<p>When Australian comedian John Safran flew to Rankin County, Mississippi to confront a white nationalist named Richard Barrett with a surprise DNA test, he had no idea the man would be killed eleven months later — by a 22-year-old Black neighbor he'd hired to do yard work. Safran returned to Mississippi to write his first true-crime book, expecting a clear-cut story about racism and a perfect victim. What he found instead was something stranger: a town built on things left unspoken, a killer who scammed him for gift cards from jail, and a relationship between victim and killer that defied the assumptions he'd brought with him.</p><p><br></p><p>Jed talks with Safran about his book "Murder in Mississippi," the ethics of crime reporting, and what an outsider notices about the South that the rest of us miss.</p><p><br></p><p>John Safran's book is "Murder in Mississippi"</p><p>&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mississippi-John-Safran/dp/034913426X">https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mississippi-John-Safran/dp/034913426X</a></p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe to our newsletter:&nbsp;</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://jedlipinski.substack.com/">⁠https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Connect with Jed Lipinski:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/">⁠</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/">⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/</a><br></p>