Introducing: The James Brown Mystery

Unmasking A Killer

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Circus Singer In 2017, CNN reporter Thomas Lake receives a phone call from a circus singer who tells a wild, hard-to-believe story: James Brown didn’t die of natural causes in 2006; instead the Godfather of Soul was murdered. After months of calls from the circus singer, Lake decides to fly to Chicago to meet Jacque Hollander in person. There Jacque proves her connection to James Brown and shows Lake a videotape of a polygraph test she took in 1995 that was administered by a former FBI agent. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.4	I'm CNN's Thomas Lake and host of the James Brown Mystery, a new podcast where I attempt to answer the question,
1:09.4	was the godfather of soul murdered?
1:12.3	My investigation began a few years ago when I received a call from Jackie Hollander, who knew James Brown and claimed to have proof that he
1:18.2	was murdered. My podcast follows our investigation. Here's the first episode in the series. I hope
1:24.9	you're as captivated by this mystery as I am. This morning at
1:30.6	1.45 a.m. Mr. James Brown passed away. He was 73 years young. He sat down on the bed and he laid back
1:42.9	on the foot of the bed and he sighed very, very quietly and very
1:48.6	gently three times. Then he closed his eyes, and he was dead.
1:56.8	At a press conference in a Drab Hotel Ballroomroom with a lonely Christmas tree in the corner,
2:02.6	James Brown's managers broke the news of his death. Brown, known worldwide as the godfather of
2:08.5	Seoul, died on Christmas morning 2006 at a hospital in Atlanta. His death certificate blamed a heart
2:15.3	attack and fluid in the lungs. There was no autopsy, no investigation, no obvious sign to question the official narrative,
2:23.3	which said Brown was old and sick, and he died of natural causes.
2:28.3	By 2017, at the beginning of the story I'm about to tell you. Brown had been dead for a decade. I was a reporter
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