Why are we so fascinated by mothers and wives who commit murder? Professor and author Dianne Berg discusses the topic on Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube | RSS Feed | Omny Studio | All Of Our Podcasts The Pew Research Center found in 2022 that nearly 25% of top-ranked podcasts were true crime-related. In the next set of episodes, host Nat Cardona speaks with Dianne Berg, college professor and author of What's behind our enduring fascination with wives and mothers who kill, to explore why this niche of true crime fascinates so many.
Research traces this phenomenon back to literature from the 15 hundreds and 16 hundreds with clearly printed details of the early fascination that people had with murderesses.
And it was very interesting because the thing that jumped out at me when the project first started, the sort of germ of the project came about by accident when I was researching something completely different.And in 1616, she strangled two of her Children. And then of course, we've just had this Lindsay Lacy case here in Massachusetts, which is unbelievably tragic and it is kind of still evolving in, in Andrea Yates case.It certainly sounds as if postpartum psychosis was at play.
And we'll get more into the modern day examples and parallels that you drew even with that Utah mother, which is how you started your article.But the the tolstoy quote that you popped in there, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way was a really good way to kick off. There's several chronicles that are very famous and their names aren't, aren't really important for our conversation.
And there's nothing important or famous or particularly interesting about them except the woman conspires to murder her husband.It's chronicle amidst like, you know, Julius Caesar invading Britain and things like that. And essentially, it's kind of just saying that the household is just like a miniature kingdom and of course, who's at the top of the kingdom, right?Everybody is subordinate just like the king is the head of the nation and God is the head of the universe.So if a wife kills her husband, it's it's a political crime, it's treason, it's like killing the king, right?And depending on his social class, he'll, he'll be hanged or maybe beheaded.
It's like, oh, well, that's like, oh, that's like, you know, somebody strangling their wife or something, you know, and it's just like, you know what this is gonna be about.The way men, male perpetrators and female perpetrators are portrayed in these kinds of texts.
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