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You're listening to an Ono Media Podcast. Hey everyone and welcome back to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host Peyton Moreland. I'm so glad you are here and either watching or listening to this episode. I hate to be annoying, but if you are watching on YouTube can you please make sure to follow the page, turn on notifications so so you don't miss an episode and then please please please leave a comment on this video. Give it a thumbs up. Interacting with the episode just helps support the show in ways you can't even imagine. And if you are listening on audio and can leave a five star review. Thank you so much. It doesn't have to be long, just a little brief sentence about why you love this show. Honestly, just you listening is supporting the show enough. So thank you for going above and beyond for me and the show. As you know, into the Dark is a true crime podcast that also ventures into all things dark and spooky. But before we get into that, I need to start this episode with my 10 seconds. Just a little something I do to start it off on a lighter note. Okay, well if you didn't know, I actually have really bad posture. I think part of it's genetic, part of it's just the age we live in looking at our phones all day. And also I honestly like to lay in bed a lot. So all those combined have led to me having just really poor posture. So I went and got an X ray on my spine. And I have actually changed the shape of my spine due to my poor posture. And then some older injuries that I had in dance have kind of shifted my hips a little bit, which then in turn have shifted my spine. Honestly, it's just not great. But I am on top of it. I'm taking care of it. I go in every single day. I've been really working on just my posture, really adjusting my hips, making sure my body's in a good place. I've been trying to get out, work out, not lay in bed so much. I've also been stretching a lot, which I think will help. I already feel a bit better. I feel a little bit more like me, which is great. But yeah, that's kind of what I've been up to this week. I actually had a really productive week last week, which I don't always have. But I'll take it. I'll take it. Honestly, a win's a win. But yeah, that being said, that's all I have going on. And let's just jump straight into today's case. Oh, wait, I actually forgot, before we get into it, if you are watching on YouTube, you can obviously see my shirt. It says literally, just murder with my husband junkie. We have a couple more versions of the shirt over on our store. The link will be linked everywhere. But yeah, if you want to check it out, this is the crop top version. I think we have a boxy cut version. And then I also have a version of this for my Twitch stream. So if you are a listener over there or a viewer and are wanting throatie merch, that is also available now. Okay, everyone needs to unwind sometimes. And for a lot of us, the best way to relax is by enjoying a favorite piece of pop culture. We might binge watch a comfort show, head to the theater, see a movie, play our favorite album, or the soundtrack from a beloved musical. And of course, if you're here, you are probably a fan of true crime. But the thing about true crime stories is that they're not just pop culture. They are real stories of things that happened to actual people. Sometimes the survivors are still hurting and trying to heal while in the public eye. So obviously this can turn into a gray area. You don't want to get too much enjoyment out of something that's tragic or traumatizing for another living person. Still, though, it is undeniable. For as long as there's been radio, newspapers and other kinds of mass media, people have been curious. They are interested in why people do what they do. And they are obsessed with murder stories. And that's true even in Chicago in the 1920s. In fact, at this time, true crime stories are very popular because they're so salacious. When you think of murderers, you probably think of men. But at this time in the 1920s, there's a slew of women reportedly killing their romantic partners and rivals. It almost feels like every day there was another news story about another alleged female killer. The thing is that a lot of the time these accused murderers don't get convicted. And it's illegal for women at this time to serve on a jury. So it's always men deliberating on each case. And these male jurors seem to see women as inherently weak and dainty. They don't believe that a woman could be capable of real violence. So time after time, a woman gets arrested and charged with murder, she goes to trial, and then she's found not guilty and goes free at this time. It's terrible from a justice perspective, but it sure sells papers. So that's what's going on in pop culture on the night of April 3, 1924. So that is when a woman named Beulah Anon is meeting a date in her apartment. Beulah lives in a Chicago neighborhood called North Kenwood. Except Beulah isn't from Chicago. She actually grew up in Kentucky. There she married her husband, who, for the record, is not the man she's meeting on the third. No. Bulla settled down with her first husband when she was just 15 years old. The marriage didn't work out and ended up in a divorce. And then she got married again in 1920. By now she was 19 on her second marriage, and her new husband was named Albert Anon. They stayed in Kentucky for a while as newlyweds, but at some point in the early 1920s, she and Albert moved to Chicago, which is how they even ended up in the North Kenwood apartment. Now, at this time, Albert worked there as a mechanic. He didn't make much money, and it was hard for him and Beulah to make ends meet. So In September of 1923, at just 22 years old, Beulah got a job as a bookkeeper at a Laundromat. And at her new position, she actually met a man named Harry Kolstead. Now, Harry had a dark history. In