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92: New York's Notorious Blackwell's Island w/ Stacy Horn - A True Crime History Podcast

2018/9/6
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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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Stacy Horn, author of "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York", joins me to chat about the infamous New York City island, which housed the women's notorious lunatic asylum that continued to operate for decades, despite the horrendous abuses committed against the inmates.

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