The Horrifying and Disturbing Case of Emma Williams

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @annekemahabeer5130
    @annekemahabeer5130 3 года назад +121

    Total masterpiece again. Enjoyed it so much. The old photos, history. You teach us so much. Brilliant work. Thank you so much. Love from South 🇿🇦 Africa

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +13

      Thankyou :)

    • @juanitadlamini5784
      @juanitadlamini5784 3 года назад +8

      I’m also watching from South Africa and I honestly can’t live without this channel
      His voice is just particularly therapeutic
      I honestly won’t sleep if I don’t hear his voice after a long day

    • @nlocnil3602
      @nlocnil3602 3 года назад +4

      @@juanitadlamini5784 what's up fellow true crime South Africans

    • @annekemahabeer5130
      @annekemahabeer5130 3 года назад +6

      @@juanitadlamini5784 DITTO!!! And the history and old photos are so amazing. He has a lovely voice !

    • @annekemahabeer5130
      @annekemahabeer5130 3 года назад +1

      @@nlocnil3602 🥰

  • @ridiculousspider
    @ridiculousspider 3 года назад +572

    John's life only mattered to the public and authorities after he was dead. That's tragic af.

    • @lovelyj7540
      @lovelyj7540 3 года назад +60

      @ ridiculousspider I agree. That woman tried on so many occasions to reach out for help and to find a suitable caregiver for John,to no avail. Then,after she acted in desperation and the poor child lost his life, everyone wanted to be judgemental and call her a terrible person. I could see if she just killed her son in cold blood,or because she wanted a man who didnt want to be bothered with him,but I am leaning heavily on the belief that she was so desperately poor and couldn't bear to see her child suffer any longer because she couldn't provide for him adequately. Not that killing him was right, because it wasn't,but she was acting in desperation.

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 3 года назад +11

      Yup.

    • @rebeccamurray9196
      @rebeccamurray9196 3 года назад +29

      Still happens today unfortunately

    • @deborahmcgee7970
      @deborahmcgee7970 3 года назад +38

      I’m a catholic and the Catholic Church Should be ashamed to do such a thing to a mother and her child

    • @jeanettewishall6362
      @jeanettewishall6362 3 года назад +33

      I was thinking about that too. That his life was meaningless until they could use the story to punish a woman whose life also never mattered until they could condemn her for society's failing. And honestly, this story is sadly still very relevant and its warnings still go unheeded.

  • @marthaharnish178
    @marthaharnish178 3 года назад +332

    This story is a heartbreaker. I can't imagine how she coped with all the losses at such a young age. You did an outstanding job of telling this story both as the public saw it and as she lived it.

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +20

      Thankyou

    • @justoneman1681
      @justoneman1681 3 года назад +11

      It sounds like she didn't cope with them very well at all.

    • @user-pc8dl4cy3i
      @user-pc8dl4cy3i 3 года назад +5

      Martha Harnish: I totally agree with you how well this tragic story was recounted. Brief Case, you did a brilliant job of conveying God’s view that mercy is better than judgment.

    • @mysticallymerry5523
      @mysticallymerry5523 3 года назад +10

      @@CashelOConnolly Why do a lot of Irish always resort to blaming the British? It's tragic what your grandparents had to endure but those tragedies happened in Britain as well and to protestants too. The Catholic church has never been as caring as they like us to believe, look at the reality of the Magdalene laundries eg. Ireland has always thought too highly of the Catholic church and it ruled them even more than the British did. Here in Liverpool back in the C19 there was a situation were some Catholic people were so poor they couldn't afford to bury their dead loved ones. They literally slept with the corpses, the church did nothing, finally it got so bad the protestant community disgusted by their predicament raised funds and arranged to have a temporary morgue built, it eventually became a church named All Souls.

    • @laurielovett8849
      @laurielovett8849 3 года назад +3

      @@CashelOConnolly you talk nonsence ,the death rate had nothing to do with what religion you were ,it's because there were so many fatal childhood diseases. My. Grandparents lost ,,8 out of their 12 children . 3 of them in two weeks.most of those childhood diseases no longer exist

  • @soniarodriguez6433
    @soniarodriguez6433 3 года назад +204

    Cases like this are so frustrating and sad. A person brought into this world, by fate, not entirely blaming her parents. Given no education, reduced to relay on finding a way in life, being looked down for what she was forced to do for a living and then denied any help from everyone. It was until she did something that caught their attention, they had anything to say about her, and killed her. Society failed her during all her life and what she did was a crime, but brought out of desperation.

    • @oldgysgt
      @oldgysgt 3 года назад +14

      Yes, 19th century Society failed Emma Williams, but it also failed little John Williams. Emma had very few options, but John had none.

    • @cidb.212
      @cidb.212 3 года назад +20

      I'm pretty sure that if men could get pregnant, and their morality was viewed in the same vent as women's, Emma would have had more favorable options.

    • @amyelizabeth135
      @amyelizabeth135 3 года назад +4

      @@cidb.212 1000%

    • @oldgysgt
      @oldgysgt 3 года назад +3

      @@cidb.212 ; Emma was a female and John was a male, and I see both of their death as being equally tragic, but apparently you only mourn for Emma. That smacks of sexism.

    • @cidb.212
      @cidb.212 3 года назад +16

      @@oldgysgt I was commenting on Emma's situation, not her death so it doesn't really qualify as "mourning". Her situation was directly related to her gender, THAT'S sexism.

