# THE TRAGIC MURDER OF CATHERINE RICHARDS Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-news-podcast-58199/the-tragic-murder-of-catherine-richards Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-news-podcast-58199/the-tragic-murder-of-catherine-richards.md Podcast: [FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-news-podcast-58199) Published: 2025-03-22T22:23:17+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/forgottennewspodcast/episodes/THE-TRAGIC-MURDER-OF-CATHERINE-RICHARDS-e30grje Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/110b0b10/podcast/play/100215854/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-2-22%2F0191711a-b524-5de1-e732-b8be1b36ea8b.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/forgotten-news-podcast-58199/episodes/the-tragic-murder-of-catherine-richards Duration seconds: 2926 ## Resource In 1878, Catherine Richards, a 14 year old girl in Plainfield, New York, was murdered by an obsessed man, after she rejected his marriage proposal. ⁠⁠Support this podcast⁠⁠ === EPISODE RELEASE DATE: 03/22/2025. === HISTORICAL REFERENCES - The Tragic Murder of Catherine Richards: Local History Notes of Southern New York , July 14, 2024, specifically, reprints of news articles from the Oneonta Herald ( Oneonta, NY) and the Daily Republican (Utica, NY), June 28, 1878. Gordon W. Treadwell, Myron Buel: The Boy Murderer (1879) Murder By Gaslight, The Confession of Myron Buel (Oct. 29, 2022). Police Blotter & Court News (The case of Helen Hulick , the Girl in Slacks) - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Did a Woman Go To Jail for Wearing Slacks in 1938? , Snopes, Sept. 2, 2022. Arrested for Wearing Pants , Trace Your Past, Nov. 12, 2021. In 1938, L.A. Woman Went To Jail For Wearing Slacks In Courtroom , Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2014. ⁠ Meet Helen Hulick: The Woman Who Was Jailed For Wearing Pants To Court , ⁠ All That's Interesting, April 21, 2023. VOICES - The Tragic Murder of Catherine Richards: Guest Narrator - ⁠ Victoria Kelemen - Voice Artist and Podcaster. Police Blotter & Court News (The case of Helen Hulick , the Girl in Slacks) - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Narrator - ⁠ Frank Guglielmelli , voice artist. Helen Hulick - Erin Suminsby , voice artist. Judge Arthur Guerin - Mike Polo , voice artist. ⁠ Appeals Court Judge - Jerry Kokich , voice artist. Title Voice - ⁠⁠ Chrisi Talyn Saje ⁠ (Madison Standish) of the ⁠ Madison On The Air ⁠ podcast. === MISCELLANEOUS: Host Intro – Nina Innsted, host of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Already Gone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcast. Exit Aphorism - How A Girl Can Become A Legend, attributed to Martha Jane Canary, better known as "Calamity Jane", circa 1890 (original source unknown). Aphorism Voice… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/forgotten-news-podcast-58199/episodes/the-tragic-murder-of-catherine-richards/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-news-podcast-58199/the-tragic-murder-of-catherine-richards.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.