201: Silence of the Lams: George Wright

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

After being involved in the robbery and murder of a convenience store worker, George Wright goes to prison. He makes friends with a crew who plans an escape. But it doesn't end there. Not only does George leave prison, he leaves the country too in an elaborate plan involving a hijacked plane. Despite eventually being found, he was never charged. How?

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Sources:
FBI — International Fugitive Captured After More Than 40 Years
George Wright 'wins US extradition case in Portugal' - BBC News
U.S. Officials Reportedly Knew Fugitive Was in Africa | Fox News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wright_(fugitive)
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt/george-edward-wright
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/02/george-wright-portugal-black-panthers
https://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140891277/fugitive-george-wright-captured-in-portugal

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.8	And welcome to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.
0:29.3	We are our right smack going on with our Silence of the Lamb series.
0:35.0	Yes, and if you have not caught the pun to be on the lamb means to be on the run.
0:40.6	And when you're on the run, you're generally trying to stay under the radar.
0:43.8	Hence, Silence of the Lambs.
0:45.8	Jen came up with it, knocked it out of the park, perfect fit.
0:49.3	This series for us is an attempt to have something a little bit lighter than the last series because that
0:56.7	one was very heavy. Obviously, we do still talk about the crimes that got people there, but how do
1:02.8	people make it work? What happens when they just completely go off the radar? So that is what we are
1:08.3	here for this week. Quick announcement while I'm thinking about it.
1:13.1	We will not have an episode the week of May 30th. So that Tuesday, which is the 30th, or 31st, I think.
1:22.4	We will not have an episode. I will be out of town. So that should be it. And tell us where you are?
1:28.8	Everybody knows where I'm going to be in Disney. Yeah, we ended up extending our passes one more
1:36.7	year because I don't know if y'all have noticed, but flight prices are absolutely insane right
1:43.2	now with everything going on with
1:44.4	the airlines. And it just, it actually was cheaper since we already have passes because you get
1:50.7	a discount to renew them. So we're riding it out one more year. So we learned about the flight prices
1:56.6	a little bit on our own because Jen and I, another announcement, are going to be at the True Crime
2:03.1	Podcast Festival, which is going to be in Dallas, Texas, August 26, 27th, and 28th.
2:11.0	And we went to the very first one in 2019.
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