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hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is morbid [Music] it do be my voice is like almost back I
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don't think it sounds too bad it doesn't okay good it always sounds worse to me no she might wince a few times
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throughout this though yeah um I Heard a rib coughing cracked cracked already Airline pressure who the
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[ __ ] gets a hairline fracture coughing how violently do you cough this was a I
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don't know if any of you out there no I know some of you out there are experiencing this because everyone is
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everyone's [ __ ] sick and it's so we've had this like [ __ ] illness that just spread around my fam bam and it was
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for weeks spread around my family you know and for it was literally like four weeks straight of all of us just not
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being able to get over that girly girl I don't know why you're talking in the past tense it sounds like a TB Ward up
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in here it does and now you're part of it you're coughing up in here yeah I mean everybody is we we're taking
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everybody down with us I feel fine though I feel I'm I've been on antibiotics I'm like I'm good to go do
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you have pneumonia right now um no I had pneumonia oh okay but um I got yeah that's what it that's the thing this
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whole thing started with these weird little these that's the thing with these things you know and things they all
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started with these weird colds and then we all got like some kind of respiratory
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thing I got pneumonia and then we all got secondary infections with it I got a sinus infection I have been taking I
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don't know about you well hopefully I've been taking so many kova tests oh we've
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been covered testing like it's going out of style because we've also I've been going to the doctors yeah too yeah it's
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been wild up in here but my nose hurts we're close to being like knocking on wood here
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we're close to being we're all feeling like decent okay so I'm like let's please just keep this going but my
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goodness does my rib hurt yeah that's rough it's not great but that's not fun but I'll get through it we'll be fine
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together you'll survive you know we'll be fine I think the other like the other day I just like manically bought ghost
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merch about it I love that for you I manically bought um a new pair of well I shouldn't even say a new pair because
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it's a first pair for me I bought my four my first pair of Jordans guys look at you and they're proud of you they're
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purple and they're velvet oh you showed me a pair a picture of this I can't wait
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to buy them and I also manically bought those so I love it we love a manic purchase yeah I think I was just like
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really frustrated being sick and I was like I'm gonna buy a bunch of ghost merch I think I was just in my brain and
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it said bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye thanks to make you happy it'll work until it doesn't just buy things too
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you're happy yeah make that a tick tock sound I like that I think it's a little too much um fast
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for a tick tock it might be the 30-second clip okay yeah you know here we are um I
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don't know if you guys can tell but it is morbid late night it sure is a doobie it is
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um but it's my case this week it's Ash Centric it's an ash Centric case I don't want to claim her oh yeah even this case
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is not Ash Centric I don't want to claim I don't claim this I could hear you while you were like writing this one and
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I was like huh what's what's gonna happen here yeah well well nervous yeah I wrote a few things and I was like huh
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look what I just wrote and she was like what the [ __ ] is this like what's going
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on yeah this is uh the case of candy mozzler and Melvin Powers uh-oh they were [ __ ] yeah they were also related
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eek bad newsbears.com key.org thank you yeah um but yeah so it all starts on June
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29th 1964. oh we're in the 60s of course I love it it's groovy man it is very groovy and we so on June 29th 1964
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wealthy Florida Banker Jacques Mosler was stabbed to death in his home in key best Biscayne I didn't look up how to
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say that and I'm sorry that sounds good thank you I hope it does it did so at the time he was actually separated from
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his wife Candace she actually had moved to Houston and she was just living a life of luxury on
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Jacques dime which like get a girl but like don't but like oh like yeah like live a life of luxury but like on your
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own dime yeah you know and already I'm like oh yeah I'm Candace Candace he provided her with a very generous
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monthly allowance it was to support the children but it definitely wasn't just going to the children I think she was
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like giving herself a lot of that um but now because Jacques murder was so brutal police actually believed that it
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was a crime of passion which made his wife one of the primary suspects and it really didn't take long for the
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detective's hunch to be proven right Candace Mosler was responsible for the Deaf but as I love to say that was just
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the beginning it was only the beginning it was only the beginning the scandalous
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and Sensational trial of Candace candy mozler and her nephew turned lover what is that oh I hate that yeah Melvin
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Powers was it was one of those Trials of the century it was filled with money power lurid stories of incestuous sex oh
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and Jacques murder didn't necessarily start like American tabloid journalism but it dragged it into its modern era it
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makes sense many a tabloids were written about this and readers were devouring every [ __ ] detail all of the details
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were outrageous and they were Paige Turners oh yeah it was like a blind item yup so Jacques he was born Jacques
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moskavichi I did look that up and I gave myself a phonetic key look at that he was born on May 5th 1896 in Lots Romania
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to Jacob and Sophie moskovici one Romanian Society became like more and more hostile toward Jews at the end
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of the 19th century Jacob and Sophie were like you know what I think we're gonna take these three children that we
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have and get the [ __ ] out of here I think that was a great choice I do agree um they wanted to move to the U.S
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because back then people wanted to do that and they decided to settle in Buffalo New York oh yeah look at that
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and that was in January of 1901. now years later when he was about 12 years old Jacques parents actually ended up
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separating and he moved in with his mom and his uh siblings to Chicago and his father moved away and kind of like did
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his own thing in the Bronx just like dipped yeah sort of wow I know that's that's not great no it's not wow
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sad okay yeah I just love no it's not no just not it's not bad on that see you later can't argue that yeah it's sad
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when your dad leaves interesting yes [Laughter] I'm just kidding but yeah but yeah so now that he didn't
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have the luxury of being supported by two incomes Jacques actually decided to drop out of school pretty much just
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after they arrived in Chicago and he started selling newspapers and Candy not his like soon to be wife but actual okay
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actual num num num candy precisely um he would sell the newspapers and candy on the city street corners and he
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was just like trying to help support his family that's cute it really is so in 1915 when he was 19 years old he decided
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he was going to change his last name because he wanted it to be like a little more American you know I think he just
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wanted that yeah who doesn't I mean not me so he changed it to Mosler and he moved again and this time he moved to
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New Orleans and he found work as a loan manager for a local car dealership pretty good job and it was the first of
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many jobs for him in the finance industry um with the success that he ended up having as a loan manager he felt pretty
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confident in his abilities after a couple of years and he actually made the leap and started his own business that
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he named Mosler motor exchange Pet Shop there yeah I love alliteration I do too so let's go yeah he opened it in 1918 uh
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with the help of a small loan from people that he had back in Chicago some business associates those people you
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know those friends Associates absolutely yeah and that same year he married his GF Evelyn Kaiser look at Evelyn just
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like but they're just killing it they are you know like new business new new lady let's go now Jacques and Evelyn
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worked side by side at Mosler motor exchange and they were able to grow the company more and more especially as
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automobiles became more accessible to people the Auto industry at that point was like kind of really just coming into
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fruition like cars weren't necessarily new but it was becoming more and more mainstream yeah and along with that came
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repossession of cars uh-oh on owners that couldn't pay for the loans they had taken out to buy said cars repo the
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Genetic Opera yes yes exactly you know so Jacques could have chosen to see that as a risk but like the businessman that
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he was he saw an opportunity there and he opened one of the first car rental agencies in the American South look at
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him okay Now by 1930 Jacques business smarts allowed him and Evelyn to move to a way
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bigger home in New Orleans and just after they moved in Evelyn gave birth to a daughter who would be followed by
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three more girls by the end of 1935. it's a lot of gals so many kids he actually ends up with a lot of [ __ ]
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kids by the end of this and I just a lot of [ __ ] kids no like a lot of [ __ ] kids wow like one two three four
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seven maybe I don't know a lot he's you know he's a fan of procreation loves it loves to procreate and adopting there
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you go so by all accounts his story was like kind of like the not even kind of by all accounts it was the
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quintessential American story of somebody who came to America with nothing but used their street smarts and
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their [ __ ] power and their gumption and turned it into boatloads of success the American dream the American drama
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so by the by 19 yeah by the 1950s the Mosler brand if you will had expanded and they now offered a ton of different
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lending products and services in Louisiana and in Florida but unfortunately Jacques success was
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built at least in part on the failure and Misfortune of others because bad his company would offer High interest loans
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to borrowers with low credit ratings who were more than likely to default default
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on those loans and actually this happened so frequently which it's not funny I'm just nervous laughing it
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happened so frequently that one of his former business partners referred to him as brutal inhuman ruthless indecent and
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cold-blooded here I am being like you know what jock look at you get it Jack go jaw Jacques
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and then it's like no he was like a [ __ ] monster and it's like oh yeah well that's just like one person's
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account you know it's just one person other people liked him other people's real bummer yeah I mean I don't
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necessarily think you should go into business knowing full well like promising people a good amount of money
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and then saying like oh I know you're probably not gonna yeah that's not great it's just it's mean business it's not
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nice business you know I don't know Jacques though and me either I never bought a car from him so I don't either
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I did buy a car from a lot of shady people though haven't we all and I I never defaulted
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on my loans though so there's that yeah I was gonna say and I Def and I was like
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no I didn't even no I did not that's a feather in your cup never did so like Jacques kind of you know Grim
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upbringing in business the early years of our girl not our girl really but for the sake of story our girl candy
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mosler's life um they were a far cry from the southern high society in which her life would end
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oh really yes Candace Weatherby her maiden name she was born in the tiny Georgia town of Buchanan oh I love the
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name Buchanan I also do because of Daisy Buchanan beautiful Daisy Buchanan there
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you go yeah so she was born on February 18 1920 she was the fifth of nine children born to Lizzy and Lonnie
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Weatherby like Lizzy and Lonnie can we just Lizzy Lonnie so freaking cute horrible but sadly life was kind of hard
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for this family first of all it's a huge [ __ ] family yeah they're a rural family and everybody in this family was
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expected to work on and help out with the family farm slowly do you ever realize how much you write one word
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rural juror rural family now yeah so like everybody had to help out on the farm even the kids they had jobs like
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picking cotton collecting all the eggs that the whole nine now tragically in 1932 when candy was 12 this is really
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sad her mom gave birth to a stillborn baby girl oh that's awful and not only that she also ended up dying two days
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later her mom because of the complications yeah because remember this is like in
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the 30s you know so this meant that Candy's father was going to have to be the sole caregiver
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and the only financial support for the six remaining children in the house whoa according to Candy the strain of being
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solely responsible for so much in the wake of such an incredible tragedy really caused her dad to have a nervous
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break yeah and so he had to just like get out of there he left the kids in the care of their maternal grandparents who
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were William and Priscilla Brannon and he moved away to a nearby town and just kind of like started over but I don't
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even think he started over I think it was more like he just went there he just went deeper into a hole yeah exactly
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like was alone oh yeah but I'm sure that caused like a lot of Abandonment abandonment issues for the kids you know
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of course so any hope that uh candy had that life with her grandparents would be
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any kind of improvement to the life that she had on the farm quickly evaporate oh no pretty much as
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soon as she moved in with them she realized that this was like at best a lateral move oh yeah to escape the
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really shitty reality that had become her life though when she was a teenager she spent as much time as she could
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reading tabloid magazines fashion magazines she was just dreaming of the day when she could leave this small
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Georgia town and just go do like glamorous [ __ ] that's all she wanted to do classic yeah but unfortunately for
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her her grandfather who was a Mormon Bishop had other plans for her oh he wanted to marry her off and he had
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already chosen the man that was gonna make that all happen come on in 1937 when she was in 11th grade candy had to
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drop out of high school and she started dating Albert Norman Johnson he was 11 years older than her ew and he had been
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hand-picked for her by her grandfather and I'm saying you because normally that's like 11 years is not crazy in the
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grand scheme of things but when one he was in high school that's too much that's way too many years and that's you
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and it's like I don't want to be set up by my grandpa uh no no I'm not even finished with high school
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yet like thank you the man you're gonna marry no thank you Albert and they did get married they got married in 1939 and
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they ended up moving to Alabama okay so Random right that's very random yeah but
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Norman got work there as a superintendent for a concrete company uh he brought in like a little more than
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thirteen hundred dollars a year which today would be about 27 000 a year so like I don't like the best
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but not the worst but things were so different that it's like yeah I don't even I wouldn't even know how to like
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compare that yeah exactly so three years later candy gave birth to a son and they
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named him Norman afterwards dad and at 20 years old in 1940 she was a married mom living in a rented house in
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Small Town Alabama she didn't have a lot of friends she was worlds away from where she had pictured herself so many
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years earlier and this was a far cry from what she'd been hoping for yeah like she wanted to live a glamorous life
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she wanted to be fashionable small town living kind of thing yeah yeah it just sucked and then between the age Gap and
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how different they both were Norman and Candy also just really didn't have a lot
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to talk about yeah they didn't share anything in common really and all they really had together was a kid so they'd
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be like hey how's the kid but that could only go so far you know and on top of that candy didn't have
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really any social outlet so she felt completely isolated and kind of like her life was just passing before her eyes
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when at the same time it really hadn't started it was just Dragon you know yeah but her opportunity for escape finally
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presented itself in the winter of 1942. you don't say yes she was volunteering as a Hostess for the United States
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organization The Uso she had joined this Uso a few months earlier and this was when the U.S
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entered into World War one and in March of 1942 she and about a hundred other young ladies they were shuttled off to
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Alabama to entertain the troops out of Uso dance at Fort Benning this is all very 40s I love it so [ __ ] much I can
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picture it it's literally the beginning of Memphis Belle I love that yeah Memphis Belle is my [ __ ] such a good
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movie I love that movie Matthew Modine in that movie chef's kiss I haven't seen that movie in
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so me neither damn it I want to watch that movie I want to watch that movie so bad me and Drew have already committed
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to disassociating this weekend we have a lot of them yeah so maybe I'll I'll show
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him that movie I love that I always tell him what a good movie that is I always tell John what a good movie that is have
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you never showed it I don't think I've ever showed it to him maybe we should both do that this weekend I think we
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should but I love you but like separately because we're absolutely and I'm for that as well so rock on I know
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every time I think of something like this like a 40s Uso dance like you know with the troops and all that [ __ ] I
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think of that song that always plays on those kind of things that's like don't sit under the apple tree with anyone
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else but me oh my God anyone else but me I love that I don't know if I know that
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song it's it's a very like three sisters are always singing it in harmony together so we just need one more game
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and it's very 40s I like don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else with me
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and then it's like till I come marching home so it's like oh like a tree um it also reminds me of the episode of
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Gilmore Girls where they have to do the dance that's literally exactly what I think of and I think they are singing
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that song at that dance oh [ __ ] yeah I'm pretty sure okay full circle yep there
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we are well it was there that candy met a man named Winthrop win Rockefeller yeah yeah she did and she said work mail
