123. The Heiress Tour | Margaret Hitchcock Benson
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Heiress Tour! This season, we will be taking a high society and true crime journey through the notable heiresses Dominick Dunne covered within his investigative reporting and beyond.
We begin this season with the case of Margaret Hitchcock Benson, heiress to the Lancaster Leaf tobacco fortune, murdered by her son in July of 1985, in a crime of true greed and coldness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, |
| 0:08.4 | where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me as we |
| 0:15.0 | begin a whole new journey in our investigation. Welcome to the heiress tour. Our next block of episodes will be |
| 0:24.6 | covering the heiresses that Dominic Dunn reported on. So many women, so much money, so many family |
| 0:33.8 | ties, and so much crime too. The first on our heiress tour is Margaret Benson. She may not be |
| 0:43.7 | the most recognizable name to you and her fortune is not as large as some coming this season. |
| 0:50.5 | But Margaret's story and her death rocked the state of Florida in 1985. |
| 0:58.3 | What is wrapped within the story of Margaret Benson? She was killed by her cold-blooded son, |
| 1:05.6 | who was fueled by greed and so much family dysfunction. |
| 1:17.6 | Dominic Dunn covered this case on his power privilege and justice in season three, episode six, titled Blood Money. |
| 1:20.3 | Before we begin our investigation today, I do have a spy glass here. |
| 1:25.9 | I see a few folks who need some tremendous thanks and praise. |
| 1:30.6 | First up, big love to Holly Link. |
| 1:33.2 | What a wonderful review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:36.3 | Thank you for that. |
| 1:38.1 | I've got a huge round of shoutouts as well for our newest supporters over at patreon.com |
| 1:44.0 | slash done and done. |
| 1:46.4 | Holy cats, Wendy, Callie W. and Nancy B. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So grateful for |
| 1:53.3 | y'all. Showing the love over at done and done on Patreon, where you get ad-free and early episodes, |
| 2:00.1 | not done yet, bonus episodes, and coming soon, |
| 2:04.0 | our Dominic Dunn book club beginning in October. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for more |
| 2:10.9 | details on all of that, as right now it is time to launch the heiress tour tour with Margaret Benson, our first heiress up. |
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