The Shocking & Twisted Case of Rhoda Willis

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  • @BriefCaseOfficial
    @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +65

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    • @aaronburratwood.6957
      @aaronburratwood.6957 3 года назад +1

      If Rhoda married a man with the last name Dent & she became a registered nurse, she’d be:
      Rhoda Dent RN.

  • @alicewilloughby4318
    @alicewilloughby4318 3 года назад +60

    The fact that she said she killed the baby because "a sudden temptation came over me" shows that she was dealing with a severe problem, whether psychological or due to her head injury. This whole thing is so tragic.

    • @LotsofLisa
      @LotsofLisa 2 года назад +6

      I was thinking the head trauma must’ve damaged which ever part manages impulse control. (frontal lobe?)

  • @anniekinsmishkamouse7575
    @anniekinsmishkamouse7575 3 года назад +128

    I find it sad that when her first husband died, and she was still young with a young baby, she was not taken back into her father's household. By accounts he was of relatively good financial means and perhaps a position could have been found for her in one of the two hotels. With family support her story could have ended much differently.
    Edit to correct a word.

    • @Indusxstan
      @Indusxstan 3 года назад +25

      Yes, clearly her family let her down. :(

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 3 года назад +18

      My exact thought.
      Perhaps she didn't want to go back, but things would have been different.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 3 года назад +23

      @@Indusxstan
      Not necessarily.
      She may not have wanted to go back. It seems she enjoyed drinking and going to bars, she shacked up with a man, she was also later living under an assumed name.
      There is more to her story than we know...

    • @zingwilder9989
      @zingwilder9989 3 года назад +11

      @@abelis644 I believe that sums it up. It was alcoholism that took hold of her, possibly even before her first husband died; and it all was downhill from there.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад +8

      @@abelis644 Great points! Our FIRST red flag is her hopping up and marrying probably the first guy who came along at age 15 and then moving away with him. With her background and for that time period, I would have expected her to have married someone closer to her family too.

  • @angelinaloubet621
    @angelinaloubet621 3 года назад +39

    I always put a thumbs up before I even watch the video, because I am certain I'm going to enjoy it to no ends 😊

    • @louisegross3886
      @louisegross3886 3 года назад +3

      Me too always thumbs up for brief case

  • @Carolbearce
    @Carolbearce 3 года назад +12

    I am glad that they found out about her quickly. Imagine how many babies could have died from her hand. Well delivered and thank you!

  • @sheilayoung8007
    @sheilayoung8007 3 года назад +119

    What a sad case all around. Her future was so bright. I do wonder if her bike accident caused the personality change. I am glad that she owned up to her crime, and apparently, she was remorseful. Tragic all the way around. Thank you BC, great story as always! ♥️

    • @stardominguez84
      @stardominguez84 3 года назад +13

      Head injuries are actually a common theme in even serial killers

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад +3

      Head injury, severe enough to cause her to become a baby killer. She was hit by a bicycle, not a truck.
      I need to see the medical report to believe that she was in that infirmary for anything else besides drying herself out. She probably walked/staggered into the path of the bicycle to begin with.

    • @brandyjean7015
      @brandyjean7015 3 года назад +4

      @@scharf74 she was riding her bicycle. Brief Case didn't say what caused the accident. She could have suffered a concussion, or some other traumatic brain injury, in falling off of her bike.
      Not excusing, but possibly explaining her later abhorrent behavior.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад

      @@brandyjean7015 I said I need to see the medical report. It might show that she didn’t hit her head, only scraped her knee, for example. It was a bike.
      But keep making excuses.

    • @carolesmith4864
      @carolesmith4864 2 года назад +1

      @@scharf74 My son had a bicycle accident and broke both his arms. Thankfully he didn't hit his head.

  • @itakelly8150
    @itakelly8150 3 года назад +12

    You're channel is now on my top five. I'm looking forward to binge watching the past videos.

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад

      Thankyou

    • @janew2108
      @janew2108 3 года назад

      I definitely have that bell clicked. They’re very aesthetic videos.

  • @TheRetirednavy92
    @TheRetirednavy92 3 года назад +8

    Good morning fellow Briefcase friends

  • @deadowl833
    @deadowl833 3 года назад +2

    By far, this is my favorite YT channel. I enjoy the way you tell these unbelievable stories with compassion and interest.

  • @meemurthelemur4811
    @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +4

    Good morning everyone!!👋🦋🌈🦄🤗🥐🍫☕🥧🥓🍳🥞🥯🥨🐱🥰

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 3 года назад +1

      Hey li'l Meemur. ❤️🌷😻

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

      @@perrydowd9285 hey Platypez! 👋🦋🌈🦄😻🐱🐨🥰

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 3 года назад +1

      @@meemurthelemur4811 So watyadoin?

