E96: Gakirah Barnes

Fruitloops: Serial Killers of Color

Fruitloops

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 953 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week Beth and Wendy discuss Gakirah Barnes, a teenaged girl and gang member who lived in Chicago. She claimed to have killed 17 people by the time she was 17. We share listener letters (3:45) and get into some stats (8:35). Then we dive into the setting (9:47), the Gakira’s early life (25:40) and the timeline (27:29). Then, we get into the conclusion of Gakira’s story (41:49). We get into our Take Aways (48:30) and some self care tips to help us get through the rest of 2020 (52:30) and we close out the show with some shout outs (58:41). Thanks for listening! This is a weekly podcast and new episodes drop every Thursday, so until next time... look alive guys, it's crazy out there! Pleaseake our survey at: www.podcastlistenersurvey.com Where to find us: Our Facebook page is Fruitloopspod and our discussion group is Fruitloopspod Discussion on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/groups/fruitloopspod/ We are also on Twitter and Instagram @fruitloopspod Please send any questions or comments to [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 602-935-6294. We just might read your email or play your voicemail on the show! Want to Support the show? You can support the show by rating and reviewing Fruitloops on iTunes, or anywhere else that you get your podcasts from. We would love it if you gave us 5 stars! You can make a donation on the Cash App https://cash.me/$fruitloopspod Or become a monthly Patron through our Podbean Patron page https://patron.podbean.com/fruitloopspod Footnotes Music "Abyss" by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy● Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License “On the Go” by Marlene Miller. Used with permission. Find her Facebook and Instagram under SEMNCHY or [email protected] "Born Again" by Jorge Hernandez https://youtu.be/DLHtFN_hr_s Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License “Furious Freak” by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3791-furious-freak License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This podcast contains adult themes and language and some of the things that we discuss may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:06.4	In this podcast we discuss sexual assault, torture, race, and murder.
0:11.1	Listener discretion is advised. Oh, So, Oh, Hello everybody and welcome to Fruitloops episode 96. Thank you so much for
1:07.2	listening. Grasias for your sintoni a and bienidos bitches. Fruitloops is a podcast about true crimes committed by people of color
1:17.0	and their victims that we don't hear or know much about.
1:20.0	Contrary to popular belief, not all serial killers are straight cis gender white dudes.
1:24.4	What? That is true. There are many well documented cases of serial killers of color
1:28.8	and fruit loops is a podcast all about them. We will take deep dives into the fascinating lives and
1:33.6	crimes of serial killers and true crimes committed by people of color and the
1:36.9	victims let's not forget them that the media and entertainment commonly
1:40.3	leave out because the news is racist allegedly.
1:45.0	And we are Wendy and Beth. She's Wendy. I'm Beth. We're not journalists
1:49.3	investigators or psychologists. Just a couple of gals interested in true crime.
1:54.4	Also the opinions expressed in this podcast are just that our opinions.
1:58.4	Please send any questions or comments to fruitloops pod at gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 6029.
2:05.0	And we may feature it on a future episode.
2:10.0	Also our website is fruit loops pod.com and we use fruitlooth pod for all of our social media.
2:15.4	The footnotes for each episode can be found on our website plus check it out for
2:19.8	the different ways you can support the show and become a fruit loops patron.
2:23.0	So, how are we talking about today, Beth?
2:26.0	Today we're talking about Jakira Barnes, a teenage girl and gang member who lived in Chicago.
2:32.0	She claimed to have killed 17 people by the time
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1629 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fruitloops, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Fruitloops and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.