The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Murder of Sam Cooke

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Jessie brings the story of the extraordinary life and tragic death of musical genius, activist and visionary Sam Cooke.

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0:00.0	Okay, Jesse, last week's case was something else.
0:04.0	What's the story this time around?
0:05.9	Today, we will be discussing the extraordinary life and tragic death of musical genius,
0:10.7	activists, and visionary Sam Cook.
0:13.5	I'm Andy Cassette.
0:14.7	And I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder.
0:17.3	Music is Love Murder, a podcast about getting some
0:47.8	strange, a come and change, and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on TikTok and
0:53.6	Instagram at Love Murder Pod
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1:05.7	discover the show. Thank you guys all so much for your reviews. They have been so fantastic coming in. And we are getting
1:12.0	those stickers out to you. Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly,
1:16.5	you can head on over to patreon.com slash lovemurterpod, where you can learn all about the different
1:21.7	tiers of support. We are very excited to shout out an amazing new set of patrons. So thank you to Danielle G.
1:29.6	and Felicia B. Terry Kay and Linda W. And Kate B. Hello and welcome. That is a lot for
1:39.9	Monday morning. It's a lot. It's just barely 9 a.m. where Andy is, but it is noon here,
1:47.8	and I am fully caffeinated and ready to roll. I'm excited. So we have one more main episode
1:55.5	to record a part, but then I think the next two will be together. Yes, which is so nice.
2:00.2	Yes, the energy is always
2:01.5	very high when we're in the same place and when Andy has had a few more hours of sleep.
2:06.6	Yeah. Yeah. But guys, we're really excited. So we started selling to the public now the tour tickets
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