Shortcut: The Baby in the Suitcase

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

Sarah Boyd immigrated from Scotland to Sydney in 1923. It was there, where she and an accomplice committed an unthinkable decision.

What's even more terrifying, is that it was a decision that wasn't uncommon for women living in Sydney, Australia at the time. In fact, it was one of only a handful of difficult options faced by many women.

BUY Tanya Bretherton's book The Suitcase Baby.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:25.8	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will contain
0:34.1	content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian true crime
0:38.7	podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:05.0	When you read as many true crime books as we all do, it seems a bit cliche to label a story,
1:17.4	a heartbreaking account of one woman's something something something
1:20.5	something fill in the blank.
1:22.5	But when it comes to this book by academic, Tanya Bretherton, I honestly can't think of any other
1:27.5	way to describe it.
1:29.5	It really is the shocking part of the story though is that it's a decision that wasn't uncommon for women
1:44.5	living in Sydney Australia at the time. In fact it was one of a handful of difficult
1:51.1	options faced by many women.
1:57.2	So I came across Sarah's story, randomly, really.
2:02.0	I was looking at newspaper articles around the period of time that
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