On a quiet spring morning in La Crosse, a twenty-year-old woman was suddenly gone — dead of a heroin overdose in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. What followed was a legal case that almost never happens: two men charged not with drug delivery, but with homicide.
At the center of it all is a law named for a basketball star who died nearly a quarter century earlier — a law that has since sent hundreds of people to prison across Wisconsin, and that raises questions we still don't have clear answers to.
Who is responsible when addiction ends in death? Where does love end and exploitation begin? And what does justice actually look like for a twenty-year-old girl who just simply dreamed of a life working with children?
Scott and Mickey discuss the case of Shelby Perkins, her tragic death and the controversial aftermath of it.
In the opening banter, we discuss Oshkosh going Hollywood, and an article describing some of the oldest cold cases in our state, going back hundred(s) of years!
All here, on Episode 63 of Badger Bizarre: "Shelby Perkins."
Email us: badgerbizarre@outlook.com
Opening Trailer:
Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion
Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI
Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition" - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media
Attribution for Music:
Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/
Intro: https://pixabay.com/
Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha https://www.pond5.com/
Attribution for logo design:
Sources:
State vs Mitchell Perner - Justia Law
Therealaudz - Interrogation of Mitchell Perner - YouTube
Unsloved Murders and Mysterious Vanishings in WI's Haunting History - Up North News
Wisconsin vs Mitchell Perner/Cory Koopman - Police Report
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