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Now, during that time, newspaper headlines were flooded with cases of individuals being poisoned. One specific case occurred in 1855 involving a man named William Dove. Now, William ended up murdering his own wife by poisoner with strict nine. And since poisoning was super common back in the 1800s, you would think that this was just a normal case.

However, when you look into it, it is far from normal. It was discovered that William had sold his soul to the devil at a young age. He ended up writing a letter to the Prince of Darkness in his own blood. And before William had killed his wife, he had met with a local wizard who told him to do it.

So needless to say, this entire story is very odd and it has a ton of twists and turns, kind of like an M. Night Shyamalan ding dong movie. So for us to start off this entire topic, we first need to talk a little bit about who William Dove was. So Dan, can you start that off for us? Absolutely. Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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All right. Welcome back. William Dove was born in 1820 in the United Kingdom to Christopher and Mary Dove. William had eight other siblings and was the second youngest. However, while growing up, five of his siblings would pass away from tuberculosis, which I have. He's got something fucked up with his lungs. Yeah, we haven't figured it out yet. He's been sick for like two years.

of what it seems like right now more like two months it's been two months yeah he's got something wrong if there's a doctor out there comment down below or even if you're not a doctor put his symptoms into webmd and tell us what he has i think it's eight points anything from all the damn letters y'all keep sending and shoving them up your ass yeah okay

All right. So William's parents were very religious and very strict regarding their religion. Any free time that was at the home was spent reading the Bible or praying. So needless to say, almost all the kids in the home were pretty religious. However, that was not the case for William. William's siblings were super into the religion that his parents pushed, but William was not. He rejected it completely. He's like, get that shit out of here.

Another thing that William hated was school. He often got bad grades and even got in trouble quite a bit. And during this period, his parents were pretty lenient with him. However, one day, William decided to bring a gun to school. He didn't shoot anyone with it, but the teachers found out that he had brought a gun because he started bragging about it. Of course, he was taken to the principal. They discussed things and William was expelled.

His parents were pretty pissed off at him due to this. And it was at this point that his siblings started to consider him ungodly and would pretty much not want to be around him. Like, they're like, we're going to stay away from William. William's childhood continued to have its ups and downs. Then one day while he was a teenager, William decided to get a knife, prick his finger, and use the blood to write letters to the devil.

In these multiple letters, William offered to sell his soul to the devil. And after writing a few of these letters, William eventually stopped because he never wrote back. Then in 1838, William's father, Christopher, he had made a large charitable donation to a new grammar school that was being built nearby. Due to this charitable donation, William's father was able to get William a spot in this new school.

William began attending this grammar school in 1838. However, less than a year later, due to his grades and behavior, he was expelled from the school and told not to come back. At this point, William's parents had enough. They were fed up with their son's behavior, so they started discussing options. One of the options is that they considered sending him to an asylum to be locked up. Kind of...

Well, I mean, they had enough of his shit. They're like, he's 18 years old now. He keeps fucking up. Let's send him to an asylum. And his father was like, wait, I have a better idea. So they decided against doing that. Instead, though, William's father, Christopher, he called up an old friend of his who lived 70 miles away. Now, this old friend of his, he owned a farm and needed an extra helping hand. So Christopher offered to send his son, William, there to help him out.

A week later, William was on the farm helping out his father's friend with whatever needed to be done around the farm. And you figured that William would straighten up, you know, working on a farm and having to get up early and having chores and duties. However, at this point, he started acting more unhinged than ever before. He started to do some crazy shit. For example, he took some oil of vitriol,

which is concentrated sulfuric acid, which is highly corrosive, and poured it all over the dairy cows. William then attempts to poison the horses. After that, William went and gathered up the local stray cats, set them on fire. He would laugh as he watched them run across the street on fire, screaming. Now laugh because holy shit. That's so fucked up, right? Pouring acid on the dairy cows, trying to poison the horses, and then setting the stray cats on fire.

And if that wasn't enough, shortly after that, William began setting random things on fire, like patches of dry grass, his own curtains, and even small structures. Now, some of the things he set on fire, he didn't realize were owned by the other nearby farmers. And when they found out that their shit was being burned by William, they got pissed and they decided to go over there and confront him.

