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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody. This is Marlene with eerie news and we
are now post Halloween and uh plenty of weird stuff
going on. So let's pick and choose some stories. I
got plenty of them, and we'll take her from there.

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First story is out of Stranger Than Fiction Stories and
is titled The Ballad of cat I Annie. It was
December nineteen twenty three when headlines blasted seek cat I
Annie for sirdam jem theft. You may ask who is
cat I Annie? She was one of the most notorious

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jewel thieves of the earliest twentieth century. Annie's real name
was Lillian McDowell, but she also went by the aliases
of Elsie Webb, Martha Conners, Lilian Redman. She had earned
her moniker of Cati because of the one unique feature
she possessed. One of her was pale blue, the other brown.

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She was a slight, plain woman who weighed about one
hundred and twenty pounds and stood five feet four inches tall.
Her brownish hair was streaked with gray, and, even though
well known to the law, she was about forty years
old when the public learned about her reputation as a
consummate cap burglar. Her last theft was worth seventy five
thousand dollars of gems, taken from the home of Lewis J. Sudram,

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who lived at four six four Linwood Avenue. She stole
them using a ruse which had worked many times in
the past. The police termed the m O made robbery.
By then, the authorities in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis and
other cities were seeking the elusive jewel thief. She had
also skipped out on a two thousand dollars bail bond.

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Annie no doubt was a rogue, but she was an
ingenious one. One of her last highs started when she
arrived in Cleveland after leaving Detroit. She rented an apartment
on the West Side, close to the Sudame home. Annie
advertising a newspaper from maid who could furnish excellent references.
She would specify that there were no children, no washing

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to be done, and the pay was good. When the
applicants came forward, she took the names of the references
furnished by the applicants and told each of them to
come back in a few days. Annie then used her
references when she applied for a position at the Surdam home.
Missus Surdam immediately engaged her. Within six hours of starting
her position, she had fled with a jewelry, but that

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was after she had tied Missus Surdam to a chair. Ironically,
cad I had been convicted about a dozen years before
of a robbery a block from the Sordam property at
the home of Edward Hoefeller. Then she was given a
suspended sentence after she stole more than three thousand dollars
in jewelry. She had gained entry into the household the
same way by applying for a position. Little was known

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about Lilian's early history, but her criminal records started when
she married John McDowell alias H. Grant, a well known
Western criminal who police believed helped his wife in the
Surdame theft. The couple's first crime occurred in Pittsburgh on
December twentieth, nineteen o six. One day threw a break
through the windowble jewelry store and grabbed handsels of gem.

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Grant was caught two blocks away sentenced to serve ten
years in prison. Lilian eluded capture for two weeks until
she was found in Chicago. Returned to Pittsburgh, where she
was found not guilty. There was another story that appeared
on the same date which coincided much closer with the
methods that Lilian cat i Annie would use successfully for

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many years after this. The story read quote four thousand
dollars in jewels stolen from New York December nineteenth. Jewels
valued at more than four thousand dollars were stolen from
the residence of Joseph Vega in Central Park West on
December fifth, and a reward of five hundred dollars has
been offered for their return and the arrest of Gariel
Hilt and Louise Luz, who employed a servants in the

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Vega home. Hilt and miss Lew's had been in mister
Vegas's employ only two days end quote. It was around
then that she became a made thief, and the police
did not hear from her until December twenty third, nineteen ten,
when she stole six thousand dollars worth of jewelry from
a Saint Louis home where she had been employed. She

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was acquitted, even though identified as a thief, because the
jewelry was not found. While waiting for this trial to conclude,
Chicago police notified Saint Louis. They wanted cat I for
stealing jewelry valued at three thousand dollars from another home
where she had worked in Chicago. Her luck turned and
she was convicted and sentenced to serve one to ten

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years in Joliet prison. While serving time, mister Hoefeller identified
her as a servant that stole jewelry valued at three
thousand dollars. Once released, the Buffalo Police Department picked her up.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty. However, the judge
the for its sentence and a lot her to go free.
It wasn't until April nineteen twenty four that Catay Annie

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was arrested in San Francisco and she was turned over
to the Los Angeles Police Department to answer to a
burglary charge. A circular with her picture was sent to
various police departments with her twenty aliases. It was difficult
to verify who she was. The authorities didn't find any
of the Sourdam jewels, but there was a good reason,

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since it turned out they arrested the wrong person. It
was only another female thief that was copying Annie's methods
and had been successful in pulling off four jobs. She
convinced the authorities she was not Annie because she did
not possess the pale blue eyes with a lower part
of the left pupil cleft with brown. Then the newspapers
headlined with where is Cati Annie? Not until February nineteen

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twenty five did another headline relate to Cataia Annie's surface
and I got a detail to her arrest in Baltimore
robbery charge. It was reported this time she had an
accompliced named Edward Lewis, fifty eight, who aided her in
the Surdame robbery. Again, there were no signs of the jewels.
Prior to this, she had stolen jewels and buffalo valued
at seventy five thousand dollars, and then one hundred thousand

