Episode 1 of Fetal Abduction, hosted by Erica Kelley

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode, we tell the story of Margaret Sweeney, the first case of fetal abduction on record. We also discuss statistics and other information about fetal abductions as an introduction to this series. Subscribe to Fetal Abduction wherever you listen to podcasts to hear new episodes.

Fetal Abduction is hosted and edited by me, Erica Kelley. It’s written by Jessica Ann, and researched by Haley Gray and Kim Fritz. The original graphic art is by Coley Horner, and the original music and audio engineering is by Chaes Gray of Gray Multimedia.

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0:21.0	On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.
0:25.0	Oh, that's nice. Search zero with an axe because healthy business is beautiful business.
0:30.0	Feudal abduction is a true crime podcast by sports cases of field-duction in America.
0:35.0	Episodes contain descriptions of violence, which may not be suitable for all listeners.
0:39.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:42.0	Welcome to the first episode of Feudal Abduction, a true crime podcast about fetal abduction in America.
0:58.0	I am your host, Erica Kelly.
1:01.0	Season 1 of Feudal Abduction will cover 10 of these shocking cases, starting with the first known case in 1974.
1:10.0	A fetal abduction is where a newborn is cut from their mother's womb.
1:15.0	These crude sea sections are particularly gruesome and often end in death for the mother, the baby, or both.
1:24.0	Sometimes the abductor does manage to remove the baby without harming him or her, and then they try to pass the baby off as their own.
1:33.0	Sometimes this brutal crime is planned out carefully in advance, and sometimes it is spontaneous, almost a crime of convenience.
1:42.0	The perpetrator has been thinking of stealing a baby in this heinous manner and spots a pregnant woman who has no idea what is about to happen to her.
1:52.0	This first episode will feature the first known case of fetal abduction in the United States.
1:59.0	There may have been cases before this one. In fact, it's very likely, but this is the first one on record.
2:06.0	This abduction occurred in 1974, and as is common with older cases, some details are fuzzy or absent altogether.
2:16.0	After the Freedom of Information Act request we filed was denied, our researchers piece this story together using newspaper articles and ancestry resources.
2:28.0	Margaret Ann Swini was born in the late 1940s, the exact date is unknown, and nothing is known about her childhood or upbringing apart from her father's name, William.
2:40.0	It is known that Margaret lived in Philadelphia, and she was married to a man named James, but the couple separated in the early 1970s.
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