A Little Less Mess: [Kentucky] Marlene Major

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes).

Marlene Major was a young mother in a bad marriage, when she vanished one night, rumors ran wild implying she abandoned her family to start a new life. After decades of questions, they are finally answered when Marlenes daughter and investigators team up to solve her murder.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Bless This Mess in the True Crime podcast. I'm Kara, just Kara. This is a little us mess.
0:26.4	It's our regular episodes, minus all the banter and opinions and nonsense stories about our lives.
0:34.3	We do these. I try to put these out once a week on Sundays after the regular episodes come out in the feed,
0:40.2	which the regular episodes are the numbered ones.
0:42.3	And they are with my husband, Stuart, and I.
0:44.6	And we say inappropriate things and tell the story in more of a lighthearted way,
0:50.4	as opposed to these are just straight, just the story.
0:53.7	So if you want to check out our
0:55.2	instagram and facebook i post uh i post like recipes and we have a book club and everything
1:01.4	and then we have patreon if you would like to support the podcast and then rate review subscribe on
1:06.4	iTunes and you can check all that out in the show notes. So this week we are going to Kentucky.
1:14.4	And if you listen to this one, you'd like a little bit more anything, more stuff going on.
1:20.4	You can check out those regular episodes.
1:22.8	So let's go ahead and get into it.
1:25.6	Helen Marlene Major, Ney Oaks, was born December 7, 1954 in Kentucky to Willie and Mildred Oaks.
1:32.9	She would go by her middle name Marlene.
1:35.6	Now Marlene met William Bill Major, who went by Bill, and they married in 1971 when
1:41.6	Marlene was just a teenager.
1:43.7	They settled in Verona, Kentucky, which is in northern Kentucky.
1:48.0	It was a thriving small town that was incorporated, but that since has dissolved.
1:53.0	It is now just a small community of about 1,500 people as of 2020.
1:59.0	They would have their first child, a boy named Donald, soon after marrying.
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