April 23, 2024 • 34 mins
The truck stop operators feel the squeeze of Whiteheads increasing demands. Whitehead feels the pressure from a local deputy. Rodney receives backlash from unexpected sources after his initial reports are published. Tommy reveals his dark side to Janet.
Written and hosted by Lindsay Byron - goodtimesbadgirls.com
Music and sound design by Guy Kelly - guykelly.com
CAST:
Newscaster - Lauren Vogelbaum
Prosecutor - Ben Bowlin
Harold Wayne Dowdy - Joe McCormick
Janet Barker - Anney Reese
SOURCES:
All courtroom scenes come from The United States VS Joseph Whitehead, Landon Wayne Holley, and Aubrey Henderson trial trial. These transcripts are located in the National Archives in Philadelphia.
The newscast that describes Officer Moss’s unpleasant encounter with Whitehead comes from the 1977 Grand Jury Report indicting Whitehead, Holley, Henderson, Boyd, Dowdy, and Barker (“The Big Six”) on Federal RICO charges.
The first-hand accounts from Rodney Smith come from an interview I conducted with him on January 26th, 2022.
The courtroom exchange in which Harold Wayne Dowdy describes negotiations with Whitehead comes from US Prosecuting Attorney James Hastings’s direct examination of Dowdy on Dec 12, 1977.
The courtroom exchange in which Janet Barker details the deterioration of her relationship with Thomas Barker comes from her cross examination by Defense Attorney David Epstein on December 9, 1977.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Whitehead was upset with Moss and accused him of harassing
the people at the truck stops. He then forbade Moss
from going back to the truck stops when Moss informed
him that he was working for the sheriff. Whitehead then
described himself as the head law dog in the county,
the main man, the wheelhorse, and Moss had to do
what he said.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Deputy b H.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Moss set in an unmarked car across the street from
the Hillcrest Health Center. We're inside. Joe Whitehead had a
bone to pick. It's totally unacceptable the kind of women
y'all been sending, Joe complained to Aubrey, kicking his feet
up on Aubrey's desk. Now, Joe, we do try to
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keep only the best.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
He's wont the best.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
From a beaded doorway a pretty young girl's spide I
think I might change your mind, she said to Joe,
entering the room, the clinking of the beads singing her arrival.
Now this one came being in more than sixteen, Aubrey,
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I'm nineteen, the girl said, Girls nineteen, Aubrey confirmed. Joe
looked at him curiously and as always too this one's
on the house from a parked car across the street.
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Deputy B. H. Moss chewed on a toothpick and observed
the Hillcrest. Couldn't see much in the dark, but he
did recognize a car and the driver loitering in the
parking lot, Wayne Holly behind the wheel too. It looked
like Moss raised his spinoculars. Yes, the man was drinking
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a beer. Help he could arrest him on that charge alone,
but Moss he had bigger fish to fry. Where are
you from, Joe asked the girl once alone in a
back room. I'm in Florida, Florida, And what brings you here? Well,
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you bring me here, mister me. I heard y'all got
a good thing going on in Pennsylvania County. It ain't
like that in Florida. We get busted out in Florida.
But us girls, we talk, we do talk. I got
a whole book of girls who can advise me on
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what's what.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And they say, you're what's what? Mister. Go to Pennsylvania County, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They say, you won't find no trouble in Pennsylvania County.
Joe couldn't help but smile, despite the concern this raised,
so his reputation preceded him far and wide.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
His heart pounded, you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Court danger too damn much, Wayne had warned him recently.
I really should stop being so flagrant, Joe thought, wrapping
his arms around the girl, taking her into his lap.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He vowed in his heart that he'd cool it soon,
starting first thing tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
After he finished with the girl, he slapped Aubrey on
the back, called him redeemed, then headed out to the
parking lot. Thanks for wading, no problem, Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You didn't want none for yourself, Not tonight, Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As the two men rolled out of the parking lot
into the dark night on Mount Cross Road, the headlights
of Wayne's Cadillac alighted upon a vehicle parked across the street.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ain't nobody got no business out here? At three a m.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Joe remarked, That's why I'm trying to get us hume.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Wayne replied, No, not us. Back up, back back up
into the parking lot. Who's that? Who's what?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That man in the car? Turn your brights on, Wayne.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Holly shone the brights on the car across the street. Inside,
Moss squinted, shielded his eyes with the back of his hand.
It's goddamn Deputy, Moss.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Drive by.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wayne put the Cadillac into drive, enrolled slowly by Moss.
Joe leaned out the car, smacked his hand hard on
the side of the door. Hey Moss, I can't believe
you acknowledge me, Joe. You ought to be hiding. I
told you, Moss, don't come out here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'd say the same to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Joe smiled. Come on, let's go, Wayne urged. Joe ignored Wayne.
Now you listen to me, Deputy. I'm the head law
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dog in this county. I'm the main man, and I'm
the wheelhorse, and you are just a deputy. I will
not have you out here harassing these people. All due respects, sir,
(06:15):
I worked for the sheriff. Okay, okay, Well go talk
to your sheriff. Then he'll tell you as good as
I will, stay away, or you will regret it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Wayne. At the gas and off, they sped.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Truck stop brothels run by a web of x cons,
a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power protection exchanged
for cash, fle a.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Brash local reporter exposing it all.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
This is hookergate criminals and Libertines in the South. And
I am your host, Doctor Lindsey Byron, author, historian, and
lifelong wayward woman. This forgotten scandal happened in my hometown.
