The Unsolved Murder of Sir Harry Oakes | The Dark Histories Podcast
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In the 1940s the Bahamas was something of a tropical paradise for the world’s rich. Used as a tax haven and an island getaway far removed from the battlefields of war, it was an idyllic retreat for those that could afford it. Its society had a somewhat darker underbelly, however, with ties to money launderers, smugglers, spies and mobsters. At least, that was how it started to appear in stories after one of the richest men in the world wound up dead in his Bahamian home in the summer of 1943. The fact that all of this happened under the nose of the island's governor, the one time King of England, Edward, the Duke of Windsor, who was at the time a suspected Nazi sympathiser, made it all the more intriguing, becoming the only story to ever knock the news of the war from the front pages of the Daily Telegraph.
SOURCES
Craton, Michael (1962) A History Of The Bahamas. Collins, UK.
Owen, James (2008) A Serpent In Eden. Hachette Digital, UK.
Daily News (1943) Didn’t Murder Oakes. Daily News, 11 July, 1943, P1. New York, USA.
The Province, (1944) Acquittal Of De Marigny Leaves Oakes Murder Unsolved Mystery. The Province, 12 November 1944. P1. Vancouver, Canada.
Le Grand, Cathleen (2010) Another Look at a Bahamian Mystery: The Murder of Sir Harry Oakes: A Critical Literature Review. International Journal of Bahamian Studies, Vol.16, The College of The Bahamas, The Bahamas.
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Taylor Casey is missing in bahamas 😮😮😮 now. I wonder if its to do with sex trafficking and satanic rituals.... 😢😢😢😢
Bahamian pronounced "ba-HAY-me-an". Nassau pronounced "Nas-saw"
Harry Oakes left 16 acres downtown Niagara Falls Canada for a theatre garden. Work in the depression was shared by many. The plaque on the garden interested us and we looked harry Oakes up. 🇨🇦
About getting Covid. A member of our family picked it up at an event we were all at. So we thought we would all catch it. But we didn’t. Must have been our gargling like mad with listerine
Tune!
7:37 he didn’t want to pay taxes. Except taxes pay police we all share the benefit of. Hmmmmmm🤔
Going to be a great day! Thanks for the post!
9:24 harry was kind of like a tax program for work and infrastructure.
Love your content! So glad I came across your channel!
Looking forward too listening too this tonight.. thank you in advance
IMO, De Marginy, while no saint, was innocent of Oakes' murder...
The burns on his arms. The missing clothes. Thumb prints. Motive. Too bad it’s not today. We would have so much evidence
So his wife, who was 20 years younger than him, was out of the country, visiting relatives, so, nope, not her, and that was it? I think I need to read those books you referenced. Because they must have solidly ruled out that it could have been for hire, by her, with her well and good outside of the country as a solid alibi.
When people have their fingers in all sorts of messy pies, it's easy to point berry-stained fingers at each other. That's a PERFECT opportunity for a much younger wife to get rid of a husband and inherit all his money. Where did she go? What happened to her? Did she ever remarry? If so, how soon after, and how long had she known that person for? I need to know more about her and how her life went after her husband was dead to not think whatever happened was at her behest.
Read "Blood & Fire" by John Marquis. Written by a talented local journalist and believed locally to be an accurate telling of the story.
Unfortunately this is one of those mysteries that's really not much of a mystery. Less about whodunnit, and more whodidn'twannadoit? If you stir up a nest of ruthless gangsters and important people with everything to lose, you end up with a line outside your door of people waiting to get the boot in.
Interesting how the Duke of Windsor took personal charge of the investigation and called in the police-but not the local Bahaman police. Neither did he summon Scotland Yard from London, nor even the American FBI. Instead the Duke called the police department of Miami - did he pressure/pay them to frame de Marigny?
Probably Harold Christie or mobsters working for him.
The jury acquitted as it was obvious that the death was a
suicide.
No it really wasn't. How did the fire start if he did it to himself? Why would he have done that? He had all sorts of plans for the future that he was making up to the day he passed away. That's not typical behavior for someone thinking of ending it all..
The jury acquitted because it became obvious the investigation was tainted and that the police had faked fingerprint evidence.
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saving this for bedtime!!!! season 6!!! yay!!!
You've come to me in my hour of need Ben. Sleep it cometh
glad you feel better!
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In the before times, I went to a talk about this one, he's a "Mainah" after all. 😁 It was creepy that people who were looking into the murder, died themselves.
Very interested to hear your take on it.
Glad to hear your over the Covid and that it was mild, jabs ftw.
I'm so sorry that you had covid, seeing as apparently there's no real natural immunity of any substance to be had as a result unlike something like chicken pox and the like, so that having had it really has no upside. It's not like you can say phew, now I'm done, or anything and I'm sorry to hear you had a rough day or so. Perhaps you can expound on what those symptoms were and if you knew whether it was Omicron you got or Delta or that new one ba2 or whatever it is. Again sorry you had a rough patch, but glad you're back and feeling yourself. But the best thing of all and I think it bears repeating, is that you we're fully vaccinated and I assume, boosted, because it's the most important thing we can do to prevent a truly serious case, hospitalization in the ICU especially which is nothing anybody wants, and of course, the ultimate downside of covid-19. Again so glad you're okay!
That said, I didn't know what you were talking about in terms of this big capital city of the Bahamas. I couldn't think of what you were talking about, because I've been there. But then I realized it was just a very hackneyed pronunciation of the city of Nassau, which can be a tough one but I'll spell it phonetically for you, NAA-saw. It really is simpler than one might think, the pronunciation. It does look like it's a much more complicated sounding word. Anyway again glad you were vaxed otherwise it could have been pretty dire. And of course everybody should get boosted! Now on to the episode! Poor old Harry, what happened to you old son?
Unfortunately many boostered people are still catching Omicron, so many of my friends have it now and some of them got so sick requiring multiple hospital visits :c
Oh yeah? Well I have a magic rock, actually, rocks plural. It stops you getting cancer... Well 'serious' cancer anyway. I'm on the precipice of a great deal with all the world's governments to supply my rocks, which all people will need to hit themselves in the head with yearly - with a fresh rock each time. There may be some people for whom this treatment comes with small side effects like a cracked skull, but it's OK, because I'm immune to prosecution. And of course, most will still get cancer, some may pass, but I assure you, my rock is critical to survival anyway. Besides, if you don't want to hit yourself in the head with one, you will be denied employment, services and acceptance in society, so as you can see, the benefits really do speak for themselves. So don't go thinking that eating healthy, avoiding cigarettes and alcohol and staying fit would be superior to my rock OK? Don't think at all in fact. I'll make sure the super dooper trustworthy media does that for you.
My friend recently did a documentary on this called Blood On the Palms, definitely worth a watch they actually went to the Bahamas and looked around and did what they could pretty interesting stuff
No offense but I wouldn't exactly call it a documentary. They have some interesting ideas but there's very little evidence presented and a lot of "someone found explosives here in the 1980s, they could have been used to hide evidence of U Boats."
And yeah they could have been.. but they also could have been used for dozens of other purposes. Not to mention they never say who found them, what kind they were, how much etc etc etc.