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Morbidology the Podcast - 52: Christine & Lucy Lee

Morbidology the Podcast – 52: Christine & Lucy Lee

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On the 23rd of February, 2014, a frantic 999 call to Surrey Police was placed by a woman who was desperately running for her life. In the phone call, the woman describes how her mother has been shot dead. Towards the end of the call, she informs the 999 operator that she is going to go back to the scene of the incident and acknowledges that she will probably lose her life. Her last words to the operator were: “I don’t know if I’m going to be alive if I go back there. He shot my mum. Bye.”

Jun 15, 2020  •  5 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 50: Yeardley Love

Morbidology the Podcast – 50: Yeardley Love

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University lacrosse is renowned for its predominately white, privately educated “rich kid” reputation and over the years, it’s the main sport in university that routinely suffers from damaging scandals. These scandals always grip the media, most likely because everybody involved is young, attractive and privileged. But then in May of 2010, the University of Virginia was thrust into the spotlight after a murder revealed the dark underbelly of the far too frequent college culture of binge drinking, male entitlement and violence.

Jun 1, 2020  •  6 min read