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she said Winthrop she said Win Count Me In he was a US Army huh that was funny he was a U.S army Sergeant and he was
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heir to a Rockefeller Fortune oh yeah you hear Rockefeller it's like oh yeah [ __ ] I don't even care what you look
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like I'm in just kidding um and as luck would have it he was stationed at Fort Benning oh my God so candy claimed that
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the two carried on an illicit affair she visited Fort Benning every chance she could and she did end up becoming
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pregnant that's not an affair that's that's an affair and she eventually gave birth to a daughter who she named
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Candace Rita Johnson two I don't know if Norman um knew uh-oh I don't know if he was like I
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don't know if he thought that Rita was like his child oh no yeah that's shitty yeah yeah that's really shitty Candace
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it is she also um Lorelei Gilmore did yeah she named her daughter Candace oh you're right yeah
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I think it might come up later too whoa now there is some speculation on whether
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this affair actually happened or not because like Rockefeller like yeah everybody says they [ __ ] a Rockefeller
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you know I you can't throw a stone outside without hitting somebody that's like I [ __ ] a Rockefeller you know
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yeah that's what I'm saying that's always been my problem yeah every time I bump into someone they're like I [ __ ]
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a Rockefeller am I the only one I'm like [ __ ] no I never did all right cool but you know so
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who knows if it happened because everybody's saying who does know but either way candy and Wynn would have had
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to part ways in January of 1944 because at that point he was shipped off to the Pacific to actually serve in combat
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so in 1945 candy and Norman who she was now stuck with and his pregnancy was something that he was
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a part of yeah they relocated to New Orleans but after a year or so their marriage finally crumbled I could see
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that yeah you know Candy later told reporters Norman's a fine man but he was much older than me and we really had
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nothing in common so it's really just like nah yeah it was just kind of lame yeah she's like you win some you lose
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some and he's just like all right and he's like okie dokie yeah I am molds so yeah he's like that we actually have
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nothing in common and you're kind of a lot yeah you're allowed to handle [Music]
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Amazon music download the Amazon music app today [Music] decades before Anna delvey began
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scamming her way into High Society Christian Carl gerhart's writer was infiltrating America's most elite
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wondry app [Music] Norman ended up moving to Colorado and candy and the children stayed in New
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Orleans where she was determined to make a career for herself as a fashion model
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oh look at that and she did actually start appearing in ads for local clothing stores so like she started
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doing the thing and then she went to New York on like a just a little trip and she got super inspired when she was
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there because while she was there she was able to take some classes at the Barbizon School of modeling oh we've had
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that one before it makes an appearance again so then she comes home and she's like
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okay idea and then she just opens the Candace modeling and self-improvement School in New Orleans wealthy Garden
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District the Garden District do you know about it the Garden District is like the that's
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where all those like beautiful houses are oh really that's where the I think that's where the like um AHS cabin
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houses oh really that's where Lafayette Cemetery is like oh okay so Garden District she did that mm-hmm she did
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that oh yeah she did also like copy paste much candy you know no it's true TM it's like get your own idea exactly
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but I mean there's lots of modeling school so whatever that's true but in local I'm just mad at her because I feel
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like she did something wrong yeah she [ __ ] her nephew oh yeah I forgot that's what that's I feel like she did
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something like else wrong though perhaps but that's bad enough I'll take that as
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the wrong thing there you go so yeah [ __ ] that you dropping yeah so copy paste but in local ads the school
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claimed to quote advise young ladies on makeup and hair styling provide tips on maintaining a streamlined figure prepare
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them to model in fashion shows and imbue them with self-confidence Grace Poise and the Elegance of speech that will
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make you a person of real distinction yeah let's imbue some confidence by making your figure streamlined I like
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how they wrote that like maintain a streamlined figure even like a sweet dreamlined figure you want them to be
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walking sticks I get it that's [ __ ] yeah that's if I mean back then for sure oh definitely but it's like girl that's
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not confidence it's not confidence your body can look however the [ __ ] you want
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your body to look yeah you're just gonna make these gals feel bad yeah you're gonna beat them down so they think that
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they're confident yeah not cool not cool at all I see right [ __ ] through you candy [ __ ] you Cassie [ __ ] you man she's
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dead now so we should be careful no you know like Hans you know like rise her from them no I do not I'm good now the
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school appeared to be successful and it did provide enough income to support candy and her kids but there were also
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rumors that it wasn't doing that well and that she was actually working as an escort or like a sex worker to make ends
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meet okay but like whatever if that's what she wanted to do then great yeah now in an effort to enter New Orleans
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upper echelon maybe because she was tired of rumors starting oh you hit that Lilo thank you
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um she started volunteering with the New Orleans Opera in 1947 and she offered to
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meet with the prominent businessmen and wanted to like arrange donations for the
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organization and that's where she met our guy Jacques oh there it is like candy he also had recently been divorced
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from his wife and despite the 25-year age Gap the two began dating and they were adults at this point so who gives a
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[ __ ] but I love how she's like you know this 11 he's 11 years older than me we
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don't have anything coming because he's an old erotic bag of Flesh yeah and then
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she's like this guy though that's 25 years older than me I think I think we got way more in common the problem with
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Norman was um he wasn't Rich yeah yeah it didn't matter like the age difference to that matter it was just that he
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wasn't Rich there was that because the thing was immediately candy got access to the lifestyle that she had been
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dreaming of since she was a small kid on that rural Family Farm where she had to
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pick cotton and collect eggs there you go you know so they got married in 1949 they got married while he was on a
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business trip to Fort Lauderdale like just really made like made a little quick time to get married I'm like huh
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romantic yeah so Upon returning returning returning to New Orleans Jacques made the decision that he wanted
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to relocate the headquarters of his company along with his new family and they wanted all of he wanted all of that
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to go to Houston because business was booming down in Texas between the finance and the oil industry so it was a
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good move now New Orleans candy had dabbled in High Society for sure she had rubbed
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elbows with the wealthy people out there hell yeah but Houston Houston baby my girl Meg's Place hometown
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was different it was different all together I bet it was you know yeah you didn't
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know where I was like I did not well it was different Jack had purchased a plot of land in the
00:28:51
City's River Oaks neighborhood and they built a brand new three-story Red Brick Mansion oh my [ __ ] dream I love a
00:29:01
brick I love a brick I love bricks I love a brick house it was fully staffed candy had Maids Cooks Butlers any worker
00:29:11
she could have ever imagined or desired Jacques even hired a show four to drive them around and drive him in particular
00:29:18
to and from the office like the Duran Duran so yes great song yeah that is a great song
00:29:25
[Music] we listened to that today and we did yeah good song but this driver slash
00:29:31
chauffeur would be able to use one of the seven luxury cars that sat in the driveway what take your pick baby take
00:29:39
your pick and in the evening after Jacques was done with work the chauffeur would bring him and Candy to any of the
00:29:45
city's most exclusive restaurants and nightclubs damn he would be wearing a perfectly tailored suit and she would be
00:29:52
wearing expensive dresses and Furs of course I [ __ ] love glamor not a kid to be seen no not in this life never
00:29:59
that they have a full staff yes get out of here get out of here upon arriving in
00:30:04
Houston Candy's priority was definitely to establish herself amongst the city's upper echelon she had done it in New
00:30:11
Orleans but now she really wanted to go for it here yeah so she started writing checks with Jacques money to the more
00:30:17
notable Charities and she was throwing fundraisers in her newly built home where she quote strolled from room to
00:30:24
room in stilettos greeting her guests with a kiss on the cheek okay look at her I love it I was losing I wish that
00:30:30
it didn't end the way that it did because I'm like you guys could have had such a [ __ ] awesome life together
00:30:34
yeah you mean like with her [ __ ] her nephew yeah most of us around here would feel the
00:30:41
same but the thing was she was like an enigma to the society women of Houston like all of them were like what the [ __ ]
00:30:48
is she like where did she go she just really popped off and came to town but they all also agreed that she was
00:30:54
charismatic she was flirty and fun but she was also kind and generous they said oh look at that yeah and even when the
00:31:01
rumors of her CD New Orleans past started circulating among the Houston Piers it didn't damage her reputation
00:31:07
like it probably would have if somebody who was like less Charming or well liked
00:31:12
came along but unlike many of Houston's High Society Candy's philanthropy [Laughter]
00:31:24
philanthropy I don't want it though philanthropy it's more fun philanthropy sounds like uh Phil and I don't know it
