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The Case of Audrey Edmunds
📻 Episode #361
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 25, 2023
About This Episode
On October 16, 1995, in Waunakee, WI, 34-year-old Audrey Edmunds, a stay-at-home mother who often babysat for neighborhood families, was watching a neighbor’s 7-month-old daughter, Natalie, when Natalie became unresponsive. Audrey immediately ran to her neighbor’s house and called 911. The paramedics found Natalie with fixed and dilated pupils and taking short breaths. She passed…
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The Case
On October 16, 1995, in Waunakee, WI, 34-year-old Audrey Edmunds, a stay-at-home mother who often babysat for neighborhood families, was watching a neighbor’s 7-month-old daughter, Natalie, when Natalie became unresponsive. Audrey immediately ran to her neighbor’s house and called 911. The paramedics found Natalie with fixed and dilated pupils and taking short breaths. She passed away at the hospital that night. Natalie’s autopsy revealed extensive brain damage and a forensic pathologist determined that she died due to Shaken Baby Syndrome. Based on the theory of SBS, and because Audrey was Natalie’s caregiver in the hours prior to her death, Audrey was convicted of Natalie’s murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Jason talks to Audrey Edmunds and Keith Findley, Audrey's attorney.
https://www.amazon.com/Happened-Audrey-Terrifying-Journey-Accused/dp/0985799803
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shaken-baby-syndrome-keith-a-findley/1143053792
https://law.wisc.edu/fjr/clinicals/ip/
https://cifsjustice.org/#/main
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00:04:59“Speaker 3: almost never have any injuries of that sort. Speaker 1: And it has since been proven that there are a Speaker 1: multitude of other potential causes of the so called. Speaker 3: Triad, everything ranging from choking to inherited conditions, coagulopathies, childhood stroke, Speaker 3: accidental falls, you name it. There's just so many of”
00:19:00“Speaker 1: Da Dretchen Hayward. And the star witness for the prosecution Speaker 1: was doctor Robert Huntington, the forensic pathologists who had done Speaker 3: He was joined in his testimony by a number of Speaker 3: other doctors, pediatricians, ophthalmologists, a range of others who were Speaker 3: uniform in their opinion that, as they said, nothing could”
00:33:08“Speaker 4: Medisine got two feet of snow and at quarter to Speaker 4: three that day, in a massive snowstorm, I walked out. Speaker 4: I didn't care where I slept that night, as long Speaker 4: as I was on the other side of the fence. Speaker 3: By the way, there's this iconic, beautiful photograph of Audrey.”
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