Episode 46: Jessie King. This week Joannagh brings us the historic case of Jessie King, an Edinburgh woman hanged in 1889 for the murder of two children in a horrific 'baby farming' scheme.
We hear questions about how guilty Jessie ultimately was and if more scrutiny should have been placed on her partner Thomas Pearson. Joannagh also gives some insight into life inside Calton Jail where King was housed before her execution.

Case research by Joannagh Shanks
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise

Sources of research:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30850674

https://www.mercattours.com/blog-post/evil-baby-farmer-or-victim-of-her-time

https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/05/01/jessie-king/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12071282.jessie-king-was-shopped-by-her-lover-and-went-to-the-scaffold-children-of-the-shadows/

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/babyfarm.html

https://www.edinburghexpert.com/blog/the-stockbridge-murderess

https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/news-mews-30

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-record/20210202/281784221770783

https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/king-jessie.htm

https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/local-historians-history/david-rowland/evil-female-murderers/jessie_kean

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/incomes-and-poverty/the-benefits-of-britain/#:~:text=The%201908%20and%201948%20Olympic,the%20Beveridge%20report%20of%201942.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/87/contents

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/creepy-history-behind-well-known-15474970

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/death-cell-door-of-calton-jail

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/lost-edinburgh-calton-jail-1562700

https://www.gov.scot/publications/70-years-of-st-andrews-house/

https://www.gov.scot/publications/70-years-of-st-andrews-house/pages/calton-jail/