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weird trill uction I loved it thank you I'm sure everybody loved it I hope so yeah for them I know they will for the
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people you know I know it you know it I know it we're very silly today yeah it's
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a silly day just a Tuesday just a silly ass Tuesday a silly ass Tuesday why is that so funny don't know
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cuz it's silly Tuesday I don't know what's we're not on drugs I swear it's true we sound like it
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but we're life man just high on life this is just a toasted aago bagel with cream cheese I did not know where you
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were going with cup of coffee I I didn't hear the part where you said I just had so I thought you
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said it's just a toasted AO oh no I did say that oh you did cuz you were saying like this is just us and I was like yeah
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it's just a toasted aago oh you're high on the Asiago I see I see yeah do you have any you should plug
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again when it comes out I want I think I yeah I want a hard cover one oh yeah the
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hard cover will come out first oh cool I'll buy that um and it'll be followed by a paperback at some point so I
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already have that um but but yeah if you um if you can pre-order that would be so
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promis it happens so it's one of those things that it's like you might as well roll those Dice and see if you can get
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and you know like I'm going to be letting out some little quotes from the book I've been doing that now and then
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notable quotables um that Mikey has made Mikey's made those Graphics he's so good
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at that all by himself so all by himself I just you need to know that the talent
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is there is it the the talent the Charisma the the the uniqueness nerve exactly of course can't forget the
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and the audio book will be available so you can pre-order that it's all exciting
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it's the same uh narrators for the sequel it Joe and Sophie we love Joe and Sophie they're amazing and I'm very
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excited that they came back so uh yeah yippee I'm excited about it get this [ __ ] on the New York Times bestselling
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authors list let's do it again I don't know who I am today I'm several different people I know who I am
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anxiety today I got things to do but I'm silly today feeling a lot of emotions feel a lot of things going on yep but
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are you going to take us back in time today I am indeed um right at the top of this story like silly all aside I want
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to get serious for a second cuz this is an interesting story and it's kind of like my typical kind of socialite Vibe
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but because I'm taking you back in time there are heavy themes of hom phobia ah and that was a bummer going through this
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to say the least it was um very angering going through this and it's not I mean the person who committed the crime is
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the one who faces these themes so it's you're going to feel a lot of different feelings going through this conflicting
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feelings yeah cuz you're going to be upset for them that they face things like this yeah but then also at the same
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time they are the murderer so so you feel a little bit you feel a little bit stressed yeah it's going to be stressful
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it will be feel all your feelings feel them all feelings are valid yeah but let's get into it it's they're not fact
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but they're valid that's exactly what my therapist says she says my old therapist
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actually not the new one the the old one said feelings aren't fact yeah it's true
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the new one but they're valid probably would say the same thing there anyway so let's get into it uh Patricia Harley
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Burton was born September 1st 1921 the only child to William Burton and Lucille wolf I [ __ ] love the name Lucille
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that's I love the name Lucille it's so cute like I feel like how could you ever meet a Lucille and not like them I don't
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know it hasn't happened to me yeah now William was the son of Emanuel burnheimer the owner of lion Brewing
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which was one of the largest breweries in the United States in the early 20th century so when William turned 21 he had
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inherited a trust fund of $250,000 which today would be like inheriting 6 million [ __ ]
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smackaroos oh my or dollars if you're nasty smackaroos is much better smackaroos I like that smackaroos is
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definitely where it's at that's a lot of money a lot of smackaroos a lot of smackaroos they're rolling in smackaroos
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a lot of chaing a lot of K Kash I don't know a lot of Kash a lot of Kash a lot of C I was going somewhere else and then
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my brain forgot where we I saw you struggling and you were making this motion with your hand and I was like I
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want to help but I don't know where you're going yeah kashish that's what I was trying to say
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Kish I like Kash Kash TM but so as The Heirs to the burnheimer fortune William Lucille and their
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daughter Patricia lived a remarkably privileged life everything was insanely extravagant they had Butlers they had
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this they had that they had everything you know like the gilmores yeah exactly but even Richard even more wow but
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despite Emily that I would never but despite having been raised in a family of Brewer industrialists William
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actually didn't really have any interest in Brewing or running a major corporation that could present a problem
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yeah it didn't even he was just like yeah I'm not that interested okay so the business just went to his brother George
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and William he still got to keep his money and he pursued a career in painting and visual arts now despite
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their seemingly Charmed Life the Burtons had what people especially back then would have considered Ed a
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non-traditional marriage according to author Alan Lavine who wrote the book A book about this case uh details are
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unprintable is the title definitely a good read I check it out good title Allan wrote there's sufficient evidence
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to strongly suggest that William Burton was gay and his marriage to lucil was somewhat of a sham or like a a cover up
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kind of cuz obviously he couldn't be a very out gay man at that time yeah now William's parents seemed to be aware of
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his sexual orientation but they insisted that he quote find a nice girl and get married settle down and have children
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okay hence the marriage to Lucille on September 25th 1920 not surprisingly William and
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Lucille's marriage was not very happy because neither of them was really living their true identity and their
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true lives you know you can't truly be happy no in March of 1925 less than 5 years after getting married Lucille
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actually ended up filing for separation on the grounds of Cruelty in her filing she alleged among other things that
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William had quote used profane language in front of their home and had caused a crowd to gather and she also said that
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he was physically abusive on more than one occasion who and had taken their daughter to an undisclosed location for
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several days without informing her oh so things were nasty that's [ __ ] up it's
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super [ __ ] up things were nasty behind closed doors William denied the allegations but the court did end up
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siding with Lucille and in May of 1926 she was granted a divorce and she was awarded primary custody of Patricia but
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just 4 years later in 1930 Lucille and William actually ended up getting remarried in a small ceremony in France
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huh later Lucille admitted that she had only gotten remarried for the sake of Patricia who William adored and couldn't
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stand to be apart from it was kind of like keeping the family together for the sake of her daughter and for her her
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ex-husband but there wasn't real love between the two like Wom Lucille okay it was from the jump very fractured and
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very sad I was gonna say this is just very sad and for William I imagine it was lonely like I hope yeah the abuse
