Angelina Napolitano _ The Canadian Axe Murderer

Podcast: Tale Foundry Mysteries · Tale Foundry Mysteries

Opublikowano: 2026-11-14

She killed her husband with an axe while he slept — and became the first woman in Canada to use the battered woman defence. Angelina Napolitano's case shocked a nation and sparked an international debate on domestic violence and the death penalty. In this episode, we reconstruct the Easter Sunday of 1911 when a pregnant, abused immigrant woman took justice into her own hands after her husband threatened to kill her and her unborn child. The trial lasted three hours, the jury recommended mercy, but the judge sentenced her to hang. Press play and discover how a petition from around the world sa...