Dear Anita

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

American Public Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Throughout this podcast, we’ve told Anita’s story through the words of her family and friends. Now it’s Anita’s turn. Through a journal she left behind, we explore the last months of Anita’s life, narrated by her granddaughter and namesake, Anita Brown.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, thank you for listening to The Truth Be Told She Has a Name Series.
0:05.0	I want to know what you think, all your thoughts about the series.
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0:14.8	a p.m. studios.org slash survey. That's a p.m studios
0:20.7	dot org slash survey and I can't wait to hear from you and as always
0:26.3	before we get started listener discretion is advised.
0:32.6	Hey, just a heads up as always.
0:34.7	On this podcast, we discuss some heavy topics,
0:37.3	including murder and other acts of violence.
0:40.1	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:42.0	listener discretion is advised. It was a Sunday, March 7th of 2020 to be exact. When we were being told to hunker down and sequester ourselves
0:55.7	from a new virus taking hold, that Antonio made the urgent decision to bring the people
1:02.0	closest to him together for home going.
1:06.3	Anita Ann Wiley was born August 3rd, 1958 to Carleen Stafford and Oce Hill in Detroit, Michigan,
1:14.0	marking the beginning of a wonderful childhood as the oldest sibling of an ever-expanding family.
1:20.0	At a young age, Anita would join the union of her mother,
1:23.2	Carleen to Leo Wiley, Jr. with love.
1:27.0	A service for his mom 33 years in the making.
1:32.0	At the United Memorial Garden Cemetery,
1:35.1	the place she'd been all of this time,
1:38.1	and now her final resting place.
1:41.3	The words for her obituary instinctually poured out of Antonio, all the things he'd practiced
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