Old Timey Crimey #97: Jesse Pomeroy - "Vegetable Irregularity"

The youngest serial killer in America, the boy fiend, the moral monster--and the city that lost its ever-loving mind over what should become of him. Plus, a look at the longest prison stays in the US and the world. 

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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
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Sources: 

Jason Lucky Morrow. Historical Crime Detective. https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/jesse-pomeroy-americas-youngest-serial-killer/

New England Historical Society. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/jesse-pomeroy-does-the-unthinkable-twice/

Wilmington Daily Commercial. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020594/1872-09-25/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1871&index=3&rows=20&words=Jesse+Pomeroy&searchType=basic&sequence=1&state=&date2=1872&proxtext=jesse+pomeroy&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Longest Prison Sentences. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences_served

John Marr. Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/the-naughtiest-boy-jesse-pomeroy-boy-fiend-extraordin-1713682070

https://the-line-up.com/jesse-pomeroy

https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-14-year-old-teenage-killer-6225247fc9d3

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-story-of-jesse-pomeroy-14-year-old-serial-killer/

https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/pomeroy-jesse.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Pomeroy

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8592547/jesse-harding-pomeroy