Episode 24

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With just 10,000 residents, the small town of Jennings, Louisiana has one of the highest crime rates per capita of any US town. Any vice you're looking for can be found here, including prostitution, which is just one of the things that linked all 8 victims that were found in the surrounding swamp land. Another thing linking all eight women, was their association with a man by the name of Frankie Richard. A shady character with a spotty, Richard knew all 8 women and admits to having sexual relations with almost all of them, yet he claims to have nothing to do with the murders and provides little information beyond that. However, the secrets of this town are lying there in wait for someone to who cares enough about eight dead prostitutes to come forward and solve this case. Apparently, the local Sheriff's department hasn't stepped up to the job, and the level of corruption and crime going on by those who actually wear a badge is staggering. The number of officers or investigated for ethics violations over the last decade would be shocking even for a large city, let alone a small town such as Jennings. It has become clear, over the course of two sheriffs being prosecuted and one mysteriously resigning before being asked to step down, that the culture of corruption in this town may go all the way to the top and, because of that, this crime may never be solved.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sword and Scale, episode 24, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:30.8	This week, we talked to ATLN contributor Levi Page about the Justin Harris case, the first of what seems to be a rash of hot car
0:39.1	murder cases dominating the headlines for the past few weeks. But first, a story which some
0:46.1	think inspired the HBO series True Detective. When investigative journalist Ethan Brown started
0:52.1	asking questions, the case became national news.
0:56.0	And we'll bring it to you here, along with an interview with the private investigator that is still at the center of it all.
1:03.0	This case will leave you wondering if the police can really be trusted at all.
1:09.1	Stay with us.
1:53.0	Thank you. really be trusted at all. Stay with us. About 170 miles west of New Orleans lies the small town of Jennings, Louisiana, with a population of just over 10,000. This little town, surrounded by swampland, has one of the highest crime rates in the entire country.
1:59.0	Between 1999 and 2008, there were 5,434 total crimes reported
2:05.2	in Jennings, Louisiana. 820 of them were violent. Of the 604 crimes that occur in Jennings every
2:11.3	year, almost half of them happen less than a mile from home. On average, someone is a victim
2:16.5	of a crime in Jennings every 14 hours.
2:20.0	Per capita, we have the highest unsouth crime rate in the country.
2:24.7	When you think about New York and California, I mean, that's pretty astronomical, you know.
2:29.4	It is in the surrounding swamp lands of this town that eight human bodies were found, all of them
2:36.9	young girls.
2:37.9	They've had eight murders since 2005.
2:42.4	The only year that was missed was 2006.
2:47.6	And if you remember correctly, around 2005 was was when Rita and the other hurricanes, Katrina, came through Louisiana.
2:55.8	He's talking, of course, about the hurricanes that destroyed much of southern Louisiana.
3:00.1	We don't know if that was why that year was missed or what.
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