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In this episode, Mariel tells the story of Courtney “Tailor” Clenney, an Instagram and OnlyFans "model" who has been charged with second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend, Christian “Toby” Obumseli, to death at their luxury apartment in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood on April 3, 2022.

The 22-year-old had 2 million followers on Instagram and has been claiming that she only acted out of self-defense during yet another intense argument amid a “violent and toxic” relationship. All the evidence unearthed so far says otherwise.

Listen in as we go through the unsettling videos that have been unearthed during the discovery phase; piece together the documentary evidence, witness and expert testimonies, and Courtney’s own version of events to illustrate the events of April 3, 2022; and what to expect at upcoming hearings.

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Sources

●  https://www.eonline.com/news/1342507/inside-the-polarizing-murder-case-against-onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney

●  https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-onlyfans-models-bruised-body-seen-in-photos-after-boyfriends-killing/2904929/

●  https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/11/11/florida-onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney-miami-murder-trial-flee-us/

●  https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/02/onlyfans-courtney-clenney-boyfriend-stabbed-secret-recordings-racial-slurs/

●  https://ktla.com/news/husband-wife-lose-teaching-jobs-after-students-find-explicit-onlyfans-account/

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This episode we discuss Lisa Montgomery updates the case of Taylor Rene Parker, execution methods, racial disparities in capital punishment cases, and the Pope's prayer to end capital punishment. Followed by strange stories that are not related to crime. 

Palate cleansers

1. A tomato spill makes a major California highway a marinara mess 

2. An overturned truck and Memphis covered the road with Alfredo sauce 

3. Truck collision turns a Florida Highway into a silver sea of beer cans 

4. An Oklahoma state lawmaker introduced a bill for Bigfoot hunting season

Happy Halloween! Thank you for listening! 

-Mariel 

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Notable Quotes 

● Surely an American government should not elect to execute its citizens based on a television program; this is sadly fairly typical of capital punishment, where those without capital get the punishment. 

● Punishment is supposed to be painful; the idea of a killer dying easily would be the opposite of justice. 

● Since 1947, the Nuremberg Code has stated that no human experiment should be conducted where there's reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, so perhaps we should accept that our grotesque human experiments should be left in centuries past where they belong. 

● Capital punishment offers no justice to victims but rather encourages revenge, and it prevents any possibility of undoing a possible miscarriage of justice. 

● The death penalty is morally inadmissible, for it destroys the most important gift we have received; life. Society can ensure public safety without definitively depriving the offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves, making capital punishment unnecessary as a legal tool.-Pope Francis 

● Always in every legal sentence, there must be a window of hope. Let us not forget that up to the very last moment, a person can convert and change. Each day, there is a growing no for the death penalty worldwide. Let us pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country. 

● History shows us that blackness has been devalued since the founding of America. Still, the truth is that black victims matter as much, even if the legal system and society have not recognized their value. 

● We must make the radical choice to uproot systems like the death penalty that allowed the anti-black biases in our national consciousness to not only thrive but to be just to do otherwise is to perpetuate a system where black lives matter less. When we accept that the death penalty reveals that black deaths do not matter, it becomes apparent that there is not an anti-racist fix for the death penalty other than its abolition. 

● Remember that if you have anything negative to say, reevaluate your life choices because you're taking time out of your day to criticize something that truly does not impact you in any way.




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In this episode of The Women of Death Row podcast hosts Amanda and Mariel explore the case of Lisa Graham.  Relying on monstersandcritics.com, the news on Alabama.com, mycrimelibrary.com, and the Ledger-Enquirer as sources, Amanda shares Lisa’s story.  In May 2015, Lisa was sentenced to death in Alabama for hiring Kenneth Walton to kill her 21-year-old daughter, Shea Graham.  Shea had recently been arrested on an aggravated assault charge in a drive-by shooting case in Georgia but was released after her parents posted a $100,00 bond on her behalf.  However, Lisa expected her daughter to skip town, and the financial ramifications of such an action represent the suspected motive behind Lisa’s next steps.  Lisa hired family friend Walton, who also worked for the family construction business, to kill Shea, and provided him with a 9mm pistol.  Shea’s friends testified that the last time they saw her, she was leaving a gas station with Walton, who had picked her up under the pretense of finding her a car so she could leave town.  



