You have been launching a few recently as well, I really like your channel :)

@@BriefCaseOfficial Aww, thx so much! Much appreciated! I'm doing my best to make a go!

I like your YT name

Old time Radio at night : Ok so what is your channel? I searched under “old time radio etc” but nothing came up. If BC likes it I’ll give it a try

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Thank You! I just upload OTR content (old radio shows).

AGREED !!!

too right! what on earth did the jury and public hear to make them sympathetic towards her? that was a child!

I so agree. And, then made her daughter help her. And, tried to runaway leaving her daughter. Someone like That needs to be put down.

@@theyquixoty , probably the defense said she had it hurt with her husband. Made it out to be more.

I came here to say the same thing.

Its just so senseless isnt it?! I cant get over some public showing sympathy for her, why?

@@aye70aye It's possible the public just didn't have full context of whatever coverage the media was holding over the court case. Maybe they assumed there was more to the story and simply 'assumed' a woman couldn't have throttled a small boy to death just cause he chose the wrong house to sell newspapers to. After all, she very nearly had her husband hanged simply because of biases such as that, even though he was in no way physically linked to the murder.

Absolutely !!!!

@@aye70aye I know!!!! The public either feels sorry for these killers or the authorities and Psychiatrists tries to protect their identity. Makes me sick! That poor child !

Very sad that she killed a child over nothing. Makes no sense at all.

One of the wonderful things about these vintage cases is, back in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, they knew how to deal with monsters. Today, this disgusting woman would be marketed as a "victim" of men on every talk show in the Western world, then she'd write a #1 best selling book, which would then be made into a hit movie or mini-series. She'd serve a few years, go into counseling, then reap the rewards of her lucrative atrocity. Death is what she deserved and death was what she got-thanks to a court not yet emasculated by political correctness.

I believe that her sympathizers considered her insane, and would have preferred a sentence of confinement in a mental institution.

@@lesberkley3821 That's the only thing that explains their support.

It takes the guilt and responsibility from them, and places the sentence on the judges hands.

@Beyond The Pale And a Happy Saint Patricks Day to you as well mate! Love Jessie Xx

Probable that the general public in those days couldn't envisage any other explanation of a woman murdering a young boy like that than insanity, i think given her history with her husband and expert analysis saw through that and its a sad fact that she had serious issues and was a violent person.

Unless she planned to kill the boy to give the husband the death sentence. Probably knew he would eventually leave her since she attacked him before. Might have been because he needed to have break for a few days or because he told the police that she attacked him. The price of the boys life wasn't the cost of the newspaper but simply the price to pay to punish her husband for defying her. The newspaper was the excuse to get him in the house.

Nah

I think Janine is right..She murdered the boy and wanted to pin it on her husband as a form of revenge..She went over the scenario with her daughter believing that if she testified and told the same story as her mother, that it would help convict her husband. Little did she know, in the end, her husband had an alibi and would get off. What a disgraceful, evil woman who took advantage of an innocent child selling newspapers, she deserved her punishment after murdering the young boy. I can't imagine the heartache the family had to endure..Such a tragedy. RIP young man. As usual, great story BC 🙂

@@Lisa-hc3uq I wonder too if she was hurting her daughter and that's why the child lied to the police.

@@janinedear-barlow Maybe but she didn't know the boy. He was just a random paperboy who was going door to door that day, when he wasn't selling many papers, trying to get extra sales. I think she was just a narc and thought she should have the paper for free. She snapped when the boy lingered and then asked for her to pay. Her raging, violent temper was probably the cause of her marriage problems.

All hail the Mrs Kravitz of the world!

You're right. I love my nosy neighbors and feel safer because they are a human surveillance system that costs me nothing...lol

There's much good to be said of a neighborhood watch committee that is up to the task!

She was probably a beast and invited the boy into her home for sexual purposes. And he rejected her advances

Something was up all right. She was a vile human being

A narcissist?

@@linnymaemullins3319 absolutely seems so

It's often the case today.People cannot believe or find it funny,that a woman can physically attack a man.Its far from funny.

Exactly, didn't want to get involved with domestic violence, wow!!!🤔

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ABSOLUTELY. There were probably far more REPORTED "suicides," "accidental deaths", "heart attacks" that were actually murders done cleverly, lol.

