Episode 431: Dorthy Kilgallen Pt. III

This week we stay on Dorothy Kilgallen in the weeks before November 8, 1965, tracing the files, the trips, and the people who disappeared around her. She finished the Murder One preface on a Sunday night and was dead by Monday morning. She handed a backup of her JFK chapter to a friend who died the next day.  Was Ron Pataki a hotel-suite lover, or a CIA handler from the Guatemala coup keeping watch? [04:39] – Murder One, the $10,000 advance, and the chapter that never made the book. [07:48] – The preface handed off Sunday night, dead by Monday morning. [10:14] – Mark Sinclair, the locked file, and "the case of a lifetime." [17:07] – Florence Pritchett Smith, the backup chapter, and a cerebral hemorrhage one day later. [30:01] – The New Orleans trip and "don't tell anyone you were here with me." [33:11] – The second trip that never happened and the cloak-and-dagger source. [41:28] – 544 Camp Street: Banister, Ferrie, Bringuier, and Oswald's leaflets. [47:31] – Ron Pataki, the Regency suite, and the 3 a.m. phone calls. [57:48] – PBSUCCESS, the Dulles brothers, and the United Fruit Company. [01:17:26] – The hotel-key humiliation broadcast over the studio PA. [01:20:55] – The last night, the open door, and a bedroom she never slept in.   Want more? Join the Frightday Society, at http://thefrightdaysociety.org As a Society Member, you'll have access to all Screamium content (Behind the Screams, It's Been a Weird Week, A Conversation With..., Toast to Toast PM with Wine Kelly, Cinema Autopsy, the Writers' Room, bonus episodes of Captain Kelly's Cryptids & Conspiracies, Byron's Serial Corner, and so much more! You'll also be part of our interactive community dedicated to the advancement of horror, hauntings, cryptids, conspiracies, aliens, and true crime. All things frightening. Keep our mini-fridges full of blood...I mean...not blood...normal things that people drink...by going to http://shop.frightday.com Theme music by Yawns Produced by Byron McKoy Follow us in the shadows at the following places:  @byronmckoy @kellyfrightday @frightday This is an Audio Wool Original.