328: The Clue of the Blue Bottle from "The Last Archive"

The Last Archive is a show from Pushkin Industries about the
history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake
news, post-truth moment.

It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems,
these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show
is driven by host Jill Lepore’s work as a historian, uncovering
the secrets of the past the way a detective might.

On this episode, The Clue of the Blue Bottle, Jill tells the
story of a Spring day in 1919, when a woman’s body was found
bound, gagged, and strangled in a garden in Barre, Vermont. Who
was she? Who killed her? Jill tries to solve the cold
case—reopening a century-old murder investigation—as a way to
uncover the history of evidence itself.

Find out more about The Last Archive at their website.