  • @heatherallingham7120
    @heatherallingham7120 3 года назад +37

    This one made me cry. The system failed her utterly. It must have taken a lot to sell her own body to feed her child. And shame on the church. How immoral to turn her away like that. I don't believe she wanted to drown him. Terribly sad 😔

    • @SweetChicagoGator
      @SweetChicagoGator 2 месяца назад

      The church let her down but don't be naive ! Taking her baby's life and drowning him was her evil intent !! 🤢

  • @jesusbeloved3953
    @jesusbeloved3953 3 года назад +43

    What a sad story! According to your research, she tried everything she could think of. This doesn’t excuse murder, but it shows just how desperate people can become. Very well done, BC!

    • @missyrose2154
      @missyrose2154 3 года назад +3

      The problem isn’t just that she murdered him it’s that she chose such a cruel and brutal way to do it . It erases a ton of the sympathy I had for her .I’ve almost drowned before the burning and pain in your chest and the panic and fear it’s horrific . She tied that little boy to a rock and tossed him in to suffer a terrible end.

    • @SweetChicagoGator
      @SweetChicagoGator 2 месяца назад

      Desperate, does not excuse this evil witch mother of her infants murder !! 🤢 🥶

  • @R08Tam
    @R08Tam 3 года назад +81

    Tricky knowing how to feel about this one. An awful thing to do, but she certainly had the odds stacked against her

    • @laurielovett8849
      @laurielovett8849 3 года назад +8

      Other people coped with poverty but didnt murder children

    • @taniabudimir3835
      @taniabudimir3835 3 года назад +1

      @@laurielovett8849 Other people did not walk in the woman's shoes. If they did they would do the same including you.

    • @larmondoflairallen4705
      @larmondoflairallen4705 3 года назад +1

      @@taniabudimir3835 Do you know who can't walk a mile in anyone's shoes? Her murdered child.

  • @yvonnepetty3400
    @yvonnepetty3400 3 года назад +111

    Thank You M C. l dont think we can even imagine the poverty that these people lived in. It's all very sad.

    • @maureengillies9495
      @maureengillies9495 3 года назад +4

      What a sad tragic story my heart breaks for her and her poor little boy how uncaring those magistrates who would not let her put her little boy into care what cruel times

    • @yvonnepetty3400
      @yvonnepetty3400 3 года назад +2

      @@maureengillies9495 Yes Maureen they were dreadful times & Women didn't stand a chance. Love from Africa. 🐘.

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад +2

      @@maureengillies9495 I guess they were trying to seperate themselves from 'evil'

  • @amyelizabeth135
    @amyelizabeth135 3 года назад +129

    I always wonder how many mothers who killed their children in those days had genuine postpartum depression and or psychosis. So sad. ❤

    • @grammiesspirit2667
      @grammiesspirit2667 3 года назад +8

      You are so right. It had to be so. I often see my grandmother's face and see the pain, the depression, her sadness, her hard life and know she never had the resources we have today...the knowledge...sad. So sad 😢😢😢.

    • @mlcn3900
      @mlcn3900 3 года назад +4

      And don't forget the lack of aide that Emma so desperately searched for only to be denied over and over again. I don't think this was a mental issue so much as hardship with nowhere to go for assistance. But you're right... postpartum and other mental illnesses went undiagnosed for the majority.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 3 года назад +3

      Or lived in desperate poverty.

    • @larmondoflairallen4705
      @larmondoflairallen4705 3 года назад

      What kind of depression did the murdered children have as a result of...you know....being murdered by their poor, depressed mums? So sad.

  • @kittenwhisperer6408
    @kittenwhisperer6408 3 года назад +80

    It is so sad. The child never had a chance. Peace dear little John. Thanks Mr.BC for the sad but gripping tale. Hope to hear more from you soon.

  • @amethyst5538
    @amethyst5538 3 года назад +121

    She wasn't heartless, she was hopeless. I can't even imagine how it would feel to be in the position of watching your child suffer and die eventually, or kill them so they don't suffer needlessly. Especially after losing so many children and having lost another by having to send her away back to Tasmania.
    Yes, the people at the boarding houses may have said she mistreated little John, but I seriously question if it was "mistreatment," or the lack of "being able to provide properly.". Especially as a mother who had to live as a prostitute in order to survive and live.
    Than they criticized her for having to revert to that last resort in order to even live?🤬
    I do not condone what she did but having experienced what I have in life and seeing what others have gone through. I can sympathize with her situation. It's a lose, lose situation.😓

    • @missyrose2154
      @missyrose2154 3 года назад +13

      I was with you right up until she tied him to a rock and tossed him in the water alive to drown. It was a cruel and heartless way to take his life and he most certainly suffered . It erased all my sympathy for her tbh.

    • @amethyst5538
      @amethyst5538 3 года назад +3

      @@missyrose2154 I cannot argue that at all.

    • @swissotto1
      @swissotto1 3 года назад +4

      @@missyrose2154 well said and agreed. My compassion is foremost to the entirely innocent child. Victims are inexplicably forgotten by too many. Many mothers have literally died for their children. Take the woman who died of dehydration when at sea, but her child was at her breast and saved by the drops of milk she produced despite her thirsting to death. Not the only self sacrificing mother in history

    • @larmondoflairallen4705
      @larmondoflairallen4705 3 года назад +4

      "I do not condone what she did"....All you did was condone what she did! LOL!

    • @amethyst5538
      @amethyst5538 3 года назад +7

      @@larmondoflairallen4705 Sympathizing with a situation is not condoning someone's actions. I am glad everything is completely black and white in your little corner of space though.

  • @janetcw9808
    @janetcw9808 3 года назад +321

    Who was the more immoral, the women forced in to that type of work by sheer hunger or the authorities/religious groups that 'couldn't help the immoral women and their children'? 👹.

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 3 года назад +9

      Great question!

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 3 года назад +6

      👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @TheRedsofine
      @TheRedsofine 3 года назад +6

      The baby daddy.

