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Weird Little Guys

Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3

Weird Little Guys

iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press

Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/25/shocking-neo-nazis-fly-swastika-salute-at-shopping-center-where-leader-was-killed/

https://www.fcnp.com/2017/08/25/nazis-swoop-arlington-mark-50th-anniversary-rockwell-shooting/

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.0

On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods

0:13.2

of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does

0:19.2

someone prove that they deserve to live?

0:21.8

We are starting the recording now.

0:23.7

Please state your first and last name.

0:27.1

Krista Pike.

0:28.8

Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life,

0:32.2

on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:41.2

Cool. Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. CallZone Media.

0:46.6

On August 25th, 2017, a man getting a haircut at Tom's Barbershop in Arlington, Virginia, saw something strange.

0:56.9

Outside in the parking lot, a man on a short-sleeve collared shirt and a black tie was setting up a

1:02.6

small wreath on the sidewalk next to a trash can. When this makeshift memorial was situated to his

1:09.0

liking, the man called his audience to attention.

1:13.1

His brief remarks were heard only by the assembly of six of his fellow neo-Nazis,

1:18.2

one of whom was holding a comically large Nazi flag.

1:22.4

They held their right arms out in a stiff-armed Nazi salute,

1:26.1

as he bowed his head for 88 seconds of silent

1:29.2

reflection. This wasn't the first time that a man in the barber's chair at Tom's

1:35.8

barbershop had glanced up to see a Nazi in the parking lot. As the man getting his haircut

1:40.8

walked over to the window to snap the only photograph of this gathering.

1:54.0

It was 50 years to the minute, since a barber at that same shop ran outside to find George Lincoln Rockwell lying in a pool of his own blood.

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