The Dead Is Alive

E468 - The Dead Is Alive

Published: March 23, 2026

Duration: 57:57

The Wrongful Execution of William Jackson Marion

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Episode 470 begins in 1887, when Nebraska hanged Jack Marion for murdering his friend John Cameron. Four years later, Cameron turned up alive on a Kansas farm. He'd never heard of the trial. He still had the receipt for the horses Marion supposedly killed him for. Nobody ever figured out whose body was in the creek.

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