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For years, Gone South has been a podcast about crime in the American South. But in Season 5, we’re widening the lens.
Through deeply reported, narrative-driven stories—and conversations with journalists, historians, musicians, and people who’ve lived these stories firsthand—we’re digging into the myths, scandals, and power structures that still shape the South… and, in many ways, the country itself.
From re-examining the cultural meaning of the Alamo to tracing the family history of Alex Murdaugh to investigating the federal indictment of New Orleans’s former mayor, each episode stands alone. Together, they paint a picture of what this region really is and how it came to be.
Gone South is a show for people who want to understand how history lingers and why it still matters now.
Written and hosted by award-winning journalist Jed Lipinski, Gone South is the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism.
Previous serialized seasons include:
- Season 1: Who Killed Margaret Coon?
- Season 2: The Dixie Mafia
- Season 3: The Sign Cutter
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Javier Guzman was an undercover vice cop with the Tampa Police Department when the DEA recruited him to infiltrate the Cali cartel, then supplying roughly 80 percent of the world’s cocaine. Working alongside Robert Mazur, the agent behind The Infiltrator, on Operation PROMO, Javier posed as money launderer Antonio Ruiz and collected duffel bags of cartel cash across the country.But he grew too close to the cartel’s money man, and the line between cop and criminal began to blur. Javier and his wife, Beth Browne, tell the story of the bust that sent him to federal prison and the memoir, Riptide, that followed.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jedlipinski.substack.com/ Connect with Jed Lipinski:https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/
In 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers, a holistic-medicine doctor in Bonita Springs, Florida, was beaten to death in her kitchen. The killers were her husband Mark’s childhood best friend and doppelgänger, Wayne, and a Missouri ex-con who called himself Jimmy the Hammer. Writer and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman, author of A Double Life, explains how a swinging marriage, a rival anti-aging guru, and a murder plot hatched at a wedding led to one of Florida’s strangest crimes.Brottman also shares a Freudian reading of Mark and Wayne’s bond, and why she thinks Florida produces so many bizarre true-crime stories.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jedlipinski.substack.com/ Connect with Jed Lipinski:https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/
In Gatesville, Texas, a group of contemplative nuns visits seven women on Death Row, teaching them the rhythms of convent life: prayer, song, silence, and confession. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower, Going Clear) got rare access to watch it unfold, and the result is his new book, Redemption: Faith, Justice and Sisterhood on Death Row. He talks about persuading silent nuns to open up, and about the abuse scandal in their order’s past.Wright also found that some of the women may never have been rightly convicted. Melissa Lucio has been declared innocent by the judge who tried her, yet she remains on the row. Wright explains how this changed his view of the death penalty, and whether redemption is truly possible for people who’ve done terrible things.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jedlipinski.substack.com/ Connect with Jed Lipinski:https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/
In 1999, two teenage girls, J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, were found shot in the trunk of a Mazda in Ozark, Alabama, a small town in the Wiregrass region of the Deep South. With no suspect and a police department already accused of corruption, locals suspected a cover-up. Twenty years later, genetic genealogy led to Coley McCraney, a Dothan truck driver and church deacon with no criminal record. Journalist Matt Kessler spent years investigating the case and reporting on the trial. His new book, The Wiregrass, argues McCraney may be innocent.This week on Gone South, Kessler walks us through the case: a contaminated crime scene, a missing car, thousands of undigitized files, and a whistleblower cop’s allegations. He also shares his own theory of what happened that night, and why he believes DNA alone isn’t enough to convict a man of murder.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jedlipinski.substack.com/ Connect with Jed Lipinski:https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/
It started with a stolen parrot named Mango, who liked to dance to Doja Cat. When reporter Aidan McCahill wrote a quick, quirky story about the theft for The Advocate, he had no idea it would lead him down a monthslong rabbit hole into Magnolia Wilds, a Louisiana animal preserve already under fire from federal regulators — and its founder, Gabe Ligon, who'd just been arrested at a Texas airport on a felony theft charge.What Aidan found was a menagerie of chaos: porcupines and capybaras escaping their enclosures, animals mauled and trampled to death, kids bitten by otters during $215 swim sessions, and employees quietly bringing kangaroos and lynxes home at night. Behind it all was Ligon himself — a libertarian showman who insisted he loved his animals even as the USDA, his business partners, and his own former staff told Aidan a very different story.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jedlipinski.substack.com/ Connect with Jed Lipinski:https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/
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