205: A Charlatan & a Family Annihilator

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Is this the twilight zone? Perhaps it is. We’re wearing top hats on our tits, we’re putting Jello in our salads, and Brandi’s covering a charlatan while Kristin covers a family annihilator. What has this world come to?

Brandi starts us off with a story about a Georgia pastor named William Pounds, who loved proposing to women, but hated staying loyal to them. On June 12, 2015, he called 911, claiming that his fiance Kendra Jackson had shot herself in the head. The scene didn’t quite match his story.

Then Kristin tells us about Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, who were attacked in their Long Island home. The next day, their 17-year-old son Marty discovered his dad clinging to life, and his mother dead. Detectives immediately zeroed in on the boy, and who could blame them? This smelled like a Brandi case!

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
An episode of American Justice, titled, “Wrongly Convicted Marty Tankleff Finally Freed”
“Wrongful Conviction” podcast #84 Jason Flom with Marty Tankleff
An episode of The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas, titled, “Confessions of an innocent man”
“The names stay linked: ‘Bagel King’ and Tankleff,” by Bruce Lambert, Paul Vitello and Nate Schweber for the New York Times
“Martin Tankleff,” The National Registry of Exonerations

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“’Jekyll And Hyde’-Like Pastor Shot His Fiancée In The Head And Claimed It Was Suicide” by Joe Dziemianowicz, oxygen.com
“Perry pastor on trial for fiancee's shooting death” by Tavares Jones, WGXA News
“Perry pastor indicted in fiancee’s death” by Amy Leigh Womack, The Macon Telegraph
“Bond revoked for midstate pastor charged with murder” by Amy Leigh Womack, The Macon Telegraph
“Minister testifies in own defense at trial for 2015 slaying of woman” by Joe Kovac Jr., The Macon Telegraph
“Former pastor sentenced to life in lover’s murder” by Joe Kovac Jr., The Macon Telegraph
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