12: BASED ON A TRUE STORY

The Archivist: A True Crime Podcast

Grace Marks. At the center of this terrible murder is a young and beautiful Irish immigrant named Grace. Did she have such power to influence a young man to brutally kill two people. Or was she so afraid of this young man that she felt she had no choice but to help him hide the bodies and then make off with valuables stolen from their employer? Where is the truth in this story? Take a trip back in time to see what the true story that inspired a novel and Netflix story really is.
Sources for this episode:
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie, which was the source material for Margaret Atwood’s book, Alias Grace.
https://www.willowandthatch.com/is-alias-grace-true-story/#:~:text=Alias%20Grace%20is%20based%20on,housekeeper%20and%20lover%2C%20Nancy%20Montgomery.
Wikipedia
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grace-marks
Sag Harbor Corrector, August 12, 1843
Trial Transcripts: Marks, Grace and Walton, George, “The trials of James McDermott and Grace Marks report,” Enlightenmens, accessed April 18, 2022,
http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/912.

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