159. Vintage Case: The Life and Death of Ramon Novarro

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For this month's vintage case, we look at another untimely death of one of Hollywood's earliest stars, Ramon Novarro. A Mexican immigrant, Novarro rose to stardom in the silent film era and then transitioned to talking films at a time when the audience was hungry for "Latin lovers" like Rudolph Valentino. His journey to megastardom was deceptively meteoric and required him to hide his sexuality due to the era and the strict studio system. His tragic death came at age 69, at the hands of Paul Ferguson; a murderer who went on to create a post-prison alternative history of the event. You can find all of our resources on our website: https://www.la-not-so-confidential.com/ L.A. Not So Confidential is proud to be part of the Crawlspace Media Network. http://crawlspace-media.com/

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0:00.0	Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.
0:10.0	He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.
0:15.0	Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.
0:19.0	All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.
0:23.0	Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.
0:26.0	Piando Ferries, there is another way. The Yeah, I'm Dr Shiloh.
0:55.0	I'm Dr. Shiloh.
0:56.3	And I am Dr. Scott.
0:57.6	And this is LA Not So Confidential, the Forensic Psychology and True Crime Podcast.
1:01.8	Each week we explore the intersection of psychology, the criminal justice system, and entertainment.
1:06.0	Today our episode is on the vintage case of the murder of Ramon Navarro.
1:15.0	Welcome back everybody. of our vintage episode for this month,
1:20.0	bringing you our vintage episode for this month, bringing you yet another story of a Hollywood superstars untimely death and also linked to just last week's episode which was on sexual sadism and just to quickly recap that episode we brought you a discussion of very short
1:36.2	episode but a lot of information about a psychological disorder that is a
1:40.0	cornerstone of what is now known as the dark Tetrad, the personality
1:44.4	construct of sexual sadism. Before we get into today's episode I just want to
1:48.3	give a shout out to our Instagram follower and listener TRH cabana three. She recommended just last week that we do this vintage episode and we took her up on it and decided to run with it.
2:02.0	So thank you so much for the suggestion. Keep them coming guys and our
2:06.5	trigger warning for today's episode we're looking at elements of beatings and
2:11.2	tortures and sexual assault. A little bit dovetailing into our episode last week on sexual
2:17.0	sad as Dr Scott said. But with that, let's go ahead and get into our story today.
2:23.4	Just another addition to our warning.
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