10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes.

What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature.

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This is 10-minute murder.

Welcome to 10-minute murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast. I'm Joe, and I'm the host.

Thank you for being here. If you're new to the podcast, thank you for checking it out today,

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Links are in the show notes of this episode, or just type it search and it'll pop right up. On Facebook and Instagram, I post visuals that go along with

the stories you hear about. Nothing gross or graphic, but enough for you to put a face to the names

that you're hearing about. The person you're going to hear a lot about today, you likely already

know what they look like.

One of the most influential soul artists of all time, Sam Cook.

Last week, a new John Mayer's song came out, and I spent the whole weekend listening to it on repeat.

A little part of it reminded me of Sam Cook, and then I remembered that I was pretty deep into some research about his death, and I didn't complete that.

So I did,

and here we are. The story today is surrounding the mysterious murder of legendary soul singer Sam Cook. The official record of his death lists it as a justifiable homicide. By the end of this

episode today, you might see it from a different perspective. He was shot by a Los Angeles

hotel manager that claimed he was attacking her, but no doubt an influence on him and so many others in the music world is the man known as the King of Soul, Sam Cook. He was born Samuel Cook in

in 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Later in life, he went by just Sam and added an E to the

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