Now, William saw all of these farmers coming over to confront him. So he decided to grab a pitchfork and start running after them. And he began screaming, I would shoot you all if I had a gun as he was chasing them with a pitchfork. Now, the owner of the farm, his wife had enough of it and decided to tell William to quit his bullshit. So pretty much his father's friend's farm. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

This only triggered William even more and he pulled out a knife and threatened to kill her. It was at this point that the owner of the farm decided to call his friend, Christopher, to let him know that his son William had threatened his wife and that is not welcome there anymore and to come get his ass.

Somehow, Christopher was able to smooth things out and William was allowed to stay on the farm for the next couple years. Then, almost three years later, at the age of 21 years old, William left the farm and then headed back home. And as soon as he got home, his father ended up sending him to another farm to work again. It was during this time that William settled down a bit and had no major issues for an entire year.

However, after that year was up, William decided to leave farming and travel overseas to the United States and Canada. Not much is known about what William did during his travels, but what we do know is that he returned to the United Kingdom two years later. Upon returning to the UK, William's father, Christopher, decides to lease a farm for William to live and work on.

Along with leasing the farm, there are two farmhands that are hired, an individual named James Shan and Robert Tomlinson. Also, a housekeeper is hired to help William as well, and her name is Mary Peck. Now, shortly after this is when William starts to get real weird again. So for like three or so years, he was kind of normal. But then when he got back onto another farm is when things got weird. He started to set shit on fire again.

For example, one day Mary, the housekeeper, she was wearing this nice hat around the house and William decided to walk up to her and set the hat on fire while she was still wearing it. Another thing is that William would stay up all night shooting guns into the sky. Also, William would often go and wake up one of the farmhands, James, in the middle of the night.

William would tell James, hey, you need to go outside and check the area around the farm for intruders. I swear I hear something outside. James would get up, would go check, and there would be no one. So he's pulling pranks on him. Pretty much. And this would happen like all throughout the night. It would be around this time, though, that William would find religion and begin to settle down.

He started becoming very charitable and allowed homeless individuals to sleep in his barn, and he would even give out donations to random causes. William also started to spend a lot of time with other Methodists at Woodhouse Grove, which was an all-boys boarding school, and the social events they held there. Now, at one of those social events, there was a woman named Harriet Jenkins. She was in town visiting her brother who taught at that school. Now, at this social event, William and Harriet met one another.

Things clicked between the two and they got engaged a few days later and then got married less than a month later. Damn, we were fast. The couple was good for a very short time. Then their marriage quickly began to fall apart. I wonder why. William began drinking a lot and the couple fought and screamed all the time and had violent arguments. Harriet began having issues with hysteria, constantly accusing William of having an affair.

During one of these accusations, William ended up running outside, yelling back into the house. I'm going to burn this motherfucking house down, bitch. And then he said, yeah, and then he fired his gun repeatedly into the night sky. I'm going to burn this motherfucking house down, bitch. William is he's crazy, man. He's wilding out there. However, William never burned down the house. He was just all talk.

During this period, Harriet's relatives began noticing that things were off between the couple. Also, the employees at the farm, they got so afraid of William and his behaviors that they ended up just quitting their jobs so that they could get away from him. Then on August 11th, 1854, William begins to argue with his wife. He then heads over to his parents' house, who both ask him if everything is okay. William snaps and tells his parents that he's going to kill both of them and then kill himself.

His parents become scared and decide to call the police, who end up arresting him. William then spends a very short time in jail, is pretty much given a slap on the wrist, and is released.

After that, William starts acting normal. And he acts normal for a pretty long time. For only a month, because a month later, while working on the farm, William has a conversation with John, one of the farmhands, and John tells William about a local wizard who had a small shop in a nearby market.

John also tells William that his previous employer had two guns stolen from him and that he went to this wizard to see that if he could help him locate the stolen guns. Surprisingly, these guns were supposedly found by this wizard. Now, this ended up intriguing William and he ended up asking John to set up a meeting for him. And pretty much he wanted to meet this wizard.

Side note, currently at this time, William is in negotiations with the landlord of the farm that he is living on. These negotiations are not going well and William is trying to renew his lease. He thinks that maybe this wizard can help him in any way possible in renewing his lease successfully. So that is why he is interested. Yeah, but he doesn't tell John that.

All right. Now, before we all tell you about William meeting this wizard, we first need to tell you who this wizard is or was and a little background about him. Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. This episode is sponsored by HIMSS.

