LOVE MURDER

A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892 Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources:
1. Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever. Millbrook Press, 2019.
2. News 3 Channel, https://wreg.com/news/1892-memphis-teen-female-love-affair-turned-murder-is-new-opera/. Accessed 3 May 2026.
3. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15638529/frederica-ward. Accessed 3 May 2026.
4. Public Ledger, 26 Jan. 1892.
5. The Commercial Appeal, 29 May 1898.
6. Bolivar Bulletin, 8 Apr. 1898.
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Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French producer, wife, and mother who traveled alone to her remote cottage in West Cork just before Christmas 1996. Two days later, she was found dead outside her gate, beaten beyond recognition, in a case that drew in Irish folklore, French cinema, a troubled local journalist, years of failed prosecutions, and a family’s long fight for justice across two countries.
Sources:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/from-paris-to-west-cork-and-back-the-story-of-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-investigation-1.3910782
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/the-story-of-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-investigation-a-chronology-1.2158891
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/a-23-year-investigation-what-next-for-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-case-1.4123633
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/01/22/garda-cold-case-review-of-film-producers-murder-to-continue-despite-ian-baileys-death/
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/08/15/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-gardai-awaiting-results-of-tests-using-advanced-dna-collection-method/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/31/briton-convicted-of-murder-french-film-maker-ian-bailey-sophie-toscan-du-plantier
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/well-never-have-the-truth-death-of-suspect-ian-bailey-floors-family-of-french-film-maker
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2024/01/21/ian-bailey-man-convicted-in-france-for-murder-dies-in-ireland_6453379_105.html
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https://www.netflix.com/title/81094755
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Three of our past subjects died this spring. Betty Broderick, who served 35 years for the 1989 La Jolla murders of her ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda. Raynella Dossett Leath, the Tennessee nurse twice tried in the deaths of her district attorney husband and her second husband, and ultimately cleared. And Claudine Longet, the French-born singer whose 1976 shooting of Olympic skier Spider Sabich in Aspen ended in a thirty-day sentence served largely on weekends. We revisit how each relationship broke.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/betty-broderick-dies-in-custody/
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/05/09/convicted-murderer-betty-broderick-dead-at-78/
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/raynella-leath-a-nurse-mom-and-focus-of-criminal-investigations-in-the-deaths-of-two-husbands-dies-at-age-77/51-1afc5928-0df6-40b5-aebc-a3fe0b5147b5
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/raynella-leath-nurse-mom-focus-203603768.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/claudine-longet-dead-andy-williams-spider-sabich-1236595818/
https://deadline.com/2026/05/claudine-longet-dead-1236904878/
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A tumultuous marriage between an Egyptian “prince” and a French courtesan with ties to the British Royal Family ends in murder at The Savoy in 1920’s London.
Sources:
1. Rose, Andrew. The Woman Before Wallis. Picador, 2013.
2. Lady Killers. 1980.
3. Leake, Natasha. “How a Beguiling French Courtesan Captured the Heart of a Young British Prince, in a Love Affair That Scandalised the Royal Family | Tatler.” Tatler, Tatler, 4 Jan. 2023, https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-harrys-memoir-love-affair-edward-viii-and-french-courtesan.
4. A History of Royal Scandals. 2023.
5. “King Edward VIII - Historic UK.” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/King-Edward-VIII/. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
6. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107069659/marie_marguerite-fahmy. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
7. Irish Weekly Independent, 15 Sept. 1923.
8. Evening Standard, 28 Mar. 1958.
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This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, Jessie and Andie cover two major updates in cases of love gone fatally wrong: Kouri Richins is sentenced to life without parole for the fentanyl poisoning murder of her husband Eric, and the South Carolina Supreme Court overturns Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions after finding his trial was tainted by the court clerk’s improper comments to jurors.
Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://apnews.com/article/fa8c4b159827eef080cfa104a316454c
https://www.ksl.com/article/51496745/watch-live-kouri-richins-sentenced-for-murdering-husband-her-sons-say-they-fear-her
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/kouri-richins-eric-richins-sentencing/71291050
https://www.sccourts.org/media/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28329.pdf
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/south-carolina-lawyers-murder-conviction-overturned-2026-05-13/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/alex-murdaughs-murder-convictions-overturned-in-south-carolina-supreme-court-ruling
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