fact, Harry had recently gotten out of prison following a five year sentence for assault. He works at the laundromat because his brother in law actually owns it. And it's hard for a man with a record to find job otherwise. But as soon as he meets Beulah, he can't help but stare at her. He thinks she's the most beautiful woman he's ever met and he can't make himself look away. He's so obvious about this that Beulah catches him and instead of getting angry or offended, she smiles. Kind of signaling that she's not bothered by his attention. After this, Harry starts finding excuses to drop by the area where she's working just to hang and talk. Sometimes he says he needs to get out of the office and stretch his legs. And he invites Beulah to go on walks with him. That way they can talk to one another without their co workers overhearing. Now it turns out Harry and Beulah actually have a lot in common. They both like going out drinking, whereas Beulah's husband doesn't really enjoy partying. And more than anything else though, Beulah likes the way that Harry makes her feel. She enjoys the attention he showers on her and she likes to know that she's still attractive. She so even though she's married, she encourages Harry's crush and she starts to develop feelings for him too. So they start meeting at her apartment in secret. At first they just drink together while Albert's away at work. But before you know it, Beulah and Harry are having a full blown affair in the 1920s. So that's why he is visiting her on the afternoon of April 3rd. As for what actually happens while they're alone together that day, nobody really knows. But as the case goes, the events of the encounter have been hotly contested. Here's what I can say for sure. Harry arrives at Beulah's house sometime in the late morning or early afternoon. Then at around 2pm her neighbors hear a loud blast come from in her unit. Now at the time they don't know what it is. But later the police conclude that the sound was a gunshot. For the next three hours the same song begins playing over and over in her apartment. It's like a record is on a loop. Now by 5pm Beulah's husband Albert gets off work. He comes home and that record is still playing. Now right away Albert sees Harry, his wife's co worker daughter, lying on the ground in his home in a pool of his own blood. Now when her husband gets home, he also finds Beulah there and she explains, I shot Harry, but I had a good reason to. Except if she tries to explain what that good reason is, it never gets recorded anywhere. It's not clear to Albert if Harry is dead or just badly hurt. But either way, he's like, hey, we need to get officials involved. So he's the one who calls the police and they rush to their apartment. Now it's clear to them that they're too late. Harry has been dead of the gunshot wound for a while. Remember, this is three hours after the neighbors heard it. The coroner later confirms hours went by between the time when Harry died and when the police officers were called and arrived on scene. And more alarmingly, the bullet actually didn't kill him immediately. He was shot and suffered for a long while, died and then stayed on the ground until Albert came home and found the body. Meaning the entire time that Beulah was blasting that record on loop, she had a dying man and then a corpse in her apartment. You guys, I know summer is busy for majority of you and sometimes when it comes to meals, you only have a couple minutes. Factor helps you eat smarter with tasty chef prepped meals that are dietitian approved and delivered right to your door. 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Speeds may slow above 35 gigabyte on unlimited plan taxes and fees. Extra cement Mobile for details now it's reasonable to think that maybe Beulah was playing the loud music to cover up the sounds of Harry's death. But once the story hits the papers, the society comes up with a different story. The earliest headlines announced that Beulah shot Harry in cold blood and then danced around her apartment for hours to celebrate his death. There's no evidence supporting this. Still, given the facts of the case, it's no surprise that some people jumped to that conclusion. The point of this is that the police think this scene is very suspicious and right away they have questions for Beulah. Innocent people don't ignore dying or dead men in their apartment for hours. So right there they ask her what happened and she says, I shot Harry in self defense. According to her, he's basically a stranger. She knows him from work. This is what she's telling police. But they've never spoken to one another before. They're not even friends. But according to her, earlier that day he showed up at her apartment and she let him in. And then he began attacking her and she shot him. She doesn't even know why he came over or tried to hurt her. But she says she's just lucky to be alive. Except, honestly, from the get go, police are not buying it. They don't believe her story. They ask pointed questions. Okay, where was Harry standing when he attacked you? How was he holding the gun? How did you manage to hit him at the angle that you did? One officer points out that there are two wine glasses in the kitchen that are dirty. It looks like before the shooting, Harry and Beulah might have actually been drinking together, which would be an odd way for them to spend the afternoon if they barely knew one another. And on top of that, one officer says that he can tell that Harry was shot in the back. So how could he have been attacking Beulah if he was turned away from her? And as soon as those words come out of the detective's mouth, Beulah faints. Now the police bring her back too, but they're still not feeling sympathetic. She's a top suspect and she needs to be interrogated. So the police arrest her and drag her to the station. She doesn't even have a chance to change out of the nightgown that she was