    • @Kris-wo4pj
      @Kris-wo4pj 3 года назад +14

      @@TheRedsofine the husband who died of typhoid cuz of how disgusting and disease ridden the city was? Thats not how this works.

    • @deborahmcgee7970
      @deborahmcgee7970 3 года назад +14

      No competition the so called religious and authorities

  • @melissabibby7310
    @melissabibby7310 3 года назад +88

    Sad story, for all. Little boy who didn’t have a chance to live, a young mother who could not find the help she needed, like we have today.Heartbreaking.

    • @shagwell28
      @shagwell28 3 года назад +5

      U right,they had very little help ,fifty years ago

    • @rain7bow437
      @rain7bow437 3 года назад +2

      Theres still not much help today. Believe me. And worse now a lot of services are cut due to covid.

    • @larmondoflairallen4705
      @larmondoflairallen4705 3 года назад

      What help did she need to not murder her child?

    • @shannongirard4014
      @shannongirard4014 2 года назад

      There's not that much help today either

  • @jayneholmes6355
    @jayneholmes6355 3 года назад +32

    Thank you Brief Case!! Although I am not excusing Emma for what she did to John. I think she did have a very hard life from the loss of her babies and every single person she went to for help she hit a brick wall. This case is just a sad one.

    • @laurielovett8849
      @laurielovett8849 3 года назад

      Has it not occurred to you that perhaps she murdered her other babies

  • @tinaharnish
    @tinaharnish 3 года назад +169

    They wouldn't help, and rather than see her child starve to death, she drowned him. Then they blamed her for their inaction. Sad. Thank you for this story. Stay safe.🤗

    • @F40PH-2CAT
      @F40PH-2CAT 3 года назад +8

      She callously murdered her child. Yeah, she received no help, but @uck her, she killed her child.

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад +8

      She literally would have had to sit there and watch him DIE, suffering for days. Is that what she was supposed to do? And I know your answer is a stupid, She could have found help. No, she couldn't.

    • @tinaharnish
      @tinaharnish 3 года назад +4

      @@lazyhomebody1356 I said, because she couldn't get help, she drowned him. They then turned on her, after she drowned him to keep him from a slow, painful death.

    • @kmarch6630
      @kmarch6630 3 года назад +2

      @@F40PH-2CAT She didn't "callously murder her child.

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад +3

      @@tinaharnish I'm sorry, I was talking to the guy who replied. I obviously agree with you!

  • @fionamacro7795
    @fionamacro7795 3 года назад +109

    As usual the authorities take no responsibility, despite the fact that Emma was reported for being a “ bad mother”

    • @janetpendlebury6808
      @janetpendlebury6808 3 года назад +5

      There was no welfare back then, no government authority to take responsibility for the child.

    • @fionamacro7795
      @fionamacro7795 3 года назад +11

      @@janetpendlebury6808 maybe not but the church could have helped.

    • @MurasakiFujiwara
      @MurasakiFujiwara 3 года назад +5

      @@fionamacro7795 she went to the church, but they refused to help.

    • @fionamacro7795
      @fionamacro7795 3 года назад +5

      @@MurasakiFujiwara that is my point

    • @elinalukaziak693
      @elinalukaziak693 3 года назад +7

      @@fionamacro7795 they harm and sexually abuse kids. Why on earth would the church help her?

  • @angelinaloubet621
    @angelinaloubet621 3 года назад +58

    Awful as the crime was, I think that Emma should have had a repreive. She was pushed over the top by misery, and absolutely nobody to help her.

  • @zero_bs_tolerance8646
    @zero_bs_tolerance8646 3 года назад +41

    Poor little guy. RIP
    Thanks, BC.

  • @vanessakelly5993
    @vanessakelly5993 3 года назад +62

    Such different times make it hard to judge but it’s interesting to hear the judge talk about her ‘immoral’ life - never mentioning the men who took advantage of her !!!
    I feel for the children who had such an awful life…..💔

    • @irena4545
      @irena4545 3 года назад +11

      Exactly. Not to mention that baby John was conceived in marriage...

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад +2

      @@irena4545 Very good point

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +4

      Emma was married when the baby was conceived, that is said in the video, however her husband died before the baby was born

    • @Dion-rz3fz
      @Dion-rz3fz 3 года назад +1

      You are so dense and immature not to accept the fact that men and woman are just made differently! Grow up! Men are just naturally more quick to have a roll in the hay than women, who usually need more relationship first. Just the way the genders are different. Obviously this is why a parent would be upset and claim statutory rape in the case of a daughter. But how many parents are claiming statutory rape when a 16 yr. old boy has relations with his 19 yr. old girlfriend. See how it works! Its just different and you know it. But it is immoral outside of the marriage covenant according to the bible whether its a man or a woman. But I'm just talking about people who do as they please no matter what God thinks. Men are more aggressive and easily aroused so women need to be even more careful of the situations they put themselves in.

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад +1

      @@Dion-rz3fz You are correct. But women have been so mistreated for so long that people do react that way. Most of my (female) friends act like guys,lol.

  • @SoniaRossi72
    @SoniaRossi72 3 года назад +10

    I can't stop thinking about that 2 yr old little boy in the water held down by a heavy stone, and the intense fear in him, drowning. One of the worst wats to die....plus, he was ill-treated in life by her. And no one helped him. I'm just in tears.

  • @LucienSabre
    @LucienSabre 3 года назад +12

    I only feel a deep pity and sadness for Emma, and I really wanna cry. She wasn’t a criminal nor a bad mother, she was just a loving and desperate (or even beyond that) mother who wanted to stop her child’s suffering and in her utter misery and loneliness - she had been left completely alone and abandoned by anyone who could, and should, have helped her - found no other choice to that but the most extreme and tragic one…which, again, she believed was the only way to free her child of his suffering….how heart-wrenching is that?
    R.I.P. To both child _and_ mother.

