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The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.234.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life. Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, Marsha's old friend and fellow activist Victoria Cruz has taken it upon herself to reexamine what happened to Marsha. Dipping deep into jaw-dropping archival footage of another era of New York City life, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson follows as this champion pursues leads, mobilizes officials, and works to tell the story of Marsha's life and get to the bottom of Marsha's death. [](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/see-us-live) **[COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/see-us-live) **Come hang with us in NYC on the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots. Take pictures with our sassy drag queens, meet fellow TCO fam, and hear our take on the definitive Stonewall documentary "Stonewall Uprising." IT'S GONNA BE A BLAST. **[Get tickets here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/see-us-live)** **LOOKING FOR MORE TCO?** [Join our Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) at $5/month and get INSTANT ACCESS to over 80 FULL BONUS EPISODES! Hear our episode-by-episode coverage of "**The Jinx," Serial," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase"** and more! [Join Here!](https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) [](https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed)

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0:00.0

Grown when you're hearing this I'm in Hawaii

0:03.3

Wow

0:03.4

That he that was like a bullet

0:05.3

I know I know

0:06.4

I am not

0:07.5

In Hawaii

0:09.1

But I hope you're having fun you in your beautiful family

0:13.1

Chewy and pensvallé

0:15.0

Patrick I'm spailing

0:16.4

Fair enough

0:25.6

That sounded like it was a dig when I was like you and your beautiful family

0:29.4

I know, I know you do.

0:30.4

It's just you threw that at me like you're in Hawaii and I'm not.

0:32.8

I know.

0:33.7

You guys, I totally messed up.

0:34.8

This week, we sat in the last episode that this week was going to be Southwestern Salem.

0:38.2

Right.

0:39.2

I forgot that it's School Vacation Week and I have to go actually be a father for five days.

0:42.6

Oh.

0:43.6

Okay.

0:44.6

So you guys, we're rerunning one of our classic favorite episodes, The Death and Life

0:48.4

of Marsha P. Johnson.

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