WHITE COLLAR: The Dalkon Shield

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With the permission from the team over at Swindled Podcast, we are covering one of their best True Crime stories. It’s a story of lies.... cover-ups... and murder. But murder that was done out in the open while a company actually profited from women’s deaths. In today’s episode, we are discussing the Dalkon Shield, an IUD that killed at least twenty women, hurt hundreds of thousands, and is still being used overseas today Huge thanks to Swindled Podcast for their research into this episode. Check out their episode, The Contraceptive, wherever you get your podcasts, or on their website SwindledPodcast.com, and follow them on Twitter @swindledpodcast and Instagram @swindledpodcast

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers.
0:02.4	And I'm Britt.
0:03.1	And today we're doing something that I think is really exciting.
0:07.6	There is a podcast that Britt and I are obsessed with.
0:11.5	I love it so much.
0:12.7	I know. You want to tell them the name?
0:13.8	Yeah. It's an amazing show called Swindled.
0:16.6	And truly, I think it's one of the most underrated shows.
0:19.8	And the host is probably tired of hearing me gush over his show.
0:23.9	But it is so unique, so well researched, and so compelling.
0:28.8	Swindled covers white collar crimes, and I really think you all are going to love
0:33.5	Swindled as much as we do.
0:35.8	So what I thought is, instead of just playing you a promo like we've done for other shows,
0:41.2	I am going to tell you a Swindled story, so you can really get a taste for it.
0:46.1	It's a story of lies, of cover-ups, and of murder.
0:51.1	But murder that was done out in the open while a company was actually making money off of their crimes.
0:58.0	Swindled host was super generous and said we could redo one of his episodes crime-junkie style.
1:05.4	So I hope you all love this story as much as I did the first time that I heard it.
1:09.5	And by love it, I mean, I hope it fills you with feminist rage and teaches you something you
1:14.2	didn't already know.
1:15.9	And Britt, this is one swindled episode that I told you not to listen to, specifically because we
1:22.3	were doing it. So are you ready to hear me tell it?
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