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March 19, 2021 78 mins
Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! Here to bring you part three of our book series covering Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. This week we dive into the defender section of this book. We focus most of our attention on Lorri Davis, a woman who gave up her entire life to defend one of the men convicted of the West Memphis Three killings. We talk in-depth about the varying motives one has in defending someone they’ve never met, and briefly touch on hybristophilia.

This episode contains foul language, discussions about murder, rape, and women’s role in true crime. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!

Sources
Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe

Dead Girls, Alice Bolin

“The Journalist and the Pharma Bro” Stephanie Clifford, Elle Magazine, December 20, 2021
‘Passion Victim: A brief look at hybristophilia’, Mark D. Griffiths Ph.D., Psychology Today, Posted Oct 18, 2013

‘Women Who Love Serial Killers’, Katherine Ramslund, PhD, Psychology Today, April 2020

‘Girls Who Love Ted Bundy’, Katherine Ramslund, PhD, October 2019

“The West Memphis Three and False Confessions”, Brandon L. Garrett, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and author of Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong - 23 August 2011

Free West Memphis 3 Blog

“A Death-Row Love Story”, Geoffrey Gray, New York Times, Oct. 13, 2011
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