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Both Things Are True Crime
I'm Jakayla. Most true crime skips the part I care about, which is how the law actually worked. So I read the opinions and the transcripts and the filings, and I explain the mechanism in plain English. Then I tell you what I think, out loud and labeled as mine. Because two things are usually true at once. The process was fair and the outcome was sickening. He was loved and he was dangerous. The victims are the story. Never the person who took them. It always looks like a Thursday.
Episodes
- Both Things Are True Crime
Aaron Hernandez Acquitted: The Witness With an Immunity Deal (Part 2 of 3)
Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado stopped at a red light in Boston's South End in July 2012 and were shot dead. They grew up together in Cape Verde, went to…
- Both Things Are True Crime
Odin Lloyd: The Texts the Jury Never Saw | Aaron Hernandez Trial (Part 1 of 3)
Odin Lloyd's last texts that night said NFL. Just so you know. The jury that decided his case never saw them. Odin was born in Saint Croix in 1985 and grew up…
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Alishah Pointer: The Sentences Don't Match Who Pulled the Trigger | Leverage
Alishah Pointer, 22, was taken in East Cleveland because of who she was dating. She was leverage. In November 2021, after Aminjas Zion Shomo was shot and…
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Casey Anthony Trial: Why the Jury Said Not Guilty (Part 3 of 3)
On July 5, 2011, a jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. This is how they got there. Six weeks in an Orlando…
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He Tried to Vote Twice. By Morning, His Town Was Burning | Ocoee 1920
106 years ago today, on Election Day 1920, Mose Norman tried to vote in Ocoee, Florida. He got turned away, and he went back and tried again. By the next…
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Caylee Anthony: A Homicide With No Cause | Casey Anthony Case (Part 2 of 3)
The medical examiner said Caylee Anthony's death was a homicide and could not say how. That word, undetermined, shaped the whole trial. This is the two and a…
- Both Things Are True Crime
Casey Anthony Case: Caylee Was Gone 31 Days Before Anyone Called (Part 1 of 3)
Caylee Marie Anthony was two years old, and she was gone for thirty-one days before anyone called the police. Caylee was born August 9, 2005, and lived with…
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Part 2 | Tom Girardi: where the client money went
Tom Girardi was convicted of wire fraud and sentenced to 87 months. I trace the client trust account and the 2007 earrings, and why Erika Jayne was never…
- Both Things Are True Crime
Teresa and Joe Giudice: one parent always home
A judge staggered the Giudice sentences so one parent was always home with their four daughters. I walk through the bankruptcy fraud case, why deportation is a…
- Both Things Are True Crime
The Doorknob That Unraveled a Husband’s Murder Story
A doorknob on the wrong side of a door helps tell the story of a husband accused of staging a break-in after his wife was shot twice in the head while their…
- Both Things Are True Crime
Thirteen Months | Atatiana Jefferson
A man is in his living room in Texas eating ice cream, and an off duty officer walks in and kills him. Thirteen months later a woman is in her living room in…
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He Was Home: Botham Jean
Botham Shem Jean was 26, an accountant from St. Lucia, eating ice cream on his own couch in his own Dallas apartment when an off-duty officer walked in and…
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Five Minutes: Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor was 24, walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, on September 3, 1944, when seven armed white men forced her into a car and six of them…
- Both Things Are True Crime
The House on Graceland | Peoples Temple Pt. 1
Before Jonestown, before California, there was a house at 40th and Graceland in Indianapolis. Hyacinth Thrash bought it herself, in a city the whole sundown…
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Eight Days Before Los Angeles Burned
Latasha Harlins was fifteen. She walked into a South Central liquor store with two dollars in her hand for a $1.79 bottle of orange juice, put it down, turned…