Episode 179: Country Nepo Baby Palace

Amanda and Sarah take a dose of true crime with a case about a con artist and a locked-room mystery. Amanda goes to Arkansas for the story of how Norman Baker lured victims into the famous Crescent Hotel with fake cancer treatments. Sarah investigates the unsolved 1931 murder of Julia Wallace, who was found beaten to death in her Liverpool home. Other subjects covered include a creepy country ballad, an Alex Jones Chili-Gate explainer, and a Richard Attenborough love fest. 

Recommendations:

Amanda recommends the films Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place. Sarah recommends Skinamarink. 

Sources: 

• Shedunnit Podcast (The Telephone Call)
• Echo (Unsolved 'locked room' murder that's puzzled detectives for 88 years)
• The Crime Wire (The Unsolved Murder of Julia Wallace)
• The Julia Wallace Murder Foundation
• Arkansas Times (Graphic nonfiction illuminates a dark story from Crescent Hotel’s past)
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Glass bottles found behind 'haunted' Arkansas hotel date to 1938 cancer elixir)
• Crescent Hotel History
• Atlas Obscura (Found: A Quack’s Medicine Bottles, Buried Behind a Haunted Hotel)

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