192: A Wild Robbery and the Honeymoon from Hell

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Marjorie Jackson was a multi-millionaire who didn’t trust banks. So, when she discovered that a high ranking bank employee had stolen from her, she took action. Over the course of four months, she showed up at the bank with a suitcase or a couple of grocery bags and made massive cash withdrawals. She took out millions of dollars and hid the money in her modest Indianapolis home. People worried about Marjorie. It didn’t seem safe for a 66-year-old woman to live alone, surrounded by millions of dollars in cash. It wasn’t.

Then Brandi tells us about a pair of newlyweds whose honeymoon ended in murder. Anni Hindocha and Shrien Dewani were a beautiful couple. They married at Lake Powai near Mumbai, India, and afterward, went on a whirlwind honeymoon to South Africa. They started their trip with a few nights at Kruger National Park, followed by a trip to Cape Town. Once they got there, they met a driver named Zola Tongo. He told the couple he’d be their tour guide. On the ride back from dinner one night, two men hijacked the car.

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:
“Notorious 92: Indiana’s Most Heinous Murders in all 92 counties,” by Andrew E Stoner
“Banker testifies in heiress’ murder,” by Kristie Hill for the Associated Press
“Alleged bandit gang activities taken up,” The Indianapolis News, November 30, 1931
“F. Lee Bailey told Willard, to bury cash, witnesses say,” by R. Joseph Gelarden for the Indianapolis Star, December 3, 1977
“Robinson innocent of Jackson slaying; guilty on other counts,” by Carolyn Pickering for the Indianapolis Star, April 25, 1978
“Robinson’s defense brief in murder trial,” The Indianapolis Star, April 23, 1978
“Missing millions and the murder of grocery heiress Marjorie Jackson,” by Dawn Mitchell for the Indianapolis Star
“Murdered heiress, missing millions an enduring Indiana mystery,” by Tim Evans for the Indianapolis Star
“Marjorie Jackson Murder Case,” Encyclopedia of Indianapolis
“Was FBI agent involved in missing fortune of murdered heiress?” by Mia De Graaf for the Daily Mail

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The Honeymoon Murder” by Joshua Hammer, The Atavist Magazine
“Anni Dewani” chillingcrimes.com
“Honeymoon Murder: Timeline of events for Shrien Dewani” BBC.com
“Dewani murder case: How grieving husband became suspect” by Steven Morris, David Smith, and Alex Duval Smith, The Guardian
“Dewani trial: what really happened and how did police get it so wrong?” by Dan Newling, The Guardian
“Murder of Anni Dewani” wikipedia.org
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