Martha Rendell's guest appearances

Martha Rendell

Behind the Veil of Innocence: Women and Crime in Australia

Murder in the Land of Oz

Wander the podcast

Bad Bitchez

Crime Curious

The Good The Bad and The Pure Evil

Aaron Pajich-Sweetman

Anneliese Michel

Katherine Knight

Juliette Lewis

JonBenet Ramsey

Josephine Baker

Ned Kelly

Mary Queen of Scots

Eurydice Dixon

Griselda Blanco

Margaret Sanger

Karla Homolka

Georgia Tann

Anita Cobby

Elizabeth Bathory

OwlTail

In 1907 Perth Australia was wrought with disease and society was coming down hard on mothers for the infant mortality rates. On top of this progressionists wanted to make divorce easier, while others believed it would only make adultery and child abandonment increase. This is the backdrop of the time when Martha Rendell finds herself on trial for the murder of her three step children being accused of being a master at deception of science as the autopsy's and death certificates indicated the children died as a result of diphtheria and typhoid, two known epidemics of the time.   Join Patreon here to binge bonus content! Crime Curious is creating a kick-ass exclusive listener experience | Patreon  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crimecurious  Music By: Michael Drzewiecki  Cover Art By: Charnell Lennox Martha Rendell | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Killer: Martha Rendell - The Rendell child murders profiled on Killer.Cloud 

In 1907 Perth Australia was wrought with disease and society was coming down hard on mothers for the infant mortality rates. On top of this progressionists wanted to make divorce easier, while others believed it would only make adultery and child abandonment increase. This is the backdrop of the time when Martha Rendell finds herself on trial for the murder of her three step children being accused of being a master at deception of science as the autopsy's and death certificates indicated the children died as a result of diphtheria and typhoid, two known epidemics of the time. Join Patreon here to binge bonus content! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/crimecuriouspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crime Curious is creating a kick-ass exclusive listener experience | Patreon </a> <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crimecurious" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crimecurious</a>  Music By: Michael Drzewiecki  Cover Art By: Charnell Lennox <a href="https://murderpedia.org/female.R/r/rendell-martha.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Martha Rendell | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers </a><a href="https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/418/martha-rendell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Killer: Martha Rendell - The Rendell child murders profiled on Killer.Cloud </a>

223: Episode 223: Martha Rendell

Another live and uncut episode about Australian serial killer Martha Rendell for you fine folks out there! We will be getting a new computer very soon, so the quality will improve. We thank you again for all the patience. Please enjoy the raw Big Jenz and Cayla!

