Jessie James Cummings

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital / Wondery

True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jessie James Cummings was a polygamist who lived in Oklahoma with his two wives and family. He kept everyone under strict control through verbal and physical abuse. In 1991, Jessie made the decision that he wanted his half-sister Judy Moody Mayo dead. He accomplished this by pressuring his wives into helping him make that a reality. Then, Jessie murdered Judy's 11-year-old daughter Melissa.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss what is undoubtedly one of the most messed up family trees we have ever covered. This case is tragic but also fascinating for a number of reasons. How does a man get his wives to kill for him? This case came down to the testimony of Jessie's two wives, Sherry and Juanita, against him. And it was that testimony that caused him to be ultimately executed. Many people have wondered over the years if that alone was enough to put a man to death.

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0:00.0	Texas Ranger James Holland is a legendary interrogator.
0:03.5	They call him the serial killer Whisperer.
0:05.4	You can't hide those indications, and that's why yesterday I knew that you did it.
0:09.5	But now, shocking interrogation tapes reveal how the Super Cup really operates.
0:14.3	And that's why they ask me to come in because I'm special.
0:17.0	From something else, the Marshall Project and Sony Music Entertainment,
0:20.4	this is Smoke Screen. Just say you're sorry.
0:24.0	Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher,
0:27.8	or wherever you get your podcast.
1:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 135 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.
1:09.9	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me, as always, is my partner in True Crime.
1:13.7	Mike Gibson, give me how are you?
1:15.3	Hey, man, it didn't really well.
1:16.9	That's good. We're back from crime con.
1:19.2	Yeah.
1:20.0	We got sick as can be.
1:22.0	Absolutely.
1:22.7	Somehow, either on the way back on the 13 flights we had to take to get back to Dayton, Ohio.
1:28.8	It was rough.
1:29.6	Or in meeting everyone, I don't know who knows, but caught something, both of us did.
1:35.5	Maybe that communal cup that we passed around it or by drink out of.
1:39.3	Communial or the communal?
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