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Episode Open: Who Was Alberta O. Jones?
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Ashley opens with a tease designed to grab the listener's attention: a call in the night, a body in a river, a list of suspects a mile long, and evidence that kept surfacing in suspiciously convenient ways. She frames this not just as a cold case but as a story about systemic failure — evidence mysteriously disappeared, investigators with ulterior motives, and the very foundation of the case potentially built on a lie. She closes the tease by introducing Alberta O. Jones as someone every listener should know: a passionate attorney who broke barriers at the height of the civil rights movement and was murdered before she could break even more.
Alberta Jones didn't want to go out that night — she'd been scared and cautious for months. Her hairstylist friend Gladys guilted her into a late-night visit with a wig fitting and a guilt trip about getting 'snobby.' Alberta left between 1:30 and 2:00 AM and was never seen alive again.
