Louise Woodward-a young nanny, a baby savaged and a miscarriage of justice

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us a text Louise Woodard was wholly unqualified to care for an infant and a toddler. The eighteen year old nanny was in over her head caring for two active children. She was reprimanded for coming home late and not being able to get up with the children she was supervising, Louise resented this correction and the situation was about to come to a head. On the fateful day in 1997, Matthew Eappen was cranky, Louise admitted to "getting rough" with the child in the bathtub, she also, admitte...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
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0:24.7	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:27.6	My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host.
0:30.2	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called
0:35.4	Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
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0:49.9	All right, guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:52.9	We got a tough case this week. I know they're all tough, right?
0:56.1	But this one is especially so, involves a eight-month-old baby. And I entitled this case, Louise Woodward.
1:05.1	It should probably be accurately entitled Matthew Eepin.
1:17.2	But for whatever reason, people remember the perpetrators rather than the victims.
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