She Lived In Her Car, Rationed Her Medication, And Died Alone On New Year's Eve. This Is Her Story.
Today on No Tears For Black Girls we are doing something we have never done before on this show.
We are reading to you. Death Apnea is a book written by J.C. Reedburg, part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series, and it lives inside the same universe as this podcast. It is a story rooted in real documented patterns of Black women disappearing into hospital systems without proper family notification, bodies stored for months while families search, and organs removed without consent. It is built on the same foundation this show was built on. Black women stories that the world moves past too quickly. Black true crime that never makes the national headlines. Patterns that have been happening for four hundred years and just keep changing their clothes.
Chapter Six is called The Tower Card. It is New Year's Eve in New Orleans. A woman named Nettie Moreau wakes up in the front seat of a gold Chevy Impala. She makes coffee with a half frozen water bottle. She brushes her teeth into a paper cup. She dresses with the precision of someone who has learned to keep her dignity in conditions that were never designed to allow for it. She writes a letter to her daughter that she hopes nobody ever has to read. She lights a candle on her dashboard altar. She pulls a tarot card and it is the Tower. Again.
She has a heart condition she cannot afford to treat. She has prescriptions folded in her glovebox next to an expired insurance card. She has a dog named Goldie who loves her completely. She has a daughter at Dillard University on a full scholarship who does not know her mother is homeless. And she has one last night ahead of her in a city that stopped noticing her a long time ago.
This chapter will stay with you.
After the reading we will tell you what happens next and how to get the full book completely free today on Amazon Kindle. If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription this book is free for you indefinitely. Paperback and digital editions are both available now.
This is No Tears For Black Girls. Black true crime. Black women stories. Told with care, with truth, and without apology.
SHOW NOTES:
Today's episode features a full reading of Chapter Six, The Tower Card, from Death Apnea by J.C. Reedburg.
Part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P
Free to download on Amazon Kindle today March 25th 2026. Free indefinitely for Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Paperback and digital editions available at the link above.
Death Apnea is a fictional story rooted in real and documented cases of Black women being processed through hospital systems without proper family notification. The real cases referenced in this book include baby Samaria Sauls, Tanya Walker, the Sacramento Dignity Health bodies, and the Alabama inmate organ removal cases. These are not conspiracy theories. These are court filings, news reports, and family testimonies.
The No Tears For Black Girls universe includes thirteen published books, a podcast with 150 plus episodes, and an ongoing mission to tell Black women stories that mainstream media covers too briefly and moves on from too quickly.
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CREDITS:
Created, Written, & Produced by John Reedburg
Hosted & Narrated by Samantha Paul
Production Company: John Reedburg Media
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