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

      @@perrydowd9285 a whole buncha nothin. You?

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 3 года назад +1

      Pretty much the same as you. I'm thinking about having a cup of tea. ☕

  • @nessagirl1911
    @nessagirl1911 3 года назад +6

    Nice! I get home from work, kick off my shoes and there's a new Brief Case waiting for me.

  • @paulajayne1635
    @paulajayne1635 3 года назад +9

    She would probably have been a good mum if life hadn’t taken such a tragic turn. That drawn profile picture of Rhoda reminds me of Robert De Niro!

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад +2

      Exactly. I think that’s her death drawing. But I saw it and thought, didn’t he say she was attractive? She looked like a straight up man is that drawing.

  • @arnoldstrickland2814
    @arnoldstrickland2814 3 года назад +1

    I love these old cases you bring each week

  • @Charley.Farley
    @Charley.Farley 3 года назад +1

    Came across this channel by chance, now literally watch it constantly. Love history, love true crime, so it’s perfect! Amazing work! ❤️

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 3 года назад +3

    BC. I love your narrations as usual. When you said she was going to take in babies, I was in tears.
    So devastated.
    Have a great week.

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +1

      Thank you! You too!

    • @annehorrigan570
      @annehorrigan570 3 года назад

      Well, I said "uh-oh, this is gonna be bad" Have a lovely day from Michigan

  • @sheilagravely5621
    @sheilagravely5621 3 года назад

    Great to see you BC. I needed a dose of coziness. 👍🏻👍🏻👏👏👏💚😘

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 3 года назад

    Thanks Brief, another good one!

  • @hannahpugh469
    @hannahpugh469 3 года назад

    My family connections and ancestors go bk to Cardiff Wales and Birmingham I'm glued tonight @briefcase have u got anymore knockledge on this story ? Sort much love x

    • @hannahpugh469
      @hannahpugh469 3 года назад

      I was born in Wales now live in England x

  • @lalagordo
    @lalagordo 3 года назад +2

    I love the confession at the end. So rare

  • @morganosborne9258
    @morganosborne9258 3 года назад

    Nice end to a long working weekend. Thanks BC for another wonderfully narrated case, though incredibly sad.

  • @tagetlewis2748
    @tagetlewis2748 3 года назад

    Always a pleasure! Gm! ❤️🇯🇲

  • @peaceworld5393
    @peaceworld5393 3 года назад

    Good Morning, and Thank you BC!🥰

  • @asinelliplatamona8348
    @asinelliplatamona8348 3 года назад

    Great Job Mate

  • @mathewlawton8944
    @mathewlawton8944 3 года назад

    Ty 4 posting a great interesting video keep up the good work

  • @beejisback8162
    @beejisback8162 3 года назад

    Your videos have become my favorite bedtime stories. I absolutely love them.
    🥰👻🥰

  • @yvonnepetty3400
    @yvonnepetty3400 3 года назад

    Also from South Africa. It's getting warmer. Very good story. I know Cardiff very well. 😊🐘

  • @queenmamabear5812
    @queenmamabear5812 3 года назад

    Omg just HORRIFIC those poor babies!!!!! Vile I would die for a STRANGER'S BABY!!! Idk how anyone could ever EVER Hurt any child or anyone so Heartbreaking

  • @nancyM1313
    @nancyM1313 3 года назад +6

    Greetings😃

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 3 года назад +1

      Hey Nancy. 🌷

    • @nancyM1313
      @nancyM1313 3 года назад

      @@perrydowd9285
      Hello Perry Dowd🤗💕
      Lovely day to you!

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 3 года назад

      @@nancyM1313 Same to you mate. 🌹❤️

    • @conitorres9774
      @conitorres9774 3 года назад

      Hi👋

  • @jenniferryersejones9876
    @jenniferryersejones9876 3 года назад

    Sad situation that is still happening today. Thanks, BC.

  • @davidp.5598
    @davidp.5598 3 года назад +1

    Thanks BC. Her situation sure changed. Did I understand correctly, her father owned several hotels? I wonder why her father did not help her out. Any way, thanks for bringing us her tale of woe. Such a shame, and a sad story to me.

  • @elizabethshaw734
    @elizabethshaw734 3 года назад

    I lived in Cardiff and I lived right next door to Sunderland. I often went to Sunderland shopping. :-) I miss it very deeply as it became home and now I am back in America with no family as they have all passed away.

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад

      You have travelled alot Elizabeth, Sunderland, Cardiff, USA, so sad about your family, I hope you have lots of nice people nearby, I have been to Cardiff but never to Sunderland maybe I should visit

    • @elizabethshaw734
      @elizabethshaw734 3 года назад

      @@BriefCaseOfficial to be honest you're not missing that much in Sunderland but there is a beautiful area near the water the river. I have also lived in Italy Spain southeast Asia and Morocco. :-) I miss England the most I think the UK anyway because it did become home.