In particular, poisonings. Especially when the life insurance industry first became all the rage. In those days, children and infants died quite often because antibiotics were not available yet. With myriad communicable diseases about, slums and tenement buildings were teeming with disease, unsanitary conditions and entire families living in one room. I'm sure it was tempting for a person to take out a policy, unalive a member of the family and collect a small amount of money. Times were hard and jobs were scarce. They could justify bumping off a sickly child by thinking that they had to be sacrificed for the future of the family, to allow the stronger children to have a future. I am not condoning it by any means. I am simply considering that life was so very, very difficult then, so I can see how someone MIGHT be tempted. It was a perfect storm for life insurance policies to be a motive for murder.

She absolutely did!

She was probably thrown into a workhouse and forgotten. After turning 18 in 1933 she likely had her children who I doubt themselves lived stable lives. All a generational curse that began when a young man foolishly enlisted to fight in WWI.

I tried to research Janet and had no luck. Anyone else?

@@50PullUps please’

There must be someone out there whose great grandmother Janet had to live a hard life? Please tell us😭

Hopefully her stepdad took her with him...but

To cover a huge spectrum in a short thought, the courts basically grade sanity based on whether the perp is capable of knowing right from wrong. She was already a functioning member of society(even if that was hard to show in the failing local job market), and knew quite well that she needed to take steps to cover her crime, not the least of which included forcing her daughter to corroborate an unprovable lie that the husband did everything and forced them to dispose of the body. Was she sane? Oh, definitely. Emotionally unstable? For sure. Incapably stupid? To the max, but she almost got away with it, or at the very least, nearly dragged her innocent husband down with her, all because she knew how seriously the police did NOT take the concept of a woman murdering a child, when a heavy drinker of a husband made a much easier scapegoat.

@@mc_zittrer8793 I know the definition of sane by the courts but maybe it's time for another classification between sane and insane. This seems to be where alot of people who are charged with murder fall. I'm so non violent, maybe I'm the insane one. Alot of people find revenge, stalking, murder a normal way of being, I don't find these behaviors logical. Revenge doesn't undo what was done, nor does murder and stalking will certainly not make someone want to be with you. Parents who kill their children, why have them? The natural instinct is to protect them.

​@@nicoleperron3315 respectfully, i agree with you that people who commit senseless acts of violence - which is any act of violence against a child - are awful and heinous. however, "insane" is not simply a perjorative, and it is dangerous to treat it as such. people who truly are insane when they commit violent crime - and that is extremely rare! - are so classified because with appropriate medical care, they can come to understand that what they did was wrong. it is not something they would willingly do while healthy. these people are as normal and moral as anyone else, but because of failures (in the system, in their family, in their medical care, or in their own compliance with a medical regime - and yes, they might be partly to blame in the latter case), they were not able to distinguish the difference between reality and a fantasy in their minds. many people who could be qualified as legally insane, particularly those with disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are actually very vulnerable people who are more often the targets of violence than the perpetrators of it, and when they try to report abuse committed against them, they're not believed! these people deserve sympathy and understanding, not to be demonised. even people who act violently under the influence of psychosis are not necessarily violent by nature. they do not deserve to be compared to or treated the same as people who are violent and immoral for reasons of convenience or bad character. no, if you want something to call people who are in touch with reality when they hurt other people, it isn't "insanity". try "evil" if you want to get biblical about it, or "immoral" or "selfish" or "absent of human decency", maybe. there's plenty of words. violence isn't a disability and lumping it in with one just shifts the problem from where it lies - with people's morals and choices - to some "other" group, which you can shove in an institution and pretend that that's quarantined the issue. :( i hope you don't take this as argumentative or dismissive of your outrage at all, because i truly understand and sympathise with what you are saying. i only hope to sway you that the legal defence of insanity is necessary to protect people who are not guilty in the sense that they knowingly and voluntarily chose to hurt another person. even when the defence is successful (extremely rare), it doesn't mean the person walks free - they are placed into compulsory medical treatment that may be indefinite. it isn't a fake "get out of jail free" card, nor is it a scarlet letter to mark "undesirables". sadly, the real "undesirables" are just as sane as you are - they just think whatever they want or feel is more important than the health and safety of anyone who gets in their way. i agree with mc_zittrer, they said it perfectly: she was emotionally unstable, but that is not the same as insanity. she was very organised in her plan to get away with her crime. it doesn't sound much like she lost touch with reality. it just sounds like she was an absolutely awful person who chose to do something wrong and evil because she felt entitled to behave that way. anyone can make that choice. it's not a mental illness. it's a choice. thank you for reading this if you bothered to get through it all :) sorry that i ramble a bit! it's a very interesting topic i'm passionate about.