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allegations weren't true but it sounds I mean the court saw them as true yeah but
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it sounds like William was lonely it sounds like Lucille was lonely it just sounds miserable and then Patricia just
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suffers because she's being brought up in such turmoil yeah and it's like that's not that's not healthy yeah and
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she sees the example of her mother just kind of like dealing with it yeah just like bearing the load of all this the
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other thing was while the uh remarriage likely surprised those who knew them well it was it had the benefit of
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upholding social expectations and shielding them from any further gossip about William sexuality very 40s very
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very 40s and actually at this point 30s yeah oh yeah yeah we're not even there yet we'll get there don't worry you're
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like don't worry we'll get there too we're on our way very 30s yeah so thre out a good portion of Patricia life the
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family lived in Europe spending most of their time in and around Paris France was among the capitals of the art world
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at the time and it also at the time was a country that had pretty accepting attitudes around homosexuality at the
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time gay relationships were definitely not encouraged but it was a place that would have been tolerant of William's
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casual relationships with men yeah especially given his station he lived a little bit more of a privileged life so
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people were willing to kind of look the other way okay which is silly that that even had to be done they had to look the
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other way yeah like get over it that's wild but during this period the family spent considerable time traveling back
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and forth between New York until finally deciding to move back to the United States in the later 1930s just before
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the start of World War II Patricia often referred to her parents as strict but there's actually a lot of evidence to
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suggest that when it came to their daughter William and Lucille weren't any more strict than the average parent at
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the time in fact according to author LaVine Patricia was quote spoiled rotten by both her parents as they competed for
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her affection oh man to think of your parents competing for your affection is like it's great that they want you to
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know how much they love you but should be a competion yeah and you just see all the chaos so it's like yeah it's a
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little Hollow it is a little day I'm sure but by the time she reached her late teens Patricia was receiving a
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regular and sizable allowance from her father uh was an active member of New York's Cafe society and a regular
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contributor to fil anthropic causes in addition to the tea dances and luncheons that she hosted she was also a regular
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at the debutant club Gatherings and fundraisers around the city so you see where my social life [ __ ] is coming I
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was going to say you love that I do I wish I could have been a debutant a debut now it was during this period
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Circa 1939 so you're right we are approaching the 40s that Patricia who was on the hunt for a husband first met
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Wayne lonan Wayne was born January 14th 1918 in Toronto Ontario to Thomas and Clara Lan an insurance salesman and a
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homemaker respectively the family which also included Wayne's siblings June and William lived a middle class life they
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lived in a nice neighborhood seemed to have like a fairly average life but behind closed doors there was a
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considerable amount of dysfunction Clara the mom regularly suffered from crippling anxiety and depression and she
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also experienced psychotic episodes that according to LaVine quote made her indifferent to her young children as
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well as paranoid and delusional so it's really sad yeah she was hospitalized in psychiatric
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institutions on at least four occasions including one hospitalization uh about six months after Wayne was born oh wow
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so she was really going through it and yeah Wayne and the kids were having to kind of figure it out yeah like come to
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GRS with that other than that Little's really known about Wayne's early life but in 1932 his parents transferred him
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from a a Catholic School to Harvard Collegiate Institute a public high school but for whatever reason that only
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lasted a year and by 1933 he was transferred back to the Catholic School System later uh after Wayne's trial his
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aunt told reporters Wayne had always been a fine boy but he fell into bad and Fast Company after he went to New York
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in 1938 oh eek when you say after his trial I said uhoh oh no but yeah maybe not entirely true uh auntie auntie Wayne
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there oh Alan Lavine speculated that the reason for Wayne's transfers between high schools actually might have had
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something to do with like some delinquent Behavior his own delinquent Behavior yeah not necessarily the entire
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state of New York not like he was friends with yucky people yeah once he moved to New York he fell in with a bad
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crowd not necessarily he did well in school and he was actually highly intelligent but his high intelligence
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left him bored a lot of the time that's often an issue it is I think that was the case in my last story yeah and
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inevitably that got him into trouble in December 1933 he was actually arrested a
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few days before Christmas when he was caught shoplifting a microphone a purse and a lighter from a department store
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and this what an interesting array of items yeah a microphone a purse and a lighter like the purse you're like oh
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like was that like a Christmas gift like that's kind of sad that you f you you have things to say yeah you have a show
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to put on and a lighter a lighter fires to start you know arson great yeah but this was the first of several run-ins
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with the law Wayne's poor behavior in his teenage years at the same time though might not have been entirely his
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fault life in his house with you know his mom she was pretty emotionally unavailable she was going through her
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own things it just wasn't really easy for the kids oh that's sad and to make matters worse when he was only 15 years
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old Wayne's father actually died of uh coronary thosis leaving the children solely in the care of Clara was
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unemployed and didn't really have a lot of skills and this was during a particularly bad economic time period in
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Canada oh man so they're really going through it yeah so the year after he turned uh six or the year when he turned
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16 excuse me he dropped out of high school and attended Dominion uh business college where he took courses in
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business management but after a while this was also pretty unstimulating for him and within a few months he dropped
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out so in the years that followed Wayne just kind of jumped from job to another he had a short stint as a special
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Constable for the Ontario Provincial Police in 1937 but like the other jobs all of
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these were unsatisfying for Wayne he wanted bigger more exciting things for himself so in 1939 he landed a job as a
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bus dispatcher with Greyhound bus lines um from whom you Cann notot buy a VIP ticket I don't know if you guys remember
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that story like I need to be clear there's no such thing no VIP ticket on grah hump bu
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when you told me that I I almost died in case you don't know that story I once spot a VIP ticket because they adverti
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VIP tickets and I thought I would get like a special more comfy seat no [ __ ] I sat in the back next to the
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bathrooms and not anything about that experience was VIP so fake as [ __ ] very important I wanted to be a very
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important Greyhound bus rider okay and I wasn't I love that you bought a VIP grayon bus sck it I mean it's like my
