web02.fireside.fm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:47:21 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Muck Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Death Penalty” https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/tags/death%20penalty Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:15:00 -0400 A weekly podcast where the dark, and sometimes weird, true stories in American politics are discussed. en-us episodic maladies, madness, mischief, and murder in American politics. The Muck Podcast A weekly podcast where the dark, and sometimes weird, true stories in American politics are discussed. yes The Muck Podcast themuckpodcast@gmail.com Episode 119: Never Rah Rah Women | Alien Property Custodian and Melissa Lucio https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/ep119-neverrahrahwomen f57869f4-e849-4879-8897-4413680f6d65 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:15:00 -0400 The Muck Podcast full 3 The Muck Podcast 1:30:53 yes Hillary and Tina cover the Alien Property Custodian and the State of Texas vs. Melissa Lucio. Hillary’s Story The Office of Alien Property Custodian began with the purpose of holding property belonging to enemies of the United States. BUT things go too far when bribes are exchanged for patents and other goods. Tina’s Story Melissa Lucio lost her daughter in 2007 after a tragic accident. BUT despite no evidence to the contrary, the State of Texas sentenced her to death for a murder that never happened. Sources Hillary's Story Cornell Law School 50 U.S. Code § 4306 - Alien Property Custodian; general powers and duties (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/4306) Duke Law School THE WORK OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN (https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2230&context=lcp)--by PAUL V. MYRON National Archives Civilian Agency Records RG 131 (https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/civilian/rg-131.html) Records of the office of Alien Property (https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/131.html) Smithsonian Magazine The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/)--by Daniel Gross University of Hawaii Government Documents - Independent Agencies, Boards, and Commissions: Alien Property Custodian (https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/c.php?g=105350&p=4167860#:~:text=The%20Office%20of%20Alien%20Property,were%20transferred%20to%20the%20Alien) University of Virginia "Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Office of Alien Property Custodian:" Draft, 1943 (https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/uva-law/archival_objects/rules_of_practice_and_procedure_of_the_office_of) Wikipedia Office of Alien Property Custodian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian) Photos President Wilson and Mitchell Palmer (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Wilson-palmer-c1918.jpg/1280px-Wilson-palmer-c1918.jpg)--Bain News Service, Public Domain Outside the sale of the A.W. Faber Pencil Co. Plant--via National Archives and Records Administration (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Alien_Property_Custodian_sale_of_the_plant_of_A._W._Faber_Pencil_Co.%2C_Newark%2C_N.J.jpg/1920px-Alien_Property_Custodian_sale_of_the_plant_of_A._W._Faber_Pencil_Co.%2C_Newark%2C_N.J.jpg), Public Domain Letter to the MET Museum of Art regarding Sale of Antiques (https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/827333/1895282/restricted)--via The MET Museum Tina's Story The Action Network Melissa Lucio: Innocent Woman on Death Row in Texas (https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/melissa-lucio-innocent-woman-on-death-row-in-texas-2) Death Penalty Information Center Federal Appeals Court Overturns Mother’s Conviction in Texas Child Murder Case That May Have Been an Accidental Death (https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/federal-appeals-court-overturns-mothers-conviction-in-texas-child-murder-case-that-may-have-been-an-accidental-death) U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Federal Appeals Court Ruling Overturning Grant of a New Trial for Texas Woman on Death Row for What May Have Been the Accidental Death of Her Child (https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-review-federal-appeals-court-ruling-overturning-grant-of-a-new-trial-for-texas-woman-on-death-row-for-what-may-have-been-the-accidental-death-of-her-child) Free Melissa Lucio Free Melissa Lucio (https://freemelissalucio.org/) Independent via Yahoo News Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’ (https://news.yahoo.com/juror-sentenced-melissa-lucio-death-192021169.html)--by Justin Vallejo Innocence Project Melissa Lucio: 9 Facts You Should Know About This Innocent Woman Facing Execution (https://innocenceproject.org/melissa-lucio-9-facts-innocent-woman-facing-execution/) The Intercept Rush to Judgment--by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith (https://theintercept.com/2022/03/05/melissa-lucio-texas-death-penalty/) Jezebel Kim Kardashian Urges Clemency for Melissa Lucio, Woman on Death Row in Texas (https://jezebel.com/kim-kardashian-urges-clemency-for-melissa-lucio-woman-1848753308)--by Kylie Cheung Justia MELISSA ELIZABETH LUCIO v. THE STATE OF TEXAS (concurring) (https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/court-of-criminal-appeals/2011/21496.html) KRGV 'She's innocent': Family asking Valley officials to watch documentary, halt execution of Melissa Lucio (https://www.krgv.com/news/she-s-innocent-family-asking-valley-officials-to-watch-documentary-halt-execution-of-melissa-lucio/)--by Stefany Rosales Ms. Texas Set to Execute Melissa Lucio Despite Credible Claims of Innocence (https://msmagazine.com/2022/03/15/melissa-lucio-texas-death-penalty/)--by MICHELLE ONELLO NPR Lawyers hope new evidence can stop Texas woman Melissa Lucio's execution (https://www.npr.org/2022/04/03/1090491855/lawyers-hope-new-evidence-can-stop-texas-woman-melissa-lucios-execution)--by The Associated Press Texas Department of Criminal Justice Death Row Information: Lucio, Melissa Elizabeth (https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/luciomelissa.html) US Courts United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-70027 (https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/16/16-70027-CV0.pdf) The Washington Post Her execution date looming, a mother maintains innocence in 2-year-old daughter’s death (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/10/melissa-lucio-death-row/)--By Marisa Lati Wikipedia Melissa Lucio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Lucio) The State of Texas vs. Melissa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_of_Texas_vs._Melissa) Photos Melissa Lucio Mug Shot (https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ap_ViputgVb760siePppwg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEyOTQ7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uf11OY5V9dIMirSGdO5iMA--~B/aD0xMzgwO3c9MTAyNDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/e9e537442ff97551c14c274b5d257b71)--from Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Yahoo News Melissa Lucio Prior to Her Conviction (https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ap_ViputgVb760siePppwg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEyOTQ7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uf11OY5V9dIMirSGdO5iMA--~B/aD0xMzgwO3c9MTAyNDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/e9e537442ff97551c14c274b5d257b71)--screenshot of family photo via The Innocence Project Kim Kardassian Tweet Regarding Lucio's Case (https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-death-row-inmate-melissa-lucios-case/story?id=83934688)--screenshot via ABC News true crime, politics, corrupt, US politics, American politics, US government, WW1, WW2, Alien Property Custodian, bribery, discrimination, patents, US patents, stolen goods, Melissa Lucio, Texas, death penalty, child abuse, racism, sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence Hillary and Tina cover the Alien Property Custodian and the State of Texas vs. Melissa Lucio.

