Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

This week, we will be looking into the case of Lee Shelton, better known as Stagger Lee. A real Christmas story about how Black culture's first notable pimp and gangster went down in oral history. When a night of drinking ends in murder, the who is known, but the why is questionable. Was it all over a hat, or was that cap?

After reading and preparing for this week's case, I think my conclusion may be a little cloudy.

**I do not own the rights to this music**

Excerpt Credits:

"Stack-a-lee." 50 Years of Cussing, Volume 2. Rudy Ray Moore.

Sources this week:

http://www.planetslade.com/stagger-lee.html

https://missourilife.com/real-story-behind-bad-man-stagger-lee/

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/a-brief-history-of-stagger-lee-and-billy-lyons/

https://www.kmov.com/news/stagger-lee-the-story-of-st-louis-most-infamous-christmas-murder/article_1b3f631e-45fb-11eb-a470-a38d36b4c246.html