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MFM Minisode 235 - Let's Get Medical

July 12, 2021 /

This episode features stories about personal experiences with crime and danger, including heroic mothers, a killer dentist, and a serial killer nurse.

One listener shares a story about her mother who confronted an intruder in their home, convincing him to take her away instead of harming her children. This dramatic encounter showcases her mother's bravery and quick thinking.

Another segment discusses the chilling case of Bart Corbin, a dentist who murdered his wife and previously attempted to kill an ex-girlfriend. The listener recounts how their family had to find a new dentist after his arrest.

A listener from Toronto shares a story about Elizabeth Wettlaufer, a nurse who killed eight seniors in her care, detailing her confessions and the lack of action taken by those who heard her admissions.

The episode concludes with a humorous yet horrifying tale about a drug-addicted oral surgeon who reused needles and was later arrested for DUI, highlighting the dangers of trusting medical professionals.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling stories of heroic mothers, a killer dentist, and a serial killer nurse, blending humor with horror.

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Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and iHeart Podcast presents Soccer Moms. So I'm Leanne.
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Yeah. This is my best friend, Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hip since high school.
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Absolutely. A redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips.
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This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey.
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With all the snacks and drinks. drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? They hit a bogo.
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or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Anna Navarro, and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro,
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I'm talking to the people closest to the biggest issues happening in your community and around the world.
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Because I know, deep down inside right now, we are all cursing and asking, what the bleep
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is going on? Every week, I'm breaking down the biggest issues happening in our communities and around the world.
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I'm talking to people like Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018.
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The Justice Department, through we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims.
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Hello and welcome to my favorite murder, the mini-sode. It's the mini episode. It's the short one that comes on Monday at the beginning of the week.
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You remember? You remember today's Monday? Sorry about that. This is a hometown baby Jessica story.
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Hi, MFM. Every time my mom tells my birth story, it's actually largely the baby Jessica story.
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My mom went into labor shortly after she heard the news that baby Jessica got stuck in the well.
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Nearly her entire labor consisted of my mom making a deal with God that she would sustain the pain of childbirth if he would keep baby Jessica alive.
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Lady, you're going to sustain the pain of childbirth anyway. I hate to tell you you're having a baby.
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An hour after baby Jessica was free, I was born. So on top of all the people that actually saved baby Jessica, my mom also likes to give herself a little thanks.
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I love it. I remember getting a really bad ear infection when I was probably like six or seven and begging God that if you made it go away, I'd be a really good Catholic.
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And it worked. So you still have that ear infection then? It hurts so bad to podcast.
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I wrote in another actually heroic story of my mother a couple years ago. And since I'm talking about her and it's almost Mother's Day, here it is again.
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See, this is that's the kind of persistence we're looking for. Yeah. OK. One night in 1992, my mom was half asleep and heard a noise from her bed.
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She could see into the dining room and a man climbing through the window before she could pick up the phone and call for help.
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The stranger was on top of her, addressing her by name and telling her if she wasn't quiet, he would kill her three children, too.
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Oh, my God. My mom, being 5'3 and almost 110 pounds, didn't have a lot of options.
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So she started talking. She convinced him to murder her in the woods away from the house where her children wouldn't find her.
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He agreed. In the slow transition off of the bed, the phone fell off the hook. The loud noise off the hook sound surprised him.
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And when he looked towards the noise, she pushed in his eyeball with her long 90s acrylic nails.
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Holy fuck. Yes, yes. Pushed in his eyeball. She fucking took that. I like to imagine because it was long and acrylic that it had a tiny painting of a sunset on it.
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And she just jammed it into his eye. The now one-eyed intruder fled back out the door and into the woods, leaving zip ties, duct tape, and a knife.
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Soon after, she moved us to Southern California, a.k.a. as far away as she could.
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I slept through the whole thing and was only told years later when my mom was wine drunk on a school night.
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Yeah. Way to beat. They never caught the man, but at the time, my mom had just broken up with an abusive med school graduate who had almost broken her arm and had threatened multiple times that he would kill her.
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Maybe he didn't hire anyone to kill my mom, but it sure as hell seems like he did.
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Stay sexy. And if you're in, think twice before going into a radiologist. Oh, my God.
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Go moms. Go women. XO Annie. Wow. Shit, girl. That's horrifying. That's great. I can't believe they couldn't find someone whose eye was fucking punctured.
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Yeah. OK. This one's called Another Killer Dentist Story. Yes. Hello, Murder Queens, Furry Friends, and Steven.
