I learned some terrible news back on January 10th. It was about Carol Howe, the subject of my 2023 Audible show The Debutante.
She was a high society Tulsa debutante, then she joined an especially violent and unhinged white supremacist group, becoming their enthusiastic spokeswoman, then she turned undercover informant for the ATF. Then she disappeared. That was 1997. An already very mysterious woman had become even more mysterious.
Then, on January 10th 2025, I received a message on instagram:
Mr. Ronson…. I just listened to an interview you did about Carol Howe. I have been listening to anything I can about her because she died Monday in a house fire across the street from me. She was going by the name Sarah Collins, but it has been confirmed that she was Carol Howe. She was a complete recluse. About 4 1/2 years ago she went inside her house and never came out.
I’ve travelled to Sparta, TN - where she’d been living under her assumed name - and have made a brand new epilogue episode of The Debutante, which is now available.
In it, neighbors and family members and people closest to her share for the first time some very surprising - sometimes extraordinary - stories. They paint a much fuller picture of Carol, from her childhood to her final days.
HOW TO LISTEN:
If you don’t already have The Debutante then the entire series, including the new epilogue, is right here.
If you already have the show, the epilogue won’t just automatically appear on your phone. Instead please delete it and REDOWNLOAD IT. You will NOT BE CHARGED AGAIN. Anyway, it’s free for Audible subscribers.
And then if you want to skip straight to the epilogue, just click on the chapters.
Thank you
Jon
PS: This epilogue will be the only new work I’ll bring out in 2025. My new book - my first since 2015’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed - is almost done. It’ll be published next year. I’ll tell you more as soon as I can. And in November of this year I’ll be doing these new Psychopath Night shows in the UK.
Okay bye.
Looking forward to watching your interview on The Moynihan Report later today. Cheers.
Wow. The true crime lives.... I don't know her story but mysterious end to her life.
I've started writing about undercover methamphetamine dealers for the Davenport Iowa Police Department after I was told outright that the methamphetamine dealers living next door were not arrested by Davenport police for repeatedly burglarizing my home and vandalizing my car forcing me to lose my car and my delivery job....
Was because they are working for the police department and allowed to commit burglaries and other serious felony crimes without arrests ....
Of course 2 felony career criminal cousins are also close relatives with a top finance department official with police chief photos on her social media and golf course Supervisor who gets something like $80.000 for a part year work managing golf course and alcohol sales of taxpayers subsidized alcohol.. .
One deals meth for the city police....AND the other one deals alcohol for parks and recreation.
Also a man Brian Goodwin was forced to deal methamphetamine for the Davenport police and an innocent woman and he were murdered in the Davenlort Iowa Police Department Ran Meth House at 5210 north Division street in Davenport near a school. After the 2 were murdered the Police Department Meth House was set on fire .....but the methamphetamine and probably alcohol fueled murderers... High ON DE FACTO DAVENPORT CITY GOVERNMENT SOLD METH.....NOT GENIUS KILLERS .. AFTER THEY SET THE RENTAL DUPLEX ON FIRE ....WERE ON THE CASEY'S GAS STATION VIDEO... now both convicted of 1 or both murders the couple are locked up....
I have proposed
THE AMY SMITH COMMUNITY PROTECTION ACT OF 2025 PROHIBITING POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN SELLING METHAMPHETAMINE AND RECRUITING MORE AND MORE METH CUSTOMERS AND DEALERS..
JUST RIGHT HERE 2 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND I WAS BURGLARIZED OVER 2 DOZEN TIMES WITH THE POLICE REFUSING TO EVEN INVESTIGATE. . AND THE POLICE CONTINUING TO ALLOW ACTIVE METH HOUSE WITH SALES AND USE AND ILLEGAL TENANTS INSIDE AND LIVING IN THE SHEDS AND DRIVEWAY.
That is in my other seperate substack "TO PROSECUTOR KELLY G CUNNINGHAM SUBSTACK " if interested ..
I'm not a paid subscriber but I enjoyed reading some of your writings.....