Mississippi Goddam and What Happened, Brittney Murphy?

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In 2008, high school football star Billey Joe Johnson was pulled over for speeding in Lucedale, Mississippi. Moments later, the officer radioed that the Black teen had killed himself with a shotgun. “Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe” is an eight-part series of PRX's "Reveal" podcast. Host Al Letson pokes at the conclusion the teen’s death was an accident. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "MISSISSIPPI GODDAM" GO TO MINUTE 27. The sudden death in 2009 of a rising star shocked Hollywood. The HBO Max two-part series “What Happened, Brittney Murphy?” recalls the actor’s Hollywood climb and subsequent fatal backslide during her marriage to a gold-digging Svengali. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "WHAT HAPPENED, BRITTNEY MURPHY?" GO TO MINUTE 61. In Crime of the Week: Don't be cruel. Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia

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0:00.0	Most of us know you can't trust politicians, but then one comes along who's like,
0:05.4	I'm a lookout for you.
0:07.0	Like Jose, we said, he grew up in a working class Latinx neighborhood in LA, and then
0:12.1	he turned on the community that raised him.
0:15.1	From neonhameedia and LA taco, this is the sellout.
0:18.6	A podcast about a politician arrested by the FBI for allegedly operating a criminal
0:23.9	enterprise out of City Hall.
0:25.8	I'm Mariah Kessinjada.
0:27.2	Subscribe now.
0:29.8	To get the crime writers on after show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in
0:34.7	crime media.
0:35.7	I'm Rebecca LaVoy, and this is Crime Writer's On.
0:52.4	Crime Writer's On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:56.8	culture, other podcasts, and this week a black teenager dies from a shotgun blast during
1:02.3	a traffic stop.
1:03.3	Was it really an accident or something worse?
1:06.8	We'll talk about the podcast series Mrs. Cippy God Damn from Reveal.
1:12.2	Plus, a look at the troubled life of a young Hollywood starlet who died in the presence
1:17.5	of her controlling husband.
1:19.1	We'll review what happened Brittany Murphy from HBO Max.
1:23.7	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of
1:28.2	the These Are Their Stories podcast.
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