Outlaws & Scorned Women

Outlaws & Scorned Women

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Outlaws & Scorned Women episodes

  • Waco, Chapter 3: The Deadly Siege

    Waco, TX, 1993 - At long last! We're wrapping up the Waco saga, with a deep dive into the 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians and the FBI. Y'all, we may think we know how it ended, but the truth is so much weirder ...

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    Sources:

    • PBS timeline
  • Justia
  • ATF Remembering Waco
  • "Waco Siege: Days that Shaped America"
  • "David Koresh: The Final 24"
  • "Mugshots: David Koresh - Prophet of Death"
  • Eyewitness News 3-1-1993
  • Janet Reno 1993 Waco Incident Press Conference
  • The New York Times Retro Report
  • ABC News
  • Office of the Special Counsel report
  • DoJ Archives Report
  • Report to Deputy Attorney General
  • FBI transcripts
  • 11th Report by Committee on Government Reform
  • FindLaw legal commentary
    • 1 hr 49 min
  • Waco, Chapter 2: The Sinful Messiah

    Waco, TX - Our deep-dive into the infamous Waco incident continues with a look inside the Branch Davidian compound as they crank the cult stuff up to 11 under the reign of David Koresh. 

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    Sources:

    • Witness to Waco, MSNBC
  • The Austin Chronicle
  • History.com
  • The Waco Tribune
  • ABC News
  • Mugshots
  • Chicago Tribune
  • ATF.gov
  • ATF Remembering Waco
  • American Law Division
  • US District Court for Western District of Texas
  • Texas Penal Code
    • 1 hr 13 min
  • Waco, Chapter 1: The End Is Always Nigh

    Waco, TX - We're taking a multi-part deep dive into one of the most notorious days in Texas criminal history - the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. The stage is set in this ep, exploring the beginnings of the Branch Davidians and where things started to go from weird to weirder ...

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    Sources:

    • The Waco Tribune
  • Witness To Waco, MSNBC
  • Our Campaigns, Democratic registry
  • Texas State Historical Association
  • Justia.com
  • Cultsearch.org
  • "Explained: Cults", Netflix
  • "What Is A Cult and How Does It Work?", Margaret Singer
  • Rick Ross, The Guardian
  • Samantha Vincenty, OprahMag
  • Alex Samuels, Texas Tribune
  • Christina Cauterucci, Slate
    • 1 hr 29 min
  • The Beefy Crunch Burrito Incident

    D'y'all know that the vast majority of criminal acts are NOT the stuff of nightmares? True story! So join us on this whistlestop culinary tour of Texas crime, where everything's super illegal, buuuuuut nobody gets super racist, or stabby, or paints the walls with anybody else's blood.

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    Sources:

    • MySanAntonio.com
  • Houston Chronicle
  • NBC News
  • USA Today
  • Valley Central
  • AP News
    • 1 hr 14 min
  • The Tulia 46

    Tulia, TX (1999) - The biggest drug bust in west Texas history, landmark victory in the War On Drugs? ... OR ... Outrageous racially-motivated miscarriage of justice on a massive scale? Let's find out!

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    Sources:

    • "Tulia: Scenes From A Drug War"
  • 60 Minutes: Targeted in Tulia
  • Blakeslee, Nate. "The Color of Justice", Texas Observer
  • Mosle, Sara. "Tulia: The Case of the Lone Star Witness", The New York Times
  • ABC News coverage
  • DrugPolicy.org
    • 1 hr 46 min
  • The Tragic Tale Of Sandra Bland

    Prairie View, TX - On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland was on her way to the grocery store when she was pulled over by a State Trooper for not using her turn signal. What should have been a routine traffic stop escalated wildly out of control and ended with Sandra being arrested. She would not leave the Waller County Jail alive.

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    Sources, etc:

    • Say Her Name: the life of Sandra Bland
  • Nathan, Debbie. "What Happened To Sandra Bland?", The Nation
  • Montgomery, David. "Sandra Bland, It Turns Out, Filmed Traffic Stop Confrontation Herself". New York Times
  • Get Home Safely: 10 Rules For Survival
  • Unwritten rules tiktok video
  • Don't Talk To The Police
  • Jesse Williams, acceptance speech at 2016 BET Awards
  • Praire View A&M Marching Thunder
  • Sandy Speaks
    • 1 hr 38 min
  • The Pom-Pom Murder Mom

    Channelview, TX - Wanda Holloway would stop at nothing (n o t h i n g) to get her daughter on the middle-school cheer squad.

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    Sources:

    • ABC13 Eyewitness News
  • Swartz, Mimi. "The Cheerleader Murder Plot". Texas Monthly
  • Knapp,Gwendolyn. "The Woman Who'd Stop at Nothing to Get Her Daughter on the Cheerleading Team". Houstoniamag.com
  • Hlavaty, Craig. "Remembering Channelview's strange cheerleader mom murder-for-hire plot". Houston Chronicle
  • Gonzalez, Carolina. "Pom-Pom Mom found guilty in murder plot 24 years ago". Houston Chronicle
  • Wikipedia
    • 1 hr 7 min
  • The Stiletto Killer

    Houston, TX - 2013. On a hot summer night, a man is found dead on his back in a pool of his own blood and his girlfriend is telling anyone who'll listen that she killed him in self-defense. Nothing is what we expected in this case - least of all, the murder weapon.

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    Sources:

    • "High-Heel Homicide", Texas Monthly
  • Justia.com
  • Snapped
  • The Houston Chronicle
  • Crime Online
  • Daily Mail
  • The Sun
  • Murderpedia

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    1 hr 17 min
  • Pilot Ep: The Todville Murder Mansion

    Seabrook, TX - When a local millionaire is found dead in his ginormous mansion, folks are shocked, yeah, but ... not exactly surprised.

    Stef & Steph are taking a quick break from recording this week, so here's a re-release of the very first episode of OSW. Hope y'all enjoy!

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    Where to find us online:

    • Patreon
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

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    Sources:

    • Verboon, Jon. "The street that led to murder", Houston Chronicle Archives
  • Gonzalez, Carolina. "The Seabrook 'Murder Mansion'", chron.com
  • Justia.com
    • 42 min
  • The Sudden Passion Defense

    San Antonio, TX - Just in time for Valentine's Day! Scorned women take center stage as a love triangle turns deadly.

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    ERRATA: 
    In this episode discussing Frances Hall case, I (Steph) erroneously stated the sudden passion defense could result in reducing Hall's sentence to a range of 2-10 years by prevailing on the defense before the jury.  I (Steph) should have stated the jury's acceptance of the defense could reduce the sentencing range to two to 20 years in prison.  I misspoke and didn't catch it at the time.  Clearly talking while tired.  

    Sources:

    • Neaves, Alicia, KENS5.com
  • Zavala, Elizabeth, mysanantonio.com
  • Danner, Patrick, houstonchronicle.com
  • Zavala, Elizabeth, mysanantonio.com
  • Van Sant, Peter. "Driven To Extremes", cbsnews.com
  • Median, Maria, ksat.com
  • Dateline: Collision
  • Texas Penal Code, Chapter 19
  • Justia.com, for all our appellate document needs
    • 1 hr 8 min

About Outlaws & Scorned Women

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A lapsed theatre kid and a legit lawyer explore the weird, wild, often bloody, never boring criminal history of the Lone Star State.