00:31:31
sounds like something's floppy and it freaks me out you don't like flops I don't know I know
00:31:35
something about it flip flop an anonymous flip-flops flip-flop Anonymous there you go um yeah yeah her
00:31:45
philanthropy and generosity it really wasn't just for show it doesn't seem no it really it
00:31:55
really wasn't One Night in 1957 while he was in Chicago on a business trip Jacques called candy to tell her about
00:32:02
this [ __ ] awful story that he read in the local paper about four children who'd recently been orphaned their
00:32:09
father shot their mother oh and stabbed their baby brother to death oh my God and they had no one silly [ __ ] yeah and
00:32:18
that's what Jacques is saying to Candy he's like what the [ __ ] oh my God like I
00:32:22
can't believe this happened so she this like actually really moved her it seemed
00:32:26
like she was really affected by this and almost immediately she got on a plane went to Chicago and she and Jacques
00:32:33
signed temporary custody papers oh my God all four of those kids and brought them back to Houston holy [ __ ] and the
00:32:40
story was picked up by the Associated Press and it was reported in papers across the country and Candy told the
00:32:47
reporters we have nothing temporary in mind only the permanent adoption like she really wanted to give these kids a
00:32:53
good life and which is nuts that makes me sad I hate I hate this [ __ ] I do too it's
00:32:59
weird when it's like they do stuff like this and you're like oh you had a chance
00:33:03
to be a decent human and you and you were a decent human God damn it you know like where did it Trail off where'd it
00:33:10
go where do we go from here where did you leave it who'd you give it to your nephew oh [ __ ] yeah God now you know
00:33:19
whether it was a true Act of generosity or something more calculating excuse me the adoption Story made candy and jock
00:33:26
one of the most famous and celebrated couples in Houston I do think it came from a good place I don't want it to
00:33:33
these are human beings that he adopted I really hope it wasn't for anything other
00:33:38
than to make their lives better no it did win Candy a seat on the board of directors from some of the city's most
00:33:44
prestigious organizations yeah I mean the reality of this situation is as much as we want to sit here and say no I I
00:33:52
never want to believe that somebody would do that like adopt human being children that have gone through one of
00:33:59
the most traumatic events that I could ever [ __ ] fathom yeah for their own personal gain instead of just to make
00:34:05
their lives better the unfortunate reality is there are [ __ ] people that will do that stuff it's true so I don't
00:34:13
know I don't I don't think any of us will know for real what their intentions were but no I'm gonna hope it was pure I
00:34:19
think from Jacques it was probably pure I feel like it was from shock and I think from Candy
00:34:24
I think at least part of it came from a pure Place yeah but I think she was somebody who was always closing I was
00:34:31
just gonna say she sounds like somebody who would do anything to get what she wants yeah and she wants to climb those
00:34:38
ranks but at the same time it's like you're welcoming these kids into your home you're giving them a better life
00:34:43
than they ever could have imagined like yeah they have a driver who can take them anywhere but I just hope that
00:34:47
you're giving them the emotional yeah and you know I mean like the phys the material stuff is great but it's like
00:34:53
especially what they've gone through they needed them emotional somebody who's there yeah and it's giving them a
00:34:59
hug and telling them like I'm just really sad for these kids yeah I know exactly I hope they were happy so I hope
00:35:03
they were now despite the tragic circumstances that brought them to their their new home the four newest members
00:35:10
of the modular family they seem to take easily to their new lives in Texas Norman and Rita Candy's children from
00:35:17
her previous marriage they were in their teens at this point when the kids were adopted they loved the kids and they
00:35:24
found them super Charming according to skip hollandsworth who wrote a really good article about this case for Texas
00:35:30
monthly I'm going to link it in my resources the expansion of the family actually prompted a bit of reorientation
00:35:36
of the mossler household and in a good way candy transformed their massive Ballroom into a playroom oh for the kids
00:35:44
and regularly had the show for Drive the family to drive in movies together yep had the chauffeur drive them to the
00:35:52
bowling alley the family took vacation a lot in Galveston they had a vacation house there and Candy even had Jacques
00:35:59
build a baseball field and an empty lot from across from their mansion in River Oaks okay so at least seems like they
00:36:06
were trying to give them it does you know and one of Jacques employees taught the family how to play baseball so it's
00:36:12
adorable it does sound like they like they gave to their lives they put emotion yeah like that it seems like
00:36:18
they they were doing things to at least try to brighten them up I think so so as
00:36:22
the 1950s came to a close it seemed like Andy had finally achieved her dream life
00:36:27
the life of wealth and privilege that she'd always wanted and it seems like she was happy to share it with others
00:36:33
but then in 1961 a phone call from her sister Elizabeth said in motion a series of events that would turn Candy's entire
00:36:40
world inside out and change absolutely [ __ ] everything in the most irreversible of ways oh yeah okay so
00:36:49
Candy's older sister Elizabeth who is better known as babe her nickname is babe babe and I'm pissed that my
00:36:55
nickname's not babe I mean nobody can be babe except except for sinister Palm by that's true
00:37:02
that's true it's given Dark Side even darksided if you haven't followed that go follow it give a dark side hand
00:37:09
um yeah um yeah but they called her babe and her last name is Powers so she called her
00:37:14
sister candy that day because she needed her help her 20 year uh 20 year old son Mel had
00:37:20
been arrested and convicted of fraud in Michigan because he had quote pursued an
00:37:25
89 year old man to buy twenty thousand dollars worthless of worthless stock in a fake Magazine subscription firm so
00:37:33
he's a piece of [ __ ] 152 gajillion percent cool cool yes he'd been sentenced only to 90 days in jail
00:37:42
that's stupid but now he was out and babe really didn't know what to do with him she knew that he needed to be pushed
00:37:47
onto a better path and she figured that candy would definitely be able to help with that uh-oh which is when you think
00:37:54
about it so sad because babe Elizabeth only wanted like the best yeah for her son and she wanted to steer him onto a
00:38:02
right path and this one phone call changed his entire life and candies because of decisions that they made
00:38:10
in this is her sister yes like her sister called her and was like I need help that's the thing like it's not even
00:38:19
like a case where it's like an in-law and she's not related to her nephew she's full-blown related to him oh my
00:38:25
yeah and like to do that anyways like I goodbye but to your sister yeah like that's [ __ ] with your sister too like
00:38:35
like oh absolutely what no but we're not there yet we're not there we're not there yet we're not there yet so babe
00:38:42
was hoping that Mel could go stay with candy and jock for a while while he got back on his feet found a job that kind
00:38:48
of thing and Candy was always generous with what she had so she said of course I'm always willing to help family like
00:38:53
send them on over and it's interesting because I'm like did she already have feelings for him or
00:39:00
is this something that happened when you moved in like I'll never know but Melvin
00:39:06
what's his deal what is his deal he's a dick bag he'd been born on January 13 1942 in Birmingham Alabama to Garrett
00:39:14
and Elizabeth babe Powers a few years after he was born his father moved the family from uh excuse me moved the
00:39:21
family to Phoenix Arizona and his father owned and operated Powers Aviation it's
00:39:27
kind of funny because it reminds me of um Dell Millard yeah I was just thinking that yeah it was a business that quote
00:39:32
fueled repaired and sold small private aircrafts now if Garrett's work will uh impressive
00:39:39
worth ethic and commitment to his business ever left any impression on Mel it was almost certainly gone by the time
00:39:45
that Mel was in high school oh just Gonzo awesome throughout most of his high school career he was lazy he was
00:39:52
grumpy he was disrespectful he sucked yeah sounds like it yeah I just he also he was a bully oh [ __ ] this guy he was
00:40:01
six foot four inches tall he had like a really athletic build and a lot of people said that he used his you know
00:40:07
kind of menacing presents to terrorize people that he thought were weak or vulnerable or just so he could have fun
00:40:14
awesome yeah sounds great a collective thank you so when Garrett closed the airport business in 1960 Mel used the
00:40:24
separation from the family business as an opportunity to get away and see the country you know yeah he just wanted to
00:40:30
go travel around the world yeah he's earned it no he joined a quote roving band of dubious characters wow yeah a
00:40:38
roving band of dubious characters yeah do you like that I love that I love that a lot I'm gonna start referring to a lot
00:40:46
of groups of people is that I can I haven't yeah exactly who you think is a dubious character yep yep yep roving
00:40:53
band of dubious [ __ ] characters yeah yep yeah there it is yep yep but he joined them in a door-to-door magazine
00:41:02
subscription service that was not real I was gonna say that that must be nefarious yeah that sounds not nefarious
00:41:09
it's very nefarious it was a scam operated by a career criminal named Arthur Grimsley or the last name like
00:41:17
Grimsley yeah I'm sorry you have to be a I was like there's you have you are a career criminal you were born a career
00:41:24
criminal they handed you the card the day you were born yeah but these young men would sign up unsuspecting customers
00:41:29
for magazine subscriptions and then take the money before the customer realized that the magazines were never coming
00:41:35
that's nice like okay Jen Shaw yeah calm down real housewives reference you know
00:41:41
it was during one of these door-to-door sales that Mel was actually got for the fraudulent stocksdale sale in 1970 1961
00:41:48
Jesus and that led him first to jail not you by the way I'm in Mel oh I know it's
00:41:53
a thrill I said I was like that was right after yeah you know that's written down
00:41:58
but um he first went to jail like we know and then also like we know to candy and Jacques front door I'm really
00:42:05
worried about where this starts you should yeah you should definitely worry about it you should absolutely be
00:42:09
worried yeah I'm not gonna even lie to you yeah from the moment he arrived in Houston candy was taken with her nephew
00:42:17
I don't I don't want to be here anymore yeah he had the body and the confidence Swagger of a movie star of your sister's
00:42:25
child yep that's what he has oh of course yeah I hate it yeah she happily welcomed him into their home she gave
00:42:32
him his own room gave him a car to drive whenever he wanted but however if he was
00:42:37
really going to fit into her lifestyle he would have to make a few physical changes
00:42:42
so not long after he arrived in Houston he did visit a plastic surgeon for four procedures a tonsillectomy
00:42:51
um a procedure to make his ears closer to his head oh a procedure in which his face was actually sanded in order to
00:42:59
minimize his acne scars and for some reason he got circumcised okay [Music] foreign
00:43:12
[Music] like why right I was I was gonna ask that same question but I also didn't
00:43:27
want to know the answer so I didn't ask it me either and I didn't look further into it thank you there's just some
00:43:33
things people don't need to know there's some things that I just you know and if
00:43:37
you don't know if you need to know like just continue to find the Google path yeah but um I didn't need to know that
00:43:43
no I would have stopped no stopped there that's not for my knowledge nope so at Candy's request Jacques hired Mel for uh
00:43:51
a position as a repossessor for one of his Auto Lenders Repo Man a Repo Man we love those
00:43:57
it was actually the perfect job for him though because of his unpleasant attitude and menacing figure yeah he
00:44:03
sounds like a repo man yeah finally he was an asset but not for long because by late 1963 about a year and a half after
00:44:10
he'd gotten to Houston Jacques had Mel fired and then had him escorted off of their property in River Oaks oh and he
00:44:17
forbade him from ever returning holy [ __ ] and then he himself Jacques immediately left for his condo in
00:44:24
Florida he was like I'm getting the [ __ ] out of here whoa he was pissed about something what the [ __ ] happened but
00:44:31
when anybody asked candy would just say that Jacques had found out that Mel was leaving the company to start his own
00:44:35
business and he was really pissed off about that I don't think that's it no me either I don't think that would piss
