With Friends Like These: Doe Roberts
Once Upon A Crime
Esther Ludlow
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In a quiet Tennessee town, a woman vanishes without a trace. Soon after, a kidnapper makes contact, demanding a ransom. But as the investigation unfolds, his messages grow increasingly bizarre, leaving more questions than answers.
Was this the work of a stranger, or was the culprit someone from within the community? As suspicion spreads, neighbors begin to fear that the person responsible might be closer than they ever imagined.
Join us as we unravel the eerie case of Doe Roberts—a small-town mystery where trust is shattered and betrayal runs deep.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence. |
| 0:06.9 | It is not intended for children. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.4 | Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. We're in this series with |
| 0:19.7 | friends like these, where friends turn upon |
| 0:22.1 | friends and become deadly. This week's case is the story of a kidnapping in a small town. |
| 0:28.3 | I found this story fascinating as a strange and bizarre crime story, as well as a very interesting |
| 0:33.8 | study of how a community responds to something so out of the ordinary. |
| 0:38.9 | This is Chapter 3, the kidnapping of Doe Roberts. |
| 0:46.8 | Eads, Tennessee is a small unincorporated town, located 25 miles east of Memphis. |
| 0:53.0 | The Mississippi River creates the border between Memphis, Tennessee, |
| 0:56.1 | and West Memphis, Arkansas. 15 miles south of Eads lies the Mississippi border. Eads only boasts |
| 1:03.7 | the population of between 5,000 and 6,000 residents. It lies in Shelby County, Tennessee, and in 1992, it was completely unincorporated. |
| 1:13.9 | It had a post office, but no mayor, government, or police force of its own. |
| 1:18.4 | Today, parts of EADs have been annexed to Memphis, with other parts still unincorporated. |
| 1:24.3 | The United States Post Office was the only official government building in the entire community. |
| 1:29.8 | Most community functions in EADs revolved around several small churches located in the county, |
| 1:35.0 | as well as the EADC civic club. |
| 1:37.1 | Alan Roberts and Martha Yudora Jones, who always went by the nickname Doe, |
| 1:42.0 | were married in 1948 in Olive Branch, Mississippi. |
| 1:46.2 | She was a waitress at the Rogers cafeteria. |
| 1:49.4 | Allen was a World War II vet, and after returning home, worked his way through college as a milk |
| 1:54.8 | delivery man. In the 1950s, they were living in Eid and bought the Magnolia Grill. |
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