wearing when Albert got home from work. In Beulah's mugshot, she looks like an underwear model posing for a photo shoot. Her pearl necklace is framed by her nightgown's lacy neckline, and she's kind of gazing off in the distance like she doesn't even realize she's in serious legal trouble. Now, after this, the police question Beulah again, and she admits once again that she killed Harry. But she says still that it's in self defense. According to Beulah's new testimony, she and Harry actually were friends from work. But not good friends, she insists. We certainly were not having an affair. They knew each other well enough that he would come visit her at the apartment sometimes, and it wasn't unusual for them to share a glass of wine during these visits. So she's changing her story and explaining a little bit more. To hear Beulah tell it, that's what happened that day he came over. She thought they were just gonna chat a little. But instead, as soon as he arrived at the apartment, Harry allegedly tried to convince Beulah, his co worker, to sleep with him. Now, Beulah tells the police this time that she refused. She loves her husband. She'd never hurt him in that way. But according to her story, Harry wouldn't take no for an answer and he tried to assault her. Now, Beulah knew that her Husband owned a gun, and she knew exactly where he kept it in the bedroom. So she warned Harry if he didn't leave her alone, she was going to shoot him. And when that didn't work, she grabbed the gun and fired at him. In other words, she says, it wasn't a murder. It was completely legally justifiable. But the problem is, as soon as they picked Beulah up, she was slurring her words. The officers could smell the alcohol on her breath. It was clear that she was drunk, which means the police couldn't really take anything she was saying at face value the first time or the second time. They need to wait until she sobers up before they attempt another interrogation. So third time's the charm. The next session, Beulah tells them, once again, a different story. This time around, she admits they were having an affair. She tells police she was cheating on her husband with Harry. Beulah also says that during his last visit, Harry told her he was going to leave her, so that's why she shot him. She says she was in a jealous rage. And this confession is enough for the police to charge Beulah with murder. Now, luckily for her, she has a fantastic lawyer to represent her in the upcoming trial, and that's thanks to her husband, Albert. Now, it's worth noting that when Albert first heard about the affair, he was devastated. When reporters tried to talk to him, he said he felt like a fool. But once he calms down, he actually goes to the jail to talk to Beulah, his wife. And whatever she says to him there, it's enough to convince him to stand by her during her trial. He goes out and spends all of his life savings hiring the best attorney he can find. Because in Albert's mind, nothing is more important than helping his wife beat these charges, even if she did cheat on him and murder her affair partner. And Albert's not the only person who Beulah manages to charm. Like I mentioned before, she was already making headlines all over Chicago at this point. With this case, the press is fascinated with Beulah, in part because she's very pretty. In fact, some columns describe her as the most beautiful woman to ever be accused of murder, as though her appearance is relevant to the legal case at all. Newspaper articles describe her short, dark hair, her flawless makeup, her delicate features, and her amazing fashion. Sometimes they barely even mention the actual murder. They treat Beulah like she's a glamorous model or actress who just happened to kill someone, rather than an accused murderer who cheated on her husband and then Allegedly gunned her lover down in cold blood and let him die for hours as she played music. Now, as this is all breaking, Beulah loves the attention. She is thrilled to have her name and picture in the papers. Now, if the newspapers describe her as sympathetic, that could influence the jurors to be on her side when her trial starts. And her lawyer knows this. After all, Beulah knows that if she's found guilty of murder, she could be executed. So in her mind, the stakes have become life and death. A carefully chosen sound bite or posed photograph could be the difference between a guilty or not guilty verdict. So in no time at all, Eula and her team start finding ways to keep making headlines while she waits for her trial. At one point, she sees an article that incorrectly lists her age as 29. So right away, she reaches out to every reporter she can find to explain, no, no, no, she's only 23, not 29. She even makes a joke about it to the press, saying it's worse to be accused of being old than it is to be accused of murder. And there might be a grain of truth to that statement, because Beulah probably knows that she benefits from people seeing her as a young and innocent woman. After this incident, she has a new PR issue to manage because a bunch of stories come out about. About her affair, the alleged motive. They make her look untrustworthy and unfaithful. So she begins giving interviews where she talks about what a bad husband Albert was, or at least about how he was bad in her eyes. She describes him as neglectful and unromantic. A few times, Beulah tells a story about how someone robbed her on a vacation and Albert did nothing to protect her. Basically, her way to combat this is to try to make herself look like a victim who had no choice but to find someone else to take care of her and protect her. And it works. Reporters write sympathetic stories about how hard of a life she's had. Plus, this next part is wild. Albert still publicly stands by her and supports her. Beulah is trash talking him to anyone who will listen, and he still wants to help her. He's willing to fall on the sword for her.