Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast · Ben Gibson
A Mothers Revenge - Marianne Bachmeier
·53 min·9 clips
A single mother's grief transforms into something heavier when justice fails to deliver what she needs.
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A mother, a murdered child, and the uneasy gap between legal process and justice.
Marianne Bachmier's story opens in early 1980s West Germany, after the murder of her seven-year-old daughter, Anna, leaves a single mother facing both unbearable grief and a legal process that may never feel equal to the harm done.
Why you'd press play
You get a case where a mother's grief hardens into anger after her young daughter is murdered, while the legal process raises the bleak question of whether justice will feel like justice at all.
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