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Brandi starts us off with a story about a staircase in Durhan, North Carolina. To clarify: That\u2019s a staircase in Durham \u2013 not the staircase in Durham. Turns out, there\u2019s more than one staircase in Durham. Hmm.\xa0\n
\n\nIt was January of 2007, and Corey Smith was on his way to work when he spotted a woman lying at the base of a staircase near his apartment. The woman was unresponsive, so he called 911. He checked her ID and learned that her name was Denita Smith. Denita was working on her master\u2019s degree at North Carolina Central University. She\u2019d recently completed a prestigious fellowship with the New York Times. She had no known enemies, and yet, someone had killed her.\xa0\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells a story that\u2019s so stupid it\u2019s delightful. (Unless you ask Brandi. Brandi is very anti-heist.) During a tour of the special collections library at Transylvania University, freshman Spencer Reinhard perked up when the tour guide showed off the library\u2019s set of John Hames Audubon\u2019s \u201cBirds of America.\u201d The librarian told the group that a set had recently sold for $12 million. Spencer was intrigued. The special collections room evidently held valuable books, guarded by almost no security. \xa0\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\u201cMajoring in Crime,\u201d by John Falk for Vanity Fair\n\u201cSecrets of the Transy Book Heist,\u201d episode of Super Heists\n\u201cFour charged in Transy book heist,\u201d by Andy Mead and Cassondra Kirby for the Lexington Herald-Leader\n\u201cLibrarian: Emotional scars remain,\u201d by Beth Musgrave for the Lexington Herald-Leader\n\u201cWrong-way gang,\u201d by Gary Thompson for the Philadelphia Inquirer\n\u201cTransy thieves took names from film,\u201d by Beth Musgrave for the Lexington Herald-Leader\n\u201cCollege caper appeal backfires, robbers to get even more time,\u201d by Martha Neil for the ABA Journal\n\u201cSentence stands in Transy book theft,\u201d by Brandon Ortiz for the Lexington Herald-Leader\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cInternal Affairs\u201d episode Dateline\n\u201cShannon Crawley\u201d episode Snapped\n\u201cDenita Smith\u201d chillingcrimes.com\n\n\u201cShannon Elizabeth Crawley\u201d murderpedia.org\n\n\u201cState of North Carolina v. Shannon Elizabeth Crawley\u201d findlaw.com\n\n
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