
The Black Widows of Liverpool
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Bronchitis Diagnosis
John's mother Catherine goes to collect the payout and it's 71 pounds. That is worth more than 7,000 pounds today,. This would have been a big deal and Catherine collects it. So, already we're very suspicious. Parents are the number one killer of children. And if the parent can somehow benefit, you know, from that death, it's not just because they're in a fit of rage against the child, but if there's some sort of benefit, like in this situation, financial, it happens. It's not that uncommon.
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