Episode 13: The Home Owners’ Association From Hell & Jennifer Jackson’s Murder

Let's Go To Court!

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

When Jim Hildenbrand moved to the Avignon Villas in Olathe, Kansas, he thought he’d found the perfect place to live. But pretty soon, he started butting heads with the neighborhood’s home owners association. Then one day, he did the unthinkable. He installed some unapproved landscaping. What followed was a costly, lengthy legal battle that epitomized first world problems. Be ready to clutch your pearls.

But they can’t all be lawsuits about landscaping. This week, Brandi tells about the hunt for Jennifer Jackson’s murderer. Her murder appeared so deeply personal that police quickly zeroed in on Jennifer’s teenage daughter, Noura. But did they catch Jennifer’s actual murderer?

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Olathe man’s war with HOA over landscaping: $400,000 at stake,” the Kansas City Star
“Church deacon’s relative has cancer, but HOA says he can’t park extra car in driveway,” the Kansas City Star
“$400,000 case pitting Olathe man, HOA needs more work, court rules,” the Kansas City Star

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“My Mother’s Murder” episode, 48 Hours
“She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.” by Emily Bazelon, New York Times

Transcript

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0:00.0	One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts! I'm Kristen Pits,
0:07.0	I'm Brandi Egan, let's go to court! On this episode I'll talk about landscaping.
0:12.9	That sounds like a joke, but it's not. And I'll be talking about the murder of Jennifer Jackson,
0:18.9	a successful investment banker and single mother whose lifeless body was discovered by her 18-year-old
0:24.3	daughter. I just dribbled tea down my chin. And now I know that's tell you a story. I can't wait.
0:34.7	Did you know that spilling tea is like, are you sound really old right now? Did you know? Yeah,
0:41.7	yes. Skullet spilling the tea, yeah, it's like giving the gossip. Yeah. So you literally spilled the
0:48.4	tea down your face and now you're gonna spill the tea to me. I sure am. Get ready people.
0:56.5	I feel like diversity on YouTube where people like they want to talk shit on something and it's
1:02.9	just them like with a little mug of tea and they've got their eyebrows. That's how I am right now.
1:08.9	So I have a confession to make. Okay, last week broke me.
1:16.5	Last week broke me. I literally have been sleeping on a hot pad for a week now because I was brought so
1:24.9	down by your topic that I was slouched in this chair as if I was melting into the floor and I physically hurt my back.
1:35.0	You looked like Froyo. You know, I just like melted. So last week I talked about Lamonte Mac and
1:44.4	Tire. At Kansas City case, he was wrongfully convicted for 23 years in a double murder.
1:50.8	There was corruption at every turn. It was horrible. It was fucking terrible. We cried like three times.
1:57.3	Yes. Yes. And I can't say anything other than it just something it snapped inside me and I had this
2:08.0	list of cases that I wanted to cover because my friend Sandy like I'm telling you she's like, no.
2:13.2	Yeah, I can't do another murder. I need something light. I need the cool width of lawsuits and I found it.
2:22.6	What? I'm so excited. This is okay. This case cracks me up. It's another local one.
2:30.1	Really? Yes. Yes. This is like, you know how people are like first world problems. This is a first
2:38.9	world problem of epic proportions. Excellent. Okay. This is a story about the homeowners association
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