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Mississippi Goddam and What Happened, Brittney Murphy?

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Society & Culture, True Crime, Author, Panel, Writer, Review, Tv Reviews, Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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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