Join me as I use crumbling news clippings, interviews, and
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dramatic reenactments to bring to life for the first time
in nearly fifty years, this wild Ride of hedonistic corruption.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Episode six. The pressure builds.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Initially, in particular the newspapers in Damble when I started
writing about the prostitution issues, they either didn't report on
it at all are basically defended the county law enforcement.
So that was tough to deal with about something and
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your peers think you're full of it. So it was
difficult to do and it stayed that way for a
long time. The other news media did not start taking
this seriously until federal government, the Justice Department and panel
their own federal Grandeury to investigate all this sort of
subpeenion in Alledge people. At that point, my colleagues and
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the news started taking it very seriously. Before that, though,
it was not in common. I mean I had a
number of ministers around there who on Sundays would tell
their congregation fundamentally and don't believe everything you read, which
is really hard because a lot of people who were
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for me were active in those congregations. It's tough for
them to hear. It was a tough time, no question
about it, not only for me, but people associated with me,
including my family. I had an aunt who in Puslovenia
County brats out of Danville, lovely one a public official
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who will remain with cornered or after church, and said,
you need to talk to that boy up there in
Grettina and tell him to quit right now, all this crap.
And my aunt said, no way, that's not going to happen.
If you don't want him to report on it, don't
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do it, which I thought was a great line.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
There may have been some talk lately, even some publications
in the news media, some broadcasting for the purposes of
gossip and sensationalism, insinuating that some of our leaders here locally,
and indeed some of our prominence citizens have been engaging
and shall we say, unsavory behave you're the reverend caution
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from the pulpit, his flock wrapped, except Rodney's children, who
wriggled in the pews matchbox cars in their hands.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I would warn you to withhold your gossip. I would
warn you to retain your judgment. I would warn you
to resist putting easy trust into a media design to
whip up your basis curiosities to sell newspapers. Now, Rodney,
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too was wriggling from the pulpit. The reverend looked him
in the eye.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's just like your aunt, said, Rodney's wife whispered.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
After the service, the leader of the ladies choir beckoned
her over for a chat.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Rodney's wife rolled.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Her eyes, but did her social duty and joined the
gaggle of chatter. As Rodney and his children departed the sanctuary,
the reverend stopped him at the door, grabbed him gently
by the arm. You're mad as hell, are you, Rodney,
the reverend asked.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Run along. Rodney said to his kids, y'all could play
on the playground for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
What's that again, Reverend, I read your article in the gazette, Rodney,
the one about you being.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Mad as hell. Ah. Yes, well, you might want to
be careful, son. Careful. What do you mean by that, Reverend?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, for one thing, gossip isn't godly, son, All due
respect Reverend, journalism is not gossip, and with all due respect,
right back, son, But I haven't seen any journalism of
this sword in the Danville Register and be just the
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Kretna Gazette. So not all journalists are created equal. Unfortunately,
Rodney smile he had a self assurance was an act,
a cloak of protection he wore to shield an anxious heart.
Yes he believed in what he was doing, slowly, methodically,
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carefully uncovering a web of sex, crime and power. Yes
he believed he would be able to prove every word
he wrote. Yes he believed that this was journalism revealing
to the people the truth they deserved to know, dismantling corruption,
not crafting silly stories about UFOs, not dredging up any
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bullshit that he could possibly pass his news. Yes, he
believed in what he was doing, but he had to
admit sometimes when his fellow journalists looked the other way.
But he wondered if he was maybe, just maybe wrong
for what he was doing. Was there something the writers
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at the Register and be knew that he didn't. I
wouldn't want any good names to be smeared as all Rodney.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Of course, Reverend.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Rodney looked to his children chasing one another around the
swing set, his heart swelling first with tenderness and then
contracting with fear. What kind of problems could he cause
for these kids? Was it worth it to uncover this truth?
What consequences might they all face? A disapproving minister could
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wield judgment a haughty gaze, But what might a disapproving
commonwealth attorney wheeled. Rodney's wife, caught still in conversation on
the sidelines with a yapping choir leader, shot him a
look that said.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Get me out of this. You heard me, son, the
reverend asked, It's.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Just that I wouldn't want I'm sorry, Reverend, my wife.
Of course, Rodney see you next Sunday. The reverend dismissed
him with a wave and a smile. That damn woman
doesn't talk with you, She talks at you, Rodney's wife said,
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exasperated when at last he rescued her from the grasp
of miss choir.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So, anyways, what's this about you being mad as hell? Oh,
that's just a small article I wrote. Why, well, the
women are talking about it. That's why.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Rodney's wife looked at him suspiciously, but with a smile.
Nonetheless anyway, she continued, what did the reverend have to say? Oh,
nothing of any interest. Rodney motioned to his children on
the playground. Come along, now, let's take a boat, he said,
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as the family followed him to the car. Launch dan
view or short sugars, Short sugars.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
The kids cried in Unison.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Did there ever come a time when you talked to
Defendive Whitehead about this arrangement?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Yes, sir, there was.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Okay, could you describe that for us please?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
How went by the Hillcrest Health Center, asked mister Henderson
to ride to Chatham with me. We rode to Chatham, Virginia,
went to the Commonwealth Attorney's office, and a lady there
said mister Whitehead was out for the evening at home.
