Maddy Pelling
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6,688 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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obviously in the nineteenth century there weren't the same sanitary products available that there are today and women did use rags in their undergarments as a way to clean themselves, you know, to put inside their underwear.
Is that really what this bucket of rags is?
And of course because I mean this is I mean I mean we've seen this in
Multiple cases actually.
I'm thinking back to was it the Sarah Malcolm case in the early eighteenth century that we saw that was exactly the same defense when people found rags covered in blood, Sarah Malcolm in that in that instance says, Oh no, no, no, that's just my period, it's menstrual blood.
And we see it again and again.
And the effect on the men, it's always men who are doing the prosecution.
Is often to take a step back and say, Oh, okay, don't want to know anything about that.
Thanks, but we won't take that any further.
That's your private business.
That's ladies' business, nothing to do with us.
And women in the cases that we've looked at so far have sometimes used that.
I mean it's ambiguous, but I think they have used it almost as a way to evade punishment, to escape being prosecuted.
But in the case of Lizzie, I don't know.
She could still be cleaning the blood of her father off her dress.
But those rags could be her period blood.
Well, they are about to pursue it further.
She is going to be arrested.
So on August eleventh, several days after the murders, she Lizzie is arrested for murder.
Although it will take, I think, a year, almost a year, for the trial to come to fruition.
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