Alaina Urquhart

And she ultimately was found guilty of manslaughter, but sentenced to two years in prison.

What are we doing?

Two years in prison.

What are we doing here?

Hello?

Two years for manslaughter?

Yup.

The fuck?

So upon her release from prison in 1994, which was literally just like a whoop, blip in time.

Yeah.

She found a new scheme pretty quickly and a viable means of making some money.

While she was serving her sentence for manslaughter, she had come into contact with several women's rights and domestic violence activists who saw her as a perfect example of a woman who had been punished for what they argued...

was nothing more than protecting herself from an abusive husband.

So throughout the late 80s and early 90s in North America, there was this concept, which we've obviously heard of, the battered wife syndrome.

And it was also referred, also called battered woman syndrome.

And it had been gaining a lot of traction in, you know, medical professionals, legal professionals, and they were using it as a way to explain a range of behaviors and symptoms pretty similar to those of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially in women who had been victims of violence.

Yeah.

So in some cases, battered women syndrome had also been used as a defense in court cases where a wife or an intimate partner was accused of murdering or physically harming their supposed abuser.

Okay.

Or their alleged abuser.