Fixing An Alibi - June 3 2020 - Daily True Crime

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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June 3rd: Barbara Graham Executed (1955) An alibi can stand between a person, and a prison cell. If you can explain where you were at the time and day of a crime then, obviously, you aren’t guilty. On June 3rd 1955 a woman without an alibi was executed. And, in fact, it was her desperation for one that put her behind bars. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of...
0:04.0	We have a weird...
0:06.0	...by by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion...
0:09.0	A cop of murder.
0:11.0	An alibi can stand between a person and a prison cell.
0:15.0	If you can explain where you were at the time and day of a crime, then obviously you aren't guilty.
0:22.4	On June 3, 1955, a woman without an alibi was executed.
0:27.6	And, in fact, it was her desperation for one that put her behind bars.
0:33.1	So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,
0:36.1	sit back and start your day with a morning
0:38.1	cup of murder.
0:43.1	Barbara Graham, born June 26, 1923 in Oakland, California, lived a hard life.
0:50.0	Her mother was a sex worker, who herself was just a child when she had Barbara.
0:55.3	When she was just two years old, her mother was sent to a reform school and she was left to be raised by family and friends until her release.
1:03.1	As Barbara grew older, despite being an intelligent girl, had limited education and decided to turn to a life of crime like her mother.
1:11.5	When she was a teen, she was sent to the same reformatory school as her mother when she
1:15.9	was arrested for vagrancy.
1:18.3	She was released in 1939 and attempted to make a new life for herself.
1:23.5	She got married to a man in the Coast Guard, enrolled in business college, and had children.
1:28.5	But by 1942, she was divorced, and her husband had custody of her boys.
1:34.1	She tried to remarry a few times, and she quickly realized that this traditional lifestyle
1:39.6	was not working for her.
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