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Broad's a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. You guys, today we're

doing a two-part episode. I believe this is only our second two-part episode. A while ago, like more than a year ago, two years ago maybe, we did a two-part episode on Jack the Ripper. Now, wait a minute, Tori, Jack the Ripper wasn't a woman, or was she? The two-part episode is about the theory that Jack the Ripper

was a woman, and then the second episode is about the women brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper,

so go check that out if you want. But anyway, today we're doing a two-part episode on a single

woman who was so, shall we say, complex, that I

simply could not fit all the information I had on her into a single episode. So buckle up,

guys, it's a wild ride. I want to thank a listener for notifying me of this woman's existence.

I had never heard of Audrey Marie Hilly until this listener

told me about her. And now I can't find the listener's name. So if you are the one who recommended

this episode, please get in touch with me and tell me who you are. And I'll thank you in the next

episode because you sent me down a very, very wild and winding

path. So thank you. Before we get into this story, though, I have some great news for you all.

A couple episodes ago, you remember we heard from Sister Eli and her story of being pressured into

taking a plea deal, a very coercive plea deal, and we talked about the criminal justice system and many of the

problems they are in. Well, you all donated over a thousand dollars to the Women's Prison

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