S4 Ep83: Lawman

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The name Tom Toaz was well-known in Mid-Michigan at the turn of the 20th century. He was a celebrated lawman, infamous for throwing more citizens behind bars than all of the other constables combined. He had a hand in all of the scandalous, headline-making cases in Eaton County in the late 18 and early 1900s, but no case he was involved in was quite as scandalous as his own.

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0:00.0	This is the Scream Queen production.
0:07.6	Ah, ah, ah, ah.
0:13.9	I never will forget the tragic ending met the day your last sunset
0:26.6	so dead so dead So dead.
0:42.6	Welcome to So dead.
0:46.5	I'm your host, Jen Carpenter.
0:48.9	Happy True Crime Tuesday.
0:51.3	Happy Taco Tuesday.
0:53.5	Happy, it's getting warmer and feeling like springtime Tuesday. Happy Taco Tuesday. Happy, it's getting warmer and feeling like springtime Tuesday.
0:59.1	Happy, it's staying light out later Tuesday. We got to find some things to be happy about these
1:05.9	days. We just got to. Okay, so you guys know that I cannot go too long without digging into a hometown case, something that is close to home for me.
1:16.8	So today I'm going to tell you about the rootness-tootness lawman, the city of Grand Ledge, Michigan ever did see.
1:24.7	His name is Tom Toes, spelled T-O-A-Z, so I suppose it could be Toas, but I think that it's just
1:34.0	toes, like toes. And we've actually talked about him before, kind of, because he was involved
1:41.5	in pretty much every high-profile case in Eaton County in the late 18 and early 1900s, and that is the time frame that we've covered on some stories.
1:50.3	Like the Nettie Barnard case, which was covered back in season two, episode 58, murderess.
1:57.2	It was the one where the pretty young wife and mother became obsessed with her crotchety old pastor.
2:04.6	She followed him all over the state and then she set his wife on fire.
2:09.4	Remember that one?
2:10.8	So Tom Toes was actually a member of Nettie Barnard's defense team.
2:14.9	So he must be pretty good at his job because she fucking got off somehow.
2:19.7	And while the Nettie Barnard case was the talk of all of the towns back when it happened,
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