The Homophobic Trial of 4 "Satanic" Lesbians

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

San Antonio, 1994: Four Latina lesbians were accused of an unthinkable crime and spent nearly two decades in prison for something they didn’t do. In a time when queerness was treated like a crime, their identities became the only evidence needed to lock them up. But they never gave up. They spent years fighting to clear their names and fighting for each other. Today, we know them as The San Antonio Four. The accusations came from two little girls, just weeks after one of the women, Elizabeth, rejected advances from their father. In the midst of the Satanic Panic, their case sparked a moral firestorm and exposed a justice system all too willing to believe the worst about queer women. This Pride Month, we’re telling their story. Because when the world tried to silence them… they refused to stay quiet. Resources: The Innocence Project - https://innocenceproject.org/ https://linktr.ee/eleanornealeresources Watch OUTLORE Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorNeale Follow Me Here for Updates & Short Form Content: Instagram TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	hello and welcome to outlaw podcast i'm ellen orniel and in today's episode we're're in San Antonio in 1994, where four young women were
0:40.5	accused of an unspeakably horrific crime. Something so vile, I can't even mention it this early
0:47.4	on in the episode, for fear that it could be taken down. These women were thrown behind bars
0:52.7	for nearly two decades, despite a lack of proof that the
0:56.6	crime even took place. And the reason why they were so hastily thrown in the slumber was because they
1:02.6	were lesbians in a time and place that was rampant with homophobia. These women had one hell of a fight
1:10.2	ahead of them, not only to defend themselves
1:12.3	against these accusations, but to defend the whole LGBTQ plus community against blatantly
1:18.5	homophobic scapegoating. This is the story of the San Antonio Four.
1:28.3	Happy Pride Month, everybody!
1:30.3	This is the first episode that we're bringing you in the month of June, the gayest time of the year.
1:35.3	All year round, I couldn't be prouder to be a part of the LGBTQ plus community.
1:40.3	But Pride Month just hits different.
1:42.3	It's a very emotional time because not only are we coming together to celebrate the progress
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