Ep#17: 1934 Timeline Twist & The Brighton Trunk Murders

3/20/2024: On today’s episode, Valerie’s Timeline Twist features the Dust Bowl, Betsy Wetsy, and the ridiculousness of the bucket hat. Amy Jo tells the tale of The Brighton Trunk Murders. Two women and two trunks, seemingly related, yet one went unpunished and one went unsolved.

Cover Photo: Violette Kaye

1. A "Black Blizzard", South Dakota, 1934

2. Florence Owens Thompson seen in the photo Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange

3. Poster for Century of Progress World's Fair showing exhibition buildings with boats on water in foreground

4. Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

5. Professional Boxing Ad, 1934

6. The game of Sorry!

7. The Daily Express, 1934

8. Report on first trunk murder with Spilsbury on left in picture

9. Toni Mancini

10. Toni Mancini’s room, where authorities discovered the body of Violette Kaye stuffed inside the trunk at left

11. Sir Bernard Spilsbury on left, Sir Sidney Smith on the right

12. Toni Mancini leaves a London police station in a police car
    

Sources/Photo Sources

Timeline Twist Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Deployment_Casebook/History_of_the_Automobile:_Ownership_per_Household_in_U.S.

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/Art_History_(Boundless)/29%3A_Europe_and_America_from_1900-1950_CE/29.04%3A_Art_in_the_US_during_the_1920s_and_1930s#:~:text=Social%20realism%2C%20also%20known%20as,Great%20Depression%20in%20the%201930s.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/189959/housing-units-with-telephones-in-the-united-states-since-1920/

https://bja.ojp.gov/program/it/privacy-civil-liberties/authorities/statutes/1288#:~:text=The%20Communications%20Act%20of%201934%20combined%20and%20organized%20federal%20regulation,oversee%20and%20regulate%20these%20industries.

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/in-1934-major-league-baseball-announces-night-games-for-next-season/c-159378050

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_agencies

https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/rural-electrification-administration-1934-1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Products_introduced_in_1934

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/1934-drought-dust-bowl-days-was-worst-thousand-years-u-n226831

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Board_games_introduced_in_1934

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl#Influence_on_the_arts_and_culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_Progress#Exhibits

https://drought.unl.edu/dustbowl/#:~:text=Those%20who%20remained%20in%20the,stress%20over%20their%20uncertain%20futures.

Timeline Twist Photo Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/1934-drought-dust-bowl-days-was-worst-thousand-years-u-n226831

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boxing_Ad,_Binghamton_Press,_June_7,_1934.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_Progress#/media/File:Chicago_world's_fair,_a_century_of_progress,_expo_poster,_1933,_2.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl#/media/File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalism_(art)#/media/File:Grant_Wood_-_American_Gothic_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://games.cdbpdx.com/Sorry1934/tn-600_Sorry1934_BoxTop.jpg

The Brighton Trunk Murders Sources:

https://the-line-up.com/the-brighton-trunk-murders-of-1934

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/brighton-trunk-murders

https://www.northlainehistory.me.uk/the-murder-of-violet-kaye.html

https://historycollection.com/grisly-coincidence-brighton-trunk-murders/

https://vocal.media/criminal/the-strange-mystery-of-the-little-known-brighton-trunk-murders

The Brighton Trunk Murders Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_trunk_murders#/media/File:Violette_Kaye.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_trunk_murders#/media/File:TonyMancini1934.jpg

https://the-line-up.com/the-brighton-trunk-murders-of-1934

https://www.northlainehistory.me.uk/the-murder-of-violet-kaye.html

https://historycollection.com/grisly-coincidence-brighton-trunk-murders/