118: The Murder of Olivia Browning

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In late November of 1989, the burning body of a 33 year old woman was found in a wooded area in the Mississippi Delta. Olivia Browning was the ex-wife of a prominent planter’s son named Ralph Hand III. Local gossips said that though Ralph and Olivia divorced, they had a passionate but toxic relationship and couldn’t stay away from each other.

After Ralph confessed, and the media gushed about this southern gothic soap opera, to the detriment of Olivia’s character. Did public perception as well as the Hand family’s political connections influence the justice Olivia’s family received?

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0:43.6	Today's episode is about a 1989 murder case I'm surprised I had never heard of.
0:49.3	Because the press had a field day with it.
0:52.3	The Charleston Sun Sentinel called this crime a poignantly real life,
0:56.6	awkwardly close to home, production of a script,
0:59.5	Tennessee Williams never got around to.
1:03.9	The Washington Post ran a piece of Southern Gothic soap opera about the murder,
1:08.3	called The Delta Prince and His DOOMed Princess.
1:12.4	There is a lifetime movie loosely based on the case,
1:15.6	but the names are changed and the location is moved from Mississippi to Texas.
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