The Cause Célèbre: Joan Little

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When a young black woman named Joan Little ran from her jail cell, leaving her white male guard dead on the floor—without his pants—the country couldn’t decide who, exactly, Joan Little was. The prosecution said she was a vicious seductress who’d lured the guard in specifically to kill him. The defense said she was an innocent angel who hadn’t even known he was dead. Who in the world was Joan Little, really? Want more Criminal Broads? Come to Caveat NYC on October 30 at 70 pm to see me the host of DIE-ALOGUE talk about female cult leaders!!! Get your tickets here! *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter and get a cool postcard. Get 10% off your first month of Betterhelp at betterhelp.com/criminalbroads. Snag a free month of weird and entertaining courses at The Great Courses Plus at thegreatcoursesplus.com/broads by entering code FREEMO. And check out Harlequin Suspense’s new line of creepy fall books at bit.ly/mustreadsuspense.*** Sources: New York Times coverage of the Joan Little case, 1975-1989The Innocent of Joan Little: A Southern Mystery, by James RestonJoan Little ephemera (including her poem, “I Am Somebody”), from usprisonculture.com“Free Joan Little: Anti-Rape Activism, Black Power, and the Black Freedom Movement,” by Ashley Farmer, from Black Perspectives by AAIHS Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer “Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License“Gospel House Mix 1” by DJ Renay, via archive.org. Public domain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty
0:10.1	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty, guilty of love in you.
0:20.0	Greetings loved ones and welcome to episode 35 of criminal broads, a true crime and history
0:26.1	podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.
0:30.3	I'm Tori Telfer, your host.
0:32.0	I'm a true crime writer, the author of a book on female serial
0:35.7	killers, and currently working on a book about female con artists. And I'm also the host of the
0:42.4	new CBS All Access Podcast,
0:45.0	Why Women Kill Truth, Lies, and Labels,
0:48.2	which you can check out today wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.5	It's a six-part series on archetypes of female killers. Do not worry, it is not
0:56.8	replacing criminal rods. Before we get into today's story, I have some big news for you all.
1:05.0	Now, this is personal news, and of course this is not a podcast about my life,
1:12.0	but this piece of news does affect my listeners so I wanted to tell you
1:16.9	that I am expecting a baby. I'm expecting a baby at the end of the fall. I hope to be welcoming a very cute and hopefully
1:28.1	chubby and squishy baby into my arms. So I'm going to be taking a criminal broads maternity leave for obvious
1:36.5	reasons for the next couple of months. Well I'm going to be doing episodes through October
1:41.6	and then I'll be taking some time off to put together a crib and finish
1:45.3	my book and then meet this little guy or gal.
1:49.0	So I just want to say up front, thank you for being such cool listeners and so supportive of the podcast and so enthusiastic
1:56.3	and I will keep you updated as best I can and you know this isn't goodbye.
2:01.9	I'll see you for a couple more episodes, but I just wanted to let you know
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