41: The Victorian Maid Who Boiled Her Mistress – Kate Webster
The Criminal Makeup
Danielle Kirsty
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:27.7 | slash listen. Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal |
| 0:45.1 | Makeup podcast each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst |
| 0:48.8 | criminals in history and today we're going to be talking about the case of Kate Webster. |
| 0:53.7 | So today this is something pretty different for me because the case of Kate Webster |
| 0:58.9 | is a very old case that takes place in the late 1800s in Victorian Britain. |
| 1:06.2 | So this is the oldest true crime case that I've ever covered. |
| 1:10.3 | And I just find cases from this long ago so fascinating purely because it was just a completely different way of living. |
| 1:18.0 | So not only is it interesting because of the true crime element, it's also interesting because it's just so different from how we live today. |
| 1:25.7 | And the case of Kate Webster was a particularly shocking case for its time because it is pretty gruesome, |
| 1:32.0 | I'm not going to lie. |
| 1:33.0 | But what made it even more shocking is that it was committed by a woman. |
| 1:38.0 | I know, shock horror. |
| 1:40.0 | The case of Kate Webster did receive a lot of attention purely because Kate was a woman. |
| 1:46.0 | I truly believe that if a man had committed this crime, it would not have gotten the same attention. |
| 1:52.0 | And I don't want to give too much away in the intro, but David Attenborough does make a surprise appearance somewhere in this story. So yeah, that's definitely something that I wasn't expecting. So with all of that being said, let's jump in. So Kate Webster was actually born Kate Lawler and she was born in Colleen Island and it's |
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