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Magnolia is the county seat of Columbia County.
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FILE 269 / 31 March 2022 / 163 MIN / full
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Magnolia is the county seat of Columbia County.
about 0:07:34Home of Southern Arkansas University.
about 0:07:41An important industrial centre with large oil and bromine industries.
about 0:08:38The town became an agricultural and regional cotton market before oil was found.
about 0:09:55Magnolia is the county seat of Columbia County.
about 0:07:34Home of Southern Arkansas University.
about 0:07:41An important industrial centre with large oil and bromine industries.
about 0:08:38The town became an agricultural and regional cotton market before oil was found.
about 0:09:55Oil was discovered there in 1938 and was drilled by the Berlin Company.
about 0:10:05The Magnolia oil field was the largest producing oil field in volume during the early years of the Second World War.
about 0:10:31In March 2013 more than 5,000 barrels of oil leaked from a Lion Oil Trading and Transportation storage tank in Magnolia, some flowing into the bayou.
about 0:11:02The town's motto is 'discover the difference'.
about 0:07:16The one famous person from Magnolia is Charlene Harris, who wrote the True Blood books.
about 0:11:2152.5%
Biggest faith: Baptists, 25%
about 0:15:45White 50.1% · Black 42% · Asian 2.3% · Hispanic 2.3%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▲ about 50% high
Violent crime
▲ maybe 15, 20% high
Three-bedroom, one-bath house, 1,260 square feet
about 0:18:25Three-bedroom, one-bath house, 1,664 square feet
about 0:18:50Five-bedroom, four-bath house, 4,595 square feet
about 0:19:38"about 50% high"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: above.
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"maybe 15, 20% high"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: above.
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"11,433"
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"56%"
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"43%"
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"27.2"
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"41%"
Comparison: "high for a young population". Direction: above.
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"25%"
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"50.1%"
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"42%"
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"2.3%"
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"2.3%"
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"52.5%"
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"25%"
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"0.0%"
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"$34,461"
Comparison: "usually over $54,000 in the rest of the country". Direction: above.
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"$73,000"
Comparison: "$100,000 is regular, average". Direction: below.
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"$103,400"
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"about $676"
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"$59,000"
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"$129,000"
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"$349,900"
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3.3 / 5 · average of 4
“Changing into a charming town, diverse and vibrant population drawn by the university, horse and mule riding, outdoor theatre, cycling and new establishments.”about 0:12:14
“It is a little bit different here and it is scary as a female to take a late-night stroll.”about 0:13:19
“Great place to live, great banks, small town feel, safe environment, friendly during the day and a great place to raise a family.”about 0:13:31
“The night scene is non-existent and they only recently started selling alcohol in the stores.”about 0:14:05
One of fourteen children from Bradley, Arkansas, she was the only one of the family to attend college. He had a criminal record going back to the age of sixteen, and in 1965 California police had described him as a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde bandit after ten holdup victims identified him in lineups. He had taken more than $3,300 and shot three people in that spree, none of them fatally. Fellow inmates Thurman Moore Jr., Jackie Moore, Donald Lee Biddle and Troy Lee Biggs all heard parts of the scheme.
Five prisoners walked out. The Sumlans and the two Moores drove away in Cooper's Pontiac, the Moores in front and the newlyweds in the back. They stopped in Magnolia for petrol and in Cairo for liquor, went to El Dorado to decide what to do, then headed north toward Fordyce. In the car they found more liquor in the boot and Cooper's wallet in the console with thirty-five dollars in it. He proposed killing both men for the money, found a .22 pistol in the car and had the car pulled over. His gun misfired at first. Thurman Moore was hit twice in the neck, Jackie Moore in the head, and one of them in the leg. Both survived.
What neither the Moores nor the police yet knew was that Cooper was already dead. On the Friday or Saturday after the escape, deer hunters found the body in the woods, clothed only in socks and an undershirt, shot once through the temple. His genitals had been cut and his scrotum and its contents were missing. The medical examiner found no alcohol in his bloodstream, so the story that he had been got drunk did not hold. Tissue containing semen and blood was found around the body. A car had evidently run over his legs, but the mutilation was a clean cut, not a crushing.
A Fordyce policeman picked up the chase about seven miles outside Fordyce. 'I'm much, much worse than he is', she wrote.
There she changed her mind, asked to speak to her husband and to telephone a neighbour, and then gave a taped statement. She admitted planning to take Cooper's car and using it for the escape, said they had had sex in the back seat and that she shot him afterwards. She denied the mutilation.
Graphic photographs of the body were admitted over objection; the judge excluded duplicates. The two Moores testified that no one else had been in the car.
The prosecutor and the Columbia County Sheriff's Office opposed her.
November 1977 / a wooded area off Calhoun Road, east of Magnolia, Arkansas
As told in the episode, on 31 March 2022.
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