58. The Mississippi Legs Murder

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Daisy Keeton goes missing from her home in Laurel, Mississippi, the last person anyone suspects is her daughter. Her golden child. But little do they know that, beneath her perfect exterior, Ouida Keeton is harbouring a deep, dark secret.

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0:00.0	Brand new true crime.
0:03.2	I'm Sarah T11, and for over a year, I've been working on one of the most complex stories I've ever covered.
0:09.7	There was somebody out there who's faking pregnancies.
0:12.5	Targeting birth workers with a web of lies.
0:15.7	The OB does the ultrasound, and I'm looking at the monitor and there's no baby.
0:21.3	And the deeper I dig, the more questions I on earth.
0:24.8	What is she gaining from this?
0:27.1	The con, Caitlin's baby.
0:29.2	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.4	Hello and welcome. Hello, Living Legends.
0:41.4	Welcome, welcome, everyone. Come on in.
0:44.3	Take your shoes off at, though.
0:46.4	Get your slippers on.
0:47.3	Get your slippers on. Maybe you've got wacky ones so left over from Christmas.
0:51.6	Who knows?
0:52.6	It's my turn this week and I've done something a little out of character for me.
0:55.5	I've chosen a case with some quite gruesome elements and you know, well personally I kind
1:01.3	of don't like to go there. I prefer to kind of talk about the backstory and the psychology.
1:04.7	So this is a bit unusual for me.
1:06.1	Yeah, it's not your sort of thing at all, is it really? No, but actually, it's only really a small part of it. And I was particularly drawn to this case because the relationships in it are so fascinating.
1:14.7	There's a lot of strange psychological things going on and lots of backstory to dig into.
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