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dollars for a Boston job. Three days later, the police
retracted their report when they realized they had the wrong
person again and Catay Annie was still out and about.
It was September nineteen twenty five. The authorities in Milwaukee
said one of the detectives had noticed had noted a
woman with bicolored pupils riding on a street car. He

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followed her to an ultra fashionable Eastside residence and arrested her.
She was using the name of Mary McCoy. Within days,
the detectives from Buffalo were headed to Milwaukee to pick
up Cadai Annie. The three cities she favored for burglaries
were Buffalo, Baltimore, and Boston, even though when she was
nabbed in nineteen twenty five by Milwaukee police, she was

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wanted in Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, Kansas City, New Orleans, Cincinnati,
Saint Paul, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh. Lilian McDowell was intelligent
and persistent. The detectives from Buffalo were taking her from
the city hall to the jail after her arraignment. She
had not been handcuffed, and upon reaching Franklin and Church Street,

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she broke away from the officer and ran. She was
overtaken easily. It was reported that when brought into the
detective bureau, she slumped in a faint. However, it was
known this was one of her stalls. Any questions that
were posed to her, she would answer with I can't remember.
When appearing before the judge, she gave her name as
Julia Archer, as well as Harriet Ginther, Mary McCoy and

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Lilian McDowell. She pled not guilty and was remanded to
Joe for trial. Her fainting fits were so common that
Detective Fitzgerald, who brought her back from Milwaukee, remarked, quote,
I'm becoming a human elevator for the woman. All I
do is carry her around. On October fourteenth, nineteen twenty five,
she pled guilty to a charge of first degree grand larceny.

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The maximum penalty would be ten years in an Auburn prison.
She pretended to faint and then again make a sprint
for liberty, but was captured by a deputy. She was
sentenced to ten years. Everything connected to Caty Annie made
the papers, including the death of Catherine Begunn, chief of
Buffalo's policewomen. In her obituary was mentioned that she'd once

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been a pharmacist and dentist, and of course that she
was one of the policewomen who brought Annie back from Milwaukee.
Once jailed, Cati obtained privileges by becoming an amiable prisoner.
She was permitted to do her own ironing, and within
weeks of starting her sentence, she slipped a piece of
rubber into the lock. At the end of the cell

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Quarridor and then went to bed. Annie was missing the
next morning. In her bed, jail guards found some clothing
wrapped in a coat to form a dummy, of course,
was to trick anyone looking into her cell that she
was still there. She made her get away after the
matron's left a quarter to change watches. Going through the
door in which she had placed the piece of rubber,

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she reached the stairway leading to the Sheriff's office. She
dropped from a window and landed on Delaware Avenue and vanished.
It was a successful but painful escape, since the fall
broke her ankle, and she limped to a trolley stop.
She took a cart to the suburbs, where she hid
in an unoccupied house, waiting for the ankle to men.
Workmen found her there and the law soon followed. Anxious

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to be done with the jail breaker, the sheriff asked
that she be taken immediately to Auburn prison. For her trouble.
She was placed in solitary confinement. Annie made her escape
from solitary confinement in Auburn prison by digging through an
eighteen inch wall. For weeks, she chipped away at a
hole and back of her bed. Using a spoon and
fork stolen from the kitchen, she loosened the brick and

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mortar wall and hid the pieces in her mattress. Sleeping
on the rubble did not deter her from making an escape.
On May tenth, nineteen twenty six, she scaled the high
wall enclosing the prison, by climbing up a plank she
had carried from the prison greenhouse. The guards still couldn't
explain how she obtained the tools she used. Since she
had a slim body, she wiggled through the opening she

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made into the prison yard. Unfortunately, the weather worked against her.
The temperature plummeted and all she was wearing was a
light prison dress. Annie was discovered by a farmer the
following day in a hay field on a farm near
Wheat Sport. She tried to endure the frigid cold by
burying herself in a pile of hay, but she suffered

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from exposure was close to developing pneumonia. In March nineteen
twenty seven, Catayannie was committed to the insane asylum at Mattawan.
It was unknown what caused the prison to send her there.
Perhaps it was the fact that she had been kept
in solitary until then. Among the inmates, there was a
saying covered Mattawan, Dana Mora and other state institutions, which

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was quote they never come back. However, in the case
of Annie, they allowed one eye lid to drop just
a trifle. Mattawan is easier to beat than Auburn. Expectations
were that Annie would try to escape from Mattawan. Was
rumored among the inmates that the reason Cadai stayed free
as long as she had was because she worked alone,

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or what was called a lone wolf. She didn't have
puse to squeal, and there was no cut on the swag.
She pocketed all the proceeds. Previous to her first arrest,
the description of Catai was wide and varied, but after
the first pinch, it gave the Dicks the first description
of her. This is when they took the first photograph.

