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How does a struggling foster mother become one of Sweden's most notorious "angel makers"—and walk away with a sentence that outraged a nation? The Dark and Disturbing Case of Alva Nordberg takes us to the Stockholm archipelago in 1905, where a 29-year-old woman was arrested after arriving in town with a child's corpse hidden in a box. Between 1902 and 1905, Alva Nordberg accepted at least seventeen infants for payment, failing to report most of them to authorities as the law required. Four of those babies died in her care in a matter of months. The trial that followed became a national scandal, exposing the brutal "foster child industry" that preyed on the children of poor, unmarried mothers—and the desperate women who ran it. Nordberg was convicted not of murder, but of assault, and sentenced to two and a half years of hard labor. Press play, and don't listen alone. New episode every week—subscribe and leave your review. 🎧
