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Podcast: Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
Episode: 408: The Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Description: In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift.
Convicted of murder, Winters’ appeal brought in an unexpected ally: America’s most famous defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, who took the case after Winters’ family called in a favor promised decades before.
My guest is former Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, Jeffrey L. Amestoy. He is...