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Granny Maggie: Lead Poisoning
A compact Old Florida family-survival story rooted in the memoir and oral history. The released film is a dramatized retelling of that remembered world.
Released
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True Stories · Old Florida · Enduring IP
Truth with roots.
Story with staying power.
Cursed at Birth Chronicles LLC builds a true-life Southern narrative across memoir, film, music, interviews, documentary development and adaptable screen formats — while preserving the line between family memory, public record and dramatized reconstruction.
Published memoirSource property at the center
Verified archiveMedia · interviews · record links
Expandable universeFilm · music · documentary · long-form
The Studio
A story company built around source control.
Cursed at Birth Chronicles LLC is not a single film page or a one-off true-crime label. It is a framework for preserving the original material, protecting provenance and building a larger story world without flattening the difference between memory, record and interpretation.
The work begins with manuscripts, first-person accounts, family history, photographs, interviews and public records. Those materials are then framed distinctly from dramatized reconstruction so the final property remains compelling while staying honest about what is known, what is remembered and what is recreated for the screen.
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Current Slate
One family. Different chronicles.
Each chapter stands on its own while feeding the wider myth, memory and moral arc of the larger story world.
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BEASTChronicle Two · Speedy
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Speedy: The Chained Beast
Before the headlines and fugitive years, Speedy wrote about a vision carried by his mother: a bridge, a chained beast and a boy who moved toward danger believing it could not reach him.
Coming Next
Enter Chronicle Two
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AT BIRTHPublished memoir · source property
AT BIRTHPublished memoir · source property
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Cursed at Birth on Halloween Night
Kenneth “Speedy” Raulerson’s memoir is the narrative spine of the Chronicle world — family, choices, escape, consequence and the stories behind the public record.
Published
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Chronicle One · Official Film
Granny Maggie:
Lead Poisoning
According to the family history preserved in the memoir, Maggie Arline survived a brutal rural world, protected her daughters and refused to let violence cross her threshold. Years later, one phrase still carried the weight of the whole family story: “lead poisoning.”
Family history and dramatized recreation are clearly framed as such. This film is not archival footage.
Preserve the existing production asset at
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Kenneth “Speedy” Raulerson · Present Day
Chronicle Two · Speedy
The Chained Beast
The public record captures fragments of Speedy’s life. Chronicle Two holds the larger story: where he came from, what happened, what his choices cost and what remained afterward.
Before the headlines and fugitive years, there was a vision carried by his mother about the road ahead of him. Speedy wrote about that vision in Cursed at Birth on Halloween Night. The Chained Beast brings that passage into music and opens the next chapter of the Cursed at Birth Chronicles.
The Chained Beast · Coming Next
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Inherited Story
Old Florida family history and the survival world introduced through Granny Maggie.
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The Life That Followed
Childhood, family, choices, escape, conflict, consequence and survival.
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The Public Story
Newspapers, television, fugitive coverage, interviews and public records.
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The Story Afterward
Reflection, grief, legacy, environmental concern and what remained when the headlines were gone.
Speedy in the Media
Watch. Read. Listen. Verify.
Archive standard. A link is not an endorsement. Third-party television, newspaper coverage, podcast interviews and court filings remain the work and responsibility of their original publishers. Cursed at Birth Chronicles LLC connects to the underlying record whenever practical and keeps those materials distinct from memoir, family history and dramatized reconstruction.
It’s Florida, Man — Season 2, Episode 1: “Speedy”
HBO’s official listing identifies “Speedy” as the opening episode of Season Two. The episode dramatizes the casino-boat chapter and includes Jeremy Renner portraying Speedy.
View HBO Source ↗I (Almost) Got Away With It — “Got To Work On A Crab Boat”
Season 3, Episode 13 follows a fugitive story involving Alaska and crab-boat work before a return to Florida.
View Episode ↗Suspect in Ship Robbery Profiled on TV Show
Contemporary October 14, 2000 coverage concerning Raulerson and an America’s Most Wanted television profile.
Read Newspaper Archive ↗Speedy Raulerson Not Fast Enough to Evade Bank Robbery Arrest
June 6, 2006 contemporary coverage reporting on Raulerson’s arrest.
Read Article ↗Why Did Speedy Want to Steal the SunCruz Casino Boat?
Coverage and explanation of the It’s Florida, Man Season Two premiere centered on Speedy.
Read Coverage ↗Speedy: The “Compassionate Criminal”
A long-form conversation with Speedy about the Live Oak bank robbery, life on the run, Alaska and prior television coverage.
Listen ↗Speedy’s Conservation Passion
A later interview shifting the public story from outlaw history toward Speedy’s interest in the Withlacoochee River and the region where he grew up.
Listen ↗The Swampmaster Chronicles: Kenneth “Speedy” Raulerson’s Story
Extended discussion of Speedy’s story, prior television portrayals and the then-upcoming HBO production.
Listen on iHeart ↗Kenneth “Speedy” Raulerson’s Story
Apple Podcasts carries the Cuttin Loose Chronicles episode as an additional publisher-hosted archive destination.
Listen on Apple ↗Raulerson v. Alred et al.
A federal court filing in the Northern District of Florida containing litigation history and referenced investigative materials, including an FDLE report describing an October 14, 2000 America’s Most Wanted feature.
Open Federal Record ↗2000
Television & newspaper attention
Tampa Bay Times coverage and a later federal record reference an October 14, 2000 AMW feature.
2006
Arrest coverage
Contemporary newspaper reporting documents Raulerson’s June 2006 apprehension.
2011
Dedicated TV episode
I (Almost) Got Away With It airs “Got To Work On A Crab Boat.”
2025
Podcast + HBO
Long-form interview coverage expands, and HBO opens Season Two of It’s Florida, Man with “Speedy.”
Sources & Story Notes
The story gets stronger when we show our work.
Family history, oral tradition, first-person memoir, public records and dramatized recreations are not interchangeable. The Chronicles separate them clearly rather than pretending every inherited detail has already been independently validated.
First-person source
Memoir, interviews and direct recollection are attributed to the person telling the story.
Family history
Inherited stories remain family narratives unless independently verified elsewhere.
Public record
Court filings and official records are linked to the original source whenever practical.
Independent reporting
News, television and podcast coverage remain the work and responsibility of the original publisher.
Dramatization
Cinematic recreations are never presented as archival footage or historical fact.
The Source Property
The headlines are fragments.
The memoir is the larger story.
Cursed at Birth on Halloween Night: The True Story of an American Outlaw tells Speedy’s story in his own words — the family, the years on the run, the consequences and the events that became part of the broader Cursed at Birth Chronicles.
The book is the narrative spine. Television, interviews and public records are supporting lanes, useful for corroboration, archive work and adaptation diligence, but not substitutes for the underlying memoir.
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Contact
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