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Coffee and Cases Podcast

E241: Marsha Brantley

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Allison Williams, Maggie Damron

Unsolved, Murder, Conspiracy, True Crime, Cold Cases, Mystery, Society & Culture

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How do you solve a crime with no evidence? How do you solve a crime when you don't know when it occurred? And how do you solve a crime when you don't even know IF it occurred. While those are the questions one man's lawyer is asking, one woman's family is convinced of foul play. What really happened to Marsha Brantley of Cleveland, Tennessee sometime between May and July of 2009? If you are interested in bonus content for our show or in getting some Coffee and Cases swag, please consider joining Patreon. There are various levels to fit your needs, all of which can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases

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0:00.0

When you really think about it, it's quite odd that we take very serious elements of life

0:05.9

and turn them into games.

0:09.1

I wonder what that says about our human psyche.

0:12.3

Take the game of operation, for example, where we make a botched surgery into a laughable

0:18.2

situation where the patient's nose lights up red.

0:22.3

The real world equivalent can be devastating.

0:26.1

In the game of life, it's a game whether we have children or not, whether we have the

0:31.5

career that we actually want, and it's all up to chance, not choice.

0:37.3

In reality, we study years for degrees. We work hard to

0:40.9

climb career ladders, and for many of us, the choice to have children is a long and laborious

0:46.8

process and not a coincidental byproduct. Then there's the game of Would You Rather, where some

0:53.0

of the decisions are silly, unrealistic,

0:55.5

and inconsequential choices and others are unanswerable. Like, would you rather know that

1:02.3

something tragic has happened, which eliminates hope of a better ending, or live in the

1:08.7

unknown where the tragic is possible, but hope lives on.

1:14.3

At least in this game, as in life, sometimes both options are bad, and we must choose the lesser

1:20.6

of two evils. Unlike a game, though, where we have a say, life doesn't give us that option. And the family at the center

1:29.8

of our case this week has only been given one possibility, at least until more information comes

1:36.4

to light, that their loved one is missing. And we don't know why, how, when, nor if something actually happened.

1:48.5

They just know that she's gone.

1:51.5

This is the case of Marcia Brantley. I'm going to be the one I'm

2:01.6

I'm

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