Speaker 1: Hey, it's Io. Listen. We're working on a few more
Speaker 1: bonus episodes surprise, surprise. But in the meantime, I want
Speaker 1: to tell you about what I think is the best
Speaker 1: podcast ever. I want to tell you about Crimetown. Crimetown
Speaker 1: is essentially the mother podcast of the Ballot of Billy Balls,
Speaker 1: because the guys who made Crimetown are the guys behind
Speaker 1: this show. Crimetown is part of why I fell in
Speaker 1: love with podcasting and what made me realize there was
Speaker 1: something beyond just two people sitting in a room with
Speaker 1: a microphone. You can have a movie for your ears.
Speaker 1: The first season of Crimetown told the story of crime, corruption,
Speaker 1: and the intersection of the mob and politics in Providence,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, where they had this wild mayor, Buddy Ciancy,
Speaker 1: who beat up a guy he thought was sleeping with
Speaker 1: his wife and then he was forced to resign, but
Speaker 1: then he got reelected several times. It's insane and it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's truly the best thing I think that's ever been
Speaker 1: made in the podcast space, and I'm not bias at all,
Speaker 1: why would it be biased. In season two, Crimetown goes
Speaker 1: to Detroit, where a new mayor is at the center
Speaker 1: of the story, Qualmie Killpatrick. And if you don't know
Speaker 1: anything about Kwamie Kilpatrick, give that a little google. It's
Speaker 1: really juicy. The Crimetown team talked with Qualmie for hours.
Speaker 1: He told the story of his epic rise as this
Speaker 1: political star. He was hailed as like the new hope
Speaker 1: for a Detroit that had weathered decades of white flight
Speaker 1: and the industrialization and the War on drugs. But of
Speaker 1: course he also had an epic fall. I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: you a clip from Crimetown season two in which Kuami
Speaker 1: talks about a rumor that he threw a wild party
Speaker 1: at the mayor's mansion and that a stripper at that
Speaker 1: party wound up dead. As the rumors grew, Kwami found
Speaker 1: himself in a fight for his political life. The second
Speaker 1: season of Crimetown is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Make sure you start from the beginning and subscribes so
Speaker 1: you can snag the new episodes as they come out.
Speaker 1: I hope you love it. I know you will, and
Speaker 1: I'll see you soon. I love crime Town, but I
Speaker 1: Detroit Mayor Kwamie Kilpatrick hopes he's putting all the rumors
Speaker 1: and allegations are wrongdoing to rest. In May two thousand three,
Speaker 1: a day after Heather Catalo confronted Kwamie Kilpatrick, the mayor
Speaker 1: flew back to Detroit. He called a press conference on
Speaker 1: the steps of the Manugian Mansion to address the scandal.
Speaker 1: I want to stand here and tell the citizens of
Speaker 1: the city of Detroit that Kwamie Kilpatrick has absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: to hide about any of these allegations. I think and
Speaker 1: feel very strongly that an independent evaluation or investigation needs
Speaker 1: to be done on all of these allegations. So the
Speaker 1: next time that someone is this runner and starts to
Speaker 1: say anything, you all won't take it as true. And
Speaker 1: with that, surrounded by family and friends and appointees, the
Speaker 1: city's youngest mayor talked about the allegations that have rocked
Speaker 1: his administration. The most serious that there was a wild
Speaker 1: party at the Manougian Mansion with new dancers and his
Speaker 1: wife walked in. It never happened. It never happened. It
Speaker 1: never happened, and there are lemmy try it again and
Speaker 1: again to dismiss the rumor of a wild party at
Speaker 1: the mayor's residence, but it just wouldn't go away, and
Speaker 1: not only that right around this time something happened that
Speaker 1: was about to make the rumor much much worse. This
Speaker 1: was a typical drive by shooting. This is Mike Carlyle,
Speaker 1: a Detroit homicide detective. In April two thousand three, a
Speaker 1: woman named Tamara Green, who worked as an exotic dancer,
Speaker 1: was finishing up her shift at a strip club Tomorrow Agreen,
Speaker 1: she is known. Her dancing name or street name was Strawberry.
Speaker 1: She had finished dancing the bar clothes at two a m.
Speaker 1: After work, Tomary Green went to pick up her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: Eric Mitchell, a drug dealer known It's big She picked
Speaker 1: him up and was she just driving over to the
Speaker 1: city's west side and a little left to four a
Speaker 1: on there and sitting in front of one of his houses.
