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Speaker 2: What is up? Welcome back to the Softcore History Patreon.
I'm Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan Rejester.
Speaker 1: We're not dead yet, still doing the damn thing fucking eh,
which is grind boys. I went to your house and
saw what you deal with. Man, It's it's a fucking
war zone. Oh yeah that You and Courtney just seem
to be numb to.
Speaker 2: Yes, any parent in listening right now knows exactly what. Yeah,
you're you and I are talking about, Like you hear
our child screaming and it's just like I don't know
he's mad about something.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I help raise a ten year old kid now,
But he's sufficient, he can do stuff, he can have conversations, right,
you have three kids under four? Yeah, buddy, I don't
think you can make your house clean. No, I don't
think it's your kid doing so. It's fucking impossible. You're
fucking old ass dog just licking up keeso off the floor.
That's he is.
Speaker 2: Our primary cleaner is the two dogs.
Speaker 1: They're youre like little rumbas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, that's the best way to do it.
Courtney showed me this one thing once or No. I
was in a mom group chat she's in and the
mom was like, how do you guys deal with cleaning
when the baby's eating at the high chair and just
drops everything? And everyone in the chat was like, get
a dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's some bitterness here on this side of the
couch at times where I'm like, oh, Robb didn't do
enough this week. But then I'm like, oh, you know,
I'll cut him some slack. I'll give him a break.
He's always, always, always battling something. I have.
Speaker 2: Three hours a day where I'm not doing something and
it's like eight to eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at work though, you're always on your phone just
playing was that football game you would play? Oh, Retro Bowl?
You're just playing retro retro Bowl? Sick. I play wrote
The Roadblocks World War One Shooter a lot.
Speaker 2: But I mean I get to work and I have
like an hour to like read Basically, I'll just like
read the news and read college football shit, and then
it's all like emails and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But when you're on air, you're usually playing retro Bowl.
Oh yes, peel back the curtain. Yeah, yeah, you're never
paying attention. No I am, but I do it.
Speaker 2: I can do it without like, because I just instinctively
write down what I'm hearing. I don't have to be
looking at them. You also got mad at me once
because while I was editing, I was playing a game
M And I explained to you why I was doing that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 2: It was because I was trying to listen to it
the way a listener would listen to it, okay, which
is as their second which is as their secondary situation,
Like they're not like staring at the screen watching the
little cursor move across the timeline like, oh, sometimes you gotta.
Speaker 1: Be doing the video for then what what's the video for? Then?
Speaker 2: Well, the videos for the people that like to watch.
But that was the audio sketch.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna hear things differently if I'm
not paying as close as attention, if I'm like doing
something else while I do it.
Speaker 1: If you hear it as a secondary, then it's obvious.
Speaker 2: Right, But if you don't hear it as a secondary,
then it's probably fine.
Speaker 1: I'll Daniell clean it up anyway. Also that he'll hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's another set of ears. You know, writers
need an editor, everybody needs an editor. But we have
a really, really fun episode today. I was very excited.
I I just thought, yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess you're a little less excited now it's just me.
You thought this was for Sunday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was writing it and I was like, oh my god,
maybe I guess Jack's gonna potentially if Jack's on the show,
have so much fun with this. But either way, we're
gonna both it regardless. Because I so I was thinking
about a for Spooky month. We've only done one serial killer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ed gain, well, you know we're not a serial
killer show. We're not a female driven show.
Speaker 2: No, but this one is right up our alley. Because
I was thinking to myself, you know what city I've
never heard of like a serial killer in that seems
like it would be like the perfect place for a
serial killer.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go with, survey, says des Moines. No not
a say now, uh, all right, how about Charlotte.
Speaker 2: All cities that I love and admire, Miami, No, no, no, no, no no,
think about me, think about my history.
Speaker 1: We don't another Saint Louis episode.
Speaker 2: No, we are not.
Speaker 1: I almost did that, which is all no Leans New Orleans,
New Orleans. It's like your fifth favorite city, it's my second.
I love New Orleans. You got married there, so so what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I just love it.
Speaker 1: I'm really when you get married there, it's a part
of you. It's a part of you. You go real slow.
Speaker 2: But New Orleans, especially in the nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: Was it's like one of the most haunted cities in America.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of murder and tragedy there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they typically wouldn't blame a serial killer. It
would be more oh a werewolf got.
Speaker 2: Him, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh that's swamp Moss came up.
Speaker 1: Damn demn zombies coming out of the mausoleum.
Speaker 2: That a voodoo priests close to them. Real bad. But
you would think it's lawless. It is a lawless it is.
Speaker 1: Everyone buried in New Orleans too, is above ground most
of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of bodies beneath the ground
that they just don't care about.
Speaker 1: Like ef it gets washed away, gets washed all the Irish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, yeah. So I was thinking of myself, like, well,
how could a serial killer not be operating in New
Orleans in that time here? Like there had to be something.
I googled it and I found a better serial killer
than I could possibly imagine. This topic is a combination
of what the Internet loves true crime serial killers and
what I love nineteenth century prostitutes.
Speaker 1: So we have a New Orleans Jack the River.
Speaker 2: Here comes a rob plot twist.
Speaker 1: It's a female killer. The serial killer is the hooker. Yeah,
the serial.
Speaker 2: Killer in New Orleans pre Civil War New Orleans reverse roles, Yeah,
is in fact a prostitute herself her name.
Speaker 1: I bet there's a ton of those, actually, the like
right now, there's plenty of prostitutes that are just murdering
Cardi B and stealing. Yeah, yeah, there's a non you
should be so lucky to get a Cardi B. Yeah yeah,
drug you and rob you and not just straight up
murk you.
Speaker 2: Well, there's there has been talks of like all these
bodies that show up in Lake Austin, you know, the
Rainy Street ripper and and and the ones that are
in Houston and the swamps now, and there's been others
in other cities. They say that a decent chance is
that it's people getting drugged to be robbed and then
they just sort of wander into the water throw them over.
And there is also a good chance that a lot
of the people doing the drugging, because these are guys,
are women.
Speaker 1: Of course, we sent you out to find her, yeah,
and I mean, you know, you have had no respect
for your marriage, so you're approaching women and you it
was off tape, but you came back. You were all
fucked up, pretty drunk by the end of it. I
hadn't had two beers. It was weird.
Speaker 2: I had, Yeah, but I didn't wander into a lake
because I got the wits about me when I'm drunk.
Speaker 1: Well, no, because we round you up into the van again.
Speaker 2: I did have an Apple air tag on me one case. Yeah,
that was for Jesse's kids, and a love yeah, and
a love mic and a love mic. And there was
a camera on me at all times.
Speaker 1: So you were kind of safe. I mean, we wanted
to see if we could push the boundaries for content.
Speaker 2: I was like a man in a cage in the
ocean with sharks swimming around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the danger could theoretically get you, right, but
we took all the necessary precautions, all.
Speaker 2: The precautions you possibly could, except for me drinking that
I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit in a bar and I drink.
It's just impossible. You would come off as if you
were the killers.
