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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain Smith, where

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<v Speaker 1>for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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<v Speaker 1>and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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<v Speaker 1>it into the previous show. In our last episode, Negative Space,

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<v Speaker 1>we looked at the chilling tale of the Purran family haunting, which,

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<v Speaker 1>like many people, I first came across through the film

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<v Speaker 1>The Conjuring. It was also through this film that I

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<v Speaker 1>first heard about Lorraine and Ed Warren, with whom the

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<v Speaker 1>Puran's story has subsequently become inextricably linked. There is little

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<v Speaker 1>doubt that, for whatever reason, some members of the Puran

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<v Speaker 1>family had noticed and experienced various things occurring in their home,

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<v Speaker 1>which they later came to speculate might be the result

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<v Speaker 1>of a haunting. However, it was from the involvement of

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<v Speaker 1>the war that the story really began to solidify into

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<v Speaker 1>something that appeared to give the Peron's concerns some legitimacy

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<v Speaker 1>and would later inspire the filmmakers of The Conjuring. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think for a moment that those filmmakers have a

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<v Speaker 1>duty to present a story based on facts or truth.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a film for entertainment and doesn't present as

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<v Speaker 1>anything else, nor should it be required to. However, since

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<v Speaker 1>many of the Warrens and Peron's assumptions and associations drew

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<v Speaker 1>on the history of real people, it feels necessary to

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<v Speaker 1>go a little deeper into the conclusions that they eventually

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<v Speaker 1>drew and the subsequent mythology that has now been attached

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<v Speaker 1>to the story. Having become increasingly unsettled by the peculiar

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<v Speaker 1>events taking place in her home, Caroline Peron became convinced

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<v Speaker 1>that her family was being haunted by at least one

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<v Speaker 1>malicious spirit, and so in the summer of nineteen seventy two,

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<v Speaker 1>she took it on herself to try and find a

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<v Speaker 1>possible culprit. Caroline is said to have begun by going

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<v Speaker 1>through the records at Burrowville Town Hall, the town which

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<v Speaker 1>incorporates the area of Harrisville in Rhode Island, where the

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<v Speaker 1>Perron's home was located. Despite finding some useful information about

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<v Speaker 1>the past owners of the house, a family named Arnold,

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't until she met Franne, who worked at a

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<v Speaker 1>local store, that she apparently began to get somewhere. After

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<v Speaker 1>telling Franne about the supposed entity she had seen with

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<v Speaker 1>the broken neck. Franne is said to have recognized the

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<v Speaker 1>description of its clothes, a simple dress with wide pockets,

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<v Speaker 1>as being typical of local fashion in the nineteenth century.

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<v Speaker 1>From here the pair came across the name Bathsheba Sherman,

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<v Speaker 1>as documented in a three part series of books titled

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<v Speaker 1>House of Darkness, House of Life, written by old as

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<v Speaker 1>daughter Andrea Peron. Caroline was then introduced to a mister mckeachen,

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<v Speaker 1>an elderly member of the local community, who had in

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<v Speaker 1>fact known Bathsheba as a young boy. What mckeachen is

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<v Speaker 1>said to have gone on to tell Caroline gave her

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<v Speaker 1>serious pause for thought. Back when Batsheba had been a

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<v Speaker 1>young woman, it was said that a baby, possibly hers

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<v Speaker 1>or someone else's it isn't clear, died mysteriously while in

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<v Speaker 1>her care. The cause of death was thought to have

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<v Speaker 1>been the result of a wound made by a needle

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<v Speaker 1>that was found impaled at the base of the infant's skull.

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<v Speaker 1>This event was said to have taken place when Bathsheba

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<v Speaker 1>was staying at the farmhouse back when it was known

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<v Speaker 1>as the Arnold's Farm. Batsheba was apparently accused of murdering

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<v Speaker 1>the child, but ultimately escaped conviction when the judge presiding

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<v Speaker 1>over her trial failed to find sufficient evidence to condemn her.

