The Killer Spinsters: 1941 TRUE CRIME CASE
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2009
- Vintage 8mm home movie video highlights the 1941 true crime tale of Ethel George and Rita Crawford, two middle aged spinsters who murdered seven men after taking out life insurance policies on their lives. Subtitles tell the tale of death.
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Color did exist in home movies in the 1940s and it was very expensive and for the wealthy only.
Recently, in Santa Monica,CA, two women were arrested for murdering homeless men they had suckered into signing life insurance policy contracts. Unlike these gals in 1941, the Santa Monica gals got their crimes documented on security cameras and the video footage was used in court as evidence. Old Ethel sure worked fast -- a few days out of prison and already snagged a lawyer as her next victim.
Thank you so much for posting these :D
i have been waiting a long time for this :D
Really good job Chris Hanson. You could have maybe cropped the white on left. Do you compose the music yourself? If yes may i ask where you found the strings?
reminds me of arsnic and old lace. i believe i spelled that wrong. just crazy, they look like very happy and inocent spinsters.
There were color home movies beginning in the 1940s. It was expensive, but they did exist.
Because they are. My grandparent's home videos from the 40's are in color. No sound though. Don't pick everything apart!
That black man was just a worker doing his job by taking the ladies for a ride in a park. He didn't know them. It was common back then for black men to do menial jobs like that, servicing white people.
great music you used.
daaang scary music man..XD
how could they be so..heartless
I think that Belle19700 is correct. I believe these women were the inspiration for "Arsenic and old lace", starring Cary Grant I believe.
@boredwithductape colour film has actually been around for over 100 years. It just didn't become very common till about the mid 20th century.
@Chris Hanson, you have done a good job on these. They are very interesting. One thing, I think it would be better if you put together some sort of narrative instead of subtitling them. Just my two cents. Still pretty good though.
Chris...Chris....Chris....I've just watched several of your "true crime" videos......very clever. That's all I've got to say.
@moneycashscrilla Friends and family who were present at that time.
@samucirex, it is a myth that life in prison is more expensive than the death penalty. The death penalty is exponentially more expensive because of legal fees associated with appeals!
How do you get the footage and where do u get ur info. This is creppier than watching it on the id discovery channel or forensic files. This is some crazy stuuf though
Wow, So cold hearted!
how do you get the footage?
plot of arsenic and old lace, like your videos very interesting
interesting tales
geeze these women look like some aunts in old home movie videos .... never liked them lol
marc in nyc
ps thanks so much for all of your post they are very interesting to say the least
This case pisses me off, after they executed Ethel and Rita on the electric chair, their descendants were allowed to keep the insurance money. Rita's grandson is like a multi-millionaire today as a result of her crime. Laws back then were not equipped to handle this type of murderous fraud and insurance companies could not take the money back because there was no clause about death due to fraud or murder. Just not right.
Much of The Wizard Of Oz was in color, and that was filmed in the 1930s.
Ethel and Rita were lovers. Guess that’s why they never marry. In those times a lot of lesbians hid behind that spinster calling to avoid scandal and/or homophobia.
the same year citzen kane came out
Rita was hardcore and Ethel was rockcore. I knew a few girl's like these in Seattle. The names were Terry Zindel & her friend was Emy. The girl's house smelled like the dead. I offen wondered if there wasn't dead bodies buried in her home.
Keeping a body in the house? Sloppy work, ladies.
@moneycashscrilla Johnny Thunders did
Actually, I am a person who stutters, and I'm someone who likes to have fun. That's what the name means.
wats spinsters?
@syanen not necessarily. i dont plan to get married and im not a lesbian
What's funny is color films did not come out till the 60s this occured during the 40s
Is it just me or are most of these stories about women killing others?
Shades of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.
Don't imbibe the elderberry wine, gentlemen.
Uugh,lousy housekeepers.Stashing dead guys in the attic before febreeze was invented...
lol
1944
Citizen Kane came out in 1941.
Those brazen hussies! Poor men met their demises at the hands of a wicked choo choo.....was it the Casey Junior or B&O??? Do tell so more senseless deaths can be avoided!
@lipsticklibrarian84 they may have had wealthy jobs...ya never knoww
TNB " TRUST NO BITCH"
Spinsters are women who have never been married.
Psychos in Bonnets.
@RAWRitsApples whats that all about nothing happened to the black guy he was just the carriage driver thats all. They were only killing white men so whats the haha about? what haha he has job? that remark makes no sense here. that was just dumb
never trust a spinster-------------lollollollol
@mozartgenetics Tea party racist.