Episode 279: Marie Buck

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On Christmas Eve, 2016, an 81-year-old woman is shot dead at her family-owned business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sudden and senseless slaying had an added layer of heartbreak, as the grocery store owner was a beloved community figure and familiar face known by everyone in the neighborhood. When it emerges that the victim wasn’t the target of the shooting this only adds to the confusion. But law enforcement quickly learns the offender’s likely identity, coming to realise the killing is not just a matter of ‘wrong place, wrong time’, but also sadly a case of payback at any cost. In episode 279, Jac and Alexis detail the devastating murder of Marie Buck at the hands of Maurice Green, and how, when pride and the desire for revenge take hold, it can have tragic consequences that override one’s moral compass in irrevocable ways.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper, you see it on Facebook.
0:12.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies. See it on the paper, on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	We finally get to silly, we go to the grocery store, and I get a call from his sister, which is weird. I wouldn't normally like get a call from her.
0:31.0	I'm in the car parking lot of Walmart and she's like, have you seen the news?
0:36.4	And I'm like, no, what are you talking about? And she's like, just Google his name and then she just hung up.
0:41.7	Nothing else. She just hung up on me. So I immediately
0:45.2	just like Google his name and all the articles are coming up. I throw up in the
0:50.6	Walmart parking lot. I'm like literally in shock. It was the craziest thing.
0:58.2	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast, The You might end up on. My name is Jack Fannick I'm sitting here with
1:03.2	Alexis link letter and we are in this weird limbo week between Christmas and
1:10.3	New Year's where nobody knows what they're doing in their lives and I kind of love this week.
1:15.0	I think we called it Trash Week, Rotting on the couch week.
1:19.0	It's the week that has no time.
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