Podcasts True Crime Let's Go To Court! 173: The Kidnapping of Zephany Nurse & the Dionne Quintuplets

173: The Kidnapping of Zephany Nurse & the Dionne Quintuplets

Published: May 12, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

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Celeste lay in her hospital bed, drifting in and out of sleep. Her newborn baby, Zephany, lay sleeping in a cot next to her. At some point, Celeste remembers a woman in a nurse\\u2019s uniform coming in to comfort her baby. Celeste didn\\u2019t think much of it. She fell back asleep. But when she woke up, the hospital staff was alarmed. Baby Zephany was missing.\\xa0
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Then Kristin tells us about five little girls who became a tourist attraction. In 1934, news of the Dionne Quintuplets spread worldwide. People couldn\\u2019t believe it. Five beautiful, identical little girls had been born to surprised parents in Ontario. Thousands of people showed up outside the Dionne\\u2019s farmhouse to get a look at the girls. But the girls\\u2019 parents, Elzire and Oliva, were torn. They weren\\u2019t sure how they could afford to care for their premature newborns, but they didn\\u2019t want to exploit them, either.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cThe Dionne quintuplets: The exploitation of five girls raised in a baby zoo,\\u201d by Gillian Brockwell for the Washington Post\\xa0
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\\u201cBBC1 Miracle Babies - The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets\\u201d on YouTube
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\\u201cThe story of the Dionne Quintuplets is a cautionary tale for the age of \\u2018kidfluencers,\\u2019\\u201d by Shelley Wood for Time Magazine
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\\u201cThe dark side of the famous five,\\u201d by Ian Parker for the Independent
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\\u201cThe babies of Quintland now: Broke, and bitter,\\u201d by Anthony Depalma for the New York Times
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\\u201cDionne Quintuplets\\u201d entry on Wikipedia\\xa0
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201c\'The selfie that revealed I was a stolen baby\\u2019\\u201d by Sarah Mcdermott, BBC News
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\\u201cSearch for daughter never-ending\\u201d by Bianca Capazorio and Leila Samodien, IOL
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\\u201cHow a Teen Girl Learned She Was Abducted As a Baby\\u201d by Catie L\\u2019Heureux, The Cut
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\\u201cI\\u2019m broken, says man who raised Zephany Nurse\\u201d by Catherine Rice, IOL
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\\u201cIn 2015, Mich\\xe9 met a girl who looked just like her. She had been abducted 17 years earlier.\\u201d by Billi Fitzsimmons, MamaMia
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\\u201cCeleste and Morn\\xe9 Nurse back together five years after finding long-lost daughter\\u201d by Daily Voice, IOL
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\\u201cMy biological dad is a \'lost cause\', Zephany Nurse reveals in new book\\u201d by Dave Chambers, Times Live
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\\u201cZephany Nurse kidnapper jailed for 10 years in South Africa\\u201d by Jason Burke, The Guardian
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