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Do you hate that whole thing? No, I like it. Okay. I was listening to a minisode where someone's mom almost dated a killer dentist, and it
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reminded me vaguely of my hometown killer dentist story. My first dentist when I was a child was Bart Corbin, based out of Hamilton Mill, Georgia.
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It's really confusing when you see your own name. Based out of Hamilton Mill, Georgia.
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Ann Rule totally wrote a book about it and I reviewed it for my seventh grade book project Nice Very cool Awesome He always seemed like a little odd but the man knew how to clean teeth and do root canals
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so we didn't think anything of it. My aunt used to play tennis with his wife's sister, and they seemed like a normal family.
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Husband, wife, two sons, white picket fence. This, though, was not the case because in December of 2004, their oldest son, who was
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really young at the time, ran to the neighbor's house and told him that someone had shot his
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mom. When police arrived at the scene, Corbin's wife, Jen, was found with a gunshot wound to the head, suicide-esque.
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It was quickly determined that it was a homicide framed as a suicide. The giveaway was that the hand holding the gun was neatly tucked under the covers.
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Oh. Yeah. It came out that their relationship had gone south. She had met someone online, and he was having an affair with his secretary.
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She was in the process of serving him divorce papers, and he lost it and killed her.
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Oh, my God. It came out later that he had done the same thing to his ex-girlfriend he had in dentistry school, Dolly.
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She broke things off. He put sugar in her gas tank, stole her cat, and destroyed her final project before finally shooting her in the head and framing it as a suicide in the same way.
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I feel like this has been a forensic files. I'm sure it has. The name Dolly is the first girlfriend.
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Yeah. The only reason he didn't get caught that time was because a rookie cop responded to the scene
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and picked the gun out of her hand after seeing the shot through the head. Needless to say, he was arrested for his wife's murder and was no longer my dentist.
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But he was arrested for his wife's murder, so I began to travel to the prison to get my teeth done there.
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What else was I going to do? My dad was in the middle of a root canal and had to find a new dentist, ASAP.
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He loved the new guy we went to and told my mom we should start going there since our old dentist was a murderer.
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A week later, the new dentist was on the news for child molestation. No. I know a dentist who has never been convicted of anything, thankfully.
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Nice. Love the show and all you do. Mads from Georgia. Oh, Mads. Dude. Don't let your dad pick dentists anymore.
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It's hard enough to go to the dentist's plane. Yeah. Without all those threats and weirdnesses.
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All right. The subject line of this is a Toronto hometown. I worked with the angel of death when I was 15.
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Oh, my God. Hi, gang. I got a wicked hometown murder about a serial killer nurse for y'all.
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Where are you from? When I was 15, because that's Boston and that's the South. Totally.
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This person is actually from Toronto. She's from all over. That's right. She's an army brat.
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Yeah. Okay. When I was 15, I worked as a student nurse's aide at this super shady nursing home in Woodstock,
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Ontario. Cool. No, not the Woodstock. This one is the dairy capital of Canada. That's what I was thinking of.
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Yeah. I love to learn. So there was this nurse at the home named Beth, and then full name Elizabeth Wettlaufer.
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And I worked with her from 2010 to 2013, which happened to be right smack dab in the middle of her active killing spree.
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In 2007, Beth started working at this nursing home. And in that first year, she tried to kill two old lady sisters by injecting them with insulin, but they survived.
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Apparently, it's pretty hard to accidentally overdose people with insulin. So it's pretty intentional if someone does administer a lethal dose.
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Between 2007 and 2014, she killed eight seniors and attempted to kill four more,
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along with two aggravated assaults from before, making her Canada's first female serial killer.
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During her confession, Beth said she felt that God was telling her to kill who to kill next
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or that the seniors were mean and difficult. So she just killed him. Jesus Christ.
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Sorry, that's not it's not funny. It's like, what are you talking about? Right. But I have a nervous reaction that when I'm very upset about things, I just start laughing.
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That's what this podcast is. That's why we're here. Yeah. Okay, great. So you're not mad at me?
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Oh, my God, no. After she killed, she said she felt a cackling from the pit of hell, that's in quotes, within her.
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And then in parentheses, what the fuck does that even mean? she apparently had confessed to the murders to a former girlfriend a pastor a lawyer a narcotics
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anonymous sponsor and a student nurse and no one did anything except to tell her to stop or pray
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for her or some shit sorry to give advice again to fucking serial killers yeah don't tell anyone
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right i mean and also if you're going to tell someone because you want to be stopped
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don't pick the lamest people in your in your life or the people who won't believe you
