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3. Carole Tregoff: Lover in the Bushes
Crime Scholar
English - November 07, 2018 08:31 - 51 minutes - 117 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsSociety & Culture true crime crime midcentury vintage retro murder hollywood film books los angeles Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is a story local to us, and we've never heard it discussed on any other podcast.
In 1959, a glamorous, well-to-do doctor's wife named Barbara Jean Finch was gunned down one night in front of her mid-century modern West Covina, California home. A witness, her young au pair, saw the murderer with her own eyes. It was Barbara's estranged husband, Bernard "Bernie" Finch. But what the au pair didn't notice was Bernie's lover, Carole Tregoff, hiding in the bushes on the property. Even after Bernie fled the scene, she stayed there all night. Why was Carole there, and was she part of a plot to get rid of Barbara so that she and Bernie could marry? Join us to find out and, along the way, travel to Las Vegas and back, meet an accused gigolo hitman, and muse over why celebrities were so enamored with Bernie Finch.
This is the third episode in the podcast's first season, "Accessories to Murder." Click on our website link below for source information.
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Hosts: Paris Brown and Desi Robba
Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown
Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by Lobo Loco. "Town Searching Murder" from Headcrash, 2018.