Tulsa: Who Killed Brittany Phillips?
This is a cold case from Tulsa, Oklahoma: in 2004 18-year-old Brittany Phillips was raped and murdered in her Tulsa apartment. She was buried on October 4 - the day that would have been her 19th birthday. Her mother, Maggie Zingman, has been Brittany’s tireless advocate, navigating 18 years of grief and sorry while pursuing justice. And now, there are new leads in the case, new concerns about the medical examination of Brittany’s body, and the Tulsa Police Department is dragging its feet. Why? Working with Maggie and a team of experts from across the country in law enforcement, cold case review, pathologists, etc., I will give you the details of this case from the timeline to the DNA (what it does and doesn’t tell us) and how solvable this case truly is.
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Episodes
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Fortunetellers, strangers poking a dead man's body in the early 1900s death on full display. My Great great grandpa had the decency to die out in public - in a decidedly spectacular way. If I know small towns like I think I do, there is a good chance people in Coon Rapids, Iowa are still gossiping about it today. Public inquests, lawsuits, train suction and safe school crossings. Oh, and a fortuneteller because of course there is a fortuneteller.
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
In 1916 James Titus was sucked under a train on his way home from seeing a traveling fortune teller. He's my twice great grandpa and today on dead to me, I talk about his death, the newspaper chatter of the day, public death inquest and death foretold.
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Heather is a medical examiner investigator. She has been a nurse for 9 years and working in death investigation for 3 years. She and I grew up in the same neck of the woods in Iowa and she still lives and works there. There are a lot of different systems throughout the US of death investigations. Some systems are questionable, lacking rigorous oversight or - not kidding - medical training.
But, lucky for us Iowa isn't one of those. Heather tells me about her job - at least some of it. Come for the talk of death investigation stay for two Golden Girls trivia questions.
Full disclosure: there is one f'bomb in this - but it is well deserved.