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Southern Fried True Crime

150: Arsenic & Chantilly Lace

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.610.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Pat Taylor Allanson wanted nothing more than to be Scarlett O’Hara - to live in Tara with her own Rhett Butler. She spent her whole life trying to convince everyone she was a perfect southern belle. But the truth is Pat was far from a fragile, well-mannered lady. She was a serial killer who enjoyed torturing her victims, killing them slowly and painfully, manipulating them at every step along the way.

This is the story of Pat Taylor Allanson, a woman who would stop at nothing to fulfill her lifelong dream.

Hosted and produced by Erica Kelley
Written by Erica Kelley
Researched by Haley Gray & Anna Luria
Original Graphic Art by Coley Horner
Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio
Edited & Mixed by Next Day Podcast & Erica Kelley

Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/pat-taylor-allanson

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

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Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

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because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:25.0

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0:35.0

Are you looking for a new podcast to add to your favorite list?

0:39.0

Once upon a crime is a weekly scripted true crime podcast that tells the story behind the story of real life crime.

0:46.0

I'm Esther, host of Once Upon a Crime.

0:49.0

Each week I bring you a new true crime story meticulously researching each case to bring you details you won't hear anywhere else.

0:56.0

Together we'll seek to understand the why behind infamous crimes as well as lesser known cases.

1:02.0

Told in a storytelling style, I dig into a different true crime topic each month.

1:07.0

Killer kids, deadly duos, mass murders, tragic deaths of music superstars are just some of the series covered on Once Upon a Crime.

1:14.0

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1:21.0

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1:32.0

Seven fraud true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners. And there may also be some explicit language used.

1:39.0

Listener discretion is advised. For my 150th episode, I chose the ultimate Southern murderous.

1:49.0

She so Southern, she would practically be a cartoon if she hadn't wrought so much destruction and tragedy.

1:57.0

Hat Taylor Allanson isn't usually called a serial killer, but that's just a technicality.

2:05.0

She did kill people, but two of her murders were done by manipulation. A violent, horrific shootout between a father and son. And she orchestrated the whole thing.

2:17.0

Pat's story is a Southern Gothic drama with three acts, a tale of old Southern families, of secrets, long buried, of pride, of jealousy, of betrayal.

2:32.0

Pat idolized Scarlett O'Hara. She sowed period costumes to dress like her, even marrying in her lacy hoop skirt.

2:42.0

But Pat didn't just want to dress like Scarlett. She wanted her own Tara, a plantation on sprawling acres.

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