Podcasts True Crime Let's Go To Court! 111: Chocolate Candy Murders & the Wrongful Conviction of Scott Hornoff

111: Chocolate Candy Murders & the Wrongful Conviction of Scott Hornoff

Published: March 4, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

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Brandi starts us off with a wrongful conviction story unlike any we\\u2019ve ever covered. When Scott Hornoff was put on trial for the murder of Victoria Cushman, he had every conceivable advantage. The prosecution didn\\u2019t rely on junk science. There were no faulty eye witnesses. He had good legal representation. He was a police officer. He is white. But that didn\\u2019t stop the jury from finding against him.\\xa0
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Then Kristin tells us about the infamous chocolate candy murders. Back in the late 1800\\u2019s, a married woman named Cordelia Botkin met a married man named John Preston Dunning. Cordelia was immediately smitten. John was hot, smart, a great writer, and an all-around good time. The two immediately struck up an affair. After a few years, John broke the news that he was leaving Cordelia. He wanted to go back to his candy-loving wife. Cordelia decided to stop him.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cThe heinous crimes of Cordelia Botkin,\\u201d by Heather Monroe on medium.com\\n
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\\u201cMurder by mail: The story of San Francisco\\u2019s most infamous female prisoner,\\u201d by Katie Dowd for the San Francisco Chronicle
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\\u201cCandy from a stranger: The Cordelia Botkin Case of 1898,\\u201d by Thomas Duke in 1910, posted on historicalcrimedetective.com\\n
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\\u201cCordelia Botkin\\u201d entry on Wikipedia
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\\u201cMrs. Cordelia Botkin pleads with her judges for her life,\\u201d Dec. 23, 1898, The San Francisco Call
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cTangled Up in Blue: The Scott Hornoff Story\\u201d by Seamus McGraw, The Crime Library
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\\u201cJeffrey Scott Hornoff\\u2019s Murder Conviction Is Exposed As A Sham When The Real Killer Confesses\\u201d by Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied
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\\u201cKiller\'s confession frees convicted man\\u201d by The Associated Press
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\\u201cState v. Hornoff\\u201d casetext.com\\n
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