When exotic dancer Tamara Greene was murdered and calls came into homicide, anonymously, from people who said she had danced at the mayor's mansion and that could be connected to her death -- why did cops think it had enough merit to investigate?
Find out in the third episode of the true crime podcast 'Who Killed Strawberry.'
Catch up on the first and second episodes of the podcast HERE -- and follow it or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to get new episodes delivered every Thursday. The series spans 9 episodes, uncovering the twists and turns that tied up the unsolved Tamara Greene homicide, reveals new information about the case and about the rumors that tied former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to the fact it stayed cold.
There was the time one of Kilpatrick's bodyguards found ripped panties in a city vehicle after what looked like a wild night out, and Kwame insisted they be delivered to him in person. Listen to what he did to them afterward.
How bodyguards sitting outside the house of the mayor's chief of staff Christine Beatty in the middle of the night decided amongst themselves they may have to kill her husband Lou Beatty if he came home and found Kwame with Christine.
And how the first detective who caught Strawberry's case got so much pressure from above that he told his squad any of them could leave Greene's case for the sake of their own careers.
And some of them took him up on it.
Why?
"Because they saw what happened to me," investigator Al Bowman says.