Suzanne | 3
MANslaughter
Wondery
3.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Convinced that chaos and discord follow her Aunt Suzanne, Dorothy does a deep dive into her childhood. Dorothy concludes that the killing was not random but pre-medidated by Suzanne and her son -- so she sets out to prove her theory.
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| 0:00.0 | We're in the foothills of eastern Tennessee. Alexis Sedan nudges down an unpaved, twisty road. |
| 0:22.4 | A wall of trees surrounds the car. It's like the trees are getting taller. |
| 0:27.7 | The signal on the GPS keeps going out. The driver's not from around here. She's passing yellow |
| 0:37.2 | streaked mobile homes. On one lot, a scrapyard dozens of rusted out cars piled on top of each |
| 0:44.2 | other. Lost in the backwoods, deeper and deeper. And then finally, the car's headlights catch on a |
| 0:52.5 | two-story farmhouse ahead. It's a relief to see it. |
| 1:01.8 | The car slows and then pulls into the driveway. There's a log cabin on the front of the property. |
| 1:07.6 | Two other cars are parked here already. Not new, but they look like they've been taken care of. |
| 1:14.2 | The driver, you already know. Her name is Dorothy Marsick, and her uncle Verne's murder almost |
| 1:20.9 | half a century earlier brought her to this remote spot. Dorothy checks the address against the one |
| 1:29.0 | she had written down. She wonders if she's really in the right place. She's apprehensive, |
| 1:36.9 | a little scared as she climbs the stairs to the front door, raised high off the ground. She rings |
| 1:43.1 | the doorbell. No answer. So she rings again. And then, like you do, even when it doesn't exactly |
| 1:53.0 | make sense. She knocks. Maybe the doorbell didn't work. Maybe knocking will work. So she knocks louder. |
| 2:04.0 | Silence. All this way and nothing to show for it. Dorothy's frustrated. On her way back down the |
| 2:11.4 | stairs, she sees another door. No doorbell. She knocks there too. It's getting colder out here. |
| 2:21.0 | The car is warm. Dorothy gets back in and calls the phone number from the same piece of paper |
| 2:26.0 | with the address. She says the call goes straight to voicemail. So Dorothy leaves a message. |
| 2:32.8 | It's me, Dorothy. I'm in the driveway. She makes more calls. She talks to her cousin Shannon. |
| 2:39.0 | Then she calls a man named David. She thinks he lives around here. |
| 2:46.4 | In the dark car, Dorothy doesn't notice the upper door of the house open. A thin woman comes out. |
| 2:53.2 | Her hair and a tight bun. She's dressed conservatively. An ankle-length skirt, a starched wipe |
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