{"id":1507,"date":"2026-03-07T15:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:34:47","slug":"episode-184-fifty-states-of-murder-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/episode-184-fifty-states-of-murder-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 184: Fifty States of Murder: North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Get ready for a double-whammy Black History Month Fifty States of Murder DUSE-style extravaganza as Eli and Mel connect the dots to reveal the truth about one of the oldest and most violent cults in American history: the Black Hebrew Israelites. The first congregations were founded over a hundred years ago but the words of their prophets, Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, are at the heart of the historical revisionism that pervades modern black culture &#8212; and cults. One such cult was that of Peter Lucas Moses Jr., a man whose family values included brainwashing, polygamy, and murder in\u2026 North Carolina!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Fifty States of Murder: North Carolina\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2mD0qfoJ92I2bfSIwE1EkV?si=9e7a142831cf4874&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired March 2, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for a double-whammy Black History Month Fifty States of Murder DUSE-style extravaganza as Eli and Mel connect the dots to reveal the truth about one of the oldest and most violent cults in American history: the Black Hebrew Israelites. The first congregations were founded over a hundred years ago but the words of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,35,91,132],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-black-history-month","tag-cult","tag-fifty-states-of-murder","tag-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/episode-184-Fifty-States-of-Murder-North-Carolina.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}