00:44:41
jack off as much as that did I think you might be on decision Yeah by George we've cracked the code something about
00:44:47
it just doesn't ring true do you know that I just found out that the expression is by George
00:44:52
what did you think it was by God I mean you could say by God in is in that movie did they say like by God
00:45:00
we've cracked the code or did they say bye George I think we've got it what about cracking the code I don't
00:45:06
know where that came from Oh by George I think he's got it why is it George I don't know oh but
00:45:13
probably the king George like King George like by George I think he's got it who's King George like King
00:45:21
George which one like look at that I'm gonna look up like orange it feels like it would be like you know instead of
00:45:28
saying like by God you'd be talking about the the Monarch oh the origin oh okay by George bye George we've cracked
00:45:39
the code an Old English oath invoked immediately before charging into battle as late as
00:45:47
World War One and it's oh and you know what you can say well you can say like by God George or
00:45:55
by Saint George huh so there's that well I just found out that it's not just by God the whole
00:46:02
time I thought it was by God yeah crazy it's also it's like a Shakespearean as well I like George better you know by
00:46:07
George well anyways so yeah so Jacques was like bye George I'm out of here by George
00:46:15
I crack myself up but as for why he'd left on an unplanned trip to Florida everybody was like where's George
00:46:22
and they're like I don't know George I didn't mean to say that where's Jacques like what happened candy was like oh he
00:46:28
just went to um oversee the opening of a new bank in the Miami area we're gonna be joining him there in the coming weeks
00:46:36
yeah I don't think you are they did oh so it seems like candy may have been trying to put off any speculation about
00:46:42
marital issues between her and Jacques seems like it but she did and she brought the children with her they
00:46:47
actually did join Jacques in Florida it was just several months later in June of
00:46:52
1964. all right now as far as the kids were concerned their trip to Florida was like any other summer vacation they went
00:46:59
to the beach they spent days at the pool at Jacques Condo building and they didn't even seem to mind the frequent
00:47:06
trips to the emergency room in the evenings where candy would receive injections to
00:47:11
control the sometimes overwhelming migraines that she suffered with for most of her adult life oh yeah that
00:47:17
sucks yeah but I'm like why can't Jacques just watch them like why do you gotta bring the kids to that yeah damn I
00:47:22
feel like you're doing something else huh in my opinion in my opinion I'm all now the last of the ER visits occurred
00:47:29
on the evening of June 30th candy piled all the kids in the car and they drove to the hospital but along the way she
00:47:35
had to stop to mail some letters at a nearby hotel and then she had to stop again because she had to get dinner for
00:47:41
the kids and then finally they got to the hospital a little before midnight what it's just all weird that's strange
00:47:48
after waiting several hours to be seen she finally was seen and given her injection
00:47:54
and she and the kids finally made it back to Jacques apartment around 4 45 a.m she needs some Excedrin Migraine she
00:48:01
certainly does that's that's too much that's the ticket yeah so they get back at 4 45 in the morning and it was then
00:48:09
that candy made a horrifying discovery when candy and the kids entered the apartment they found Jacques lying dead
00:48:16
in a huge pool of his own blood on the living room floor oh my God his black lab puppy Rocky was unharmed but
00:48:24
helplessly leashed to the balcony door and like barking for help so Jacques had been bludgeoned over the
00:48:31
head with a very very large heavy object and had been stabbed 39 times holy [ __ ]
00:48:38
in the heart and the lungs were they quote thin bladed knife something like a stiletto oh rather than call the police
00:48:46
candy ran to the neighbor Irene Durr who called a local physician Dr John handworker but only reached his
00:48:54
answering service so when Dr handworker finally did reach somebody in the mossler family it was 20
00:49:01
uh 20 year old Rita and she explained the situation she was basically panicking and she told the doctor
00:49:07
someone's broken into the apartment and I think my father is dead he's lying on the floor he's covered with blood
00:49:13
so the doctor had been actually a close associate of Jacques for many years and he knew him really well but he was like
00:49:20
why the [ __ ] did you guys call me like you got to call the police so Rita told him mother isn't hysteric
00:49:27
she asked me to call you first so he told her he was about a half hour away but that they needed it to call the
00:49:33
police [ __ ] police and then I don't he was like you know what I'm gonna call the police for you and then he started
00:49:38
making his way to the apartment so nobody there called the police and he's like on his way being like I don't know
00:49:43
I'm not at the scene but like I'll call them there yeah what the [ __ ] so when Deputy James uh georgenson of the
00:49:50
Miami-Dade Sheriff's Department arrived at the governor's large Apartments he was met at the apartment door by the one
00:49:57
the only candy and she looked more annoyed or impatient rather than upset or traumatized and she just told him
00:50:04
there's been some trouble there's been some trouble like that's one way to put it Candace wow so inside
00:50:11
the apartment it was more or less what Rita had described to Dr hand worker Jacques was lying on the floor they had
00:50:17
actually covered him at this point with a light orange blanket um one of his legs was exposed and his
00:50:23
hand was still clutching the drapes when Jorgensen removed the blanket he noted that Jacques was nude other than a
00:50:31
white undershirt which was now almost completely soaked in blood yeah and from the doorway which was like several feet
00:50:38
away candy screamed oh Jack Jack what have you done what what have you done she said to her
00:50:47
dead husband what the [ __ ] so the comment seems strange to us also seems strange to the deputy and he
00:50:55
was like is this lady implying that like her husband's somehow responsible for his own death stabbed himself 39 times
00:51:01
like what bludgeoned himself what have you done yeah it's so weird so several days later when the autopsy was
00:51:08
conducted Dr Joseph Davis's report would confirm that jock had sustained two significant blows to his head
00:51:15
and they only ever identified like that the blows to the head is coming from a blunt object but they they never found
00:51:22
what the object was that's interesting the first was to the back of his head and it crushed his skull on impact which
00:51:29
would have caused significant brain damage or death and hopefully he was unconscious you would think I definitely
00:51:35
would think so now while the other blow was to the side of the face and that one
00:51:40
shattered his cheekbone oh my God yeah the stab wounds to the chest again 39 in total were about two inches deep holy
00:51:49
[ __ ] so Dr Davis concluded that it would have required considerable force and that alone indicated that this killer
00:51:57
whoever this was was a strong individual maybe a big guy I was just gonna say he
00:52:04
indicated that the stab wounds to the left lung and the Heart were the cause of death but he also indicated that like
00:52:10
I said that initial blow to the back of the head would have likely been fatal which meant that the stabs to the Torso
00:52:16
were entirely unnecessary and they were really just like complete Overkill yeah so now that they're like okay murder duh
00:52:25
the officers do a door-to-door canvas of the building hoping that maybe somebody
00:52:29
caught a glimpse of the killer as they fled the building but nobody really saw anything in the
00:52:35
early hours of the morning but some people did hear things Irene der that neighbor who actually called the doctor
00:52:41
she told the police that she didn't hear any struggle she did hear the dog frantically barking around 2 A.M and she
00:52:48
later told reporters that's all I could hear was incessant barking I did not hear any screams or any voices which if
00:52:55
you're not hearing any screams I think that first blow did knock him out absolutely probably kill him yeah
00:53:01
another neighbor Peggy Fletcher also heard what she now believed was the murderer telling officers she was awoken
00:53:08
around 2 am and she heard a man's voice yell don't don't do that to me oh followed by the dog's incessant barking
00:53:15
so the noise prompted her to go to the door and she heard someone close the door to the mossler's apartment and then
00:53:22
heard heavy footsteps down the concrete stairway which led her to believe that the killer must have been a man
00:53:29
basically just footsteps and then another neighbor told the police that he had seen a man and a woman leaving the
00:53:36
parking lot in a yellow 1959 Dodge with a Dade County tag just after 2 A.M huh so given the man's wealth and status in
00:53:45
the banking industry Jacques police initially suspected that the death was the result of a robbery gone wrong but
00:53:52
then at the same time something about that didn't really feel quite right to them recovery gone wrong never feels
00:53:57
quite right no people of course are sometimes killed like during a robbery yeah but they're not beaten over the
00:54:04
head and brutally stabbed almost 40 times no that's just it just doesn't like that not in anything that I've ever
00:54:10
seen and also the case lacked the telltale signs of robbery nothing was obviously missing there wasn't really
00:54:17
anything robbery part the other robbery part there didn't really seem to be any kind of sign of a struggle and there was
00:54:23
no indication whatsoever of forced entry yeah so shortly before 3am on the morning actually that Jacques was
00:54:30
murdered officers had taken a man into custody who was discovered walking along the road with blood smeared all over his
00:54:36
shirt wow yeah the man said that he had been assaulted by three teenagers who stole his car
00:54:43
so the officers took him to the hospital for treatment but now in light of the murder the Sheriff's Office was like oh
00:54:50
[ __ ] like is that the guy that's responsible for mosler's death so they brought him in for questioning but they
00:54:56
eventually released him because it was apparent that he had no connection wow red herring what a coincidence I know
00:55:02
isn't that crazy and also sad because that's probably like he actually got that's really sad yeah I know so they
00:55:07
were running short on leads they really didn't have any evidence to work from and they were like [ __ ] but detectives
00:55:13
Jerry Evans and Pat Gallagher returned to Candy mossler in the hope that she might have some kind of idea about her
00:55:20
husband her husband's enemies like anybody that might want to kill him or might want him dead
00:55:26
so from the moment they sat down with her she really defied the expectations of what one would assume was a newly
00:55:33
widowed woman yeah which but again we can't judge a book by its cover it's never good to judge grieving it's not
00:55:41
but she was impeccably dressed she did not have a hair out of place not a not even a piece of jewelry was out of place
00:55:49
but you know whatever Evans and Gallagher were put off by her calm demeanor though and like just that she
00:55:55
looked perfect I mean yeah you do have to take some kind of cue from it yeah it just didn't align with what they
00:56:01
expected of somebody who just lost their husband in a [ __ ] shocking Act of vibe yes I don't know that if I found my
00:56:08
husband or my soon-to-be husband like that on the floor that my hair would look great yeah I don't think so but
00:56:13
probably not that's just me Different Strokes for different folks so the detective's new Mosler was a high
00:56:19
profile man in finance and if the murder was not the result of some kind of robbery gone wrong they thought maybe it
00:56:26
had something to do with Shady business dealings and Candy was like oh my God yes you're right she was like oh [ __ ]
00:56:33
you nailed it that's a great motive thank you for telling me that she said you know what it could have been one of
00:56:38
the many many former employees it could have been rival Bankers it could have been customers who defaulted on a loan
00:56:45
or it could be this oh and this was something that the detectives were not expecting recording the candy when
00:56:53
Jacques would take solo trips to Florida he would often use the opportunity to quote entertain young men that he had
00:57:00
met on the beach oh we don't know if this is true at all I think this might just be candy telling stories sounds to
00:57:07
me like in my opinion yeah she said in fact just a few days earlier she was visiting the apartment and Jacques had
00:57:13
gotten several phone calls from a man who according to her quote spoken feminine tones
00:57:20
wow candy [ __ ] off candy wow candy and she said you know I'm suspecting that he's leading a gay life out here in
00:57:28
Florida okay like that's I love how she's taking this as an opportunity to be like yeah you know
00:57:37
