Murder in Mississippi
Gone South
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4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When Australian comedian John Safran flew to Rankin County, Mississippi to confront a white nationalist named Richard Barrett with a surprise DNA test, he had no idea the man would be killed eleven months later — by a 22-year-old Black neighbor he'd hired to do yard work. Safran returned to Mississippi to write his first true-crime book, expecting a clear-cut story about racism and a perfect victim. What he found instead was something stranger: a town built on things left unspoken, a killer who scammed him for gift cards from jail, and a relationship between victim and killer that defied the assumptions he'd brought with him.
Jed talks with Safran about his book "Murder in Mississippi," the ethics of crime reporting, and what an outsider notices about the South that the rest of us miss.
John Safran's book is "Murder in Mississippi"
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mississippi-John-Safran/dp/034913426X
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