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Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

London: A Mother's Shadow and the 1800s Crimes

Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5 β€’ 992 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 January 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In Victorian London's shadowy boroughs, maternal instincts clashed with... crimes of the 1800s. we examine into how one mother's past cast dark shadows, shaping the infamous acts committed during her son's spree. Our series, focusing on those discarded by history, examines their formative influences. Before the shadows darkened her life, this mother shared tender moments unseen by history's harsh lens. Her story highlights the impact of environment and nurture on shaping notorious paths. The episode reveals how motherly love and psychological scars intertwined with Victorian crime waves. Discover an era when science began flirting with criminology, yet failed to rescue many from fateful paths. Listeners will explore dark histories and psychological battles, examining a mystery of nature versus nurture in criminal roots. Dive into unsettling truths and legacies shadowed in crime. --- Support Foul Play: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foulplaypodcast Website: https://www.mythsandmalice.com/show/foul-play/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foul-play-crime-series/id1525832703 Follow us: Instagram: @foulplaycrimeseries Twitter: @foulplaypod

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Language and content in this episode may not be appropriate for all listeners.

0:05.0

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

0:08.0

Some voices may come from voice actors, but the words are accurate to the interview described.

0:14.0

Long back outweigh. Long Black Highway.

0:35.0

Out way.

0:52.0

Take me on. What is the opposite of an Edopol complex? For those of you unfamiliar with the term, this is a fraudian idea from the field of psycho analytics

0:56.2

in which a son develops a romantic or sexual attraction to his mother and a sense of rivalry

1:01.9

with his father who is married to the women of his dreams.

1:05.2

This is not the clinical definition, but you get the general idea.

1:09.2

The term comes from the great king of Thebes, in Greek mythology who on returning to his family after years of

1:16.6

estrangement accidentally kills his father and marries his mother, which was an

1:22.0

erotic faux power even in the freewilling sexual climate of ancient Greece.

1:26.4

But what do you call it when the figurative Oedipus wants to kill his mother instead. What do you call it when his sexual

1:35.7

obsession is basically an ongoing rape fantasy where he's not interested in

1:40.2

replacing his father, so much as strangling his mother and throwing her in a ditch.

1:46.4

And what do you call it when Arlathario turns his impulse into a murderous routine, suffered

1:51.4

by strangers whose names he barely knows.

1:55.7

Whatever the name for this is, it appears to be something like what we're dealing with here,

2:01.8

rather than adoring and desiring his mother, according to the fruiting complex, Jerry

2:07.1

Johns appears to have hated her subtly and relentlessly, under the guise of run-of-the-mill, spree killing.

2:16.6

Hearing all of this, you might be able to guess what Johns's mother did for a living and

2:21.8

what color her hair was.

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