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Hookergate: Criminals and Libertines in the South

Truck-stop brothels run by a web of ex-cons… a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power… protection exchanged for cash and flesh… a brash loc 
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Joe Whitehead is enraged by recent events and makes brazen threats to Moss and Rodney. Rodney has an incredible opportunity to learn everything about the case, but he won’t be able to print a word. 

 

Written and hosted by Lindsay Byron - goodtimesbadgirls.com

 

Music and sound design by Guy Kelly - guykelly.com

 

CAST:

Newscaster - Lauren Vogelbaum

Prosecutor - Ben Bowlin

Deputy Moss - Ramsey Yount

 

SOURCES:

The first-hand accounts from Frankie Jones come from an interview I conducted with him in June 2022.

The newscast detailing Whitehead’s ill-fated visit to the Sheriff’s office comes from the 1977 Grand Jury report indicting Whitehead, Holley, Henderson, Boyd, Dowdy, and Barker (“The Big Six”) on Federal RICO charges. 

The first-hand accounts from Rodney Smith come from an interview I conducted with him on January 26th, 2022. 

The courtroom exchange in which Moss details harassment from Whitehead comes from US Prosecuting Attorney Robert Amidon’s direct examination of Deputy Sheriff B.H. Moss on December 5, 1977.  

The newscast describing Whitehead’s harassment of Rodney Smith comes from the 1977 Grand Jury report.

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