Introducing: Gone South, Season One: Who Killed Margaret Coon?

Something Scary

Snarled and Underscore Talent Management

Fiction, Arts, True Crime

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, a former prosecutor named Margaret Coon took her dog for a walk in one of Louisiana’s safest and most affluent parishes. The next morning, she was found dead on the side of the road with a single stab wound in her back. St. Tammany Parish advertises itself as a safe haven from the crime and corruption of New Orleans, attracting thousands of residents over the last several decades. But there is a darker side to St. Tammany and that darkness ultimately consumed Margaret Coon. Welcome to Gone South Season 1: Who Killed Margaret Coon? Over the course of this documentary podcast series from C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, journalist Jed Lipinski investigates the theories and motives surrounding Margaret Coon’s unsolved murder, shedding new light on a bewildering crime that has haunted St. Tammany for over 34 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Marquia from the Something Scary podcast. I'm here to introduce you to Gone South,
0:06.4	an investigative podcast series from C-13 originals, the Peabody Award-nominated studio behind
0:13.0	Rood of Evil, gangster capitalism, and relative unknown. In southeast Louisiana,
0:19.0	in a swampy parish outside New Orleans, the Zodiac
0:23.0	killer, the Black Dahlia, and John Bonae Ramsey find their equivalent in the strange and tragic
0:29.0	death of Margaret Coon. Coon, a former sex crimes prosecutor in St. Tammany, one of Louisiana's
0:36.5	safest and most affluent suburbs, was stabbed to
0:40.2	death by an unknown assailant while walking her dog over three decades ago. The mystery surrounding
0:46.5	her murder inspired a generation of colorful Deep South investigators and conspiracy theorists to
0:53.4	identify her killer. Now, 34 years later,
0:57.1	award-winning journalist Jed Lepensky is investigating the community's darker side,
1:02.7	exploring the theories and possible motives behind her unsolved murder, and shedding new light on a
1:08.3	bewildering crime that continues to haunt St. Tammany. As you listen to
1:12.6	this short preview, be sure to search and listen to Gone South wherever you get your podcast.
1:18.7	She was our idol. It was like, wow, Margaret, you're so cool. You drive a jag or a female lawyer. You're stunningly beautiful.
1:30.9	We wanted to grow up and be Margaret. She was fascinating. District attorneys have a hard job to do.
1:38.9	You know, she did it with grace. She wasn't your ordinary district attorney.
1:46.1	When she walked into the room, the men notice.
1:49.7	Women notice Margaret.
1:52.5	He said she was just too pretty to kill.
1:58.4	My two bosses came to me and said, Margaret was killed.
2:03.6	I said, what?
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