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What it did for Catai is that it gave her
the first prison to beat. In May nineteen thirty, the
intrepid Catai Annie cut the lock from her cell, put
on the warren's cat hat and coat, and made a getaway.
She had already made trousers from a blanket among her talons.
Cati was a born mimic. She walked briskly to the

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main gate, just the way the acting warden did every day.
At the gate, she saluted and nodded as he did.
She headed east, walking through fields until she reached the
Senate Road. She was no fool in knew the alarm
was already raised. Annie was teaching a ride, but luck
was not on her side that day. George Gronan picked
her up and recognized her immediately. Another witness was the

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wife of a state trooper that saw her getting into
the car before long roadblocks were set up. Gronman tried
to take her back to Auburn, and she pulled out
a pair of scissors and threatened him. His ordeal ended
when they stopped at a state police roadblock. It's not
clear if two or seven years were added to her cenis.
In nineteen thirty three, all the female prisoners were transferred

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to Bedford Hills from Auburn. It was the Salvation. It
was said the Salvation Army had converted Annie to Christianity.
In nineteen thirty five, after serving her ten years sent
and she was sent to Saint Louis to start serving
an eight year one can I might have found Jesus,
but she hadn't lost her desire to become free. In

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nineteen thirty seven, she took a twenty foot drop from
a bathroom window, which injured the fifty five year old
and instead landed her in the hospital. She had taken
a bed sheet and at two thirty a m slid
out the window at Chaffromu Yard guard caused her to
release the grip on the sheet and she fell down.
This was her second attempt. Only two months after she

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arrived at the prison. Annie was released from prison at
Jefferson City, Missouri, when her sentence was commuted in nineteen
forty one, As Cati was fading from the limelight, the
Phantom of Belair was ransacking Hollywood stars of their jewelry. However,
he seemed to lack her cunning. This time, she took
no chances and escaped into anonymity. Her fate remained unknown.

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Even the FBI lost track of her after nineteen forty one.
There's reason to believe her real maiden name was Lilian
or Lily Hart. She was born in eighteen eighty one
and where John Donner or Dorwar a corruption of McDowell
on December twenty fifth, eighteen eighty one, in Manhattan. She
was sixteen years old. In her husband twenty two. Another

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version of her origins is that her birth name was
Mary McCoy, daughter of a well to do merchant in Louisville, Kentucky,
who married a man named Grant, from whom she later separated.
She lived in Illinois, traveled under the name of Lilian
McDowell afterward. It's estimated she stole three hundred thousand dollars
in jewelry during her criminal career, but chances are it

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was more with cad Eye's pension for subterfusion of this
information could be false or a corruption of her true name.
Annie was one who understood very well the power of anonymity.
Let me tell you something. I'm surprised I haven't made
a movie about this lady's life. I'm telling you. And remember,

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we think to us nowadays and you say, hey, she
hauled in three hundred dollars back then at the turn
of the century. And you know, and around those years
when she was doing these jewels, this was an extreme
amount of money. This will be the equivalent of millions
of dollars in today's currency for what she was doing.
And question is I'm always wondering, you know, like they said,

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they finally let her go. She guess she was older
and everybody lost tracking. And you always wonder what did
she stashed those jewels? What did she do with them?
Good question, right? And even and that was and also
you have to you know, she was a thief, no
matter how you slice it or dice, but you have

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to admire how well she understood that. Her description, besides
the fact that she got these different names, her description
was very nobody. They had no picture of her. Yeah,
about the only thing that was a dead giveaway was
her the one brown, one different colored eye. But besides that,

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she took great pains to fade like she could have
been anybody. There were so many descriptions. In fact, they
they arrested two women thinking it was her and it
turned out she wasn't. So yeah, I'm telling you people
like that. It makes me wonder if they would ever
have put all this talent and intelligence to like more

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positive endeavors, what would have happened? Anything good? I hope,
good question, right. So anyway, next one is out of
stranger than fiction. Stories. And by the way, I was
very surprised when I read this story. I hadn't seen it.
Somebody pointed it out to me and I was like, no,

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but anyway, here we go. This is titled Walking Tall
the Epilogue, and it is an epilogue and not a
good one either. Beauford Hayes Pusser, who served as sheriff
of McNairy County, Tennessee, inspired the Walking Tall movies and
a television series based on his image as a vice
fighting lawman. Recent evidence has been found that indicate he

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murdered his wife, Pauline, which he claimed was killed during
an assassination attempt against him. Beaufort Pusser was born on
December twelfth, nineteen thirty seven. His father, Carl Puster, was
police chief of Adamsville by the time he was a teenager.
He measured six feet six inches in height and played
on the high school football and basketball teams. Out of

