Dear Anita

亲爱的安妮塔

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

犯罪纪实

第 8 集

33 分钟
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Throughout this podcast, we’ve told Anita’s story through the words of her family and friends. Now it’s Anita’s turn. Through a journal she left behind, we explore the last months of Anita’s life, narrated by her granddaughter and namesake, Anita Brown. We want to hear what you think about She Has A Name. Please help us out by filling out a short audience survey: https://www.apmstudios.org/survey

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  • Hey, just a heads up.

  • As always, on this podcast, we discuss some heavy topics, including murder and other acts of violence.

  • Listener discretion is advised.

  • It was a Sunday, March 7th of 2020 to be exact, when we were being told to hunker down and sequester ourselves from a new virus taking hold, that Antonio made the urgent decision to bring the people closest to him together for homegoing.

  • Anita Ann Wiley was born Aug.

  • 3, 1958, to Carlene Stafford in O.C.

  • hill in Detroit, Michigan, marking the beginning of a wonderful childhood as the oldest sibling of an ever expanding family.

  • At a young age, Anita would join the union of her mother, Carlene, to Leo Wiley Jr.

  • With love.

  • A service for his mom, 33 years in the making at the United Memorial Garden Cemetery, the place she'd been all of this time and now her final resting place.

  • The words for her obituary instinctually poured out of Antonio.

  • All the things he'd practiced over the years in his head, the things he told himself he'd say if he ever had the chance.

  • Remembered as a social butterfly whom had a way with words, Anita loved and lived life to the fullest, touching the hearts of many in a positive and meaningful way.

  • Just about everyone Antonio could get in touch with came childhood friends and associates who wondered all of these years, whatever happened to Anita and family like Frank and Val?

  • We drove down there and, you know, I can't really explain how I felt.

  • It was like a little bit of, is it real?

  • You know, is that her?

  • You know, I went through all different kind of emotions, you know what I'm saying?

  • But it really was good.

  • I mean, it was like closure.