Dark history of Ireland's 'bad Bridgets': From a murderess to the mother who drowned her baby, podcast reveals how women who crossed the Atlantic in the 1800s for the American dream found lives of crime and poverty Stories of Irish girls and women who emigrated to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries and fell into crime are told in new podcast 'Bad Bridgets' Challenges prevailing view they were all wholesome mothers, maids and cooks Prostitute Maude Merrill was killed by her uncle after she moved into a brothel Mary Farmer was sentenced to death after murdering her neighbour Sarah