Speaker 2: I would look like the murderer at that point. So
this serial killer her name is Bridget Fury Sweet. She
was born sometime around the eighteen thirties in Ohio. She
was a red haired Irish immigrant.
Speaker 1: Ough gross, so right up your alley though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, red hair, oh yeah, blue eyes. My two youngest sons.
Speaker 1: Basically Courtney tour of the blue Eyes used to have
red hair. Well. She has brown eyes, yeah, because she's
evil is brown?
Speaker 2: Does brown?
Speaker 1: Like evil? Brown and red hair. Yeah, soulless. Ooh your wife,
how you gonna meet up with her in the afterlife.
Speaker 2: I guess I'll get a heaven wife.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man or I'll get I'll reincarnate and
find a heaven wife. Dude. Having the date again in
the afterlife, it's exhausting.
Speaker 2: But we do as we said in the afterlife, heaven
is really just like you can do the sins now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure, but you think dating here on earth is bad,
you don't think heaven will be easier. Most people have
their soulmates. Yeah, so you gotta find essentially who was
not good enough on earth to find the means of
the world. All right, I think any make it work. Yeah,
just lost souls.
Speaker 2: So the probably is no one's a catch in heaven,
like like on may end, you know what I mean. Like,
no one's like gonna be like, oh, he's got his
stuffed to what do you mean he's got stuff? I
mean having everyone's get their stuff together.
Speaker 1: There's probably certain degrees, certain levels. It's like an airline,
you know, it's like all right, sure you're a group one,
but there's like five groups ahead of you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're like, oh, I'm an a group,
but then like.
Speaker 1: Eight yeah, premium platinum, you.
Speaker 2: Just you still get like a fucking like you're still
twenty rows back by the time you find an aisle seat.
Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So it's all paid to play. Baby, you're too poor
to be high end.
Speaker 2: And high end heaven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the Jerry fallwells.
Speaker 2: I just hope, I hope heaven it's split up like
it is in The Simpsons, where there's Catholic Heaven in
Protestant heaven because crushing Catholic heavin.
Speaker 1: Catholic Heaven has the most fun heaven. Oh by far,
you just gotta be really solly. So I'm sorry. And
then you have that guilt, which I do at all
It paralyzes you at all times.
Speaker 2: Like I was working on stuff this morning because of
the day off work, and I just started feeling guilty.
I was like, why don't shouldn't I be somewhere else?
Speaker 1: Should I be doing something? Yeah that matters?
Speaker 2: It felt I felt guilty all morning. So Bridget was
known for her explosive temper and her skills with a knife.
This lady was build a fucking butcher with a knife.
Speaker 1: That's a wound. That's a kill.
Speaker 2: She fucking knew. She was often described as having piercing
blue eyes and a fiery demeanor.
Speaker 1: Bridge I think they just went fiery because she had read.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Her real name was Deally A Swift.
But the papers, or maybe I think maybe she adopted
the name Bridget Fury or the papers called her the Fury,
both their great names.
Speaker 1: Actually, oh yeah, it's kind of like Cassius Clay became
Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna do it, gonna do an episode on
that Cassius after after the spooky bunt is over.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, the uh, the scariest thing of them all Islam.
Speaker 2: And I got to think that once she got her
reputation for being a killer, because people knew, people knew
who she was, They knew she was a murderer.
Speaker 1: But she still prostituted. But that pussy was so good.
Speaker 2: I think I think there were dudes that were like, dude,
I'm wan fuck the Fury.
Speaker 1: You gotta get off to it. Yeah, dude, I'm gonna ride.
Puts the knife to your neck, but she rides.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna ride that demon.
Speaker 1: She gonna she gonna slip my throat, or am I
gonna get lucky?
Speaker 2: I can get gone girled? Or am I gonna come?
Speaker 1: If you're gonna get your throat slit, it might as
well be while you're having sex.
Speaker 2: Of all the times that seems like, yeah, go out happy,
Yeah right, I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Be scared in a
basement tied to a chair like a bitch? Yeah? No, no,
go I go like a man, fucking alpha, fucking getting
your dick wet.
Speaker 2: So her, she didn't spend a ton of time in
New Orleans. She got to New Orleans in eighteen fifty six,
and she left a trail of at least thirteen victims,
including at least.
Speaker 1: Five dead, but on the way there, or just in
New Orleans. In New Orleans, but how many buys does
she have beforehand? You don't just pick it up. That's
why she had to go to New Orleans. Yeah, you
move towns.
Speaker 2: So in the early eighteen fifties.
Speaker 1: When they finally catch on.
Speaker 2: In the early eighteen fifties, she allegedly murdered her husband,
Bob Miller.
Speaker 1: Not Bob, in a fit of rage, well, a fit
of fury, yes, a fit of Fury.
Speaker 2: They believe it or not. In the eighteen fifties in
a poor Irish family had a troubled marriage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he drank a little, smacked her around in part for.
Speaker 2: The course gambled drank, was a dick to her. But
she was a tough bitch and was a fucking bitch
right back during one of theirs.
Speaker 1: That's who you married though. Yeah, yeah, you need yourself
a tough bitch. Yeah, that just hates you. You could.
You wake up every morning next door, rollover and you
can just see the anger in her face even as
she's asleep. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The problem is you want ride or die, not ride
or you die.
Speaker 1: The threatned fear keeps things in balance.
Speaker 2: Did for a while, I suppose. But one night they
were having a big fight.
Speaker 1: They were both really she didn't take his name.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I guess she didn't.
Speaker 1: It's a problem, bitch.
Speaker 2: So during the argument it was the argument between Fury
and her husband was are either over money, of course,
or possibly his infidelity might have been cheating on Fury.
Speaker 1: So again I'm hearing nothing out of character at the time.
Speaker 2: No, no, this is all And.
Speaker 1: Is it cheating if they're all prostitutes she's not prostitute yet, No,
but he's cheating on her, probably with prostitutes.
Speaker 2: Its certainly whores.
Speaker 1: This is her villain arc. Yeah, this is how it's
just how it is created. It's like, you gotta become
the thing your husband was attracted to. Yeah, whores.
Speaker 2: So she grabs a kitchen knife and stabs Miller twenty
times excessive. When they found his body, the coroner noted
that it was covered in the twenty stab wounds as
well as bite marks.
Speaker 1: After the stabs were probably during.
Speaker 2: Dare, probably during They're not sure. I think it was
a fight that like a physical fight that then elevated
escalated to well.
Speaker 1: She stabbing you gotta fight back at that point. Yeah,
you should never hit a woman unless she stabs you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If she's stabbing you, it's you treat it like man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So she was convicted of manslaughter. She's got ten year sentence,
but in eighteen fifty six she escaped jail. Yeah, that
broke her out, either by bribing or seducing a guard.
I tend to lean towards.
Speaker 1: Seduce, seduce, and then probably slit his throat. She has
the first There.
Speaker 2: Was a a thing I was riding at one point.