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All right, welcome back. Now, this so-called wizard was an individual named Henry Harrison, and Henry was born in 1816 in the United Kingdom. During his young adult life, Henry worked in factories. Eventually, he would get married, have children, and settle down. But eventually, Henry got tired of that life and decided to go back to the thug life. Henry abandoned his family and turned to criminal life.

He tried stealing 50 yards of fabric from a farm, but was caught, arrested, and then spent three months in jail. After getting out of jail, Henry was arrested again for deserting his wife and children. He was found guilty and sent to jail for one year.

Then in 1844, he was released from jail and moved into a local boarding house with a widow named Elizabeth Brown. One year later, in 1845, Henry began offering herbs, herbal remedies, and drugs and medicine to anyone needing it. Them abandoning his family, deserting them, and then there's like, oh, you deserted your family? Here, let's take you away from another year. Jesus. I don't see how that helps.

So a few weeks after that, Henry decided to offer up his wizard services and began advertising things like, I can find lost objects, tell you astrology, or even be a matchmaker to find your perfect partner. Henry began getting contacted for his work and his services were iffy to say the least.

For example, Henry once stole a crop of celery. Afterwards, he overheard the farmer who owned that celery talking about how someone stole his crops. Henry approached the farmer and offered him, hey, I'm going to give you my services to help you find your stolen crops.

The farmer came over Henry's house to discuss it. And it was at this time when the farmer was talking to Henry. The farmer looked in the corner was like, hey, that's my fucking celery right there. You got my fucking celery. And Henry's like, no, it's not. It's like, that's my fucking celery. So the farmer left, called the police. The police came over. Charges were pressed and Henry was sent to jail again.

Eventually, Henry was released from jail by 1850 and quickly decided to open up a booth at the nearby marketplace. At this booth, Henry advertised himself as an astrological doctor, dentist, and watercaster. And that right there is the wizard, Henry. And in our timeline, he is currently at a marketplace with his own booth, advertising his services as a wizard. Now let's jump back to William and his farmhand, John.

So William and John decided to go to the nearby marketplace, sell their potato crops that they had, and to meet with this wizard Henry later that night at the Red Lion Inn. Dude, why can't we have hotels and stuff called that again? We got the Red Roof Inn. Yeah, but the Red Lion though sounds... Red Roof Inn's ghetto, man. I had... I found bed bugs in one of them one time. I had black mold growing on the top of the shower in one of them. That's just paint. I had a peeping Tom in another one.

I woke up in the middle of the night and the cleaning ladies were sucking my toes. And I was like, what the fuck? True story. True story. True story. One time I went, uh, I was working as a contractor in Florida and I was staying in a hotel near St. Lucy and I go into my hotel room, super, super ghetto. I think I was staying at like Fort Pierce, which is like North of St. Lucy, if I recall correctly. And I go inside there right after the, uh,

little housekeeper or whatever leaves and I walk up to my toothbrush and I've been gone all day and it's wet pick it up it's one of those vibrating toothbrushes this is like 2009 or 10 or whatever pick it up it's wet I run my finger across the bristles and I'm like why is it so wet I sniff it smells like straight up crotch dog she used it story time with Aaron

All right, let's continue on. I think that's the wrong end. Eventually, the night rolled around and the three ended up meeting. Was it John, William, and Henry? The three of them drank heavily for the next six hours.

And during that period, William made a plan for Henry the wizard to come out to his farm in the next two weeks so that he could do a bit of magic with a K to help the farm release any curses it might have and protect it from any new ones. So two weeks later, Henry the wizard ends up showing up at the farm. And this is where things get weird. Shortly after arriving, William wanted to show Henry around and introduce him to his wife Harriet.

But instead, Henry tells him to shut up, looks at Harriet, and then looks back at William and says, I need to ward off the curses that are placed here and protect you against witchcraft. Henry then begins writing symbols down on five pieces of copper and then scatter the pieces in random places while praying and chanting out loud, all while William is standing there awkwardly watching. Shortly after that, Henry walks up to William.

and hands him a piece of paper with symbols written on it. Henry tells William to carry this piece of paper in his pocket whenever he goes to negotiate with the landlord again. Then Henry suddenly leaves and doesn't say anything else. A week later, as William started gathering his things up in preparation to meet with the landlord for renegotiations, he begins to notice something odd.

