E18: Maury Travis Part 1

Fruitloops: Serial Killers of Color

Fruitloops

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 953 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Wendy and Beth begin a deep dive into the early life and crimes of the St. Louis Video Strangler, AKA Maury T. Travis. Mr. Travis is an American serial killer who tortured and murdered women while videotaping it. His crimes took place in Ferguson Missouri and in Illinois. He had 12 to 17 victims. Here are the Names of the Victims who were identified: Mary Shields 62; Alysa Greenwade 34; Teresa Wilson 36; Betty James 46; Verona Thompson 36; Yvonne Crues 50; Brenda Beasley 33. We also get into the history of St. Louis from the civil rights movement to the crack epidemic and how race plays a part in all of it. This is part 1, we will be covering the 2nd half of the story in the next episode. We thank you all so much for listening, for engaging with us and for supporting the show and telling your friends. Where to find us Our website is fruitloopspod.com, our Facebook page is Fruitloopspod and our discussion group is Fruitloopspod Discussion on Facebook. We are also on Twitter and Instagram at Fruitloopspod. If you'd like to support the show you can make a donation on the Cash app http://cash.me/$fruitloopspod or you can become a monthly Patron through our podbean patron page - https://patron.podbean.com/fruitloopspod Your donation will help us continue to make the show and deliver more fire ass content for you! There’s no minimum. Even a dollar would help! You can also support the show by rating and reviewing Fruitloops on iTunes. We would love it if you gave us 5 stars. Footnotes & More: https://fruitloopspod.com/episodes/ Music Abyss by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen ●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/ ●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy Ice Flow & Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com Dance of Death by Purple Planet Music http://www.purple-planet.com Robbero by Bilderbergin http://ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/53179 Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Connect with us on: Twitter @FruitLoopsPod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fruitloopspod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fruitloopspod and https://www.facebook.com/groups/fruitloopspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast contains adult themes and language and some of the things that we discuss may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:07.0	In this podcast, we discuss sexual assault, torture, race, and murder.
0:12.0	Listener discretion is advised. assault, torture, race, and murder.
0:12.5	Listener, discretion is advised. Oh, Oh, Well. Well, welcome to Fruit Loops. Season 2, episode 2. Thank you so much for listening. Fruit Loops is a podcast about true crimes
1:14.6	committed by people of color and the victims that we don't hear or know much
1:18.3	about. Contrary to popular belief, not all serial killers are white. Would you believe it? There are many well documented
1:25.6	cases of serial killers of color and fruit loops. It's a podcast all about them. We will take deep
1:30.9	dives into the lives and crimes of serial killers and true crimes committed
1:36.3	by people of color and their victims of the media and entertainment commonly leave out because, well,
1:41.9	the news is racist allegedly.
1:44.0	And we are Wendy and Beth, she's Wendy. I'm Beth.
1:49.0	We're not journalists, investigators, or psychologists.
1:53.8	Just a couple of gals interested in true crime.
1:56.7	Also, the opinions expressed in this podcast
1:59.3	are just that, our opinions.
2:01.6	Please send any questions or comments to Fruitloops Pod at gmail.com
2:07.0	or leave us a voicemail at 602 935 6294. Yes, we love all of them the emails and the voicemail so keep them coming.
2:18.0	So who are we talking about today Beth?
2:21.0	Today we're talking about Mori Travis, also known as the St Louis video strangler.
2:27.5	The subject was suggested to us by Kelly in our Facebook discussion group.
2:32.0	Oh, thanks, Gellie.
2:34.0	Yeah.
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