Black Girl True Crime

In 2005 Latoyia Figueroa went missing without a trace. During the duration of her disappearance her family and local bloggers banded together in the fight to get her story to mainstream news. Between July and August the city of Philadelphia was turned upside down in search of clues that could explain how a pregnant mother of 1 could vanish out of thin air. Join me as I discuss racial bias in journalism and the life and death of Latoyia Figueroa. The world is fucked up y'all, let's talk about it.

Happy Black History Month my friends, its our time to turn up. I drove our bus back to the Crescent City to tell y'all the story of Renetta Yemika-Lowe Bridgewater aka Magnolia Shorty. In 2010 Renetta was murdered in a double homicide along with Jerome Hampton and their deaths were nothing less than violence. In this episode I dive into the history of New Orleans and the Magnolia Projects which was a cradle for the most influential artists of our time. The streets tell a different story when it comes to the death of Renetta, who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Y'all know its fucked up out here, let's talk about it.

Check out these amazing links that I shouted out in the episode

Magnolia Projects: Hood History (Documentary) | 3rd Ward

https://newtralgroundz.com/2022/06/17/magnolia-projects-story-of-cj-peete-3rd-ward/

Comedian Boogie B | New Orleans Hood History

https://www.tiktok.com/@comedianboogiebofficial?lang=en

SepTeena Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@SepTeena

Information on Magnolia (C.J. Peete) Public Housing Development

https://acloserwalknola.com/places/magnolia-c-j-peete-public-housing-development/

3 white men offered an innocent black man a ride and drug him to death in back logging roads of Jasper, Texas. Let's discuss the life and murder of James Byrd Jr at the hands of 3 avowed white supremacists; John King, Shawn Berry, and Lawrence Brewer.

October 16th of 2002, the Dawson Family was murdered by Durrell Brooks. The murder was to retaliate at the family Matriarch Angela Dawson for reporting crime on the corner where they lived.

https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35361

Join me and Coach AJ as we dive in to the Grim Sleeper Part 2. I thank ya'll for tuning in because for decades the Grim Sleeper hunted in his own backyard and because his victim profile was black sex workers who suffered from the illness of drug addiction; his crimes went unnoticed. Check out these cool links which are resources that I used for the episode

https://www.amazon.com/Grim-Sleeper-Women-South-Central/dp/1619027240

The Grim Sleeper was 1 out of many serial killers who preyed on Los Angeles. What's different about this case is the skin color of the victims. Black women in South Central LA were targeted and found murdered in alleys and amongst trash and many believe that LAPD stood by and allowed it to happen. Join me in part 1 while I take ya'll thru the timeline of the victims that were found up until 2002. Part 2 is where we get into the final victims and the investigations that took place resulting in the Grim Sleeper being caught after his hiatus.