Politics_Kimball-William-J..pdf. ● Murder by Gaslight. “The Kentucky Tragedy.” http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/02/the-kentucky-tragedy.html. ● MTSU.edu. “New Light on Beauchamp’s Confession.” https://w1.mtsu.edu/borders/archives/9/New_Light_on_Beauchamp_s_Confession.pdf. ● Oxford Reference. “Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy.” ● Poe Studies. “Poe's Politian and the Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy.” https://www.eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1971203.htm. ● Schoenbachler, Matthew G. Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_cultural_history/30/. ● Wikipedia. “Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauchamp%E2%80%93Sharp_Tragedy. ● Wikipedia. “Jereboam O. Beauchamp.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jereboam_O._Beauchamp. ● Wikipedia. “Politian (play).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politian_(play. ● Wikipedia. “Solomon P. Sharp.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_P._Sharp. Connect with us on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brew Crime Website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Exclusive Private Fan Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can support us on Patreon! Available on all major podcast platforms! Leave a review and share to support more true crime content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices