She Lived In Her Car, Rationed Her Medication, And Died Alone On New Year's Eve. This Is Her Story.
About this episode
The episode explores the story of Nettie Moreau, a Black woman facing systemic neglect and personal struggles on New Year's Eve.
Today on No Tears For Black Girls we are doing something we have never done before on this show.We are reading to you. Death Apnea is a book written by J.C. Reedburg, part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series, and it lives inside the same universe as this podcast. It is a story rooted in real documented patterns of Black women disappearing into hospital systems without proper family notification, bodies stored for months while families search, and organs removed without consent. It is built on the same foundation this show was built on. Black women stories that the world moves past too quickly. Black true crime that never makes the national headlines. Patterns that have been happening for four hundred years and just keep changing their clothes.Chapter Six is called The Tower Card. It is New Year's Eve in New Orleans. A woman named Nettie Moreau wakes up in the front seat of a gold Chevy Impala. She makes coffee with a half frozen water bottle. She brushes her teeth into a paper cup. She dresses with the precision of someone who has learned to keep her dignity in conditions that were never designed to allow for it. She writes a letter to her daughter that she hopes…
People in this episode
Host: John Reedburg
Topics covered
- Black women's stories
- true crime
- healthcare disparities
- systemic neglect
- New Year's Eve
- personal dignity
- disappearance
Keywords
- Black women
- true crime
- healthcare
- disappearance
- New Year's Eve
- Nettie Moreau
- Death Apnea
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Death Apnea
Places: New Orleans
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