Let The Women: Lorri Davis on The West Memphis Three

True Crime Obsessed

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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One rainy New York night in 1996, Lorri Davis went to see a movie. It was a documentary about the murder of three cub scouts found in the woods and the three outcasts who were blamed for the crime. From there, her life changed forever. Here’s the story of how a young landscape architect, fell in love and into the fight to free the West Memphis Three.

This episode is part of a ten-part series called Let The Women Do The Work. Join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime.

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0:00.0	Hello Superkins here, and I've teamed up once again with the LEGO Group to bring you series
0:04.3	two of my podcast at your leisure. Join me as I chat to chart toppers, catch up with comics
0:10.9	and yak with YouTube legends, finding out what they get up to when they're not busy being famous.
0:16.8	Expect more excellent guests, sharing more unusual hobbies.
0:22.0	So why not join us on the journey? Listen to the at your leisure podcast with me,
0:26.4	Superkins on Global Player. So then Johnny like cold calls me, I'm sitting at my little
0:33.9	parks and recreation job. It's one of those phones that you know it's like one of those hard
0:39.1	plastic phones that you see from the 1950s. You know what the line is? I'm just going to say the
0:43.2	blinking light like Johnny Depp online, one, worry! And like I knew it was him, my hands of voice,
0:49.3	you know, it wasn't anyone messing with me, so I'm just like, and so he's just we talked
0:53.6	a little bit and and then he said, you know, whatever I can do.
0:59.3	My name is Lori Davis and I live in New Orleans. And we're talking about my
1:06.0	epic journey working behind the scenes of the West Memphis Three Movement.
1:10.6	Yes. Not so behind the scenes. Maybe it started that way, but try to keep it that way for a long time.
1:18.2	Hi, I'm Jillian Pensavali. I'm a true crime podcaster with pink and purple hair and I have a
1:26.4	lot of questions. Welcome to my new podcast. Let the women do the work. That title and this show
1:33.5	grew out of something I'm always saying, all right, sometimes yelling, when covering true crime
1:38.3	documentaries with my co-host Patrick Hines on another podcast you might know called True Crime Obsessed.
1:43.5	I'm Jillian Pensavali. Patrick Hines. Wow, that really is good. See what happens when you shut up
1:52.4	and let the women do the work. And you might be asking, what do we mean by that? Well, it's simple.
2:00.0	Over the years, I've watched a lot of documentaries, I've read a lot of books, and I've
2:05.2	binged my fair share of podcasts on true crime. And somewhere, sometimes multiple places.
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