Waneta Hoyt

Waneta Hoyt

We discuss the female serial killer Waneta Hoyt and how her crimes were ignored by one person that could have stop them, because he had his own agenda.

   

Location

Owego, NY

Sources for the show:

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“COLUMN ONE : A Mother Who Lost Five Babies : One after Another, Waneta Hoyt's Children Died. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Was Blamed. Years Later, Hoyt Said She Killed Them--Then Recanted. Now, She Faces Murder Trial amid a Swirl of Questions.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1994, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-22-mn-60929-story.html.

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Ewing, Charles Patrick. Trials of a Forensic Psychologist: a Casebook. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

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Keefe, Patrick Radden, and Philip Gourevitch. “Getting Away with Murder.” The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/did-a-murderer-in-waiting-go-undetected-because-she-was-a-woman.

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“Waneta Hoyt.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waneta_Hoyt.

Music:

Cattails Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Ghost Dance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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