  • @gryphonshire
    @gryphonshire 3 года назад +36

    Thank you for another heart-wrenching story narrated with your fine voice. A treat for my old ears, but sure pulls at my old heart. That poor girl....

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +2

      Thanks for listening

    • @cosmicdebris42
      @cosmicdebris42 3 года назад

      The Poor child. Her neck was stretched for good reason.Maybe if more monsters suffered the same fate as this witch, there maybe less child abuse.

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 3 года назад

      Hurts me to
      This person couldnt get help anywhere
      She should have just joined that church

  • @aileenhovorka9207
    @aileenhovorka9207 3 года назад +52

    I am torn between desperate pity and absolute disgust with her! All I know is that, as is SO often the case, a little child suffered!
    As always, thank you B.C. for another excellent story.

    • @Sorchia56
      @Sorchia56 3 года назад +7

      Couldn’t have said it better! Poor wee one

    • @bagladietwo662
      @bagladietwo662 3 года назад

      I can't imagine hurting one of my children ! However desperate people d

    • @bagladietwo662
      @bagladietwo662 3 года назад +3

      Desperate people do Desperate things

    • @Sorchia56
      @Sorchia56 3 года назад +3

      @@michelekossack1861 If the child were already dead, even an adult, the means for survival are necessary. I do not see it as taboo. Plenty killed their horses to survive and other animals. Survival is a primal reaction. This woman, however, was an unfit mother and murdered her child instead of dropping him off at the Salvation Army. That is not desperate, that is selfish and cruel.

    • @Kris-wo4pj
      @Kris-wo4pj 3 года назад +1

      @@Sorchia56 she kept dropping her kid off to places and the police kept giving him back. The only other place she could take him to be taken care of was heaven.
      And no they murdered their kids to eat them during famine it happened when the soviets were doing their genocide of Ukraine and during the china "reformation yrs".

  • @denisegiannakis5667
    @denisegiannakis5667 3 года назад +33

    Poor desperate woman! I'm glad that now in Melbourne Australia there is more support. My mum was left a widow with 3 children under 6 .. 1960s...it wasn't easy but we had plenty of support ...so fortunate to be here!

  • @lorrainechingwarara
    @lorrainechingwarara 3 года назад +8

    i really love how you also touch up on social issues of the time, i dont think i know anyone else who sounds as well researched as this channel

  • @rosiebargoed681
    @rosiebargoed681 3 года назад +17

    I am seriously addicted to these. Great job BC 😀

  • @micheleshively8557
    @micheleshively8557 3 года назад +23

    I feel so bad for her. Has to be such a horrible way to have to survive. Thank you for telling her story. Always love seeing you post ❤️ many blessings to you and all your subscribers

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +19

    Good morning 🌅 Briefcase 💼 and happy 😊 Monday everyone 🙂.

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

      Hey Caddy! Ready for breakfast?👋🦋🌈🦄🤗🥐🍫☕🌰🍞🍓🥞🥯🥓🍳🍌🍩🍪🧁🥧

    • @janetcw9808
      @janetcw9808 3 года назад +1

      Happy day x

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      @@janetcw9808 hello Scottish Lass! How are you and the little cluckers?👋🦋🌈🤗🥐🍫☕💐🐱🐴👻🐓🐔

    • @cadillacdeville5828
      @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +1

      @@janetcw9808 Hi Janet, how's everything going?☺️

    • @cadillacdeville5828
      @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +2

      @@meemurthelemur4811 Hello 👋🏽 there. I see we have fulfilling breakfast to start off with the video 📷📸

  • @astrohaterade
    @astrohaterade 3 года назад +61

    While I can’t ever be ok with murdering a child, I have no patience for the anger of the people towards her either because had it not been for the crime, they would not have cared at all about that poor little boy’s existence and poverty. Society set this up just like she did and it doesn’t just happen in history or in one country.
    Edit for typos.

    • @irena4545
      @irena4545 3 года назад +10

      Agreed. They didn't care when he lived, but they all cared oh-so-much when he was dead. Disgusting.

    • @F40PH-2CAT
      @F40PH-2CAT 3 года назад +7

      The primary caregiver murdered her own child. She is the primary source of evil here.

    • @elinalukaziak693
      @elinalukaziak693 3 года назад +7

      @@F40PH-2CAT you sound like a raging mysogynist.

    • @charlotteharbst5419
      @charlotteharbst5419 3 года назад

      🔚🔜🔛🔙🔝

    • @larmondoflairallen4705
      @larmondoflairallen4705 3 года назад +1

      @@elinalukaziak693 You sound like a raging leftist that can't accept reality because it contradicts your feelings.

  • @heidinolen873
    @heidinolen873 3 года назад +9

    Happy Monday BC!
    Thank you for all your hard work. And everyone that supports you so you can. We appreciate you!!!

  • @AuroraBlood
    @AuroraBlood 3 года назад +15

    Good afternoon from Finland :)
    And thank you once again, I always look forward to listen to your interesting cases and nice voice :)

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 3 года назад +1

      Hi from Virginia
      USA
      Hope you all are safe and happy

  • @sheilayoung8007
    @sheilayoung8007 3 года назад +11

    Such a sad case all the way around. I really felt bad for Emma, in those days women really didn't have a choice if their husband was deceased. She was a desperate person, not excusing the crime, however, I can see where she could feel like she had no choice.
    Thanks BC amazing as always

    • @mysticallymerry5523
      @mysticallymerry5523 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely, so tragic. It happened too often that when a womans husband died the woman would end up in poverty. It happened to a woman in 1888, forced into walking the streets at night to survive, ended up a victim of Jack the ripper.