what I'm just gonna let me just like mommy's Gonna Miss yarn I mean they're gonna lie or I'm just gonna out him
00:57:43
right now I would have been tired nice like that's [ __ ] if that was true you just outed him to like so many people
00:57:49
that's [ __ ] yeah and if that's not true why are you making up stories yeah especially why are you making up stories
00:57:55
in a time where that is damaging that's the thing like come on you know that's not cool
00:58:00
so it was entirely unexpected this whole angle but it did fit a crime scene that
00:58:06
point it pointed toward a crime of passion but then at the same time detectives were like I don't know I
00:58:13
think she's trying to sell us a story that she wants us to believe not revealing some kind of like embarrassing
00:58:18
detail about their personal lives and years later Jerry Evans one of those Detectives
00:58:24
would tell the jury that he felt as though she was acting during the interview yeah he said she was speaking
00:58:28
softly to the two of them to like theatrically imply that she was so shamed yeah she's like I think he might
00:58:35
be one of those gays one of those gay men like [ __ ] off candy yeah honestly [ __ ] right off candy hate so among the
00:58:43
more interesting bits of information gleaned from the duel to duel canvas was that a few of the neighbors had also
00:58:49
seen a white Chevy sedan leaving the parking lot in the hours just before the body was discovered and when detectives
00:58:56
did a little digging into Candy's Alibi they learned that she had indeed been with the children at the hospital that
00:59:03
morning before she'd found Jacques and that they had driven there in her red Pontiac convertible but for this
00:59:10
particular trip she had also requested a white 1960 Chevy sedan oh you don't say a Bel Air
00:59:20
look at that from Jacques company Alan Parker which had been delivered to the Key Biscayne hotel and Villa on June
00:59:28
26th where the family was staying while they were in Florida oh the family including Mel
00:59:35
oh so when they checked with the staff at Allen Parker they were able to confirm
00:59:40
that this car had been checked back into the garage by a tall dark-haired man at
00:59:45
exactly 5 19 am which was just a few hours after the murder happened so when Evans and Gallagher returned to
00:59:52
speak with candy on the morning of July 1st they found her in the company of her
00:59:57
personal lawyer t m Doyle who was a family friend that for some reason she introduced as Vincent cultegrone
01:00:07
that doesn't fit no his name is TM Doyle I was just gonna say t m Doyle Vincent culture gron yeah I don't know about
01:00:15
that like okay Andy takes several seats and uh they also found her so in the company of her lawyer but also two
01:00:22
bodyguards that she'd hired to protect the family from whoever had killed her husband because she had no idea who it
01:00:27
was she had no idea once again she pushed the whole theory of a burglary burglary gone wrong and told the
01:00:34
detectives that thousands and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry was missing from her apartment and they were like
01:00:40
yeah like oh I'm so sorry to hear that like could you make us a list of everything missing so that we can
01:00:45
circulate it to the pawn shops and you know keep this whole thing going and her lawyer was like no she is too
01:00:54
distraught to do that right now absolutely not she could never take a proper inventory at this time you could
01:01:00
never she could never you're done you're done you're done so it was obvious now that the burglar
01:01:07
story wasn't an option so she returned to the story about Jacques secret gay life yes of course she said that she'd
01:01:13
actually gotten additional calls from a myriad of other men but neither detective took the bait they
01:01:19
were like we see what you're doing here lady absolutely instead they told her that the white Chevy that she had rented
01:01:24
had been located and it was discovered to have blood inside of it oh yeah so she responded and told them she knew
01:01:32
nothing about it and she had asked a porter to return the car when she realized that she wouldn't need it after
01:01:37
all she'd never even driven it wow sure okay maybe not yeah but a break in the case finally came that afternoon
01:01:44
when the technicians working on that car ran a fingerprint and they had found that in Jack's apartment and it came
01:01:52
back as belonging to one Melvin Lane Powers boom [Music] foreign so a few hours later six more
01:02:16
fingerprints belonging to him were discovered inside of that car oh damn six more fingerprints so seven in total
01:02:23
explain that given that the car had been returned to the Allen Parker lot at the
01:02:28
airport the detectives were like oh good our killer dropped off the car and immediately flew out of state that's
01:02:34
great yeah but they had to like obviously check in on this and when they did they found out that the passenger
01:02:40
list for the 7 10 a.m flight from Miami to Houston on June 30th um was boarded by a man by the name of M
01:02:49
Powers Mosler who's that M Powers Mosler I don't know that's not anybody's name that I know yeah it doesn't sound
01:02:57
familiar your last name's not Mosler no it's not so within a day or two of Jock's murder Jacques excuse me it had
01:03:03
been pretty obvious that he was not killed in a robbery gone wrong yeah then the detectives put no stock in Candy's
01:03:09
theory about him carrying on some kind of secret gay life and in fact between the fingerprints
01:03:15
found at the apartment and in the Bel Air and the passenger manifest for the flight from Miami to Houston they were
01:03:21
pretty sure that they found their killer or at least knew his name ding ding ding
01:03:24
now they just needed to know why he had killed Jacques yeah I would like to know
01:03:28
yeah so on Friday July 3rd the Houston police arrested Melvin Powers at the mobile home sales company that he
01:03:34
recently opened with money from Mosler wow like how [ __ ] is that that's really [ __ ] yeah and based on evidence
01:03:43
that had been collected from the scene and at the airport he was charged with the murder of Jacques Mosler damn yep he
01:03:50
was held at Harris County Jail over the weekend and during that time investigators searched his home and his
01:03:55
business for additional evidence additional I don't know if I said that right okay okay good we're really
01:04:01
hitting a wall here yeah we are it's late it is so excuse us if we're like Millions
01:04:07
so on Monday July 6 a grand jury convened in Harris County Texas and they were considering whether or not to
01:04:14
indict Melvin so they did take a recess on Tuesday because detectives announced that they had discovered potentially
01:04:21
significant evidence during their search of the mobile home company oh you don't
01:04:26
say I do say on Tuesday July 7th they located letters addressed to Melvin Powers signed only with the letter c and
01:04:36
with a return address of C mossler Continental Hilton Hotel Mexico I hate this oh just so you know yeah the
01:04:44
letters addressed my darling appeared to be romantic in nature and they included
01:04:50
statements like I love you need you you are everything to me darling and I could
01:04:55
not think of life without you I really hate this who heard Matthew guys please make it stop her Matthew I hate it
01:05:05
[ __ ] gross and by that time actually candy had also returned to Texas and responded to the
01:05:12
Discovery by accusing Harris County District Attorney Frank Briscoe of being out to get her okay and she said he was
01:05:19
out to get her because of some kind of negative remarks she made about him while she was serving on a grand jury
01:05:24
years earlier it was stupid so Briscoe was like um you haven't been accused of anything yet but like thanks and also I
01:05:33
don't have the power to convene a grand jury and even if I did have a grudge against you uh I don't but none of the
01:05:40
actions taken against him like your nephew could have come for me yeah like he's like stand down like shut up yeah
01:05:48
basically said via the Press candy takes several seats yeah he absolutely did yeah so Melvin's mother and Candy sister
01:05:56
babe also traveled to Houston at this point over the weekend to see her son and she told the press that her son was
01:06:02
innocent and she said and this breaks my heart she said nobody knows like a mother he he was always such a tender
01:06:08
boy he had no hate for no one oh that's sad that's like really sad So within a day or two the scandalous
01:06:15
news of the Love Letters between candy auntie and Melvin nephew had been reported in papers around the [ __ ]
01:06:23
country I hate it but it was not the first detectives in Florida were hearing of this potential love affair between
01:06:29
the two actually as investigators chase down the burglary and gay lover theories one of
01:06:36
Candy's own relatives had informed Evans that Melvin had actually been kicked out
01:06:41
of the house when Jacques discovered Melvin and Candy quote unquote canoodling I don't want that the two
01:06:50
were seen canoodling at Chris's Halloween party oh my God thank you I don't know if it's Chris I just like I
01:06:56
think I might have made up the name I think it was it's a first name last name did you ever seen canoodling at Chris
01:07:01
Evans Halloween wasn't it like the wasn't it the cousin the cousin the cousin that like um that the that Aunt
01:07:09
Amanda seyfried's character is like Seth yes Seth rozakowski is that what's his name the two were seeing canoodling last
01:07:15
week at Seth no it's not I need to know I don't know you should Google it though
01:07:19
but I'm just like the two were seeing the two the two the two I think you were right with Chris I think it's Chris isil
01:07:26
isils the two received canoodling last week at Chris eisel's Halloween party there it is like why did they hit that
01:07:32
right why does um uh Mr Mr Duvall why does he know that yep he knows back to the story as the stories
01:07:39
of their incestuous romance made their way around Houston's stunt High Society candy had fled the city at this point I
01:07:47
mean what else do you do at that point she's a high society lady and it comes out that she's [ __ ] her nephew that's
01:07:52
bad the real [ __ ] bad for the Daughters of the American Revolution Emily Gilmore would read her to Phil
01:07:58
Emily Gilmore would ruin her [ __ ] life forever she would get the last T oh absolutely always never get the first
01:08:07
one [ __ ] love Emily Gilmore who doesn't but at this point candy yeah so candy she fled the city she had
01:08:22
to disgrace on her name and her family um and she sequestered herself at St Luke's hospital and she claims she was
01:08:29
suffering from a form of battle fatigue uh like the drama mama a form of battle fatigue like ma'am you don't even know
01:08:40
you performed for the uh at the Uso for the troops like and you're gonna sit there and say you are experiencing
01:08:47
battle fatigue yeah oof she sure did she did that just say it's it's been rough say exhaustion yeah at the least it's
01:08:55
been a [ __ ] week it's like I'm here because everything sucks yeah crying but the door to her door the door to her
01:09:03
door the door to her door um the door to her room at St Luke's was monitored by a private security guard
01:09:09
but that actually didn't stop her from allowing many many reporters to crowd around her bedside as she suffered from
01:09:15
battle fatigue and she just had an impromptu press conference she's a lot while suffering from battle
01:09:22
fatigue what an I have such admiration she's she's a lot like [ __ ] ridiculous she flatly denied any romance
01:09:28
between her and her nephew and she said that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard if an atomic bomb were to
01:09:35
fall Mel would have been the first one to drag Jacques and the children out of the wreckage I don't think so but what
01:09:42
about an atomic blonde candy she was blonde um regardless of what she said to the
01:09:50
Press excerpts of the letters continued to be printed and a number of photographs of them together at
01:09:56
nightclubs were now circulating it was like Perez Hilton before Perez Hilton oh you know after a few days at St Luke's
01:10:04
the pressure from the press and the public became way too much much and she actually fleed again this time she went
01:10:10
to Rochester Minnesota she rented adjoining hotel rooms and she spent a ton of time at the Mayo Clinic okay you
01:10:17
know oh I do yeah I know random I know all about that so while she hid from the press in Minnesota Melvin and his
01:10:23
lawyers were actively fighting his extradition to Florida to stand trial for murder and in the weeks after his
01:10:30
arrest his lawyer had actually petitioned the court for bond that was quickly denied though by a judge
01:10:36
meanwhile the Harris County grand jury they continued their exploration excuse me of a possible alternative explanation
01:10:44
for Jacques murder including a conspiracy which involved Shady business dealings they were still like you know
01:10:50
that could have happened absolutely you're innocent until proven guilty yes by June of 1965 though as police
01:10:57
continued their investigation into melon Candy's romance and Candy's connection to her husband's death she and the kids
01:11:04
visited Arlington National Cemetery on the anniversary of the murder to lay roses on Jacques grave she hired a