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high school, he enlisted in the Marines and was discharged
during boot camp due to his asthma. In nineteen fifty seven,
he moved to Chicago and went into wrestling, adopting the
title Beaufort the Bull. Two years later, he married Pauline Vance,
a young divorcee with two children. He returned to Adamsville
in nineteen sixty two and set a site on becoming

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the sheriff. Despite only being in his twenties. It seemed
look favorite Pusser when an expectedly James Dickey, the incumbent sheriff,
was killed in a one car accident on August first,
nineteen sixty four, in a foreshadowing of Pusser's own demise.
While traveling on Highway forty five present day Highway one
forty five, Dickey's car left the highway and slammed into

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a tree with when after attire blew out. The forty
year old was returning from the scene of an auto
accident on the state line between Tennessee and Mississippi. The
World War II veteran had served two years in office
and was seeking reelection. The following week, due to Dickie's
unexpected demise, Pusser was elected as the youngest sheriff in
Tennessee's history. Pusser won after the Dixie Mafia and State

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Line Mob, and not surprisingly, assassination attempts were made against him.
Years before, Pusser went up against organized crime in the area.
Nelson Timlick sold the state Line Club, along with two
other clubs, the Rainbow Room Club and Fulm City Club,
in nineteen forty nine to Jack Louise Halfcock. They renamed

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the state Line Club to the Shamrock Motel and Restaurant,
and of the several ones Clyde Raymond aka Jack Halfcock owned.
This became one of the most notorious. Jack and Louise
Halfcock divorced in nineteen fifty seven, and he leased the
Shamrock to his ex wife. About nineteen sixty built the
White Irish Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, look at about two

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hundred yards north of the Shamrock on the opposite side
of Highway forty five. In May nineteen sixty four, Louise
shot her ex husband in room number one of the Shamrock,
which was her personal room and a foreshadowing of what
would be a deadly encounter for her. She asked Jack
to come to the Shamrock to discuss something, and then
shot him three times. He staggered out across the dry

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wind fell dead at the Mississippi and Tennessee state line.
It was rumored the actual shooter was Carl Douglas aka
Towhead White since he was Louise's lover, but she took
the blame. She was charged with murder, but the charges
were dismissed a month later. She told the officers quote
it was either me or him. Louise claimed he had

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tried to rape her and had beat her with a shoe.
Sheriff Dickey, who was three months away from his own death,
investigated the incident. He testified at the hearing that it
appeared she had been beaten, which was crucial in the
charges being dropped. Six months later, Laura Louise half Cock,
forty two, was arrested by Sheriff Pusser when deputies found

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untaxed whiskey inside her car parked on the Tennessee side.
Four men were arrested and released on bond. One of
them was William Halfcock, one of Louise's ex brother in laws.
The search was not only for whisky, but narcotics and
gambling devices. Two years later, on January's nineteen sixty six,
Louise half Cock and two other men were charged with

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possessing and selling non tax paid whisky alcohol average Control
Agents see two thousand and eighty eight. Half pints of
whiskey on the premises. The raid was made after two
undercover agents stayed at the motel and purchase whiskey sold
in half pints. She was released on a five hundred
dollars bond. Halfcock was set for preliminary hearing on February

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twenty fifth in McNairy County. However, on February first, Sheriff
Pusser shot and killed Halfcock. He was attempting to serve
a warrant that had been sworn out by a couple
who complained that a purse containing one hundred and twenty
five dollars and valuable papers had been stolen from their room. Supposedly,
Halfcock asked them to come inside the building, saying I

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got something to tell you, then quickly turned and fired
at him. He fell to the floor and returned three shots.
In a sad twist. Jack and Louise's daughter, Jeanette Susan
Halfcock Jones, was killed in December nineteen sixty seven. Her
biological parents were William and l Leather May, Yes that's

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Leather leather May Anderson May, as she was known, died
from cancer and her husband felt unable to care for
Susan and asked his sister to take care of his
one year old daughter, Louise, and Jack then legally adopted
Jeanette Susan Susan as she was known with shot by
her husband, Raymond Jones, who then turned the gun on himself.

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He was twenty four and she was nineteen. The reason
for his act remains unknown. In January nineteen sixty seven,
Pusser was wounded four times by the occupants of a
late model Chrysler he pulled over on Highway forty five.
The car had raced by him and when he stopped.
When he stopped at they opened fire on him. When

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he came to the driver's window. Two bullets hit him
in the left cheek and one in the left forearm.
A fourth bullet grazed his abdomen. He drove himself to
the hospital. The FBI was seeking Carl Douglas tow Head White,
who had escaped in December from the prison camp at
Maxwell Air Force Base, where he was serving three years
on a charge of conspiracy to violate the liquor laws.

