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Jesse James Hollywood was a suburban Los Angeles pot dealer. At just 20 years old, he owned his own home, pulled in a grand a week, and had a couple of his old little league friends to sell his drugs and do his bidding. Jesse thought he was hot shit. So when one of his henchmen refused to fall in line, Jesse decided to send him a message. He kidnapped the man\u2019s 15-year-old brother, Nicholas Markowitz, and later learned from a family lawyer that the justice system doesn\u2019t go easy on kidnappers. What Jesse did next landed him on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted List.

Then Kristin really bums us out with the story of Andrea Yates, a deeply troubled Texas mother who drowned her five children in her bathtub. Andrea\u2019s story shocked and disturbed the nation, but it also raised important questions about Andrea\u2019s mental state. By the time she murdered her children, she\u2019d been hospitalized, she\u2019d attempted suicide, she\u2019d withheld food from her children, and she\u2019d been prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Both the prosecution and the defense agreed that Andrea was mentally ill, but would the jury find her not guilty by reason of insanity?

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\u201cProfile of Andrea Yates,\u201d Thoughtco.com
\n\u201cAndrea Yates,\u201d episode of Mugshots
\n\u201cWhere is Andrea Yates\u2019 Husband Now?\u201d People.com
\n\u201cAndrea Yates,\u201d Wikipedia
\nNewspapers.com
\n\u201cDefense derides psychiatrist as a witness for hire,\u201d Los Angeles Times
\n\u201cAndrea Yates case turns on trail error,\u201d Los Angeles Times

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Last Ride of Jesse James Hollywood\u201d by Jesse Katz, Los Angeles Magazine
\n\u201cThe Real Story Behind Alpha Dog\u201d episode Dateline
\n\u201cDefendant Denies Killing Teen\u201d by Sue Fox, Los Angeles Times
\n\u201cProsecutor Okayed for Jesse James Hollywood Trial\u201d by Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent
\n\u201cWitness Rundown in Hollywood Trial\u201d by Amy Silverstein and Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent
\n\u201cJesse James Hollywood Tells His Story\u201d by Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent
\n\u201cHollywood Jury Deliberating\u201d by Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent
\n\u201cVerdict In: Hollywood Guilty of Murder and Kidnapping\u201d by Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent
\n\u201cThe Murder of Nicholas Markowitz\u201d wikipedia.org
\n\u201cJesse James Hollywood\u201d wikipedia.org
\n\u201cJoshua Lynn\u201d wikipedia.org

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