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Criminal

Episode 103: Get Out of My House

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Little Five Points. The home belonged to Carmela Aliffi and her then-husband, Bear. Carmela and her friends were steaming wallpaper off of the walls when two strangers just walked in. One of them had a gun. Thanks to listener Jenna Alstad for writing in with her mother’s story. For a transcript of this episode, send an email to [email protected] with the episode name and number. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Please review us on Apple Podcasts! It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever thought of yourself before as a brave person, a create, someone who took

0:06.9

control of situations?

0:08.6

Or would this, what you did, that surprised you?

0:11.8

Well, I'm a New Year's baby, which means I'm a Capricorn.

0:17.9

And Capricorn are those goats that climb the hill and they don't look to take charge.

0:26.8

But if the situation needs someone to take charge, they do it.

0:31.6

They're not looking for it, but if nobody else is doing it, they just do it.

0:38.3

I'm Phoebe Judge.

0:40.2

This is criminal.

0:51.4

In 1977, Carmella Leuffy and her then-husband Bayer bought a big old house in Atlanta, Georgia.

1:00.4

Carmella describes it as a Charleston dog walkhouse.

1:04.8

And in a Charleston house, every room opens into a long central hallway.

1:10.9

You can open the front door and see all the way into the backyard.

1:16.1

She and Bayer paid just over $32,000 for it, and the plan was that they'd live on one side

1:23.0

and rent out the other side.

1:25.6

This was in a part of Atlanta known as Little Five Points.

1:29.3

Little Five Points was a really artsy area.

1:33.8

And this is like 78.

1:36.4

There was like organic restaurants, but you know, back then, there just weren't many of those

1:42.1

kinds of places.

1:43.9

There was the shoe store that had Birkenstocks.

1:48.0

That was their main thing, the Birkenstock store.

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