Hillary’s Story
The Office of Alien Property Custodian began with the purpose of holding property belonging to enemies of the United States. BUT things go too far when bribes are exchanged for patents and other goods.

Tina’s Story
Melissa Lucio lost her daughter in 2007 after a tragic accident. BUT despite no evidence to the contrary, the State of Texas sentenced her to death for a murder that never happened.

Sources
Hillary's Story
Cornell Law School
50 U.S. Code § 4306 - Alien Property Custodian; general powers and duties

Duke Law School
THE WORK OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN--by PAUL V. MYRON

National Archives
Civilian Agency Records RG 131
Records of the office of Alien Property

Smithsonian Magazine
The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI--by Daniel Gross

University of Hawaii
Government Documents - Independent Agencies, Boards, and Commissions: Alien Property Custodian

University of Virginia
"Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Office of Alien Property Custodian:" Draft, 1943

Wikipedia
Office of Alien Property Custodian

Photos
President Wilson and Mitchell Palmer--Bain News Service, Public Domain
Outside the sale of the A.W. Faber Pencil Co. Plant--via National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain
Letter to the MET Museum of Art regarding Sale of Antiques--via The MET Museum

Tina's Story
The Action Network
Melissa Lucio: Innocent Woman on Death Row in Texas

Death Penalty Information Center
Federal Appeals Court Overturns Mother’s Conviction in Texas Child Murder Case That May Have Been an Accidental Death
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Federal Appeals Court Ruling Overturning Grant of a New Trial for Texas Woman on Death Row for What May Have Been the Accidental Death of Her Child

Free Melissa Lucio
Free Melissa Lucio

Independent via Yahoo News
Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’--by Justin Vallejo

Innocence Project
Melissa Lucio: 9 Facts You Should Know About This Innocent Woman Facing Execution

The Intercept
Rush to Judgment--by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith

Jezebel
Kim Kardashian Urges Clemency for Melissa Lucio, Woman on Death Row in Texas--by Kylie Cheung

Justia
MELISSA ELIZABETH LUCIO v. THE STATE OF TEXAS (concurring)

KRGV
'She's innocent': Family asking Valley officials to watch documentary, halt execution of Melissa Lucio--by Stefany Rosales