We rode to mister Whitehead's home, knocked on the back door.
Mister Whitehead came to the door and said come in.
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We went in the house, went to the kitchen. Mister
Whitehead asked did we care for something to drink? I
said yes, I would. He was at the refrigerator and
he was putting some ice in a glass. Mister Henderson
was standing at the door as he go into the kitchen,
I walked up to the refrigerator. I said in a
low voice that I could not pay three hundred dollars
a week. Business was slow, and I could handle two
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hundred a week without any problem. Mister Whitehead hesitated for
a few minutes, and he said, all right, just pay
the two hundred a week. I walked back to the
kitchen door, and mister Henderson went over and talked to
mister Whitehead, and I don't know what they talked about.
The following week, mister Holly came around. I paid two
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I've loved you since the day I met you, he
told her. I have loved you since maybe the third
or fourth day.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
She smiled back. Harold Wayne took Robin's hand in his.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
All my life, I've been living in black and white
and maybe a little gray. You come along and turned
it all technicolor. He lowered himself to one knee. They
were married quickly, nothing too fancy, because Robin didn't want
to make a spectacle of her good fortune. Secretly, Harold
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Wayne was relieved. Sure business continued to move at a
healthy pace, Yet as the bribes grew, Harold Wayne began
to feel the pinch. He had wanted to buy himself
a firebird to add to his car collection, had his
eyes set on just the one, but he'd had to
scrap that dream. In recent weeks, says, the money going
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out started to outweigh the money coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I can't hardly.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Support these damn prices, Harold Wayne told the boys, as
the four of them drink coffee in the booth at
the Edgewood Diner.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Hell, none of us can, Aubrey.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Agreed, I've had to implement additional revenue streams. Tommy complained, well,
should somebody say something?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Herbert Boyd piped up say something? Aubrey asked, who who you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Think ought to say something? Well, I think you and
Harold Wayne ought to say something. Tommy ain't good with words,
and me I ain't that good with words either, So
that leaves you in Harold Wayne.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Aubrey looked at HWD. Hell, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Harold Wayne agreed, even a lot of that in his life,
but a coward won't.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
One of them. Aubrey nodded. A date was set.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Three days later, Harold Wayne rode over to the Hillcrest
to collect his partner in crime. Aubrey stood waiting at
the door, smoking a Marlborough and thinking through his options.
We just tell him we can't pay it, he told
HWD as he slid into his passenger seat. He ain't
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gonna accept No, we can't pay it. Well, we try
to negotiate. I'm sorry, gentlemen, smiled Joe's secretary as she
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opened the heavy door to the law office at the
Commonwealth Attorney. Mister Whitehead's not in. Just now, Hello there,
Miss MacGregor, Aubrey smiled, and how is Sheriff MacGregor?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Fine, just fine.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She looked over the men's shoulders, searching the street for
anyone she knew. She wouldn't want this pair to be
seen here. Come on in, she said, and closed the
door quickly behind them. She escorted the men into the lobby,
then excused herself to her office and picked up the phone. Joe,
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she whispered into the receiver. Two of them truck stop
boys are here. What should I tell them? Moments later,
she returned. He said you could come up to his house,
she reported, eyebrows furrowed. She looked the men up and down.
Just uh, park in the bag. I can't believe he
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has us coming to his damn house. H w D
said to Aubrey as they rolled behind Joe's homely estate.
He's off his rocker, Aubrey replied, as the two men
climbed out of the car and smoothed the wrinkles and
their clothing, And that's why we need to be careful
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with him. With resolve in their hearts and standing tall,
Aubrey and Harold Wayne wrapped on Joe Whitehead's back door.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Boys, come on in, Joe beamed. He smiled big, but
there was a darkness to his aspect. Everything going well.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He asked the two y'all boys, want some come colas sure?
The men agreed, and Joe fished two glasses out of
the cabinet. Thanks for letting us come out here and
visit with you today, Harold Wayne said. He scanned the kitchen,
craned his neck to peek down the hallway. Family not home,
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just on an errand is all? Whitehead answered, a WinCE
flashing across his face. He re ensconced the smile like
a man putting on a mask.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now, he continued, how might I help you boys?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Harold Wayne was the first to approach Aubrey, gave the
negotiating gentleman his distance.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Any man of culture would do as much.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Each man took his turn negotiating private pow wows over
Coca colas. Compromises were made, and resentment grew among all involved. Nonetheless, jovially,
they drank iced sodas and exchange small talk. Well, what
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did he have to say to you, Aubrey inquired, if
HWD wants back on the road. He said two hundred
would be all right. I told him I simply couldn't
pay the three. Did he say anything else about anything?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Who do you mean? Well? He told me to send
Tommy a message.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He told me to tell Tommy to get his bitch
in line.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And get Janet in line. Best of luck to you.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Listen, Harold Wayne, I'm being serious. We can't have none
of these bitches talking ugly to whitehead yours included.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Robin is no bitch, if you say so, Harold Wayne.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Both men laughed. Anyways, Aubrey continued.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'll give Tommy a call when we get back.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That's right, And Harold Wayne, what's that allbree? I think
we need to establish one thing here and now.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And what's that?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Should anything bad happen, and I mean anything, you call
me and let me know, all right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You'll do the same. I'll do the same deal. The
men decided and shook on it. Now, did that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Come a time when you had a fallen out with Barker?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What do you mean, I've had several of them, all right?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, when did you go to the state of Texas?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't know the exact day I arrived in the
state of Texas. I've been in just about every state
in this Union since I've been.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Gone with any particular purpose, mind, Now was one of
those purposes to get away from Tommy Barker.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, I am very afraid of Tommy?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Are you free of Tommy?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He beats me continuously and unmercifully, and I just cannot
take it. They'd only been married a few months when
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shit started to go south. He'd asked her to be
his wife after yet another fight and the post argument afterglow,
when passions run high and the fear of losing one
another takes control, they could hardly stand each other half
the time anymore. He thought she was meddling, She thought
he was profligate. Where once had burned desire, cold ashes,
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now remained an office door locked, silence between their bodies.
