EP 57: A FAMILY AFFAIR

On today's episode, Kate and Paul begin in Atlanta, Georgia in 1952 where a woman's husband is found dead shortly after the death of her child. Once she remarries and life insurance policies are taken out, can anything be done to keep her family safe?

Sources:

“Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer” by Denise Lynn (Black Perspectives) 2019.

https://www.aaihs.org/roberta-elder-the-case-of-a-black-woman-serial-killer/

“The Strange Case of Roberta Elder Part I” by William A. Fowlkes (The Pittsburgh Courier) 1954. https://www.newspapers.com/image/40130545/?terms=%22roberta%20elder%22%20&match=1

“The Strange Case of Roberta Elder Part II” by William A. Fowlkes (The Pittsburgh Courier) 1954. 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/40130579/

“The Strange Case of Roberta Elder Part III” by William A. Fowlkes (The Pittsburgh Courier) 1945.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/40130631/?terms=%22roberta%20elder%22%20&match=1

“The Strange Case of Roberta Elder Part IV” by William A. Fowlkes (The Pittsburgh Courier) 1954.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/40130665/?terms=%22roberta%20elder%22%20trial&match=1

“Woman Held in 2 Family Deaths Here” by Audrey Morris (The Atlanta Journal) 1952.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/968967590/?terms=%22roberta%20elder%22%20trial&match=1

“Women Held as 13 Deaths Are Probed” (The Atlanta Constitution) 1952.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/397560145/?terms=john%20woodward&match=1

“Roberta Elder, Prolific Georgia Serial Killer of Family Members – 1952” (Unknown Gender History)

http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/roberta-elder-georgia-serial-killer-1952.html

“Black Neighborhoods and the Creation of Black Atlanta” (Atlanta University)

https://digitalexhibits.auctr.edu/exhibits/show/black_neighborhoods/overview

“Auburn’s ‘Quincy’” by Brad Ashmore (The Opelika-Auburn News) 1978.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/982518567/?terms=%22roberta%20elder%22%20atlanta&match=1

“Held in Husband’s Poisoning As 10 Other Deaths Probed” (Ledger-Enquirer) 1952.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/852509909/?terms=%22john%20woodward%22%20%22roberta%20elder%22%20%20&match=1

“Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement: Part Two” by Clarissa Myrick-Harris (American Historical Association) 2006.

https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting/past-meetings/supplement-to-the-121st-annual-meeting/atlanta-in-the-civil-rights-movement-part-two

“The Sprawling of Atlanta” (Georgia State University Library)

https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu/sprawling-of-atlanta/

“Jim Crow” (Atlanta History Center)

https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/exhibitions/atlanta-in-50-objects/jim-crow/