The Other Side of Silence: The Ruby McCollum Case
In 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into the office of prominent white physician and politician Doctor C. Leroy Adams in Live Oak, Florida, and fatally shot him.Ruby never denied the shooting. What she atte...
20 Aug 1h 3min
Alfred Wright: What Happened in the East Texas Woods?
On November 7, 2013, 28-year-old physical therapist Alfred Wright experienced car trouble along a rural highway near Hemphill, Texas. While waiting for his parents to pick him up, Alfred suddenly ran ...
13 Aug 46min
The Map That Exposed a Serial Killer: The Maury Travis Case
During the early 2000s, Black women began turning up dead across Missouri and Illinois. Their bodies were discovered in different jurisdictions, and for months, the connection between them remained un...
6 Aug 31min
The Child Everybody Saw: The Life and Death of Emani Moss
Emani Gabrielle Moss was ten years old. Her family called her “Angelface.” She loved reading, dancing, and cooking, and her fourth-grade teacher remembered a child with a beautiful smile who always wa...
30 Jul 40min
Asia Adams: She Never Came Back Through the Door
In this Thursday episode of Murder in the Black, we cover the murder of 21-year-old Asia Adams, a West Chester University student whose life was taken inside her mother’s Germantown home in November 2...
23 Jul 45min
The Boy Without a Name: The William DaShawn Hamilton Case
In this episode of Murder in the Black, we examine the heartbreaking case of William Deshaun Hamilton, a six-year-old boy whose skeletal remains were discovered in the woods of DeKalb County, Georgia,...
16 Jul 42min
LaVena Johnson: The Soldier, the Tent, and the Questions That Never Went Away
Private First Class LaVena Johnson was just 19 years old when she died while serving in Iraq in 2005. The U.S. Army ruled her death a suicide, but her family—led by her father, John Johnson—has spent ...
9 Jul 44min
Predators Don’t Live in Folders | Jesse Matthew Jr.
In this episode of Murder in the Black, we look at the case of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. and the murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham.This story is not just about how Matthew was eventually ca...
2 Jul 53min
