118: The Lululemon Murder & A Woman in a Trunk

Published: April 22, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

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Mary Scott Castle was hot, rich, and well connected. But when she met a 21-year-old Porter Charlton, she was down on her luck. She\\u2019d just gotten divorced, and she\\u2019d blown her reputation to bits by shooting a man in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria. But when Mary and Porter locked eyes, it was love at first sight. They got married a month later, and took off for a romantic European honeymoon. There was just one problem. Porter wasn\\u2019t so stable himself.
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Then Brandi tells us about a horrific attack in a Lululemon store. It was March of 2011. Coworkers Brittany Norwood and Jayna Murray had just left the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Maryland, when Brittany realized that she\\u2019d left her wallet in the store. When she called Jayna to tell her what she\\u2019d done, Jayna was accommodating. She told Brittany she\\u2019d meet her back at the store. The pain re-entered the store, leaving the door unlocked behind them.\\xa0
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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.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cLady in the lake\\u201d by Mara Bovsun The Daily News.
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\\u201cThe Murder of the Beautiful and Accomplished Mrs. Edith Woodhill, 1909,\\u201d written by Thomas Duke in 1910, posted to historicalcrimedetective.com\\n
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\\u201cCharlton Must go to Italy for Trial,\\u201d The Evening Times-Republican, June 10, 1913
\\n\\u201cMay Ask Wilson to Save Slayer,\\u201d The Washington Herald , June 11, 1913
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\\u201cTrue Detective Tales: What is Justice? Murder at Romantic Como,\\u201d by Peter Levins for the Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph, April 24, 1940
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\\u201c\\u2018On Trial\\u2019 -- Omaha Boy in Spotlight,\\u201d The Omaha Sunday Bee, October 17, 1915
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cBrittany Norwood\\u201d episode Snapped
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\\u201c\\u2018The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing\\u2019 by Dan Morse\\u201d by Daniel Stashower, The Washington Post
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\\u201cLululemon victim was alive through most of beating\\u201d by Andrea Noble, The Washington Times
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\\u201cBrittany Norwood sentenced to life without parole\\u201d by Richard Reeve, WLJA 7 News
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\\u201cMaryland Lululemon Store Gives \\u2018Love\\u2019 Memorial to Family of Woman Killed There\\u201d NBC4 Washington
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\\u201cLululemon Murder\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n
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