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Criminal Broads

The Jolly One: Jane Toppan

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Midnight. A hospital ward. A young woman writhes in her bed in pain. But wait—here comes the night nurse, Jane Toppan, with a cool glass of water, promising to make it all…go…away… The story of Jane Toppan will chill you to your core, shake you to your bones, and remind you of the inconvenient truth that female serial killers can be just as deadly as the male ones. Want more Criminal Broads? Come to Caveat NYC on October 30 at 70 pm to see me and the host of DIE-ALOGUE talk about female cult leaders!!! Get your tickets here! *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter and get a cool postcard and bonus content on each broad. Snag a free month of weird and entertaining courses at The Great Courses Plus at thegreatcoursesplus.com/broads by entering code FREEMO. And get 10% off your first month of Betterhelp at betterhelp.com/criminalbroads. *** Sources: Fatal by Harold Schechter Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer “Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License” “The Haunted House” by Haunted Corpse, via freemusicarchive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty

0:10.1

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty, guilty of love in you.

0:20.0

Oh, hi, I didn't see you there.

0:24.0

Welcome to a very spooky pre-Holloween, late October, episode 37 of Criminal Broads,

0:32.0

the History and True Crime Podcast about Wild Women on the wrong side of the law.

0:37.0

I'm your host Tori Telfer.

0:39.0

Don't ask me how I got myself into this field of writing about criminal women but I have a book out about

0:44.0

female serial killers called Lady Killers that you can purchase today and I am wrapping up a book about

0:50.7

Lady Con Artists and then I've got this podcast, which is about all the other criminal broads of the world, from

0:58.0

cult leaders to that one broad who killed her fortune teller.

1:03.2

Anyway, I'm happy to be here,

1:06.0

happy to be telling you an extra spooky story for this episode.

1:09.4

But before we get started, I want to remind you all that if you live anywhere near New York City and I'm

1:15.8

talking within 300 miles grab your friends get a road trip happening get some

1:22.2

road trip snacks and come to the first ever live criminal

1:26.6

broads event, which is happening on Wednesday, October 30th.

1:30.8

It's an event called Female Persuasion on Women Led Cults and I am going to be talking about

1:36.3

surprise surprise lady cult leaders with Rebecca Sebastian who is the host of the podcast

1:42.3

Dialogue tickets are $14 if you grab Sebastian who is the host of the podcast dialogue.

1:43.4

Tickets are $14 if you grab them online now before the event itself.

1:48.5

You can also buy them at the door.

1:51.1

And you can go to caveat dot NYC to buy them.

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