  • @weemaggiejiggs8832
    @weemaggiejiggs8832 3 года назад +1

    Good grief....that was a bit of a horrible one....thank you brief case, as usual very well done 😘

  • @katewilliams9480
    @katewilliams9480 3 года назад +1

    G'day Brief Case and friends 👋

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      Helloooo Katydid!!👋🦋🌈🦄🐱🥐🍫🤗😻🦘🐨🦗🌹

  • @Sorchia56
    @Sorchia56 3 года назад +2

    Oh those poor wee dears! This was a sad one. I’m so pleased that she owned up to her crime though, no martyr there. Cheers BC!

  • @nancymontgomery8897
    @nancymontgomery8897 3 года назад +2

    Was this a repeat? It sounds very familiar.

  • @Nanatracie
    @Nanatracie 3 года назад

    Watching from sunderland right now x

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад

      Brilliant, I have never been there but I will one day

  • @wandahall4435
    @wandahall4435 3 года назад

    BC sorry I'm late to the party...another great one!!!

  • @madgary5827
    @madgary5827 3 года назад

    Executed on her birthday. Thank you for another great narration. I like this video

  • @littlereddstar5264
    @littlereddstar5264 3 года назад

    The cases that BC covers are sad, but ones that involve kids are sadder still.

  • @georgiaskrepetos6705
    @georgiaskrepetos6705 3 года назад

    Thanks BC...I have heard of this one previously...I think maybe brain damage after bike accident ...thanks again x

  • @5amH45lam
    @5amH45lam 3 года назад +6

    Them were the days, when government actually introduced positive social policies in education, social and health care.

  • @carieyounginsurance
    @carieyounginsurance 3 года назад

    Wow - she was the last woman to be executed in wales...interesting!
    “Baby farming is the historical practice of accepting custody of an infant or child in exchange for payment in late-Victorian Britain and, less commonly, in Australia and the United States. If the infant was young, this usually included wet-nursing (breast-feeding by a woman not the mother). Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments.” Wikipedia

  • @karinnotkaren8991
    @karinnotkaren8991 3 года назад

    BC, this may have been addressed by you before, but I'll ask. I am a voracious reader. The way you craft these stories is wonderful. Have you ever thought about putting them in book or magazine form? Just a thought! I figured you type up a script or something. I'd purchase it!!💜

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад

      Hello, Yes I type up a script but I don’t think my writing skills are good enough for a book, I do appreciate your comment though :)

  • @resarm5007
    @resarm5007 3 года назад

    Hello and good morning Brief Case 💼💐💞🤗🙃 thanks for another interesting case...the woman seems to only think of herself. I'm not sure of the why's of her actions. Her inhibitions were def lowered because of her drinking, I can see how she may have been compelled to murder the child if she was beyond help with her drinking, tho asphyxiation, is a method that requires deliberate murder was likely not first time to murder a child. She was likely out of her mind to carry around a dead child wrapped up as tho she didn't recognize that the "package" 📦 was a macabre reminder of what she had done. Eventually she would have been caught because of the smell. Poor child...RIP!

  • @johngalvin6010
    @johngalvin6010 3 года назад +1

    I laughed at how quick the jury came back...12mins! I also thought that they had got it wrong:(
    Sadly, she lost everything & resorted to this.

  • @jaspartheghost526
    @jaspartheghost526 3 года назад

    Her father owned more than one successful hotels. I don't understand why he couldn't help her financially?

  • @nobody8328
    @nobody8328 3 года назад +1

    💖

  • @psadelachute363
    @psadelachute363 3 года назад

    The video really starts at 1:15. You're welcome !!!

  • @iknitbecuzmurderisfrownedupon
    @iknitbecuzmurderisfrownedupon 3 года назад +3

    Unfortunately, free things come at a cost which is never worth paying.

  • @B.H.56
    @B.H.56 3 года назад +131

    So after she was widowed, she just moved in with a man and had more kids? Wasn't that kind of shocking back then?

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 3 года назад +16

      @Nicky L I mean if anything what else was she supposed to do besides go live in a washhouse or convent...

    • @celeste.cutz2020
      @celeste.cutz2020 3 года назад +16

      I can’t believe u wore black for 2 damn years. I mean death till u part. That’s a long time for a morning period.

    • @thelogicaldanger
      @thelogicaldanger 3 года назад +19

      @@kymo6343 Well, since she moved in with her brother when she broke up with her live-in boyfriend, it seems likely that would have been an option at the beginning.

    • @kymo6343
      @kymo6343 3 года назад +10

      @@thelogicaldanger *shrug* Well since she didn't choose it, guess it was the less appealing of the two options.

