Mother's are often stereotyped as people filled with love, doting on their precious children.

But that's not always the case.

The mothers in this episode were violent and murderous, sometimes collaborating with

their children and twisted crimes, and in other cases outright murdering their own children.

The crimes at the top of this list are some of the most heinous ones we've covered, and

they're all carried out by moms.

It definitely applies to number one, its tragic and gut-wrenching, and shows the evil

that some people are capable of.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkast.

I'm Ash, and I'm Elena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging, and

unsettling crimes all picked by the Parkast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten mommy issues crimes.

So I have to say a lot of cases come to mind when I think of mommy issues.

Yeah, same here.

It's like the main thing that I think of almost every serial killer, especially male

serial killers, have serious mommy issues.

Edgene is obviously the first one that has to come to everybody's mind.

If you hadn't said that, I would have been like, are you okay?

Yeah, I mean psycho, Norman Bates, it's all there.

But there's also Ed Kemper, very different mommy issues.

Ted Bundy had some weird mom issues where he thought his mom was his sister, and his sister

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