From watching Epic Times. It's nearly that way today in 2021.

@@theyquixoty That was very well said, there's nothing I can argue with in your reasoning. Your points are all valid and yes I read it all.🙂 It's just so contrary to my personality to hurt a child, animal, or person, it's hard to accept that others don't have empathy. Not saying I don't get mad or angry but right now I couldn't do it🤣 but maybe one day I'll snap 😳 that's a scary thought.🤔 Thanks to both of you for great replies.

Another Gladys Kravitz.

@@susanmccormick6022 "Abner!!" lol

I know it’s not right to laugh but I did it unconsciously. Mrs Kravitz was hilarious 😆. Poor little girl, anyone know what happened to her? Did the stepfather step up and look after her? 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I was wondering that as well. Maybe her father just kept her and did his best for her. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

I've been wondering the same thing.

@@addie_is_me her dad died in the war

Or a work house

@@minilea144 they were probably referring to her stepfather o:

Yeah. I hope Janet got the help she needed. Apparently a few people are trying to find out her fate but they haven’t had any success. It’s highly likely she changed her name in order to back away from what her mother had done so that would make it near impossible to find her via genealogy. If there is anyone related to Janet out there I and others would love to know what happened to her.

I suppose it might have been possible that she crushed his trachea.

@@SunshineCatwoman The trachea is flexible, not brittle.

Also there will be petachial hemorrhaging in the eyes.

You're 100% right about what it takes to actually strangle somebody and what happened when you do. I feel absolutely no pity for this woman and she got exactly what she deserved.

The judge would have had no discretion in sentencing. The penalty for murder was hanging so the clemency recommendation was for the benefit of the Scottish Secretary or whoever they had up there.

Dont feel bad I laughed too

@Mallory's Outlet, Yes; me too! I was thinking if death was the mercy, what was the alternative! I think it's the way the narrator said it, that made it a tad humorous . It was almost said sarcastically .

@@leedsman54 Very useful piece of information, especially a century and an ocean away.

Same, that shit killed me😂

That would be a good one - Thanks

Industrial strength anger issues!

I have anger issues but not quite like that, I've been given them to the Creator here lately and things have been much better for me but not to those who caused the issues

I would too if I lived in Coatbridge 😉

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Amen

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Is your avatar your cat? Are you a Galgowinian? My cats are black and explain why these people wanted her shown mercy? Lol

@@addie_is_me that's Boo, she lived with me for a few years. I am from Glasgow and know Duke Street well. I think people wanted mercy shown was because she was poor and a bit crazy.

How far abouts is that journey?

@@RegisteredNurseL.A. maybe about 10 miles. A fair old walk with a child, old pram and a dead body. I often wonder why she chose to go that far.

She did catch a ride with a truck driver though, so maybe she hadn't walked very far when he picked them up. Evidently, her adrenaline must've been pumping for her to consider that long walk.

Thankyou

Hope things r better for you now.The worst thing about helping my son deliver newspapers was the height of the letter boxes.Some at the top of the door,some bottom,some vicious,some v small.No confirmity but sore fingers.

Let's assume if she was 8 at the time of the murder, she was born in 1915. As it turns out, the name "Janet McLeod" isn't as common as you might expect once you peg it to Scotland and that year. Ancestry's website lists a Janet McLeod Smith in Lossiemouth (north of Glasgow) born in 1915 who died at the age of 77 in 1992 with a curiously blank section for her parents in other records. She left behind 3 children who were still alive in 1992. It would be hoped that she lived better than her mother.

Thanks Rose

Poor John

The last poll Case put up, I voted for the Scotland story, but Russia ended up having the most votes. But Scotland was in second place, so we had a Russian story last week and got the Scottish story this week. Lol! Better late than never.

