195: Boston Massacre & Alexis Murphy

Alexis Murphy had a bright future ahead of her. She was the captain of her high school’s volleyball team, a robust social media presence, and plans to go to college. But one day in August of 2013, she left home to buy hair extensions and never came back. Investigators tracked down surveillance footage of Alexis at a gas station in Lovingston, Virginia. The footage didn’t reveal anything explicitly sinister, but it did reveal that a local creep had held the door open for her. 

Then Norm joined the podcast to give us an American history lesson! (Turns out, if they didn’t sing about it in Hamilton, we don’t know anything about it.) Norm gives us the story of the Boston Massacre. It went down on March 5, 1770 amidst growing tensions between colonists and British soldiers. Private Hugh White was the lone soldier guarding the Custom House. When colonists insulted him, Hugh fought back. Hugh wasn’t outarmed, but he was outnumbered.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Norman pulled from: 

Famous-Trials.com - https://www.famous-trials.com/massacre

“Boston’s Massacre” by Eric Hinderaker https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237384

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:

“What happened to Alexis Murphy” True Crime Daily

“Timeline: The Search for Alexis Murphy” NBC29 News

“Alexis Murphy’s Family Addresses Marijuana Allegations” NBC29 News

“Randy Taylor Trial Day Two: Alexis Murphy’s blood found, defense pushes human trafficking” by Lisa Provence, C-Ville.com

“Day 4: Mystery man testifies in Randy Taylor trial” by Lisa Provence, C-Ville.com

“Randy Allen Taylor trial Day 5: Taylor’s fate in jury’s hands” by Lisa Provence, C-Ville.com

“Alexis Murphy Remains Discovered Seven Years After She Vanished” investigationdiscovery.com

“Murder of Alexis Murphy” wikipedia.org

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