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one of my top favorite things that you've ever done wouldn't you think that like you'd at least get like a seat with
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extra legum I mean yeah like I've boughten I've boughten I bought like you know what I rest my
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[Laughter] case anyway just for those out there don't be fooled you can't buy a don't be
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fooled like me don't don't get yourself in the same situation but anyway he got a job with them maybe
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the VIP tickets were his idea that took him to New York but the job was uh hardly more exciting than
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what he'd done to that point but the good thing was it did get him out of Toronto and allowed him to get to the
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decidedly more glamorous New York City New York where he was confident that his charm Charisma uniqueness nerve and
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talent would be rewarded I love it now although he had always tried to make money through what back then would have
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been considered legitimate employment quote unquote there is ample evidence including a number of Ontario Police
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reports that suggest he also made money as a sex worker or an escort prior to relocating to New York which they'll end
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up using against him but it's like who really gives a [ __ ] he needed money yeah
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like a job is a job I feel like that's not the issue here me too but throughout his life Wayne mostly he kind of like
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went back and forth denying that he was gay or bisexual but there is evidence that his clients were almost exclusively
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male and on a few occasions when he was feeling less inhibited inhibited why can
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I say that I understand because when you say inhibitions yeah it changes the inflection that you use so when you go
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to say inhibit you say like in inhibit like you know it just makes and then you're going to say like in
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inhib yeah I can't but it's inhibited on a few occasions when he was feeling less
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inhibited you got it a he admitted to having at least some sexual interest in men it seemed essentially that he
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probably did have some kind of interest in men and women like it to me it seems like maybe he was by yeah but obviously
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you couldn't come out and say that back then without facing legitimate consequences that's wild yeah which is
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sad yeah but who really knows and the only reason I bring it up is because his sexuality ends up playing a role in his
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later trial otherwise it's like I wouldn't have brought it up otherwise cuz it's not who giv to at all but it
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plays exactly but anyway it was actually through William Burton Patricia's father
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in case you forgot that Wayne came to meet Patricia in 1939 William had met Wayne so Patricia's father had met Wayne
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okay in late 1939 and despite their 20-year age difference they kind of entered a shortlived relationship of
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sorts in later interviews Wayne would acknowledge his relationship with William Burton but he would always
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insist that it was Patricia he was in interested in huh yeah it's interesting interesting but at the time
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homosexuality was not only a crime but also considered by most including medical professionals to be a mental
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illness so given which is insane that's like that's like inconceivable no it truly is well and it's sad that like
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people are still trying to make that happen but given the stigma and potentially serious consequences of
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being labeled gay or bisexual you can understand why Wayne would have gone out of his way to conceal his sexuality
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absolutely but like I cuz and remember like I said earlier William Burton had the luxury and protection of wealth and
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Status where Wayne didn't really have that he's a middle class yeah Blue Collar kind of guy you can't cover it up
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with that stuff exactly but anyway nobody really knows why but William and Wayne ended ended their relationship
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after a few months and with William's approval Wayne started dating his daughter
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Patricia okay yeah there's a lot of different the the some people think that it was kind of like do you remember the
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um the [ __ ] William Woodward story where he was he set uh Ann up with his son so that they could carry on the
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relationship but then they kind of fell in love Yeah to me it kind of seems maybe like that is what happened here
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like Wayne was dating Patricia so he could stay close to William but then maybe it worked out that he actually did
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fall in love with Patricia wow or maybe it just like the fact that you had at least two cases where this scenario
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happens is pretty wly yeah it is I love a [ __ ] up high society case it's my favorite thing ever damn these high
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society [ __ ] are like oh secrets on secrets on secrets and like what scand on scandals on scandals scandalo but
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according to journalist Dominic Dunn one of my faves Wayne Lan quote was one of those young men in New York who liked to
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be taken care of and he had the kind of look Swagger and charm to ensure that he
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was look him up I know you should this certainly explained at least some of his interest in William Burton but also his
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interest in Patricia and for her part Patricia didn't really seem bothered by this kind of arrangement she'd spent her
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entire life seeing her father carry on relationships with men while still being married to her mom so the idea that the
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companionship of her latest love interest could be bought honestly seemed fine to her yeah like this is not
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something foreign to her exactly so not long after meeting Patricia and Wayne were frequently spotted at some of New
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York's fanciest restaurants and nightclubs they were really hitting it off and having a good time together the
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relationship though resembled Patricia's parents marriage in other ways too most
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significantly she and Wayne were decidedly non- monogamous the two of them they spent a great deal of time
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together socially but Wayne also courted other wealthy young women at the time to
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kind of climb the social ladder it seemed and Patricia may have been doing the same thing I think people just focus
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more on Wayne because of what happen happens later yeah but within less than a year of arriving in New York he had
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pretty much integrated himself into the Burton Family while also gaining entrance to the prestigious Princeton
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Club and acting as a popular escort for prominent historian and culture critic Lucius BBE among others Lucius B Lucius
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BBE what a cool [ __ ] name now while William Burton seemed to approve of Patricia's relationship with Wayne her
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mother Lucille was vehemently opposed to their Affair oh her feelings were probably an amalgamation of worrying
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that her daughter was going to end up in a similar position to hers and she also
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didn't love the fact that Patricia was dating outside of her social station because remember they're high society
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they're going to all these night clubs and you know like afforded the best of the best and now she's dating some
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middle class bluecollar guy yeah who like reminds Lucille a lot of her father SL husband not great which is not a
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flattering portrait to her exactly whatever the reason though Lucille strongly disliked Wayne and wanted
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Patricia to have a proper Society debut so in the summer of 1941 she took Patricia to California in hopes of
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breaking up the relationship oh but unfortunately for Lucille Wayne followed them there and on July 30th he and
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Patricia eloped to Las Vegas so not only did he like be like no you're not breaking us up we're just going to get
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married now yeah and actually you made it easier for us because right there yeah yikes and you can
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imagine for a high society woman her High Society daughter eloping to Las Vegas wasn't really what she'd hoped for
