Introducing: Hookergate: Criminals and Libertines in the South

Truck-stop brothels run by a web of ex-cons…a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power…protection exchanged for cash and flesh…a brash local reporter exposing it all… This is HOOKERGATE: Criminals and Libertines in the South.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Truck stop brothels run by a web of ex cons,
a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power, protection exchanged
for cash and flesh. A brash local reporter exposing it all.
This is hooker game, criminals and libertines in the South,
and I am your host and lifelong wayward woman, doctor

(00:24):
Lindsey Byron. Three years ago, I came across a gold
mine of news clippings detaelling a scandal that rocked my
small southern hometown. As I flipped through each page, this
forgotten story came back to life.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
These operators utilized inner state facilities to further the prostitution activities.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I was told that it was just supposed to be
strictly a massage parlor.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
The investigation revealed that Holly and Whitehead never paid the
girls for sexual favors, and Whitehead bragged about being the
commonwealth attorney.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
In Dan Wolf's Barker. He ran to Dan bl Operation.
He beats me continuously.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
If you print anything that you hear in the grand jury, you.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Will be put in jail. My boyfriend threatened me and
told me that if I didn't get out and go
to work, I'd never seen my daughter again.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
I asked the man, what does it take to get
into this lounge? He replied, all you have to do
is wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I never gave any massages.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Join me as I bring to life a wild menagerie
of country boys, kingpins, and working girls living the high
life until it all came crashing down. Listen to hooker Gate,
Criminals and Libertines in the South starting March nineteenth on
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