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At one time, White operated the Shamrock Motel. His efforts
against local organized crime were known only in the surrounding area. However,
the murder of his wife, Pauline on August twelfth, nineteen
sixty seven, brought him to national attention. She was allegedly
shot to death during an ambush against Pusser instigated by

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Louise Hapcock's common law husband. According to Pusser, on the
morning of August twelfth, nineteen sixty seven, a phone call
before dawn related disturbance on New Hope Road in McNairy County.
He responded with his wife, Pauline, who rode along with him.
They had just passed New Hope Methodist Church, and according
to Pusser, a car raced alongside them and the occupants

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opened fire, killing Pauline and leaving him for dead. He
was struck on the left side of his job by
at least two or three rounds from a thirty caliber carbine.
He spent almost three weeks in the hospital before returning
home and required more surgeries to fix his appearance. Pusser
pointed the finger at Kirksey Nicks as a person who

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paid for the hit. However, no one was ever charged
with the crime. Nix was sentenced to the Louisiana State
Penitentiary in Angola for the nineteen seventy one East Saturday
murder of New Orleans grocer. Frank J. Corso. Pusser shot
and killed Charles Hamilton on December twenty fifth, nineteen sixty eight,
after responding to a complaint that Hamilton was threatening his

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landlord with a gun. The Grim Reaper was not done
with the denizens of the Mississippi Tennessee State Line clubs.
In April nineteen sixty nine, Carled Douglas Towhead. White, described
by the FBI as one of the top hoods in
the Southeast, was shot dead near a Corinth motel. His

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bullet riddled body was found in a car outside Alrey Motel.
There were two pistols was spent cartridges in the auto
with him. Barry aka Junior Smith, thirty five, who co
owned the motel, was arrested after the shooting. He claimed
the White shot first at him. White had a long
criminal history. In nineteen sixty three, he was arrested in

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Memphis on a warrant charging him with embezzlement and selling
imitation diamonds for ten thousand dollars. He had also been
arrested for parole violation and arm robbery. He was one
of five individuals indicted with the eleven thousand dollars arm
robbery in nineteen sixty five of the former Red Carpet
gambling casino in Biloxi. In nineteen sixty seven, he was

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convicted of jury tampering. He was paroled from leven With
prison three months before he was gunned down only a
few days before. Clarksdale Police Chief Ben Collins was suspended
by city officials after commissioner accused the chief of having
links with White in the jukebox business. Was mentioned that
White was among Cherff Pusser suspects for the shooting death

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of his wife two years before. Due to term limits,
Poster could not be re elected in nineteen seventy and
was defeated in nineteen seventy two in his race as sheriff.
He blamed Combent's sheriff of Clifford Coleman, and part due
to the controversy surrounding the movie Walking Tall. Poster was
re elected as Constable of Adamsville by majority of voters

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who wrote its name on their ballots, and he served
until nineteen seventy two. In nineteen eighty seven, while Kirksey
Nicks was serving as sentence. He ordered the murder for
hire of Judge Vincent Cherry and his wife Margaret, who
lived in Billock's in Mississippi. His co conspirator was Pete Hallot,
the mayor of Biloxi. I'm telling you Hellot had also

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served as Nix's attorney and stolen hundreds of thousands of
dollars that Nix had amassed in a liquid of lonely
heart scam. He tried to implicate Judge Sherry, his law partner,
for the crime. Nix was sentenced to isolation for the
remainder of his life. Nineteen ninety eight paper from Alexandria,
Louisiana quoted nixons denying any involvement in the ambush of

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the Pussers. On January fifth, twenty twenty four, the Tennessee
Bureau of Investigation announced that the fifty six year old
case of Pauline Pusser's death was still active. They confirmed
an autopsy had never been performed on her remains at
the time of the original investigation in nineteen sixty seven,

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Pauline's family requested an exhumation in order to fin answers
to assist in identifying who was responsible for her murder.
She was exhumed on February twenty On February eight, twenty
twenty four, and reburied two months later. On August twenty nine,
twenty twenty five, the TBI announced that if Beaufort Pusser
was alive, there would be probable cause to charge him

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with the death of his wife. Investigators found that Pauline's
wounds were not consistent with the story or husband had
related as to how she was killed, but rather they
were consistent with being shot at close range. Her nose
had been broken shortly before death, but had healed. They
discovered evidence she suffered from domestic violence. The blood on

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Poster's car also contradicted his version of what happened. They
found that his own wounds were likely self inflicted. He
told authority that the time of her death that she
had accompanied him because she was worried due to the
death threats he had received. Beaefoot. Poster died on August
twenty first, nineteen seventy four, from injuries after he was
involved in a one car auto accident west of Adamsville.

