29. The Wicked Crimes of Jolly Jane

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Laura looks at the crimes of ‘Jolly’ Jane Toppan, the woman believed to be America’s first female serial killer.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.
0:05.2	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
0:11.3	It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,
0:16.3	but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.
0:19.6	And because the team is such a diverse
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0:44.5	Hello, everyone. Hello, Ian Sterling.
0:46.7	Hello, Laura Whitmore. Welcome to the podcast, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. Laura.
0:50.2	I hope you have, you still have my name on your phone on as Laura Whitford.
0:53.7	Laura, my phone name, everyone. I like doing it. The only names I don't have is, you still have my name on your phone on as Laura Whitford. Laura, with my phone name, everyone.
0:55.1	I like doing it.
0:56.1	The only names I don't have is when you send me a contact on WhatsApp and I save it,
0:59.5	because you don't save it in the right order and it does my head in.
1:02.2	Do you have someone saved in your phone just as Laura?
1:05.2	Is there a Laura on your phone?
1:07.0	No. No, there'll be... My mum's saved in my phone is Alison Sterling.
1:11.2	My dad's Roger Sterling.
1:12.9	My mom is mom.
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