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Corpus Delicti

238: Do No Harm: Barbara Salisbury

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After years of hard work, Barbara Salisbury worked her way up to head nurse on the geriatric ward. There was just one slight problem... she evidently didn't like working with elderly patients. A string of deaths followed by troublesome comments would land Salisbury in hot water.


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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | 'Rogue' nurse's village life

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Ex-nurse denies murder bids

BBC NEWS | England | Staffordshire | Nurse 'tried to kill patients'

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Staffordshire | Nurse guilty of attempted murder

Nurse gets five years for seeking to kill two patients | Health | The Guardian

Five years for nurse with 'ruthless' desire to free up beds - Manchester Evening News

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Fifth charge didn't reach court - Cheshire Live (cheshire-live.co.uk)

Jury to ponder Salisbury's fate - North Wales Live (dailypost.co.uk)

Nan can finally rest in peace, knowing justice has been done - Cheshire Live (cheshire-live.co.uk)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen and this is Lindsay.

0:26.7

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.

0:29.4

We are still in our do-no harm series.

0:32.3

Yeah, this one's been a bit of a doozy.

0:34.3

I know y'all have not heard one in a few weeks because Jen was in Ireland

0:39.2

for two weeks. I was at the beach for a week. But we did have one with our lovely Patreon folks.

0:45.3

So we're still in the groove over here. And we've got another one for you tonight. With that said,

0:50.0

please keep in mind, we did say that summer was going to be a little sporadic for us.

0:53.8

That is, it is still summer. It is still sporadic right now. I'm leaving again soon.

0:59.0

Jen's preparing for a big exam for a certification at work. Things are just a little

1:03.9

hectic. So bear with us throughout summer. So. But the good news is we got one for you right now.

1:10.0

And it is going to be about Barbara Salsbury.

1:13.7

Now, we're hopping across the pond, and we are in Liverpool in the UK June 14, 1956.

1:21.1

However, as an adult, she would later move to Pointe Burkin in North Wales.

1:28.8

Now, this is a very small, it's a very quiet village.

1:31.6

If you're from this village and I butchered that name, my deepest apologies.

1:36.4

Yeah, that one was a doozy as well.

1:39.1

But she lived in a modern, detached house in a new area of town, and she was known by her neighbors

1:46.7

to be nice and caring. They said, you know, she's quiet. She keeps to herself, but she's nice.

1:52.1

You know, she'll interact if we ask her a question or whatever, and she's nice enough. But no one

1:58.4

else really knew a whole lot about her, except that she had two children and she was a nurse. So she's nice enough, but no one else really knew a whole lot about her, except that she had two children and she was a nurse.

2:04.3

So she started her nursing training when she was 19 years old.

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