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Earlier that they had contracted with bing Crosbie Productions and
Memphis to portray himself in the sequel to Walking Tall.
Driving his specially modified corvette, he struck an embankment at
high speed and was ejected. The car caught fire and burned.
Local rooms were spread quickly. The accident was a result
of sabotage to the steering mechanism of the vehicle. Paul Irvin,

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the Tennessee state trooper responded to the scene, who later
became sheriff of McNairy County, claimed the accident was caused
because Poster was driving drunk and that he was not
wearing a seatbelt. Buford Pusser was a sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee,
from nineteen sixty four to nineteen seventy and Constable of
Adamsville from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy two. Duana Puster,

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Buford's wife, was a passenger in another car and arrived
on the scene only minutes later. Like his wife, Noah,
autopsy was performed on Puster's body. He was credited with
surviving seven stabbings and eight shootings. Duana died in twenty eighteen.
She promoted the Buford Pusser Home and Museum and the
Buford Poster Festival held a Memorial Day weekend each year.

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She served three terms on the Adamsville City Commission. Duana's
own daughter, Pauline Atoya Barnes, passed away in twenty twenty four.
The nineteen seventy three movie Walking Tall was based on
Puster's story. It was followed by two sequels in nineteen
seventy five and nineteen seventy seven, a TV movie in
nineteen seventy eight, and a brief TV series in nineteen

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eighty one. A remake by the same time was released
in two thousand and four, starring Dwayne Johnson as the
main character. Renamed Chris Vaughan. After the success of the
two thousand and four film, Walking Till the Payback was
released in two thousand and seven direct to video. The
name of the main character was portrayed by Kevin Sorbo
was changed to Nick Prescott, and then we was set

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in the Dallas area. Later that year, on September twenty fifth,
two thousand and seven, Storbo return a Walking Tall Loan Justice.
So most people, and they didn't know the details, you know,
had heard of Pusser because of the Walking Tall movie,
the original one. I think what was it? Oh my god,

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what was the name of that actor that portrayed him, which,
by the way, looked like him, you know, but you
could tell you it was a very uh he was
a very tall man of six y' six. Now what
really surprised me though, was, you know, to think that

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he was abusing his wife. Let's face it, this guy,
it just wasn't. This is a six' sixth. Man, NOW i,
think now this is just me supposing apparently her, family
her family of, origin was still In, chicago and they're
the ones that in twenty twenty, four, okay the exhumation

(31:36):
of her, body you, know to be looked. At And
i'm thinking to, myself you know, what there must have
been some doubt in their mind after so many years
that they wanted to do. This and it makes me

(31:59):
think even back then before she, died that maybe they
had their doubts about. Him but let's face, it this
guy had this bigger than life. Reputation Joe Don, baker
that was her name of the first guy Was Joe Don,
baker who played the part of Puss her in the
first movie, that like they, said when he shot himself

(32:23):
and stays this whole, thing and he's telling the, police,
hey she got caught in the. Crossfire they were trying
to kill. Me nobody questioned, it no, something and maybe
even her family In chicago were, like had their, doubts
but what could they. Do nobody was going to go
against his, word, Obviously and then again and even these

(32:44):
people apparently The State Line, motels slash, gambling joined slash,
brothels slash you, know everything was going. On it was a,
lot it was a high crime. Area but then you,
know even among the bad, people the, villains you had
these two people that end up not killing each, other

(33:06):
But jack And louise have. Cock they adopt the child
that's basically her niece all, right as their. Own and
not only did they take a, walk but she they
actually adopted. Her and unfortunately everything all of. Them louise kills, him,

(33:31):
okay and then she gets killed By. Pusser in the
middle of, this this nineteen year old gets in a
Murdered swiss side with her, husband very, sad and you
could tell everybody in this circle of what was going
on was ultra, violent ultra. VIOLENT i would, Say i'm not,

(33:54):
sure BUT i think the only ones that have survived
into modern. Times Are pauline had two children from a first. Marriage,
okay because obviously her one, Daughter duana with a poster
died and her daughter died they're both as younger. Women

(34:14):
so about the only ONES i would say that are
Are pauline's first, CHILDREN i, mean original children before she got.
Married and it's very sad to think because, apparently even
after so many, years this guy is a big. Deal

(34:37):
they have like a, parade like a there's a museum
and this little, town you, know beautfoot poster put them
on the. Map and let me tell, you it's sad
to think. That you, know he garnered all this admiration
and he got shot at and behind closed doors he

(34:57):
was abusing his wife a SIX a six to sixth.
Guy let me tell you that's pretty. Bad that's you
know that right. There, Honestly i'd be pulling down the.
Statues that's just. Me i'd be pulling down the statues
a town. Square you, know if this guy Was i'd be, like,

(35:19):
great you, were like you, were you, know a real
hard ass with the. Criminals but the one that you
were supposed to protect the, most which is your, wife you,
know you were abusing. Her. Sad WHEN i read, THAT
i was, like what so? Anyway next story out Of
Stranger Than Fiction stories is Titled Captain Rice's cottage in

(35:40):
the last days Of july nineteen oh to the body
of eight Of, wells who lived in a house she
rented From Captain, rice situated just south of The Grandview
hotel building In, titusville was found lifeless on her cot
originally established a standpoint in eighteen fifty, Nine the small
settlement boasted a post. Office, however the onset of A
civil war closed it, down and eighteen sixty Seven Confederate

