#179 The Tale of California's Very First Insanity Plea [Part 1]

The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

Roseanne

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🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12 year old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly smile. Hickman was not the girl’s father, he was not a relative, he was not a friend of the family...he was a stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a persuasive story - he told the office secretary, a woman named Naomi Britten, that he was there to pick Marion up because her father ...

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0:00.0	All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12-year-old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon
0:09.5	Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly
0:16.8	smile.
0:18.6	Hickman was not the girl's father.
0:21.3	He was not a relative.
0:23.6	He was not a friend of the family.
0:27.0	He was a virtual stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a
0:34.2	persuasive story.
0:37.3	He told the secretary in the office a woman named Naomi Britain that he was there to pick
0:43.4	up Marion because her father had just been in a horrific car accident.
0:49.9	He had been rushed to the hospital and they weren't even sure if he was going to pull
0:53.8	through and he was calling for his daughter.
0:58.4	Ms. Britain stood up and walked over to speak with this man.
1:01.9	She noted that he was very nicely dressed.
1:04.8	He was polite and well-spoken.
1:07.4	Though she was pretty worried and concerned for Marion's dad and whether or not he was
1:12.4	going to pull through, it caused her to be preoccupied with the sudden, terrible news.
1:20.3	Ms. Britain tried to locate the school's principal, Korra Freeman, but she was so frazzled
1:26.8	and had a hard time locating any of the school administrators who would be the ones to decide
1:32.4	whether or not Marion Parker was to be released from school to this man.
1:38.8	Eventually Ms. Britain found a teacher named Mary Holt, so Ms. Holt came to the office
1:44.7	to discuss this matter with the man who called himself Mr. Cooper.
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