William noticed that he was missing the piece of paper that Henry gave him. William started to freak out. He contacted Henry, asked him for another piece of paper with the symbols on it. Henry told him not to worry, wrote them down again, and handed him the piece of paper. Before William left, though, the two began discussing his wife, Harriet. William told Henry that he was still having issues with her accusing him of cheating. Henry ended up telling him that, hey, I don't really like your wife, Harriet. She's not right for you.

William, however, wanted to make things work with Harriet. So he told Henry, hey, can you help me in any way to kind of salvage my marriage? Henry reluctantly agreed, but stated it's going to take some time and it's going to be very difficult for you to save this marriage. So weeks pass by and William continues to see Henry more and more, requesting various magical help in certain aspects of his life.

However, at one point, William had some wheat stolen from his farm. Henry found out about this and assured William that he would fix it so that the farm would regain the money or the wheat. But it never did. This mishap is what made William pretty much not trust Henry's skills. He's like, I don't think you're really a wizard.

A few weeks later, on the morning of December 23rd, William decides to go see his landlord with the charm, a.k.a. the piece of paper with symbols on it. He had it in his pocket. And during negotiations, the landlord refused to renegotiate the lease and ended the meeting suddenly. William's like, what the fuck? I thought this piece of paper was supposed to help me. Henry, damn.

Henry reassured him that it would work eventually, that it just needed some more time and more work because the landlord was an Irishman. That sounded pretty racist to me. Yeah. So that afternoon, Christopher, William's dad, he began dying. Yeah. William contacts Henry and says, hey, my dad just contacted me. I'm having a shitty day. I know this is like the third time I've contacted you, but my dad's dying. Henry was like, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, William, I already knew that. And I don't see your dad living past Christmas Day, which Christmas Day was only two days later. The next day on Christmas Eve, William's dad passes away. It was this incident right here that solidified William's belief in Henry. William then, from then on, truly believed that Henry was a true wizard.

Short time later, Henry tells William that Harriet would never be right until she got pregnant and had a baby. Henry offers to help them conceive with magic. Ah, fuck it is, fuck it is, fuck it is. I was, I was expecting to read it. Henry's like, I'll offer to help. And he's like, leave me alone with your wife for a little bit. You pervert. Pervert wizard. Yeah. So William and Harriet had to leave the farm that they were living on since, I mean, probably the negotiations didn't work well. So they had to move to a new one in March of 1855.

And it was at this point that Harriet's sister ends up moving in with him and begins living with him for the next five months. Now, the arguing and fights between William and Harriet, they pretty much kind of lessen. They don't stop completely, but they dramatically decrease. And this is because of the sister. You know, I guess they didn't want to argue around her, so they just didn't. But as soon as she left after her five months, the arguing picked right back up.

William decided to go back to Henry and ask for more help with his marriage. And of course, Henry says he'd been trying, but that Harriet just wasn't right and needed to be getting out of the way, taken out of the picture, be gone. So Henry read William his fortune and made magical math calculations into a chart. It was after this that Henry told William that from age 27 to 32, William, you would have nothing but trials and misfortune in your life.

But at the age of 32, the sun and moon would come into conjunction with each other on your chart and you would see big improvements in your life. You will lose your wife, but fear not because you will marry again to a woman with auburn hair and pale skin. She would get pregnant with your child and your fortune, it would be multiplied. You will see signs and you need to watch for them.

And after telling William this, William pretty much believed it. He began looking for signs. Yep. And William and Harriet started sleeping separately. Harriet's mother is helping her look into legal separation from William. And Henry was just like, just let it happen. William, just let her go. Just let her be gone. Yep. And it was at that point that William and Harriet decided to go to the legal office and...

They were about to sign the divorce slash separation papers, but William kind of had a change of heart and he began begging Harriet to stay with them to be like, hey, let's give this one more try. Please, please. Harriet, of course, agrees. And they ended up leaving the courthouse together. And as they left the courthouse, they made a promise to one another. William promised Harriet that he would quit drinking and Harriet agreed.

promised that she would give him a baby that, hey, you fill me with your seed and I'm going to birth you a baby bitch. That's what Harriet told him. Now, Harriet and William had to move again by December of 1855 to another place. And when they moved in, they would actually meet their neighbor, which was a widow named Jane. Oh, Jane. Jane had one child by her late husband, had auburn hair, fair skin, and had a small fortune inheritance from her husband.