I'm still working on it, but I cut this part
out of it. And it was like this like hobo
in Saint Louis called Mama Blade and it was just
this hobo queen of Saint Louis, and she killed every
one the same way. She just offered, like as soon
as she was cornered, she would just offer to blow them,
and then as she was blowing them, she would take
a knife, jam it into their tank and just cut
them open. And it just worked every time. Like she
somehow convinced every guy because they were so stupid, that
she would.
Speaker 1: Suck their It's a fictional character you're creating, Yeah, that
she had that that she would suck their dick, and
they're like, you were getting off to this and they
were every.
Speaker 2: Single guy was stupid. Was just like, oh, I'm different,
She's not.
Speaker 1: Gonna You're just right in your fantas viscerate me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's based on a woman who a hobo who bought
me beer.
Speaker 1: Once. She bought you the beer. Yeah, I like, hey,
mister to hobo, okay, but she ripped me off. Yeah
it was in high school, but she bought you the beer.
Speaker 2: She bought me I told her at twelve pack. She
got a six pack and came out with no change.
Speaker 1: I mean that's and then goes, can I get one
of these?
Speaker 2: And there's like four other hoboes around. We were like
in North Saint Louis. There's like or their hoboes around,
and me and my buddy were like, uh okay, and
I was like drive drive drive drive drive drive dry drive.
Speaker 1: Drive. Guys bought like a six pack of Mike's Hard Bush.
Come on, it's bush baby or angry orchard.
Speaker 2: Give me some credit.
Speaker 1: Gross. I don't even if that existed when I was
in high school.
Speaker 2: Mike's Hard probably did. Mike's Hart did for sure.
Speaker 1: You ever do the angry orchard mixed with the fireball shot?
Ooh no, that seems right up your alley.
Speaker 2: No, that sounds horrible. I didn't even like fireball when
I was a drinker.
Speaker 1: Drinker or just ta kuila shots in uh coronas. That
didn't sound good either, But I would do that. I
guess patrone shots.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, yeah, that doesn't sound I don't love.
Speaker 1: That loaded coronas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she seduced the guard. Flease where does one
go if one doesn't want to get caught to the
most lawless city.
Speaker 1: In America, Tombstone, New Orleans.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Tombstone exists yet in the eighteen fifties, Yeah,
is there already?
Speaker 1: Probably so.
Speaker 2: Ohio authorities we obviously realized she escaped, and they tried
to extra die her.
Speaker 1: Technically, it is there, right, what the land, Well, the
land yeah wasn't, didn't form overnight.
Speaker 2: Not fucking minecraft. You don't have to build it.
Speaker 1: Build they build it, they will come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they try to extra die her from New Orleans.
They figure out she's there, but New Orleans is just
so corrupt and chaotic and like barely being run by
anyone that they just can't get her. Like they just
there's no one that to pick up the phone.
Speaker 1: Basically, it's like, all right, she got her husband, she's
on the run. We don't have the resources for it.
Just let it go. Yeah, who gives a fuck.
Speaker 2: So she gets down there reinvents herself.
Speaker 1: As a start over. We've been saying this for years.
The past is awesome because honestly, if you get hung where,
you get caught for any crime, it's on to you.
Speaker 2: Didn't deserve it. The bar is so low to not
get caught.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cocky to just stick around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, move, well, she does stick around in New Orleans.
It's funny to even call her a serial killer because
everyone knows who's doing it the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's in playing sight the whole time.
Speaker 2: So she reinvents herself in New Orleans. She becomes a
sex worker, a pickpocket, even an enforcer at brothels and
stuff like that. And she's a brute she is. Yes,
she is frequently arrested and fined.
Speaker 1: She a big gal.
Speaker 2: No, she's apparently kind of hot. I don't know. I
don't think there's any pictures of her. I can find one.
Speaker 1: Actually, I didn't even look. She sounds like a mythical creature.
She does, but she is. This is another cryptid episode.
Speaker 2: She is uh, yeah, I can't find any photos or
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Speaker 1: It's good to be right.
Speaker 2: She does get arrested sometimes for running brothels or for pickpocketing,
but she usually gets out, either through corruption or because
the gang that she kind of runs with, the Treaty
Oak Gang or the Live Oak Gang, they they kind
of run the city a little bit so they can
just get her out or you know, like threatened cops
or whatever, so she's never in jail for long. If
she even goes to jail at all.
Speaker 1: They make their own beer. Yeah, yeah, good hef is it? No,
I actually don't like Live Oak. He like Live Oak
at all.
Speaker 2: I don't know what other beers I've had from Live Oak.
She quickly teams up with and I have to do
a whole other episode on this because I started to
be like, oh, I'll get her stuff in here too,
and it was too much. It was also a little redundant,
but it was too much to pack into one episode.
She teams up with another known hooker serial killer in
New Orleans. They're super team yep, Mary Jane brick Top Jackson,
another redheaded prostitute.
Speaker 1: I mean they have a stereotype for yeah, these bredheads.
But man, if you're just kind of joining this is
Kevin Durant joined the Warriors. These numbers shouldn't really count.
It's just the rings don't cut. Yeah, just like, all right,
you're kind of fluffing the numbers.
Speaker 2: I think Bridget Fury was Steph in this situation. Personally,
I think she was the better one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Durant was the better one, no mistake about.
Speaker 2: Okay, but it was Mary's team. That's I mean, Bridget's team.
So brick Top was known for carrying a custom double
bladed knife, so like a little Darth Maul dagger sure
both sides. She was also known to be uh formidable
with the blade. Together, they ran brothels on Dauphine Street
and Gerard Street. They stole from clients Cardi B style.
They clashed with rival gangs.
Speaker 1: Well, I've actually been study in the blade, rub have
you during my time of unemployment?
Speaker 2: Smart?
Speaker 1: Just get ready, You've been wasting your time at work
making money. I've been studying the blade, Smarty to pop.
Speaker 2: Smart. I mean, the country's country's gonna end any day now, anyway,
so they could.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're all gonna die. But now that I
know of the blade, the way of the Blade, you'll
live by it, but you will die by it as well.
So be it. That's what the Blade wants. You've chosen
your path. Yeah, I'm just gonna become Urie Prahashka, just
become a samurai, so fury.
Speaker 2: She's in New Orleans, she's working the French Quarter. She
has brothels. But also she'll just go from tavern to
tavern probably and hopefully including Lafittes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess Lafittes. Do they still run their
power from next door. I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Actually, they just have an extension cord.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: That's awesome because Lafitte was the eighteen twenties, I think.
Speaker 1: It was built. No, it's before that, before the eighteen twenties.
Speaker 2: Okay, either way, Lafitte's around at this time, so she's
going to bars, Like.
Speaker 1: Isn't it like the oldest bar in America? Yes, old.
Speaker 2: I think it's the oldest continually operating.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's a couple of joints in Philly,
couple in Boston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like yeah, stuff like that in the Northeast
would be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would believe in New Orleans, I think
is I think it's closer to the seventeen hundreds Lafitte's Okay,
that makes me wrong. I think for some reason, I
have the number seventeen ninety two in my head.
Speaker 2: So it's named for the pirate Jean Lafitte.