Speaker 1: And on the west side of Detroit. She's behind the
Speaker 1: steering wheel and big E is sitting in the right
Speaker 1: front passengers seat. Big E Eric he looked in front
Speaker 1: of him at the corner. He's seen a light color
Speaker 1: suv turn and started approaching their vehicle head head on.
Speaker 1: The driver put out his left hand while Eric Mitchell,
Speaker 1: by his own statement, just try to get down on
Speaker 1: the floorboard as the suv got closer the driver this
Speaker 1: ver we started firing and apparently emptied the clip of ammunition.
Speaker 1: She was struck three times. I believe Eric was struck
Speaker 1: twice in the shoulder and the vehicle went down the street.
Speaker 1: The STUV rolled past him. Eric Mitchell jumps out of
Speaker 1: the car and from there he runs up on a
Speaker 1: porch asking neighbors for help, and the police arrived. The
Speaker 1: SUV's already gone out of sight. Uh E. M s
Speaker 1: gets on the scene. They pulled Themaric Green from the
Speaker 1: vehicle and she's she's basically dead at the scene. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of shootings in Detroit, but the murder
Speaker 1: of Tamarrow Green wouldn't go unnoticed thanks to one particular detail.
Speaker 1: The Lieutenant Church of squad Aid had made a remark
Speaker 1: the caliber bullets that had a killder or forty caliber bullets,
Speaker 1: and he made to remark, well, you know Detroit police
Speaker 1: carry black forty caliber weapons. Well here you know. The
Speaker 1: media started a frenzy again, claims that strippers went to
Speaker 1: the Mayor's mansion for a party for Fammi Killpatrick, that
Speaker 1: the mayor's wife showed up and was outraged. Reports she
Speaker 1: attacked and assaulted one of the exotic dancers, and that
Speaker 1: one of the dancers at the mansion was to Mary Green,
Speaker 1: a high press Stripford known as Strawberry. The same woman,
Speaker 1: two months later was murdered in the drive by police
Speaker 1: now described that as a head wild rumors or true story.
Speaker 1: To Mary Green was the person supposed that got beat
Speaker 1: up at the party by the mayor's wife. This is
Speaker 1: Christine Beatty, Qualmi's chief of staff. Ultimately, she ended up dead.
Speaker 1: So then they tried to do this theory of old
Speaker 1: She ended up dead because she danced at the mayor's
Speaker 1: party when that thing came up and took on its
Speaker 1: own life. Again, we had already established it. There was
Speaker 1: no party, so now try to tie this random girl's
Speaker 1: murder in with you know, the Mayorn administration was to this.
Speaker 1: It makes me so angry. I did it was. It
Speaker 1: was a horrible time for us. It was a horrible time.
Speaker 1: Then after this young lady got killed, I heard that,
Speaker 1: oh that was the stripper at the man The news
Speaker 1: was chased me down, calling me a murderer. After that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, because I'm out of here busting my butt
Speaker 1: for this time. I mean, you know, I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Ea sleep, you know, I was waking up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night doing all kinds of stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: we just trying to shovel, stoke, cut grass, fixed streets.
Speaker 1: All of that work got swallowed up in this kind
Speaker 1: of negro urban legend it was called. But it was
Speaker 1: more than that. It was a part of the whole
Speaker 1: process of really demonizing and uh degrading me. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely hurt. I was depressed and tired and wanted
Speaker 1: to get up out of there in Detroit a huge
Speaker 1: development in the Minugian mansion scandal involving a stripper who
Speaker 1: later wound up that that scandal revolves around in Detroit.
Speaker 1: To Mayor Cormie Kilpatrick his wife. When we start coming
Speaker 1: up on time to run again, which is two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, we had to seriously think about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like I want out of here. I mean
Speaker 1: I was very like, I'm breaking my neck for what now?
Speaker 1: Like hold on? And of course you always come back
Speaker 1: to the people, the citizens that your servant. But is
Speaker 1: it worth being attacked in this way? And I don't
Speaker 1: remember the exact conversations of how we got there. I
Speaker 1: know the overall thing was we can't go out like this,
Speaker 1: like this can't be the Swan song, like we owe
Speaker 1: it to our city and the people that are here
Speaker 1: to continue this fight.