William immediately believed this was his next wife, as predicted by Henry. Jane strongly disliked William, could hear him yelling and screaming at Harriet, and knew that, eh, he's not a good person. Yeah.

Now, it was at this point that William decides to go see Henry and begins discussing pretty much casually about stuff. And one of the things that they discuss is poisons like strychnine and other things and whether they were detectable in the body after use. Now, Henry was currently like not up to date with medical abilities, but said, hey, they shouldn't be detected. You know, at least I don't think so.

So William asked Henry to go get him some poison, but Henry refused. Henry's just like, she needs to be gone, but I'm not doing it. I don't want nothing to do with that. So William and Harriet, they kept having more fights, more and more. William didn't have a job, started drinking heavily again. And of course, with all the fighting, Harriet started to struggle with her hysteria again on daily medications and herbal supplements for it.

Then she was diagnosed with functional disorder of the digestive system and affection of the nerves after her brother died. IBS. Ah, good old IBS. Then, of course, William regularly went to the pharmacy surgery to pick them up for her from their family doctor, Dr. George Morley. Give her some medicine for her butthole for her IBS.

Now, while William was at the pharmacy, he asked the pharmacy boy about strychnine and whether it would kill two stray cats that had been causing chaos around his place. This employee at the pharmacy said, yeah, it would, and gave William 10 grains of strychnine. And if you were to give this to an individual, it would pretty much kill that person via respiratory distress. They would stop breathing due to muscle death and failure. So, yeah.

So, after getting that, William goes home. He sprinkles half of the strychnine granules on a piece of meat and puts it out in the yard. The next day, he ends up finding one of the dead cats in the yard.

William goes back to the pharmacy and says, hey, I need some more strychnine, but told it to a different pharmacy worker and told him that, hey, I'd used half of the granules, but only got one of the cats and the other half of the granules washed away in the rain. So I don't have any more, but I got one more cat that I need to kill. So the pharmacist gave him five more grains of strychnine.

So in February of 1856, Harriet's medical conditions were starting to get worse and they ended up making a call to Dr. Morley complaining of head pain and stomach issues. IBS, man, it's a pain. So Dr. Morley prescribed carbonate of soda, which is baking soda, with lemon syrup, rhubarb pills, and opium for the pain. Hell yeah.

So on February 19th of 1856, a servant of William and Harriet, Elizabeth Fisher, she ended up getting sick and wanted to go home.

William, at that point, steps up around the house and starts helping out and started giving Harriet her medication that she regularly takes and pretty much starts taking care of her, doing the regular duties that their servant would do. And by February 25th, Harriet started to get much worse. She started to collapse and has seizures after saying her legs felt weird.

Harriet then steadily got worse daily. Eventually, the doctor had to be called to the house to check on her. Dr. Morley. Yeah. And Dr. Morley pretty much confirmed that she was having more issues with hysteria. But William said he thought it was something much worse. He said he thought Harriet was going to die soon. And he said this in front of Harriet to Dr. Morley. So it was like, what? What the fuck are you talking about? How do you know that?

So Morley pulls William aside and tells him not to put Harriet under any unnecessary stress by saying things like that. You can't say that shit in front of your wife, man. You're putting her under stress. Now, William had been out of town the day before and he had been drunk. And while he was drunk, he was telling everyone that Harriet was so sick and that she was likely going to die soon. Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break. This is our last one. So don't go nowhere.

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So not only was he telling the doctor that in front of Harriet, but the day before he was telling the entire town while he was drunk. Dude, William is so messed up. That's all I got to say. All right. So now it's March 1st, Saturday. William ends up walking to Dr. Morley's place, telling him like, hey, doc, you got to come see my wife, Harriet. She's in very bad shape. Something's going on. And while walking back to the house, William tells Morley that Harriet had said she did not want to be cut up, autopsied after death due to religious reasons.

Which is not unusual for, you know, requests for that time. I mean, some people actually still do that. Yeah. So Dr. Morley thought it was really weird that William brought that up. And he's just like, eh, I don't think she's really going to die. I'm confident she's going to make it through. She's going to make a full recovery, but okay. Yep. But during the walk back to the house, Harriet ended up passing away. William left the house shortly after that and did not mourn his wife. Instead, he got drunk.

