#118 - The Storyville Slayings

Shaken and Disturbed

John Thrasher and Daryn Carp

News, Improv, News Commentary, Comedy, True Crime

4.6 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the shadows of New Orleans' vibrant history and festive celebrations lies a chilling tale of serial killings that haunted the city in the mid-90s. We go deep into The Storyville Slayings, where over 25 black sex workers met a gruesome fate at the hands of a man named Russell Ellwood.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Shaken and Disturbed, everybody.
0:29.9	I hope that the patrons are watching John and I,
0:32.5	because we start off flailing our arms every single time now.
0:35.1	And it's really a sight to see.
0:36.7	Welcome to Shaken in to Start.
0:37.7	I am Darren Carp, a newly minted, 35-year-old Darren Carr. I'm here with John Thrasher, who's a
0:44.5	very old, very oldly minted 37-year-olds. I'm like those weird pennies that are green, you know,
0:53.6	like they used to be real shiny and then they turn green.
0:55.9	You know what I love, a crushed penny. And my mom knows this. My mom bought me a crushed penny from Spain. Like it was one of the gifts she brought back. She's like, I know you love your crush penny. And she's like, that cost me two euros. And I was like, my mother. I was going to say two euros and one and what is the pence?
1:12.5	No, what's the euro?
1:14.4	What's the cent? It's like a cent. Is it a cent? Okay. Yeah. Really butch of that one, John. Yeah, you really, you really butched it up here. Butched it on up. But yeah, I love a crush penny. But yes, 35.
1:28.4	Congratulations. I'm not going to do a post being like 35 and thriving.
1:31.1	Why not?
1:32.1	35 and alive.
1:33.9	Yeah.
1:34.4	Live laugh, love.
1:35.5	30 alive.
1:37.0	I just something bitter and sarcastic really works well for me.
1:41.0	So it'll be something like that.
1:42.3	That's on brand for you.
1:43.5	Whatever I post, we're recording this right before my birthday.
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