About this episode

The episode discusses the arrest of a woman claiming to be a Romanian princess found sleeping in a stolen car in New Jersey.

Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only innocent, but said she was telling the truth - she really was a Romanian princess. Sources: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509995/HRH-Prince-Carol-of-Romania.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/23/archives/new-jersey-weekly-the-princess-and-the-police-once-upon-the.html https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/15/Lawsuit-against-princess-dismissed/2985395553600/ https://stiri.botosani.ro/stiri/actualitate/paul-de-romania-mai-are-un-frate-printul-alexandru.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• true crime
• legal issues
• identity
• society
• culture

Keywords

• New Jersey
• arrest
• Romanian princess
• Jack Kershaw
• stolen vehicle

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Romanian princess

Places: New Jersey, strip mall parking lot

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