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Radio Shropshire,7 mins

Did Kitty killer her mother?

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In the depths of winter 1848, a lifeless, charred body is discovered in Bridgnorth.The grisly discovery looks suspicious, and the dead woman’s daughter, Kitty, is arrested on the spot. But would a daughter really kill her very own mother? BBC podcast, 'Lady Killers' unpicks the disturbing family dynamics and long buried secrets of the Newton family in search for the truth. Lady Killers' Professor Rosalind Crone- "It's a story with a lot of interesting twists and turns, and not the outcome you'd expect at all."

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