In Disguise: Serial Wife Emma Raine

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In nature, there’s a phenomenon called disruptive coloration. It’s when an animal or insect is multicolored to match its environment—thereby camouflaging itself. It’s especially useful, as I’m sure you can imagine, for predators. For example, the orange and black on a tiger allows it to blend in with the scenery and lie in wait for prey. Humans haven’t evolved this nifty little trick, but some of us have mastered something pretty similar. If you’re a predatory human, you might decide to adopt a disguise to put potential victims at ease. A preacher’s wife, for example. Or a prominent, well dressed business owner. You might develop your people skills, so that anybody who visits your home will feel like royalty. And all the while, behind your smiling eyes, the predator is waiting to pounce.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's "Deadly Secrets," Episode "The Truth Hurts"
Oxygen's "Snapped," Episode "Emma Raine"
BET's "Murder in the Thirst," Episode "Who Killed the Preacher?"
Sun-Herald, Robin Fitzgerald: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article110147657.html
AP News, Kevin McGill: https://apnews.com/article/7651272f4d04427dbf3e8315a77c5b60

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:22.2	In nature, there's a phenomenon called disruptive coloration.
0:26.5	It's when an animal or insect is multicolored to match its environment, thereby camouflaging
0:31.4	itself.
0:32.4	It's especially useful, as I'm sure you can imagine, for predators.
0:37.8	For example, the orange and black on a tiger allows it to blend in with the long grass
0:42.6	and line weight for prey.
0:45.2	Humans haven't evolved this nifty little trick, but some of us have mastered something
0:49.2	pretty similar.
0:51.5	If you're a predatory human, you might adopt a disguise to put potential victims at ease.
0:57.2	A preacher's wife, for example, or a prominent well-dressed business owner.
1:02.4	You might develop your people skills so that anybody who visits your home will feel like
1:06.7	royalty.
1:08.2	And all the while, behind your smiling eyes, the predator is waiting to pounce.
1:13.8	This is In Disguise, serial wife and marine.
1:32.2	So campers were in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 12, 2006.
1:38.1	A 911 call came in around midnight from a woman named Emma Smith.
1:42.2	And here quick, my husband's been shot.
1:45.2	First responders arrived to find 38-year-old Ernest Smith, sprawled on his back in the foyer
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