When the Fox Movietone News production staff pulled up outside the home of Carl and Sadie Morlok on Lansing’s east side in September 1930 to film the couple’s quadruplet daughters, the event was featured on the front page of the Lansing State Journal.
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“Girls and Their Monsters,” by Audrey Clare Farley, recounts the tragic story of the Genain sisters, seeing the subjects at the crossroads of psychiatric and societal forces.
Quadruplets born in 1930 in Lansing, Michigan, made the papers. Under the spotlight since birth, their legacy became intertwined with the history of mental health science in the United States