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to the middle class guy that she didn't approve of yeah scandals yes much Scandal so after
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the wedding Patricia and Wayne moved into an apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan back to high society [ __ ]
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William Burton had actually died from a heart attack a year earlier Oh leaving Patricia with a 20 $30,000 trust which
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is about 3.5 million today whoa and that allowed the couple to continue their life of extravagance and luxury now they
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had a butler a cook a laundress damn yeah sounds amazing but there was a lot about Wayne that Patricia didn't know
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and what she thought she knew was pretty much a bunch of Lies oh according to author Alan Lavine Wayne lonan was a
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consumate liar among other things he had convinced Patricia that he had his own money from invest and that he hadn't
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married her for inheritance for her inheritance but it never seemed to occur to her that their expenses always seemed
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to be paid out of her pocket anytime they did anything it was on her dime yeah that sounds like willful ignorance
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it's just like you know what I'm just going to I'm going to believe this and I think a lot of it probably had to do
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with the fact that they were also both carrying on other [ __ ] yeah so she's just like all right she's like cool I
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we're married on paper my mom is pretty pissed about it but I'm married we go to
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social events and that's it let's go off and do our separate things you know now
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as soon as they were back in New York Wayne and Patricia like I was just saying got back to their life of leisure
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Leisure they were dining at the finest restaurants spending their nights at popular clubs like El Morocco and the 21
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Club they became members of a small group The Society pages had dubbed celebutant stop it young men and women
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whose notoriety and celebrity were purely the result of their wealth oh so this started long ago oh it started
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I watched a documentary recently where they were saying like Paris Hilton was the first of the [ __ ] and that's my girl
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right there I ride for Paris she's not the first citon baby Patricia is one of the first and this is in the 1940s at
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this point absolutely it goes way further than that but they traveled by limousine daily they gained entrance to
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exclusive clubs and rooms across the city and they never had to worry about having a reservation if they showed up
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there was a table for them that must have been nice I know it's I love the extravagance that's fancy I love it yeah
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I do love the fanciness of it oh it's so fun but the nightclubs and limousines were an important part of Patricia and
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Wayne's lives but for Patricia the excitement only went so far she had been brought up in this kind of Lifestyle but
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she also had been instilled with a desire to contribute to society in some way so a few months after the wedding
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she actually took a nurses aid course at Bellevue Hospital and she completed that
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in early 1942 and she started volunteering ing at Belleview in St cla's Hospital three days a week damn so
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she not she wasn't just like throwing money at causes which I mean even still that's great that you're supporting and
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giving your hard-earned money or you know money your money your money but she also was like going to the hospital and
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doing the damn thing yeah she was actually getting involved that's exactly Wayne on the other hand uh didn't really
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feel a drive to contribute to anything other than his own life and he was very happy to just lay around the apartment
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all day until it was time to go out in the night time you yeah it's not super hot but it turned out this fundamental
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difference in character and ethics was going to be the first obvious crack in their marriage oh yeah there's no way
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that's going to last no now Wayne got a stipend of $700 a month which is about $113,000 today oh just that a month just
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a a a measly $133,000 a month as a stipended but he would blow through that before the month was even close to being
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over and would inevitably go to p Trish asking for more money how though like what are you spending that on everything
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cuz you're not paying bills with that nope your fun money yeah how much fun are you having the most fun one could
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ever have and that's the thing like it's so clear that they were going hard they
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were going to these nightclubs these you know private rooms these dinners these any like anything that they were going
00:28:53
to and they were giving to like philanthropic causes of course but Patricia was like this kind of only goes
00:28:59
so far like you can only get so much out of this and then I'd like to be involved
00:29:05
in actual normal society and like go see the other side of life like there there's a finite amount of money here
00:29:12
we're not actively making money exactly this is a trust given to me yeah and just also I don't want to lay around the
00:29:20
apartment all day like yeah we can do that but that doesn't mean we should yeah and I think she saw that but he
00:29:26
didn't see that and you have to remember she had grown up this way so it got old
00:29:30
for her faster yeah she's like this high life is like fine yeah but like whatever
00:29:35
I'd also like to like be a little bit regular yeah and he cont had grown up in like kind of a struggling household
00:29:42
working going from job to job and then he finally got here where he doesn't have to do [ __ ] so he's just basking in
00:29:49
it that's a tough like conflict of just experience essentially exactly you both experience totally different like uh
00:30:00
upbringings yeah I was like what is the word upbringings and now you want the other one ex you're you're used to the
00:30:06
other thing now you want the new thing and when you're married and you you want like two vastly different things it's
00:30:13
just not going to work out like you you don't have to want all the same things but no of course not there's got to be a
00:30:18
common ground yeah that's the thing like you need a little compromise with each other and they just didn't have that so
00:30:24
when she would suggest that you know maybe he go try to find a job Wayne would just balk at the very thought of
00:30:30
giving up this life of leisure instead he focused all his attention on climbing the social ladder he played cards most
00:30:37
afternoons he went out of his way to make the acquaintance of the city's most famous residence later when detectives
00:30:43
interviewed their friends and acquaintances nearly every single one of them reported that Patricia was usually
00:30:49
unhappy that's sad yeah and also it's like at least like personally man that's unattractive oh if you're just loing
00:30:59
around the house all day kind oh the lack of ambition not hot o like that is a yeah and you could tell it was having an
00:31:10
effect on their marriage she's like um this is not okay most people don't find that attractive no so as the months went
00:31:16
on Wayne's less desirable character traits continued to show themselves in addition to his just straight up
00:31:22
laziness he also seemed to care little for Patricia's happiness and pretty much did everything without any kind of
00:31:29
regard for her feelings E when they went out to nightclubs he would just leave her for more interesting or exciting
00:31:35
social opportunities what the [ __ ] sometimes he would just skip their plans or obligations Al together if he found
00:31:40
something else he wanted to do he' just go do that wow and other times he would literally return home like essentially
00:31:46
to her home cuz she's the one with the [ __ ] money yeah from a night out in the company of men or women that she had
00:31:52
never met or seen before like this sounds like a nightmare yeah it's horrible situation
00:31:58
so she complained about his behavior and like tried to talk to him about it but he ignored her and just carried on doing
00:32:04
everything that she asked him not to do more than anything though the tensions in Wayne and Patricia's marriage could
00:32:10
be traced back to the fact that he had no control over their finances because remember this is her trust they're
00:32:16
living off of her trust fund but after all Wayne reasoned he was the husband and it was a man's job to take care of
00:32:23
such things in a marriage to make some money honey exactly but he felt it was emasculating that she was in charge of
00:32:30
all the finances now it got to the point where the arguments between Patricia and
00:32:35
Wayne got heated and were generally carried out with little regard for whoever was an earshot they would just
00:32:40
fight in front of anybody those people yeah that that that couple you're like we're
00:32:47
still at dinner wait until we get in the car I'm uncomfortable oh God but according to Daily News gossip columnist
00:32:54
Danton Walker they fought like cats and dogs there was never any peace between them once when they got into an argument
00:33:00
