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Episode 131 - Louise Woodward & Shaken Baby Syndrome

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

When 8 month old Matthew Eappen was admitted to hospital with signs of a severe head trauma, and died just days later of his injuries, doctors and police suspected abuse.


Louise Woodward, Matthew’s 18 year old British au pair, was quickly arrested and tried for his murder; and although she denied ever hurting the baby, many experts seriously doubted her story.


With the medical evidence pointing in every direction, in this week’s episode Suruthi and Hannah put shaken baby syndrome and the case of Louise Woodward under the microscope...





References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWVHYKvCVO4

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/louise-woodward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAHCc96-YE

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nanny-controversy-flares-again/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nanny-controversy-flares-again/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/doctor-admits-head-fracture-could-have-been-weeks-old-1.113939


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0:00.0

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0:15.1

I'm Sruti. I'm Hanan, sorry. I just had a mouthful of coffee at the worst possible moment. I timed that so badly

0:21.6

I realized you were about to start, I was like, oh shit fuck. Good. So welcome to

0:26.2

Redhanded sponsored by Kenco, and a mouthful of it in Han as well. Sponsored by Hanan's burnt mouth.

0:33.7

And yeah, it's going to be a bit of a beast of a case. That's why Hanan's on the coffee, and I've

0:39.3

been inked skittles by the Hanan for from my box because it's a bit of a beast yet. You're going to

0:45.2

You've got a box of skittles. I found some in like a tote bag when I was clearing them out. They were

0:50.5

from our tour. Oh shit. So in our rider when we were on our UK tour were skittles in every single

1:00.1

town that we were in, and we ended up quite a lot of them because it turns out my stomach was going

1:05.3

all sorts of directions. I couldn't really sit in the dressing room and just eat bags of skittles,

1:09.2

but now I can. So it's fine. And I'm in Skittles, surplus heaven over here. So yeah, I think I

1:15.9

took the M&Ms and you took the skittles. We like had like a divorce proceeding at the end of the

1:20.0

tour with all of the food and drink that we'd like accumulated. We had a custody battle over the skittles.

1:25.6

Exactly. I took all the vodka and the skittles and Hanan took all the M&Ms and the gin.

1:30.5

Let's see. But yeah, it was absolutely needed because this case is going to be quite the case.

1:36.5

You're going to have to get on your very best legal hats. Your very best medical hats and any

1:42.0

other apparel that you're going to need throughout this case to get through it. I don't know what

1:46.9

else you'll need, but a B-want is all I can say. I felt quite dizzy by the end of doing the

1:52.3

research for this one and I suspect that I might feel quite dizzy by the end of this probably two

1:56.9

hour record that it's going to take because I've got quite bad stomach cramps and backache today

2:02.3

and I am yet to buy a stool. So I should be standing. Whose fault is that though? It's my fault.

2:08.0

The campaign's stool specificities has failed to inspire me. Oh God. But anyway, it's going to be good.

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