343: Ross Shelfo

Morbidology

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In March 1943, a young mother calmly told her husband she had killed their baby. When police arrived at the small Los Angeles home, what they discovered would expose a medical crisis that 1940s medicine had no language to describe - and reveal how little anyone understood about what could happen to a woman's mind after childbirth.

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0:56.0	you. Los Angeles in the 1940s was a sprawling city of nearly 2 million people.
1:22.0	It was founded as a Spanish Pueblo in 1781 and had grown from a dusty frontier town into a booming metropolis.
1:30.0	The discovery of oil, the arrival of the railroads and the birth of the film industry had
1:34.5	transformed it into one of America's most dynamic cities. By 1943, World War II had reshaped
1:41.9	Los Angeles into a massive industrial complex.
1:46.0	Aircraft plants worked around the clock. Shipyards along the harbour built vessels for the Pacific Fleet.
1:52.0	Women took jobs that were once reserved for men, building plane parts and welding ship hulls while their husbands, brothers and sons fought overseas.
2:02.2	The population had exploded.
2:04.3	Workers flooded in from across the country, seeking jobs in the defence industry.
2:09.5	Housing was scarce.
2:11.0	Resources were rationed.
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