Jeanne Weber: The Ogress

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A french peasant can't seem to help herself: she just keeps strangling kids. The real craziness is here, though: after being caught virtually red-handed no one seems to be able to convict her of these crimes. How can the people of France protect themselves from this child murderer?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
0:14.6	Hi there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni. And we are
0:22.9	going to talk about another really fascinating story from the past. This time we're going to talk
0:27.8	about Jeanna Weber, a French woman who was either the victim of some monstrous coincidences,
0:34.4	or maybe she was a serial killer. At the time, in France, public opinion was
0:38.9	kind of divided on the issue. So we're going to bring you all the shocking details so you can
0:43.9	decide for yourself. Sound reasonable? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, Jeuna Weber was born in 1874 in a coastal
0:51.0	village in northern France. The actual name of the town seems to have been lost to the ages,
0:56.3	unfortunately. But wherever it was, I'm pretty sure that they have not erected any monuments to her.
1:02.3	Economic activity in her hometown was pretty minimal. So when she was 14, she left home and headed
1:07.8	for the lights of Paris. And for about a five-year period, we lose sight of her.
1:12.5	And I have no idea what she was up to. The next item in her biography is from 1893 when she married a
1:18.1	guy and proceeded to have kids. She had three of them. This guy that she married her husband,
1:22.4	he was basically an alcoholic from what reports say. Yeah. So the Weber's, they took up residence in this really slummy part of Paris, right?
1:30.0	This was known as the Passage Guta de Ore.
1:33.7	Yeah.
1:34.6	Yeah, drop of gold, something like that.
1:36.2	Drop of gold neighborhood.
1:37.4	Yeah, drop of gold.
1:38.3	Yeah.
1:39.1	Literally translates to drop of gold.
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