Episode 80 - Angela Samota

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 5 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 1984, the future was looking promising for 20-year-old college junior, Angie Samota. The university student had just moved into her own condominium, had a boyfriend, plenty of friends, and a job in the field she was studying.....But sometimes, bad things happen to good people.

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Haas, Brian. “Her message: stay alive by any means.” The Tennessean, March 8 2012. Print.
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0:00.0	The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the Minds of Madness Podcast.
0:07.0	Listener discretion is advised. Oh, In the fall of 1984 the future was looking promising for 20-year-old college junior
0:45.0	Angie Somota.
0:46.4	The university student had just moved into her home place.
0:50.1	She had a boyfriend, plenty of friends, and a job in the field she was studying.
0:55.0	But sometimes bad things happen to good people.
1:00.0	Join me now, as we explore the case of Angela Simoda and a friend who went on a relentless
1:06.4	quest for justice.
1:08.5	You'll find out how one fateful decision changed the course of someone's life and how a painful tragedy
1:16.2	was transformed into a journey of hope. Angela Marie Somota was born in Pennsylvania on September 19, 1964.
1:40.0	Angela or Angie, as her loved ones called called her was only an infant when her father passed away.
1:46.0	Frank Somota served in the US Navy during World War II and was killed in Korea children raised by the single widowed mother Betty.
1:59.4	Angie grew up in Amarillo, Texas, a city located in the northern part of Texas, the biggest
2:06.5	city in the Texas Panhandle, resting on historic Route 66.
2:12.6	In her teenage years, Angie attended an exclusive all-girls school located in Dallas called
2:19.3	the Hawken School, a nationally acclaimed private school that operates both as a day school and a boarding
2:26.2	school with a strong emphasis on college prep.
2:31.0	After graduating in 1982, Angie enrolled at Southern Methodist University.
2:37.0	As an incoming freshman, the university matched her with a roommate named Sheila Gibbons.
2:43.0	So back in the 80s, when you went off to college,
2:47.0	they called it Pot Luck, they would do a Pot Luck match.
2:50.0	And so they would take certain characteristics of one person and match them with
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