@@jessicafain6630 awesome x

Celtic FC fan?? Lol

Thing is, according to murderers descriptions of what it's actually like to strangle someone to death, it takes far more pressure and far more time than how the movies make it out. Also the person's face turns horrible colors. And they go unconscious a good while before their heart actually stops, so if you let go, their diaphragm will automatically inhale; you would have to keep squeezing to prevent that until cardiac arrest, and then there would typically be body spasms. In other words....there is no friggin way to just 'kinda' strangle someone and accidentally do it all the way. You would KNOW you were doing it. You would have to INTEND to do it.

@@audreymuzingo933 I can't remember the exact case, as I saw the show a few years ago. But I watched a true crime show about a young woman in the States who had been strangled by a man that was supposedly her friend. He got angry when she turned down his advances and strangled her in her bedroom. His defense was that it was an accident and he hadn't meant to kill her. The pathologist in the case testified that it would have taken at least 7 minutes for him to have killed her by strangulation, and that during that time, she would have fought, spasmed, made noises, broken blood vessels in her eyes, and had discolouration on her face similar to bruising. He testified that the defendant would have known he was inflicting serious injury, and it would have taken a long time to do so. He said it's not like in the movies, where someone is choked for a few seconds and dies, lying there looking very peaceful. The prosecutor wanted to really make the jury understand how long 7 minutes was, and how it was enough time for the defendant to have realized what he was doing and stop, if, in fact, he had just lost control for a moment then come to his senses. He argued that if you strangle someone for 7 minutes, and can see what effect that is having on them, then you intend to strangle them to death. He had the courtroom silenced, and had everyone just sit there for 7 minutes. When you say that something took 7 minutes, it doesn't sound like a lot of time, but he wanted the jury to feel how long and endless 7 minutes could be, and how, during that time, the defendant had plenty of time to stop what he was doing. On the show, we only saw a couple minutes of that silence, and even those 2 minutes seemed to last forever. It was an incredibly powerful demonstration by the prosecutor, and I believe that it went a long way in determining the jury's guilty verdict. He was found guilty of second degree murder (because they couldn't prove that he went there intending to kill her), and was sentenced to life with no chance of parole.

@@Terri_MacKay Zzzzzactly. And that was some damn good lawyering right there. Considering the endless WEEKS of time a jury may have to spend listening to testimony over the most mundane details, repetition of everything, waiting long periods for officials to sort their paperwork, etc., 7 minutes is nothing in the grand scheme of a trial, but if every lawyer used them like that one did, it could be the 7 most important minutes of the whole sideshow. The 7 minutes that victim suffered the agony of their body dying, and the terror, and the sadness of betrayal, the sadness of thinking of everyone they'll leave behind, and the 7 minutes the killer had to change their mind, but didn't. What's interesting is what you say about how the show you saw it on cut the time. A movie would do the same thing, even AS a courtroom scene, even WITH the truly vast amount of time being THE key thing to grasp. That is because it would be "boring" for a viewer, who is only seeking entertainment, not someone with the real responsibility of making a grave decision. And that is just one of countless examples of how art can fail to portray real life, and therefore distort it.

Very well said.

What country are you in? The clocks haven't changed in England.

United States, Kansas specifically

@@justoneman1681 did you feel the earthquake a few days ago? I have a friend that lives in Kansas and they said about it.

@@janinedear-barlow there's been a few, I guess, in the last couple of days, but they're pretty far west of me. I didn't feel them at all

@@justoneman1681 good. Must be really scary feeling them.

Sometimes bad experiences come to a boiling point in the most unexpected ways. I got no sympathy for her though, this woman was an animal. Not only does he take some other woman's child away from them in a fit of misplaced rage, but totally threw her husband under the bus for it, knowing full well the police would be ready to lock him away based on a flimsy yet plausible fabrication.

I thought she was going to kill her husband.

@@mc_zittrer8793 I think she had planned to punish her husband.

@@janinedear-barlow after what she did to that boy,i wouldn't have put that passed her...Brief Case said she just grabbed him...i was like what the hell was that????Like where the fuck that came from???It went from A to Z really fast

@@stonelingo1381 probably would have been the daughter of it wasn't him. What a psycho! I wonder if she abused the girl.

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I don't get why they like it if they hadn't even watched it.

some people may just appreciate the channel while not being particularly interested in that particular case, as I myself have done. You can also use your liked video history as a sort of temporary playlist if you are in a hurry so they may be watching later, which I have also done. Just my thoughts. Have a great day! ☺

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Foote and Head were Tail-ing her.

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