Contention were once there had been camaraderie. And so he proposed,
and so she said yes, convinced as many lovers are
that a wedding heals wounds. He never loved her more
than when she was an inch from walking away, and
she felt the same.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Janet was no angel.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
She'd committed many a crime, both legal and moral, in
her day. She didn't think herself above anybody else. Yet
some of the ways Tommy's business was heading lately.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Didn't sit right with her.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
She knew he was pressed, knew he was stressed, had
installed a new security system, heavy locks, paranoid peering out
the blinds, and it seemed every Wednesday the Lord sent
here came Old Wayne Holly Palms itchy for his cut.
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Do you know that man just took my whole prophets
in one fell swoop? Tommy complained one Wednesday. These big shots,
I'm gonna tell you, they do none of the work
and get all of the glory. Sometimes, however, Janet saw
things a little differently. Sometimes she looked at Tommy and thought,
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but from where I sit, my love you, you.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Are one of the big shots.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It was another slow night at the twenty nine when
a young man entered the building. Tanita, who had been
napping again at the bar, popped her head up joyfully
at the sight of him and bound it to the man, wrapping.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Him in a hug. Y'all in a room.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Janet asked the pair, Oh, no, Tnita answered, this is
my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Don't you remember you met him when you come pick
me up that night.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Janet studied the man's face, clear eyes, skin fresh and young. Sure, yes,
I remember him well, Tanita said, he's here to talk
to Tommy.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is the thing.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Janet looked the young man in the eyes. What business
do you have with mister Barker? With all due respect, ma'am,
I'd say that's between us. The office door swung open,
and in the doorway stood Tommy. Come on in, he
called out. The young man sauntered into Tommy's office, and
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just a few minutes later, the young man sauntered out,
leaving the twenty nine with Tanita on his arm. Janet
stormed into the office and cornered her husband.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Just a wheeling and dealing in here. Ain't you watch
the attitude? Janet?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
What was that man in here? For Why did he
take to needle with him? She's his girlfriend, for Christ's sake,
she wants to go with him?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How am I supposed to know?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You pretty much balled Brianna from that son of a
bitch that's kidnapped her child. Cool your jets, baby, I
did nothing of the sort. Tommy sat down in his
chair and spun to face his desk. He pulled from
his pocket a back filled with pills and began to
divide them into piles. What the hell, Tommy, it's just
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nerve pills, Janet. Everybody takes them, and what you're selling them?
He shook his head out, done with the woman's questions.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Is that what that boy was in here for? Tommy?
He counted the pills into piles. Is it? Please? Janet,
get back to work.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I knew you were a goddamn womanizer and a horrormonger.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
She said, approaching his desk.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I knew you had once been a thief, and I
knew you had always been a swindler.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But this is a bridge too far. Tommy's eyelid jumped. Janet.
Please back to work. Work. What do you know about work?
You just sit here and divide up women? And pills.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
She leaned over his desk, her face inches from his own.
His eyelid jumped again. You should be ashamed of yourself,
she said. All the risks he had taken, the schemes
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he plodded, the blows to his pride he'd endured, bending
to the will of some other man, some rich man
who called all the shots.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
How did Janet think he was going to make these payments,
fulfill these bribes?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
She didn't want to date Joe Tommy had allowed that
brought her up from the back room to the lobby.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Still the money you must be paid. Still, the money
must be paid.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Every week, Here comes Holly every week, another suspicious vehicle
part in the vicinity. Did she know the cost of
doing business? Did she understand what was at stake? Was
she on her back to pay these debts? No, not anymore.
And so Tommy found other ways. He looked for other opportunities.
