Badger Bizarre

On a quiet spring morning in La Crosse, a twenty-year-old woman was suddenly gone — dead of a he**in 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."

https://badgerbizarre.libsyn.com/shelby-perkins

New on Badger Beyond..

On the morning of February 3, 1959, a plane crash in rural Iowa claimed the lives of musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson, and pilot, Roger Peterson.

Known today as 'The Day the Music Died,' the crash left an impact on the music and popular culture industries that last to this very day, almost 7 decades later.

Scott and Mickey reflect on the events leading up to that flight, tracing their steps during the tour, including the brutal travel schedule which nearly led to all of their deaths prior to that fateful night.

The upper midwest in winter reared its ugly head in 1959. Subscribe today to hear the story of all the was stolen from the world on that day, on “Badger Beyond: The Day the Music Died.”

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