What if you were accused of murdering your mother?
5/5/20261 hr 13 min
After years of caring for her mother through a devastating decline, a woman helps ease her final suffering, only to be accused of murdering the person she loved most.
Today’s episode featured Rachel Waters. If you’d like to reach out to Rachel, you email her at RFosterWaters@gmail.com.
You can find Rachel on Instagram: @distinguishedheathen and TikTok: @distinguishedheathen, and on Reddit @notedheathen
To read Rachel’s story in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/rachel-waters-mom-morphine-murder
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First 90 secondsWhit Missildine· Host0:00
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Speaker 10:09
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Whit Missildine· Host0:19
Hi, listeners. Most of our stories come to us from listeners or from news stories, but today's episode began with a Reddit rabbit hole. Alan Westberg, our showrunner, came across our storyteller today, Rachel Waters, who has written extensively about the loss of her mother and the nightmare that followed. Rachel has chronicled much more of her life on Reddit, and I encourage you all to go read her full account. You can find her Reddit handle in the show notes. And now on to today's episode, What If You Were Accused of Murdering Your Mother?
Rachel Waters· Guest0:51
This is a contact with the criminal legal system I have never even come close to having. And immediately, my grief turns to terror and this understanding that now I'm in the fight for my own life.
Whit Missildine· Host1:08
[gentle music] From Audible Originals, I'm Whit Missildine. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode four oh five,