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236: Episode 236 - The Kerry Babies

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True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On the 14th of April 1984, the body of a baby boy was found on Cahersiveen Beach, County Kerry in Ireland. The baby had been stabbed 28 times and its neck was broken.
The Garda quickly found a suspect; Joanne Hayes. And soon, this police investigation became a medieval witch hunt and a dissection of motherhood itself.

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Sources:
The Kerry Babies Case: A Woman to Blame - by Nell McKafferty
Gardaí apologise to woman at centre of Kerry babies case (irishtimes.com)
Kerry Babies: Tribunal report was controversial, divisive, and raised more questions than answers (irishexaminer.com)
Wayback Machine (archive.org)
A cruel new take on Kerry babies - Independent.ie
Fresh hope for solving thirty year old mystery of Kerry Babies - EVOKE.ie (archive.org)
Kerry Babies: gardaí start house-to-house enquiries on Valentia (irishtimes.com)
Remains of baby found dead on beach in 1984 exhumed (rte.ie)
Give me a crash course in . . . the Kerry babies case development (irishtimes.com)
Kerry babies: ‘Suffering of ordeal finally behind us’ – Joanne Hayes (irishtimes.com)
Kerry babies case re-examined in new episode of RTÉ documentary series (irishexaminer.com)
Kerry Babies: Remains exhumed in 1984 baby death investigation - BBC News
Kerry Babies: Remains exhumed in 1984 baby death investigation - BBC News
Kerry Babies: How the discovery of a baby's body on a beach 34 years ago sparked a traumatic series of events that shocked Ireland - Independent.ie
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