Widow In The Freezer

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary: The body of a wealthy widow was found in her deep freezer in the heart of East Texas oil country...and the events that unfolded were so wild that they inspired a Hollywood movie starring comedian Jack Black. Was Marjorie Nugent a sweet little old lady - or the meanest woman in town? And was her manservant Bernie a guy with a heart of gold in an abusive relationship, or a con artist and sweetheart scammer? Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.

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0:00.0	August 18, 1997 was a hot summer day in Carthage, a small town in East Texas that was built
0:10.8	on a lot of oil money.
0:13.2	Now Carthage, population 6,500, had a slogan, the friendliest place in the world.
0:19.8	It was known for being the type of place where everybody knew everybody else's business,
0:24.2	and also for having a lot of rich widows.
0:27.9	Jennifer Nugent was worried about one of those widows, her grandmother, 81-year-old Marjorie
0:33.1	Nugent, who she called nanny.
0:36.2	Marjorie was the richest woman in town.
0:38.7	After her husband, Rod Nugent, had died in 1990, he left Marjorie a fortune that was
0:44.6	estimated at $6 to $10 million.
0:47.8	Marjorie was notorious in town, for being the town's richest and some say it's meanest
0:53.4	resident.
0:54.8	No one seemed to like her, and at least according to the media reports that came out at the time,
0:59.7	no one seemed to be looking for her.
1:02.6	Marjorie did have family, a son, Rod Jr., and granddaughters, but they lived out of town
1:08.6	in Emmerillo.
1:10.5	It took nine months, but finally Jennifer decided to make the trip with her dad.
1:17.0	They called the police to report Marjorie missing, and then they drove together to her
1:21.5	sprawling, 6,000 square foot home, said on a huge estate surrounded by a stone wall.
1:28.2	Jennifer and her dad somehow got through the locked electric gates, and saw that the
1:32.5	house seemed to be in order, at least there didn't appear to be any obvious signs of
1:36.9	a struggle.
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