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Corpus Delicti

73: Dark Shadows: Cleophus Prince Jr.

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, we discuss a lesser known serial killer who was born and raised in our home town of Birmingham, Alabama. Cleophus Prince Jr. broke serial killer stereotypes by being one of the few who chose victims from another race.


Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

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"Coal Miners"

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleophus_Prince_Jr.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19931104&id=4pQzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5223,635173
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19910306&id=2jAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gaUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5666,1158888
https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-prince-33717
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:23.9

And this is Lindsay.

0:25.2

And this is Corpus Delicti.

0:27.3

We are in our Dark Shadow series.

0:30.2

We have one that is outside of the norm.

0:33.8

We have a serial killer born in Birmingham, Alabama. That's where we are. And this one

0:41.7

actually killed outside of his ethnic race, which is extremely unusual for serial killers.

0:49.1

Yeah, and we talked about that when we first launched this series about how rare that is. So this one's kind of

0:55.3

noteworthy. And yeah, we're bringing it back to Alabama. We haven't been back here in a while.

1:01.7

It's been a while since we've had an Alabama one. So, without further ado, tonight we bring

1:07.1

you the story of Cleophis Prince Jr. who goes by the nickname of Cleo.

1:12.8

Born in July 25, 1967, he grew up as mom and sister. His mom, Dorothy, divorced his dad a year before he was released from prison after serving 11 years for a 40-year murder sentence.

1:26.6

Now, he grew up in Gate City, which is a very, very small area within Birmingham, Alabama.

1:32.6

And, girl, when I told you, I went down the rabbit trail with this one, let me tell you about

1:37.6

Gate City.

1:38.9

It is just a few miles.

1:41.1

It's almost like a few blocks wide.

1:42.8

It is surrounded by five separate train companies and tracks.

1:48.6

So you know trains are always going through.

1:50.9

It's almost like it's surrounded by trains.

1:53.2

And in the last 12 months, this is the last rolling 12 months, they have had the following,

1:58.6

282 assaults, six murders, 41 rapes, 136 robberies, 500 burglaries, over 2,000 reported deaths, and 284 grand theft.

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