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MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones

6/15/202656 min

Alberta O. Jones was breaking barriers in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the first Black woman prosecutor in the city’s history, she helped register some 6,000 Black citizens to vote, and she was a leader in the city’s civil rights movement. But on Aug. 5, 1965 –  before she could make even more changes in the highly segregated city – Alberta was found dead floating in the Ohio River. The night before, she reluctantly went out late to visit a close friend, setting off a 60-year mystery that has led to more questions than answers. 

Was Alberta killed in a random robbery? Was she set up by her best friend? Or was she targeted for her dangerous civil rights work? 

  • If you have any information about the death of Alberta O. Jones, you can contact the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Cold Case Squad at 502-574-7055, or you can email us directly at tips@audiochuck.com.

 

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Clips

Crucial Prints In Trash
Police Car On Bridge
Polygraph Bombshell
Was Gladys Involved?
Alberta’s Trailblazing Achievements

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First 90 seconds

  1. Brit Prawat· Host0:00

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  2. Ashley Flowers· Host0:29

    Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

  3. Brit Prawat· Host0:33

    And I'm Brit.

  4. Ashley Flowers· Host0:34

    You guys, there's a story out of Louisville, Kentucky, that I bet you've never heard of, about a woman that you've probably never heard of. But I don't know why, because it's one of the most mysterious cases I've ever come across. A call in the middle of the night lures a woman out of her home, and hours later, her body is found floating in a nearby river. The list of suspects is a mile long, and evidence keeps showing up all over town, sometimes in suspiciously planted ways. Yet, for 60 years, this case has remained unsolved. Our investigation set out to ask the question, why? And the possibilities will surprise you. Maybe it's because evidence in the case mysteriously disappeared. It could be because some investigators on this case had ulterior motives, or it could be because the very foundation that this

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