  • @NoTimeForLies
    @NoTimeForLies 3 года назад +47

    I feel sorry for her. She tried to get help but was turned away. I believe she loved her little boy. The anguish and despair that pushed her to kill her son had to be soul crushing.

  • @migue4793
    @migue4793 3 года назад +55

    She did wrong, however, women were treated deplorable back then, and If more care facilities were available then this may not have happened. What's sad is the Church even refused to help her. Poor Emma!! Such a sad story!

    • @debrawise8400
      @debrawise8400 3 года назад +5

      I know ! They wouldn't help just because the child was not baptized in the Catholic Church . I don't get it!

    • @Irunwithscissors63
      @Irunwithscissors63 3 года назад +1

      It’s because it’s not a church. The definition of church is people, believers on Christ. They believe on the Pope

    • @moniquetheobald889
      @moniquetheobald889 3 года назад +3

      Women are treated deporable now.

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 3 года назад +1

      Shecould have joined that church had him baptized and got help

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 3 года назад +1

      @@lindaarrington9397 the church should have just given help and not be disgusting hypocrites.

  • @susanjohnson9795
    @susanjohnson9795 3 года назад +28

    Thanks for all of your hard work BC. This was a sad story all around. Why didn't she leave the child on the doorstep of the Salvation Army? Silly me, he would have just wandered off I guess. Life seemed extremely hard back then.

  • @2wolfmom981
    @2wolfmom981 3 года назад +3

    Even with thunder and rain you, Brief Case make my Mondays bright. Thank you for all the work you do on these cases for us. 🤗❤️

  • @peaceworld5393
    @peaceworld5393 3 года назад +6

    Hi BC ! Thank you! Such a sad story!
    Have a Wonderful Week!

  • @brendaholliday6866
    @brendaholliday6866 3 года назад +5

    This truly was a horrific and heartbreaking case about, Emma Williams. She wasn't able to get any kind of help caring for her young son, church, private citizens and even her own mother. She probably out of extreme desperation felt that she would kill her son, I'm not condoning what she did but, under extreme mental stress she probably thought she was doing what she had to do. It would have been great if she could have found a childless couple who would have gladly adopted her young son. May her son, John rest in eternal peace. Great investigating of this case, as always.

  • @marylevin9262
    @marylevin9262 3 года назад +2

    God forbid anyone help her- so much easier to ignore or complain about her 😠 ty as always briefy

  • @joannesaunsbury3767
    @joannesaunsbury3767 3 года назад +15

    I am not sure this was the best thing I could have listened to, I am 7 months pregnant and my heart breaks at this story. Poor wee child and poor mother.
    On a happier note baby seems to love BC voice, someone woke up

    • @tubthump
      @tubthump 3 года назад +6

      Best wishes to you

    • @renee1961
      @renee1961 3 года назад +3

      Congratulations on your Little One!♥️♥️♥️♥️

  • @phinhnanthasone1231
    @phinhnanthasone1231 3 года назад +15

    Since the fate of her daughter is not known, I want to believe that she was adopted and had a normal life

  • @lebochakale7644
    @lebochakale7644 3 года назад +16

    Good afternoon from sunny South Africa 😊 🇿🇦

    • @beez5338
      @beez5338 3 года назад +1

      Hello from chilly London, hope all in South Africa are fighting the fascist takeover/neo feudalism.
      Top Virologist epidemiologist out of Oxford - Sunetra Gupta ruclips.net/video/t8Xuz9wPLJE/видео.html
      Suppression of early treatment is illegal unethical, immoral ruclips.net/video/ucRn_pZVaDgb/видео.htmlb

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 3 года назад +1

      Hi from Virginia
      USA

  • @Dihechuwa
    @Dihechuwa 3 года назад +1

    I will never regret subscribing to this channel! Thanks again

  • @anngladstone9130
    @anngladstone9130 3 года назад +4

    What a sad case that really shines the light on just how necessary public assistance to the poorest is.

  • @kylierosenthal1214
    @kylierosenthal1214 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for a case from Australia where I live

  • @shelleyUSATX
    @shelleyUSATX 3 года назад +8

    You know I love your videos and your voice relaxes me, that's a good thing, but not at work.LOL Thank you for always bringing us something new. You're amazing!

  • @melissarivard7238
    @melissarivard7238 3 года назад +130

    Kinda disgusting of the Catholic Church to turn away from helping this woman and her baby just because the baby wasn’t baptized into the church. Pitiful.

    • @irena4545
      @irena4545 3 года назад +21

      And why wasn't the child baptized? Because she didn't have money. Real Christian love, right?

    • @lysianassa2011
      @lysianassa2011 3 года назад +19

      Because the Catholic Church doesn’t care about anyone or anything except it’s control over others.

    • @willgetbettereventually124
      @willgetbettereventually124 3 года назад +16

      Jesus was baptized at age 30 not as a baby. Where does the Catholic Church expect more from people than what’s in the Bible. Babies are only baptized so the church can collect more money. Turning away a child is heartless. A child doesn’t have enough knowledge to make spiritual decisions. Taking care of the needy children, not once did the Bible ask if they were baptized, they are CHILDREN!!

    • @F40PH-2CAT
      @F40PH-2CAT 3 года назад +1

      That's how things were done back then.

    • @mcmd2009
      @mcmd2009 3 года назад +8

      The Catholic church helps millions. You don't know what you're talking about.

  • @ELKE-
    @ELKE- 3 года назад +7

    Hello Mr Brief! I'm earlier for once! Thank you for another great work, and your lovely narration

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +2

      Morning!

