Arrested Democracy, Pt .1
Weird Little Guys
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4.6 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.
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| 0:00.0 | To have a murder as gruesome as Jade Beasley's doesn't happen very often down here. |
| 0:05.3 | In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in |
| 0:10.7 | girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder. |
| 0:14.5 | I am confident that Julie Beckley is guilty. |
| 0:17.6 | They've never found a weapon. |
| 0:19.3 | Never made sense. |
| 0:20.3 | Still doesn't make sense. |
| 0:21.4 | She found out she was pregnant in jail. |
| 0:23.7 | The person who did it is still out there. |
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| 1:04.0 | Welcome to the Criminalia Podcast. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm Maria Tremarky. |
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