166: Sweet Home Alabama: Thomas Whisenhant

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Whisenhant was a relatively well mannered child. That is, up until the age of 12. He became violent, and was involved in several smaller crimes. Ultimately, this escalated to something way more sinister.

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Sources:
Thomas Whisenhant | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Whisenhant v. State :: 1979 :: Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions :: Alabama Case Law :: Alabama Law :: US Law :: Justia
Thomas Whisenhant executed for 1976 kidnapping, rape and murder - al.com
State Seeks Execution Date For Thomas Whisenhant | Alabama Public Radio (apr.org)

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:13.0	Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.6	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.9	And welcome back to Corpus DeLecti, the Sweet Home Alabama series.
0:32.2	Yeah, so if you are just now joining us, we are diving into some crimes from our home state of Alabama. We started with
0:39.6	Rocky. We have done a few since then. So hope you are now joining us for the ride because apparently
0:47.7	a lot of really wild stuff has happened here. You would think us being Southern, we'd have a little bit of charm and hospitality.
0:57.7	Turns out, not so much. Our last episode took us to the topmost corner of Alabama. Now this week's
1:05.0	episode takes us to the southernmost tip next to the Gulf of Mexico. And we're talking about Mobile, Alabama. Now, Mobile has
1:14.1	been long known for the oil rigs, the mussels, the crawfish, and Mardi Gras. Yes, we have our own
1:21.7	Mardi Gras. It kind of carries over from New Orleans along the coast of Mississippi and then over to the coast of Alabama.
1:29.8	And what's cool about Mobile area is that for New Year's, they drop, instead of a ball,
1:36.1	they drop a moon pie. That is true. That is true. And Mobile is known to me as the place where I got
1:42.5	my second tattoo in college.
1:44.7	So just a little fun fact there.
1:46.2	So tonight we're going to be talking about Thomas Warren Wisnant, who at the time, much like we said in our last story, was the longest inmate on Holman's Death Row.
1:58.5	Again, keep in mind at the time, they were all there at different times.
2:01.4	So they each kind of held the record, I guess, so to speak. And like we said in the last episode,
2:07.4	you know, we've been on kind of this social justice kick. This one, not so much. This one,
2:12.9	we're going to talk about what the heck happened in this situation to get this person where he ended up.
2:21.2	So let's start the story at the beginning just to try to understand Thomas.
2:26.0	Now Thomas was born January 29th in 1947.
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