I heard her say to Wayne I suppose that's to be expected when a girl marries a man who's beneath her whoa
00:33:06
shots fired damn someone give him some aloe for that burn you guys hate each other yeah you don't like each other
00:33:15
maybe just go your separate ways it's fine just don't be married but despite their increasingly fractured marriage
00:33:20
Wayne and Patricia did their best to keep up appearances for social expectations yeah that's what's
00:33:25
important and in October of 1941 Patricia became pregnant and on July 1st she gave birth to their first son
00:33:32
William Wayne Billy Lan named for his father and his grandfather Patricia absolutely adored Billy but if her new
00:33:41
maternal responsibilities prompted any urge for her to change her priorities or for Wayne to change him his uh it didn't
00:33:49
show Billy's birth did little to alter either of his parents' social lives and he spent a lot of his time in the care
00:33:55
of a nurse named Elizabeth black that's really sad yeah I never understand the the mindset of like oh my life doesn't
00:34:02
need to change just there's a child here now I feel it does very of that time in
00:34:08
this social well and I was going to say station this social class for sure definitely like the the wealthy Elite
00:34:15
just like it's sad though cuz you're like it's very sad you're going to be so disconnected yeah exactly and it's like
00:34:24
why have a baby yeah like why why bother obviously it was like different back then yeah it definitely was but by early
00:34:30
1942 the US had finally entered World War II and young men around the country were all driven by a sense of patriotic
00:34:36
duty to join the military and fight according to Dominic Dunn it was actually an embarrassment not to be in
00:34:41
uniform well [ __ ] so never one to miss an opportunity to impress or meet social
00:34:46
expectations Wayne also desired to join the military but he was turned down on more than one occasion due to rumors
00:34:53
surrounding his sexuality rumors what the [ __ ] literal rumors about him you know carrying on
00:35:00
relationships with not women my God so he couldn't join the military what an embarrassment yeah exctly that's an
00:35:08
embarrassment for the country this man wants to fight for his country and they're like no not because of who you
00:35:15
love like okay what what so the denial from the military was a blow to his ego I mean I can understand that but it was
00:35:24
only one of what would turn out to be many frustrating appointments that year as the months went by Wayne and
00:35:30
Patricia's marriage continued to crumble and she actually started talking about separating and even getting a divorce
00:35:36
probably for the best man probably and kind of a big deal for her to be talking about this one at this time two in this
00:35:44
social class and three as a woman yeah so Wayne strongly objected to the idea of separating likely her financial
00:35:51
reasons but by 1943 the marriage had completely Fallen apart and they did separate in July of that year when Billy
00:35:59
was literally 1 years old like he turned one that year so no longer socially tied
00:36:04
to Wayne Patricia just resumed her life of partying in nightclubs filling her datebook with social engagements seeing
00:36:10
different men every night just going crazy yeah Wayne on the other hand floundered without Patricia or more
00:36:18
specifically without her money and Status yeah fearing that she was going to divorce him and cut him off
00:36:23
completely he started brainstorming ideas to get back into her good grace and he decided that she would be less
00:36:29
likely to leave him if he was in the military but of course he had already been twice denied by the US military so
00:36:36
he returned to Toronto because remember he's from Toronto oh yeah in late summer
00:36:41
of uh 1943 and he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force or the rcaf to his surprise the ploy actually worked and
00:36:49
Patricia agreed to postpone the divorce wow but unbeknownst to him at this point
00:36:54
she removed him as Heir in her will and instead listed their infant son as her sole
00:37:01
Heir that's not going to be good when he finds that out and he will as a Cadet he
00:37:07
managed to avoid combat and was stationed in Toronto which allowed him to actually travel back and forth to New
00:37:12
York to visit Billy whenever possible Patricia meanwhile had moved on from her husband and was now seeing a man named
00:37:18
Mario gabini he was an Italian count who occasionally worked as a decorator that
00:37:23
is the fanciest [ __ ] I've ever heard sometimes I work as a decorator I'm an Italian count who sometimes works as a
00:37:30
decorator okay Mario it's cool [ __ ] damn that's that's hot girl [ __ ] that is hot
00:37:34
girl [ __ ] no on the night of October 23rd uh Patricia and Mario went out to dinner with another couple then they
00:37:41
made the rounds to the usual nightclubs finally ending the evening around 400 a.m. at the St meanwhile she has a baby
00:37:49
yeah also I would die I 28 years old and I can't stay up till 4:00 a.m. I mean don't I can I can barely get past 11 at
00:37:57
this point yeah I had a glass of wine the other night and stayed up until like midnight and the next morning done for
00:38:03
done for but when he was interviewed by police a few days later gabini told investigators that Patricia had been in
00:38:10
a wonderful mood that night and others even went so far as to suggest that she and Mario had become engaged that
00:38:15
evening who and that's why she was in such happy Spirits after leaving the St they went to an apartment of some
00:38:21
friends for a few more drinks and then Mario finally dropped Patricia off at her apartment around 6:00 a.m. holy [ __ ]
00:38:28
when we said all night we meant all night damn now that same weekend Wayne had been given a 48 hour pass from his
00:38:36
military duty so that allowed him to return to New York for the weekend to visit his son by all accounts Patricia
00:38:42
knew that he was coming to the city that weekend but hadn't made any plans to see
00:38:46
him in the time that had passed in separating Wayne had become aware that she had cut him out of her will which
00:38:52
caused an explosive argument between the two of them and she really had no desire
00:38:56
to revisit the topic again so she was like oh yeah I don't want to see you while you're in New York on the morning
00:39:02
of the 23rd Wayne went to a toy store and bought a toy elephant for Billy and then he returned to the apartment of his
00:39:08
friend John hares where he had been staying for the weekend that evening while Patricia and Mario were out on the
00:39:14
town Wayne was attending a Broadway show in the company of another friend and after that they went to the 21 Club
00:39:20
after visiting a few more clubs and had a few more drinks he ended up dropping off this friend at her apartment a
00:39:26
little after 4:00 a.m. my goodness you two yeah they stay out late Mama damn now rather than return to hage's
00:39:32
apartment Wayne's later story would be that he decided to go for a walk during which he encountered an American Soldier
00:39:39
by the name of Maurice Worcester he said they struck up a conversation and Worcester mentioned that he was waiting
00:39:44
for a taxi to take him downtown and he was hoping to find a room for the night he didn't have concrete plans instead
00:39:51
Wayne said he suggested that the man come back to hares his apartment with him and initially they slept in separate
00:39:57
beds but according to an interview with Wayne later that didn't last long and eventually he joined Worcester in bed
00:40:03
for what the interviewer described as quote unquote acts of perversion acts of perversion it's like okay nope just two
00:40:11
people engaging in contexual consensual sex though but yeah but just to show you
00:40:16
what we're dealing with wow so on Sunday Mario gabini called Patricia's residence
00:40:22
and Elizabeth black answered gabini wanted to speak to Patricia but Elizabeth told him she was still
00:40:26
sleeping but Mario insisted he really wanted to speak with her and black tried to wake Patricia by knocking on the
00:40:32
locked door but she was getting no answer it wasn't until several hours later that they finally got the door to
00:40:38
the bedroom open and they found Patricia's nude body spay out on the bed oh [ __ ] by then her body had become
00:40:44
rigid and her quote arms were raised as if she had been attempting to thwart something from hitting her there was a
00:40:50
large gash in her head and her hair had become M matted with the large amount of
00:40:54
dried blood that also had seeped into the Sheep and as as into the mattress there was a lot of blood there was also
00:41:02
significant bruising around her neck indicating that somebody had attempted to strangle her on the floor by the bed
00:41:08
investigators found a heavy brass candelabra that usually sat on the nightstand pieces of which had actually
00:41:15
broken off in the struggle [ __ ] like a brass candleabra was broken based on the
00:41:21
blood stains found on the base of the candle holder it was clear that this was the weapon that had been used to inflict
00:41:27
her head wound after an initial search of the apartment detectives determined that nothing had been stolen and there
00:41:33
was no sign of forced entry so a robbery was quickly ruled out Elizabeth black was the first to be interviewed but she
00:41:40
explained to the police that she was actually somewhat hard of hearing so she actually hadn't even woken up when
00:41:45
Patricia got home that morning and she hadn't seen her since the night before when detectives learned that Patricia
00:41:51
had been out all night with Mario gabini suspicion naturally fell on him so he was picked up by by police and
00:41:57
questioned for nearly 12 hours and he actually was held in the tombs for several days but eventually they were
00:42:03
able to rule him out as a suspect later that afternoon during an interview with her mother Lucille wolf investigators
00:42:10
learned that Wayne and Patricia had become a stranged and although he was stationed in Canada at the time he had
00:42:17
in fact been in the city on the night of the murder so but unfortunately by the time
00:42:23
detectives got to John haris apartment Wayne had already left the State and returned to Toronto oh [ __ ] mhm he just
00:42:30
fled he just said goodbye so the following day an autopsy was conducted by New York's Deputy medical examiner Dr
00:42:37
Milton hurn in his report he confirmed that Patricia's cause of death was asfixia by Strang strangulation with
00:42:44
additional blunt force injury to her skull likely caused by the Broken candleabra discovered at the scene he
00:42:50
said she bled a great deal and put up a desperate struggle several of her fingernails are broken and I found the
00:42:55
