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When Kathleen Schroll called her mom late one night in the spring of 2008, her voice shook with fear. She said that a man named Ollin \u201cPete\u201d Coones was in her house. He\u2019d stolen her lawn mower, and now he planned to kill Kathleen and her husband, Carl. Kathleen told her mom that Pete said \u201che has his tracks covered where no one will know who did it.\u201d When police arrived at the Schroll home, it was too late. Carl and Kathleen were dead. So\u2026 Pete did it. Right?\n
\n\nIn that same vein, Kristin tells a story that starts bad and gets so much worse. In 1913, Atlanta was rocked by the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Mary was killed at the National Pencil Company, where she worked long hours for little pay. The crime scene was littered with evidence, including bloody fingerprints, footprints, human feces, and two notes -- presumably written by Mary as she lay dying. Atlanta police rushed to solve the case, but didn\u2019t go where the evidence led them. They went to Leo Frank, the factory\u2019s superintendent.\n
\n\nAnd 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.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cLeo Frank,\u201d famous-trials.com\n\n\u201cLeo Frank case,\u201d New Georgia Encyclopedia\n\u201cStar witness in Frank case arrested here,\u201d The Atlanta Constitution, October 21, 1941\n\u201cFrank case witness to be freed Nov. 15,\u201d The Atlanta Constitution, November 5, 1941\n\u201cJim Conley admits attempted at burglary,\u201d The Atlanta Constitution, January 17, 1919\n\u201cLeo Frank,\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cDid His Dad\u2019s Caretaker Frame Him for Her Own Murder-Suicide?\u201d By Rachel Olding, The Daily Beast\n\u201cKansas man was framed in \u2018Machiavellian\u2019 murder-suicide scheme, lawyers argue\u201d by Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star\n\u201cOlin \u201cPete\u201d Coones v. State of Kansas, Motion To Vacate\u201d Midwest Innocence Project\n\u201cKCK man goes free after 12 years in prison\u201d by Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star\n\u201cOlin \u2018Pete\u2019 Coones Exonerated\u201d Midwest Innocence Project