(36:04):
Colonel Henry Theodore titus came to build a. Town since
his Wife mary owned land in the, vicinity he chose
to spot on the banks of The Indian. River they
donated lands with the first, courthouse four, churches and the,
streets which aided in connecting the town to The Saint
john And Indian. Rivers the railroad arrived in the eighteen

(36:24):
eighties and the eighteen, nineties increasing trade for citrus and.
Fishes titusville in those years had a small, population so
when families living near To Captain Rice's cottage heard screams
during the previous, night it was. Inevitable the neighbors went
to investigate once the dawn. Broke the first hint that

(36:44):
something was amiss was when no one appeared to be
moving about the house as. USUAL a search was made
And Ada wells was found in the front. Room finger
marks on her throat proof she had been choked to.
Death there was also bruce behind the right. Ear one
upper front tooth was broken loose and pressed forward in
the case she bit her, assailant and when the person pulled,

(37:06):
away it pulled the tooth. Outward was evident there had
been a struggle on the ground outside the, door which
would account why the victim had wood ashes clinging to
her head and her right. Eye someone had picked up
the body and carried into the, house placing it on the.
Cot the left arm had blood on it and her
mouth was full of. Blood ada was last seen alive

(37:27):
On saturday around eleven p. M when she had bought
a half pint flask of gin and headed. Home police
verified she was seen talking with a man not far
from her, house probably after she brought to. Gin bought to.
Gin the murder was a, mystery as there appeared to
be no motive for killing. Her she was a harmless
sort of, person had no money that is known, of

(37:48):
and at times was given to be. Demented it was
estimated she had become involved in a drunken row with
her assailant and he killed her without meaning. To CORONER. B.
R wilson and share Of brown were called and jurymen
were impaneled to investigate the. Crime the jurymen viewed the,
body the surroundings and return of verdict That Ada wells

(38:09):
came to her death at the hands of parties to
the jury. UNKNOWN a little over a month, Later Sheriff
brown Arrested Louise, Smith Albert, willis And Ben watson based
on evidence at least two of them were involved in
The wells. Case kept, apart they told conflicting. Stories the
preliminary hearings started In october nineteen oh, two and now

(38:31):
the accusation shifted To Bell skinner And Albert. Willis two months,
Later Bell skinner was convicted of murdering the first degree
with recommendation for. Mercy the mercy translated to life imprisonment
instead of being. Executed Albert, willis convicted of, manslaughter received
a sentence of twenty. Years the evidence in the case

(38:51):
was described as, circumstantial but proved the murder was committed through.
Jealousy the two women were, prostitutes And Bell skinner was
the arch spiritor in the. Killing willis's confession was used
extensively in the. Trial the newspaper cited the details of
the dispute between the women as not fit to print
in a family, newspaper so the exact nature of the

(39:12):
trouble between the women was not widely. Known, Surprisingly belle
was married when she Killed. Ata she'd immigrated From canada
and had been married for ten years To William. Skinner,
albert on his, part had Married Maimie davis And may
of nineteen oh, two only two months before the. Murder
six months after a, Conviction Bell skinner was removed from

(39:34):
The monroe turpentine farm south Of titusville and taken To
ocala due to her failing. Health turpentine farms of those
years used convict, labour and the work was known to be.
Brutal in nineteen, ten she was still The state convict
hospital In, Ocala. Florida bell was then forty eight years.
Old what became Of albert is. Unknown his, Wife mamy

(39:55):
died in nineteen eighteen and was buried at The Florida
State Hospital cemetery In, chattahoochee which served as The States Insane.
Asylum Captain Elis, schwiz who rented the house To Ada,
wells died in nineteen oh. Four, so, Yeah titus is
this little. Town they, said a, lot a lot of
settlers poured Into florida Post Civil, war but even before.

(40:19):
That but again she could tell there's this little swirling
of you, know why are you gonna? Attack you, know
they're saying. Prostitution but at the same, Time Aida wells
was described as an, older kind of demented woman who
likes to have her. Gin so it makes you wonder
what was it jealousy? FOR i want to say, jealousy

(40:41):
but this makes me think there was something else going.
On she killed a lady and by the way she
she sounds like she spent the rest of her days
in that hospital of slash. Asylum because it's, true working
out here convict, labor those turpentine farms were was a
lot of hard. Work so, yeah even, though LIKE i,

(41:05):
said because of the excuse that they couldn't print in the,
newspapers what the real reason. Was how a feeling there
was more than just Like i'm jealous of, you all,
Right i'm jealous of. You there was something more. There
now what it is? Exactly who? Knows all. Right next,
Story this is a really interesting. Story this is out

(41:27):
of interesting engineering and it's Titled Matrix. Collapses mathematics proves
the universe cannot be a computer. Simulation mm, hmm all.
Right the idea that we might be living inside of
our computer, simulation much like in the, matrix as fascinating
philosophers and scientists for, Years but a new study from

