Louise Woodward Case

Louise Woodward Case

The Louise Woodward manslaughter incident and trial concerned a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was in her care in his home in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Woodward was deemed the "most notorious criminal convicted in Massachusetts" by Boston law magazine Exhibit A ten years after the death.

Read more about Louise Woodward Case:  Background, Trial, Appeal, Polygraph Testing, Aftermath

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