118: The Lululemon Murder & A Woman in a Trunk

Let's Go To Court!

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Mary Scott Castle was hot, rich, and well connected. But when she met a 21-year-old Porter Charlton, she was down on her luck. She’d just gotten divorced, and she’d blown her reputation to bits by shooting a man in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria. But when Mary and Porter locked eyes, it was love at first sight. They got married a month later, and took off for a romantic European honeymoon. There was just one problem. Porter wasn’t so stable himself.

Then Brandi tells us about a horrific attack in a Lululemon store. It was March of 2011. Coworkers Brittany Norwood and Jayna Murray had just left the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Maryland, when Brittany realized that she’d left her wallet in the store. When she called Jayna to tell her what she’d done, Jayna was accommodating. She told Brittany she’d meet her back at the store. The pain re-entered the store, leaving the door unlocked behind them.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:

“Lady in the lake” by Mara Bovsun The Daily News.

“The Murder of the Beautiful and Accomplished Mrs. Edith Woodhill, 1909,” written by Thomas Duke in 1910, posted to historicalcrimedetective.com

“Charlton Must go to Italy for Trial,” The Evening Times-Republican, June 10, 1913
“May Ask Wilson to Save Slayer,” The Washington Herald , June 11, 1913

“True Detective Tales: What is Justice? Murder at Romantic Como,” by Peter Levins for the Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph, April 24, 1940

“‘On Trial’ -- Omaha Boy in Spotlight,” The Omaha Sunday Bee, October 17, 1915

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:

“Brittany Norwood” episode Snapped

“‘The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing’ by Dan Morse” by Daniel Stashower, The Washington Post

“Lululemon victim was alive through most of beating” by Andrea Noble, The Washington Times

“Brittany Norwood sentenced to life without parole” by Richard Reeve, WLJA 7 News

“Maryland Lululemon Store Gives ‘Love’ Memorial to Family of Woman Killed There” NBC4 Washington

“Lululemon Murder” wikipedia.org

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0:42.8	One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts. I'm Kristen
0:49.6	Caruso. I'm Brandi Egan. Let's go to court. On this episode, I'll talk about a woman in a trunk.
0:56.8	And I'll be talking about the Lulu Lemon Murder.
1:00.0	Ooh, you got this idea off Twitter. I sure did.
1:04.0	Are we talking like the trunk of a car? Are we talking about like a steamer trunk?
1:08.3	What kind of... Are we talking about like an elephant's trunk?
1:11.5	Hey, I've got a great idea. What? Why don't you keep your pants on and find out?
1:16.1	And obviously, if it was an elephant trunk, don't you think I would say a woman in an elephant trunk?
1:22.5	I was just wanting to explore all the possibilities.
1:26.7	Before you hear this story. Yes.
1:30.1	So Brandi. Yeah. How the hell are you doing today?
1:34.8	I mean, what day is it?
1:39.2	Okay, don't say that because I always know it's Wednesday.
1:43.2	You're right. That's the only day that I'm sure of at this point.
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