Dr. Morley stayed behind at the house to examine the body of Harriet visually and talked to Harriet's two friends who had been with her at the time of death. Dr. Morley later said that Harriet's facial expression at the time of death was one of anxiety. So Dr. Morley reported Harriet's death to the coroner, and they weren't suspicious of William at first, until he heard from his pharmacy employees that William had been in recently...

In there asking about Strychnine and how to use it to get rid of cats, stray cats. This is when Dr. Morley requested a coroner's inquest and the post-mortem examination of Harriet, thinking that she may have gotten some of that Strychnine in her food by accident.

which William protested the order, but he was overruled. Yeah. Now, what Williams did not know at the time was that Dr. Morley was also a lecturer of chemistry at Leeds College of Medicine with a specialty in toxicology. Now, the postmortem was inconclusive, but Dr. Morley took Harriet's stomach and intestines with him for further testing.

And as he tested them, it was later found that strychnine was in all parts of her upper GI, her stomach and small intestines. Her stomach and all of her intestines? Yeah, her upper GI tract. Took it all.

And how he ended up confirming that she had strychnine poisoning was that he fed a portion of her stomach contents to two rabbits, two mice, and one guinea pig. And all of the animals died of strychnine poisoning except one rabbit. And Dr. Morley ordered the pretty much the dead cat

and ordered it to be dug up and examined. And all of the results fit perfectly. And it pointed heavily to intentional poisoning. That's how we confirmed that she had strychnine poisoning. So Dr. Morley had to report all these findings, you know, on an inquest on March 7th of 1856. Meanwhile, William had to speak to Henry, told him he was innocent and asked him to fix this trial in his favor. Use your magic, Henry.

Though, of course, Henry said he would try, but that it would be a hard case and that William would have a tough time. Yeah, because the evidence against you, William. Yeah. Magic's not going to help on that. And around this time, the talk of the town was pretty much that William had done this on purpose. But William began telling his friends that the inquest wasn't a big deal, that he'd just be just fine and it was just a formality.

But the police were at his house at the same time waiting to arrest him when he got home. So he was walking around town like, no, look, everything's fine. It's not a big deal. I'm just going to head back home and have a few drinks. It's all right. He gets home and the police are right there. They're like, gotcha, bitch. Damn. So the press, newspapers at the time, they had gotten a hold of the story and began publishing about it. Calling William a freak, sharing the stories from his young years, setting things on fire, making a pact with the devil, selling his soul, you know, all that crazy stuff.

crazy shit that we talked about earlier. Yep. So on Wednesday, over 200 people showed up to watch the first portion of the trial. And it was at this point that Dr. Morley presented all of his evidence and the jury ruled Harriet's death as strychnine poisoning willfully administered by William Dove. And this was not a full trial, only the trial to decide officially on the cause of death, murder.

The murder trial would not begin until late summer. I never understood that, why they would break it up in parts like that. I don't either. And then again, I don't get why so many people show up for random cases like that. Well, they published it all on the newspaper, so publicity, and they didn't have much to do at the time. I was about to say, like, they don't got no jobs? Come on now. All right, so after that portion of the trial, William was moved to York Castle, you know, for the summer months, May, July, you know, waiting for the second part of the trial.

And it was reported that he was a quiet and calm prisoner. But William, though, he was keeping a positive mindset. He had faith in his wizard buddy, Henry, that everything would work out in his favor in the end. And of course, William wasn't able to contact Henry because prisoners were not allowed to write letters going out. So William tried to smuggle a letter to Henry out with a prisoner who was being released.

Probably trying to use his prison pocket. His ass. Stick a letter in his ass. Damn, Dan, you could have a job in prison. I don't want to use my prison pocket like that. Ass smuggler. An ass letter smuggler. Letter ass smuggler. So this letter asked Henry for his opinion on the case and kind of

Said that, hey, I'm fully confident in you, Henry. Make me an innocent man. Love, William. Also, William asked Henry about a rumor that Henry had evidence against him about when William asked him whether a half a grain or a full grain of strychnine would be detectable. William asked for clarification on that because he heard that rumor that, hey, Henry's testifying against me because of what I asked him.

And he also asked Henry to write back in either lemon juice or milk so that it would not be seen until it was being held over a fire. William would also ask Henry if he would be getting out of jail in July and asked who his next wife would be. The letter never left the prison because the other prisoner was searched before he was released and they found the letter, threw it away, which William did not know this,

So Henry never got the letter or was contacted by William. Yep.

Also, William wrote a second letter, but this time it was to the devil, and it was in his own blood, and he sewed it into the lining of his clothes. Now the letter said, Dear Devil, if you will get me clear at the smaller court, and let me have the enjoyment of life, health, wealth, tobacco, beer, more food, and better, my wishes granted, and live till I'm sixty, not seventy, sixty,

Come to me and tell me. I remain your faithful subject, William Dove. That's what he wrote to the devil. And he wrote it in his blood and then he sewed it into his clothes, the lining of his clothes. Interesting.

Well, July 16th come around, William pleads not guilty due to insanity. His defense counsel argued that he was insane at the time, brought up Harriet's constant bouts of hysteria and claimed that she might have taken the strychnine accidentally by herself. So it was at that point that the jury convened from 10.05 p.m. to 10.40 p.m. and they returned to the court with a verdict, which was guilty.

The judge put on his black cap and sentenced William to death by hanging, even though the jury had recommended lenience due to defective intellect, a.k.a. being a dumbass. He's a dumbass. Give him a little leniency. Don't kill him, judge. Just put him in prison for a long time. Judge was like, fuck that. He's getting hung. Yeah, I don't think defective intellect. I mean, he was a dumbass.

But being lenient on him, he tested it out on a cat first and then used it on his wife. Yeah. That's premeditated. Which, for some odd reason, William was shocked that the magic did not work that Henry was supposed to cast and was said to be speechless and dazed. But they just ended up leading him back to his jail cell and that's where he remained for a while.

And that was until August 9th of 1856. William Dove was hanged at exactly noon in front of 10,000 to 15,000 people. Holy shit. Afterwards, they left his body there hanging in the rain for an hour before he was cut down. And this was customary at the time to let the people hang for a little while after death.

to make sure everybody got a good look. So before his execution, William decided to write a letter to his defense attorney, placing full blame on Henry Harrison. Oh, if I'm going down, you're going down with me. And of course, Henry, the wizard, responded to this with denials, defending himself to the public,

Threw William under the bus, fully blamed him and pretty much just slandered him. Like, nah, William's a crazy man. He come over here asking me about poisons and wanted me to help him find a new wife, how to get rid of his current wife. It was all him. Yeah. And that right there is the story of William Dove and the wizard.

And usually at this time we would go into strange facts and findings. But regarding this story, there's not much strange facts and findings because we told the whole story. There is a little bit more about Henry that we'll discuss, but then right after that we're going to go into theories about, you know, was this actually a case of, you know...

demonic possession or did it really happen? Stuff like that. But we'll save that for theories here in a little bit. But I wanted to touch on Henry real quick and talk about what happened to him. So after William ended up, you know, getting executed, Henry was later tried for multiple rapes, bigamy, fortune telling and desertion.

He was found guilty and jailed for four years. So, yeah. Oh. He didn't have a good time. Did you look up bigamy? Yes. What does it say? Marrying somebody else while you're currently married. That's bigamy. That's bigamy. Damn. So, there you go. That's what happened to Henry Harrison, the wizard. He wasn't really a wizard. Or maybe he was. Maybe he just kind of sucked at it. But that kind of leads us into our theories. Yeah. Which...

Our first theory states that William was demonically possessed or had some type of demon controlling him. And it all started through childhood that his parents had all these children and all of them were going the religious way except for William. And five of those children ended up passing away from tuberculosis, but William did not.

And then William supposedly started writing to the devil or whomever in blood offering his soul. Maybe something happened. We mentioned that in the one episode, Clara. Clara Shelley. Clara Shelley. She did that back in what? 1700s, 1800s. It was the 1800s. She did that. She wrote to some demon or devil and started acting weird as fuck. See, but this seemed to be like an off and on thing for William, though.

Yeah, true. Maybe it would have been the same thing for Clara Shelley if she had not passed away when she was like 19. True. Yeah, because he lived for quite a while until he was executed. So that's the first theory is that he was demonically possessed. Not really seen it. No. But okay. The second theory is that Henry was actually Henry Harrison, the wizard, used magic to cause problems for William intentionally, which he goes to. He goes to Henry.

