Stuff You Missed in History Class
Oct 16, 2026 · 29 min · 21 segments
Holly shares an odd detail about the red barn murder case. She and Tracy also discuss the way Forrest Mars may have affected the way his father's life is described. See…
Tracy V. WilsonHostI just love knowing that anything we talk about today, you know, when, like, horrific crimes happen and people are like, "Humans have really fallen apart," I'm like, "We were kinda always this way.
There is a wacky part of this story that was not important enough to include in the narrative of the murder and its outcome-
but is wackadoodle, which is that between the time that the verdict was given and the sentence for, of death was issued by the judge, there was a little bit of confusion because I think it was the judge wanted to see Corter's pistols.
And the investigator, Lee, had been entitled to take possession of those pistols when he-
... apprehended them, and, like, once the case was laid out and they didn't need them anymore as evidence-
Lee, the officer, claimed them as his property in consequence of a promise which he had received from the prisoner when he first apprehended him, and when, of course, he had a right to dispose of his property.
But then, a, a member of the court working for the sheriff's office was told to take possession of them, and he was like, "All right.
I just love knowing that anything we talk about today, you know, when, like, horrific crimes happen and people are like, "Humans have really fallen apart," I'm like, "We were kinda always this way.
There is a wacky part of this story that was not important enough to include in the narrative of the murder and its outcome-
but is wackadoodle, which is that between the time that the verdict was given and the sentence for, of death was issued by the judge, there was a little bit of confusion because I think it was the judge wanted to see Corter's pistols.
And the investigator, Lee, had been entitled to take possession of those pistols when he-
... apprehended them, and, like, once the case was laid out and they didn't need them anymore as evidence-
Lee, the officer, claimed them as his property in consequence of a promise which he had received from the prisoner when he first apprehended him, and when, of course, he had a right to dispose of his property.
But then, a, a member of the court working for the sheriff's office was told to take possession of them, and he was like, "All right.
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