216: A Hollywood Scandal & the Disappearance of Annie Le
Patricia Douglas had been misled. She, like all the other girls and young women who’d answered MGM’s casting call, thought she’d been hired to dance in a movie. Instead, she was taken to a wild party, held in honor of MGM’s salesmen. Patricia did her best to avoid a creepy salesman named David Ross, but he followed her into the parking lot and attacked her.
Then Brandi tells us about the disappearance of Annie Le. Annie had a lot going on. She was a busy doctoral student at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology. In a few days, she was set to marry the love of her life. But then she disappeared. Surveillance footage showed her entering a Yale building, but never leaving.
And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“It happened one night…. At MGM,” by David Stenn for Vanity Fair
The documentary, “Girl 27”
“Visiting film salesman freed of ‘haymow’ party charges,” San Bernardino Daily Sun, June 18, 1937
“Figures in the probe of film party scandal,” the Kansas City Times, June 17, 1937
“Movie colony party trial starts today,” The Cushing Daily Citizen, June 17, 1937
In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The Vanishing Bride-To-Be” episode A Wedding and A Murder
“Lab Murder: The Brutal Slaying of Yale University Student Annie Le” by Kym L Pasqualini, soapboxie.com
“Annie Le: The Yale Lab Murder” by Kristal Hawkins, The Crime Library
“Annie Le couldn't wait to get married. On her wedding day she was found murdered” by Nama Winston, mamamia.com.au
“Annie Le: Yale grad student touted as 'next Einstein' was murdered by lab technician days before her wedding” by Pritha Paul, meaww.com
“Raymond Clark III "Control Freak"; Did It Lead to Annie Le's Murder?” By Edecio Martinez, CBSNews
“Read the full statement Raymond Clark III made about killing Annie Le” New Haven Register
“Murder of Annie Le” wikipedia.org
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