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Southern Fried True Crime

by Erica Kelley

Erica Kelley is a native Tennessean exploring historical and contemporary true crime in the South. Southern charm is attempted but southern sass is bountiful. Join her as she shows you just how southern fried the justice system can be in the Deep South.

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The Best of October Southern Fried: 2022, Ep167: The Murder of Fred Jablin

Today's episode is a "best of October" Southern Fried is from 2022, 167: The Murder of Fred Jablin Dr. Fred Jablin, a highly regarded professor of communication, was a d

Oct 24 2024
1 h 19 min

The Disappearance & Murder of Emily Anderson - Part 1 of 2

The last time anyone saw 49-year-old Emily Anderson was December 29, 2005. As husband, Jerry Anderson was naturally the first suspect. But he seemed to be able to account

Jul 21 2024
52 min

Introducing Gone Cold – Texas True Crime

Texas is known for being tough on crime and those who commit it. Or at least the ones who get caught. There are tens of thousands of unsolved homicides in Texas and nearl

Jul 4 2024
8 min

220: The Murder of Rhonda Oakley

On September 1, 2016, 52-year-old Rhonda Oakley was due home from a business trip. Only gone one night, she and her husband of less than three years had missed each other

Jul 3 2024
1 h 07 min

219: The Kidnapping of Carrie Lawson, Part 2

In the dark morning hours of September 11th 1991, in the small town of Jasper Alabama, a couple named Earl and Carrie Lawson were awoken by a fake emergency phone call th

Jun 17 2024
53 min

218: The Kidnapping of Carrie Lawson, Part 1

In the wee hours of September 11, 1991, Earl and Carrie Lawson were awoken by an urgent phone call from a woman claiming to be a nurse who said Earl’s father was hospital

Jun 13 2024
44 min

217: The Murder of Charlotte Childs

In May of 1993, 18-year-old student Charlotte Childs was eagerly anticipating her high school graduation in Holly Hill, South Carolina. She was busy attending all sorts o

May 28 2024
33 min

216: The Wellnitz Family Murders

For nearly a decade, the Wellnitz family murders haunted the small town of Columbia, Kentucky. The tight knit community had no clue why these good people were mercilessly

May 24 2024
1 h 16 min

215: The Death of Annie Burkett Shell

Parents have to trust caregivers. It’s just a fact of life. Often we feel more comfortable with a family friend than a daycare. That’s what Tiffany and David Shell did fo

May 11 2024
1 h 03 min

Listen Now: Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy

Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out t

May 9 2024
5 min

214: Erasing Laura Ackerson, Part 2

After Laura Ackerson lost full custody of her sons, she was heartbroken, but she sprang into action. Within 2 weeks, she got another hearing but she still only got weeken

May 1 2024
1 h 40 min

213: Erasing Laura Ackerson, Part 1

27-year-old Laura Jean Ackerson had a really tough start in life. The single mother of two worked hard to build her own small support system in Kinston, North Carolina. H

Apr 22 2024
53 min

212: The Whitaker Family Slayings

In December of 2003, 23-year-old Bart Whitaker had just finished his finals and was about to graduate from college. That night, he went to dinner to celebrate with his pa

Mar 26 2024
1 h 02 min

211: Evil or Innocent Twins: Betty, Peggy & The Murder of Dr Jack Wilson

On May 22 1992, Betty Wilson frantically called 911 from her Huntsville, Alabama home. She found her husband, the esteemed Dr. Jack Wilson, in a pool of blood. Someone ha

Mar 10 2024
1 h 25 min

210: Update on the Tex McIver Case

Late on a Sunday night in September of 2016, Atlanta power couple, Tex and Diane McIver, were driving back into the city and got caught in Atlanta’s notorious traffic. Di

Mar 4 2024
43 min

REMASTERED Ep66: Tex & Diane McIver: Accident or Murder?

Late on a Sunday night in September of 2016, Atlanta power couple, Tex and Diane McIver, were driving back into the city and got caught in Atlanta’s notorious traffic. Di

Mar 4 2024
48 min

209: The Disgraced Hero & Fugitive: Mario Centobie

When Officer Keith Turner pulled over a car in Moody, Alabama on June 25, 1998, he thought it was a routine traffic stop. The 29-year-old husband and father had no idea t

Feb 27 2024
1 h 05 min

208: The Murder of Cherica Adams

In November of 1999, 24-year-old Cherica Adams was eight months pregnant when she and the father of her child, 25-year-old Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth, we

Feb 13 2024
1 h 08 min

Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic

When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical expert

Jan 24 2024
5 min

207: The Murder of Shadow McClaine

25-year-old Shadow McClaine was 39 days from retiring from the US Army. She’d begun her service in 2011 and, now, her contract was up. She was thrilled to go back home, e

Jan 16 2024
44 min

What listeners say

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I absolutely love Erica’s voice! I have this show on rotation and have listened to its entirety more than a few times. Many of these cases I’ve not heard of. Her research is fantastic as well. 💜

BenApplsmiles · Oct 2025

I appreciate the details you provide with each crime review. I don’t always want an extreme deep dive into a case and I feel your details are satisfactory. I LOVE how you recognize the Indigenous people of the land when you’re giving the intro before the main storyline. Thank you for that.

CookinAZ · Aug 2025

This is one of my all time favorite podcasts. I love Erica’s attention to detail, and her respect for the victims and their families. I also appreciate her nuanced take on corruption, botched investigations, and so forth when it’s relevant to the case she’s presenting. There are very few true crime podcasts that still show compassion to the victims, but Erica really does each episode! I hope Erica gets better quickly — and of course that she takes all the time she needs to recover. We’ll be respectfully waiting for the next drop and can’t wait until she’s back!

Scooching in Here · Sep 2024

Nicely done. Your way of presenting information to us listeners is spellbinding and I find that yours is my favorite crime podcast. I like how you keep it clean, and are respectful of victims and their families. Thanks to you and your researcher for all your hard work. Makes my daily chores go by faster as I listen.

MommaMandaPanda · Jul 2024

It’s absolutely appropriate that the podcast circuit, is at long last, fading away. This one is near the top for cringy, opinionated content, and I swear more ads than actual show. If you insist on listening make sure you have access to FF through because every episode has a minimum of FIVE ad breaks and at least 3 ads per block. That’s on the low end. Erica is constantly throwing in her opinions on things she has no business commenting on-and her opinions are often dead wrong on legality issues. Don’t bother with this one, so many better podcasts (for now) to listen to without their political bent inserted.

Ribbit6619 · Jun 2024

This podcast is absolutely amazing, and Erica’s story telling is so beautiful. However, the amount of ads completely ruins the show. For example the Carrie Lawson Part 1, I skipped three ad breaks within the first 29 minutes of the episode… It takes you completely out of the show. It ruins it the episode completely, and I started another podcast. I truly hate to say that, but it’s the reality. Also she will call you out and use your name in the podcast if you leave a negative review as she did in the Denise Amber Lee episode which I also didn’t like. Even if the person was wrong this is a podcast that thousands listen to, and I don’t agree with that.

Taylor Lauryn · Jul 2024

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