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Yeah, or the people who kind of don't have the guts to do anything. And they're just like, you should pray.
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You're so silly. What's her name, Margaret? You're so silly. What's her name, Margaret?
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Sounds like a Margaret. Okay. So almost exactly one year ago today, Beth went to a mental health institution in Toronto and fessed up for the sixth fucking time, I might add,
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that she'd killed eight old people and they contacted the police. Beth pled guilty immediately.
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And on June 26, 2017, like this was three fucking months ago, you guys, it's crazy.
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She was sentenced to eight concurrent life sentences in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
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Some other weird shit she did while she was actively killing. When asked if rumors about her being a murderer were true, Beth started, quote, laughing hysterically.
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As you do. And then finally, she published some weird-ass poems online about a woman, quote, quenching her craze by stabbing someone to death.
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And another about how much she likes old people. Quote, their wrinkles, their frailty, their smell, knowing this is their last home.
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Ew, Margaret. Super fucked up, eh? I also forgot to mention that Beth went to high school with my mom.
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Gotta love small towns. Fuck politeness and stay out of the forest, Amy. Oh, my God.
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That super nuts Margaret stop killing people Margaret her name Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Margaret Stop killing people Margaret is short for Elizabeth I almost said really Jesus I so gullible
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Okay, this is just called Hometown Story. Hi, everyone. Don't want to miss anyone, so this will do.
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Thank you. I've never been one to do something like this, but thought this story was too cool not to share.
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I was born and raised in the North Jersey town of Morristown, New Jersey. Morristown is a New Jersey.
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What did I say? No, no, no. They just said New Jersey twice in a row. In the New Jersey town of Morristown, New Jersey.
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Morristown is a super cute and diverse town with a picturesque town center and lots to do.
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This is from the tourism board from Morristown, New Jersey. When growing up in Morristown, the town's rich history is drilled into our brains while at school.
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Just a couple of cool facts. Elizabeth Shuler was staying in Morristown when Alexander Hamilton was courting her.
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Washington had headquarters here during the Revolutionary War. And Peter Dinklage was born here.
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Hey! But one historic story that was not taught in school, but we all know, is the murder of the Sayre family and subsequent hanging of Antoine LeBlanc.
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Antoine LeBlanc was a French immigrant who arrived in Morristown in the mid-19th century.
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He was hired by the Sayre family as a handyman, but LeBlanc was from a well-to-do European family and didn't like his meager work in the U.S.
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I mean, who among us, asshole? Yeah, for real. Only a couple weeks later, he murdered Mr. and Mrs. Sayre as well as their servant, Phoebe.
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Then he took any valuables he could with him and frantically ran away, headed towards New York City.
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Stupidly, he left a trail of stolen items as he tried to escape. Because of this, the murder scene was quickly discovered and he was found at a tavern in Hackensack, about 30 miles away.
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LeBlanc was subsequently tried and sentenced to be hanged. The story gets worse, though.
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After being hanged in the town center, might I add, his body was taken to Dr. Canfield's office,
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where they conducted experiments by hooking his body to batteries and trying to resurrect him.
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Still gets worse. His skin was then sent to a local tannery where a bunch of wallets, purses, book jackets, etc. were made as keepsakes.
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Imagine hearing this story as a child. This all sounds like a tall tale, but in the 90s, a death mask of his face and wallet made of human skin said to be his was found in a local collector's house after his death.
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I believe it's stored at the police department now. They say that all the, quote, keepsakes are scattered through Morristown and the surrounding area.
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Maybe heirlooms kept by longstanding local families. Grandma's dead, everyone. Here's what you get.
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And here's a fucking face. You get a people book of a murderer. Jesus. And then she writes and done.
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Sorry it was so long, but it's such a good murder slash local history slash legend story.
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I've been listening to you since the beginning and always get excited to hear new episodes every week.
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And I guess I'll do one of these. Stay sexy and don't buy antique wallets at garage sales.
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Francisca, like San Francisco, but without the San and ending with an A. Thank you.
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I would have called you Francesca. So I appreciate it. New Jersey. New Jersey. Francisca, New Jersey.
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Like New Jersey, but San Francisco. Wow. That was, yeah, that is, I'm, those ones.
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It's so nice when they're from the 1700s and we can just go like, oh, people back then.
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Yeah. Deny that it's happening to this day. Yeah. But I do think that I'm pretty sure when they say death mask, they mean that they do a they do a mold of the face when they're dead.
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Not it's not a human face. I was just like they skinned his face. And no. OK, no, that makes more sense.
