Episode 157

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Who do we blame when an innocent 8-year-old boy is brutally murdered in a stranger’s kitchen? In this particular case, fingers are pointed in every direction. The cut-and-dry cases of random abduction and murder are terrible and tragic, yet simple. The murder of Markie Mason, however, is anything but simple.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.8	Tonight my son was murdered, she picked my son up at 10-10.
0:19.1	My son was dead by 11....my son was dead by 11.
0:22.6	... Welcome to Season 7, Episode 157 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. You know, I'm going to The Depravity of man knows no bounds.
1:48.7	We've built a system of law and justice in an attempt to protect us from reality.
1:56.1	Many of us know just how vindictive, selfish, and petty human beings can be.
2:03.1	We've experienced it firsthand throughout our lives.
2:07.0	So the system we've built, layer upon layer, over hundreds, if not thousands of years,
2:14.0	is intended to shield those of us that have the ability and self-control to keep an even keel,
2:20.8	to not delve into the darkness.
2:24.3	The very fact we understand the depravity of man, and just how deeply it is intertwined in our nature,
2:33.2	is the very thing that allows us to enact laws and
2:37.2	punishments to deter it from showing itself. Those closely embroiled in the legal system,
2:43.7	cops, criminal attorneys, judges, prison staff, they see the real horrors of true crime on a
2:50.6	daily basis.
2:52.3	They live it.
2:53.8	There's no trigger warning for them.
2:56.3	There's no skip-ahead button.
2:59.0	For you, though, the listener, there is.
3:03.0	There are crimes that are comprehensible, crimes of passion or greed or revenge.
3:09.2	Some of them are even labeled as senseless, a man being stabbed in an alleyway for a few
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