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When an old friend introduced him to black market pharmaceuticals
and low rate dealers like Tanita's gentleman call her were
ready to buy, well, Tommy found a way.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Tommy felt sometimes that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
There'd be no end to finding ways, And yet he
should be ashamed he should be ashamed, He should be ashamed.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Janet repeated, and with that, Tommy hauled off and slapped
her in the face.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
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out his work at Guy Kelly dot com. While this
podcast is based upon real events, certain elements have been
fictionalized for dramatic effect. I cannot know for certain what
exactly was said behind closed doors. Imbine my research and
imagination to dramatize scenes described most often under oath in
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chord and occasionally secondhand via journalistic or personal accounts. Find
citations in the show notes. The pitch for this podcast
won the twenty twenty one Next Great Podcast competition hosted
by Tongle and iHeartRadio, which is why I'm here now
producing this joint my gratitude for the opportunity. Hooker Gate
(34:30):
is a production of iHeartMedia.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Fucking Dog Guy, Hold on, Moose, you gotta stop that shit, dude,
Whitehead was upset with Moss and accused him of harassing
the people at the truck stops. He then forbade Moss
from going back to the truck stops when Moss informed
him that he was working for the sheriff. Whitehead then
described himself as the head law dog in the county,
the main man, the wheelhorse, and Moss had to do
what he said.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Deputy b H.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Moss set in an unmarked car across the street from
the Hillcrest Health Center. We're inside. Joe Whitehead had a
bone to pick. It's totally unacceptable the kind of women
y'all been sending, Joe complained to Aubrey, kicking his feet
up on Aubrey's desk. Now, Joe, we do try to
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keep only the best.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
He's wont the best.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
From a beaded doorway a pretty young girl's spide I
think I might change your mind, she said to Joe,
entering the room, the clinking of the beads singing her arrival.
Now this one came being in more than sixteen, Aubrey,
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I'm nineteen, the girl said, Girls nineteen, Aubrey confirmed. Joe
looked at him curiously and as always too this one's
on the house from a parked car across the street.
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Deputy B. H. Moss chewed on a toothpick and observed
the Hillcrest. Couldn't see much in the dark, but he
did recognize a car and the driver loitering in the
parking lot, Wayne Holly behind the wheel too. It looked
like Moss raised his spinoculars. Yes, the man was drinking
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a beer. Help he could arrest him on that charge alone,
but Moss he had bigger fish to fry. Where are
you from, Joe asked the girl once alone in a
back room. I'm in Florida, Florida, And what brings you here? Well,
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you bring me here, mister me. I heard y'all got
a good thing going on in Pennsylvania County. It ain't
like that in Florida. We get busted out in Florida.
But us girls, we talk, we do talk. I got
a whole book of girls who can advise me on
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what's what.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And they say, you're what's what? Mister. Go to Pennsylvania County, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They say, you won't find no trouble in Pennsylvania County.
Joe couldn't help but smile, despite the concern this raised,
so his reputation preceded him far and wide.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
His heart pounded, you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Court danger too damn much, Wayne had warned him recently.
I really should stop being so flagrant, Joe thought, wrapping
his arms around the girl, taking her into his lap.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He vowed in his heart that he'd cool it soon,
starting first thing tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
After he finished with the girl, he slapped Aubrey on
the back, called him redeemed, then headed out to the
parking lot. Thanks for wading, no problem, Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You didn't want none for yourself, Not tonight, Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As the two men rolled out of the parking lot
into the dark night on Mount Cross Road, the headlights
of Wayne's Cadillac alighted upon a vehicle parked across the street.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ain't nobody got no business out here? At three a m.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Joe remarked, That's why I'm trying to get us hume.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Wayne replied, No, not us. Back up, back back up
into the parking lot. Who's that? Who's what?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That man in the car? Turn your brights on, Wayne.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Holly shone the brights on the car across the street. Inside,
Moss squinted, shielded his eyes with the back of his hand.
It's goddamn Deputy, Moss.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Drive by.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wayne put the Cadillac into drive, enrolled slowly by Moss.
Joe leaned out the car, smacked his hand hard on
the side of the door. Hey Moss, I can't believe
you acknowledge me, Joe. You ought to be hiding. I
told you, Moss, don't come out here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'd say the same to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Joe smiled. Come on, let's go, Wayne urged. Joe ignored Wayne.
Now you listen to me, Deputy. I'm the head law
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dog in this county. I'm the main man, and I'm
the wheelhorse, and you are just a deputy. I will
not have you out here harassing these people. All due respects, sir,
(06:15):
I worked for the sheriff. Okay, okay, Well go talk
to your sheriff. Then he'll tell you as good as
I will, stay away, or you will regret it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Wayne. At the gas and off, they sped.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Truck stop brothels run by a web of x cons,
a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power protection exchanged
for cash, fle a.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Brash local reporter exposing it all.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
This is hookergate criminals and Libertines in the South. And
I am your host, Doctor Lindsey Byron, author, historian, and
lifelong wayward woman. This forgotten scandal happened in my hometown.
Join me as I use crumbling news clippings, interviews, and
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dramatic reenactments to bring to life for the first time
in nearly fifty years, this wild Ride of hedonistic corruption.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Episode six. The pressure builds.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Initially, in particular the newspapers in Damble when I started
writing about the prostitution issues, they either didn't report on
it at all are basically defended the county law enforcement.
So that was tough to deal with about something and
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your peers think you're full of it. So it was
difficult to do and it stayed that way for a
long time. The other news media did not start taking
this seriously until federal government, the Justice Department and panel
their own federal Grandeury to investigate all this sort of
subpeenion in Alledge people. At that point, my colleagues and
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the news started taking it very seriously. Before that, though,
it was not in common. I mean I had a
number of ministers around there who on Sundays would tell
their congregation fundamentally and don't believe everything you read, which
is really hard because a lot of people who were
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for me were active in those congregations. It's tough for
them to hear. It was a tough time, no question
about it, not only for me, but people associated with me,
including my family. I had an aunt who in Puslovenia
County brats out of Danville, lovely one a public official
(09:05):
who will remain with cornered or after church, and said,
you need to talk to that boy up there in
Grettina and tell him to quit right now, all this crap.
