Ellen Boehm : The Cost of Greed

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Ellen Boehm got the idea that she could get money if she killed her children and collected their life insurance policies. An idea that would be unthinkable to any other parent, was as easy to Ellen as picking up a pillow.

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0:47.6	On the morning of September 25th, 1989, Ellen Bowen made a series of calls.
0:52.6	She had to use the pay phone it in nearby gas station to do so.
0:56.6	Her home phone had been shut off for a while now due to lack of payment.
1:00.6	It was around 8.15 am when she made the first call.
1:04.6	After reaching her supervisor at work, Elaine Herman, Ellen informed her that she wouldn't be coming in that day.
1:10.6	Her four year old, Stephen, had stopped breathing and they were on their way to the hospital that very second.
1:16.6	It was a familiar nightmare for the single mother.
1:19.6	She just lost her youngest son 10 months earlier after he suddenly stopped breathing and turned blue.
1:25.6	In the absence of any other explanation for the death of such a lively two-year-old,
1:29.6	the doctors decided that SIDS was the most likely culprit.
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