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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Cult Babes! This week’s episode is a journey into the UK’s Broadmoor Hospital which has been home to many infamous patients throughout it’s history. We’ll first get to know how the hospital came to be and then get acquainted with it’s haunting guest list… Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now! Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-ripper-suspects/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8263000/8263371.stm https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/i-am-very-glad-and-cheered-when-i-hear-the-flute-the-treatment-of-criminal-lunatics-in-late-victorian-broadmoor/1F711BABFE0E8D356D2A0169020C099A https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/about-us/library-archives/archives/madness-to-mental-illness-online-archive/important-legal-cases-of-the-19th-century-james-hadfield.pdf?sfvrsn=e4cedf57_6 https://www.biography.com/crime/graham-young https://allthatsinteresting.com/graham-young Rollin, H. (1991) Forensic Psychiatry in England: a Retrospective. In 150 Years of British Psychiatry (vol. 2, The Aftermath) (eds H. Freeman & G.E. Berrios, G.E.), pp. 243–267 Gaskell. Smith, R. (1996) Legal Frameworks for Psychiatry. In 150 Years of British Psychiatry (vol. 2, The Aftermath) (eds H. Freeman & G.E. Berrios), pp. 137–150. Athlone Press. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/jun/17/richard-dadd-victorian-artist-bedlam-mental-illness-fairies https://www.newspapers.com/image/933363280/?terms=Richard%20Dadd&match=1

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0:59.9	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
1:24.6	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry, and this week's episode has been quite the journey.
1:29.1	In a recent episode, The Silent Twins, I told the story of twin sisters Jennifer and
1:33.8	June Gibbons.
1:35.2	If you've yet to listen to the episode without giving too much away, the sisters ended
1:39.2	up spending 12 years at an institution called the Broadmore Hospital in Crothorne, Berkshire,
1:45.2	England, as part of a sentence for a string of crimes that they'd committed back in 1981.
1:51.6	Learning about their experience at Broadmore really peaked my interest in the hospital.
1:56.2	This past week, I was looking into a case that took place in Niazden, a suburb of North
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