Episode 7 — Telephone Cord

I want to warn, that the second half of this episode will contain some gruesome stories about murder.

Without question, Alexander Graham Bell’s master invention changed our lives and revolutionized the way we communicate. But science is never satisfied, and so we began a steady stream of improvements to the telephone that took it from rotary dials and operators to the unique problems of autocorrect and Siri’s witty retorts. One of these advances took away the curly wire, making phones wireless, but some places still use corded phones. And sometimes the cords are used for murder.

Dana Sue Gray was a California nurse and pro skydiver with a thing for shopping, which ultimately helped drive her to three murders and one attempted murder. In 1994, she started financing her need for luxury items by robbing and murdering elderly women. Gray was known to strangle these older victims with a telephone cord.

If you want to know more, the sources used in this episode can be found below. As always, my script and sources are below, and thanks for reading.

-Megan

https://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-10/archive-gallery-improving-telephone#page-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Sue_Gray

https://www.ranker.com/list/killers-who-had-bizarre-mos/carissa-chesanek