211: Evil or Innocent Twins: Betty, Peggy & The Murder of Dr Jack Wilson

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On May 22 1992, Betty Wilson frantically called 911 from her Huntsville, Alabama home. She found her husband, the esteemed Dr. Jack Wilson, in a pool of blood. Someone had bludgeoned and stabbed him to death. Initially, police had no suspects. Until an anonymous tip led them to a man named James White. James confessed to killing Dr. Wilson to prove his love for Betty’s twin sister, Peggy. According to James, Peggy had insisted that he murder her sister’s husband. But, according to Peggy and Betty, James was nothing but a deranged liar.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Southern and there may also be some explicit language.
0:35.0	Southern and Freight True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners.
0:42.0	And there may also be some explicit
0:44.4	language used. Listener discretion is advised.
0:49.8	The bond between sisters can be a strong one, but the bond between twin sisters, it's hard for me to imagine.
1:00.0	From the very moment twin sisters exit their mother's womb, those little girls are together.
1:07.0	So many life-changing milestones are experienced in near Lockstep.
1:12.0	Your first steps, your first Easter dress, your first day of school.
1:17.3	And for each milestone that is not experienced at the same time, well, it becomes a point of comparison.
1:26.9	One twin's life is always in stark relief next to the other. You can't help but compare and contrast yourself to them. In a way, having
1:37.9	a twin sister, identical or fraternal, must feel like seeing a different version of yourself, like witnessing an alternate
1:46.8	universe before your very eyes, one where you made different choices, And that could be very difficult.
1:54.8	Some days, just staring in the mirror is hard enough.
1:59.1	Imagine if that mirror was an entire person
2:02.4	who, in a way way reflected your own choices, both good and bad, back at
2:08.0	you. In today's case, we have twin sisters, who though they were very close were incredibly different people.
2:16.0	They were two unique individuals. They each had their own hopes, dreams, and goals.
2:24.0	But in May of 1992, they became unified in one mission.
2:30.0	And that mission was either to mastermind the murder of one twin's husband,
2:35.0	Dr. Jack Wilson,
2:37.0	or to prove that they were innocent.
2:40.0	Welcome to episode 2 11. Evil or Innocent Twins Betty Peggy and the
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