The Girl From the Talk Shows: Jennifer Mee

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 2007, Jennifer Mee got her fifteen minutes of fame when she couldn’t stop hiccuping. In 2016, she was once again on TV—this time on a show called “Killer Women.” Fame is a curse, and it had cursed her. *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patron.*** Sources: Jennifer Mee advocacy website: jmeefree.com St. Petersburg Times coverage of Jennifer Mee, 2007-2013, especially coverage from journalist Mary Jane Park “Fla. ‘hiccup girl’ charged with first-degree murder,” Charleston Daily Mail, 18 Sept 2013 “‘Hiccup Girl’ Charged in Fatal Robbery,” The Ledger, 25 Oct 2010 “Jail Call to Mom Played in Court,” Tampa Bay Times, 20 Sept 2013 “Victim’s brother: Hiccup girl’s Internet trap led to homicide,” Tribune Business News, 25 Oct 2010 Jennifer Mee episode, Killer Women with Piers Morgan, 6 July 2017 Freak Show entry in Encyclopedia Britannica “Teen Known for Hiccups Now Faces a Murder Charge,” New York Times, 25 Oct 2010 “Facing a New Surge, Florida Prisons Need to Get it Right This Time,” Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec 2020 “3 on Florida Commission Decide Parole of Thousands of Inmates,” Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 10 Dec 2019 “Florida’s Longest-Serving Inmates: They Get Older, Sicker and More Well-behaved,” Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 17 Oct 2019 “VIDEO: Hiccup girl, Jennifer Mee, breaks silence after going from media darling to convicted killer,” ABC Action News, 17 November 2015 Team: Jillian Collins, research assistant Jennifer Longworth of Bourbon Barrel Podcasting, editor Music: Stereodog Productions (Dan Pierson & Peter Manheim). Intro and conclusion: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? Is it a crime? Love and you do like I do.
0:10.0	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.
0:15.0	Guilty of love and you.
0:20.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 42, I think, of criminal broads,
0:26.0	a true crime and history podcast about wild women who have ended up on the wrong side of the law.
0:33.0	How are you? Are any of you like me in this big storm with snow everywhere in your life?
0:39.0	I took my baby sledding today twice for the first time, the first two times, and he loved it.
0:47.0	And babies being pulled around on sleds going down very mild hills is a very cute site, as I'm sure you can imagine.
0:56.0	If you're new here, I'd like to say welcome, have a seat, there's cookies and coffee in the back.
1:01.0	If you're old here, I'm sorry for calling you old, and if you like the podcast, you can support it on Patreon, patreon.com, slash criminal broads.
1:11.0	There's a $1 level, there's a $3 level, it's all very low key.
1:15.0	If you listened to last week's episode about the wild run of Merudine Errington,
1:22.0	you probably heard me talk about how I'm starting to become a little more aware of and enraged about over-sentencing,
1:30.0	like just people getting really long sentences for crimes that don't seem to deserve that.
1:35.0	And today's episode, my friends, is a really drawing example of that.
1:42.0	What I'm about to say might offend a lot of people, but just like last week's episode,
1:48.0	today's episode is set in Florida.
1:51.0	In Florida seems to have an over-sentencing problem.
1:54.0	I'm sorry, Florida listeners, but I think you all probably know this about your state.
1:58.0	There's a real over-sentencing issue happening there, which I get into in the podcast,
2:02.0	and also there's an over-sentencing issue happening in the entire United States,
2:06.0	which I guess I will we'll talk about more later.
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