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<v Speaker 1>As a result, it was said that the local community

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<v Speaker 1>remained suspicious of Bathsheba for the rest of her life,

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<v Speaker 1>with some accusing her of being a witch in league

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<v Speaker 1>with the devil, and that was only the beginning. Having

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<v Speaker 1>felt uncomfortable in the barn on numerous occasions, Caroline was

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<v Speaker 1>also said to have been shocked to learn that one

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<v Speaker 1>of the Arnaults had hung themselves in the barn, and

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<v Speaker 1>that pantry door leading just off the parlor that wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>stay shut, might, as she is said to have discovered,

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<v Speaker 1>have had something to do with the eleven year old

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<v Speaker 1>girl raped and murdered in there many years before. It

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<v Speaker 1>was some months later that a friend of Caroline's was

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<v Speaker 1>attending a lecture in the town of Putnam, roughly twenty

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<v Speaker 1>miles away, being given by Lorraine and Ed Warren. Lorraine

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<v Speaker 1>and ed Warren had been making a name for themselves

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<v Speaker 1>as a self described clairvoyant and demonologist, respectively, offering their

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<v Speaker 1>services to clear unwonted spirits from people's homes. The Warrens

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<v Speaker 1>had first met back in nineteen forty three, and after

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<v Speaker 1>marrying two years later, went on to set up the

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<v Speaker 1>New England Society for Psychic Research in nineteen fifty two.

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<v Speaker 1>Ed had grown up in a house which he believed

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<v Speaker 1>was haunted, and having convinced Lorraine of the idea, came

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<v Speaker 1>up with a plan to see if they could find

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<v Speaker 1>other homes that were also haunted. Ed, who had spent

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<v Speaker 1>some time at art school, would paint the apparently haunted

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<v Speaker 1>homes and offer the paintings to the owners in return

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<v Speaker 1>for a chance to investigate the house. It was from

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<v Speaker 1>these unconventional beginnings that the pair developed a reputation as

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<v Speaker 1>paranormal investigators. Though their Psychic Research Society had been founded

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<v Speaker 1>simply to investigate apparent haunting, their approach changed when in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty five, the Warrens claimed to have conversed with

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<v Speaker 1>the spirit of a young child named Cynthia, who was

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<v Speaker 1>trying to find her mother. The pair as said to

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<v Speaker 1>have been so touched by this apparent communication that instead

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<v Speaker 1>of merely investigating hauntings, they became dedicated to helping the

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<v Speaker 1>supposed spirits they encountered. As self described paranormal investigators, the

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<v Speaker 1>Warrens received their first break in nineteen sixty eight, after

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<v Speaker 1>looking into the alleged possession of a raggedy ann doll,

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<v Speaker 1>a toy that had become popular in the US in

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen tents. The doll, which would later inspire the

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<v Speaker 1>film Annabel, was said to have been possessed by the

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<v Speaker 1>spirit of someone called Annabel Higgins. By the nineteen seventies,

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<v Speaker 1>the Warrens had well and truly cemented their reputation and

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<v Speaker 1>were embarking on a tour of lectures to explain their

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<v Speaker 1>practices when Caroline's friend Barbara went to see them in Putnam.

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<v Speaker 1>Speaking to them afterwards, Barbara told them all about what

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<v Speaker 1>was apparently taking place at the Pearan's home. With their

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<v Speaker 1>interest piqued, the Warrens appeared one morning at the Peran's

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<v Speaker 1>farmhouse and requested permission to inspect the property. Caroline Julie agreed,

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<v Speaker 1>also showing them all the apparent evidence she had amassed

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<v Speaker 1>about who she believed might be responsible for the hauntings.

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<v Speaker 1>When Caroline then mentioned an inexplicable wound she had received

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<v Speaker 1>while resting one afternoon in the parlor, Lorraine Warren had

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden epiphany. Since the wound was a small, circular

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<v Speaker 1>puncture in the skin as if made by a needle.