Ms.
Texas Set to Execute Melissa Lucio Despite Credible Claims of Innocence--by MICHELLE ONELLO

NPR
Lawyers hope new evidence can stop Texas woman Melissa Lucio's execution--by The Associated Press

Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Death Row Information: Lucio, Melissa Elizabeth

US Courts
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-70027

The Washington Post
Her execution date looming, a mother maintains innocence in 2-year-old daughter’s death--By Marisa Lati

Wikipedia
Melissa Lucio
The State of Texas vs. Melissa

Photos
Melissa Lucio Mug Shot--from Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Yahoo News

Melissa Lucio Prior to Her Conviction--screenshot of family photo via The Innocence Project
Kim Kardassian Tweet Regarding Lucio's Case--screenshot via ABC News

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Hillary’s Story
The Office of Alien Property Custodian began with the purpose of holding property belonging to enemies of the United States. BUT things go too far when bribes are exchanged for patents and other goods.

Tina’s Story
Melissa Lucio lost her daughter in 2007 after a tragic accident. BUT despite no evidence to the contrary, the State of Texas sentenced her to death for a murder that never happened.

Sources
Hillary's Story
Cornell Law School
50 U.S. Code § 4306 - Alien Property Custodian; general powers and duties

Duke Law School
THE WORK OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN--by PAUL V. MYRON

National Archives
Civilian Agency Records RG 131
Records of the office of Alien Property

Smithsonian Magazine
The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI--by Daniel Gross

University of Hawaii
Government Documents - Independent Agencies, Boards, and Commissions: Alien Property Custodian

University of Virginia
"Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Office of Alien Property Custodian:" Draft, 1943

Wikipedia
Office of Alien Property Custodian

Photos
President Wilson and Mitchell Palmer--Bain News Service, Public Domain
Outside the sale of the A.W. Faber Pencil Co. Plant--via National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain
Letter to the MET Museum of Art regarding Sale of Antiques--via The MET Museum

Tina's Story
The Action Network
Melissa Lucio: Innocent Woman on Death Row in Texas

Death Penalty Information Center
Federal Appeals Court Overturns Mother’s Conviction in Texas Child Murder Case That May Have Been an Accidental Death
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Federal Appeals Court Ruling Overturning Grant of a New Trial for Texas Woman on Death Row for What May Have Been the Accidental Death of Her Child

Free Melissa Lucio
Free Melissa Lucio

Independent via Yahoo News
Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’--by Justin Vallejo

Innocence Project
Melissa Lucio: 9 Facts You Should Know About This Innocent Woman Facing Execution

The Intercept
Rush to Judgment--by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith

Jezebel
Kim Kardashian Urges Clemency for Melissa Lucio, Woman on Death Row in Texas--by Kylie Cheung

Justia
MELISSA ELIZABETH LUCIO v. THE STATE OF TEXAS (concurring)

KRGV
'She's innocent': Family asking Valley officials to watch documentary, halt execution of Melissa Lucio--by Stefany Rosales

Ms.
Texas Set to Execute Melissa Lucio Despite Credible Claims of Innocence--by MICHELLE ONELLO

NPR
Lawyers hope new evidence can stop Texas woman Melissa Lucio's execution--by The Associated Press

Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Death Row Information: Lucio, Melissa Elizabeth

US Courts
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-70027

The Washington Post
Her execution date looming, a mother maintains innocence in 2-year-old daughter’s death--By Marisa Lati

Wikipedia
Melissa Lucio
The State of Texas vs. Melissa

Photos
Melissa Lucio Mug Shot--from Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Yahoo News

Melissa Lucio Prior to Her Conviction--screenshot of family photo via The Innocence Project
Kim Kardassian Tweet Regarding Lucio's Case--screenshot via ABC News

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]]> Episode 98: Cold Hard Hands | O. C. Smith and Jonathan and Diana Toebbe https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/ep98-coldhardhands 6497c0d6-b4f6-4543-aeb1-98426592554b Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:15:00 -0500 The Muck Podcast full 2 The Muck Podcast 52:51 yes Tina and Hillary cover former Chief Medical Examiner O.C. Smith and Jonathan and Diana Toebbe. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/ep98notes). true crime, politics, corrupt, US politics, American politics, medical examiner, O C Smith, Shelby County, Naval Engineer, bomb, attack, death penalty, spies, government secrets Tina and Hillary cover former Chief Medical Examiner O.C. Smith and Jonathan and Diana Toebbe.

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