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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: When Cicadas Cry: Murder, Death Row & Racial Tensions in The Deep South w/Caroline Cleveland
Description: True Crime Tuesday Presents: When Cicadas Cry: Murder, Death Row & Racial Tensions in The Deep South with Author, Caroline Cleveland!
In WHEN CICADAS CRY, Zach Stander, a young lawyer with a checkered past, gets a phone call that will change his life. It’s Elijah Jenkins, an older Black man he met while giving a one-day free legal clinic in rural Colleton County. A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross at the New Hope Baptist Church out on Cicada Road. Eli’s grandson Samuel was arrested after authorities found him kneeling over her body...