Barbara Daly Baekeland: Maternal Incest & Murder | #455
18 June - 1 hour 20 mins explicit
Podcast Series
RedHanded
They say money can’t buy happiness…
And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland – heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty – plunged a knife into his mother Barbara’s heart in their London penthouse.
But behind the lurid headlines lay a trail of dysfunctional family secrets, taboo mother-son incest and twisted DIY conversion therapy: all washed down by a toxic cocktail of wealth and excess.
And after being released from Broadmoor Hospital, Tony would strike again...
Was this poor little rich boy mad, bad, or a victim of something much darker?
Inspiring the 2008 film Savage Grace starring Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne, this is the most shocking true story you’ve probabl...
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