The air hung heavy in the courtroom. The gallery was packed. The people pressed shoulder to shoulder, benches groaning beneath the weight. They all wanted to hear the story for themselves. They'd heard the gossip and the whispers about a family teeming with passion and hate, about a secret night time meeting in a garden and a mysterious disappearance, about a discarded knife and a pile of bones found burning in a wine pit. And now they wanted to know what really happened. But even they were not prepared for the story that came spilling out, the secrets, the lies, the confessions, and the ending so unimaginable. Except it happens to be true. Yes, an unbelievable story ripped from the headlines 150 years ago and dramatized by Wilkie Collins in his novel, The Dead Alive. And now you will hear it, too. And judge for yourselves what's true and what isn't. I'm Keith Morison. Join me for an all new Morison mystery starting August 26th, wherever you get your podcasts.