Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast · CAKE MEDIA

Santana Houseworth

·1 hr 9 min·4 clips

A rain-soaked car swerves for what the hosts think is a deer and hits Bobby in the street.

1. Sistas Who Kill covers the Santana Housworth case, tying a college relationship in Atlanta to a fatal roadside crash. 2. Marah and Tess host the episode, and they frame Bobby Gleaton as Santana Housworth’s boyfriend and victim. 3. The episode asks how a toxic relationship, DUI arrest, and a rainy night ended with Bobby dead in the road. 4. Santana Housworth is described as born and raised in Atlanta, with a Facebook bio saying, “I saw beyond my darkness and reached for my light.” 5. The hosts say she graduated from Mays High School and pursued a bachelor’s in business at a college away from Atlanta. 6. Bobby’s sister introduced him to Santana, and Santana already knew his name before they exchanged numbers. 7. The relationship turns jealous fast, with Bobby upset when Santana dances with friends at a party. 8. The hosts describe Bobby as angry, controlling, and physically aggressive, including grabbing Santana by the hair and jumping on top of her. 9. Santana keeps a pageant fund while also helping pay Bobby’s gas to visit her, which shows how tangled the relationship becomes. 10. The episode also places Santana at a 2014 Athens bar fight where Corey Blount shot and killed Derek Merritt. 11. On May 21, 2015 at about 3:30 a.m., Santana leaves U Bar after drinking shots and Blue Motherfucker cocktails. 12. She crashes her 2003 white Honda Accord into an abandoned house, and police later smell alcohol on her breath. 13. Santana refuses a breathalyzer, gets arrested for DUI, and spends two days in jail before posting a $5,000 surety bond. 14. Two weeks later, on the night before her graduation, Santana and Bobby argue again while riding in her damaged Honda Accord. 15. Bobby gets out in an office parking lot, calls Dion Williams, and starts walking along the road in the rain. 16. Santana drives east, then turns west, swerves for what she thinks is a deer, and hits Bobby in the street. 17. A witness named Jessica Johnson later hits Bobby too, and the officers find track marks, a white bumper cover, and an inner wheel part from a Honda Accord. 18. The hosts spend time on the uncertainty of the scene, including the wet road, multiple vehicles, and the difficulty of reconstructing the collision. 19. Marah and Tess use an informal, conversational style, with Atlanta references, side comments, and repeated back-and-forth reactions. 20. Listeners who like Georgia true crime, relationship violence, and court timelines will get the most from this episode. 21. People looking for a brief, non-legal recap of a college-party case may skip it.

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A rainy late-night collision told with blunt, human pressure.

This true-crime account follows a late-night drive that turns fatal when a woman sees something in the road, brakes too late, and realizes she has hit a person.

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