    • @thelogicaldanger
      @thelogicaldanger 3 года назад +3

      @@kymo6343 Good point.

  • @jesusbeloved3953
    @jesusbeloved3953 3 года назад +130

    This one was particularly sad for me. The willful killing of children hurts the heart; they are so vulnerable!
    BC your stories are always well done and without excess drama. Thanks for all your hard work!

    • @cyankirkpatrick5194
      @cyankirkpatrick5194 3 года назад +7

      That also gets to me 😩😫😢😥, there's a special place for those who do that it's very hot 🔥🥵 and unforgivable.

    • @Proverbspsalms
      @Proverbspsalms 3 года назад

      @@cyankirkpatrick5194 It’s not unforgivable. Find that in the Bible!

    • @samuelschick8813
      @samuelschick8813 3 года назад +1

      What gets me is that people were willing to hand over their children to strangers they knew nothing about from a newspaper ad.

    • @samuelschick8813
      @samuelschick8813 3 года назад +3

      @@cyankirkpatrick5194, Nice try but not dice. In the Bible God orders the killing of children or kills them himself. After all think of all the newborns and children God murdered in the flood.

  • @pickybitch2707
    @pickybitch2707 3 года назад +68

    I hate those baby farmers 😢😢😢

    • @cezra833
      @cezra833 3 года назад +9

      I agree, and Rhoda Willis certainly deserved her fate. However, part of the blame for baby farmers can be placed on authorities. It's all well and good stating that children have to be protected, but without providing the resources for single parents- usually the mother- to look after children, then baby farming was always going to happen.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад

      With a passion.

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +8

    Good morning Briefcase 💼 and HELLOOOOO THERE CRIME family ❤️😊

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад

      Number one Caddy.

    • @cadillacdeville5828
      @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +1

      @@Agapy8888 How are you doing today 😀?

    • @TheRetirednavy92
      @TheRetirednavy92 3 года назад +1

      have a great week

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      Hellooo Caddy!👋🤗🦋🌈🥐🍫☕🥧🥓🍳🥞🥯

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад

      @@cadillacdeville5828 Great. Thanks Have a great week.

  • @amethyst5538
    @amethyst5538 3 года назад +35

    What Rhoda did was truly horrible, however unlike most in these videos at the end at least she had the courage to admit at the end that she was indeed guilty.

  • @trishpipkins
    @trishpipkins 3 года назад +48

    At least she was found guilty. Those poor babies.

  • @gordonlittle162
    @gordonlittle162 3 года назад +23

    It was said that the hangmen, Henry and Thomas Pierrepoint, were impressed by Rhoda's remarkable blaze of red hair. She was reportedly calm at her execution.

  • @crystallong9625
    @crystallong9625 3 года назад +32

    What a sad and heartbreaking story. I know that many people who ran baby farms at the time were guilty of this over and over. I will never understand those who harm innocent children. I also find it difficult to give mercy to them in any form. I’m glad that she confessed and hopefully she repented before she was hanged. May that sweet little baby girl whose life she took Rest In Peace. 💖

  • @rmonson5002
    @rmonson5002 3 года назад +24

    This is so tragically sad for all involved. How desperate those women must have felt to think that giving up their child to a stranger was the only way to maintain their respectability or standing in the community. Yet the men that impregnated them had to make no such heart wrenching decisions. They just walked away unscathed; with no social stigma attached. And Rhoda, of a character inclined to take advantage of the very social mores that left her with little opportunity in the world. Yes, she certainly must have had no conscience or concern for those infants, but she also is the product of a society that likewise had no concern for those infants or for the women who gave birth to them until forced to come to terms with it by the actions of the very women they marginalized.

    • @neneshubby
      @neneshubby 3 года назад +4

      Unfortunately a lot of truth in your post. Definitely a double standard with how women were treated.

    • @rmonson5002
      @rmonson5002 3 года назад +3

      @Over It Okay. It's not a competition. And "leather tanning" and infanticide is hardly analogous.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад

      I think that SOME men paid or helped pay the adoption fees. Back them you paid the “farmer” a monthly fee as long as they kept the baby, to pay for their small and I mean TEENY expenses. If they adopted the baby fast, you just paid the one fee.

    • @carolball5764
      @carolball5764 10 месяцев назад

      @@neneshubbymost definitely. They want the pleasure , but not the pain..

  • @EllaAltmayer1983
    @EllaAltmayer1983 3 года назад +91

    When hearing that she took in unwanted babies, my mind went “oh no.” Those poor babies.
    Glad that she was found guilty.
    Another great case. Hope everyone is having a great day.