Speaker 1: I understand that who was popping off around the time
of the War of eighteen twelve. Really okay, could be wrong,
but I don't know. I think I saw a sign though,
just seventeen ninety two.
Speaker 2: It could be I'm not I'm just saying that's what
it's named for, and that's when he was operating, but
I don't know the building itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So she goes in these taverns also to like pick
dudes up or whatever, and one day she meets George McDaniels,
a young sailor fresh off a merchant ship.
Speaker 1: They're at a waterfront bar. Smells like fish, smells yeah, smells.
Speaker 2: Like shit, and they have a night of drinking, hit
it off, have a a paid encounter, and afterwards McDaniels
tries to renegotiate the price.
Speaker 1: Can't do that after the fact. After the fact, he's like, yeah,
I don't know. I was cool with paying the price beforehand,
but that was so underwhelming. Yeah, I want some of
the shekels.
Speaker 2: But ten minutes ago his price is not today's price.
Speaker 1: So he I'm never in a good spot when you
have to negotiate with a hooker a stripper, and he will,
and that is pitch for sex work.
Speaker 2: No, And also here's why you don't do that, because,
even if it's not a bridget fury situation, some dude
with no hesitation to fuck you up, probably looking.
Speaker 1: To fuck be around the corner.
Speaker 2: Yes, he also might have insulted her appearance, like not
paying five dollars for some redheaded Irish bitch.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of money, then give you a dollar son,
five dollars pussy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Fury, enraged, pulls a razor from her skirt and
in a single swipe, cuts his throat.
Speaker 1: Open, getting quick, yep, quick with the blade.
Speaker 2: He drops to his knees and bleeds out in the alley.
Speaker 1: And that's a grim death. It's not great, slowly watching
the prostitute walk away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, The New Orleans Times.
Speaker 1: Picking drowning in a pool of your own blood. Yeah,
very dirty, dirty, gross alley, filthy alley.
Speaker 2: The New Orleans Time pickyun reported the incident, noting, quote
a sailor cut down by a woman of ill fame,
and described Fury's quote red haired fury as she fled
into the night. People saw it happen, but no one
was able to tackle her or whatever, and street justice
police didn't really care because they were like, uh, a
fucking poor person killed another poor person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an out long town.
Speaker 2: Who gives a shit?
Speaker 1: New Orleans. They got bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like our only duty right now is to
make sure we keep these people out of the Garden district.
So I don't care.
Speaker 1: There's some very wealthy plantations we needed to protect. Yeah,
so whatever you do in the French Quarter, what, I
don't give a fuck. I don't care. We don't even
want to go there.
Speaker 2: No, no, we don't go in the French Quarter after dark.
So in eighteen fifty seven, Fury was operating out of
a brothel on Dryadus Street. I don't know how you
say that. This was part of a notorious red light
district and another gambler Thomas J. Dolan or a gambler, Sorry,
not another gambler. She does kill several gamblers though, Thomas J.
Dolan a gambler who was known for cheating in card games.
So I guess the.
Speaker 1: Chauncey Phillips thing becomes relevant. Yeah, maybe she just kind
of saw the writing on the wall before it all happened.
She's like, America is gonna spiral into this, you know,
gamble obsessed country. That's gonna be an issue. It's going
to ruin the sanctity of all sports.
Speaker 2: We got to stop it. Now, got to kill this
baby in the crib yeah, So he goes to the
brothel or Fury works, an argument erupts. This time he
hasn't even banged her. She's just annoyed because he's like
boasting about how good he is at gambling.
Speaker 1: You should be killed, afew I agree with you talk
about winning your best that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And she attacked him with her knife, stabbed him
in the abdomen, in the chest.
Speaker 1: She comes from the act like you've been there before school.
Speaker 2: Yes, one hundred percent. So she stabs the fuck out
of him. Dolan survives, but he's horribly injured. He's in
the hospital for weeks, and court records note that Fury
was arrested for this but was released because Dolan declined
to testify because he had been intimidated by the Live
Oak Gang her boys, and he was just like, you
know what, I've had enough trouble. I'm good, I'm alive.
I'm just gonna let it go.
Speaker 1: You survived it, let it go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're fine, you can walk, you can breathe. Yeah,
just move on and maybe a little quieter about cheating
and winning except your ls. Yeah, take just take the
L and move on.
Speaker 1: I'd never push for venens. No, it usually doesn't. M well, no,
and it.
Speaker 2: Only feel good for a little bit before you then
have to watch your back constantly.
Speaker 1: It just never works out, though, No, it doesn't. It's
a classic trope.
Speaker 2: The vengeance doesn't work out.
Speaker 1: The path to vengeance you always you always get cut down.
Speaker 2: And you lose yourself on the path to vengeance. That
man you were fighting for, he's gone. Although I don't
know how this guy could lose himself. Sounds like a
piece of shit already.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she hasn't really killed or tried to kill
anyone that I deem unworthy of getting a couple of stabs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're probably not gonna hear about any of
those people in this episode, you don't like.
Speaker 1: She's not just some virgin boy that's incredibly nice. He's
a blacksmith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, goes into the French Quarter, wants to see what
all the fuss is about.
Speaker 1: Very polite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Look at you all enormous pieces of shit?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, she only kills pieces of shit,
which is why the police rarely do anything about it.
Speaker 1: She's the dexter of her time, kind of she has
a code.
Speaker 2: So later that year, fury strikes again in the French quarter.
This time it's another gambler who the paper's named R. James.
I don't think they gave a full name. The encounter
began at a brothel on Dauphine Street. James was in
the same boat as the first guy they banged. Then
he tries to haggle post bang did she just.
Speaker 1: Wasn't an offering up good enough snatch? I suppose.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. At this point, people know who
she is. You know who this bitch is, and even
just by looking at her and hearing her talk, you
should have some inkling by now that she's not someone
to be fucked with, Like, oh, she's a little fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's just human nature. It's like, all right,
it happened to George, but George is soft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, George was a little little bitch, Like.
Speaker 1: I got this. I can handle this, this little this
little dame. Yeah, I'm a smart man, I'm clever, I'm good.
She can't hurt me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm me. That's what I feel like a lot
of people think that, well, no, that won't happen for me,
because I'm I'm me. Everyone understands that i'm me right.
Speaker 1: Now, how I go out? Yeah? My story? No you
imagine if I get cut up by a woman, a lady,
A lady kills me. No, I'm I'm me feary, don't
care who you are. So she again killing any other ladies.
We'll get to it.
Speaker 2: She again takes out a razor one swipe throats open.
Speaker 1: Because right now she just kind of seems like a
what the current feminist movement would kind of prop up
as a icon.
Speaker 2: Kind of boss bitch, boss bitch. It's what was that
stupid movie that for like ten minutes everyone thought was
so important promising young woman couldn't tell you she like
goes and kills like bad men. It's almost like a
Dexter situation except there, like I think one was like
a rapist or something, but like it was like jerks
mostly sure, it's just like this is so important, and
like everyone was like, wait, this movie sucks.
