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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A lot has happened to Clara Phillips in 1922: she was convicted by a jury of killing Alberta Meadows, but jurors handed her a light sentence. She soon escaped jail and now Clara’s on the run in Honduras with her sister as Armour continues to support her financially. How will the “Clara Phillips” show end? And will Alberta’s family ever see justice for her murder? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producers Jason Wehling, Laura Sobel, and Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Eric Friend/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4dsqzI1 Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is

0:05.0

a story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. Clara Phillips was in the wind after a jail break that made international news.

0:27.0

She was gone for months with the help of her parents and armor and armor's family and a curious admirer.

0:35.0

Newspaper reporters continue to dig for information about her escape and federal

0:40.1

investigators searched the world for Clara while she lay low with her sister.

0:45.0

And someone else, they weren't hiding alone.

0:48.4

Remember, Clara needed a host of people to help her escape.

0:52.2

And according to author, Claudine Burnett, it turns out that Los Angeles journalists

0:56.7

were just as diligent as the police, maybe even more.

1:01.0

A journalist was the one who discovered that Clara was traveling with her sister and a mystery man.

1:07.0

It was a reporter from the examiner who finally decided to trace the money.

1:14.3

And he found that Armour had wired money to his sister in Galveston, who then wired the money

1:20.6

to a fellow by the name of Jesse Carson in Honduras who was passing it on to

1:25.4

Clara and Clara's sister who was there with her. And now Jesse Carson was in

1:30.9

Honduras with the women. His relationship with Clara Phillips was complicated.

1:36.8

Daniel Phillips says Jesse was an odd character even more odd than most of the people in this story.

1:42.8

He's a guy that came and was one of the spectators at the trial

1:47.7

and he got all enthralled with, I think, the legend.

1:51.3

He was completely inpture of her and even was left a wife and two or three children to basically kind of be her rescuer.

2:02.0

He was at the trial every single day and he looked at Clara with

2:06.7

romance in his eyes. He just thought she was the most beautiful fascinating woman he had ever

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