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It's not the silence of the lambs. I was going shrunken head. Act three. No, no.
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Yeah. OK. I'm pretty sure. Please correct me, New Jersey, if I'm wrong. Everyone in New Jersey will let you know.
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In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.
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Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Lepi.
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Lucy Letby has been found guilty But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses
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I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby We follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it
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To ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Letby was No voicing of any skepticism or doubt
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It'll cause so much harm at every single level If the British establishment of this is wrong
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Listen to Doubt, The Case of Lucy Letby. You can binge all episodes now on iHeart Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Your husband is not who you think he is. Your body is not what you thought it was.
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Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Dani Shapiro, and these are just a few of the stunning stories I'll be exploring on the 14th season of Family Secrets.
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Just then, we felt the plane turn in the air. So much so that the bags that were under people's seats just kind of flew into the aisle.
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Each week, we dive headfirst into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships,
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and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know,
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but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything.
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And me pretending like everything was fine. He kind of shoved me out of the way and said, move.
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and he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off and that was the last time I saw him.
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Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts 10 shots fired in City Hall building
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How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that! A shocking public murder.
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This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics.
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I screamed, get down, get down, those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten.
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and a mystery that may or may not have been political, that may have been about sex.
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Listen to Rorschach, Murder at City Hall, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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or wherever you get your podcasts. Georgia, the subject line of this email is, my drug-addicted needle-reusing oral surgeon.
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Okay, I am here. So I would say to anybody who is a bit creeped out by bad medical things,
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you're going to want to jump ahead the 30 button a couple times. I can't do that.
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For real? Are you no likey? I can't. No, you know I love it. Okay, put your finger up if you feel faint.
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No, I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go. Hello, Georgia, Karen, Stephen, and pets. My hometown story is from a suburb of South Denver.
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It is my very own oral surgeon who removed not only my wisdom teeth, but my mother's and sister's as well.
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He was recommended to us by a good family friend who just so happened to also be our dentist.
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I would assume that if he'd known what this oral surgeon was doing, he wouldn't have recommended his family friends to see him.
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I'm unsure how he got caught. But in 2012, 10 years after we had been to see him, it was found out that from 1999 to 2011,
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this motherfucker was not only committing prescription fraud and using the drugs intended for his patients and treating patients while actually on painkillers,
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but he was also reusing needles from patient to patient. Oh, my God. No, why don't do that?
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Right. That's just you don't need to do that. This is this is absolutely in the Dr. Death category of bum out things that could happen.
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OK. Dr. Wise. OK. And if you haven't heard Dr. Death. I haven't. I just don't want to.
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Oh, right. Because if you if you can't handle these kind of squeamish things, Dr. Death is like times 25.
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OK. But if you can, it's one of the best podcasts out there. I'm into this right now.
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OK. OK. Okay, so letters were sent to any previous or current patients of his informing them of the situation.
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Myself, my mom, and my two sisters, one of which who had just had a baby, so we had the added scare of my nephew's health, along with 8,000 other patients of his.
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8,000? 8,000. Had to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. Six of his patients had tested positive for HIV or hepatitis.
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But of course, it is impossible to say whether or not those patients contracted it from his stupidity.
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Myself and my family all tested negative. Praise Stephen's mustache. Oh, my God.
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That was in parentheses. Oh, my God. Stephen. Look at Stephen's embarrassed sunburned face.
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I gasped genuinely a few seconds ago. You're bright red, but it's also because you went to the Ren Faire and now you have a sunburned.
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Not because you're embarrassed. This story is already so horrifying. It's horrifying, and then you're pulled into it.
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Yeah. Can't wait. So this family all tested negative, and were able to put the whole thing behind us.
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The state never filed charges against this psychopath, but he agreed to surrender his dental license and license as an oral surgeon.
