Crime Scholar
Paris Brown
1 Creator
1 Creator
All episodes
Best episodes
Top 10 Crime Scholar Episodes
Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Crime Scholar episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Crime Scholar for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Crime Scholar episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
07/21/19 • 35 min
A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught relationship and accuses Ann of murder by writing a vicious short story about her. This is part 1, which focuses on Capote's own tumultuous life.
This is the third episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Recorded at The Dope Spot Studios, Pomona, CA., USA.
Music:
Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and
Tchaikovsky. "Piano Concerto No. 1," 1874-75, as performed by Martha Argerich, 1975.
Creative Commons attribution license.
Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected]; IG: nathalie_rattner).
Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics (IG: st.anchor).
Reddit discussion group
11/04/21 • 91 min
Paris' lifelong search for her family's genealogical records leads her to investigate the reason they are missing: the lynching of a 41-year-old African American man named George Hughes in 1930. Accused of assaulting a white woman in Sherman, located within Grayson County, Texas, George never gets his day in court. Instead, locals burn down the courthouse with Hughes trapped inside and later carry out a postmortem lynching. Special guest Melissa Thiel, a public historian and a native of Grayson County, joins Paris later in the episode to discuss her efforts in getting an historical marker placed at the county courthouse to memorialize this significant crime and to discuss artifacts from this case that she's uncovered in her own research. This episode provides little-known background information on George Hughes, his accusers, and the town of Sherman during the Jim Crow era. Please sign Melissa Thiel's historical marker petition at shermanriot.org and visit the Historical Marker for the 1930 Sherman Riot Facebook group for updates and more information about this true crime.
If you like this episode, please subscribe, rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher, and consider supporting this one-woman show at Patreon. Apologies for the sound quality of this episode; I'm in a new recording studio which has not yet been fully soundproofed.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Music:
Dr. Frankenstein. “Theme for ‘The Mad Thinker’” from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein’s Lab, 2005
and
Canción Triste by Luis Enrique Guerra Naveda (royalty-free music)
Credits:
Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected])
Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics
Featured photo: Texas Standard.
Social Media:
Reddit discussion group
Sources:
Associated Press. “Guilty Plea in Sherman Riot; 2-Year Sentence.” Fort Worth Star Telegram, 2 July 1931, p. 2.
Boessenecker, John. Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde. Thomas Dunne Books, 2016.
Crabb, Beth. “May 1930: White Man’s Justice for a Black Man’s Crime.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 75, no. 1/2, 1990, pp. 29-40.
“Farmer’s Case in Sherman Riot Set for Monday.” The Marshall News Messenger (Marshall, Texas), 31 May 1931, p. 1.
Honey Grove Signal Citizen, 16 May 1930.
Kumler, Donna J. “They Have Gone from Sherman”: The Courthouse Riot of 1930 and Its Impact on the Black Professional Class. 1995. University of North Texas, PhD dissertation.
Lipke, Alan. “Lynching’s End? The Texas Courthouse Riot.” Listening Between the Lines. February 2008.
McElroy, Njoki. 1012 Natchez: A Memoir of Grace, Hardship, and Hope. Brown Books, 2009.
Phillips, Edward H. “The Sherman Courthouse Riot of 1930.” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, October 1987, pp. 12-19.
ADDITIONAL SOURCES LISTED ON LINKED WEBSITE BELOW.
10/31/18 • 32 min
1955, rural, Jim Crow-era Mississippi. Emmett Till, just 14 years old, met a horrific death after being accused of whistling at and putting his arm around 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant. Over 60 years later, her account of their fateful encounter changed. Just who is Carolyn, and what forces propelled her toward the center of a murder that would become a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement? This is the second episode in the podcast's first season, "Accessories to Murder."
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or wherever you access podcasts.
Hosts: Paris Brown and Desi Robba
Produced & written by: Paris Brown
Edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by Lobo Loco. "Town Searching Murder" from Headcrash, 2018.
Mitchell, Jerry. “Son of Emmett Till’s Killer in Panama Papers Scandal.” Clarion-Ledger. 9 May 2016.
Nave, R.L. “Emmett Till Murder: The Full Text Testimony of Carolyn Bryant.” Mississippi Today. 12 Jul. 2018.
Perez-Pena, Richard. “Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims were False.” The New York Times. 27 Jan. 2017.
“Three Hurt in Collision Near Here on Sunday.” The Delta Democrat-Times. 19 Nov. 1956, p. 1.
Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Weller, Sheila. “The Missing Woman: How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case.” Vanity Fair. 26 Jan. 2017.
07/28/19 • 70 min
A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught relationship and accuses Ann of murder by writing a vicious short story about her. This is part 2, which focuses on Ann and Billy Woodward and the infamous shooting.
At the 45-second mark, Batty the podcat joins in with the cutest little squeak ever.
This is the fourth episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.
If you like this episode, please subscribe, rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher, and consider supporting us at Patreon.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Recorded at The Dope Spot Studios, Pomona, CA., USA.
Music:
Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and
Tchaikovsky. "Piano Concerto No. 1," 1874-75, as performed by Martha Argerich, 1975.
