Ep 12 - Walter Schels, Boulder Jane Doe and Martha Needle




Dead Bodies Podcast show

Summary: Sharnelle looks at German photographer Walter Schels who was terrified of death, but conquered his fear by taking a series of portraits of people before and on the day they died. Dee Dee cover the discovering in 1954 of a naked, battered body of a woman, found laying against rocks in Boulder, Colorado. It was more than 50 years before the woman known as Boulder Jane Doe was formally identified. And who killed her? Martha Needle was one of only five women ever hanged in Victoria’s history, convicted of the murder of her brother-in-law, and suspected of killing many more, including her own husband and children. Author Dr Brian Williams joins the girls to share details from his new book, Martha Needle