  • @arabicempress
    @arabicempress 3 года назад +44

    Where was her family when her financial and well being took a turn for the worse? I can't imagine any parent looking on at their child as they are suffering and in a dire state. However her situation is no excuse for her crimes.

    • @johannas.l.brushane2518
      @johannas.l.brushane2518 3 года назад +12

      They were perhaps not aware of much of it, that she also initiallt did not reveal her real name show she was somewhat cautious about it. I presume that eventual contact with her family was in forms of letters. The habit of sending their kids to boardingschool even if parents had a steady residence (as opposed to people who could be sent to other places by short notice, embassy, military staff and such) was not only due to their children having a quality education but to deattach kids and for purpose of them grow to independence. This habit was quite apparent among the high nobility a couple of hundred years before, when kids age 2-3 often were sent to live with relatives to be educated up to their teens. It was probably more frequent in England as foreign ambassadors in the country commeted on it specifically as somewhat cruel.
      Rhoda's parents were presumably not of high noble class but rather within the growing burgoise by with their wealth often strived to mimic the upper classes, often with a romanticized nationalistic outlook, which may have influenced their decision to send her to boarding school.

    • @juliagreen423
      @juliagreen423 3 года назад +10

      My family is like that, my parents completely turned their backs on me the moment i became an adult... it sounds like Rhoda was still connected with her family, so maybe she was ashamed to admit the situation to them, but it's also possible that they left her high and dry once things started going bad for her 😓

    • @frahn1702
      @frahn1702 3 года назад +5

      I can imagine it - my own parents would not have done anything for me after I left home at 17. They did not even give me a wedding.

    • @annehorrigan570
      @annehorrigan570 3 года назад +4

      @@frahn1702 My dad kicked me out at 18 after he found out I was a lesbian, no convo for 10 yrs, it was the best thing that could've happened. ✌

    • @resarm5007
      @resarm5007 3 года назад +7

      @@frahn1702 yup...my parents couldn't WAIT til I was 18, and at 17 things were so bad I left both parents (who by this time had spit after 19 years of marriage.) I ended up couch surfing for a bit, and encountered some traumatic situations that have changed who I am forever. I've had PTSD since and as I've gotten older, my anxieties and fears have gotten worse. My parents both have had MINIMAL involvement in my life, my sisters' lives. My father favors my brother. My mother favors my half sister. And the other 3 of us girls and their grandchildren from 2 of us are basically ignored. The grandchildren do not know their grandparents. It may be best tho. One winter my heat failed, I had broken pipes and water everywhere. I stayed in my home! My mother is in the home I grew up in. She didn't even offer me THE COUCH. Just told me I "would die here."😳🙄😤 I endured 4 months of frigid temps, stayed bundles up and kept my dogs bundled in old clothes and blankets so that they would stay warm. I'm in the NE USA. Sad! I can imagine my father and brother and his family and my mother being critical if I had passed..."Not a very bright lightbulb...I TOLD HER SHE WOULD DIE!" Nobody offered me a COUCH to 😴 on til I was able to get the money together to fix it. Like what did they think I was supposed to do?!?! 🤔🤔🤔🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ (And they never gave me a wedding! We had to pay for our own! They didn't ever give us ANYTHING. Even as a child I had to work. If I asked them for lunch money for school, nope. Not even a quarter for a snack.)

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 года назад +17

    Rhoda's situation and life did go from sugar to💩.

  • @verucasaltbaum2358
    @verucasaltbaum2358 3 года назад +37

    What a tragic story, but ,I'm glad that she gave them the truth at the end. I kind of agree that the head injury is a possibility as to personality change.

    • @louisegross3886
      @louisegross3886 3 года назад

      Lawd she fell on her head lame excuse they really didn't have modern medicine in them days no x-rays the nut was just a killer some ppl got the bad seed so I'm not about to excuse her ass she had a plan and murder was on her mind point blank greed was her middle name in my eyes

  • @SMBeech
    @SMBeech 3 года назад +39

    Why she didn't try to join her family business when she fell on hard times is beyond me.

    • @heyokaempath5802
      @heyokaempath5802 3 года назад +12

      Might not have been welcome. Remember, she was a woman in a day and time when men ruled.

    • @inisipisTV
      @inisipisTV 3 года назад +5

      @@heyokaempath5802 - She stayed a long time on her Brother's hotel but went back to Wales by herself. Me thinks she had a very serious alcohol drinking problem.

    • @barbarachippel3142
      @barbarachippel3142 2 года назад +1

      What happened to her kids?

  • @ChiliHorse27
    @ChiliHorse27 3 года назад +59

    That was honorable of her to clear her conscience at the end, letting the jurors and judge know that she was guilty. I’ve never been a juror, but I can’t imagine not knowing if the person you sentenced to death was actually innocent or not.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 3 года назад +1

      What if she wasn't guilty...
      What if she said those things to put the judge and jury at ease knowing she was going to die anyways...

