217: A Chilling 911 Call & a Murder "Mystery"
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Keyona Griffin needed help. Terrified, she dialed 911 and whispered to the dispatcher that she was in grave danger. She told the dispatcher her address and said, “he’s trying to kill me. He already killed my auntie. Can you hurry up, please?” Minutes later, police arrived on the scene. They didn’t do shit.
Then Kristin tells us about a world-class asshole named James Sullivan. Over the course of their marriage, James cheated on his wife Lita McClinton multiple times. The marriage took its toll on Lita, but after several years, she decided she’d had enough. Just when it looked like she was free, a stranger rang her doorbell.
And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Hitman freed 31 years after shooting millionaire’s estranged wife in her doorway in murder-for-hire,” by Adam Carlson for People
“Social Disgraces,” by Debra Miller Landau for Atlanta Magazine
Murder in the Thirst episode, titled: “Palm Beach Princess”
“Flower delivery turned murder,” by Victoria Corderi for NBC News
“Sullivan pleads not guilty to killing wife,” by Bill Montgomery for The Atlanta Constitution
In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Keyona Griffin 911 Call” by @ominousposts, TikTok
“Mother and Child: Jory Worthen/Derrell Brown” episode In Pursuit with John Walsh
“‘Please hurry’: Victim’s haunting 911 call released as feds hunt suspected killer” by Susan Samples, Target 8 News
“Double-murder suspect had ‘Jekyll and Hyde’-like anger, says witness” by Susan Samples, Target 8 News
“Police 'beating themselves up’ after 911 caller found dead hours later” by John Agar, mlive.com
“Charges filed in Grand Rapids double homicide” by Justin P. Hicks, mlive.com
“US Marshals: Kent Co. double murder suspect added to Top 15 Most Wanted list” by Karie Herringa, Fox 17 News
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| 0:00.0 | He sat there doing all this financial mumbling, working out, is everything gonna be okay? |
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| 0:15.2 | and advice from real experts. Sage, helping business flow. |
| 0:20.0 | One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Kristen Caruso. I'm Brandy Egan. Let's go to court. |
| 0:30.6 | On this episode I'll be talking about a murder mystery and I'll be talking about a chilling call to 911. |
| 0:38.8 | Ooh, okay, poor taste. Yeah. I often start this podcast in poor taste and I end it in poor taste. |
| 0:49.1 | You want this is a bad podcast. What it is. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, it's about time someone said it. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah, anyway, how you doing, Brandy? I'm doing great. How are you doing? |
| 1:03.0 | I'm good. We're about to go on. Brandy. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, it feels like the last day of school before summer vacation. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, yeah, everyone. You're gonna miss us so bad. |
| 1:11.9 | Ooh, you know what you should do if you miss us? |
| 1:14.8 | You should sign a fire patreon. Yeah, you should. |
| 1:19.9 | Because we're leaving for a month. You won't hear from us from month. |
| 1:22.5 | From month. And we won't be thinking about you at all. |
| 1:25.8 | But you'll be thinking about us. |
| 1:27.8 | That seems rude. |
| 1:31.8 | I don't condone the way that Kristen is talking to you all. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm just the really cool one. |
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