Introducing: The James Brown Mystery

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Circus Singer

In 2017, CNN reporter Thomas Lake receives a phone call from a circus singer who tells a wild, hard-to-believe story: James Brown didn’t die of natural causes in 2006; instead the Godfather of Soul was murdered. After months of calls from the circus singer, Lake decides to fly to Chicago to meet Jacque Hollander in person. There Jacque proves her connection to James Brown and shows Lake a videotape of a polygraph test she took in 1995 that was administered by a former FBI agent.

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0:00.0	I'm CNN's Thomas Lake and host of the James Brown mystery, a new podcast where I attempt
0:06.2	to answer the question, was the godfather of soul murdered?
0:10.2	My investigation began a few years ago when I received a call from Jackie Hollander, who
0:15.0	knew James Brown and claimed to have proof that he was murdered.
0:19.6	My podcast follows our investigation.
0:22.0	Here's the first episode in the series.
0:24.5	I hope you're as captivated by this mystery as I am.
0:29.3	This morning at 145 a.m., Mr. James Brown passed away.
0:36.0	He was 73 years young.
0:39.3	He sat down on the bed and he laid back on the foot of the bed and he sighed very,
0:47.0	very quietly and very gently three times.
0:51.2	Then he closed his eyes and he was dead.
0:57.2	Had a press conference in a drab hotel ballroom with a lonely Christmas tree in the corner,
1:02.4	James Brown's managers broke the news of his death.
1:06.2	Brown, known worldwide as the godfather of soul, died on Christmas morning 2006 at a hospital
1:12.4	in Atlanta.
1:13.9	His death certificate blamed a heart attack and fluid in the lungs.
1:17.5	There was no autopsy, no investigation, no obvious sign to question the official narrative,
1:23.2	which said, Brown was old and sick and he died of natural causes.
1:29.0	By 2017, at the beginning of the story I'm about to tell you, Brown had been dead for
1:34.0	a decade.
1:35.0	I was a reporter sitting in my cubicle at CNN Center in Atlanta.
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