Episode 31: The Unique Case of Nimrod O'Kelly

Sara takes us back to the 1800s with Oregon's first officially recorded murder case!  Nimrod O'Kelly found himself an accused liar and murderer after he admitted to shooting his neighbor, Jeremiah Mahoney, over a land dispute.  But what really happened that day, and was O'Kelly really the liar all his neighbors thought he was? Sources https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/o_kelly_nimrod_1864_/#:~:text=On%20May%2013%2C%201852%2C%20he,to%20be%20hanged%20in%20August. https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/community_paid/offbeat-oregon-oregon-s-first-murder-defendant-was-saved-from-gallows-by-his-wife/article_1ac0a91e-f9d7-11e9-a687-5310d7e29e3e.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/20610960 - Nimrod's declaration https://mckenziehistoryhwy.org/settlements/nimrod/ https://www.theresahuppauthor.com/blog/2019/11/27/murders-in-oregon-territory-history-is-stranger-than-fiction/ https://www.chronicle1909.com/posts/2530/oregons-first-murder-defendant-was-saved-from-gallows-by-his-wife https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/06jan/heritage.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/385170365/?terms=Nimrod%20O%27Kelly&match=1 Nimrod: Courts, Claim, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier by Ronald Lansing