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How could they not file charges against him? I don't know. Karen, I'm mad at you.
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I will call the Denver PD. I wish you would. However, this guy isn't done yet. Uh-oh.
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In 2013, he was pulled over and arrested in Lake Tahoe for driving under the influence of cocaine.
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Dude. That's specific. That's very specific. Like, how bad are you on cocaine if you get pulled over for it?
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You're talking so much, you start swerving. He admitted to being a drug addict after his issue in Colorado.
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My sister, who is also obsessed with her podcast, and I searched to find any updated information after his arrest in Lake Tahoe, but we haven't found anything.
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I guess that's a good thing. Maybe he's sharing dirty needles in the privacy of his own home instead of with patients in a doctor's office.
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Anyway, thanks for your amazing podcast and the wonderful Murderino community. Listening to you guys always brightens my day.
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SSDGM. And always beware of creepy dentists, Anne-Marie. Thanks, Anne-Marie. Us too.
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Writing your story always brightens my day. Any kind of needle, involuntary needle sharing story.
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What a bummer. Like you go to these doctors that you should you trust. Like, why go to the trouble of getting a fucking dental degree if you're just going to be a piece of shit about it?
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Well, it's those drugs. I'm sure he started with all the best intentions. And then suddenly he's like, I could save a little more money for my cocaine if I reuse these needles.
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I mean, like it's drug thinking. God. This one's called Human Skin Book Bindings at the Mutter Museum.
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Dear Karen, Georgia and Co. On behalf of the staff at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, well known for its Muter Museum, we are huge fans of your podcast, which is such an honor.
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That museum is so fucking cool and badass. I'm so bummed I've never been there yet.
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In your most recent episode, the question of how common was the practice of binding books in human skin came up, and we wanted to offer our expertise.
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Hell yes, Muter Museum, mutter. Our historical medical library just happens to have the largest confirmed collection of anthropodermic books in the country.
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So we thought we'd share what we know. It wasn't uncommon for 19th century physicians and surgeons to tan human skin and subsequently use the leather as book bindings.
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Traditional 19th century tanning began by soaking an animal skin in lime water. After the skins had soaked any flesh, fat and hair was removed from the skin by hand.
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Ew. The defleshed skins were soaked again in lime water for a few days and then soaked in baths of tannin, usually derived from tree bark, that were made progressively stronger over a period of weeks or months.
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Once tanned, the skins were dried, rolled and pressed into leather. Of course, this brings up the question of whether the doctors had their patients permission, which in many cases can't be confirmed.
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Three of our five anthropodermic books came from the skin of one woman, Mary Lynch, who died of trichinosis on January 16th, 1869 at Old Lockley in Philadelphia.
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One of her attending physicians, John Stockton Howe, removed a piece of her skin from her thigh sometime between her death and burial.
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In June of 1887, Howe used the skin to partially bind three books, all dealing with women's reproductive health.
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We don't know if Howe had Mary Lynch's permission or why he chose to find books about conception and childbirth with her skin.
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These three books in addition to the other two anthropodermic books in the library collection represent a unique convergence of text and medical specimen The books as collections of text remain valuable sources in the history of medicine The books as objects force us into uncomfortable considerations
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of the use of human skin and bindings and whether the use of human skin diminishes the value of the
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text, rendering them mere objects of moral curiosity. So smart. If you're ever in Philadelphia,
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we would love to give you a private tour and we'd love to take it. Oh, please. Stay sexy and don't
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let your skin be turned into a book without your consent, the staff at the Muter Museum
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of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. And then I remembered that I have a friend who's
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this really smart librarian who was working on a book about this practice. So I looked it up and
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actually comes out next month in October. It's called Dark Archives, a librarian's investigation
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into the science and history of books bound in human skin. And her name's Megan Rosenblum.
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I just, I completely forgot that I knew this girl. That's such good news that that book is coming out because I would love to know why they did that.
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And what the, I mean, like, yeah, apparently it just doesn't, it's so creepy to me.
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This book gets into all of that. How cool is that? Because we heard a couple of stories about creepy doctors where I thinking this doctor that did that with this story that you just told me may have been a creep Could have been Yeah Sounds like it Real good I don know
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So that then maybe in this book, it explains that it was like some, I don't know what would the explanation be that would make me feel better.
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I'm not sure. There isn't, there can't be one. I mean, it's a bit history, maybe for like history's sake,
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you know, I mean, but it's a book. I know. Just use fucking paper and leave people alone.
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Episode Highlights

