25: Cyntoia Brown

Murderous Minors

True Crime

4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On August 5, 2004, 16-year-old Cynthia Brown shot 43-year-old Johnny Allen in his Nashville, TN home. Her sentence would spark a national movement geared toward gaining her some degree of executive clemency.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
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0:55.0	oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Episode 25, Cynthia Brown
1:15.0	In the Independent Lens episode called Me Facing Life, which aired on PBS
1:20.0	PBS in March of 2011, Cynthia Brown's two years on PBS
1:23.4	Sintoya Brown's two-year incarceration up to her trial is chronicled.
1:28.7	In 2004, 16-year-old Centoya Brown shot and killed 43-year-old Johnny Allen.
1:34.9	Me facing life follows Centoya through the justice system. In it her biological mother
1:41.5	Georgina, Gina Mitchell, her maternal grandmother Joan Mitchell,
1:46.4	and her adoptive mother, Eleanor Brown, speak of many aspects of Centoya's life.
1:52.2	Joan married at 19 years old to a man with whom she had a less than
1:55.6	stellar relationship. I got married when I was 19. I married David who was a very poor
2:02.3	provider. I would find myself infringing when he would come towards me with any sexual manner and I knew I had to get away.
2:11.0	Tommy came to my house.
2:13.6	I was doing dishes and he came up behind me.
2:17.1	And I really wouldn't expect in that by no means.
2:20.7	Because I never been around folks like that.
2:23.0	And then he started slapping me.
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