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The Black Widows of Liverpool

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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The Trial Run

Catherine gave police the names of up to seven other victims, all women who had been killed for burial cost insurance. She said did you know that Margaret's not the only one who does this in Liverpool? And it was a network that they claimed of women who were killing other women to collect on the insurance policies. The police checked every name of the victims that Catherine had given them, and they all belonged to women who had died under mysterious circumstances.

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