  • A Mother's Heroic Story
    A mother fights off an intruder to protect her children, showcasing incredible bravery.
    “She convinced him to murder her in the woods away from the house where her children wouldn't find her.”
    @ 03m 55s
    July 12, 2021
  • The Dentist Who Became a Killer
    A shocking tale of a dentist who murdered his wife and framed it as suicide.
    “Needless to say, he was arrested for his wife's murder and was no longer my dentist.”
    @ 07m 30s
    July 12, 2021
  • Canada's First Female Serial Killer
    The chilling story of nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who killed eight seniors.
    “She just killed him.”
    @ 09m 36s
    July 12, 2021
  • The Morristown Murder Legend
    A historical tale of murder and macabre keepsakes from the 19th century.
    “Imagine hearing this story as a child.”
    @ 14m 14s
    July 12, 2021
  • The Shocking Case of Lucy Letby
    Exploring the complexities of a nurse accused of being a prolific child killer.
    “But what if we didn't get the whole story?”
    @ 16m 22s
    July 12, 2021
  • Creepy Dentist Arrested
    In 2013, he was arrested for driving under the influence of cocaine, raising concerns about his past.
    “Uh-oh.”
    @ 21m 30s
    July 12, 2021
  • Human Skin Book Bindings
    A discussion on the unsettling practice of binding books in human skin and its historical context.
    “It wasn't uncommon for 19th century physicians to tan human skin for book bindings.”
    @ 23m 41s
    July 12, 2021

Episode Quotes

  • Every time my mom tells my birth story, it's actually largely the baby Jessica story.
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  • Holy fuck.
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  • Stay sexy and don't buy antique wallets at garage sales.
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  • How could they not file charges against him?
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  • Like, how bad are you on cocaine if you get pulled over for it?
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  • Just use fucking paper and leave people alone.
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Key Moments

  • Joined at the hip00:43
  • Tailgating podcast00:51
  • Heroic mother03:40
  • Murderous dentist07:30
  • Serial killer nurse09:28
  • Creepy Dentist21:14
  • Podcast Appreciation22:08
  • Human Skin Books23:41

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