On July 5, 2007, Shea’s body was found in rural Alabama by a passerby.  The body was half nude on the side of a dirt road, and Shea had apparently been shot twice in the head and four times in the chest before being run over and abandoned.  After hearing the testimony of friends who witnessed Walton pick up Shea in his truck, police questioned him and quickly received a confession.  Walton readily admitted his actions and explained Lisa’s role in the crime.  Police then found the 9mm pistol in the care of Lisa’s neighbor, affectionately called “Papa,” to whom she had given the gun for cleaning.  Walton pled guilty, offered gruesome details of his crimes, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.  Lisa’s trial, however, was a long time coming.  The case passed through many hands and faced a number of appeals and delays before finally being tried.  Lisa, who has told a number of witnesses that Shea was ruining her life and that she’d kill Shea if she could, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.  Her appeals after the trial were unsuccessful, and the conviction has been upheld.



While Amanda and Mariel agree that the actions of both Lisa and Walton were appalling, they are intrigued by the different sentences given to each, and consider the possibility of gender bias underlying the discrepancy.  Moving forward, they also discuss a variety of other topics, from Lisa Montgomery and approaches to the death penalty, to the recent holidays, to their current favorite television shows and podcasts.  The hosts comment on The Office, a recent study of events following the Holocaust, and even - going down an extensive rabbit trail - a couple of strange diseases and the unusual way residents of “Nub City” found a way to get money!



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In this episode of Women of Death Row, Mariel tells the story of Dame Alice Kyteler, a woman condemned and burned to death at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland on November 3, 1324. We also discuss breaking news of the confirmed date for Lisa Montgomery’s execution, Eric Menendez’s retrial, and why the new Netflix documentary film American Murder: The Family Next Door shook us to the core.

Listen in as we discuss how Bishop Richard de Ledrede’s declaration that his diocese was filled with devil worshipers led to the imprisonment and death of the supposed witch and demon worshipper Alice Kyteler. Digressions include more death penalty stuff, particularly in light of the cases of Lisa Montgomery and Scott Peterson. Thanks for listening!

Sources:

Dame Alice Kyteler

The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler by Bernadette Williams. 

Williams, B. (1994). The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler. History Ireland, 2(4), 20-24.

Narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler for Sorcery. A.D. 1324. (, 1843). Camden Old Series, 24, 1-40. doi: 10.1017/s2042169900003242

Reichl, K. (2011). Medieval Oral Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter.

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In this episode of the The Women of Death Row podcast, hosts Amanda and Mariel take a look at the case of Maureen “Miki” McDermott after a brief time talking about the recent choice of Kamala Harris to be Joe Biden’s presidential running mate.  Moving into the main topic of the episode, listeners learn that Miki was born in 1947 in New Jersey, the third of four children and the only girl among her siblings.  After growing up in a working class family with a religious mother and an alcoholic and often absent father, Miki worked her way to a position as a nurse.  She was known for being compassionate, generous, and a lover of animals, and her colleagues continue to maintain her innocence for the crime that ultimately landed her on death row.  The problems for Miki arose in relation to an orderly at the hospital where she worked: Jimmy Luna.  Jimmy’s background was far darker than that of Miki.  He was born to parents who were heroin addicts and soon abandoned him, faced a great deal of abuse, and suffered from mental illness.  He was a liar, a convicted criminal, a violent man, and a compulsive phone caller.  He was understandably not well regarded by peers, although Miki remained kind to him.  Even after he was fired from the hospital, he continued to rely on Miki as a friend and provider. However, Miki made plans with a colleague to spend time working in the Middle East.  She arranged for her friend Stephen Eldridge to buy into her property to care for it and her animals, and for a time, the two of them lived in the home together as roommates.  Miki was not in a position at that time to offer financial help to Jimmy, but he took it into his own hands to secure money from Miki by planning to kill her roommate and make a way to collect mortgage insurance money.  After one robbery effort before the night of the murder, Jimmy and two friends entered the home where Miki and Stephen resided.  They injured Miki by leaving her with a cut and hitting her on the head, and killed Stephen.  Stephen was stabbed 44 times and his body maimed.  In the investigation that followed, Miki faced a shambolic police investigation plagued by neglect, speculation, reliance on memory rather than notes, and flawed interview processes.  Lack of advanced investigative technology, lack of effort and a conflict of interests on the part of legal representation, and deals made by the perpetrators of the crime all worked together to land Miki in prison for a crime she denied having committed.  While Jimmy ended up with only life in prison, Miki lives on death row.  She appealed to the public for support in 2004, but her situation has not changed in any notable way since then.  After concluding the story on such a conflicting note, Amanda and Mariel wrap up the episode with talk of kittens, auctions, politics, disco, and more! Links: Learn more about Miki McDermott.Learn more about The Women of Death Row.

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Hello! This week Amanda tells the story of Frances Newton. Thank you so much for listening! To learn more about Frances NewtonPlease wear your masks & wash your hands; protect yourself AND others

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