    • @ELKE-
      @ELKE- 3 года назад +2

      @@BriefCaseOfficial
      Thank you, is 1:20pm here already. Wish good week ahead! Edit: Very sad case! RIP🌻 Btw, i relisten two of your videos before my internet went off! Will do more.

  • @meemurthelemur4811
    @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +6

    Good morning BriefCase and everyone!👋🦋🌈🦄🤗🥐🍫☕🐱🐴💐🍌🍓🥞🥯🥓🍳🍪🍩

    • @janetcw9808
      @janetcw9808 3 года назад +1

      Good afternoon, all well I hope Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕊️⚖️⛤🌈🦇🎃🎃👻🍻

    • @zero_bs_tolerance8646
      @zero_bs_tolerance8646 3 года назад +1

      Meems!! Hugs! ♥

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      @@zero_bs_tolerance8646 hiya Zero! Hugs right back atcha!👋🦋🌈🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

    • @chaosdromanah8620
      @chaosdromanah8620 3 года назад +1

      Hello there

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

      @@chaosdromanah8620 hey Chaos!👋🦋🌈🦄

  • @stonelingo1381
    @stonelingo1381 3 года назад +1

    Brief Case,you're a legend...I've been a subscriber of yours a long time now and i love seeing a notification,and i call that a notification,i call that a treat ❤️

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад

      Not sure about a legend but thankyou for your support

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 3 года назад +6

    Thank You, Brief Case, for another EXCELLENT video! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟So Terribly Sad, in many ways! Poor Baby John!💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏 And to Lose so many Babies had to be beyond heartbreaking! I can't even try to imagine!! 🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏. Same time, same place Monday! Stay well!💚🌞🤗🐊☺️🌝🌚✨👋🌺🌼🌸

  • @Theghostswithin
    @Theghostswithin 3 года назад +4

    Incredibly sad for this woman and the many women who had no voice...and were forced alone to try and survive

  • @PollyAlice2000
    @PollyAlice2000 3 года назад +5

    My heart is broken once again over the sins of my church. That poor little boy, and his mother, should have received acts of charity and love, and been protected from the moment this destitute mother sought help from ANY church worthy of being called one.

  • @jordanh8906
    @jordanh8906 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for any great video! My Monday work mornings are not the same without brief case ❤️❤️❤️

  • @dixiegeorge9665
    @dixiegeorge9665 3 года назад +4

    It sounds like that little boys life was misery. RIP John. Thanks Brief Case

  • @allisonstephens1837
    @allisonstephens1837 3 года назад +2

    What an extremely SAD case what's even more SAD it continues to happen TODAY..

  • @queenneurotica4591
    @queenneurotica4591 3 года назад +13

    I’m so grateful that I was born when I was, and not have to experience the existence of a working class woman back then - it must’ve been living Hell.

  • @TA-cm9yi
    @TA-cm9yi 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for all the research and detailed cases, this is a sad tale and unfortunately this still happens.

  • @michaelsmyth3935
    @michaelsmyth3935 3 года назад +17

    Gee Wally, the way the sad eyed hand wringers showed up after the tragedy is a lot like today.
    Sure is Beav, sure is.

  • @olivermckenna6855
    @olivermckenna6855 3 года назад +2

    Heart breaking story ..some people just never get help when really needed ..so tragic

  • @ded2thaworld963
    @ded2thaworld963 3 года назад +6

    Love these damn vids, never knew how interesting these things were to me til recently.

  • @jamesl9371
    @jamesl9371 2 года назад +2

    It’s always amazing how people don’t get help when alive and need help but great effort and expenses are available to prosecute and imprisoned them later. It’s still true

  • @terrymoore565
    @terrymoore565 3 года назад +33

    Life back then was pure hell, especially for women and children, the malnutrition alone kepted the brain depraved of nutrients, the traumas of loss and struggles each day to find a crumb and warm bed without the usual bugs and lice, death at the end of a rope sounds wonderful to me had I lived this horrific life..

    • @Dion-rz3fz
      @Dion-rz3fz 3 года назад +2

      I think it would have been pretty good actually, IF you had lots of money. Because you would have had servants to do almost every dirty job you didn't want to do. From emptying and cleaning the chamber pots, to hitching up the carriage, to making your clothes, etc... etc...At that time before income tax when you made a dollar it was a dollar. So wealth really went far. Beautiful ornate mansions with full staff of servants, only the finest of tailor made clothes, and furnishings. Even most rich people now don't have the luxury of a full staff of servants. BUT, just stay healthy because they couldn't do that much for you when you got diseases no matter how much money you had. So most likely a much shorter life.

  • @debrawise8400
    @debrawise8400 3 года назад +1

    Thank you Brief Case once again you did a wonderful job on this story.It is a very sad story. That's gotta be bad ,turning to people for help just to be turned away ! It's so much more that went on in Emma's life, needless to say, that poor baby,residence complained because the baby was crying. HE WAS A BABY!

  • @kmarch6630
    @kmarch6630 3 года назад +5

    Family wouldnt help, the child's father wouldn't help, even the damn church wouldn't help but the mother is condemned. So sad for the child and mother. What became of the daughter: unknown.

  • @Mintyairplane
    @Mintyairplane 3 года назад +1

    Good morning
    Thank for the early Monday morning video. Something to watch while I drink my coffee.

  • @naomipagecoachingreddragon5991
    @naomipagecoachingreddragon5991 3 года назад +19

    Love the Aussie stories 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 gotta love the generosity and compassion of the Catholic Church

  • @stacyrussell460
    @stacyrussell460 3 года назад +1

    This case breaks my heart. Especially for the little boy. Wonderful job on this one.

  • @elijahf8
    @elijahf8 3 года назад +10

    AND unfortunately, no aspect of this case, is at all, uncommon. Even today.
    Big difference in the church BUT there are still some that are waaay quicker to help their own members.

