Butte, MT. 1905. Arvilla Hunter Walbridge Melville is charged with bigamy, and as she sits in a jail cell, she spins an ever-changing and ever more bizarre tale about the murder of her first husband Otis Walbridge. And just when it looks like Arvilla has finally settled into a relatively quiet life, another murder propels her name back into the newspapers and into the courtroom.

Phillipsburg, MT. April 1900. In 1905, as Arvilla sat in a jail cell charged with bigamy, she confessed, but to cheating on her husband but to lying on the witness stand. Three years prior, Arvilla had told a packed courtroom that her father had killed her first husband Otis Walbridge and terrorized her into silence. Now, as reporters gathered around her cell, Arvilla said that Otis was, quite possibly, still alive. 

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Butte, MT. 1895. The year began with an explosion and ended in a petty dispute between two undertakers over a young man's body. And that's only the half of it.

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Episode 5 "The Common Denominator: Part 1" will be released on May 19th @11pm Central Time. Thanks, everyone, for listening!