Episode 62 | Lovestruck: Faith, Deception, and Murder

Explore one of Gilded Age Indiana’s most sensational small‑town cases as The Deuce Conrad Show investigates the Pettit murder trial, where the 1889 death of Hattie Pettit led to accusations that her husband, Reverend William “Fred” Pettit—a respected minister and Freemason—poisoned her amid rumors of an affair, a tainted cup of tea, and a community determined to force justice from its courts and its pulpit.