And my aunt said, no way, that's not going to happen.
If you don't want him to report on it, don't
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do it, which I thought was a great line.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
There may have been some talk lately, even some publications
in the news media, some broadcasting for the purposes of
gossip and sensationalism, insinuating that some of our leaders here locally,
and indeed some of our prominence citizens have been engaging
and shall we say, unsavory behave you're the reverend caution
(10:00):
from the pulpit, his flock wrapped, except Rodney's children, who
wriggled in the pews matchbox cars in their hands.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I would warn you to withhold your gossip. I would
warn you to retain your judgment. I would warn you
to resist putting easy trust into a media design to
whip up your basis curiosities to sell newspapers. Now, Rodney,
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too was wriggling from the pulpit. The reverend looked him
in the eye.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's just like your aunt, said, Rodney's wife whispered.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
After the service, the leader of the ladies choir beckoned
her over for a chat.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Rodney's wife rolled.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Her eyes, but did her social duty and joined the
gaggle of chatter. As Rodney and his children departed the sanctuary,
the reverend stopped him at the door, grabbed him gently
by the arm. You're mad as hell, are you, Rodney,
the reverend asked.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Run along. Rodney said to his kids, y'all could play
on the playground for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
What's that again, Reverend, I read your article in the gazette, Rodney,
the one about you being.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Mad as hell. Ah. Yes, well, you might want to
be careful, son. Careful. What do you mean by that, Reverend?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, for one thing, gossip isn't godly, son, All due
respect Reverend, journalism is not gossip, and with all due respect,
right back, son, But I haven't seen any journalism of
this sword in the Danville Register and be just the
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Kretna Gazette. So not all journalists are created equal. Unfortunately,
Rodney smile he had a self assurance was an act,
a cloak of protection he wore to shield an anxious heart.
Yes he believed in what he was doing, slowly, methodically,
(12:32):
carefully uncovering a web of sex, crime and power. Yes
he believed he would be able to prove every word
he wrote. Yes he believed that this was journalism revealing
to the people the truth they deserved to know, dismantling corruption,
not crafting silly stories about UFOs, not dredging up any
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bullshit that he could possibly pass his news. Yes, he
believed in what he was doing, but he had to
admit sometimes when his fellow journalists looked the other way.
But he wondered if he was maybe, just maybe wrong
for what he was doing. Was there something the writers
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at the Register and be knew that he didn't. I
wouldn't want any good names to be smeared as all Rodney.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Of course, Reverend.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Rodney looked to his children chasing one another around the
swing set, his heart swelling first with tenderness and then
contracting with fear. What kind of problems could he cause
for these kids? Was it worth it to uncover this truth?
What consequences might they all face? A disapproving minister could
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wield judgment a haughty gaze, But what might a disapproving
commonwealth attorney wheeled. Rodney's wife, caught still in conversation on
the sidelines with a yapping choir leader, shot him a
look that said.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Get me out of this. You heard me, son, the
reverend asked, It's.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Just that I wouldn't want I'm sorry, Reverend, my wife.
Of course, Rodney see you next Sunday. The reverend dismissed
him with a wave and a smile. That damn woman
doesn't talk with you, She talks at you, Rodney's wife said,
(14:37):
exasperated when at last he rescued her from the grasp
of miss choir.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So, anyways, what's this about you being mad as hell? Oh,
that's just a small article I wrote. Why, well, the
women are talking about it. That's why.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Rodney's wife looked at him suspiciously, but with a smile.
Nonetheless anyway, she continued, what did the reverend have to say? Oh,
nothing of any interest. Rodney motioned to his children on
the playground. Come along, now, let's take a boat, he said,
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as the family followed him to the car. Launch dan
view or short sugars, Short sugars.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
The kids cried in Unison.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Did there ever come a time when you talked to
Defendive Whitehead about this arrangement?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Yes, sir, there was.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Okay, could you describe that for us please?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
How went by the Hillcrest Health Center, asked mister Henderson
to ride to Chatham with me. We rode to Chatham, Virginia,
went to the Commonwealth Attorney's office, and a lady there
said mister Whitehead was out for the evening at home.
We rode to mister Whitehead's home, knocked on the back door.
Mister Whitehead came to the door and said come in.
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We went in the house, went to the kitchen. Mister
Whitehead asked did we care for something to drink? I
said yes, I would. He was at the refrigerator and
he was putting some ice in a glass. Mister Henderson
was standing at the door as he go into the kitchen,
I walked up to the refrigerator. I said in a
low voice that I could not pay three hundred dollars
a week. Business was slow, and I could handle two
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hundred a week without any problem. Mister Whitehead hesitated for
a few minutes, and he said, all right, just pay
the two hundred a week. I walked back to the
kitchen door, and mister Henderson went over and talked to
mister Whitehead, and I don't know what they talked about.