    • @ChiliHorse27
      @ChiliHorse27 3 года назад +4

      @@abelis644 it seemed genuine, and it was pretty obvious she was guilty as well. And innocent people don’t falsely confess right before they die, they’ll always say to the end that they’re innocent and that they’re killing an innocent person. And I wouldn’t want to die with a lie that big on my conscience either.

    • @inisipisTV
      @inisipisTV 3 года назад +2

      @@abelis644 - Well based on evidence, with or without the confession, she was really guilty.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад +2

      Word of advice to the OP. If you have doubt of innocence you should NEVER sentence someone to death. If you do, you’re a murderer too.

    • @scharf74
      @scharf74 3 года назад +3

      I understand what you mean when killers stop the lies and tell the truth finally.
      But this lady didn’t have to say a word. She went by an alias which signals ill intent from the beginning with her. I wonder if she killed more than the 2 we know about.
      She didn’t need to confess. She smothered the ONE DAY OLD baby after not even having the baby for a day. She then stuffed the baby at the foot of her bed and went out and got drunk. The baby was found in her bed, dead. And I’m thinking something was about the baby that made the landlady call the police immediately. She was given the baby by its mother and I’m sure they confirmed this with the mother.
      She didn’t NEED to confess. She did it to lift the weight off of her non existent conscience.
      She did no one a favor but herself. Her guilt was never in doubt by the judge, jury, prosecutor, defense attorney, governor, clergy and executioner.
      For someone to kill a day old baby, she can stay in her corner of hell as far as I’m concerned. A baby. Whose mother PAID her to love and cherish. Sickening.

  • @knock_knock3007
    @knock_knock3007 3 года назад +10

    I despise people who harm or kill innocent children. That is one hanging I would have showed up early for.

  • @nancychisholm5399
    @nancychisholm5399 3 года назад +11

    I now like Mondays! Thank you Brief Case. I raise my coffee mug in salute to you!

  • @teresasmith4711
    @teresasmith4711 3 года назад +24

    I LIVE FOR MONDAY MORNINGS!! LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!! YOUR VOICE MAKES IT EVEN BETTER!! ❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰

  • @seizethejay7769
    @seizethejay7769 3 года назад +14

    Idk why I didn't get a notification, but coincidentally I clicked on your channel to see if you had uploaded and boom.. I'm just going to take a second to bask in your awesomeness ❤️ Good morning!

  • @chrisdooley6468
    @chrisdooley6468 3 года назад +53

    Wow the jury took all but 12 minutes to deliberate? That’s got to be a record on here lol

    • @ManictheMod
      @ManictheMod 3 года назад +6

      Juries didn't take a lot of time to deliberate back in those days.

    • @teshahartke5468
      @teshahartke5468 3 года назад +2

      That was actually pretty normal for the time.

    • @inisipisTV
      @inisipisTV 3 года назад +1

      Even today most deliberation are not long. The Trials take long.

    • @chrisdooley6468
      @chrisdooley6468 3 года назад

      Good points. I guess it’s the actual trial that takes the longest

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 3 года назад +4

    Greetings Friends and BC.

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

      👋🤗🥰🦋🌈🦄

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      @Beyond The Pale hey there Paley! How goes your part of the world?👋🦋🌈🦄🐎

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад

      @Beyond The Pale Hi.

    • @Agapy8888
      @Agapy8888 3 года назад

      @@meemurthelemur4811 Hi

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад

      @Beyond The Pale all's well as well😊🤗 Happy day after World Cat Day!😺😻🐱🐈🐯🐆🦁🐅😸

  • @yasmineayub5661
    @yasmineayub5661 3 года назад +3

    🥰🥰🥰 B.C. 🥰🥰🥰 hope you doing well Sweetheart 🥰🥰🥰

  • @brendaholliday6866
    @brendaholliday6866 3 года назад +39

    What a horrific case of innocent babies being given up for adoption and ended being murdered. Rhoda Willis, supposedly came from a well to do family, so why didn't she ask her family for financial help, she could have worked at the family hotel. This was a very sad and disturbing case especially since it involved children, great investigating, as always. I hope her three daughters ended up doing well in their lives.

    • @loisreese2692
      @loisreese2692 3 года назад +1

      Check out the case of Amelia Dyer.

    • @leebowens2631
      @leebowens2631 3 года назад +4

      Her daughters became Go Go dancers on the Hullabaloo show, one of them married the drummer of the Beau Brummel there was a age gap that ruined the marriage.

