174. Looks Like Murder Made For Hollywood - Mabel Monohan And Barbara Graham

Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · Jan 19, 2021 · 1h 1m

This week Melissa jumps into the Tip-Ster Wayback machine and journeys to the rough-and tumble era of 1950s Los Angeles, where corruption ran rampant, the mob still held sway, mean jamokes with ill intent lurked in the shadows –and where Hollywood influenced everything from clothing to language to the very news being home-delivered every day. And right near the outset of that turbulent era – on March 9, 1953 – one of the decade’s most sensationalized murders took place on a quiet street in a tidy bungalow in suburban Burbank. There, in the shadow of the recently relocated Warner Bros and Walt…