The following week, mister Holly came around. I paid two
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I've loved you since the day I met you, he
told her. I have loved you since maybe the third
or fourth day.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
She smiled back. Harold Wayne took Robin's hand in his.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
All my life, I've been living in black and white
and maybe a little gray. You come along and turned
it all technicolor. He lowered himself to one knee. They
were married quickly, nothing too fancy, because Robin didn't want
to make a spectacle of her good fortune. Secretly, Harold
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Wayne was relieved. Sure business continued to move at a
healthy pace, Yet as the bribes grew, Harold Wayne began
to feel the pinch. He had wanted to buy himself
a firebird to add to his car collection, had his
eyes set on just the one, but he'd had to
scrap that dream. In recent weeks, says, the money going
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out started to outweigh the money coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I can't hardly.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Support these damn prices, Harold Wayne told the boys, as
the four of them drink coffee in the booth at
the Edgewood Diner.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Hell, none of us can, Aubrey.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Agreed, I've had to implement additional revenue streams. Tommy complained, well,
should somebody say something?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Herbert Boyd piped up say something? Aubrey asked, who who you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Think ought to say something? Well, I think you and
Harold Wayne ought to say something. Tommy ain't good with words,
and me I ain't that good with words either, So
that leaves you in Harold Wayne.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Aubrey looked at HWD. Hell, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Harold Wayne agreed, even a lot of that in his life,
but a coward won't.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
One of them. Aubrey nodded. A date was set.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Three days later, Harold Wayne rode over to the Hillcrest
to collect his partner in crime. Aubrey stood waiting at
the door, smoking a Marlborough and thinking through his options.
We just tell him we can't pay it, he told
HWD as he slid into his passenger seat. He ain't
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gonna accept No, we can't pay it. Well, we try
to negotiate. I'm sorry, gentlemen, smiled Joe's secretary as she
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opened the heavy door to the law office at the
Commonwealth Attorney. Mister Whitehead's not in. Just now, Hello there,
Miss MacGregor, Aubrey smiled, and how is Sheriff MacGregor?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Fine, just fine.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She looked over the men's shoulders, searching the street for
anyone she knew. She wouldn't want this pair to be
seen here. Come on in, she said, and closed the
door quickly behind them. She escorted the men into the lobby,
then excused herself to her office and picked up the phone. Joe,
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she whispered into the receiver. Two of them truck stop
boys are here. What should I tell them? Moments later,
she returned. He said you could come up to his house,
she reported, eyebrows furrowed. She looked the men up and down.
Just uh, park in the bag. I can't believe he
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has us coming to his damn house. H w D
said to Aubrey as they rolled behind Joe's homely estate.
He's off his rocker, Aubrey replied, as the two men
climbed out of the car and smoothed the wrinkles and
their clothing, And that's why we need to be careful
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with him. With resolve in their hearts and standing tall,
Aubrey and Harold Wayne wrapped on Joe Whitehead's back door.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Boys, come on in, Joe beamed. He smiled big, but
there was a darkness to his aspect. Everything going well.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He asked the two y'all boys, want some come colas sure?
The men agreed, and Joe fished two glasses out of
the cabinet. Thanks for letting us come out here and
visit with you today, Harold Wayne said. He scanned the kitchen,
craned his neck to peek down the hallway. Family not home,
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just on an errand is all? Whitehead answered, a WinCE
flashing across his face. He re ensconced the smile like
a man putting on a mask.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now, he continued, how might I help you boys?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Harold Wayne was the first to approach Aubrey, gave the
negotiating gentleman his distance.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Any man of culture would do as much.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Each man took his turn negotiating private pow wows over
Coca colas. Compromises were made, and resentment grew among all involved. Nonetheless, jovially,
they drank iced sodas and exchange small talk. Well, what
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did he have to say to you, Aubrey inquired, if
HWD wants back on the road. He said two hundred
would be all right. I told him I simply couldn't
pay the three. Did he say anything else about anything?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Who do you mean? Well? He told me to send
Tommy a message.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He told me to tell Tommy to get his bitch
in line.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And get Janet in line. Best of luck to you.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Listen, Harold Wayne, I'm being serious. We can't have none
of these bitches talking ugly to whitehead yours included.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Robin is no bitch, if you say so, Harold Wayne.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Both men laughed. Anyways, Aubrey continued.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'll give Tommy a call when we get back.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That's right, And Harold Wayne, what's that allbree? I think
we need to establish one thing here and now.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And what's that?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Should anything bad happen, and I mean anything, you call
me and let me know, all right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You'll do the same. I'll do the same deal. The
men decided and shook on it. Now, did that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Come a time when you had a fallen out with Barker?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What do you mean, I've had several of them, all right?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, when did you go to the state of Texas?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't know the exact day I arrived in the
state of Texas. I've been in just about every state
in this Union since I've been.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Gone with any particular purpose, mind, Now was one of
those purposes to get away from Tommy Barker.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, I am very afraid of Tommy?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Are you free of Tommy?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He beats me continuously and unmercifully, and I just cannot
take it. They'd only been married a few months when
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shit started to go south. He'd asked her to be
his wife after yet another fight and the post argument afterglow,
when passions run high and the fear of losing one
another takes control, they could hardly stand each other half
the time anymore. He thought she was meddling, She thought
he was profligate. Where once had burned desire, cold ashes,
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now remained an office door locked, silence between their bodies.
