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Corpus Delicti

110: A Woman Scorned: Joanna Dennehy

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Typically when discussing serial killers, there's a road map of where things went wrong. It may be abuse, lack of a parental figure, bullying, or any other number of things. It's much less common to have a killer that, by all accounts, was perfectly normal. No one really knows what went wrong. Joanna Dennehy is one of these killers.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_ditch_murders
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10458065/Female-serial-killer-admits-murdering-three-men-before-dumping-their-bodies-in-ditches.html
https://www.theweek.co.uk/crime/57263/joanne-dennehy-what-makes-female-serial-killer-tick
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-25864992
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-26124076
https://web.archive.org/web/20140116131800/http://news.uk.msn.com/two-in-court-over-serial-killer
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8893200/joanna-dennehy-peterborough-ditch-murders-serial-killer/
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/28/daughter-serial-killer-joanna-dennehy-says-mum-die-prison-9329925/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6967979/Daughter-Joanna-Dennehy-reveals-loving-mum-turned-man-hating-serial-killer.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up in season one of scene of the crime, Delphi.

0:04.2

Why Libby? Why Abby? Why Delphi?

0:06.8

Those girls loved each other. They were good friends. Neither one of them left each other's side.

0:11.0

Both those girls are heroes.

0:12.4

Before the words came out, I knew. I knew this was not good.

0:16.5

As soon as I saw that, I knew something really bad happened.

0:19.7

The detectives were like, this is not going to take that long. It's a small town. Somebody's going to say something, and this is all going to be over soon. The first couple of weeks, that's what it felt like is that any day now. And then all of a sudden, a couple of weeks turned into a couple of months. My biggest fear is that whoever did this would do it again. I don't want that to

0:37.8

happen to another family because I'm telling you it's hell. There was no logical reason anybody would

0:42.8

have known those girls would be there that day. Child abduction murders in and of themselves are

0:48.0

incredibly rare, but the abduction of two children at one time, even rare. I've only seen a couple in my entire career.

0:56.0

There is a lot of crime scene evidence.

0:59.0

Some of it is somewhat odd.

1:02.0

Shortly after solving the Golden State Killer case,

1:05.0

I did speak with an investigator that was involved with the Delphi murders.

1:09.0

If you haven't walked across the bridge, you don't understand, right?

1:11.3

Yeah, like that bridge is scary. It is scary, and those railroad ties are rotted. That bridge scares me. So for somebody to be able to cross it, he's moving well enough that he has to know the bridge. He's done that before. It could have been any one of our kids. It could have been anyone at the bridge that day. It's hard for me to believe anybody could do something so bizarre and horrible and not feel

1:31.2

compelled to tell somebody about it.

1:33.0

Those two young girls were everybody's daughter.

1:35.3

I refused to accept evil as a standard bearer in American society.

1:39.1

I believe we're one piece of the puzzle away from figuring out who this individual is to the

1:43.9

killer who may be in

1:45.1

this room. Do you want to know what we know when one day you will? You've just listened to a short

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