01:11:12
professional photographer to document this event okay and then she circulated those
01:11:18
photos to the wire services for publication in any and all newspapers why is she the way she is I don't know
01:11:28
childhood trauma maybe yeah probably possibly according to her doctors had advised her that she was too weak for
01:11:34
travel but she insisted she had to get to Arlington National Cemetery and she told them that she wanted to signal to
01:11:41
the world that Jacques Mosler is never forgotten that's what you signaled that's it yeah
01:11:48
announced to the outside world it appeared that the Miami-Dade investigation of the murder was kind of
01:11:53
actually running out of steam and a lot of people thought that it was doomed to fail but just one month after the scene
01:11:59
at Jacques graveside a Miami-Dade grand jury and indicted Melvin and Candy oh for the murder of a shot of Jacques I
01:12:09
just said Jacques mossler based on information and new evidence that they uncovered which suggested that the two
01:12:16
had actually been plotting to kill Candy's husband for a couple of years at this point what the [ __ ] a couple of God
01:12:22
damn Yeah couple of years for the first time in a year candy masler and Mel stood side by side
01:12:29
this time before a Circuit Judge though Circuit Judge George by George I think he's got it by George Schulz and he read
01:12:38
the charges of first-degree murder and they both pleaded not guilty but judge Schultz uh Schulz excuse me set in
01:12:45
August 16th trial date and during that the state would have to make their case as to why they arrested candy for murder
01:12:52
and if she was going to like really yeah do this I'm curious and in the meantime
01:12:57
Candace and Mel were bonded and released actually and they both returned to Houston to away trial
01:13:03
so initially the trial was supposed to start on November 15 1965 but it was delayed a numerous amount of times wow
01:13:12
I'm tired I was gonna say it's cool it was delayed numerous times it was delayed a bunch yeah you know attorneys
01:13:19
on both sides were arguing over whether the two should be tried separately whether they should be tried together
01:13:25
the prosecution preferred the latter they were just arguing up and down the Wazoo so tired but up and down that
01:13:31
Wazoo you know but the delays in multiple pre-trial hearings really provided additional opportunities for
01:13:38
Grant candy to grab the spotlight and she never missed a single opportunity she was a stunt a queen Without a Crown
01:13:45
now during the pre-trial hearing in October she arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her 11 year old son Eddie
01:13:52
and at her at her own urging he told reporters that he was there so they won't take my mommy and put her in jail
01:13:59
oh my God kill me like don't use your child for [ __ ] performative [ __ ] yeah that's really sad that's [ __ ] up
01:14:08
your kid but similarly when jury selection finally got underway on January 22nd 1966. candy actually
01:14:15
invited a large number of reporters into the apartment that she started renting in Florida so they could just I don't
01:14:22
know like witness her in all her domestic glory and just report it back to the nation
01:14:27
and she claimed that she had been given the wrong idea like they had all been given the wrong idea about her oh her
01:14:34
statement to the Press during that event would set the stage for the entire defense she said I wasn't perfect my
01:14:41
husband wasn't perfect but it was our personal life just like you have one just like everyone has one if
01:14:49
everybody's private life was laid bare and was brought forth into the open how many of us could stand the exposure
01:14:57
I don't think that's the issue here no the issue is that like you might have killed your husband and yeah at the same
01:15:02
time you were [ __ ] your nephew yeah I think those two things are really like what were yeah what we're really worried
01:15:08
about here you might have had your nephew lover kill your husband yeah like I don't give a [ __ ] about anything else
01:15:14
in your life I just care that you might have killed your husband with your boyfriend nephew what I don't like it
01:15:21
and you know like sure that's a solid Point like if your life was brought into this 100 true but like don't be a
01:15:27
murderous and incestuous human being here well then your life won't get brought into the Forefront yeah and also
01:15:35
your life was always in the [ __ ] Forefront because you wanted it you sell like the pictures of you at his grave
01:15:41
you the news Outlet invited all of the people that you were telling this to here it's like so this is not beyond
01:15:48
your control you're inviting it exactly but anyways the trial finally began at 9
01:15:53
00 a.m promptly on February 1st rabbit rabbit 1966 and Richard durstain was arguing for the state Clyde Woody and
01:16:01
Marion Rosen were arguing in Candy's defense and Percy foreman and William Walsh were arguing on behalf of Melvin
01:16:08
powers because of the scandalous and taboo nature of the relationship between the
01:16:13
defendants the jury and everybody else in the room probably expect expected Sensational opening remarks from the
01:16:21
prosecution they were probably [ __ ] ready for it but in his opening statement assistant State Attorney
01:16:26
Richard uh Judo made no mention of incest or any of the salacious details that were reported in the press and he
01:16:33
said only that the state would prove that an illicit Affair was just one of the motives for murder whoa I'm like I
01:16:41
don't know if we can boil that down to an illicit Affair yeah I'd call it something just call it um incestuous
01:16:47
yeah his straightforward approach was a little different than Percy Foreman's theatrical presentation to the jury in
01:16:54
his opening remarks foreman and Clyde Woody would eventually present evidence uh and testimony that they claimed would
01:17:01
prove their clients innocence but before doing so they said you know what let's muddy the waters a little bit here and
01:17:08
remind the jury that there were more than a few people who would have wanted Jack Mosler dead eek Foreman told the
01:17:15
jury the state has told you that Jacques Mosler was a was stabbed in excess of 39
01:17:21
times if each one of those 39 knife wounds on mosler's body was inflicted by a different person there would still be
01:17:28
many times that number of persons left with justification wow that's [ __ ] that is a lot you're talking about a man
01:17:37
that was brutally murdered yeah holy cow like holy cow is Right whoa yeah if I was in the jury I'd be like you're a
01:17:46
piece of [ __ ] yeah I feel like that was real shitty to say my dude I'm not gonna
01:17:49
believe anything you say yeah excuse me I'm out excuse gonna disagree with everything he says
01:17:57
excuse me I don't like that guy he could show me evidence and I don't give a [ __ ]
01:18:00
because he's an [ __ ] judge that guy's a dick that guy's a dick come out gotta go yeah it's sorry to delay your trial
01:18:07
but from there he launched into a dramatic character assassination that included accusing Jacques of many things
01:18:14
he said that he was accusing him of you know I don't even want to say this he was accusing him of like awful awful
01:18:22
things oh really yeah just like oh and like not even no I shouldn't even say awful things
01:18:27
awful things for back then okay you know what I mean yeah basically saying that he was like voyeuristic he was a gay man
01:18:35
he you know all these Terror but they're making him into this like creepy criminal yes element exactly you know
01:18:43
exactly and he assured them that if Jacques Shady business dealings hadn't gotten him killed then surely his
01:18:49
sexually deviant life did being gay yeah to which I say get [ __ ] sir exactly and I wrote that in my notes with one of
01:18:57
those old hearts that we used to write with like the arrow pointing left and then the three yeah [ __ ] sir that's
01:19:03
right heart yeah she's like I hate that back then it was like he was gay so he got murdered because he was gay and
01:19:10
that's yucky it was probably just being gay like shut up yep so by the time the prosecution was finally able to call
01:19:17
their Witnesses the defense had put on such a performance that anything a witness had to say would have been Bland
01:19:23
as [ __ ] by comparison but the witnesses for the prosecution they did make a compelling case on the
01:19:30
10th day of trial a handyman who had actually worked at the Mosler home told the jury about how on more than one
01:19:36
occasion he caught quote Miss Candy and Mel a Huggin and a kissing a hugging in a kiss a direct quote Oh
01:19:47
I hate it I hate it so much every now and again it gets worse every time yeah yep now among the other Witnesses called
01:19:54
by the prosecution to testify as to the Romantic relationship between aunt and nephew was Jess Young Who was a private
01:20:02
detective from Texas young had actually known powers in another context and told
01:20:07
the court that he and his wife had run into melon candy at a motel in Nassau Bay in Texas where Powers introduce
01:20:15
candy as his wife remember Powers as Mel introduces candy as his wife oh my and called her Mrs
01:20:23
Powers oh my God and then referred to Candy Sun Eddie as their child what the [ __ ] he said that it was his
01:20:34
wife's Son by a former marriage but like now it was their child together oh my God yeah gross according to Young Powers
01:20:42
described himself as very much in love and the two took frequent vacations together to Sun Valley and Mexico
01:20:49
and in his cross-examination Foreman though pointed out that this guy young and his wife had met Mel when they
01:20:57
purchased a mobile home from him sometime earlier and then that later that home was repossessed so it poked a
01:21:04
hole man now yep he said it didn't make you happy to have powers come and take your trailer you didn't pay for did it
01:21:11
so that essentially just implicated to the jury that this this is not credible it was retaliation yeah exactly so
01:21:21
unfortunately poked a whole hole Yeah now the trial's tent day turned out to be what the Miami Herald referred to as
01:21:28
quote the most unsavory days of the long and bitter courtroom spectacle whoa the
01:21:33
defense took every [ __ ] opportunity they could to imply or accuse any of the prosecution's witnesses of everything
01:21:41
from Petty retaliation and ignorance to infidelity and of course homosexuality all without evidence always with
01:21:49
objection but still it was devastating to the states against melon candy so the court Romantics and theatrics
01:21:57
almost entirely on the part of the defense were no doubt exhausting for the judge the jury the prosecution [ __ ]
01:22:04
everybody except for the reporters in the room especially the Tabloid reporters it was all what Dave so
01:22:12
perfectly called journalistic catnip oh my God and that's our friend Dave who helps us with research Dave is hilarious
01:22:18
he called it journalistic catnip that's a great way to describe that I love him a lot reporters from all over the
01:22:24
country had actually arrived in Miami like traveling from everywhere and they wanted to provide daily updates on the
01:22:30
case and like whatever paper they were writing for actually the Houston Chronicle referred to it as uh
01:22:36
overflowing with quote love heat greed Savage passion incest and perversion and all of those things should not go
01:22:45
together no none of barely any of those things should and the Chicago Tribune said that it was
01:22:51
quote lubricated by sex nourished by sex and varnished with sex in this trial this trial lubricated what was the
01:22:59
second one lubricated nourished and varnished lubricated nourished and varnished I'm honestly sorry I just
01:23:06
swallowed in your ear but I'm honestly shocked that they were able to uh like publish things like that yeah they
01:23:13
didn't give a [ __ ] lubricated by sex and the [ __ ] device in the Chicago Tribune like you do something the
01:23:21
[ __ ] newspaper to eat your breakfast you just kick your feet up your dad just opens the paper and is like well [ __ ]
01:23:27
that case is varnished by sex yeah that'll change you damn yeah yeah and the trial is glamorous and titillating
01:23:35
air was only fed into by the leading main star candy muzzler oh boy she arrived to the courthouse every [ __ ]
01:23:42
day dressed in furs skin tight dresses and stilettos it was like she was attending a [ __ ]
01:23:49
Hollywood Premiere rather than um a murder trial in which she was the accused she's the defendant in a murder
01:23:56
trial of her husband possibly by her and her nephew lover yup and she's like I better wear the best [ __ ] ever yeah
01:24:06
she's like let me just offend Peter while I'm at it yeah absolutely you know so meanwhile the real victim Jacques
01:24:11
Mosler was being [ __ ] crucified by the defense teams and they were handily turning the public against him because I
01:24:19
mean all they had to say really was like he was gay and everybody's like oh God gross he asked for it yeah literally
01:24:25
isn't that so [ __ ] oh it's very [ __ ] and the thing was to putting the victim
01:24:30
on trial was actually a very typical approach for this guy Foreman too like he did that in almost every trial and in
01:24:37
