Stanley Tookie Williams

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tookie Williams was a co-founder of the infamous Crips gang in the 1970s in Southern California. Raised by a single mother, Tookie learned how to be tough in order to survive on the streets. He lived the gang life for a number of years and got heavily involved with drugs. In 1979, Tookie was arrested and ultimately convicted of murdering four people. He was sentenced to death.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Tookie Williams. This is a man who undoubtedly committed a laundry list of crimes during his life. But, the four murders for which he received the death penalty didn't seem to be gang related. Tookie is also an interesting study in that he seemingly turned his life around in prison. He began writing children's books denouncing the gang lifestyle on which he had been such a big influence. The question many people have is whether or not this turnaround was real or whether it was a ploy to try to escape the death penalty.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast
0:05.7	Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga
0:14.7	Last year we also started a second weekly show
0:17.6	Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like
0:22.6	We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood
0:26.8	The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction
0:32.8	Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior
0:37.8	Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist
0:44.4	Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon music or by subscribing to
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1:27.5	Oh
1:29.5	Hello everyone have welcomed episode
1:31.9	179 of the true crime all the time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might Gibson
1:39.2	Give me how are you good man about you. I'm doing great. Yeah, we had a little
1:44.7	Dendin just a little bit ago. Yeah, we did that my youngest daughter made. She's a world-class chef. She really is
1:52.0	She doesn't look at jobs. She does man everything she makes turns out very well
1:56.4	And it was very healthy in a way. Yeah, I had a lot of color in it. It's the broccoli and the peppers and
2:02.8	Yeah, we had some hamburgers with no buns. Yeah, trying to keep the carbs off a little better
2:09.0	You couldn't find any at the store. I don't know. Yeah, you never know nowadays what you can get in which can
2:14.4	I think a lot of it's coming back, but I know people are still struggling all over the world Gibbs
2:20.0	But you know, I think we're starting to see some good signs. I think so and that's encouraged
2:26.2	You know now what will the new normal be? I don't think anybody knows for sure
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