A young woman acting strange goes to a restaurant in a very wealthy area in California off of Pacific Coast Highway. After eating a steak and some wine and asking to sit with stranger, police is called because she cannot pay her bill which is just over $80. She is arrested and taken into custody.

Being that she is about an hour away from home, her mother calls to ask if she will be released that night or in the morning as she is trying to determine when she will go to get her. She is advised she will not be released until the morning. After midnight, the police releases this young woman with no car, no phone and no purse. They swear they offered to let her stay in the precinct but she refused. Now miles away from the station no one knows where she is. Is the police telling the truth, or are they covering something up?

Join us as we examine the case of Mitrice Richardson on this episode.

Mitrice Richardson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mitrice_Richardson

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Richard Zitrin has been at the forefront for representing those who cannot fight the system. Most of these people are minorities usually poor and face a justice system that is not fair. Trial Lawyer: A Life Representing People Against Power is a book about just that. He tells you about one of the most brutal cases he had to defend with the San Quentin 6, all the way down to a case against Chrysler.

This book has truly changed my life. Knowing that in this world of unfairness, there are people out there trying their best to make things as equal as possible.

Join us as we welcome Professor/Attorney Richard Zitrin on this Episode of A Day With Crime.

You can find out more about Richard Zitrin at:
www.richardzitrin.com

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Melissa Lucio was accused of abusing and murdering her young daughter Mariah. Although other evidence has come up that she may be innocent, she was convicted and sentenced to death row. Was she executed as planned? Join us as we examine The State Vs. Melissa Rubio on this episode of A Day With Crime.

Is it strange when a young boy falls over a banister to his death and it is a freak accident? Is it even more strange that a couple days later a young woman is found bound and hanging from her balcony? This is what happened in the case of Rebecca Zahou. It was ruled a suicide but was it? Join us as we examine the case of the Mysterious death of Rebecca Zahou on this episode.

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You meet yourself? A nice girl on Facebook. You begin to date. You take her home and you introduce her to your parents. While you spend time with her. What you don't know. Is in the back of her mind, she is infatuated with serial killers. Something is brewing deep In her mind. And she wants to kill.

Does she follow through with the urge? Join us. As we examine the case of Taylor Schabusiness on this episode. Of a day with crime

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A woman was found at the bottom of a well. According to witnesses. The last person to see her alive was Levi weeks. Levi weeks was accused of this murder. Was he acquitted? Did he get convicted? Join us as we examine the first murder trial in American history that has a transcript. On this episode. Of a day with crime.

Levi Weeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Weeks

Transcript
https://history.nycourts.gov/case/people-v-weeks/

Manhattan Well Murder
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/manhattan-well-murder

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In 1996. A young girl went to ride bikes with her brother. When her brother decided to go home with all her, because she wanted to stay a little longer. She was abducted. Never to be seen again. Amber Hagerman became the namesake for what we now know as the Amber alert system. Was she ever found. Whatever happened to the person that kidnapped her.

Was she murdered? Join us as we examine. The disappearance of Amber Hagerman. On this episode. of a day with crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert

https://people.com/crime/texas-girls-abduction-inspired-amber-alert-26-years-later-case-remains-unsolved/

Your college is kid at a college hangout. Decide it's time to go home. You call an Uber. Would you ever think, but not verifying or looking at your app? That maybe. This may not be the driver. You think that it is.

This is exactly what happened to the young lady, the subject of this episode. This is a cautionary tale. That we tell in hopes that this never happens to you. Or anyone else?

So join us as we examine the murder of, Samantha Josephson. On this episode of a day with crime

Actress, Comedian, and TV host Whoopi Goldberg is the first Black person to win the coveted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar & Tony) Award.

Within Goldberg’s amazing career she has received two Academy Award nominations, for her contributions in The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. Goldberg was also recognized as the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.


Following the academy award, Goldberg won two Golden Globe for Best Actress (1986) for her contribution in The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost (Ghost also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role).


Goldberg starring in “Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway” won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985. Not only did Whoppi Goldberg win the Grammy but she became only the second solo woman performer at the time to receive the award and the first African-American woman. Only three women performers have ever received the Best Comedy Recording award.

In 1990, Goldberg received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as “Oda Mae Brown” in the hit movie Ghost. In 2002 Whoopi Goldberg won the Tony Award for her contribution as a producer for Thoroughly Modern Millie.  Goldberg outdid herself where she was rewarded with eight Daytime Emmy nominations and went home with two. The acting veteran received nine a total of Primetime Emmy nominations. Concluding Goldberg’s long list of awards was her Daytime Emmy Award in 2009, for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her role on The View.


WHOOPI GOLDBERG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

ALL SIXTEEN E.G.O.T WINNERS
https://www.thewrap.com/all-egot-winners-audrey-hepburn-whoopi-goldberg-mel-brooks/

Hattie McDaniel was able to carve out a place for herself in Hollywood despite rampant racism and a consignment to bit parts. She paved the way for many African American women, but not without her fair share of obstacles.

Her performance as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind (1939) won her Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars that year. However, the national movie premiere was in Atlanta. Because of Georgia’s Jim Crow Laws, she was prohibited from attending the event. 

Hattie went on to star in over 300 films, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 2006, and was the first Oscar winner to appear on a postage stamp. Despite her ultimate success, her choices (insofar as she had any) in roles were often criticized.

The NAACP said Hollywood’s roles for African Americans were narrowed to servants or characters whose main purpose was being comically slow and dim-witted. Hattie was criticized for settling for lesser roles than her white colleagues. Despite this, Hattie went on to have a stellar career.

This was Hattie McDaniel;s acceptance speech

“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests, this is one of the happiest moments of my life and I want to thank each one of who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards; for your kindness that has made me feel very, very humble. And I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel and may I say thank you and God bless you.”

Despite Phyllis Wheatley’s fame, we know surprisingly little about her early life. She was taken from her home in Africa when she was seven or eight, and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston.

The family taught her to read and write, and encouraged her to write poetry as soon as they witnessed her talent for it. In 1773, Phyllis published her first poem, making her the first African American to be published. She was only 12 at the time.   


Her work was praised by high-ranking members of society, including, perhaps most notably, George Washington. Her writing made her famous throughout the colonies. Not long after her poems were first published, the family that owned Wheatley emancipated her.

Unfortunately, her life took a turn from there, especially after the deaths of many of the Wheatleys who had helped support her. She was stricken with poverty. The fame she earned from her writing did little to sustain her husband and children. She fell ill and died at the age of 31. 

PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley