S6: Norman Thorne: Cold-Blooded Killer or 'Martyr to Spilsburyism'?

Crimes of the Centuries

Aug 24, 202634:09Society & Culture

A young woman named Elsie Cameron vanished after delivering an ultimatum to her fiancé, chicken farmer Norman Thorne. Weeks later, investigators dug up his property and found her dismembered remains buried in an unmistak...

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