On a cold night in January, a couple had to flee their car and run to safety after the

vehicle was engulfed in flames while they were still driving it on an English motorway.

They have a baby wrapped up, hidden inside their coat, and as they ran away into the dark

night, they kept glancing back behind them as if someone was following, only there was no one behind them.

When emergency services arrived, things only got stranger. In the burnt out car was a human placenta, over 30 burner phones and a passport, revealing the name of a woman

trapped between two worlds, one of aristocracy, royalty, wealth, glamour and the other of religious

cults, convicted felons and a life of being chased and hunted down.

Outlaw.

Hello and welcome to Outlaw podcast. I'm Ellen Arneill and in today's episode we're in England,

2003, where reports of a missing aristocrat and her newborn baby have been plastered

across screens in Britain. She was a former it girl of the UK with ties to the royals,

but now she was becoming known as the runaway heiress after taking off in the middle of the

night and going completely MIA.

The search to find her lasted over 50 days and the whole time she was carrying around her

newborn baby in a shopping bag and she was accompanied by her husband, a convicted, violent

felon. But actually the real story was so much bigger, so much

darker and more conflicting than any of us were led to believe at the time. So with that,

I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that we

talk about in this episode. And I do want to warn you that we're going to be covering a lot of sensitive topics,

including religious trauma and discussion around cults, racism, rape, torture,

domestic violence, alcoholism, psychological abuse, child neglect, child sexual abuse,

the death of a baby and discussion around murder.

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