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Criminal

Unfit

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told her she would have to have her appendix removed. He never examined her abdomen. She later told papers that when she woke up from surgery, she heard a nurse saying that Ann “didn’t suspect a thing.” Audrey Clare Farley's book is The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.0

In August 1934, a 20-year-old named Anne Cooper Hewitt had lunch with her mother, Marion.

0:38.5

They talked about what kind of life Anne wanted when she turned 21 and would no longer be a minor. They talked about Anne getting

0:45.6

married, starting a family. And so they're dining and she suddenly struck with stomach pains.

0:51.6

Author Audrey Claire Farley.

0:53.7

And her mother has the chauffeur drive her

0:55.8

to a hospital in San Francisco, which is where they lived.

1:00.4

And there at the hospital, the family doctor is waiting and he just says,

1:05.0

Well Anne I understand you have appendicitis, but he never examined her abdomen.

1:11.0

Instead he takes her to another room where there's a psychologist and

1:15.6

that woman begins to ask her civics questions. So she says what is the longest

1:21.1

river in the United States?

1:23.3

When was the Battle of Hastings fought?

1:25.2

Questions like that.

1:26.6

And Anne doesn't answer her.

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