Your Heart's Sorrow [the abduction of Little Charley Ross]

On July 1st, 1874 four-year-old Charley Brewster Ross was kidnapped from the street in front of his family's Germantown home, and became America's first case of kidnapping for ransom. The Philadelphia police sprang into action... but their investigation would prove to be a tragic comedy of errors. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/your-hearts-sorrow/ Key sources for this episode include Carrie Hagen's We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping That Changed America; Christian K. Ross's The Father's Story of Charley Ross, Norman J. Zierold's Little Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom; Tom Everly's "Searching for Charley Ross"; and contemporary news reports. Presented by #13 (Dave White). Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/orderjackalope Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected] Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network (https://thatsnotcanon.com/).