(41:50):
researchers at The university Of British Columbia's Ocanaghan campus has
delivered a decisive blow to that. Theory according to doctor
Mir Faisal, jung professor AT Ubc Okanagan IRVING'S. K Barber
faculty Of, science and as international, collaborators a structure of
reality itself makes simulation. Impossible their work shows that no,

(42:14):
computer no matter how, advanced could ever reproduce the fundamental
workings of the. Universe the research goes further than rejecting
the simulation. Theory it suggests that reality is built on
a kind of understanding cannot be reduced to computational rules or.
Algorithms the researchers approach the simulation question through mathematics and,

(42:36):
physics rather than. Philosophy they explored whether the laws governing
the universe, could in, theory be recreated by a computer.
System it has been suggested that the universe could be,
simulated said Doctor. Faisal if such a simulation were, possible
the simulated universe could itself give rise to, life which
in turn might create its own. Simulation the cursive possibility

(43:01):
makes it seem highly unlikely that our universe is the original,
one rather than a simulation nested within another. Simulation he
explains that this question was one thought to lie outside
the reach of. Science, however our recent research has demonstrated
that it can in fact be scientifically. Addressed modern physics

(43:22):
already see reality as more than solid matter quantum. Gravity
the latest framework uniting relativity and quantum mechanics proposes that
even space and time are not, fundamental they emerge from something,
deeper pure. Information to test whether this informational foundation could be,
simulated the team relied on mathematical, principles Including godell's incompleteness.

(43:46):
Theorem this theorem states that in any logical, system there
will always be true statements that it cannot be proven
within that. System Doctor faisal says the same limitation applies to.
Physics we have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe
all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of

(44:08):
quantum gravity. Explained, therefore no physically complete and consistent theory
of everything can be derived from computation. Alone he adds
that a full description of reality requires what they call
non algorithmic, understanding which cannot be captured by any computer.
Process in other, words computation can only go so far

(44:33):
before it hits the edge of what logic can. Express
could the deeper information of the universe itself be? Simulated
the researchers say that even this is. Impossible drawing of
mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and, indefinability we demonstrate that
a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be

(44:53):
achieved through computation, alone says Doctor. Faizal it requires non algorithmic,
understanding which by definition is beyond algorithmic computation and therefore
cannot be. Simulated, hence this universe cannot be a. Simulation
co Author Doctor LAWRENCE. M krauss says this discovery changes

(45:14):
how we view the laws of. Physics the fundamental laws
of physics cannot be contained within space and time because
they generate. Them he, notes a complete and consistent description
of reality requires something, deeper a form of understanding known
as non algorithmic. Understanding Doctor faizell concludes that any simulated

(45:36):
world must follow program, rules but since the fundamental level
of reality is based on non algorithmic, understanding the universe
cannot be and could never, be a. Simulation he. Says
the studies published in The journal Of Holography applications In. Physics,
yes so, yeah that idea of the, matrix you, know

(45:58):
With neo And, morpheus according to, them doesn't and can't.
Exist there you. Go, now this is a short little.
Story is? Interesting stolen's skull returned To austrian, cathedral all?

(46:18):
Right the archive is that An austrian cathedral was understandably
surprised when he received the shipment containing a skull stolen
from the side around sixty years. Ago the peculiar parcel
was reportedly sent To Saint Stephen's cathedral In vienna by
an Apologetic German man who indicated that he took the
macab memento while visiting the building's famed catacombs as a young.

(46:41):
Tourist having held on to the skull for the next several,
decades the letter writer explained that he wished to clear
his conscience before joining the owner of the stolen remains
on the other, side which would have made for a
rather awkward meeting in The hereafter reflecting on the surprising
turn of Events Cathedral, archive his friend's zettner mused that

(47:02):
it was touching that someone would wish to make amends
for an act of youthful. Exuberance he also credited the
tourists with the skull's carefully preserved state after being in
the man's possession for. Decades oddly, enough the return of
the remains follows a strangely similar story from a few weeks,
ago when a Remorseful german tourist return what he believed
to be cursed rocks stolen from A spanish national. Park,

(47:27):
well it's unlikely that the two sticky finger travelers were the.
Same man won't can out of, help but imagine that
being the, case and if, so hopefully he can rest
easy now that his unusual shipments have been. Received you,
KNOW i can see when you're. Young it's, like, no
just in, case just in cases is going to get

(47:48):
me into trouble WHEN i. Died let me just return.
Back that's. Funny, yeah he's either getting old or his
health is getting bad or something along those lines where
it was, like nuh, uh Maybe i'm going to be
pushing up daisy, soon SO i need to make it.
Right so, anyway, GUYS i hope you really like. It
i've got a lot of interesting. Stuff god, knows it's

(48:10):
always eerie out, there So i'll see you. Soon

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