On a rainy and cold January day in 1935, a rabbit hunter came across a sugar sack on a rural road in Laurel, Mississippi. He opened it up and found a pair of legs and part of a lower torso of a white female. On that same day, 57-year-old Daisy Keeton went missing. She was something of a small town celebrity with her and her large family continuously making the gossip pages in the small town of Laurel. Her daughter, 36-year-old Ouida Mae, was telling everyone that her mama was out of town. But the town wasn’t buying it.
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Hosted and produced by Erica Kelley
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SOURCES:
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3542740/mcrae-v-robinson/?q=%22Ouida%20Keeton%22
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3545192/keeton-v-state/?q=%22Ouida%20Keeton%22
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3547442/state-v-keeton/?q=%22Ouida%20Keeton%22
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