    • @shariys1
      @shariys1 3 года назад +2

      @@leebowens2631 🤣😆

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 3 года назад +2

    G💚🙋d morning! We meet, again!💚🍀🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💮🌼🥰🤗🍟💐👻🌞🪐💫🌺🌸

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 3 года назад +1

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    • @renee1961
      @renee1961 3 года назад +1

      @@meemurthelemur4811 g👻🌞d morning!🙋💚🌸🥰🌺🤗🍀💚🦉🦅🕷️🕸️🦈🌻🦖🐊🦕🐍

  • @CitizenSuspect
    @CitizenSuspect 3 года назад +7

    I have wired headphones I bought for €5, they last forever.

    • @jrt818
      @jrt818 3 года назад

      Hate tangled wires.

  • @rebeccawebb6602
    @rebeccawebb6602 3 года назад +4

    Good morning keep bringing us wonderful history you're my favorite love you 😍 ❤

  • @zero_bs_tolerance8646
    @zero_bs_tolerance8646 3 года назад +6

    For all her belated regret and penitence, she didn't express remorse for the tiny victim's murder.
    Thanks, BC.

  • @smsabala6668
    @smsabala6668 3 года назад +18

    13:19 pm in South Africa, it a holiday "Woman's day", Halo BC addicts, I've been impatiently waiting!

    • @Cat-ej6ji
      @Cat-ej6ji 3 года назад +3

      Every country should have a Women's Day holiday, and a Men's Day Holiday and to be honest a child Day, teenager Day , I love holidays

  • @gerardshort6149
    @gerardshort6149 3 года назад +13

    That was a shame what she did but that could of easily been done from her head injury that she got from being knocked off her bike . As she said before died she confessed , as these days she would of had a brain scan and checked on every hour . As from watching your cases there has been a lot injustice but most of guilty . As for any kind of injury there is shock to your system and nobody knows how long this can last for . Not even in this century do they know only what you tell the doctor .

    • @johannas.l.brushane2518
      @johannas.l.brushane2518 3 года назад +8

      Was thinking the same, head injuries frequently seem to be capable of bringing a change of personality even if it otherwise may not be any visibly sustaining physical damage.

    • @nancybeveridgetaylor3256
      @nancybeveridgetaylor3256 3 года назад +3

      Yes, I have a head injury and it has changed my personality. I also have a seizure disorder. But I am more emotional and I developed an Alcohol addiction that I struggle with to this day (under treatment , but the desire is there). And my injury was in 2012.

    • @gerardshort6149
      @gerardshort6149 3 года назад

      @@nancybeveridgetaylor3256 That is one of the hardest thing Nancy is to give up drink . I hope you do as i have known people who have beat it but it takes time and will power.

  • @williamemerson1799
    @williamemerson1799 3 года назад +3

    MAN! They were sure quick to stretch a neck or lop a head back in the old days.

  • @rebeccawebb6602
    @rebeccawebb6602 3 года назад +8

    This was such a sad story in every way 😞 😢 😪 😔

  • @debshaw680
    @debshaw680 3 года назад +36

    How humanity survives is beyond me.

    • @terryherrera3611
      @terryherrera3611 3 года назад +1

      💞

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 3 года назад +4

      Because we are intelligent, can communicate well, and have good dexterity.

  • @tammywardrobison
    @tammywardrobison 3 года назад +2

    🤔 How many killers have had a head injury? A lot it seems

  • @shereerihari2691
    @shereerihari2691 3 года назад +19

    Good evening Breifcasers! It's freezing in New Zealand at the moment. Hopefully the last cold snap of winter...
    Another great account from my favorite channel. Thank you BC 😊

    • @pickybitch2707
      @pickybitch2707 3 года назад +1

      *waves at fellow New Zealander* 👋👋👋👋

    • @lillymom7909
      @lillymom7909 3 года назад +2

      Good luck with the cold ❄! We are in Missouri is the US. We've had heat advisorys for days and in the middle of a Heat wave. You could throw some cold our way! 😁😁😁

    • @shereerihari2691
      @shereerihari2691 3 года назад +1

      @@pickybitch2707 waving back 👋👋👋 lol. I hope you're keeping warm!

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +2

      Thanks, hope the weather improves

    • @pickybitch2707
      @pickybitch2707 3 года назад +1

      @@shereerihari2691 yes, thanks! ❄️❄️❄️

  • @GustavoCardoso95
    @GustavoCardoso95 3 года назад +7

    Have a good week everyone, take care of your babies ✌️

  • @dbzgal04
    @dbzgal04 3 года назад +3

    Am I glad I didn't live during Victorian times, ugh!

  • @mittinman
    @mittinman 3 года назад +8

    One of the best channels on RUclips! Keep up the great work.

