Speaker 1: Truck stop brothels run by a web of ex cons,
Speaker 1: a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power, protection exchanged
Speaker 1: for cash and flesh. A brash local reporter exposing it all.
Speaker 1: This is hooker game, criminals and libertines in the South,
Speaker 1: and I am your host and lifelong wayward woman, doctor
Speaker 1: Lindsey Byron. Three years ago, I came across a gold
Speaker 1: mine of news clippings detaelling a scandal that rocked my
Speaker 1: small southern hometown. As I flipped through each page, this
Speaker 1: forgotten story came back to life.
Speaker 2: These operators utilized inner state facilities to further the prostitution activities.
Speaker 3: I was told that it was just supposed to be
Speaker 3: strictly a massage parlor.
Speaker 4: The investigation revealed that Holly and Whitehead never paid the
Speaker 4: girls for sexual favors, and Whitehead bragged about being the
Speaker 4: commonwealth attorney.
Speaker 3: In Dan Wolf's Barker. He ran to Dan bl Operation.
Speaker 3: He beats me continuously.
Speaker 5: If you print anything that you hear in the grand jury, you.
Speaker 4: Will be put in jail. My boyfriend threatened me and
Speaker 4: told me that if I didn't get out and go
Speaker 4: to work, I'd never seen my daughter again.
Speaker 5: I asked the man, what does it take to get
Speaker 5: into this lounge? He replied, all you have to do
Speaker 5: is wonderful.
Speaker 3: I never gave any massages.
Speaker 1: Join me as I bring to life a wild menagerie
Speaker 1: of country boys, kingpins, and working girls living the high
Speaker 1: life until it all came crashing down. Listen to hooker Gate,
Speaker 1: Criminals and Libertines in the South starting March nineteenth on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.