Creative Commons attribution license.
Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected])
Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics
Reddit discussion group
9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2
Crime Scholar
04/02/19 • 80 min
In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. This is the story of a woman tormented by the dead poet Sylvia Plath, the refusal of Sylvia's husband Ted to commit to her even after he fathered her child, and the memory of her narrow escape from Hitler and the Holocaust.
This is the second episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by
Punch Deck. "Oppressive Ambiance," 2018, under a Creative Commons attribution license.
8. Sylvia Plath: The Oven Suicides, Part 1
Crime Scholar
03/11/19 • 98 min
Some people best know Sylvia Plath for her unusual mode of suicide; others remember her for as one of the first authors to write openly about her own mental illness. But there's even more to her than that: the early loss of her father, the obsessive desire to be an over-achiever, that time she made national news as a missing person, the desire to find a 'perfect' husband, and the wild betrayal she felt when that perfect husband had an affair. But what exactly caused the author of THE BELL JAR to kill herself at age 30?
This is the first episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced & written by: Paris Brown
Edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by
Punch Deck. "Oppressive Ambiance," 2018, under a Creative Commons attribution license.
Season 2 Teaser
Crime Scholar
02/11/19 • 3 min
This preview opens the chapters of Season 2! This second season, titled "Stranger Than Fiction" goes into storytelling mode about the strange and tragic lives of some famous--or infamous, as may be the case--of some famously fascinating authors. Topics will include schizophrenia, suicide, high society, beat society, clinical depression, strange deaths, mysterious disappearances, attachment disorder, alcoholism, and obsession.
Join us at the 2019 TRUE CRIME PODCAST FESTIVAL IN Chicago, IL on July 13th! Visit https:tcpf2019.com for ticket information and a list of podcast hosts who will be in attendance. See you there!
Host: Paris Brown
Produced & written by: Paris Brown
Edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
6. Caril Fugate: Bad Love in the Badlands
Crime Scholar
12/22/18 • 58 min
The Midwest U.S. was rocked in the late 1950s not just by new-fangled rock 'n roll music or by its bout of horrific flooding, but by an even more sinister kind of horror. Fourteen-year-old Caril Fugate accompanied her 19-year-old boyfriend Charles Starkweather on a murder spree that would claim 11 lives between December 1957 and January 1958 and would later inspire a host of films and music about their rampage through the Badlands.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by
Julie Maxwell. "Childhood Memories" from Farther Than All the Stars, 2016.
12/09/18 • 110 min
Bonnie Parker Thornton and Blanche Caldwell Callaway were two despondent flappers at the close of the 1920s. In fact, the popular 1929 song "Am I Blue?" could have been written for them. But in 1930, at the start of the U.S.'s Great Depression, they met two brothers, Clyde and Buck, who were known as the 'Barrow Gang.' Somehow, these two petty criminals and ex-cons won the hearts of Bonnie and Blanche to the extent that neither woman would desert them, even when the Barrow brothers' violent deaths were inevitable and their own lives were in danger. This episode presents the details of their hardscrabble lives before, during, and--in Blanche's case--after voluntarily becoming road-mates with the men who eventually became murderers and the subjects of one of the largest manhunts of the 1930s. Bonnie and Blanche were at once tough and vulnerable, glamorous and unsophisticated, self-centered and utterly devoted to others.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced & written by: Paris Brown
Edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by Haunted Corpse. "Haunted House" from Dirges for the Undead, 2014.
4. Sara Aldrete: Community College Cultist
Crime Scholar
11/22/18 • 48 min
It was the '80s: big hair, gold lamé, car phones, greed, Satanic Panic...and a young borderland woman who had a hand in helping to create that panic. When Sara Aldrete met cult leader Adolfo Constanzo, her goal of becoming a state college transfer and P.E. instructor changed to dark dreams of becoming a black magic high priestess. Before police caught up with what was later dubbed the "Matomoros Murder Cult," 23 people were brutally murdered, including a young college student named Mark Kilroy, whose disappearance helped bring publicity to the case. Sara was desperately infatuated with Adolfo--but was she culpable for these crimes?
This is the fourth episode in the podcast's first season, "Accessories to Murder." Click on our website link below for source information.
If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or wherever you access podcasts.
Host: Paris Brown
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Edited by:
Show more best episodes
Show more best episodes
FAQ
How many episodes does Crime Scholar have?
Crime Scholar currently has 16 episodes available.
What topics does Crime Scholar cover?
The podcast is about Weird, Los Angeles, Americana, Style, Fashion, Society & Culture, Film, True Crime, Mysteries, Retro, Murder, American, Television, Podcasts, Books, Vintage, Crime, Hollywood and Death.
What is the most popular episode on Crime Scholar?
The episode title 'The Sherman Courthouse Riot: The Lynching of George Hughes' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Crime Scholar?
The average episode length on Crime Scholar is 58 minutes.
How often are episodes of Crime Scholar released?
Episodes of Crime Scholar are typically released every 17 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Crime Scholar?
The first episode of Crime Scholar was released on Oct 16, 2018.
Show more FAQ
Show more FAQ