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Episode 138 - Witch-Hunt: The San Antonio Satanic Panic

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In Texas from 1997 to 1998 four lesbian Latina women were accused and convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in unbelievable devil worship rituals. Homophobia, and the rampant "satanic panic" at the time, sealed the fates of these young women and with no evidence - except the testimony of their young accusers - they were each imprisoned and labelled child rapists.

This is the story of their fight for freedom.


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References:

https://www.texasobserver.org/mystery-san-antonio-four/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/san-antonio-four-texas-women-exonerated-gang-rape

https://www.intomore.com/impact/how-four-latinx-lesbians-restarted-their-lives-after-being-wrongfully-imprisoned

http://fourliveslost.com/

https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-san-antonio-4-exonerated-20161123-story.html

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/san-antonio-fours-wrongful-child-sex-convictions-expunged-after-nearly-two-decades

https://www.ohio-forum.com/2019/03/san-antonio-four-to-visit-ohio-university-and-speak-on-wrongful-convictions-and-miscarriages-of-justice/

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Last-vestiges-of-criminal-past-erased-for-wrongly-13439907.php

https://www.tpr.org/post/san-antonio-four-exonerated-child-sexual-assault-case

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/judge-clears-records-wrongfully-convicted-san-antonio-four-n943751

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/06/06/one-of-the-san-antonio-four-women-has-been-appointed-to-houston-forensics-board-to-help-fight-injustice

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/24/us/san-antonio-four-exonerated/index.html

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:20.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to this week's Redhanded and welcome back to my voice.

0:26.7

I am now completely recovered but yet last week was fucking horrible. I basically was asleep,

0:33.4

basically all week, just like a sweaty mess and I hate like dragged myself to the pub on Saturday night.

0:39.1

You looked sad when we were recording last night. I mean, we all look sad. I think we just made

0:43.6

everyone really miserable last week. No, I literally like there was points during the recording

0:48.9

where I was like, I don't think I can do this. It was like on the verge of tears. Yeah, it was

0:55.9

pretty rough. There was definitely no comic relief last week. Unfortunately, no, but we'll give it a

1:01.5

good go this week. Exactly, exactly. But yeah, what you went to the pub a sweaty mess on Saturday.

1:07.7

Well, I just, I didn't, we was like, someone I went to school, it's cousin or something. And

1:12.7

Nicky was like, oh, like just come down like below that and I was like, I really don't want to,

1:15.9

it's in Hormerton, which is really far from my house. But I dragged myself out and I was like, oh,

1:20.0

outside. This is what it's like to wear clothes. Oh, man, I'm impressed. I'm impressed. When I had

1:28.0

the ploe over Christmas, there was just no chance. Absolutely no chance. I couldn't even look at a

1:32.8

computer screen. So good work. Well done. Yeah, well, I'm, I'm back in, back in action and ready to rumble

1:38.4

this week. And rumble we shout. But by the case, we have this week, we are in quite familiar

1:45.5

satanic panic territory. But we're an unfamiliar paradigm shift. And we have of course covered

1:50.9

the satanic panic in a couple of different episodes. So go back and listen to them if you haven't

1:54.6

heard them or if you just feel like going over the basics one more time, we won't be rehashing

2:00.8

anything that we covered in the pool ingram or fall river episodes because that feels like a waste

2:04.7

of time. And obviously the last thing we want you to do is switch off because you're bored.

2:09.6

Who thought satanism and which is could get boring? I didn't until I did an anthropology degree.

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