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<v Speaker 1>It was clear who the culprit was Bathsheba Sherman. Are

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<v Speaker 1>was indeed a woman named Bathsheba Sherman who lived in Burrowville,

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<v Speaker 1>Rhode Island at the time in question, having been born

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<v Speaker 1>in eighteen twelve after dying in eighteen eighty five around

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<v Speaker 1>the age of seventy three. It is also conceivable that

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<v Speaker 1>mister mc keachen had met her as a young boy,

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<v Speaker 1>although he would have had to have been in his

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<v Speaker 1>nineties in nineteen seventy one to have had any real

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<v Speaker 1>recollection of this. However, there is nothing on record to

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<v Speaker 1>suggest that Bathsheba ever visited the Arnold's farmhouse, let alone

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<v Speaker 1>lived there for any prolonged period of time, nor is

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<v Speaker 1>there any record of her being involved in the possible

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<v Speaker 1>murder of a child. In fact, no evidence of any

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<v Speaker 1>scandal of the thought having taken place in the Burrowville

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<v Speaker 1>area has ever been found. What is known is that

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<v Speaker 1>Bathsheba born Bathsheba Thya, was married to a Judson Sherman

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<v Speaker 1>in eighteen forty four. The record state the pair had

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<v Speaker 1>four children together. The first three would die tragically young,

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<v Speaker 1>not in any way unusual for the time, with their

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<v Speaker 1>only surviving son being a Herbert Sherman born in eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>forty nine, when Bahbad died in eighteen eighty five, most

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<v Speaker 1>likely from a stroke. Not only was a eulogy given

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<v Speaker 1>by the local Baptist minister, but she was buried alongside

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<v Speaker 1>the graves of her first husband and deceased children. As

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<v Speaker 1>writer and historian Jamie Rubio has pointed out, both these

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<v Speaker 1>incidences would have been unlikely if the local community had

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<v Speaker 1>suspected her of any of the crimes she had apparently

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<v Speaker 1>been accused of. Neither was there any mention of these

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<v Speaker 1>alleged crimes in Sherman's obituary. As for the other individuals

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<v Speaker 1>that had been suggested as potential spirits, Jamie Rubio unearthed

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<v Speaker 1>some interesting information about them too. It was claimed that

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<v Speaker 1>an elderly woman of the Arnold family had committed suicide

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<v Speaker 1>by hanging herself in the barn, although this isn't true.

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<v Speaker 1>A member of the Arnold family, when the family was

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<v Speaker 1>still in possession of the farm was found to have

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<v Speaker 1>hung themselves back in eighteen eighty six. However, the woman

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<v Speaker 1>in question, Susan Arnold, didn't die at the farm house,

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<v Speaker 1>nor was she elderly at the time of death. In

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<v Speaker 1>a devastatingly tragic account of the incident, Susan Arnold's obituary

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<v Speaker 1>recounts how her husband, John, who had a disability at

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<v Speaker 1>the time, struggled to break into a store room which

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<v Speaker 1>had been locked from the inside. When he finally managed

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<v Speaker 1>to get in after climbing through a back window, he

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<v Speaker 1>found the fifty year old Susan's lifeless body suspended from

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<v Speaker 1>a wardrobe hook with a very small cord, evidently having

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<v Speaker 1>had every intention of succeeding with her plan to commit suicide.

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<v Speaker 1>A loaded gun, a life and a file of mercury

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<v Speaker 1>was also found by Arnold's body. Another connection drawn by

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<v Speaker 1>Lorraine Warren to the Peron's home was with the death

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<v Speaker 1>of a young girl named Prudence Arnold, who Warren claimed

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<v Speaker 1>was raped and murdered in the pantry. This also was

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<v Speaker 1>found to be some distance from the truth, ten miles

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<v Speaker 1>to be precise. Again, tragically, an event similar to this

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<v Speaker 1>did take place, but not in the Perron's home, rather

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<v Speaker 1>in the nearby town of Uxbridge. It was there that,

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<v Speaker 1>in eighteen forty nine, twenty two year old William Nolton

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<v Speaker 1>became so angry at twelve year old Prudence's refusal to

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<v Speaker 1>marry him that he slit her throat and watched her

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<v Speaker 1>bleed to death. Nolton was eventually convicted of the crime

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<v Speaker 1>and sentenced to death by hanging, justifying his actions as

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<v Speaker 1>the simple consequence of love and jealousy, which he stayed

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