  • @2Cuteandcrazycats
    @2Cuteandcrazycats 3 года назад +1

    I always enjoy your content. It's so tragic that no one would help her until it was too late. So devastating...

  • @randymarsengill6035
    @randymarsengill6035 3 года назад +5

    Some things never change…fight for the fetus and when it’s born its on its own. Hypocritical.

  • @ladalekoehler2176
    @ladalekoehler2176 2 года назад

    I do love all the old pictures you find. They show so much history.

  • @TheRetirednavy92
    @TheRetirednavy92 3 года назад +9

    Just woke up and another great BC for me.

  • @dianneraphael8248
    @dianneraphael8248 3 года назад +2

    Good evening BC !!! from Western Australia! It's 7.05 pm

  • @karolynbenjamin
    @karolynbenjamin 3 года назад +4

    Such a heartbreaking story.

  • @sandywalker1208
    @sandywalker1208 3 года назад +2

    Ready for bed and it's a bonus as it's a story from down under, great work brief case, take care mate, thanks for your great storys as always

  • @aye70aye
    @aye70aye 3 года назад +7

    Poor little fella, drowning is such a cruel, terrifying death. Certain areas of society like the Catholic Church had a lot to answer to as well (still does!) they didnt genuinely care about the destitute or desperate unless they fit into their 'mould'. Sad all round but murdering an infant is never the only option.

    • @aye70aye
      @aye70aye 3 года назад +4

      @Nikki Lauren Lol many ppl on here have said the exact same thing as I. The Catholic 'mould' I was referring to was THEY turned her away as the child wasnt baptised and therefore, they failed to extend any compassion or demonstrate any empathy. And please dont try to imply the Catholic Church were short of 'funds' as they were and are the epitome of wealth.
      Your final query is irrelevant as she didnt approach any other religious institution for help so we cannot know how others would have responded.

    • @janetpendlebury6808
      @janetpendlebury6808 3 года назад +1

      @Nikki Lauren There were not so many orphanages back then and were probably very crowded, the one run by the church turned her away as the child was not baptised.

  • @jenrules
    @jenrules 3 года назад +1

    Always look forward to your posts. Keep up the good work! 👍🏼

  • @SuperMissblueeyes
    @SuperMissblueeyes 3 года назад +4

    Every person who slammed a door in her face when she was forced to ask for help is partially responsible for John's murder & Emma's execution. It wouldn't surprise me if she was majorly depressed & the depression led to her horrific decision to end John's life. It breaks my heart that women & children used to be abused & nelgected like that. And what sort of messed up person complains about a baby crying?! Absolutely no compassion! I'm glad things have improved since then.

  • @LauraBidingCitizen
    @LauraBidingCitizen 3 года назад +1

    I can’t even begin to imagine what Emma went through to get to that breaking point. I think what others around her were describing as ‘not remorseful’ or ‘cold’ with regards to little John were most likely a huge mixture of desperation, despair, hopelessness, potential post natal depression &/or psychosis, as well as the fact she never truly dealt with the loss of her babies because help like that just wasn’t available in those days (& you were told or expected to just ‘get on with it’). I can imagine how she thought things must’ve really turned a corner with her husband & the move.. only for him to sadly pass away, & for her to find out she was pregnant with a child she couldn’t support. I can’t even begin to fathom what she went through desperately trying to get help for her son, only for the people who were meant to help her the most to slam doors in her face 😔

  • @deedragongirl
    @deedragongirl 3 года назад +7

    Good evening from Malaysia, after doing the groceries and had lunch with my younger autistic brother. Now I'm waiting for dinner to come after my mom come back from a friend's house to try out a bicycle shirt nearby!

    • @deedragongirl
      @deedragongirl 3 года назад

      @Nikki Lauren Getting stuff from the groceries, get it?!?!??!!

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 3 года назад

      I have ADHD and am watching. Neurodivergent pride!

    • @elinalukaziak693
      @elinalukaziak693 3 года назад

      @Katherine McDonnell As someone who has LOST their autistic little brother, how dare you. Leave the op alone, they're just going about their day.

  • @dianerobertson5668
    @dianerobertson5668 3 года назад +1

    I cant belive how mu h I look forward to your videos every week. The older ones are fantastic. Keep up the good work!

  • @brendaizzie
    @brendaizzie 3 года назад +3

    Good morning everyone, ty bc GeForce another great story, I find myself stuck in the middle between feeling pity for her and disgust at her actions.

  • @moragcooke9191
    @moragcooke9191 3 года назад

    I love hearing these old cases so interesting and you are so good at telling us the background of the people involved this case is quite heartbreaking

  • @theresareynolds3133
    @theresareynolds3133 3 года назад +5

    Why didn’t they take the little boy away from her, they knew she had kept leaving him with just anyone, lord only knows what the poor baby saw or what was done to him. This is heartbreaking, I’ll never understand how parents can kill their own children.

    • @ladalekoehler2176
      @ladalekoehler2176 2 года назад

      I can’t understand people hurting or killing their children. If you are going to hurt them why have them. I could only have one child before I contact cancer. I lived but I couldn’t have any more children. I love my son very much and yes he was spoiled but he was my only child so so what. My oldest sister had two kids and she treated like shit. And I use to hate that I was too young at the time to take them away and raise them. I just hate people that have kids and don’t take care of them or hurt them and for a long time I did hate my sister for they way she was towards her kids. Children are a blessing. Yes some children are evil and you have to watch for them but that’s rare.

  • @katewilliams9480
    @katewilliams9480 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for another case from down under 🇦🇺 I've seen Emma's bust in the old Melbourne gaol.

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 3 года назад +7

    Sit back as we go to Australia.
    Gday maites.

