111: The Actress and the River Bride: Greta Granstedt, Bessie Hyde & a Forgotten Scandal

In this special holiday-week episode, we step away from our usual format to bring you a true-crime-meets-Hollywood story pulled from GIRLHUNT: the life of Greta Granstedt, a young woman who stepped onto a ship in 1927 as a nude art model and stepped off as a future film star with a new name—and a long-buried shooting scandal trailing behind her. Long before Greta appeared on screen with icons like Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, and Boris Karloff, she was a teenager accused of shooting her boyfriend during a late-night confrontation that made national headlines.  And aboard that same ship? A young art student named Bessie Hyde, the “river bride” whose disappearance in the Grand Canyon remains one of America’s most haunting mysteries. Their lives briefly crossed in a moment neither could have imagined—one destined for stardom, the other for legend. If you love true crime, forgotten Hollywood, unsolved mysteries, or the hidden lives of women history tried to flatten, this is your episode. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, ⁦Bookshop.org⁩, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices