Malpractice Podcast

#5.6: Ann Cooper Hewitt, the "Unfit" Heiress

Sydnee Spruiell Eldridge & Jessica Oswald Season 5 Episode 6

This week (another listener recommendation), Syd and Jess are here to tell you the tragic story of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, who woke up from what she thought was a routine appendectomy to hear the nurses tell her mother that she "didn't suspect a thing." Scandal, rumors, and forced sterilization - this week's story is about one woman who took her mother to court over what she said was a greedy attempt to steal Ann's inheritance. 

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Sources for this episode: 
https://bookshop.org/books/the-unfit-heiress-the-tragic-life-and-scandalous-sterilization-of-ann-cooper-hewitt/9781538753354
https://www.grunge.com/625076/the-tragic-true-story-of-heiress-ann-cooper-hewitt/
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a35597816/ann-cooper-hewitt-unfit-heiress-audrey-clare-farley-excerpt/
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/the-shocking-story-behind-nycs-cooper-hewitt-family/
https://msmagazine.com/2021/04/20/the-tragic-life-and-scandalous-sterilization-of-ann-cooper-hewitt/
https://crimereads.com/how-one-womans-forced-sterilization-led-to-a-mayhem-charge-and-exposed-a-secret-world-of-medical-atrocities/ 
https://narratively.com/the-curious-case-of-the-socialite-who-sterilized-her-daughter/
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-165-unfit/

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