Larry Barbee

[HelenaWojtczak]

Can anyone please give me the date that Larry Barbee wrote his piece
"An Investigation into the Carrie Brown Murder" on this site?

Many thanks

Helena

[Tom_Wescott]

Ol' 'Eagle Eyes' Barbee. That must have been 10 or more years ago.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[HelenaWojtczak]

Ol' 'Eagle Eyes' Barbee. That must have been 10 or more years ago.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Oh dear. I need to put something in my footnote... circa 2002, do you think?

[ChrisGeorge]

Oh dear. I need to put something in my footnote... circa 2002, do you think?

Hi Helena

Yes Larry was active on Casebook around ten years ago so that sounds about right. You might be able to get a more accurate year from Stephen Ryder, conceivably.

Update: I have found an email address for Larry and am trying to contact him for you.

All the best

Chris

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

I would agree that Larry's article appeared around 2000 to 2002. I started doing research on the Carrie Brown murder just after I finished writing The Art Of Murder but before it was edited and published, which was in July of 2002. One of the first things I did was read Larry’s article so it must have been on the Casebook before Spring of 2002.

Hope that helps Helena.

Wolf.

[Tom_Wescott]

I'm wondering if he didn't write that article in response to Michael Conlon's stuff in Rip in the late 90's?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[ChrisGeorge]

I'm wondering if he didn't write that article in response to Michael Conlon's stuff in Rip in the late 90's?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Hi Tom

My recollection is that Larry Barbee's article on Carrie Brown was already here on Casebook when we published Michael Conlon's article. Conlon's article, "The Carrie Brown Murder Case: New Revelations," appeared in Ripperologist No. 46, May 2003.

Cheers

Chris

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Chris. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought Conlon had published on the Brown murder prior to that article. Or was Larry Barbee the first?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Tom

Prior to the "New Revelations" article that we published in 2003, we had published "The Ripper in America" by Michael Conlon in Ripperologist No. 38, December 2001. Conlon also wrote the article on here on "A Tale of Two Frenchys" -- but again my recollection was that there was a time when Larry Barbee's article was the only one on here about the Carrie Brown murder -- because it stood out, being about a New York case whereas all the other dissertations were about the Whitechapel crimes.

All the best

Chris

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

Conlon's first article, A Tale of Two Frenchys, was published in Ripperana No. 34, October 2000. I believe Chris is right that it didn't appear here on the Casebook until some time after Larry's did because I had to find a copy of Ripperana in order to read it.

Larry's article was probably not in response to Conlon's since Larry states in his article that he was trying to write a book on the Brown murder (what idiot would want to do that?) and that he was having trouble with the research and was particularly having problems understanding the death certificate. Apparently he became a bit frustrated and decided to post his "article," really a summery of what he had dug up at that point, in the hope that posters on the Casebook could help him. When I met him at the last Baltimore Conference he had dropped the project.

Wolf.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Wolf

Many thanks for adding those pieces of information. I have not heard from Larry for a couple of years but did email him on Helena's behalf.

Chris

[HelenaWojtczak]

A big THANK YOU to everyone who tried to answer my question. It seems that if I date it "circa 2002" I won't be far out!

Cheers!

Helena