Carolyn Long

She said, I had some diet pills and they were looking in the package of my diet pills.

So it was a very intensive search.

And at that point, I would suggest, as would Mapp, they were looking for anything that might implicate her in some sort of criminal activity.

This Bureau of Special Investigations was explicitly formed by law enforcement to go after vice crimes.

And so I think that they used this as an opportunity to find whatever we can to pin on her.

They also had done searches like this online.

With other people, meaning that they had searched other homes without police warrants.

They had detained other people without, you know, just cause.

So for them, it was just another day.

But for Mapp, of course, it was just a tremendous intrusion into her personal life.

I'm Phoebe Judge.

They did find evidence of the numbers game.

So there are slips of paper.

It was in a trunk in the basement.

And then when they searched her bedroom, they said they had found other material.

And they came to her with a paper bag, and it had four books that they believed were obscene.

The law was written in such a way that even if you did not know you had material that was potentially obscene, if it was in your possession, as in in your house, law enforcement was able to make the argument that she had it in her possession and was therefore in violation of Ohio law.

So they rearrested her on violations of the obscenity statute, which actually was a felony in the state of Ohio.

You can get up to seven years of prison.

You know, her interaction with law enforcement was tense.