Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! We have a super long episode for you guys, so get ready. Liv covers numerous cases along Highway 20 in Oregon that all have one thing in common, some connection to John Ackroyd. Mack brings you a really fun episode about a local mad doctor, specifically Dr. Joseph McDowell. You’ll hear all about his history, his work, and some illegal activities that led to his demise. And to wrap it up we get a ghost story of the maiden in the cave.
This episode contains foul language, topics regarding murder, rape, and lots of old time doctor stuff. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!
Highway 20 Sources Ghosts of Highway 20; Oregonian
Dr. Joseph McDowell Sources Science Direct Victoria Cossner & Lorelei Shannon, Missouri’s Mad Doctor McDowell RootsWeb - Genealogy Old Medical Doctors, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1891 Luke Ritter, Anatomy, Grave-Robbing, and Spiritualism in Antebellum St. Louis Phillip Skrosa, The St. Louis Body-Snatchers Mary Young Ridenbaugh, The Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., the Father of Ovariotomy K. Patrick Ober, The Body in The Cave: Joseph McDowell’s influence on Mark Twain
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