EP22: July 27, 1912 - The OG Clickbait
Episode notes
This Monday on Ghosts of the Gazette: come on down to 1912! Kendra tells the tragic story of Candace Wheeler, whose drowning death became entangled in a bitter family feud. At the center is her famous father, author James Cooper Wheeler, who was the son of the famous Candace Thurber Wheeler, whose relentless battle against Candace's fiancé, Otto Meyer, and his brother over wills and estates would ultimately lead to a shocking downfall of his own. Blake explores the baffling disappearance of young nurse Dorcas Snodgrass, who vanished after passing through New York's Grand Central Station. Days later, she was found in Dubois Creek in New York's Catskill Mountains—but how she got there, and what really happened, remains a mystery more than a century later.
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