Speaker 1: Every movie that's so important usually isn't that important. No,
it's usually a pretty mid movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she cuts its throat in one white. The
attack occurred again in front of other people, like other
people saw her just go whoop the times picayun.
Speaker 1: She's just killing dudes that nobody likes.
Speaker 2: Though, oh yeah, one hundred percent. Times Picky Une covered
the murder again.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. Why would I say anything?
Speaker 2: That guy sucked, Yeah, and well and also I'm not
saying anything because Fury's a psycho.
Speaker 1: She's got a gang and having muscle is the real
issue here. I'm not afraid of the woman. I'm afraid
of the live oaks.
Speaker 2: One would think you could avoid a throat slashing, but
it appears these guys really, I mean, she's.
Speaker 1: They didn't know range back then, they didn't know where
how to like how far away they should be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got a haggle from ten feet just.
Speaker 1: You know, kind of keep that lead hand out there
so you can find her. Make sure she can't touch you.
Speaker 2: Maybe bring like a falcon or's glove to wear on
the on the on the lead hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Times Picky Une called the murder a quote bloody
afray note and noted that James's body was found with
quote a crimson smile across his neck.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a smile on her face.
Speaker 2: She just cut him open. Fury just ran and just
went through a bunch of brothels and bars, and no
one bothered to pursue.
Speaker 1: She's just the joker, really.
Speaker 2: Pretty much like there's no world in which she's getting caught.
She's killing people, no one cares about. Everyone's afraid of her,
and she can disappear into the French quarter like it's nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you blend in, especially them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she's got the red hair, I suppose.
But there's a ton of Irish chicks in New Orleans
at this point.
Speaker 1: It's nothing but Irish. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So now we get to a lady Cagns. Yeah. In
mid eighteen fifty eight, another prostitute named Catherine Williams was
working on Philippa Street. This dispute was over territory. Williams
had apparently don't be on her her been sliding into
Fury's clientele in a shared brothel. They get to arguing,
and Fury does not kill Williams.
Speaker 1: However, she sends a message.
Speaker 2: She beats the fuck out of her, beats her to
a pulp, takes her knife and slashes her face and arms.
Speaker 1: So she ain't so pretty any mind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna be taking my clients.
Speaker 2: Nope, no one's you think you could take my clients.
Nobody wants to want to fuck you now now with
that face. Nope, So william survived. She left with scars,
including a deep cut down her cheek. No charges were
filed because Williams was a hooker herself. Lady of the
NAT didn't want to get on the radar.
Speaker 1: You're needna take her word for it, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or the cops are just like, oh, I'm sorry,
another prostitute stabbed you in a prostitute argument over who
can prostitute too?
Speaker 1: Not our problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Sounds like you show see Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not my problem.
Speaker 2: It's like you chose all of this. Another paper in
New Orleans, the Daily Delta, wrote about the incident, calling
it a quote cat fight among Harlot's.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, dude, papers in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: Not even papers. That's just how people felt. Oh yeah,
just so two broads got into it. That's hot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The newspapers from the eighteen hundreds are just the funniest
things to read, Like, I love I love them. They're
basically blogs where they'll just say whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it was that much different ten
years ago.
Speaker 2: What papers.
Speaker 1: No, just two ladies getting into a fight. But oh yeah,
hell yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's get I mean we would have covered it.
Speaker 1: Girl fight, girlfrid cat too, two catty girls, fucking day.
Speaker 2: Now here's where Fury gets a little I guess, out
of control and hypocrite.
Speaker 1: I should say her.
Speaker 2: Most brutal attack occurred in the poidrous market. There's a
big marketplace, lots of vendors, lots of street workers, lots
of customers for normal things like fruit and shit. So
Patrick Crone was there selling produce and he got in
an argument with Fury over price. But this time it
was Fury haggling.
Speaker 1: She was negotiating more. He's like, She's like, I didn't
sign up for that dirty ass dick.
Speaker 2: No, she was haggling over his like apples or something.
She didn't want to pay full price for his product.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's just an Italian mark, you know. That's just
what you do when you're buying apples. Right.
Speaker 2: So she's like, I'm not paying a photo price for that.
I'll give you a nickel for the apples. And he's
like it'll be ten cents, lady.
Speaker 1: I'll never pay full price. Yeah, and out of market,
so you can't have me do it.
Speaker 2: They argue, and they argue, and he's like, I'm not
selling this to you for that dog shit price you're
trying to push by.
Speaker 1: This is the price. Pay it or walk the fuck on.
Fury he checked moment here. Yeah, Fury gets pissed.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if she didn't have her knife
on her or if she was just extra angry. But
in the middle of the day, in the middle of
an incredibly busy market, Fury goes to the stand like
basically next door. I think, I'm not sure, but grabs
this thing nearby, goes to it somewhere nearby, like ten
feet away, grabs an axe and buries it in Patrick
Crohne's skull.
Speaker 1: It's the apple guy. He's kind of expendable.
Speaker 2: So she does kill at least one fully innocent person just.
Speaker 1: Because she didn't want to pay full price.
Speaker 2: You just want to pay full prize for apple.
Speaker 1: But what did he say to her.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he wasn't polite, at least after a while.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it sounds like he kind of
deserved it, does it a little bit? You know, these
are overpriced apples. Your gouging.
Speaker 2: At some point, I do think you have to understand
who you're negotiating with. Yeah, right, like if Sonny Corleoni
walks up to your fucking fruit stand.
Speaker 1: But again it's another broad man. You let your guard
down because it's a female.
Speaker 2: Right, and you don't think you're gonna get your throat
slick because you got an apple cart. I don't know
if his apples. By the way, I just keep you
saying apples. You got an apple cart between you and
the lady, you can't jump across it.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it was apples, it was produce.
I just keep saying apples. Probably wasn't apples. Let us.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just fun. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Potatoes, Yeah, proabe potatoes. Let's be honest. It was a
potato argument. That's why she got so angry.
Speaker 2: Yeah she needed those fucking potatoes. Dude, Two Irish people
arguing over potato price.
Speaker 1: Obviously it was going up because of all the famines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the most racist thing I've ever heard, but
it happened. So she buries this axe in his fucking
head and runs off, screaming insults at him as she fled,
So the equivalent of someone like now, like you see
those videos where like someone will sucker punch someone else
and then be walking away and be like yeah, yeah, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah what now what now? One chopro?
Speaker 2: Yeah, one chopro.
Speaker 1: So she did that Ronnie.
Speaker 2: This time, however, she was arrested and apparently sentenced to
life in prison. But whether it be corruption or intimidation
or both, she got out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean you're not really following through with anything.
You're just you're assuming things. You're like, oh she got out, YadA, YadA, YadA,
and she's back free.
Speaker 2: Well that there's not a lot of details on how
she got out, just that she obviously did not serve
the life sentence. In fact, did not serve very much
time at all.
Speaker 1: Chelsea might not have been a real person.
Speaker 2: No, she's a real person. This is she's absolutely a
real person.
Speaker 1: It sounds like anti sex work propaganda.
