192: A Wild Robbery and the Honeymoon from Hell

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 11:21 a.m.

Marjorie Jackson was a multi-millionaire who didn\u2019t trust banks. So, when she discovered that a high ranking bank employee had stolen from her, she took action. Over the course of four months, she showed up at the bank with a suitcase or a couple of grocery bags and made massive cash withdrawals. She took out millions of dollars and hid the money in her modest Indianapolis home. People worried about Marjorie. It didn\u2019t seem safe for a 66-year-old woman to live alone, surrounded by millions of dollars in cash. It wasn\u2019t.\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about a pair of newlyweds whose honeymoon ended in murder. Anni Hindocha and Shrien Dewani were a beautiful couple. They married at Lake Powai near Mumbai, India, and afterward, went on a whirlwind honeymoon to South Africa. They started their trip with a few nights at Kruger National Park, followed by a trip to Cape Town. Once they got there, they met a driver named Zola Tongo. He told the couple he\u2019d be their tour guide. On the ride back from dinner one night, two men hijacked the car.\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\u201cNotorious 92: Indiana\u2019s Most Heinous Murders in all 92 counties,\u201d by Andrew E Stoner\n\u201cBanker testifies in heiress\u2019 murder,\u201d by Kristie Hill for the Associated Press\n\u201cAlleged bandit gang activities taken up,\u201d The Indianapolis News, November 30, 1931\n\u201cF. Lee Bailey told Willard, to bury cash, witnesses say,\u201d by R. Joseph Gelarden for the Indianapolis Star, December 3, 1977\n\u201cRobinson innocent of Jackson slaying; guilty on other counts,\u201d by Carolyn Pickering for the Indianapolis Star, April 25, 1978\n\u201cRobinson\u2019s defense brief in murder trial,\u201d The Indianapolis Star, April 23, 1978\n\u201cMissing millions and the murder of grocery heiress Marjorie Jackson,\u201d by Dawn Mitchell for the Indianapolis Star\n\u201cMurdered heiress, missing millions an enduring Indiana mystery,\u201d by Tim Evans for the Indianapolis Star\n\u201cMarjorie Jackson Murder Case,\u201d Encyclopedia of Indianapolis\n\u201cWas FBI agent involved in missing fortune of murdered heiress?\u201d by Mia De Graaf for the Daily Mail\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cThe Honeymoon Murder\u201d by Joshua Hammer, The Atavist Magazine\n\u201cAnni Dewani\u201d chillingcrimes.com\n\n\u201cHoneymoon Murder: Timeline of events for Shrien Dewani\u201d BBC.com\n\n\u201cDewani murder case: How grieving husband became suspect\u201d by Steven Morris, David Smith, and Alex Duval Smith, The Guardian\n\u201cDewani trial: what really happened and how did police get it so wrong?\u201d by Dan Newling, The Guardian\n\u201cMurder of Anni Dewani\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n
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