221: We're Terribly Sorry for this Terrible Episode
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
If you’re looking for a light-hearted episode that’ll leave you feeling warm and tingly, this ain’t it.
Brandi starts us off with the story of a toddler whose body was discovered in the woods of Kansas City. For years, the unidentified girl was known as “Precious Doe.” Police said they were dedicated to the case, but it took outside intervention and relentless advocacy by the girl’s great grandfather for her to be identified.
Then Kristin tells us about the infuriating fight for justice following the murder of Jennifer Laude. Jennifer was a trans Filipina woman who was killed by an American Marine named Joseph Scott Pemberton. Jennifer’s murder didn’t just outrage LGBT+ advocates – it outraged anyone who was sick of American servicepeople getting special treatment in the Philippines.
Kristin (the tattooed one who is engaged to David) ends this episode with a bang.
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:
The documentary “Call Her Ganda”
“How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident” by Meredith Talusan for Vice
“Philippines Events of 2018,” Human Rights Watch
“9 of Rodrigo Duterte’s Most Controversial Quotes,” by Megan Trimble for US News and World Report
“Revisiting the Jennifer Laude murder case,” by CNN Philippines Staff for CNN
In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“‘Precious Doe’ — Toddler Erica Green Was Killed By Her Parents In 2001” by Erika Marie, ourblackgirls.com
“Solved: The brutal murder of Erica Green” by Mary Hallberg, maryhallberg.com
“Mystery child’s slaying still haunts, stirs resolve” by Christine Vendel, The Kansas City Star
“Precious Doe Case: Lessons learned” by Christin Vendel, The Kansas City Star
“Mother, stepfather charges in ‘Precious Doe’ killing” CNN
“Precious Doe Born In Prison” CBS News
“Missouri: Letters were sent by ‘Precious Doe’ killer to wife” The Joplin Globe
“Mom at ‘Precious Doe’ trial says she waited for girl to die’ The Associated Press
“Activist Continues Work for ‘Forgotten’ Missing Persons” by Bryan Robinson, ABC News
“State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Harrell L. Johnson” findlaw.com
“Murder of Erica Green” wikipedia.org
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| 0:00.0 | He sat there doing all this financial modeling and working out is everything going to be okay. |
| 0:04.8 | It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around. |
| 0:09.8 | Sage empowers finance professionals like Kat to feel more rewarded with helpful business tools |
| 0:15.2 | and advice from real experts. Sage, helping business flow. |
| 0:20.2 | One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Kristen Caruso. I'm Brandi Egan. Let's go to court. |
| 0:30.7 | On this episode, I'll be talking about the murder of Jennifer Lod. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'll be talking about precious dough. Oh, so this is going to be a real bummer of an episode. |
| 0:39.6 | A real bummer. I can barely move. Okay. Sorry. |
| 0:46.0 | I had so much dairy. You didn't have a lot of dairy. |
| 0:50.1 | I basically suckled on a cow's udder for like an hour and a half. Why'd you choose to go with |
| 0:55.4 | udder and not teat? It's an utter. That's what you think of when you think of a cow. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay. But when people say suckle, don't you think, teat? |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah, but I'm being specific. I'm saying I didn't just suckle on any teat. Any old teat. |
| 1:10.3 | It was a cow's. Okay. Which can be dangerous. Yeah. Ask me how I know. |
| 1:16.8 | No, everyone I had macaroni and cheese for lunch and then those two bitches. |
| 1:22.7 | Brandy and norm made me go get custard. |
| 1:26.8 | Whoo. I had what this establishment claimed was a double malt. |
| 1:33.3 | Meaning it had double malt powder in it. Yeah, we had some with the word double meals. |
| 1:37.4 | Barely tasted single malt. |
| 1:41.6 | So you didn't eat it. No, I ate it. |
| 1:46.1 | Suckled the whole thing right now. |
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