Kathy and Gideon talk about the woman many consider the worst Canadian serial killer - Elizabeth "Bethe" Wettlaufer. Wettlaufer, who grew up near Woodstock, Ontario, fits into the True Crime sub-genre of Nurses Who Kill. She worked at various rehab and medical facilities and administered deadly doses of insulin to many of her older patients, but the horrible things she did didn't come to light until much later. After admitting her crimes to various people, nothing happened to her. Was this an example of "Canadian nice" or was it just that Wettlaufer didn't "look" like a killer, and therefor nobody could believe it.

We also welcome to the show, Charles Graeber, author of the best selling book "The Good Nurse" which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Eddie Redmayne as American Nurse Killer Charles Cullen. Graeber explains how the hospitals ignored whistleblowers, and allowed Cullen to get jobs at other facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where he continued murdering patients. Cullen was quite possibly responsible for as many as 400 killings. And while Cullen did end up behind bars, the hospital administrators were never held accountable. Perhaps there's more than one villain in these stories...

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Hosted by Gideon Evans & Kathy Egan-Taylor

Producer & Engineer: Will Becton / Executive Producer: Amber Becton

Theme Song Composed by Alexis Cuadrado & Danny Gray

Recorded @ Jett Road Studios

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SOURCES:

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber

https://a.co/d/81TLJmc

The Good Nurse (film)

https://www.netflix.com/title/81260083

"Living with a Serial Killer: Elizabeth Wettlaufer"

https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/living-with-a-serial-killer/8729766680284507112/seasons/2/episodes/elizabeth-wettlaufer-episode-6/06fc97a9-48ee-3cb8-a292-ad141236f59b

"Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Elizabeth Wettlaufer"

https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0SX2ANK3N5DM7AY19FW6I6YXRR?ref_=atv_dp_pb_core

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Halloween is almost here (at the time of posting) and doing a show about the Salem Witch Trials is perfectly on-brand for this spooky holiday. The Elizabeth that our episode is about is Elizabeth Parris - whose child Betty Parris and her niece Abagail Williams - were the first to be "afflicted" by alleged Satanic influences in 1692. Parris with her husband, Samuel, and another neighbor diagnosed the so-called nefarious symptoms of their children, and accused three of being Witches - two townswomen and Tituba, who was the slave who lived in the Parris household. This first case of "Witchcraft" started the fire (to paraphrase Billy Joel) and an epidemic of satanic activity across Salem and even parts of Connecticut. Do Elizabeth and her child Betty (a variation of Elizabeth) get a pass from Gideon and Kathy? And what caused these symptoms? Kathy and Gideon go through some of the theories including "Mass Hysteria" and ergot mushroom poisoning.

Later in the episode, Gideon and Kathy welcome guest Jane Borden, author of "Cults Like Us" and discuss whether the Puritans, who founded America, were essentially a cult, and how does the Puritans' cult-like behavior and thinking manifest in our modern society in America. In a twist, we channel Henry Louis Gates, and help reveal the descendant of our guest Borden...can you guess?

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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W Baker

https://a.co/d/8k3xxRF

Hysterical by Dan Taberski

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hysterical/id1753789609

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden

https://a.co/d/g6Frn5F

I Totally Meant to Do That by Jane Borden

https://a.co/d/eh0c3Ot

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

https://a.co/d/383dc3f

John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower

https://a.co/d/ez6xt4z

The Day of Doom - by Michael Wigglesworth

https://a.co/d/6q4G470

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Producer & Engineer: Will Becton / Executive Producer: Amber Becton

Recorded @ Jett Road Studios

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Queen Elizabeth I is known as the steady, confident ruler who beat the Spanish Armada, supported the arts, and led to England's golden age. But her reign also had a darker side, including killing of Catholic priests, terrorizing Puritans, and speculation she might've been part of a plot to kill a lover's wife.

In this episode Gideon and Kathy look past the legend to the woman behind the crown - part hero, part manipulator, and part mystery.

Our guest is Alice Loxton, also known as History Alice, who joins us to tutor us on the Tudors, and help make sense of the Virgin Queen.

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Hosted by Gideon Evans & Kathy Egan-Taylor

Producer & Engineer: Will Becton / Executive Producer: Amber Becton

Recorded @ Jett Road Studios

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SOURCES

The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson

https://a.co/d/5UAb5x4

Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton

https://a.co/d/2OipuVO

Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity by Helen Castor

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/elizabeth-i-helen-castor-study-insecurity-penguin-monarchs