542. Fearlessly Failing: True Crime LA with David the Medium!

Strap yourselves in for this one! David is back on the pod! In this episode I take David to LA true crime locations and I don’t tell him anything about them until he tunes in and tells us what we feels and senses. Not to give anything away… but the Lana Turner murder house will blow your mind! 

This was recorded chronologically in the order in which you hear it. All locations and details listed below. 

If you love this ep then there’s more where this came from, this is our second true crime pod. The first one we recorded in the East parts of LA and this episode is all based around the West neighbourhoods of LA. To check out the first true crime ep look up episode #234 and you can listen to it here too:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fearlessly-failing-with-lola-berry/id1478245620?i=1000568640297

 

Before we get stuck into this episode I’d like to place a trigger warning here that we do discuss these true crimes, so we do talk about murder, motive and death in this episode. 

 

Righto, back to today’s ep. Here’s the locations in order of us visiting them today. 

 

1. Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood House: this is where she passed away in 1962 from a barbiturate overdose. They’ve been trying to stop this house from being demolished. David’s take on this spot and what happened is very interesting, I don’t what to give anything away here but ready yourselves!!
2. Nicole Brown’s Brentwood House: this is the location where OJ Simpson brutally attacked and murdered her and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994
3. Lana Turner murder Mansion: this is very interesting! You’ll hear in the episode but we had no idea that we were at the location to the day exactly 66 years after this murder took place. 4th of April 1958 Lana Turner’s on again off again mobster boyfriend was murdered in her house. Johnny Stompanato was one of Micky Cohen’s bodyguards and he was allegedly threatening to kill both Lana, her daughter Cheryl and Lana’s mother this night. Lana was present as was her 14 year old daughter Cheryl. Story goes that Cheryl was studying for her mid-term exams at school when she heard them arguing and she ran to the kitchen to grab a knife to scary him off. She ran upstairs to her mother’s bedroom where Lana and Johnny were arguing and when the door opened Johnny swung at Lana, she then stepped out of the way and her daughter Cheryl stabbed Johnny. To which he replied “what have you done.” It was ruled as “justifiable homicide” but there are rumours that this could have been planned all along. Let’s hear David’s take on it! 
4. Greystone Mansion: this one is a sad story where two bodies were found and nobody knows if it was a double murder, double suicide or a murder suicide. Ned Doheny, son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, was found dead on February 16, 1929 in a guest bedroom of Greystone Mansion alongside the body of his longtime friend and assistant, Hugh Plunkett. David gives us his take on this which makes the story even sadder. 
5. Santa Monica boardwalk: this is where the Tool-Box killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris picked up their teenage victims in 1979. They had met in prison 2 years prior. Then when they were both released they bought a van and would abduct girls from the sidewalk in Santa Monica, then rape and brutally murder them with the things they kept in their toolbox. Norris was the first to plead guilty. Bittaker was found guilty. In fact I’ve interviewed someone who went to visit Bittaker in San Quentin prison, crime fiction author Candice Fox, you can hear Candice talk about sitting down with the serial killer in that episode. It’s episode #105 and you can listen to it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fearlessly-failing-with-lola-berry/id1478245620?i=1000516661468

 

So there you have it, that’s our true crime West side of LA episode with the beautiful David the medium guiding us and sharing his insights. 

 

Hope you love this episode, it’s aways so much fun hanging out with David! He’s also doing more live shows in Australia so make sure you follow him on insta and check out his website as he releases details! 

https://www.davidthemedium.com

 

Mega love, stay in touch and let me know what other L.A. things you’d like me to explore! 

 

Big love, 

 

Lola 

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