pieces scattered on the floor both sides of the bed oh my I also picked up an artificial toenail that probably came
00:43:01
loose when she kicked her attacker wow yeah and Al like that's all of that is shocking also that artificial toenails
00:43:09
were a thing then okay I'm glad that struck you as much as it struck me you know they're actually coming back I've
00:43:15
seen people have them before I've never like seen anybody that I know have them yeah but on my um like discover page on
00:43:24
Instagram all of the sudden I'm seeing like that's interesting people putting um like almost like acrylic like tips on
00:43:30
their toenails wow that's interesting to Vibe I mean they look nice my goodness what a what a fight yeah for like most
00:43:38
several of her fingernails to be broken and like scattered around shattered all around like that's horrifying yeah it is
00:43:46
uh his report also noted several bloody fingerprints that were discovered at the
00:43:50
scene though none would prove useful in identifying the killer in that moment M oh in that moment in that moment well Dr
00:43:57
Helper conducted the autopsy investigators started digging into Wayne Lan's background and quickly determined
00:44:03
that of all the men in Patricia's life he was the really the only one with a motive for murder and a very strong
00:44:10
motive at that she had been his meal ticket for years and now she had not only threatened him with divorce but had
00:44:16
cut him out of her will that's a double whammy yeah that's it not to mention he also had a criminal history for petty
00:44:22
crimes and because of the time period they looked at his admitting to have having some sexual history with men as a
00:44:30
strong indication of a deviant personality my the fact that that factored into whether or not he could be
00:44:37
a vicious murderer or not is insane it's not apples or orig it doesn't compute but it played and that's
00:44:47
why I'm like focusing on it it played a heavy role in this case and especially the way that the Press reported about
00:44:54
this case now fortunately uh among the belongings found in Patricia's room was an address book with the addresses where
00:45:01
Wayne was staying in Toronto so he was quickly located and Arrangements were actually made to bring him back to New
00:45:07
York ASAP so as legal Arrangements were put into motion to get him returned to the US assistant District Attorney John
00:45:15
lower flew to Toronto to interview Wayne in person according to the Press Wayne quote denied Point Blank he had any
00:45:21
connection with Patricia's death though he admitted he had been in New York over
00:45:25
the weekend investigators were already deeply suspicious of Wayne by the time they
00:45:31
caught up with him in Canada but they became even more so when lower discovered several notable scratches on
00:45:38
his face oh mhm he also admitted that he had been wearing his uniform over the weekend his um Royal Canadian Air Force
00:45:46
uniform but when he was asked to surrender that uniform for examination he claimed the uniform had been stolen
00:45:53
by Maurice who also had scratched his face while they were in intimate wow yes okay according to Wayne the two had been
00:46:01
engaging in sex when suddenly Maurice changed his mind and that led to an argument and during that argument he
00:46:07
said he scratched his face after things calmed down Wayne said he went back to his own room and went to sleep but he
00:46:14
got up a few hours later and said he found Maurice attempting to steal his watch and his uniform damn Wayne claimed
00:46:21
to have confronted Maurice again and a second fight occurred but he said Maurice managed to flee the apartment
00:46:27
with the watch and the uniform so that's why he didn't have his uniform to hand over okay on its face the story seemed
00:46:34
absolutely ridiculous why would an American infantryman want a Canadian military uniform I was a little confused
00:46:41
by that one I don't think he would but still low insisted that they'd look into the story he told the Press we want the
00:46:47
uniform it might tell an interesting story now from the moment that he was arrested in Toronto investigators in New
00:46:54
York made no secret that Wayne was their primary suspect in this murder the day after Patricia's body was discovered
00:47:01
Deputy Chief Inspector Patrick Kenny told reporters we consider Wayne Lan a very likely suspect by then detectives
00:47:08
had already caught up with uh Jean jaberg I think it is the woman that Wayne had attended a show with that
00:47:14
night oh yeah before the murder uh who confirmed that she had spent the afternoon and most of the evening with
00:47:20
Wayne and that she did not notice any scratches or marks on his face at the time uhoh Wayne those were fresh
00:47:28
it took more than 2 days but investigators were finally able to get Wayne back to New York on October 28th
00:47:33
where he again denied having anything to do with his wife's death upon arriving in New York he told reporters I had
00:47:40
nothing to do with Pat's murder I want to be at her funeral and I want to see our baby it's unclear whether he knew it
00:47:46
at the time but at that point Patricia had already been buried and had a funeral so there's a chance that his
00:47:52
statement to the Press was just for show or he might not have known but there there wasn't any chance he was going to
00:47:58
see his son anytime soon Patricia's mother Lucille had been awarded temporary custody of Billy which would
00:48:04
eventually become permanent oh man and if you remember she wasn't a big fan of Wayne no and now that was going to be
00:48:10
even worse those closest to the case were pretty positive that Wayne had murdered Patricia but not everybody was
00:48:17
convinced in those people's minds that were not convinced he had an alibi that was so socially unacceptable it only
00:48:24
made it easier to believe one detective told a reporter a guilty man would never
00:48:29
offer an alibi so degrading wow yeah but still others found the story about Maurice Worcester impossible to believe
00:48:38
journalist Sid boam wrote in New York uh sorry in the New York Journal American he's lying the only bit of Truth in the
00:48:44
whole story is that he admits he's a degenerate can we move on everybody a degenerate a woman was murdered and can
00:48:53
we stop talking about this guy's sex life for a minute thank literally like the fact that that's like
00:49:00
the fact that she was murdered at the at all but she was brutally murdered in her
00:49:05
own home where her infant child is absolutely and nobody's focusing on that part that you're right all they are
00:49:12
focusing on is this man's sexuality and trying to use it as proof that he's like
00:49:17
a vicious murder and some people are literally willing to believe his Alibi just because there's no way a man would
00:49:24
ever admit to being even SL slly homosexual if he was guilty like Y what yeah damn it's it's wild to think that
00:49:36
this even happened at all and it's wild to think that some people still [ __ ] think that way I was going to say this
00:49:41
isn't completely gone that's the thing and I think it's important to say that but it was very clear that the salacious
00:49:47
aspects of the story were far too irresistible for the Press who like we were just saying latched on to way
00:49:53
sexuality and quote unquote scandalous alibi and just spread that across the front pages of the papers all over the
00:50:00
city Wow versus a woman's brutal murder yeah let's uh follow the evidence that would be so sick that'd be cool yeah in
00:50:08
reality Wayne's story was actually a lot more plausible than people realized or were willing to admit at the time
00:50:14
throughout a lot of history queer men who risked Anonymous sexual encounters because remember he met Maurice that
00:50:20
night that night with strangers there was an exponentially greater risk for them and a lot of times those people
00:50:26
people were victims of assault robbery murder like those things happened but in Wayne's case there really was no risk so
00:50:34
the police were right to be skeptical yeah because within a day detectives had interviewed John haris Butler who
00:50:40
actually only remembered Wayne because he had been so rude that weekend Oh people are going to remember you if
00:50:46
you're a [ __ ] the butler told police there had never been an American soldier in the apartment that weekend or anyone
00:50:52
else for that matter similarly when Wayne's Alibi had made it to the papers an American serviceman from Connecticut
00:50:59
named Maurice Worcester came forward and told police that while he had been in New York that weekend he had quote never
00:51:06
seen or heard of anyone named Wayne lwan holy [ __ ] yeah this man was just going
00:51:12
to totally blame it on this guy we had never met yep wow yep so detectives interrogated Wayne lwan for nearly 24
00:51:20
hours straight with breaks uh very few breaks and very little food but he stuck to his story for a while
00:51:27
but still investigators had already begun reporting to the press that they had their killer a detective told
00:51:33
reporters we feel that we have a very good circumstantial case against him a case that will be extremely difficult
00:51:38
for any defense to attack knock down or Shake in any degree damn a strong case that was actually really starting to
00:51:44
take shape because Des despite Wayne's insistence that he had nothing to do with Patricia's death after intense
00:51:51
questioning and scrutiny his story was beginning to fall apart when detectives confronted with bloody fingerprint
00:51:57
evidence collected from the apartment which they insisted could prove his guilt he finally broke down and
00:52:03
confessed in great detail to the murder of his wife according to Wayne I that's so brutal yeah wow according to Wayne
00:52:13
after he dropped Gan off at home early that morning he returned back to John haris his apartment but a few hours
00:52:19
later he decided to pay a visit to Patricia he arrived at her apartment a little before 9:00 a.m. and she let him
00:52:25
in and then returned to her bed they had a brief discussion about him wanting to
00:52:28
see Billy which turned into an argument during which Patricia allegedly told him
00:52:33
you're not going to see the baby again ever Wayne claimed it was that statement that sent him into a rage and he
00:52:39
continued telling detectives I lost my head his connection to Billy was his last chance at accessing Patricia's
00:52:46
Fortune at all and if she severed that tie he was never going to see another Penny from her yeah so he explained that
00:52:52
after Patricia threatened to withhold their son he grabbed the candleabra from the nightstand and struck her in the
00:52:58
head with it the candal labber broke so he grabbed the identical one from the other nightstand and hit her again still
00:53:04
