Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
4-16-2021
Abstract
While doing historical research on her hometown of Altheimer, Arkansas, Southern Studies graduate student Christian Leus stumbled across an article about a 19-year-old girl named Irene Taylor. The girl was murdered in 1939, with her body dumped into the bayou that runs through town. "It turns out, she was a distant cousin of mine!" Leus said. "So that was really surprising to discover." Leus, who defended her thesis "What Remains: Telling the Story of Irene Taylor's Murder on April 16, made a few short films about the Taylor murder before she settled on the idea for a podcast.
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