Dead Man's Hand: The Bennetts & 1929 Kansas City

In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his death.You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with code OBLOOD20 at checkout. You can claim it at: https://www.magicmind.com/OBLOOD20Sources:Hill, Kate. “Nelly Gone: KCQ Traces the Kidnapping of Nell Donnelly.” Kansas City Public Library. 20 October, 2021. https://kclibrary.org/news/2021-10/nelly-gone-kcq-traces-kidnapping-nell-donnelly McMillen, Margot and Roberson, Heather. Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.)Monaco II, Ralph. “Last Hand at Park Manor: The Trial of Myrtle Bennett.” The Jackson County Historical Society Journal. Vol. 53. Summer 2015. “Nelly Don by the Donnelly Garment Company, Kansas City, Missouri.” Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection, University of Missouri. https://mhctc.missouri.edu/collection/nelly-don/Pomerantz, Gary M. The Devil’s Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, A Fatal Hand, and A New American Age. (New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2009).Other Sources:The Kansas City Star“The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression.” Kansas City Public Library. https://pendergastkc.org/Gary M. Pomerantz. https://www.garympomerantz.com/the-devils-ticketsMusic: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia ListonFor more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com