Speaker 2: From five different newspapers in New Orleans. Yeah, she's written
about quite a bit at the time, shows up a
lot in the papers.
Speaker 1: Mythical creature, so, I mean, it's a serial killer here
and then he doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a ghost specter. So in eighteen sixty one,
Fury and Bricktop Jackson team up, not brick top yep,
the team up for a kill.
Speaker 1: She also prostitute, Yes, brick Top, because she's just so
heavily built up top. I think it's the red hair.
She also has red hair, Dude, I just if they
ever get together and more than groups of one or two,
just run good. Why do you think my home life
is so insane? I got two redheads. Yeah, it's probably
the best. We take a couple of them to the firehouse.
I don't think it's too late. Just jam Fin in
a firehouse thing. Yes, at least Sammy just yes, Sammy's
down the shoot you go.
Speaker 2: Sammy still still fits in it. Probably he's getting pretty chunky.
Speaker 1: Though, or at least die one of their hairs. Yeah,
like bleach it, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think getting blonde is the way to go.
I don't think Sean he's gonna stay super red.
Speaker 1: Finn is you hope not?
Speaker 2: Finn is bright ass red. That's never going away. So
Fury and Bricktop Jacks.
Speaker 1: Because you might have spawned just the devil incarnated.
Speaker 2: They have blue eyes though, so they have true but
she does have a soul.
Speaker 1: At least she's Irish Catholic, you gotta assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's the redheads who aren't baptized in the Catholic church.
My wife, that is. Yeah, you'll worry about that, which
again you're gonna have to date again in the afterlife.
It's fine, it'll be fine. I'll have to break that
tour tonight. Maybe your kids will hook you up. Although
if they're both Gingers and not baptized or the baptized
not yet, okay, so they're also not gonna be there.
Speaker 2: No, it's just me. I'm gonna just be kicking it
by myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you get to start over. Yeah. Oh boy,
that's kind of exciting. I know.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In a lot of ways, it's like a.
Speaker 1: Right this life. You know, maybe it was a bit
of a disappointment my wife, my three kids, my job,
my career, everything. But but wait for the next one.
Speaker 2: Chapter two.
Speaker 1: I just got, you know, anywhere between one and sixty
years of this planet left.
Speaker 2: I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: And then it's smooth sailing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So in eighteen sixty one, Fury and brick top Jackson
make like the Va and kill a wounded.
Speaker 1: Veteran sit in it.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no there's no vet on earth that
would be offended.
Speaker 1: By that state. But no, but seems like an unnecessary shot.
The via.
Speaker 2: John Miller, the victim was a one armed Civil War
vet and a small time criminal who by eighteen you
want to become bricktopslever. So, by the way, I keep
in mind the dates here, this guy loses an arm
in like the first battle of the Civil War.
Speaker 1: Well he didn't die, right.
Speaker 2: No, loses an arm in some kind of skirmish he.
Speaker 1: Could have saved because he's useless. Now he's not going
to go back to battle.
Speaker 2: No, I can't. It'smissing an arm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so silver lining glass half full.
Speaker 2: He's alive, Yeah for now, and now he's dating bricktop.
Speaker 1: With one arm. Yeah, bad bitch on your only arm
you have. Yeah, not a bad way to you know.
It could have been a lot worse, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I agree with that. Court records described him as a
gambler and a ne'er do well. He was what a
ne'er do well? One more time, a ne'er do well.
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2: A ne'er do well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that?
Speaker 2: A na'er do well? It's when it doesn't do things good,
bad person?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is a nay or do well?
Speaker 2: You've never heard naarrado? Well, no, it's a real thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely a vocabulary word. You exist in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2: It is definitely old, but it's a word. A nared
well is actually a lazy person, I should say.
Speaker 1: So she's a layabout. So yeah, there's way more context. Yeah,
being a good person bad person doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Lazy, lazy, But yeah, narrato, Well, you never heard narrato
well before?
Speaker 1: You clearly haven't either.
Speaker 2: No, I have a lot.
Speaker 1: You just got the definition wrong.
Speaker 2: I did get the definition wrong, But I've heard the
word it's narrowed well quite.
Speaker 1: A few times. It don't act all high and mighty.
Speaker 2: You don't even know it existed as a word.
Speaker 1: Because it shouldn't be a word.
Speaker 2: So Biller probably hung in the same circles that they did.
That's how they started dating or whatever. And apparently he
also might have started kind of being their their pimp
or their lookout for their pickpocket operations. So he was
helping his girl out, but nearly eighteen sixty one.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the perfect guy to pin it on.
But how did I pickpocket you with what? My one hand? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You saw my hand the whole time right here. There's
no other hand, this magician. I think I made my
hand invisible. I wish, I wish I still had a
hand here, I fucking don't. So takes place. The assault
takes place in a brothel on Girod Street in eighteen
sixty one. According to The Daily Delta, the incident began
as a dispute over money or possibly business operations. Fury,
it was said, might have been upset thinking that Bricktop, sorry,
thinking that Miller was favoring like giving brick Top more
money than she deserved and like looking to like kind.
Speaker 1: Of cut her out of her full share and stuff,
like getting her slice of the pie. Yeah.
Speaker 2: There were also some accounts that say that Miller was
maybe trying to kind of run the women, yeah, like
be in charge of them, and Fury of course not
having that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a feminist icon, yes, So.
Speaker 2: He and Fury get to arguing. Fury whips out her razor.
Speaker 1: At gout one move other than the time she brought
an as to the party. But yeah, you got to
look out for her, go to.
Speaker 2: The only thing she has in her repertoire.
Speaker 1: D And maybe that's kind of why she was a
bad way too. She's got one move in her repertoire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just does it over and over again. And
then you're like, that wasn't.
Speaker 1: Worth two dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a dollar. You did the same thing over.
Speaker 1: And over, not even doing a split on it. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like this sucks.
Speaker 1: What do you You.
Speaker 2: Don't deserve two dollars?
Speaker 1: Sorry toothy blowjob there. Yeah, h don't care for it.
Speaker 2: Didn't like that at all. So Fury takes out a
razor if they're in a crowded room, by the way,
and cuts his throat and cuts his chest. But she
doesn't get his throat all the way she cuts his throat.
Maybe he was ready for it. She cuts his throat,
that's not fatal. She like cuts it, but doesn't get
dartery brick top basically just acting in solidarity. Her girls
is in it, so it doesn't matter. At this point,
jumps in takes out her dual blade knife and just
starts stabbing the fuck out of Miller.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Yeah, it's not a gray scene. I had a
buddy in Delca that got his throat slit with a
broken bottle, but not fatally, not fatally has a huge
scar on his neck.
Speaker 2: Now that's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: Get went to prison. He's out now, so I wonder
if he's ever gonna Like they knew each other. That
was the best part, Jesus Christ. It was all because
my buddy was hitting on his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: And he slid his throat like from behind or up front,
like a slash.
Speaker 1: Broke a bottles, slid his throat right in front of him.
Speaker 2: Well, that's fucking crazy, that's just delcos this is deco baby.