Welcome to our first episode of our Western Australia season! Fair warning, this episode discusses the death of children. Remember when we said we weren’t gonna cover child murder cases? We’re massive liars.Life’s tough out there for a kid in 1907. You have to write on a literal rock at school, the only thing you have to play with is a hoop and a stick, there are no video games yet, and you’re dodging the Grim Reaper at every turn. If the ol’ infant mortality rate doesn’t get you, or the common cold, maybe your own stepmother will.This episode, we discuss the Wicked Stepmother of East Perth, Martha Rendell, and we question whether or not this lady really did poison three of her stepchildren with hydrochloric acid, or if she actually committed a far more serious crime for the early 20th century – being an unattractive, unmarried woman who was living in sin.EPISODE NOTES:Annie, Olive and Arthur Morris died from what was believed at the time to be illnesses arising from complications with an earlier bout of diphtheria. But all the children had curious symptoms that were unable to be diagnosed by some of the best doctors in Australia at the time. They suffered from seizures, typhoid fever, and burning pains in the stomach that didn’t seem to have a clear cause. The children were buried, and the Morris family was considered to be terribly unlucky, until one day George Morris accused Martha Rendell, the family’s housekeeper and his father’s mistress, of poisoning his siblings with spirit of salts – the old-timey name for hydrochloric acid.Martha was put on trial, and the press had a field day when it was uncovered that she was not really the children’s mother, as she presented herself, but really just Thomas Morris’ mistress, a homewrecker who had been having an affair with Thomas for over ten years. The salacious supposed murder of the three children painted Martha as a wicked and uncaring stepmother who delighted in children’s suffering.She was sentenced to hanging in 1909, but in recent years there has been much discussion about whether Martha was really responsible for the deaths, or if she herself was a victim of the society in which she lived.I myself suffered from some kind of paresis of the brain nerves and thought it would be “fun” to reference this week’s sources in Harvard style, because I used a lot of journal articles and I’m a uni student and was like, this will be a fun gag, then halfway through I was like, what is wrong with me. Anyway, if you want to learn more about Martha Rendell and the social circumstances acting on her, please look here:Haebich, A 1998 'Murdering stepmothers: the trial and execution of Martha Rendell',Journal of Australian Studies vol. 22, no. 59, 66-81, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;https://doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387425&gt;Haebach, A 2010 'Revisiting the Trial of Matha Rendell', The New Critic, accessed August 31 2019, available &lt;http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/new-critic/thirteen/?a=1314992 &gt;For all the fun medical information, go here:Koschny, R et al 2013, 'Fatal Course of a Suicidal Intoxication with Hydrochloric Acid', Case Reports in Gastroenterology vol 7 no 1, 89-96, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3618096/&gt;Paget, G E 1883, 'Case of Coexistence of Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever', The British Medical Journal vol 2, no 1176, 67-68, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to our first episode of our Western Australia season! Fair warning, this episode discusses the death of children. Remember when we said we weren’t gonna cover child murder cases? We’re massive liars.Life’s tough out there for a kid in 1907. You have to write on a literal rock at school, the only thing you have to play with is a hoop and a stick, there are no video games yet, and you’re dodging the Grim Reaper at every turn. If the ol’ infant mortality rate doesn’t get you, or the common cold, maybe your own stepmother will.This episode, we discuss the Wicked Stepmother of East Perth, Martha Rendell, and we question whether or not this lady really did poison three of her stepchildren with hydrochloric acid, or if she actually committed a far more serious crime for the early 20th century – being an unattractive, unmarried woman who was living in sin. EPISODE NOTES:Annie, Olive and Arthur Morris died from what was believed at the time to be illnesses arising from complications with an earlier bout of diphtheria. But all the children had curious symptoms that were unable to be diagnosed by some of the best doctors in Australia at the time. They suffered from seizures, typhoid fever, and burning pains in the stomach that didn’t seem to have a clear cause. The children were buried, and the Morris family was considered to be terribly unlucky, until one day George Morris accused Martha Rendell, the family’s housekeeper and his father’s mistress, of poisoning his siblings with spirit of salts – the old-timey name for hydrochloric acid.Martha was put on trial, and the press had a field day when it was uncovered that she was not really the children’s mother, as she presented herself, but really just Thomas Morris’ mistress, a homewrecker who had been having an affair with Thomas for over ten years. The salacious supposed murder of the three children painted Martha as a wicked and uncaring stepmother who delighted in children’s suffering.She was sentenced to hanging in 1909, but in recent years there has been much discussion about whether Martha was really responsible for the deaths, or if she herself was a victim of the society in which she lived.I myself suffered from some kind of paresis of the brain nerves and thought it would be “fun” to reference this week’s sources in Harvard style, because I used a lot of journal articles and I’m a uni student and was like, this will be a fun gag, then halfway through I was like, what is wrong with me. Anyway, if you want to learn more about Martha Rendell and the social circumstances acting on her, please look here:Haebich, A 1998 'Murdering stepmothers: the trial and execution of Martha Rendell',Journal of Australian Studies vol. 22, no. 59, 66-81, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387425" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387425</a>&gt;Haebach, A 2010 'Revisiting the Trial of Matha Rendell', The New Critic, accessed August 31 2019, available &lt;<a href="http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/new-critic/thirteen/?a=1314992" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/new-critic/thirteen/?a=1314992</a> &gt;For all the fun medical information, go here:Koschny, R et al 2013, 'Fatal Course of a Suicidal Intoxication with Hydrochloric Acid', Case Reports in Gastroenterology vol 7 no 1, 89-96, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3618096/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3618096/</a>&gt;Paget, G E 1883, 'Case of Coexistence of Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever', The British Medical Journal vol 2, no 1176, 67-68, accessed 31 August 2019, available &lt;Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz</a>. Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Case of Martha Rendell

This week Sam tells Reanna the horrible story of Martha Rendell and the Morris Children murders . It's a truly unique story that takes a look at Australia in the 1800's. Vintage murder for all the Wanderings out there!

This week Sam tells Reanna the horrible story of Martha Rendell and the Morris Children murders . It's a truly unique story that takes a look at Australia in the 1800's. Vintage murder for all the Wanderings out there!