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Lowell Lee Andrews seemed like a brainy, well-behaved teenager. In fact, the local newspaper called him, \u201cthe nicest boy in Wolcott.\u201d After he graduated from high school, he took off for the University of Kansas, where he majored in zoology. Lowell\u2019s life seemed unremarkable in its normalcy. But then, during his Thanksgiving break in 1958, Lowell went home and murdered his entire family.

Then Kristin tells us about Jessie Costello, a.k.a., the smiling widow. In the 1930s, Jessie Costello was really something. She was a flapper. She was a snappy dresser. But her life was a little dull. She was married to a stern firefighter named Bill Costello. She was the mother of four children. She didn\u2019t work outside the home. But her life got a whole lot more interesting when she met a married policeman named Edward McMahon. The two started up an affair, and they weren\u2019t exactly discreet about it. So, a few months later, when Bill Costello died of an apparent heart attack, the people of Peabody, Massacusetts were skeptical.
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\nAnd 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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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cCostello slain, doctor says at widow\u2019s trial,\u201d by Grace Robinson the Daily News
\n\u201cJessie on trial during 23 days,\u201d by Joseph F. Dinneen for The Boston Globe
\n\u201cMcMahon near break under cross-examination on story,\u201d by Melville E. Webb Jr for The Boston Globe
\n\u201cDr. Rooney says cyanide caused Costello\u2019s death,\u201d by Alfred J. Monahan for The Boston Globe
\n\u201cBrands poison widow as sorceress-killer,\u201d for the Daily News
\n\u201c\u2018I\u2019m vindicated, M\u2019Mahon isn\u2019t,\u2019 Jessie declares,\u201d for the Daily News
\n\u201cDrop Dead Gorgeous: The Scandalous Trial of Jessie Costello\u201d by Stephanie Almazan for The Lineup
\n\u201cThe Festive Murder Trial of Jessie Costello\u201d New England Historical Society\xa0
\n\u201cJustice and Jessie Costello\u201d Strange Company Blog
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe nicest boy in Wolcott: \u2018Polite\u2019 Lowell Lee Andrews proved to be another \u2018cold\u2019 Kansas killer\u201d by David Krajicek, The New York Daily News
\n\u201cA Crime For All Time\u201d by Mike Belt, Lawrence Journal World
\n\u201cState v. Andrews\u201d law.justia.com
\n\u201cLowell Lee Andrew\u201d wikipedia.org
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