#116: A Bitter Aftertaste

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The RCP team continue to follow the six-part Netflix event #Wormwood —a true-crime docuseries about the death of Dr Frank Olson —directed by Errol Morris.

Was Dr Frank Olson pushed, did he jump or was he thrown when he "went out the window" of a room in New York City’s Statler Hotel on November 28 1953?

There's some significant reveals in the next three episodes. The night manager at the hotel contacts Eric and tells him about a telephone call he overheard the night Dr Olson died. The telephone call is a game changer.

The family take a tough decision to have Dr Frank Olson's body exhumed - and the findings challenge the narrative that the family have been told over the years.

There's only one logical conclusion that can be reached that makes all the evidence make sense by the end of #Wormwood - and true to its namesake, it leaves a very bitter aftertaste.

#HisNameWasFrank

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	The police came in and they were sitting in the remote with his head in his hands like that.
0:12.0	And the police said, well, what happened?
0:15.0	And he said, all I heard was a glass crash and he was gone.
0:19.0	I don't remember anything else.
0:21.0	Who said, Dent Hamlet said, there's something rotten in Denmark.
0:25.0	I mean, I knew there was something rotten at the Pennsylvania Hotel that night.
0:43.0	July 13, 1975.
0:46.0	Dear Mrs. Olsen, after reading the newspaper accounts on the tragic death of your husband,
0:52.0	I felt compelled to write to you.
0:55.0	At the time of your husband's death, I was the assistant night manager at the hotel statler in New York
1:02.0	and was at his side almost immediately after his fall.
1:06.0	He attempted to speak, but his words were unintelligible.
1:09.0	Having been in the hotel business for the last 36 years and witnessed innumerable, unfortunate incidents,
1:16.0	your husband's death disturbed me greatly due to the most unusual circumstances of which you are now aware.
1:23.0	My heart felt sympathy to you and your family.
1:27.0	Sincerely, arm in deep, pastory, general manager.
1:33.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.
1:35.0	This is Jim Clemente, former in New York City Prosecutor Retired FBI Profiler
1:39.0	and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today in the studio is...
1:43.0	Laura Riches, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and Coutes Ecotip Producer
1:49.0	and co-creator of the case of...
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