After fighting obscenity charges for her stage plays, Mae West went to Hollywood and quickly earned a level of power unheard-of for women in movies. But between censors' efforts to sanitize her, and the revelation of a shocking secret from her past, Mae had to do everything she could to survive.
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May 24
Eye Drop Killer Murders Woman She Loved Like a Mom
Lynn Hernan, 61, trusted Jessy Kurczewski like a daughter, making her caretaker, power of attorney, and co-beneficiary of her estate. But after Lynn was found dead on October 3, 2018, in her Pewaukee, Wisconsin home, toxicology revealed a fatal level of tetrahydrozoline, the acti ... Show More
52m 15s
May 17
Student's Deadly Revenge: The Taylor Elkins Case
Arkansas police rushed to a Fort Smith home to investigate the brutal murder of 72-year-old retired teacher and Army veteran, Bill DuBois, in July 2019. Officers traced his missing car using a Verizon tracking app to a known drug house, where two men implicated 22-year-old Taylor ... Show More
44m 44s
May 2019
Hollywood: The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
Taylor's murder in 1922 and ensuing scandals about his sex life, involvement and drugs, and rumored mistresses was enough to cause a rift between Hollywood and the rest of the country, and send movie studios scrambling to cover up the culprit. Parcasters - Thank you so much for l ... Show More
52m 49s
Oct 2018
133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)
Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of the frankest memoirs of 1920s Hollywood, revealing the systematic sexual exploit ... Show More
37m 32s