not subdued Patricia managed to get out of bed and began fighting him punching kicking and clawing at his face hence
00:53:11
the scratches and finally Wayne grabbed her by the throat and he said he started
00:53:15
squeezing as hard as he could he estimated that it took several minutes about three minutes quote unquote for
00:53:21
her to actually die when he said he finally let go of her body he realized that the blood from her head had gotten
00:53:27
all over his hands and his uniform so he went back to John haris apartment where
00:53:32
he cut the uniform into strips for easy disposal and then pulled a suit from hard's closet and left a note that he
00:53:38
hoped would later support his Alibi he wrote John thank you uh so much for the use of your flat due to a slight case of
00:53:44
mistaken trust I lost my uniform and borrowed a jacket and trousers from you I will return it on my arrival in in
00:53:50
Toronto I'll call you up and tell you about it yours Wayne once he got talking it seemed like
00:53:57
he couldn't stop and the only thing he didn't want was for the case to go to court he actually asked the assistant uh
00:54:04
district attorney Jacob grumet suppose I say I'm guilty and have it over with can
00:54:08
I do that grumet explained that while he certainly could confess to the DA and the investigators in the room any legal
00:54:15
consequences would have to come from a judge so he was going to have to see the inside of a courtroom at some point yeah
00:54:21
but for whatever reason Wayne seemed very reluctant to provide the details of the murder itself
00:54:27
it was describing the Act of Killing Patricia that he wanted to avoid especially in the court yeah so grat
00:54:34
explained that he could bring in a stenographer and take the confession meaning Wayne would only have to go over
00:54:39
the the details once but if he planned to confess to first degree murder a guilty plea actually wasn't permitted
00:54:45
under New York law and he would have to stand trial now the details of Patricia's
00:54:50
murder her brutal murder may have been the primary thing that Wayne wanted to avoid but of course of course there was
00:54:57
also the matter of his sexuality that the Press was [ __ ] harping on obsessed with literally obsessed with
00:55:03
like why are you so obsessed with me yeah Wayne asked the assistant DA well suppose I have to go to trial will you
00:55:09
bring all this out about what I am about my morals he had mostly denied like I said his homosexuality or bisexuality
00:55:16
but regardless of what he said there was evidence of his supposed quote unquote deviance like no his deviance is that
00:55:24
he's a murderer that's the thing that's the devian that's the Devi [ __ ] who he's
00:55:29
sleeping with that is he's a murderer he's a vicious CIS cold piece of [ __ ] murderer
00:55:37
MH what the [ __ ] are you doing talking about who he goes to bed with like and and claiming that's the devian of the
00:55:44
story sh he's an [ __ ] exactly like God but like most queer men he knew that that was what was going to be splashed
00:55:51
across the newspaper every single newspaper in New York and it would have a primary role in the trial itself so
00:55:58
that was a big another big reason he didn't want this to yeah go to court so G and lower tried to minim minimalize
00:56:06
his sexuality when speaking in hypotheticals but the Press had already seen to it that any version of the story
00:56:11
that was told was going to be framed as a deviant murder it's like no he's just a he's a horrible vicious murderer also
00:56:19
all murder is deviant exactly this deviant exactly and the others aren't like all of them are deviant this one's
00:56:26
very deviant because of how brutal it was nothing to do withen nothing else so on October 30th 1943 a grand jury
00:56:35
indicated Wayne lonan for the first degree murder of Patricia after which he was returned to a cell at Riker's Island
00:56:41
damn I know if anybody had hoped for a speedy trial and resolution they were going to be very disappointed 5 days
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after the indictment Wayne's lawyer Edward broadrick succeeded in getting an 11-day stay in the court of General
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Sessions in which to enter a plea it's unclear why lonan or brri wanted to put off entering a plea to the charge
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but it was going to be the first of many delays in the case that was receiving intense press coverage a few weeks later
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Wayne ended up pleading not guilty to the charge of first-degree murder but baric succeeded in delaying a trial with
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just one motion after the other so after multiple delays and shakeups the trial finally got underway on March 22nd in
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New York's Court of General Sessions desite the courtroom theatrics leading up to the trial the opening statements
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from the prosecution in defense were actually surprisingly short not required to offer a motive for the murder grmt
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laid out the facts of the case explaining that Wayne Lan had murdered his wife and after a few days of
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attempting to deny deny his actions he confessed to the crime he told the jury we have only his statement as to what
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transpired there just before he killed her his wife the only person in the room at the time is dead as for any of the
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salacious details emphasized by the Press GT did his best to live up to the promise that he had made to Wayne saying
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I don't believe it's necessary to go into the sorted story of degeneracy that he told indicating it had no bearing on
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the facts of the case because it doesn't it literally doesn't like I'm surprised
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it was even allowed to be brought up so much because it it really doesn't have anything to do it feels like it's a very
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ex strenuous thing to add into a pretty brutal and open and shut case it's actually like kind it was kind of of
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surprising to me that the prosecution didn't rely more on it because they could have back then like it just was a
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thing that happened a lot I think they just didn't need to they didn't need to in this case he had he had admitted it
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but we've seen cases where they they didn't need to and they still did so it was kind of surprising that he he was
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like yeah we don't have to talk about that yeah that is a little surprising I think it was mostly just it's open and
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shut a little bit I mean pretty much he confessed it's he has all the motive in the world like he was there it's an easy
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case for the da there's nothing to really contend with here yeah so they're probably like why not just get this done
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quicker exactly which honestly good cuz it has no place in a ridiculous now the defense
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on the other hand gave opening remarks in which Wayne was made out to be another victim in the case bradrick told
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the jury will show you that this defendant lonan from the very Inception of this case has been the victim of
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double dealing double crossing and double talk his defense was a very simple one he said his client was
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innocent and had only confessed under duress and coercion in fact he argued if anyone appeared guilty in the case it
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was Mario gabini who had been with Patricia just hours before her murder according to broadrick Wayne had only
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confessed after being subjected to illegal and immoral tactics that included quote allowing the defendant to
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go hungry for a lengthy period plying him with Brandy and pyramiding a series of petty
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discomforts okay a number of Witnesses were called to testify as to the Discovery and facts of the case
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including Elizabeth black Dr Helper Lucille wolf and gabini himself but the most damning evidence that you just
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called it out against lonan it was the confession yeah he confessed in great detail despite bro's repeated attempts
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to prevent the confession from actually being introduced into the courtroom including badgering nine police
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Witnesses into admitting coercion whoa about a week into the trial the confession was read aloud for the jury
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through the confession the jury heard in his own words how Wayne had killed his wife in the heat of an argument over
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their son and money how he panicked destroyed his uniform and threw it in the river and how he bought makeup later
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that day in order to conceal those heavy scratches on his face wow so on March 29th the state rested its case and the
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leadup to the trial brri the defense attorney had made allusions to several important witnesses that he was going to
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call to prove his client's innocence including tombs stool pigeons and a well-known wealthy lawyer who was in the
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murder chamber at the killing the murder chamber at The Killing yeah um none of those exciting supposed
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Witnesses were ever called and he rested his case after calling um three Witnesses cool yeah so on March 30th the
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defense rested their case having proven little if anything I was going to say after doing what after doing theater
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yeah in his final remarks Jacob grmt Revisited the facts of the case he emphasized the violence of the murder
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which like thank you finally somebody does that can we talk about that part he told the jury this was brutal
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cold-blooded deliberate murder there she was on the side of the bed opposite to him but he was determined to
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kill her he grabbed her by the throat with both hands and continued to strangle her for 3 minutes yeah given
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the brutality of the crime and the defendants repeated attempts to cover up what he had done to avoid detection
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grumet encouraged the jury not only to find Wayne guilty but also to impose a death sentence whoa the jury retired for
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deliberation on March 31st and after 10 and a half hours they emerged to find him guilty of murder in the second
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degree the jury Foreman later said there's no question that lonan murdered his wife but I think it's obvious he did
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not premeditate it I don't think he went to see his wife for the purpose of murdering her I can agree with that I
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agree with that from what I know yeah I mean just that he didn't go there with like any weapon with a weapon or
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anything it seemed like it was in the heat at the moment yeah Wayne said nothing when the verdict was read
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outside the courtroom district attorney Frank Hogan addressed the Press saying he believed the jur the jury's verdict
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was fair and just Joseph broadrick was uh similarly unmoved saying that his client was a soldier of fortune he said
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it's his belief that if his numers up it's up okay all righty I don't think it's set your numbers up I think you
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murdered your wife yeah I think that's more it yeah uh the jury also rejected Wayne's claims of coercion saying the
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people assert that the defendant had uh sufficient sleep in Canada and Statler hotel in Buffalo and that this was all
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necessary in order to discover whether or not the defendant was guilty of murder yeah so two weeks later on April
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18th Wayne returned to the court of General Sessions where he was sentenced to 35 years in prison again he said
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nothing after the verdict was read and he was transported to Sing Sing prison woof he went to some of the worst
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prisons he hit the biggies yeah while Wayne seemed resigned to his fate broadrick appeared more than hopeful
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when he stood before the Press he told them last week district attorney Frank s Hogan received a major setback when the
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court of appeals reversed another murder conviction obtained by his office I expect my appeal will add to the list of
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Mr Hogan's setbacks I doubt it uh his confidence notwithstanding Wayne's appeal was ultimately rejected as were
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his later attempts to a new trial not shocking according to Dominic Dunn in prison lonan enjoyed the sort of
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celebrity certain high-profile Killers achieve among the other inmates his charm worked for him in prison as it had
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in life damn which is crazy when you think of the prisons that he was in that's crazy yeah and it's also like no
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I want you to not have a great experience in prison like I don't want anything bad to happen to you like I'm
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not yeah crazy but you should go to prison and not become a c fun time yeah you know it's not for funsies no now
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after serving several years at Sing Sing he was transferred to Clinton prison in
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damura before being released in December of 1965 after serving 22 years of his sentence oh excuse me following his
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release he was deported back to Canada where he lived quietly in Toronto until his death from cancer in 1986 so this
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man's just went like like 20 more years after strangling and bludgeoning his wife to death in her bed where there in
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infant son was in another room uh-huh cool yeah sick yeah really sick really sick Wayne and Patricia's son
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Billy grew up in the care of his grandmother Lucille wolf like I said earlier a few months after Patricia was
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murdered Lucille actually petitioned the court for a name change and Billy was rechristened William Anthony Burton I
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think she didn't want him to carry his father's name and as far as anybody knows Wayne never made any attempt to
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contact Billy after he was released from jail in an interview later in his life he told a reporter I know where my son
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is but I'd rather not say he's had enough to put up with no one ever hears of him or where he's living he has a
01:05:14
bodyguard to keep it that way honestly I'm glad he didn't yeah it seems like hopefully William was better off without
01:05:22
being wrapped up in any more of this he does he had enough to put up with and you I hope his grandma was great for him
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I know she seemed really her so I feel like she was yeah you know now there was never really any question as to whether
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Wayne Lan murdered his wife he confessed as much just a few days after his arrest
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and with the exception of a few insignificant details there's no reason to doubt that his confession no was
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anything other than what it was it lines up perfectly and the fact that you can't
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find his uniform all that stuff it's like it all lines up yeah the scratches on his face everything but but there are
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however a number of people who believe that he how he was portrayed in the Press had a significant and negative
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influence on the trial and sentence Alan Lavine said given the lack of any physical evidence which today might
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cause a jury to have doubts the intense publicity around lonan sexuality no doubt contributed to a preconceived and
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negative bias about him in the minds of a typical 1940s male heterosexual jury whose member sub subscribed to the
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anti-gay attitudes of the era which I think it's a a case of two things can be true at once yeah for sure I'm sure that
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jury had some bias because of what they had read in the papers you know I'm sure
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they saw what they saw in the papers but I think they also heard his confession they heard that it was detailed they
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heard it lined up and his uniform why do you have scratches on your face you lied
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about that guy Maurice wer like exactly I feel like that's pretty pretty cut prettyy decent especially when he's
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being like yeah I did it yeah I completely agree yeah I think it's really shitty that his sexuality came
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into play as often as it did just like what a waste of time entirely unnecessary because realistically it
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didn't play a huge role in the trial no if I mean if those jury members were biased because of what they read in the
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papers it played some role obviously I don't think can say it didn't play any role but like logic like it shouldn't
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have like it just didn't it didn't have anything to do with the crime that was committed so like why are we talking
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about it exactly and I wish somebody had said like somebody should have been like
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we're why are we talking about this his defense attorney should have said that that's like having like being in a
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murder trial and them harping on the fact that you played field hockey mhm but that having nothing to do with it
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it's like why are we talking about that like why this is just like mess and noise like why are we talking about it
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it's wild so weird absolutely wild but it's an interesting story I know and I feel so bad that Patricia gets kind of
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get lost in it's focused on his Shenanigans and it seemed like she was like a pretty good
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person like the fact that she had all this wealth and status but still decided to get back yeah and like would
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volunteer at the hospital and that kind of thing yeah it's nice and all of lost you know yeah and I hope that Billy you
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know did I hope he like thrived yeah me too same poor guy I know so that is another High Society story for you
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