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Good morning, and thanks for joining me for Rise and Crime.

Your morning caffeine hit, all about crime.

I'm Mama Jules, and let's get you caught up on the woman who, along with her boyfriend,

murdered her mom overseas.

She has now been sentenced for that murder in America. All right, jazz musician James Mack, who was born in 1929, came from humble beginnings. His single mother worked as a maid to support James and his brother.

When James was five years old, the three, so his mother, his brother and him,

moved to Chicago from Alabama. When James was five, he listened to classical music for the

first time on his family radio. Friends say that changed his life forever. He

continued to love music, and when he was 15, he joined the high school band. The instructor allowed him

to choose between playing the flute or the tuba, and a young James theorized the flute was easier to play. He had in fact chosen

the much harder musical instrument, but he mastered it. Loving music, he went on to earn a

bachelor's and master's degree in music from Roosevelt University. And from there, his wealth was introduced,

because James could do just about anything in music.

He could conduct an orchestra.

He could compose the music, produce the talent,

and arrange the songs that were sung by the talent.

But his true love was teaching music.

And in his later years, he was a professor at Harold

Washington College, where students would line up to take his classes.

Now, during his life, James was married three times.

The first two ended in divorce, but he was blessed with four daughters and a son.

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