{"podcast":{"title":"True Crime Historian","slug":"true-crime-historian-1041409","podcast_index_feed_id":1041409,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2909311/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.truecrimehistorian.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1ad0391fad07c6b2a46be39bf3ed8e00.jpg","author":"Richard O Jones","episode_count":437,"summary":"Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T08:17:10.363356+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409"},"episode":{"title":"A Witness Denied","slug":"a-witness-denied","published_at":"2026-07-06T03:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409/a-witness-denied","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409","url":"https://www.patreon.com/posts/witness-denied-158973422","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72119816/490_1806_wythe_spreak26.mp3","summary":"The Poisoning of George Wythe Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declaration of Independence, teaches Jefferson how to think, and frees his slaves. His grandnephew thanks him with arsenic in the coffeepot. The cook sees everything. The law says her eyes don't count. A Founding Father's murder, and the legal code he built becomes the instrument of his killer's escape. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support . You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require. We invite you to our other PULPULAR MEDIA podcasts: If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES , telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything! For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week.","meta_description":"The Poisoning of George Wythe Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declarati…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3517,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-crime-historian-1041409/episodes/a-witness-denied/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409/a-witness-denied.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}