119: Neonaticide: The Lindsey Lowe Case

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In September of 2011, a 25 year old woman from Hendersonville, TN, traveled to a wedding near her alma mater, Western Kentucky University. While at the wedding, she changed in front of the entire wedding party. And then posed for photos in a bridesmaid’s dress she had been fitted for 9 months earlier. No one noticed anything unusual about Lindsey Lowe’s appearance or behavior. But 2 days later, she would secretly give birth to twin babies in the bathroom she shared with her sister in her parents' home. She said she had a stomach virus and missed one day of work. And then she returned to her job as if nothing had happened. And then her mother went upstairs to start a load of laundry for Lindsey and was horrified at what she found in her laundry basket.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:05.2	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:08.6	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.2	The love between a mother and child is considered sacrosanct.
0:19.6	There is nothing stronger.
0:22.1	And when a mother murders her own child, it is unimaginable, abominable, and culturally
0:29.0	unforgivable.
0:31.4	Then we have cases of mothers who kill their newborn immediately after birth.
0:36.0	The legal term is neonatocide.
0:39.7	These are almost always blamed on socioeconomic issues.
0:43.8	It's why we have safe haven laws.
0:47.0	The murder or sacrifice of a newborn baby by its mother goes back to ancient times.
0:53.9	With too many mouths to feed, women made brutal choices.
0:58.2	In some cultures, girls were killed more than boys.
1:02.0	It's no secret that historically, boys were valued much more than girls.
1:07.0	Typically, ancient neonatocide was caused by desperate societal pressure, whether it was
1:13.2	poverty or the stigma of illegitimacy.
1:17.4	In 1624, England passed a law meant to stop mothers from passing off murdered babies
1:23.0	as stillborns.
1:25.2	But it did more harm than good.
1:27.2	If you gave birth without a witness and the baby died, you could be charged with murder
1:31.6	without any real proof.
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