Henry starts casting these spells, but instead of doing good, he cast bad ones, does the opposite. Could be that. I don't know. Maybe because William went to his friend or the other farmhand, John, and got him to set up a meeting with Henry here. That's how William found out about Henry was through John. Dude, what if John was like the main person behind it all? Yeah, set him up, knew that he wanted to get William out of the way.

He was secretly working with the farm owner and really renegotiating the lease. He's like, how can we fuck up William to get him out? Or maybe he was in love with Harriet. Maybe. I don't know. I mean,

Henry obviously didn't really practice magic, so I wouldn't really say he caused problems. He probably did cause problems for William, feeding him a bunch of lies, making him believe stuff like that. And, oh, your father's going to pass away before Christmas. It was just a good guess, I think, on his part. You know, that's what I believe. But that's what our next theory is, is that William Dove was just an idiot who believed a fraud.

you know, Henry, the fraud, the supposed magician. William put too much of his faith into William and that was pretty much it. I mean, that's like going to a fortune, fortune teller and they get a couple of things wrong, but then all of a sudden they get one thing right. And you're just like, maybe it is true. Yeah. It's like, nah, you kind of trick yourself into believing it. It's because you want to believe. Yeah. And William was one of those guys. He wanted to believe that this magic could work, help him out, which,

I mean, honestly, I do think he's an idiot. Yeah. So what's this last theory? All right. So this last theory is that Henry Harrison, the wizard, was a predator who preyed on people's... Being naive. Being naive. Yeah. Honestly, the last two theories, they go hand in hand. Yeah. William Dove was an idiot. Henry Harrison was a predator who preyed on people's stupidity.

And I think William was just fucked up mentally, man. I think he just had a bad childhood. He had some mental health issues that were never fixed. He self-medicated with alcohol. And then he got with his wife, Harriet, who had mental issues as well. And they just clashed. And chaos is what surrounded them. And he tried to find an outlet any way he could to his problems. So he went to Henry. And Henry was like,

well, I can give you whatever you want. Promises him this fortune and this new future. And William wants it so bad that he begins believing these delusions and poisons his own wife so that he could get with the neighbor next door who hates him. But it doesn't work out for him. And he's just mentally unwell. And it ends up being his downfall. I definitely think that William caused his wife Harriet to become mentally unstable with hysteria and all that stuff. Pretty much all the constant arguing and

I mean, thinking, running out the house, I'm going to burn this motherfucker down, starting shooting guns everywhere. She's becoming super anxious, like, is he going to do something sooner or later? He's yelling, he's promising all these things. It's like, never knew if something was going to happen or not. So I can see him being the root cause of her hysteria. Is that what you're going with? Yeah. William Dove was just an idiot. He caused

his wife to be mentally unstable. Then Henry Harrison took advantage of that. Cause I know William must've been paying Henry. Yeah. So obviously Henry took advantage of this. It's like, this guy's a dumb ass. They had enough money to buy. Yeah. She had a, Harriet has her husband's. No, that was Jane. Yeah. That was Jane. Uh, Christopher Williams, dad had money and he passed some of that down to William and

So William used it and they had that farm. They had the farm hands, they had a housekeeper, a servant. Earlier when he was, uh, William was supposed to be renegotiating with the landowner. I'm thinking, why is he not getting his dad to do it? Cause he's the one that did it in the first place. I'm like, now I just realized his dad passed away before. And I was like, oh, that makes sense. Now I feel like a dumbass.

Well, I would love to hear everybody's thoughts about what they think this might have been. If it was mental health, if it was a demonic possession, or if it was just someone trusting a dumbass. But if you or a loved one have met a wizard who has casted spells on you, comment down below or send us an email. We would love to hear from you. That's right. Would it be a wizard or a warlock? Call them the same. I don't know the difference. Wizard's a woman. Warlock's a man. Sorceress would be a woman.

Wow. Wizard? I don't know the common terms. I call everyone wizards. You're a wizard, Henry. Not. All right. So do you have anything else you would like to add to today's episode before we roll it out? I want to meet a wizard. A legit one. I mean, probably never will. Hello. You're a wizard, Aaron. You're not a true wizard unless you have an owl. Yeah, I don't want an owl.

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