S4|E9: Good Friends

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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A recent New Orleans resident becomes immersed in the city's LBGTQ history. But his commitment rises to a whole new level when he makes inroads on an obscure cold case known as "The Hammer Murders.” Find us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. You can also subscribe to our newsletter, Gone South with Jed Lipinski. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, want to hear a PC Game Pass advert?
0:04.7	I'll take your silence as a yes.
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0:10.5	I thought so.
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0:19.5	Learn more at Xbox.com slash PC Game Pass. Stalker to
0:22.6	available November 20th, 20th, 24. Game catalog varies by region and overtime. And yeah, that's the
0:27.9	end of the script. It was the summer of 1984, and New Orleans was hosting the Louisiana World Exposition,
0:43.7	otherwise known as the World's Fair.
0:46.8	Seven million visitors had descended on the fairgrounds along the city's riverfront.
0:51.5	They took simulated flights inside a full-scale model of a NASA space shuttle.
0:56.3	They rode gondolas across the Mississippi and strolled through international pavilions from
1:01.1	Italy and Japan.
1:02.4	The world is focused today on a grand celebration, namely this world's fair in New Orleans,
1:06.7	the theme, the world of rivers, freshwater as a source of life. And right now you're looking at live
1:11.5	pictures. The fair was a bright light in the city of New Orleans that summer, but just a few
1:16.7	blocks away, a much darker story was unfolding. Between late May and July, five gay men were
1:24.7	bludgeoned inside their homes with what police believed to be a hammer.
1:29.3	Three of the men died. Two were permanently disabled.
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