Introducing Crimetown, Season 2

a microphone. You can have a movie for your ears. The first season of Crimetown told the story of crime, corruption, and the intersection of the mob and politics in Providence, Rhode Island, where they had this wild mayor, Buddy Ciancy, who beat up a guy he thought was sleeping with his wife and then he was forced to resign, but then he got reelected several times. It's insane and it's incredible.

It's truly the best thing I think that's ever been made in the podcast space, and I'm not bias at all, why would it be biased. In season two, Crimetown goes to Detroit, where a new mayor is at the center of the story, Qualmie Killpatrick. And if you don't know anything about Kwamie Kilpatrick, give that a little google. It's really juicy. The Crimetown team talked with Qualmie for hours. He told the story of his epic rise as this

political star. He was hailed as like the new hope for a Detroit that had weathered decades of white flight and the industrialization and the War on drugs. But of course he also had an epic fall. I'm gonna play you a clip from Crimetown season two in which Kuami talks about a rumor that he threw a wild party at the mayor's mansion and that a stripper at that party wound up dead. As the rumors grew, Kwami found

himself in a fight for his political life. The second season of Crimetown is available wherever you get your podcasts. Make sure you start from the beginning and subscribes so you can snag the new episodes as they come out. I hope you love it. I know you will, and I'll see you soon. I love crime Town, but I Detroit Mayor Kwamie Kilpatrick hopes he's putting all the rumors

and allegations are wrongdoing to rest. In May two thousand three, a day after Heather Catalo confronted Kwamie Kilpatrick, the mayor flew back to Detroit. He called a press conference on the steps of the Manugian Mansion to address the scandal. I want to stand here and tell the citizens of the city of Detroit that Kwamie Kilpatrick has absolutely nothing to hide about any of these allegations. I think and feel very strongly that an independent evaluation or investigation needs

to be done on all of these allegations. So the next time that someone is this runner and starts to say anything, you all won't take it as true. And with that, surrounded by family and friends and appointees, the city's youngest mayor talked about the allegations that have rocked his administration. The most serious that there was a wild party at the Manougian Mansion with new dancers and his

wife walked in. It never happened. It never happened. It never happened, and there are lemmy try it again and again to dismiss the rumor of a wild party at the mayor's residence, but it just wouldn't go away, and not only that right around this time something happened that was about to make the rumor much much worse. This was a typical drive by shooting. This is Mike Carlyle,

a Detroit homicide detective. In April two thousand three, a woman named Tamara Green, who worked as an exotic dancer, was finishing up her shift at a strip club Tomorrow Agreen, she is known. Her dancing name or street name was Strawberry.

She had finished dancing the bar clothes at two a m. After work, Tomary Green went to pick up her boyfriend, Eric Mitchell, a drug dealer known It's big She picked him up and was she just driving over to the city's west side and a little left to four a on there and sitting in front of one of his houses. And on the west side of Detroit. She's behind the steering wheel and big E is sitting in the right front passengers seat. Big E Eric he looked in front

of him at the corner. He's seen a light color suv turn and started approaching their vehicle head head on. The driver put out his left hand while Eric Mitchell, by his own statement, just try to get down on the floorboard as the suv got closer the driver this ver we started firing and apparently emptied the clip of ammunition. She was struck three times. I believe Eric was struck twice in the shoulder and the vehicle went down the street.

The STUV rolled past him. Eric Mitchell jumps out of the car and from there he runs up on a porch asking neighbors for help, and the police arrived. The SUV's already gone out of sight. Uh E. M s gets on the scene. They pulled Themaric Green from the vehicle and she's she's basically dead at the scene. There are a lot of shootings in Detroit, but the murder of Tamarrow Green wouldn't go unnoticed thanks to one particular detail.

The Lieutenant Church of squad Aid had made a remark the caliber bullets that had a killder or forty caliber bullets, and he made to remark, well, you know Detroit police carry black forty caliber weapons. Well here you know. The media started a frenzy again, claims that strippers went to the Mayor's mansion for a party for Fammi Killpatrick, that

the mayor's wife showed up and was outraged. Reports she attacked and assaulted one of the exotic dancers, and that one of the dancers at the mansion was to Mary Green, a high press Stripford known as Strawberry. The same woman, two months later was murdered in the drive by police now described that as a head wild rumors or true story. To Mary Green was the person supposed that got beat up at the party by the mayor's wife. This is

Christine Beatty, Qualmi's chief of staff. Ultimately, she ended up dead. So then they tried to do this theory of old She ended up dead because she danced at the mayor's party when that thing came up and took on its own life. Again, we had already established it. There was no party, so now try to tie this random girl's murder in with you know, the Mayorn administration was to this. It makes me so angry. I did it was. It was a horrible time for us. It was a horrible time.

Then after this young lady got killed, I heard that, oh that was the stripper at the man The news was chased me down, calling me a murderer. After that, I'm like, because I'm out of here busting my butt for this time. I mean, you know, I didn't get it. Ea sleep, you know, I was waking up in the middle of the night doing all kinds of stuff. You know, we just trying to shovel, stoke, cut grass, fixed streets. All of that work got swallowed up in this kind

of negro urban legend it was called. But it was more than that. It was a part of the whole process of really demonizing and uh degrading me. And so yeah, it definitely hurt. I was depressed and tired and wanted to get up out of there in Detroit a huge development in the Minugian mansion scandal involving a stripper who later wound up that that scandal revolves around in Detroit. To Mayor Cormie Kilpatrick his wife. When we start coming up on time to run again, which is two thousand

and five, we had to seriously think about it. I mean, it was like I want out of here. I mean I was very like, I'm breaking my neck for what now? Like hold on? And of course you always come back to the people, the citizens that your servant. But is it worth being attacked in this way? And I don't

remember the exact conversations of how we got there. I know the overall thing was we can't go out like this, like this can't be the Swan song, like we owe it to our city and the people that are here to continue this fight.