Speaker 1: So they stabbed the fuck out of him. Not of blood,
cut the fuck out of him.
Speaker 2: Blood everywhere. But Miller doesn't die, at least not right away.
The Times Picky un described the scene as a bloodbath
and a den of vice, feuring Brooktop ran off after
it happened, but Miller's injuries were really severe that.
Speaker 1: The navice that should actually be the studio name this
the studio why not we haven't come up with the
studio name yet. Yeah, I like the den of vice
den Avice. It's all one word though, Yeah, you saying
that stupid ass pocab word earlier.
Speaker 2: Near to well den apostrophe, Oh, apostrophe vice Denovice of Ice.
I like that. Miller's injuries were really bad though he
didn't get his artery cut, but the cut on his
neck was really deep. He had a punctured lumb lung,
and he had multiple giant stab wounds in his torso.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not fucking with this bitch at all,
because that's one thing I want to go to the
rest of my life avoiding is a knife through my
skin anywhere. If I can go, I'd rather be shot, obviously, Yes,
stabbed being step sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no world ever in which I That's one
of my favorite lines from A fuck What's the Simon
Peg cop Mo Hot Fuzz where he like talks about
getting stabbed or like the the fat his fat friend
from the small town is like, oh you've been stabbed?
Speaker 1: What was that like? In Simon Peg?
Speaker 2: Just if like completely monotone is like it was the
single most painful experience.
Speaker 1: Of my life. Yeah, Like, just what the fuck do
you think? To see it go into you? That's probably
the more hunting image. Yeah, yeah, shots like, oh the fuck.
Speaker 2: There's people who've been shot who are like I didn't
even know I was shot for like minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, adrenaline takes over.
Speaker 2: Yeah. According to the Corners report that we're referenced in
a book called the French Quarter written in nineteen thirty six,
is like a history of the French Quarter.
Speaker 1: You don't even allow doctors to inject you with needles,
right me? Yeah? That to put you under for you
to get your little shot not accurate. I don't like them.
I got some needles. You want me to kind inject
you real quick?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what you're using them for?
Speaker 1: Uh BBC one seven for my shoulder? Ah, yeah, I'm good.
Good on that. You don't want an injection? I'd love
a lot of professional do it. What I'm a professional
at this point. How many times I've injected my shoulder? Yeah,
we're so close.
Speaker 2: I would have a hard time putting a needle in myself.
Speaker 1: We're so close to being back. I do whatever you
did now, good for you. Let me let me just
inject you real quick, SOMEVPC. I'm all right. See he's
afraid of needles. Yep.
Speaker 2: He proved it.
Speaker 1: Well, the onus was on me, right, yep, I now
prove that you are.
Speaker 2: Yep, because I won't let you put a needle in me.
Speaker 1: Did I have the proper stuff to clean your wounds?
Speaker 2: I would It would be impossible for me to like
do heroin because I couldn't do it to myself either,
Like I'd need someone else to do it.
Speaker 1: Damn it, you got me. I'm on heroin now, it's
not actually stuff that's helping my shoulder.
Speaker 2: I thought you were pretty laid back.
Speaker 1: I'm just melting into the couch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the happiest I've seen you in a while.
Speaker 1: Just so care free, chasing the dragon.
Speaker 2: So the court on report noted he had fifteen stab
wounds and he was just fucked up. So again, this
was a high profile attack. A bunch of people saw it,
and it was so high profile that finally it forced
police to arrest the two women. They were legitimately arrested
and went to trial in the First District Court of
New Orleans in mid eighteen sixty.
Speaker 1: Ones are getting hung for steel on their first horse.
Bitches killed like dozens of people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and assaulted dozens more.
Speaker 1: Hangar so this was like, she's obviously a problem. Yeah,
when she keeps going to prison, she gets broken out
every time.
Speaker 2: Every time. So they're finally like enough of this because
she's doing it in front of people and all this stuff.
So they bring her to trial and this is like
a celebrity trial. Like the courtroom is fucking packed. They
are ready to see.
Speaker 1: This because she she slashed every person in town. Everyone's
got to cut to some degree. They're there to see justice.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Fury and Bricktop when they're on the stand
are just like huge bitches. They're just like fuck you.
They're defiant. They keep making fun of the prosecutor, Like
the prosecutors like is it true you stabbed mister Miller?
Speaker 1: Stab mister Mill? Just some bad bitches. Yeah, they're just
like fuck you. Uh.
Speaker 2: They claimed self defense, but there was no evidence for
that because it's actually since like twenty people saw it.
The witnesses gave some conflicting accounts, but the prosecution leaned
on the coroner's report and his status as a veteran.
By the way, a Confederate veteran veteran he's foughten for
a freedom killed this brave man.
Speaker 1: Well, not all off freedom. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, not their
colored man over there. No, not any of them, but
for all freedom.
Speaker 2: And uh, they get sentenced. Bricktop gets ten years, Fury
for whatever reason, gets a manslaughter conviction only gets two
to three years, and they go to jail.
Speaker 1: Did they just not want to execute women?
Speaker 2: I fucking guess, dude. They also there's also a chance
that for Fury in particular, there was a bribe or
they cut a deal with a corrupt official to give
her a lesser charge. But they go to prison.
Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson would never allow.
Speaker 2: No, they're just drowned in the river.
Speaker 1: Immediately, they would shoot him out of a cannon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they go to jail. They go to jail.
Speaker 1: That would be sweet. That'd be a good way to
execute somebody. Have you ever knievel them?
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the picture of the dude? I
think it's in like Mongolia or something fucked up like that.
It's in the Middle East for sure. And his method
of execution is not that he's put into a cannon,
but that he's tied to the front of it, like
his back is over the cannon hole.
Speaker 1: So the whole the cannon ball goes right through. Yeah,
it's quick.
Speaker 2: It's quick. You probably don't feel a thing.
Speaker 1: I think you feel something, you think probably, I mean technically,
if you get beheaded, isn't your consciousness still there for
like twelve seconds?
Speaker 2: They said that the on the guillotine, it was so
fast and so clean that the heads were like very
clearly still alive.
Speaker 1: You could like look up at your headless body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they were very clearly like for a second
or two, like still aware of what was happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is so cannonball through your stomach, in your back,
getting your back blown out.
Speaker 2: I think the concussion of it all might because you know,
did you know there were people who died in the
Civil War?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew. I knew that. Actually people died in
Civil War. Yeah, there's are quite a few, actually around
of dozens. I've heard hundreds of thousands. There's a picture,
a famous picture of this dead body from Gettysburg.
Speaker 2: No bullet holes, no wounds on him or whatever. The
way he died and this happened a lot apparently, was
a cannonball went right by him and the concussion of
like the air expansion ct whatever, it just it immediately
killed him. Like I don't know if it like knocked
the wind out of him so hard he couldn't get
it back or whatever. But that's what killed him, was
the cannonball, not hitting him, just passing by him.
