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Anthony Burns was born into slavery in Stafford County, Virginia. Despite laws that forbade him to do so, he learned to write and read. He became a preacher. As he got older, there was one thing he wanted more than anything: Freedom. So he boarded a ship to Boston and escaped. For a while, Anthony lived as a free man. But his former \u201cowner,\u201d Colonel Charles F. Suttle Douchelord the Third, wanted Anthony back. Unfortunately, Charles had the law on his side.

Then Brandi finally ends the suspense by wrapping up her two-part series on the Beatrice Six. In last week\u2019s episode, she told us about 68-year-old widow Helen Wilson, who was discovered raped and murdered in her apartment in Beatrice, Nebraska. Police initially suspected Bruce Allen Smith, but a blood test ruled him out. The case grew cold. But then, a hog farmer and former police officer named Burdette Searcey stepped in. He was determined to solve the crime \u2014 by any means necessary.

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\u201cAnthony Burns Trial of 1854,\u201d www.famous-trials.com
\n\u201cAnthony Burns and the Fugitive Slave Act,\u201d www.longroadtojustice.org
\n\u201cAnthony Burns,\u201d PBS
\nThe book, \u201cBoston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns\u201d
\nWikipedia entries for Anthony Burns, Twelfth Baptist Church, Boston Vigilance Committee, Fugitive Slave Act of 185, and Franklin Pierce

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cPresumed Guilty Part Four: Pointing Fingers\u201d by Catharine Huddle, Lincoln Journal Star
\n\u201cPresumed Guilty Part Five: Threat of Death\u201d by Joe Duggan, Lincoln Journal Star
\n\u201cPresumed Guilty Part Six: The Trial\u201d by Catharine Huddle, Lincoln Journal Star
\n\u201cPresumed Guilty Part Seven: DNA Changes Everything\u201d by Joe Duggan, Lincoln Journal Star
\n\u201cPresumed Guilty Part Eight: A New Investigation\u201d by Joe Duggan, Lincoln Journal Star \u201cMemories of a Murder\u201d by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
\n\u201cEven in 1989, forensics didn\u2019t point to men and women who went to prison for crime\u201d by Joe Duggan, Omaha World-Herald
\nInnocenceProject.org

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