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True murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupanski. Good evening.

Why do certain women become icons of evil?

This book offers the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled

women in the modern Anglophone world.

Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aline Warnos, Carla Hamalka, and Carla Faye Tucker.

It examines their lives, their crimes, and cultural reception in the United Kingdom,

the United States, and Canada, asking how violence committed by women is understood, judged, and remembered.

Going beyond moral outrage or by history, belief systems, and social context.

Through historical and ethical reflections, it offers a deeper, more critical engagement with female violence

and considers how society should respond to those who commit acts of unimaginable harm.

The book you were featuring this evening is Five Evil Women, Hindley, West, Warnose,

Hamalka, Tucker. With my special guest, Professor of History and author, Joanna Burke.

Welcome to the program and thank you very much for this interview.

Joanna Burke.

Hi, it's really good to be able to talk to you, Dan, about this.

Thank you so much for this interview.

Let's start off right away.

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