Comments on: S1 E1 The Murder of Jennie Eldon Conroy

By: Joe O’C

Joe O’C — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:40:08 +0000

In reply to May. Was the father of the children gay? Gay people then were not as public! Unlike now. But they have and still are persecuted, regardless of how good they are!

By: Joe O’C

Joe O’C — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:24:30 +0000

In reply to Brad Williams. The fact that she was as many during the war working in “a man’s” job may not set well either. The guy if it were a guy should have been oversea helping defend as the women were! Unfortunately it may never be solved. God Bless her!

By: Harriet Buchanan

Harriet Buchanan — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:01:22 +0000

I was born in 1942, and things hadn’t changed much in the 1950’s when I was a teen. Girls would go visit an aunt or older sister for a few months, and there were homes “for unwed mothers” then too.

I was married in 1961 and pregnant with our first child in 1964. The firm I worked for expected women to take a leave of absence when they started showing. It was considered obscene for the male employees to be subjected to the sight of an obviously pregnant women.

Ideas began changing in the 1960’s with the “hippies”, free love, single motherhood and of course “the pill”. I would never want to go back to “the good old days”. They were just awful for women.

Love your shows!!!

By: May

May — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:49:10 +0000

My grandmother became pregnant in 1943 at 16. She had the child just after she turned 17. She did marry the man and had another baby at 18 and another at 19. Then the man left her and she had to raise the three children on her own. (It turned out he was gay. He died under mysterious circumstances on the streets of Vancouver in 1983.) My grandmother, though so kind and loving to her family, was a very sad woman. I can’t imagine how hard her life had been. And likewise, I can’t imagine how hard it was for my grandfather, being a gay man, in the 1940’s. The irony of it all, is that so many women became pregnant before marriage. I have been doing geneology for 20 + years and when you look back at marriages, the birth of the first child there was not always ‘9 months’. I would say about 30% of women were pregnant when they got married. The hypocrisy of it all astounds me.
Thank you so much Eve for bringing this case to light. I have a daughter her age and can’t imagine how Jennie could cope being so young and without support. I hope her killer is found.

By: Elaine Pera

Elaine Pera — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:17:47 +0000

How sad – very interesting & wish this case can be solved. Hopefully Jenny`s story can be told.

By: James

James — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 01:14:10 +0000

Crazy and the first suspect must be the childs father.
Could you do also Donna Kolosky who was bookkeeper who tried to get out of the association but as she knew too much she was murdered. School records gone, VGH denies she was there but Dr. Notes are on VGH stationary. Her pix in a bikini in 53 the first though not published till 66. Ill send you pixs of who they met in Havana in the late 50,s

By: Jean-Francois Dube

Jean-Francois Dube — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:01:54 +0000

This case has way to many unanswered questions.The two biggest being
1-Who killed her obviously?
2- Why what this so covered up?And on so many levels?
BTW,I was adopted also,met my birth mother and she also explained all the shaming and her horrible treatment by the church and society in general.
Vance was amazing!
Love your books and very much enjoyed hearing your podcast.
Cheers.

By: Brad Williams

Brad Williams — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:10:33 +0000

Very interesting and informative. My mother was a shipyard worker too, and a year younger than Jenny Conroy. She may have known her. I am sorry the murder was never solved, and that an unmarried woman was shamed or frowned upon at that time.