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Corpus Delicti

173: Sweet Home Alabama: Judi Buenoano

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Judi Beunoano loses her first husband, but luckily she finds love again. Then, he passes away as well. Not to mention, she lost her home in a fire. Judi seems to have a lot of bad luck... but is it actually luck?



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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

Judy Buenoano - Wikipedia
The Black Widow | Middle District of Florida | United States District Court (uscourts.gov)
Judy Buenoano - Crime Museum
Judias V. Buenoano #450 (clarkprosecutor.org)
Judias (Judi) Buenoano (capitalpunishmentuk.org)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen.

0:25.0

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.3

And welcome back to Corpus to Liktai.

0:28.6

We are actually staying on schedule.

0:30.7

For now.

0:31.9

For now.

0:32.7

Hopefully nothing else crazy happens.

0:34.8

Well, crazy stuff has happened.

0:36.6

It just hasn't affected our schedule, but...

0:39.4

Well, it's true. So my air conditioning went out again. Just moved in. Can't find... Yes. We have COVID

0:46.3

in the house, which is bad. Anyway, enough about our stress. We will go ahead and jump into another episode of the Sweet Home

0:58.1

Alabama series. This one is really, really interesting. It does technically happen outside

1:05.3

of Alabama, but there is an Alabama tie. So we thought, what the heck, let's do it.

1:11.6

We begin our story with Judy Whitley.

1:14.0

Now, she was born in Texas on April 4, 1943.

1:17.9

Her dad was from Latino background and was a farm worker, and she was named after her mom.

1:23.3

But unfortunately, there's really not a record of this.

1:27.0

Her mom did pass away from tuberculosis when she was just two years old.

1:32.0

So after her mother passed away, her dad was just at a loss.

1:37.0

They've got children and he just didn't know what to do.

1:40.2

So he sent her baby brother, Robert, to live with grandparents.

1:45.5

And the two older children were placed for adoption.

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