Let's Go To Court!
195: Boston Massacre & Alexis Murphy
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 2:33:27
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Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! 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 n