    • @BriefCaseOfficial
      @BriefCaseOfficial  3 года назад +1

      Thankyou :)

    • @annehorrigan570
      @annehorrigan570 3 года назад +1

      Hi Manny from Michigan...I'm Annie from Michigan... lovin BC...💚

    • @revmo37
      @revmo37 3 года назад +1

      @@annehorrigan570 Hello Manny and Anne. BC has a fan base here in Pittsburgh as well

    • @annehorrigan570
      @annehorrigan570 3 года назад +2

      @@revmo37 such a cool group of fans we are😎💚

    • @revmo37
      @revmo37 3 года назад +1

      @@annehorrigan570 Dig it Anne. I feel like I'm hangin' with the cool kids now ! LOL. This is one of the best channels on YT

  • @grettagirl2884
    @grettagirl2884 3 года назад +4

    At least this case brought positive changes to the law. Good job bringing this tragedy to light, BC!

  • @miriamaguilar7977
    @miriamaguilar7977 3 года назад +5

    She came from good family. It would have been good all around had she gone back to her family home and raised her children. Sad that there was no real support for women who worked with little babies...heartbreaking, really.

  • @karenjarrett8904
    @karenjarrett8904 3 года назад +3

    I listened to this upload twice, thinking I missed something. That Rhoda did not contact her parents after her husband passed away. She was left with a daughter and herself to support. Instead she lived with a man and bore him two daughters. Their relationship fell apart so the girls stayed with the dad.
    Her brother was running a hotel could he have not helped her? Her head trauma and hospitalization changed her.
    She became and alcoholic so sad, even more heartbreaking for the infants.
    Thank you Brief Case for an interesting upload. Am waiting for the next Brief…. Case…..

  • @stephaniepietersen9714
    @stephaniepietersen9714 3 года назад +1

    13:26 pm in South -Africa bit cold in CPT finding myself under blankets on this public holiday ..😊helo everyone

  • @rolandmetayer7210
    @rolandmetayer7210 3 года назад +2

    I have only ONE QUESTION : Where the HELL were all the FATHERS of those children ? We shouldn't judge the women in those days and start pointing a finger at those USELESS fathers who disappeared in thin air, when they found out that a woman was pregnant with THEIR CHILD ! ! ! Cheers from Canada, snow country.

    • @lisabishop1691
      @lisabishop1691 Год назад

      That’s right Roland!
      Where are the men who run away 🏃🏻‍♂️🌪️

  • @tootsie3612
    @tootsie3612 3 года назад +1

    What about the baby boy she basically killed because of neglect, leaving baby in the elements?

  • @perrydowd9285
    @perrydowd9285 3 года назад +16

    There are so many similar cases from the 18th to the 20th century. Children are still at risk today from child traffickers but this kind of abuse seems to be much less common now (in The West at least) thanks to the change in the supposed morality of the time.
    Thanks BC hope you have a great week.

    • @kevinzhu6417
      @kevinzhu6417 3 года назад +3

      unfortunately these cases are still kind of prevalent in the west, theres quite a few here in Canada and the US atleast of children beingkilled by their mothers. Women here dont commit crimes very much but when they do its towards their family, their children in particular.

  • @deedragongirl
    @deedragongirl 3 года назад +4

    Hello BC from Malaysia!

  • @joannethortan2257
    @joannethortan2257 3 года назад +2

    Good Morning Brief Case.

  • @telinhajp
    @telinhajp 3 года назад +1

    Hi BC! How are you? Wishing you a wonderful week! ❤️

  • @karenbrown4524
    @karenbrown4524 3 года назад +3

    I love the photos. I try to imagine what life was like during the days the photos were snapped. Well, photos meant a longer process I reckon than it requires today.

  • @elizabethmerriman531
    @elizabethmerriman531 3 года назад +4

    I love the introductory music...gives me chills knowing another excellent story is about to begin! Thank you for your hard work.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 3 года назад +1

    Thank You, Brief Case, for another EXCELLENT video!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💚💚🍀 How Very Sad, for those Little Babies!💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 At least Rhoda confessed to her Crime! How many millions of times do criminals deny? This was , overall, Sad,in many ways. Stay well, until the Next, Brief Case! See you, same time, same place, Wednesday!💚🥰🌼🥀✨🌅💮🌸🙋🦈🌻🙏💐🍟👻🦖🐍🦕🐊🪐💫🌹🌷💫🕷️🕸️🦅🦔🦉🪐

  • @bluegreenglue6565
    @bluegreenglue6565 3 года назад +1

    The context in which a lot of these types of crimes occur is an indictment of destructive social mores rather than individual wickedness, in my opinion. When women are stigmatized for bearing children, when men become fathers but won't accept the responsibility, when religious and class snobbery label this or that event as "sin" rather than a question that needs to be asked, answered and then communally handled in a way that best meets the needs of the population at large, the terrible and desperate things people do are only to be expected. At least better oversight of infant welfare resulted following this case.