FRUITLOOPS SHORT: Celestine Payne

Fruitloops: Serial Killers of Color

Fruitloops

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 953 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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You asked, we listened! Introducing Fruitloops Short, where we cut out all the extraneous stuff and give you just the meat of the story. We hope you enjoy this, but the full episode will still be available and will always be posted first. E222: SERIAL KILLER - Celestine Payne (Fruitloops Short) This week Beth and Wendy discuss the case of Celestine Payne, a black woman who took out life insurance on friends and family members and then killed them or had them killed. She also involved her own children in the crimes. Thanks for listening! Footnotes: https://fruitloopspod.com/2024/02/29/e222-serial-killer-celestine-payne/ Music “Hit Me On My Way” by Text Me Records & Jorge Hernandez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzoNlp2-Ek Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License “Death Row” & “Fake Friends” by Yung Kartz https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Yung_Kartz Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License “Gotta Get it” by Arulo Mixkit Stock Music Free License https://mixkit.co/free-stock-music/trap/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Connect with us on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHgsKYPbzsI4AEiMrUgabA Twitter @FruitLoopsPod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fruitloopspod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fruitloopspod and https://www.facebook.com/groups/fruitloopspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast contains adult themes and language and some of the things that we discuss may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:05.5	In this podcast we discuss sexual assault, torture, race, and murder.
0:09.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:11.2	Please take care of yourself. So now let's get into the early life of Miss Celestine Payne.
0:36.0	Hit it, Beth.
0:37.0	Okay, so I couldn't find anything about her.
0:41.0	Oh, shoot.
0:42.0	Yeah. Bummer. Yeah, bummer. But according to court records she had a
0:46.8	history of psychiatric problems for which she was prescribed medications and
0:51.6	when she expressed anger at her husband and
0:54.7	even threatened to kill him her medication was increased. Oh that should
0:59.6	cure the problem. Yeah! In 1991, Celestine Payne was 41 years old, a homemaker and mother of four children,
1:09.4	three daughters, Ivory, Wendy Joy, and Satria, and the son named Aubrey. She had graduated from high school, but read and wrote poorly and had last worked ten years earlier as a bookbinder. Her husband, Alfonso Payne, was a driver for a trucking company.
1:26.0	So let's dive on into the timeline, splash, splash.
1:31.0	All right. The Payne's daughter, Wendy Joy, had a friend named Tara Carter.
1:37.0	Tara was born in 1976, grew up in Patterson, and was part of a tight-knit family.
1:43.2	According to Tara's older sister Rosie,
1:46.0	their mom was churchgoing and their dad was a hard worker.
1:49.5	According to Rosie,
1:50.8	Tara had a very bubbly personality, was social, and never had a problem making friends.
1:56.0	Tara and Wendy's parents also became friends, and Celestine said that she thought of Tara as a daughter.
2:02.0	Wow, yeah, the Pains occasionally rented out rooms to
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