What You Should Know: Australia What You Should Know Australia

I am back after a rough break! And to spill the tea, do NOT drink any tea from Caroline Grills.

A comfort killer is someone who commits murder in response to an emotional need for comfort or security.
Material gain and a comfortable lifestyle are the primary motives of comfort killers.
Usually, the victims are family members and close acquaintances.
After the murder of a close friend or relative, a comfort killer will usually wait for a period of time before killing again to allow any suspicions by those in close proximity to subside.
They often use drugs or poison, and most notably arsenic, to kill their victims
Trust no one.

Sources:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/
ancestry.com.au

I am back and with another 1800's crime! this trime we dive into the horrific baby farming trade popular in the 19th century.
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses distressing topics.

TRIGGER WARNING This case includes discussion of sexual assult and incest.

David and Catherine Birnie were a killer couple frfom Perth, Western Australia who went on a spree of sexual assult an murder spanning over a 5 week period.
Let's dive into their hystory and theorise their psychology.

Information on attachment theory: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-attachment-theory-2795337

Sorry the episode it late, but I do promise it is a good one!
This week we are looking at 1800's black widow Martha Needle who was likened in the papers to Frederick Deeming who had been executed just 2 years before her trial.

We are back on the trail of Frederick Deeming and the detectives hunting him down; but after justice is delivered we are left with the not so simple question of if he was really Jack the Ripper?
Join me, grab a tin foil hat and some yarn and lets see where this goes.

Listed as one of Australia's first serial killers that I had honestly never heard of, topday I bring to your attention the vile acts committed by Frederick deeming: con artist, bigamist, family annihilator and outright murder.