
Sunset Route
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Sunset Route".
Oct 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
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0:14Sullivan SummerHOST
A young Black woman named Clementine Barnaby had confessed to murdering over a dozen people in the Rice Belt region of the United States.
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0:23Sullivan SummerHOST
Supposedly, the 19-year-old Louisiana native had been driven by religion to slaughter entire families up and down the Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route, using an axe to wreak havoc on unsuspecting victims.
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0:38Sullivan SummerHOST
Although Clementine claimed she killed four families, comprising 17 people— Along a 25-mile stretch of the railroad in southwestern Louisiana, newspapers quickly exaggerated her victim count and geographic reach.
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0:54Sullivan SummerHOST
In so doing, the press made Clementine Barnabé into an even more notorious serial killer.
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5:43Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so the rice belt at this point, late 1800s, early 1900s, is a place that is booming.
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5:50Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The railroads are being cut through.
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5:51Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The Southern Pacific Railroad's line, the Sunset Route, is going from New Orleans then to San Francisco.
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5:59Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so some of these towns that I'm writing about are popping up to service trains.
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
S
0:14Sullivan SummerHOST
A young Black woman named Clementine Barnaby had confessed to murdering over a dozen people in the Rice Belt region of the United States.
S
0:23Sullivan SummerHOST
Supposedly, the 19-year-old Louisiana native had been driven by religion to slaughter entire families up and down the Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route, using an axe to wreak havoc on unsuspecting victims.
S
0:38Sullivan SummerHOST
Although Clementine claimed she killed four families, comprising 17 people— Along a 25-mile stretch of the railroad in southwestern Louisiana, newspapers quickly exaggerated her victim count and geographic reach.
S
0:54Sullivan SummerHOST
In so doing, the press made Clementine Barnabé into an even more notorious serial killer.
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5:43Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so the rice belt at this point, late 1800s, early 1900s, is a place that is booming.
L
5:50Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The railroads are being cut through.
L
5:51Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The Southern Pacific Railroad's line, the Sunset Route, is going from New Orleans then to San Francisco.
L
5:59Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so some of these towns that I'm writing about are popping up to service trains.
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
S
0:14Sullivan SummerHOST
A young Black woman named Clementine Barnaby had confessed to murdering over a dozen people in the Rice Belt region of the United States.
S
0:23Sullivan SummerHOST
Supposedly, the 19-year-old Louisiana native had been driven by religion to slaughter entire families up and down the Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route, using an axe to wreak havoc on unsuspecting victims.
S
0:38Sullivan SummerHOST
Although Clementine claimed she killed four families, comprising 17 people— Along a 25-mile stretch of the railroad in southwestern Louisiana, newspapers quickly exaggerated her victim count and geographic reach.
S
0:54Sullivan SummerHOST
In so doing, the press made Clementine Barnabé into an even more notorious serial killer.
L
5:43Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so the rice belt at this point, late 1800s, early 1900s, is a place that is booming.
L
5:50Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The railroads are being cut through.
L
5:51Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
The Southern Pacific Railroad's line, the Sunset Route, is going from New Orleans then to San Francisco.
L
5:59Lauren Nicole HenleyGUEST
And so some of these towns that I'm writing about are popping up to service trains.
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
S
0:14Sullivan SummerHOST
A young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet had confessed to murdering over a dozen people in the Rice Belt region of the United States.
S
0:23Sullivan SummerHOST
Supposedly, the 19-year-old Louisiana native had been driven by religion to slaughter entire families up and down the Southern Pacific Railroad Sunset Route, using an ax to wreak havoc, uh, havoc on unsuspecting victims.
S
0:38Sullivan SummerHOST
Although Clementine claimed she killed four families comprising 17 people along a 25-mile stretch of the railroad in southwestern Louisiana, newspapers quickly exaggerated her victim count and geographic reach.
S
0:54Sullivan SummerHOST
In so doing, the press made Clementine Barnabet into an even more notorious serial killer.