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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is 10-minute murder. |
0:11.0 | This is 10-minute murder. From an early age, Marianne Bachmeier had a complicated relationship with motherhood. |
0:39.3 | She grew up in West Germany in the 1960s, raised by highly religious and conservative parents. |
0:46.3 | Her father was an alcoholic who acted as the family's unquestioned authority figure. |
0:52.3 | He was also, by the way, a member of the Nazi SS. |
0:55.8 | But when Marianne's mother remarried, she found her new stepfather was not much better. |
1:01.5 | By her mid-teens, Marianne had been kicked out of the family home and forced to make her way in the world by herself. |
1:08.3 | At 16 years old, Marianne gave birth to a child of her own and decided to give the |
1:13.5 | baby up for adoption. Two years later, she became pregnant again, but just before she was due |
1:19.6 | to give birth, a heavily pregnant Marianne was sexually assaulted. Despite the rape, she gave birth |
1:26.4 | to a healthy baby, but she knew that she and her |
1:29.2 | current boyfriend were not in a good position to raise a child. Once again, the baby was given to |
1:34.8 | adoptive parents. In 1972, Marianne started dating a new man, the manager of the bar where she |
1:41.8 | worked. At 22 years old, she fell pregnant again. |
1:46.1 | But this time was different. |
1:47.8 | After experiencing the loss of two babies up for adoption, |
1:51.8 | Marianne was determined to keep her third baby. |
1:55.4 | And in November of 1972, Anna Bachmire was born. |
2:00.5 | Anna's father had broken up with Marian, so she raised her |
2:03.6 | alone, working late-night shifts to make Inns meet. Often, Anna came to the bar with Marianne and |
2:10.6 | played or slept while her mother did her job. It didn't seem to matter how long Mary Ann spent |
2:16.2 | at work. There just wasn't enough money. |
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