Speaker 1: It's a broken heart. Come well, might not be wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't know what that did
to him. So the women go to jail. Bricktop and
fury they go to jail. But in May of eighteen
sixty two, Union forces under General Benjamin Butler take the
city of New Orleans, oh No, and the military governor,
George F. Shepley, for whatever reason, apparently to prevent Confederate
sympathizers from using jails as rallying points, ordered the release
of most of the prisoners of the jails.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna be like, uh so the Confederate
side let her out to deal with the Union soldiers.
Speaker 2: Just kill like a dozen Union soldiers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like she's our Harley Quinn, she's our suicide
squad kind of brick top, and we're gonna just send
them in to take out some of these Union commanders.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So it is true. What if Harley Quinn came.
Speaker 2: Up to me, I wouldn't take her seriously, No, she
suld kill me, but like you wouldn't. You'd be laughing
the whole time, be like getting killed by what. There's
like this stupid bird. It's kind of like an emu,
but it's not a neme. You And like there's videos,
like there's stories of people who farm them, like getting
killed by them, because.
Speaker 1: It's just a dumb bird just kicked in the head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, so before this, by the way, I'll get
to how her story ends. But before this, between eighteen
fifty nine and eighteen sixty one, she was linked to
a string of other attacks that they couldn't totally pin
on her. Somewhere between five and seven victims similar pattern
arguments over money that escalated to stabbings. At least three
or four men died, including a gambler who was slashed
in the stomach during a card game dispute.
Speaker 1: These all seem reactive, though they're all pretty reactive. I
don't know if that makes her a serial killer, yeah,
because it's there's not like planning that goes into it.
There's it's not I mean there is a pattern because
she only really knows one move.
Speaker 2: You're right, right, But yeah.
Speaker 1: It's not like, I don't think she falls under what
Coop was saying with again, just a typical. The patterns
were like the requirements for a serial killer. Not yeah, yeah, yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 2: That's a fair argument.
Speaker 1: She's just an outlaw.
Speaker 2: In eighteen sixty or eighteen sixty one, she killed two sailors,
stabbed one in the neck, another.
Speaker 1: Not too handsy.
Speaker 2: Another was disemboweled.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you do? Refuse to pay? Yeah, well
that'll do it.
Speaker 2: That'll do it.
Speaker 1: If you ain't got the you know, money to pay,
it's pay to play, right. If you ain't going to pay,
you can't play.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna get to play no more.
Speaker 1: And she don't play. She don't.
Speaker 2: So after she gets out of jail. In eighteen sixty two,
she attacked another unnamed sailor in the French Quarter. She
slashed his arm and chest. Didn't kill him though, because
he was like, you're a prostitute, just made fun of
her profession. Yeah, so she cut him up.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know I was talking, no lady.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what I was talking to. This
incident is actually noted in the Union Military Police Log
and it is Fury's last documented attack in New Orleans.
She slipped away after that, and there is no trace
of her from then on.
Speaker 1: She went into the ether. She left New Orleans. Yep,
where do you think she went?
Speaker 2: There were rumors about Texas and Alabama, like Mobile.
Speaker 1: I hope she died in Mobile. Yeah she deserved. I mean,
that's worse in prison.
Speaker 2: In many ways. Today in New Orleans, ghost tours such
as the Ghost City tours and the French Quarter phantoms.
I think I've done the Ghost city tour.
Speaker 1: I've done the last time I was there, I did
the ghost or maybe that's where I heard about this
bitch before. I've starting to ring some bells, Okay.
Speaker 2: They describe Gallatin Street, which is one of the Red
Light District areas haunted by the red headed spirits of
Fury and Bricktop.
Speaker 1: Because I'm hoping it's that not Jake did this three
years ago. We have not done this.
Speaker 2: There's no way, or you did it, There's no way.
Visitors sometimes report hearing disembodied screams or seeing a fleet
like a figure running away that has red fiery hair
on Frenchman Street, where Gallaton once stood. Tour guides often
claim that Fury's ghost is tied to her slashing attacks,
with stories of seeing a woman holding a knife and
startling late night passers by and the old Gerard Street brothels,
which is a staple of the ghost tours, also have
stories about a ghostly woman with red hair and piercing
blue eyes, who is sometimes accompanied by the sound of
clinking coins or a faint metal scrape.
Speaker 1: But not enough coins because they never paid an.
Speaker 2: Never enough coins.
Speaker 1: She's all about stacking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boss bitch, but that's all I got today. On
the Hooker serial Killer of New Orleans. Bridget Fury, Bridget
the Fury Fury.
Speaker 1: What'd you learn today? She needs a better nickname. You
can't go the Fury Fury.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If that's you know, your adopted last name, so be
it can't be your nickname.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, better than brick Top.
Speaker 1: Robert Foxy Fox, Yeah, Robert the Fox Fox slies of
Fox Fox. Uh, what'd you learn today that you would
be a tomato can box or what that nickname?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm first round on punch out.
Speaker 1: No, that's what I learned. The uh, the probably more
prostitutes killed than you're aware of.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's like we talked about the other week
or the other day, where it's like there's so much
more gay shit happening in the Old West, and people
want to admit.
Speaker 1: Or at least injuring. Men that don't want to admit
that they were assaulted by a protests.
Speaker 2: Yeah they got beat u by a hooker. Yeah, a
lot of men.
Speaker 1: Those are the really silent voices.
Speaker 2: We don't hear enough from them.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, Eh, we don't hear enough about men assaulting women,
but what about prostitutes that assault men?
Speaker 2: But again, if you get assaulted by a hooker, that
it's the same thing to me as like, oh, something
bad happened to you at a strip club.
Speaker 1: You put yourself in that situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you chose to be there.
Speaker 1: There's only and it's probably on you.
Speaker 2: It almost certainly is almost certainly.
Speaker 1: Uh, who's in the game?
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Now, Nola's in the game. Nola is the venue for
the game. Nola is the rose Bowl of fucking this
type of shit. I feel like, m hmm. I mean,
we could honestly just do an entire year where we
do episodes on New Orleans.
Speaker 2: You could do years years, You could do a whole.
We could do five years of this.
Speaker 1: We're doing three episodes a week. I don't know if
we could do years.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, it is New Orleans is endless.
Speaker 1: Still a short history of things considered short put rich.
It's only like three hundred years short short put rich.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I love that city. We know I
need to get back.
Speaker 1: Get back. Yeah, but he's your three kids in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Boy, I mean, if you do it in the right place,
it's probably pretty cool. Send him to a Catholic school,
live in the Garden District.
Speaker 1: New Orleans is still but let's not pretend Louisiana is
in a total ship.
Speaker 2: Oh, Louisiana is a dumpster, a dumpster.
Speaker 1: New Orleans really saves it, like otherwise it's just Mississippi. Oh,
it's wor its Mississippi. It's swamp cage Mississippi.
Speaker 2: The way New Orleans keeps Louisiana just barely above Mississippi
and Alabama like without it. If you just saw that off,
Louisiana is the grossest place in America.
Speaker 1: I don't even consider it America.
Speaker 2: It barely is. Yeah, truly, But that's all I got
for today. On Bridget Fury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see you guys next week. You just gotta
saw served