Podcasts True Crime Southern Fried True Crime 52: The Socialite & The Gardening Shears: The Murder of Idella Thompson

52: The Socialite & The Gardening Shears: The Murder of Idella Thompson

Published: May 10, 2019, 4:33 a.m.

In 1948, a Delta Mississippi socialite named Ruth Thompson Dickins, hacked her mother to death with gardening shears. She blamed the murder on a \u201cnegro\u201d man she claimed attacked her as well. But a jury of 12 white men didn\u2019t believe her, in Mississippi, in 1949. That fact alone is incredible. But with her prominent family, wealthy and aggressive \u201ccotton man\u201d husband and the backing of the elite white people of her town and county, the governor of Mississippi was finally badgered into suspending her sentence after she served only six years.

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