Contention were once there had been camaraderie. And so he proposed,
and so she said yes, convinced as many lovers are
that a wedding heals wounds. He never loved her more
than when she was an inch from walking away, and
she felt the same.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Janet was no angel.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
She'd committed many a crime, both legal and moral, in
her day. She didn't think herself above anybody else. Yet
some of the ways Tommy's business was heading lately.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Didn't sit right with her.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
She knew he was pressed, knew he was stressed, had
installed a new security system, heavy locks, paranoid peering out
the blinds, and it seemed every Wednesday the Lord sent
here came Old Wayne Holly Palms itchy for his cut.
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Do you know that man just took my whole prophets
in one fell swoop? Tommy complained one Wednesday. These big shots,
I'm gonna tell you, they do none of the work
and get all of the glory. Sometimes, however, Janet saw
things a little differently. Sometimes she looked at Tommy and thought,
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but from where I sit, my love you, you.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Are one of the big shots.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It was another slow night at the twenty nine when
a young man entered the building. Tanita, who had been
napping again at the bar, popped her head up joyfully
at the sight of him and bound it to the man, wrapping.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Him in a hug. Y'all in a room.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Janet asked the pair, Oh, no, Tnita answered, this is
my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Don't you remember you met him when you come pick
me up that night.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Janet studied the man's face, clear eyes, skin fresh and young. Sure, yes,
I remember him well, Tanita said, he's here to talk
to Tommy.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is the thing.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Janet looked the young man in the eyes. What business
do you have with mister Barker? With all due respect, ma'am,
I'd say that's between us. The office door swung open,
and in the doorway stood Tommy. Come on in, he
called out. The young man sauntered into Tommy's office, and
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just a few minutes later, the young man sauntered out,
leaving the twenty nine with Tanita on his arm. Janet
stormed into the office and cornered her husband.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Just a wheeling and dealing in here. Ain't you watch
the attitude? Janet?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
What was that man in here? For Why did he
take to needle with him? She's his girlfriend, for Christ's sake,
she wants to go with him?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How am I supposed to know?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You pretty much balled Brianna from that son of a
bitch that's kidnapped her child. Cool your jets, baby, I
did nothing of the sort. Tommy sat down in his
chair and spun to face his desk. He pulled from
his pocket a back filled with pills and began to
divide them into piles. What the hell, Tommy, it's just
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nerve pills, Janet. Everybody takes them, and what you're selling them?
He shook his head out, done with the woman's questions.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Is that what that boy was in here for? Tommy?
He counted the pills into piles. Is it? Please? Janet,
get back to work.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I knew you were a goddamn womanizer and a horrormonger.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
She said, approaching his desk.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I knew you had once been a thief, and I
knew you had always been a swindler.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But this is a bridge too far. Tommy's eyelid jumped. Janet.
Please back to work. Work. What do you know about work?
You just sit here and divide up women? And pills.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
She leaned over his desk, her face inches from his own.
His eyelid jumped again. You should be ashamed of yourself,
she said. All the risks he had taken, the schemes
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he plodded, the blows to his pride he'd endured, bending
to the will of some other man, some rich man
who called all the shots.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
How did Janet think he was going to make these payments,
fulfill these bribes?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
She didn't want to date Joe Tommy had allowed that
brought her up from the back room to the lobby.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Still the money you must be paid. Still, the money
must be paid.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Every week, Here comes Holly every week, another suspicious vehicle
part in the vicinity. Did she know the cost of
doing business? Did she understand what was at stake? Was
she on her back to pay these debts? No, not anymore.
And so Tommy found other ways. He looked for other opportunities.
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When an old friend introduced him to black market pharmaceuticals
and low rate dealers like Tanita's gentleman call her were
ready to buy, well, Tommy found a way.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Tommy felt sometimes that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
There'd be no end to finding ways, And yet he
should be ashamed he should be ashamed, He should be ashamed.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Janet repeated, and with that, Tommy hauled off and slapped
her in the face.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
My name is Lindsay Byron, but most people know me
as lux ATL.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Learn more about my work tits out, globe.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Trotting and mansions worldwide at Good Times, Badgirls dot Com.
Follow me on the ground and TikTok at lux Underscore Atl,
on YouTube at lux Atl, and on substock, where I
blog weekly at Tumultuous True Stories by Lindsay Byron. If
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you'd like to hear more about my own experience slang
and companionship across the South, read my memoir Too Pretty
to Be Good by Lindsay Byron. Find it on Amazon,
Barnesandnoble dot com, and anywhere books are sold online. Hey,
if you'd like to continue to listen to me tell stories,
check out my first podcast, strip Cast True Stories from
(33:22):
a Stripper with the PhD. Listen on Spotify and iTunes.
Follow this podcast on the Gram at hooker Gate. Underscore podcast.
Theme music and sound design by my long term partner
in artistic crime, guy Kelly You the Illist GK. Check
(33:43):
out his work at Guy Kelly dot com. While this
podcast is based upon real events, certain elements have been
fictionalized for dramatic effect. I cannot know for certain what
exactly was said behind closed doors. Imbine my research and
imagination to dramatize scenes described most often under oath in
(34:06):
chord and occasionally secondhand via journalistic or personal accounts. Find
citations in the show notes. The pitch for this podcast
won the twenty twenty one Next Great Podcast competition hosted
by Tongle and iHeartRadio, which is why I'm here now
producing this joint my gratitude for the opportunity. Hooker Gate
(34:30):
is a production of iHeartMedia.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Fucking Dog Guy, Hold on, Moose, you gotta stop that shit, dude,
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