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Kristin starts us off with one of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of nine African American boys and young men who were accused of gang raping two white women in 1931. Their cases are infuriating and upsetting. The Scottsboro Boys were nearly lynched before their trials. At every turn, the justice system was unjust \u2014 so unjust that outside groups stepped in to help the young men.

Then Brandi lightens things up with a story about the dangers of high school cheerleading. Wanda Holloway always wanted to be a cheerleader, but her dad wouldn\u2019t let her. So when Wanda gave birth to her daughter Shanna, she knew exactly what Shanna would grow up to be \u2014 a cheerleader! But when it looked like another girl might take Shanna\u2019s spot on the squad, Wanda did what any concerned parent would do. She hired a hitman.

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.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cScottsboro Boys,\u201d Famous-trials.com
\n\u201cWho were the Scottsboro Boys?\u201d, PBS.org
\nScottsboro Boys, wikipedia

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Cheerleader Murder Plot\u201d by Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly
\n\u201cCheerleader Plot Tape: Go For It\u201d by Janet Cawley, Chicago Tribune
\n\u201cThe Texas Cheerleader Case: A Daughter\u2019s Painful Memory\u201d by Anne Land and Kristen Mascia, People Magazine
\n\u201cWanda Holloway Trial: 1991\u201d encyclopedia.com
\n\u201cThe Pom-Pom Hit: When Texas Was Struck By a Cheerleader Mom\u2019s Murder Plot\u201d by Jake Rossen, Mental Floss