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Hello everybody and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express. Yeah, and Chucho! Yeah indeed Jimmy. Yeah indeed. My name is James Petrigallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you folks for joining us.

All aboard the murder train. It is time to pull away from the station with a crazy s episode as usual. Today is no different. Today is an episode where French fries play a big part in the case.

I love a French fries so that immediately peaked my interest and I want these French fries. We'll get into all this. Yeah, but we'll get there. I want these Alabama French fries. Before we do that very quickly, definitely want to head over to shut up and give me murder.com. Get your tickets for August 12th Chicago. Yeah, it's going to be our biggest show ever. Everybody we're doing a Chicago only live show as well. Only place you're going to see it is in Chicago. So get in there. Get your tickets right now. Also tickets for Dallas. I don't I think DC might be sold.

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I'm basically for crime and sports, which you'll have access to. We're going to talk about theme park disasters. Oh yeah. So yeah, that's going to be fun. And then for small town murder, we're going to talk about some of the craziest prison riots in history. So they're basically the same thing with or without roller coasters. That's the difference. Patreon. That's it. Patreon.com slash crime and sports. And you're going to shout out at the end of the regular show, which is always fun. And of course it is coming. Keep an ear out for your stupid opinions. Show.

We're ready to go. We're ready to have a come out every single Monday morning. And there's just business stuff that is nothing to do with us that we have to just wait for people to do. And we're waiting and they're doing it. So it's coming. Thank you for your enthusiasm and for caring where it is. We do appreciate that. So we're not annoyed at all by the questions. We're like, thank you. Yes, it's coming. So your stupid opinions coming very soon. That said, Jimmy, I think it's time. Oh yeah. Let's get into this. I think it's time wherever you are. It doesn't matter. Where are you?

Yeah, maybe you're I'm thinking of roofing actually. We're on a roof. You're sweaty. There's tar. You're sticky. You know what? I don't care. Throw your mop to the ground. Whatever that is. That tar spreading thing. Arms to the heavens. Arms to the sky covered in tar and you shout. Let's do this. Jimmy, what do you say? Let's go on a trip. I'll all see. We're going on down now.

Alabama today. Yes, we are. We were in Michigan earlier. And this is the biggest coincidence in the history of small time murder, which is saying a lot because we had an episode where the tight where the Titanic was involved. And that wasn't on purpose. And then this week is very strange because the town in Michigan was M O R I C E. And it was Morris, Michigan. This is Morris, Alabama. Really spelled Morris, but regular Morris M O R I S. But still we have the same town name.

Not planned complete. I mean complete and total coincidental. Strangest things. So I guess when you're above 400 episodes, weird shit starts to happen. Run Morris this week.

I'd start falling in favor of strange things at that point. You want to know something really crazy. James somebody that listens to says a dog named Morris. I'm sure. And definitely cats probably people still made their cats. Morris.

After that. So here we go. Morris, Alabama, North Central Alabama about 20 minutes outside of Birmingham. So near that Tennessee border up there and everything. It's about four hours to mobile, which is all the way down south just to give you an idea.

And almost two hours to section Alabama, which was our last Alabama episode. The murder dance. I remember that one. That was a strange one there. This week, Morris population. It's a small town 2248. So very small.

median household income is actually pretty high though because you can work in Birmingham and choose to live out here. So right to different deal. 61,797 dollars a month is the median household income.

And the median home price is lower than the national average. That's just stretches 226,000 dollars. So there you go. I mean, if it's not not a bad deal. So the history here.

People arrived in this area in kind of around the same time. Alabama became a state around 1820ish 1819 is when they became a state. That's around when people were started coming. First thing they put up, Jimmy.

Baptist church. Baptist church. Baby, as we know, Baptist are the Catholics of the South. The area.

Salvation. It's happening, dammit. The area was known as Shadtown Kennedy'sville and kennelsville over time. And then it just kept. They just kept changing it every once in a while.

Was there just a bait shop? Is that what the Shadville? I don't know, man. I don't know what Kennedy'sville. So I assume some guy named Kennedy, some guy named kennel. A lot of dog kennels. I don't know what's going on here.

But the railroad came in later on. And of course they had neighboring neighboring coal fields that developed once the railroad was there to get the coal fields. That sounds fun.

The Jefferson coal company here. One of the owners was named Marshall Morris. And that's where Morris, Alabama came from first name Marshall. Oh, baby. Yeah.

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