S16E14: Mother | Barbara Daly Baekeland
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Some stories shoot right past "trashy" and head straight for "disturbing," and that is the case of murdered socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland. Alicia recounts the troubling life and times of a family beset by mental illness and too much money, and the tragedy that unfolded as a result.
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Further Reading:
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family, by Natalie Robins (Amazon.com)
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls, by Marlene Wagman-Geller (Amazon.com)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to trashy divorces. |
| 0:04.0 | A good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:06.7 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:08.1 | Thanks for joining us this week. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Alicia Friends. |
| 0:11.1 | We are back this week with a little bit of trashy on a different level. |
| 0:15.1 | This story has been requested many times, |
| 0:17.9 | and it seemed like the week to get into the sad and tragic tale of Barbara Daly, |
| 0:25.0 | Bakeland. |
| 0:25.9 | Also dark and distressing tale. |
| 0:29.2 | Stacey, you're really on that. |
| 0:31.6 | It is shocking all of it and it is trashy and not our usual typical fashion. |
| 0:37.9 | This really is very much a Greek tragedy. |
| 0:42.2 | There's a family haunted with mental illness, |
| 0:45.1 | a stunningly beautiful red-haired daughter with her own penchant for danger. |
| 0:52.0 | Lives of excesses. |
| 0:53.5 | This tale includes adultery, madness, incest, matricide. One of those |
| 0:59.9 | things would be enough, but this story has them all. It is definitely the darker side of |
| 1:05.9 | trashy divorces. Yeah, this is probably the darkest maybe we've ever done. |
| 1:13.6 | Hence, giving you a little bit of advance warning here. |
| 1:21.4 | This episode does include some more serious themes, especially in the last section of the story about 30 minutes in. |
| 1:24.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
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