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Episode 257 - Genes & Justice: Kathleen Folbigg & Patricia Stallings

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

“1 sudden infant death is a tragedy, 2 is suspicious and 3 is murder”; this theory has pervaded criminal investigations for decades. And so when Kathleen Folbigg’s daughter, Laura, became her fourth child to die mysteriously - Kathleen found herself labeled “Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer”.

Today the girls delve into 2 unbelievable cases which highlight the immense challenges of the intersection between science and justice in the courtroom. And discover how a series of bizarre circumstances and medical anomalies could have led to the deaths of 5 babies and the imprisonment of two women.

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0:00.0

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0:18.6

I'm Soty. I'm Hannah and welcome to two-time award-winning Redhanded. Yes, that is correct.

0:26.6

If you guys don't follow us on Instagram or any of the socials, I don't understand why. But if you don't, then you might not know.

0:32.9

That last weekend, Hannah and I went to the bridge podcast awards. We won gold at a listener's choice again two years in a row.

0:41.7

And no independent podcast has ever done that ever in the history of the awards. That our show's due two years running was a BBC show,

0:48.8

I think they won about four times in a row, but yeah, no independent show has ever done it. And now we have.

0:54.1

And it's all thanks to you guys. Thank you so much for voting. Obviously, if you did watch the live stream and we are trying to get our hands on the specific segment where we go up there to receive the award, you will have noticed that there is a lot of crying going on.

1:08.4

We were just very blown away by it. I couldn't even get through the bit I was trying to say without crying. But basically what I was trying to say is,

1:14.8

how fucking lucky we are to have such incredible listeners who no matter what we ask of you guys like you always show up for us, whether it's about live show tickets, whether it's listener's choice, whether it's

1:26.6

shorthand, whether it's Patreon, whatever it is, you're just always there for us. And we are incredibly touched and moved and humbled by it. So thank you very much.

1:34.7

Exactly. So yeah, an award for you. You can all have an award. We ran into Drung Roman Solving crime before one of whom, Hannah, is the proud owner of two Emmys.

1:45.0

And I said, well, where do you keep them in your house? She was like, well, because it was for a show I worked on, you don't get the trophy, you get a plaque. And I have my plaque in my office. And it's like mirrored. So sometimes I look at myself.

1:56.4

And I was like, oh, so you didn't like break it up like a Dell? And she was like, no, it wasn't like me. And I was just like, you look so pretty.

2:03.1

Because now we got one each. We do have one each. And it is a magical thing. So thank you guys so much. And as we promised, we did make promises. Promises were made promises of an episode.

2:13.6

And jumping out of a plane kind. And we're going to deliver. So you guys voted for the bonus episode that you wanted that we promised you if we won gold. We won gold. So in August, you were going to get a full length bonus episode on the West Memphis three.

2:28.2

Because that's what you asked for. That's what you asked for. And we're happy to deliver. And if you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes as we have figured out.

2:36.7

Now we're going to have to be thrown out of planes, which we will be doing shortly.

2:41.3

We are. We're going to wait. We're going to do it in early September purely because we have a new member of the team joining. And she's just going to be able to video it much better so that you can all watch it properly. So stay tuned for all of those things.

2:52.5

Exactly. Thank you again. Right. Should we get on with the show?

2:55.4

I think we've bloody bad. I've been out for 10 minutes.

2:57.0

I know. And it is a fucking mad mad case. Right. On the 9th of July 1989,

3:04.1

Patricia Storlings bundled her four-month-old son Ryan into the car and headed to the hospital.

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