A 17-year-old Mormon girl called police in 1928, saying the maid killed the baby. When police arrived she smiled, and introduced herself as the maid.
Erna Janoschek murdered baby Thais Dianne Liliencrantz in Oakland, then became a courtroom spectacle: laughing, refusing an insanity label, and narrating the crime in her own intriguing jailhouse prose.
Hannah and Jess trace the case through Edward Janoschek’s LDS mission devotion, Marie Janoschek’s abandoned household, the Liliencrantz nanny job, early psychiatric testimony, San Quentin, mental hospitalization, and the family-system damage underneath the headlines. This might only make sense if you grew up Mormon.
LA Not So Confidential podcast, episode 151 “Vintage Case: Baby Killer Erna Janosheck”
https://www.la-not-so-confidential.com/episodes/151-vintage-case-erna-janoschek
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