183: The Brutal Murder of Avis Banks

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

28-year-old Avis Banks was five months pregnant and exhausted. On the evening of Wednesday, November 29th of 2006, Avis was driving home after a long day at work. All she wanted to do was go home, kick off her shoes, and relax. But Avis would never see the inside of her home again. The moment Avis exited her car after parking it in her garage, she was brutally attacked.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime Covers Cases that are not suitable for young listeners and
0:06.1	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:09.4	Lissner discretion is advised.
0:14.6	From August of 2006 to May of 2007, the Jackson Public School District of Jackson, Mississippi,
0:21.8	had a really difficult year.
0:24.0	It seemed like nothing could go right for them.
0:26.9	They fired a middle school principal for alleged financial misconduct, then that fired middle
0:32.4	school principal turned around and accused the superintendent of sexual harassment.
0:37.9	A high school teacher was arrested for possessing a jaw dropping amount of cocaine, and an elementary
0:43.5	school teacher was convicted of killing her husband.
0:47.1	I can only imagine the rumor mills during this time.
0:50.9	Students probably whispered to each other, was it your teacher arrested for cocaine?
0:55.8	Were was yours convicted of murder?
0:58.4	The Jackson community probably thought nothing could make that school year any stranger,
1:03.3	but they were wrong.
1:05.0	And that's because within the same academic school year, two Jackson public school teachers
1:09.4	were caught having an extra marital affair.
1:12.4	A male science teacher and a female language arts teacher.
1:15.8	Then, in a shocking turn of events, one of those teachers was convicted of murdering
1:20.9	an expecting mother, and the other fled the state.
1:27.5	Welcome to episode 183, The Brutal Murder of Avis Banks.
1:35.2	Late November in Mississippi, isn't like autumn in the north, or even other parts of the
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