Retro Crime Story Time

Stuck In Trafficking


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We visited the former Ma's Tea House in Key West, Florida for this episode. It used to be a brothel owned by longtime local madam Alice Reid. Almost exactly 85 years before we arrived, resident Cecelia Thompson Tunks had been murdered with her own undergarments. The exact same incident happened again 6 months later in Philadelphia. Yet one case went cold, and the other didn't. We explore the crimes of human trafficking, prostitution, vagrancy, and murder.

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Retro Crime Story TimeBy Kat Klingensmith