this trial it would be no different he took every opportunity to remind the jury he said quote thousands of people
01:24:44
hated the banker Jacques was ruthless in business as any pirate who ever sailed the seven seas a man who received so
01:24:51
many threats against his life that he kept an ax by his bedside and frequently summoned Thugs and gangsters into his
01:24:58
home employing them to deal with the blackmailers wow he got them a pirate you're so weird
01:25:06
dude yeah like get [ __ ] into the sun he's like this guy who was murdered in his own home in the middle of the night
01:25:14
asked for it was a pirate he's also like thugs gangsters gay people I'm like oh God get some [ __ ] culture get some
01:25:22
culture my friend good travel okay but you know all good things must come to an end yes it does and of course by the
01:25:29
time that the Mosler trial reached its conclusion it seemed as though many people journalists and readers alike had
01:25:35
consumed more than their fill of the story I think by the end of this people were like I'm done yeah like too much
01:25:41
yeah as the jury readied for deliberation the Associated Press wrote quote the trial story is one of the more
01:25:47
Sensational for some time but with war and Death on Grand scale it appears the public doesn't care for crime news the
01:25:54
way they once did yeah it's like a whole ass War yeah you know like people have other [ __ ] to focus on you know so
01:25:59
testimony ended on March 1st with as much Flair Aaron theatrics as it had opened with there were numerous demands
01:26:06
for a mistrial there were motions to dismiss from the defense all of them were denied and over the course of the
01:26:12
course of 31 days the prosecution presented the jury with evidence and with testimony that very strongly
01:26:19
implicated candy muzzler and Melvin powers in the murder of Jacques oh damn there was forensic evidence of Mel
01:26:26
having been at the scene multiple Witnesses confirming candy and Mel's romantic and sexual relationship as well
01:26:33
as their years-long desire to have Candy's husband murdered or murder him themselves
01:26:39
about the defense like we know hurled wild allegations unsupported theories possible
01:26:45
alternative Killers bogus claims all intended to slander the victim they just wanted to obscure obscure excuse me the
01:26:52
prosecution's case in his closing arguments uh Arthur Hutto pointed a finger at candy though and declared her
01:26:59
most guilty he told the jury even though she didn't strike the Fatal blow the evidence shows she is more guilty than
01:27:06
this man whoa and with that he shifted his filter to Mel he said she's more guilty
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unfortunately despite his best efforts though to make a compelling argument in the final hours Hutto proved to be a
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rather unengaging speaker eek quote one of the defense attorneys a secretary and
01:27:25
at least one courtroom spectator appeared to have fallen asleep during his no 80-minute closing statement oh
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damn 80 [ __ ] minutes damn and meanwhile the defense reminded the jury that you know despite the salacious
01:27:40
details an apparent preoccupy occupation preoccupation with preoccupation this was a murder case they said it's not
01:27:48
lubricated or varnished by sex no they said we're trying them for first degree murder here we're not trying a hugging
01:27:57
and a kiss in case wow so the jury deliberated for three days before returning to announce that candy
01:28:05
and Mel were not guilty I knew it not guilty of the murder of John I knew it candy
01:28:13
collapsed in her chair and started convulsively sobbing and Mel leaned back in his chair like kind of seemed to
01:28:19
relax probably for the first time in months even one of the jurors actually threw tears it seemed like he was very
01:28:26
relieved but he was crying and he told candy God bless you ma'am what he didn't think she was guilty the [ __ ] or he
01:28:35
probably was like oh my God this poor woman was married to a gay man yeah how terrible
01:28:40
and as they left the courthouse candy was met by a mob of adoring fans who were elated with the verdict and
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shouting Candace we love you I can't are you kidding me no are you kidding me are
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you [ __ ] kidding me are you kidding me the District Attorney's office they did make a strong case even if they
01:28:59
didn't have a murder weapon but from the moment the trial started it was clear that this had nothing to do with Justice
01:29:05
the prosecution didn't lose the case because they lacked evidence they had plenty of [ __ ] evidence they lost
01:29:11
because they were boring wow that's all this comes down to so this is really just all tabloid [ __ ] that's exactly
01:29:18
what it is the defense teams per C Foreman in particular spent almost the entire trial just
01:29:24
making a mockery of this man yeah and the people fell for it wow so fun that's really sad it's so [ __ ] so 10 days
01:29:33
after the verdict was read a book was published about the murder 10 days 10 days and it was supposed to be adopted
01:29:40
into a Hollywood film after of course um Candy told the press that she had no interest in having a movie made about
01:29:46
this but I think that was a big fat lie yeah and she comes right down to it she'd be like where do I sign she
01:29:51
referred to it as that unfortunate Miami episode oh yeah the brutal murder of a [ __ ] husband as the father of your
01:29:59
children that unfortunate Miami episode are you [ __ ] kidding me unfortunate and she returned to River Oaks but if
01:30:06
she was expecting like fans like she had in Miami she was [ __ ] mistaken one of
01:30:11
the ladies in High Society said after standing next to her at an event and moving her place please I wasn't about
01:30:18
to be about to be seen standing next to a hedonist she was a murderer she had sex with her sister's son I don't know
01:30:24
which is worse oh Jesus right what did she say hey this yeah she did yes she did thank you oh yeah yeah that's what I
01:30:35
said what did I say how did this how did this goodbye philanthropy philanthropy that one was intentional I love this
01:30:42
hedonist wasn't hedonist hedonists okay thank you you know quotes that's fine regardless of how she was received back
01:30:50
in Houston though having been found not guilty meant that she was free to inherit Jacques huge Fortune of course
01:30:56
yup she also got to take over the majority control of multiple banking institutions holy [ __ ] because he's a
01:31:03
[ __ ] biker and she was installed as chairman of the board on some of those chairman of the poor so with the
01:31:09
inheritance she purchased multiple properties she invested in arts and theater projects she also founded a
01:31:15
music publishing company and she wanted to publish and promote love songs that she'd been writing for years
01:31:22
ew she claimed that Judy Garland had expressed interest in recording her songs there's no evidence of that being true
01:31:29
but the Press did report that as fact of course no [ __ ] evidence whatsoever though Judy yeah now after the case had
01:31:37
ended candy and Mel kinda went their separate ways after a little bit he stayed in Houston
01:31:44
and they rarely saw each other because he focused on like a new business in real estate and she decided to stop
01:31:50
[ __ ] her nephews but they did have a relationship for a little bit Yeah in the months in the last months of that
01:31:59
relationship things got so bad that they would get into loud arguments in public
01:32:03
and there was one incident where candy actually called the police and demanded that Mel be arrested for physically
01:32:09
assaulting her what the [ __ ] there was no evidence that he had assaulted her though whoa
01:32:14
it was through my phone at her because I was trying to show her a picture of them
01:32:18
that's them that's them like holding hands being incestuous that's really gross yeah you want to know something crazy oh
01:32:26
no chandi got remarried in 1971. what and wait until you hear what happened with this
01:32:33
she married a man named Barnett Garrison he was a self-employed electrical contractor and he also owned a nightclub
01:32:40
and he was also 20 years younger than candy so now at first she really loved the older guys but then she loved the
01:32:47
younger guys oh yeah she's Coogan though so she gets married in 1971 to this man
01:32:55
Barnett but a year later police were called to her mansion and they found him face down on the patio in a pool of
01:33:04
blood with a nine millimeter pistol by his side whoa he suffered brain damage a collapsed lung broken rib sorry for
01:33:15
the trigger and multiple lacerations but he was still alive he lived barely holy
01:33:23
[ __ ] detectives eventually determined that he had fallen 40 feet from their roof God and had landed on that concrete
01:33:30
and when they interviewed candy she said she had no idea what he was doing on the
01:33:34
roof but then blurted out that she had shot him oh what what but that confused the
01:33:41
investigators because he didn't appear to have been shot I'm so confused me as well and them as
01:33:50
well everyone so they said that they chalked it up to her being heavily medicated at the time of this fall and
01:33:57
the fall was officially determined to have been accidental whoa that's not accident yeah there's something
01:34:03
something's up there unofficially rumors circulated that he may have gotten drunk and become abusive
01:34:10
one night so she jumped or she excuse me she jammed an ice pick in his ear in his
01:34:15
ear again this is all speculation and she had a relative help her drag him up to the roof and they threw him off
01:34:23
together that was the rumor spreading they're like you remember that [ __ ] candy that used to [ __ ] her nephew High
01:34:29
Society rumors are [ __ ] brutal yeah I mean yeah that's ruthless absolutely so he lay in a coma for like six months but
01:34:37
he eventually regained consciousness but he had no memory of what happened to him oh of course and no memory of being
01:34:44
married to Candy whatsoever oh that's wild yeah bless his heart yeah in a real way like truly bless him she filed for
01:34:52
divorce in 1974 and she told the reporters that she did still love him but that their relationship just wasn't
01:34:57
going to work out yeah yeah I don't see it working out after that yeah and her relationship with most of her children
01:35:04
was also deeply affected by all of her Antics in the years after Jacques death in 1973 two of her sons actually filed a
01:35:12
lawsuit against her they claimed that she had transferred huge portions of their inheritances to herself that's
01:35:19
[ __ ] up and that she only left them with 350 a month for living expenses that's [ __ ] up yep so obviously this
01:35:26
lawsuit created a big old Rift between them and she actually eventually wrote them out of her will wow isn't that
01:35:32
[ __ ] wow like no matter what my kids do I don't think I could write them out of my way yeah I mean I don't know but I
01:35:38
feel like I don't know I don't know in October of 1977 candy flew to Miami she was planning to attend a board of
01:35:46
directors meeting for one of the banks that she inherited from Jacques and after checking into her her hotel she
01:35:52
called the doctor that she saw when she was in Miami and she told them she was getting another one of her violent
01:35:58
migraines and that she was gonna need one of those injections so he came by and he injected her with Demerol and
01:36:04
fenugreen I believe excuse me Phenergan which is a painkiller and a sedative but what he didn't know was that she had
01:36:12
already taken another pain pill prior to his arrival and injection so the next day October 6 1977 her
01:36:21
secretary found her lying face down on the bed dead from what would have been ruled
01:36:26
a in cautious self-overdose damn she spent her whole [ __ ] life trying to make it and then to stay in the
01:36:36
spotlight and then she ended like that oh my God isn't that [ __ ] crazy wow absolutely [ __ ] nuts that's
01:36:46
Bonkers that's the end of it and that's the end of candy quite literally and where it's like the Mel just off he went
01:36:54
she spent her whole life just trying to get in the spotlight and like she did but then but in the worst way in the
01:37:02
worst possible way and then spent the rest of her life trying to get out of it but never could
01:37:08
damn isn't it like weirdly ironic yeah it's that's that story is just bad bad it's bad [ __ ]
01:37:18
[ __ ] bad I've heard it like a ton of times but I think every single time I just like rummage it out of my brain
01:37:23
like I'm like no no no no no no no no no I actually I knew like the name I did not know the whole story at all crazy so
01:37:30
that's wild crazy damn yeah so like don't do any of that definitely don't but do
01:37:39
sitting and we hope you keep it weird but it's so weird that you invite your nephew to your home to give him a better
01:37:47
life and then you start doing the nasty with him because that's the legal and you should never do that definitely
01:37:53
don't also murder your husband cause that's also incredibly illegal bye yeah I don't do any of that yeah it's illegal
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