Audio long read: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Kathleen Folbigg has spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children. But in 2018, a group of scientists began gathering evidence that suggested another possibility for the deaths — that at least two of them were attributable to a genetic mutation that can affect heart function. A judicial inquiry in 2019 failed to reverse Folbigg’s conviction, but this month, the researchers will present new evidence at a second inquiry, which could ultimately spell freedom for Folbigg.
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| 1:06.5 | This is an audio long read from nature. |
| 1:10.9 | In this episode, she was convicted of killing her four children. |
| 1:13.5 | Could a gene mutation set her free? |
| 1:16.2 | Written and read by Nikki Phillips. |
| 1:23.0 | Around lunchtime on a warm March day in 1999, |
| 1:27.3 | Kathleen Falbig went to check on her sleeping 18-month-old daughter and found her pale and unresponsive. |
| 1:30.7 | Folbig, alone in her house in Singleton Australia, called an ambulance while she tried her best to |
| 1:36.5 | resuscitate the child. Quote, my baby's not breathing, she said, pleading for them to hurry. |
| 1:43.3 | Quote, I've had three SIDS deaths already, she |
| 1:45.9 | explained, referring to sudden infant death syndrome, a largely unexplained phenomenon that |
| 1:51.4 | typically affects infants in their first year as they sleep. Around 9pm that night, |
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