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🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone is Jen. |
0:24.8 | And this is Lindsay. |
0:26.2 | And welcome back to another corpus delicti. |
0:28.9 | Tonight we have an amazing story for you. |
0:31.4 | It's about two murdering sisters. |
0:34.9 | Yeah, and we've actually had this one on deck for a while, and it kept getting pushed |
0:38.8 | back for various reasons. So I'm excited to finally get into this one. You know, the live show and |
0:44.0 | everything else that popped up? Yeah, those few little small things. So I will start off by saying |
0:50.9 | that this story does have some graphic parts. So if you're squeamish, just |
0:56.0 | know going into this, there are a few parts that are kind of gross. Tonight we're going to talk |
1:00.7 | about Christine and Leah Papin. They were French sisters who worked as live-in maids and cooks. |
1:07.7 | Now, in the event that would spark a huge debate for years to come, the sisters were |
1:14.0 | convicted of murdering their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on the 2nd of February |
1:21.9 | of 1933. Christine was just 27 and Leah was 20 at the time of the incident. |
1:29.2 | So this story became kind of a cultural crux for a time because it sparked an argument over class struggle and just kind of the abuse of the poor people by the rich people. And there were |
1:49.6 | several French intellectuals who took a particular interest in the case. And because of this, |
1:55.4 | there were tons of publications, plays, films, essays, songs, even art was based on this story. So it definitely |
2:05.7 | had an impact on society as a whole in France. So let's get into it and find out exactly |
2:11.6 | what happened. The Papin sisters had a rough childhood. Their parents, Clemise and Gustav Papin, married when Clemese became pregnant in 1901. |
2:24.5 | Their daughter Amelia was born five months later. |
2:28.5 | Now, this is according to town gossip. |
2:31.4 | An affair took place between Clemites and her boss while her and Gustav were dating. |
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