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Episode 13: He Wanted to be Her – The Murder of Mary Lynn Witherspoon

Mary Lynn Witherspoon
Mary Lynn Witherspoon
Mary Lynn Witherspoon and daughter Jane
Mary Lynn Witherspoon and daughter Jane
Mary Lynn's house on Tradd St.
Mary Lynn's sister Jacking at the signing of Mary Lynn's Law
Edmonds Tennent Brown, IV
Recent prison record for Tennent Brown
2014 prison record for Tennent Brown
Photo of Tennent taken in 2012

Episode 12: Fight for Justice – The Murder of Nancy Jo Canode

Nancy Jo with her three children

Episodes 10 and 11: Bye, Bye Baby: Georgia Tann’s Black Market Adoptions

Beulah Georgia Tann
Tennessee Children's Home Society Memphis TN
Georgia supervises a haircut. Source: (Before We Were Yours)
Sallie Brandon's new mother had a professional photographer take this photo of her the day she was adopted. She was 3 years old. Benjamin Hooks Library Archives
A report released in 1951 found that children who lived at the Tennessee Children's Home Society were drugged in order to keep them quiet. Benjamin Hooks Library Archives
Don Boehner, another of Tann’s victims.
Christmas Ads from TCHS
Christmas Baby Ads
Baby George- Advertisement, Memphis Press-Scimitar (Tn.), Dec. 8, 1935
Elmwood Cemetary
Virginia Williamson, Peggy Koenitzer, daughters of Tennessee Children's Home Society adoptee Norma Sue, with their newfound cousin, Jackie Mafori, at a reunion in October 2019. Erika Celeste

Episodes 8 and 9: Fowl Play: The Murder of Martin Duram

Martin Duram
Martin and Glenna Duram
Duram home
Duram living room showing gun under chair
Chair Glenna sat in when she shot herself and pillow she uses to place over head
View of Duram living room
Manila envelope with suicide letters on living room floor
Bathroom off of bedroom where Glenna wrote suicide notes
close up of writing materials in bathroom
Injuries to Glenna
Bud, an African Grey Parrot
Glenna Duram
Suicide notes written by Glenna to her children and ex-husband
Suicide note handwriting analysis

Episode 7: Filicide Christy Sheats

Jason and Christy Sheats
Jason Sheats
Christy Sheats
Madison and Taylor Sheats
Madison and Taylor Sheats
Taylor and Christy Sheats
Jason and Taylor Sheats
Madison and Christy Sheats
Taylor Sheats and Juan Lugo
Christy Sheats Daughters Day Facebook Post
Christy Sheats handgun Facebook post
View of Crime Scene
Taylor and Madison Sheats Funeral

Episode 6: Murder of Melissa McLauchlin

McCall
Jenkins

Episode 5: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: The Lillelid Murders

Delfina, Vidar, Tabitha and Peter Lillelid
Top: Mullins, Cornett, Bryant / Bottom: Howell, Risner, Sturgill
The Greeneville Sun article
Cornett
Mullins
Howell
Bryant
Risner
Sturgill
Payne Hollow Lane where the murders took place
Hotel the teens partied at night of murders
Six nooses hang outside a Tennessee gas station

Episode 4: A Truly “Gore-y” Story

Biological Resource Center Phoenix (BRC)
Stephen Gore, owner of (BRC)
Clean up crews at (BRC)
Images of bio hazard material being cleaned up at Biological Resource Centerr
Jim Stauffer's mother's body had been sold to been sold to the military for "blast testing"
Tama DeRosier husbands remains were among those sold by BRC
Sam Kazemi worked at BRC harvesting body parts

Episode 3: The Lester Street Massacre

Cecil Dotson
Marrissa Williams
Hollis Seals
Shindri Roberson
Jessie Dotson

Episodes 1 and 2: The Lowcountry Rapist

First Composite sketch of Lowcountry rapist released July 3, 1991.
Second composite sketch released in September 1991.
Bauman was the man living in a shelter who provided police with license plate numbers
Wanda Proctor

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  • Episode 12: Fight for Justice – The Murder of Nancy Jo Canode
  • Episode 11: The Generational Affect: Georgia Tann’s Black Market Adoptions Part II
  • Episode 10: Bye, Bye Baby: Georgia Tann’s Black Market Adoptions
  • Episode 9: Fowl Play Extra: Q&A with Christina Keller

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