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      Hello my dear! How are you this fine Monday morning?👋🦋🌈🤗🥐🍫☕💐🐱🐴👻

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад +1

      @@meemurthelemur4811 Gday. Meemuria. Just great. How are you?
      I was looking for you on TCG yesterday.

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      @@Agapy8888 I dozed off and slept through it!🤣 I even slept through my phone alarm!😂😂 I felt sooo horrible! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад +1

      @@meemurthelemur4811 Deja vue. That happened to me last Sunday as I was waiting. Woke up 10 minutes before it ended. Napping is great any time. Best part. Feel always energised after a nap. Cheers.
      Have to rewatch BC. To play the ads.

  • @Meenadevidasi
    @Meenadevidasi 2 года назад

    Society then (and even now) is enough to make you want to live in the woods as a hermit. Thanks for the presentation. A real heart breaker as usual.

  • @BootsORiley
    @BootsORiley 3 года назад +6

    RIP baby John

  • @marinakaiser7639
    @marinakaiser7639 3 года назад

    I love this old Crime cases ❤👍if you and Ollie wouldn't narrate about them i think i would never heard about the most of it.Thank you so much. Wish you a wonderful day dear🙋‍♀️💖

  • @mileshigh1321
    @mileshigh1321 3 года назад +45

    She was a product and victim of society! Her back was against the wall with her child, she did what she thought was best...however...there were many other ways besides killing him, she could have chosen. But when everything seems hopeless, your first worst option seems to be the only one! You did it again BC! another great episode!

    • @tomspreadbury2915
      @tomspreadbury2915 3 года назад +9

      A victim yes, but that still does not justify murder under any circumstances, especially considering the victim was a 2 year old child. She had options, she opted not to use them.

    • @redhed515
      @redhed515 3 года назад +5

      @@tomspreadbury2915 What are the options you speak of?

    • @tomspreadbury2915
      @tomspreadbury2915 3 года назад +5

      @@redhed515 orphanage, adoption centers for unwanted children charities like the Salvation Army. If she ACTUALLY went to the Salvation Army he would have lived, the lie she told, if in reality she did it, would have saved his life
      Another option is to care for her son herself. As horrible as it is and as difficult as it was, persevering through difficulty is simply a much better choice than killing

    • @gggthsb
      @gggthsb 3 года назад +9

      @@tomspreadbury2915 I wont try to excuse what she did but orphanages back then quite often (depending on where in the world of course) didn't just take in your child if you couldn't take care of it. They were for actual orphans, so children whos parents were unknown or dead, sometimes for children of prisoners when they didn't have family to take care of them. Children were your problem and noone had the money or means to take care of them when there was a parent around.
      The church didn't help her because the child wasn't christened (which is the biggest wtf to me but then again not really that surprising...) the salvation army didn't help, you claiming she lied about that is beyond my understanding because if she just wanted to kill the boy she would have done so way sooner.
      Again, I'm not saying what she did was right but just claiming 'she should have just gotten it together and taken the help she was offered (which was none as far as we know)' sounds to me like a great misuderstanding of how life was and worked back then.
      Lots of women were able to pull it off, even more were not.

    • @tomspreadbury2915
      @tomspreadbury2915 3 года назад +5

      @@gggthsb rewatch the video. She claimed she took her son/was taking her son to the Salvation Army. She never did. She could have, but she never did.
      Besides my main point is that if she couldn’t find care, she should have continued to care for him herself. Obviously her situation was awful, but it doesn’t excuse murder.

  • @madelynthomas1132
    @madelynthomas1132 3 года назад

    Hands down this one of best channels on RUclips..Great job and thank you for your hard work.Its greatly appreciated

  • @lucysimons653
    @lucysimons653 3 года назад +21

    Sad to say she did the only thong she believed she could do. I'm not excusing it, as there isn't an excuse for murder, but she herself was a victim in many ways.
    A single mother, poor and deemed immoral, hadn't a hope in heck of getting help.

  • @sarahjeannepeterson5536
    @sarahjeannepeterson5536 3 года назад

    Good morning BC! Pleasant surprise to see you this morning! Thank you for another great presentation! A very sad story. It sounds like Emma tried hard to live a normal life but her efforts were thwarted every step of the way. Very sad, for her, for her little boy, for all her lost children.

  • @londonsage8696
    @londonsage8696 3 года назад +15

    I don’t think what she did was right, but no one wanted to help her. Neighbors turned on her I complaining about the crying and saying she was a bad mother and even the church didn’t help her. It sounds to me as if she was at her wits end and just desperate she barely had a roof over her head not very much money and probably could barely feed her child.6 and thought no one would find him.
    My heart breaks for the baby that she drowned but at the same time I feel bad for her also I can only imagine what it was like back in those days with out running water and living in a house with other people complaining of the time, But she was wrong

  • @ladysudaandthegoddessmorri3217
    @ladysudaandthegoddessmorri3217 2 года назад +1

    This is a sad, sad tale. RIP little John. 🙏

  • @cmclem1959
    @cmclem1959 3 года назад +8

    This is a sad case of a poor woman who had no support, and no way out, so she did what she thought was the only thing to do. I put some blame on the church that refused her because he wasn't baptized, really? He was human, doesn't that count? She should not have been sentenced to death. That situation still exists today, although there are more programs to help now.

  • @emmadenton9697
    @emmadenton9697 3 года назад

    Only recently discovered this channel & now I'm hooked!

  • @janetcw9808
    @janetcw9808 3 года назад +3

    Good afternoon everyone Xxx

  • @vampirequeen953
    @vampirequeen953 3 года назад +1

    BC you're absolutely amazing!! Thank you so much for all your hard work that you put into your videos!! I genuinely appreciate it!!!