Chang and Eng: A Messy American Dream

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have seen pictures of the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng. But their story is so much more than a medical case study. Mo travels to Mount Airy, North Carolina - the inspiration for Andy Griffith's Mayberry and the real life home of the conjoined twins - to join the many descendants of Chang and Eng for their annual family reunion.Learn more about the Mobituaries book: http://bit.ly/MobituariesBook

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0:00.0	I'm counting that one one.
0:01.7	Help me. Help me.
0:03.0	My husband's starting to get it.
0:04.9	Three murder trials.
0:06.8	Two dead husbands and an ending no one expected.
0:10.6	To the end of Raynella Leith is joining me
0:13.5	as I revisit the death surrounding Raynella Leith
0:16.6	on Mary to death.
0:18.3	I don't understand it.
0:19.2	And still, to this day, can't explain it.
0:22.0	Listen to Mary to death from my life of crime
0:24.5	with Aira Moriarty starting June 14th,
0:26.9	wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.0	It's July.
0:34.0	And I'm in Mount Ari, North Carolina,
0:37.0	population 10,347,
0:40.0	located at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
0:45.0	This is the birthplace of beloved American actor Andy Griffith
0:50.0	and the model for Mayberry,
0:52.0	the setting for his classic sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show.
0:56.0	Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor,
0:59.0	keeping watch over his sleepy town and his young son,
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