Different Races, Shoes Without Laces & The Evil Deeds of Unseen Faces: Lennon Lacy

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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August 29, 2014. A Bladenboro, NC woman rises shortly after 7am to find a deceased black male hanging by a makeshift noose from an old swing set in the yard of the predominantly white trailer park where she lives. Her subsequent call to 911 draws police to the scene of the crime to investigate. They quickly determine the person in question is a 17-year-old high school student and football player named Lennon Lacy, who lives up the road about a quarter of a mile away. Before long, his death is hastily ruled a suicide by local authorities, a sentiment later shared by the state police as well. But something is wrong with this scene. Lennon is wearing shoes that don't belong to him, and are too small for his feet. Even more baffling is the fact that the hanging appears to have been impossible for him to accommodate on his own. Soon enough, what was initially deemed a suicide starts looking a whole lot more like it could be a racially motivated lynching. But to this day, the truth remains a mystery. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey into the underlying emotional narrative of this tragic death in an effort to learn the truth about what happened to Lennon Lacy that fateful night.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.3	returning for yet another journey down the rabbit hole to uncover the truth lurking beneath the surface of a mysterious crime.
0:17.0	In this episode, we'll be examining the death of 17-year-old high school student and football player Lennon Lacey who in late August
0:26.3	2014 was discovered hanging from the frame of a swing set within the confines of a Blaydenboro North Carolina trailer park that was predominantly
0:35.8	occupied by white residents.
0:38.4	The black teen, at first glance, appeared to have hanged himself intentionally as an act of suicide, but as the evidence
0:46.4	apparent at the scene was examined, something wasn't quite right.
0:51.8	Questions quickly arose about the potential for Lenin's death, being a lynching.
0:57.0	So we'll dive into that in just a moment. First, I want to offer a quick update on the Patreon stuff I talked about briefly in last week's episode.
1:06.0	I'll be debuting a new podcast soon that analyzes film and TV, but I'm not exactly sure when that will happen.
1:13.0	However, sometime in the next two weeks, I'm going to drop the first episode of that new podcast in the public Cole Case
1:20.0	Murder Mysteries Feed, meaning Apple Podcasts and other providers. It's a comprehensive psychological
1:26.1	analysis of Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, so it won't be too far off the subjects we normally cover.
1:31.8	Anyhow, I think you all really enjoy that
1:34.5	episode, so be sure to check it out. I'm planning to do Patreon shoutouts for current
1:39.3	supporters during that show because it will be a much bigger audience than the premium episodes.
1:45.0	As always, thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy my breakdown of psycho.
1:50.0	A follow-up about other Patreon matters soon.
1:53.2	There's some Q&A to accommodate, so I think there will likely be another
1:56.9	Q&A episode that leads with those Patreon questions.
2:00.2	Okay, back to our story. So, it's Saturday morning at approximately 7.25 a.m. in the small town of
2:08.8	Blaydenborough, North Carolina, which offers a population of fewer than 2,000 residents.
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