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When Lloyd Gaines requested a course catalog from the University of Missouri\u2019s School of Law, the registrar sent one right away. Later, when Lloyd applied to the school, university officials thought nothing of it. He was a qualified applicant. Then the university\u2019s registrar received his undergraduate transcripts, and shit hit the fan. The transcripts came from historically black Lincoln University. But the University of Missouri School of Law refused to accept black students. They asked Lloyd to go to law school in a neighboring state, but Lloyd refused.\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about a creepy church lady. Mary Jane Fonder had been attending Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church for years. Despite her long tenure at the church, she didn\u2019t have many friends there. People generally thought she was pretty weird. But her weirdness kicked into overdrive when she convinced herself that she and the church pastor had feelings for one another. She left him long, incoherent messages. She snuck food into his house. Later, when he began helping a new church member named Rhonda Smith, Mary Jane lost her shit.\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\u201cBefore Brown: Charles H Houston and the Gaines Case,\u201d by Douglas O. Linder for Famous-Trials.com\n\n\u201cLloyd Gaines,\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n\u201cCharles Hamilton Houston,\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n\u201cLittle known Supreme Court case from Missouri was early stepping-stone to school desegregation,\u201d by Ryan Delaney for St. Louis Public Radio\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cMary Jane Fonder\u201d episode Snapped\n\u201cTest of Faith: Killing shocks congregation\u201d by Keith Morrison, Dateline\n\u201cBucks County killer Mary Jane Fonder dies just weeks after search for missing father reopened\u201d by Manuel Gamiz Jr., The Morning Call\n\u201cPolice hope remnants of Bucks County home, once owned by a murderer, holds clues about long-missing man\u201d by Vinny Vella, The Philadelphia Inquirer\n\u201cMary Jane Fonder\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n\u201cMary Jane Fonder\u201d murderpedia.org\n