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Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

2. My Light

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Investigators search Mitrice’s impounded car and find several journals she wrote in the last months of her life. Never before shared publicly, the journals offer details about Mitrice’s mental state and her complicated love life. We track down an old girlfriend, who reveals Mitrice’s secret struggle.

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:09.0

Nancy's love story could have been ripped right out of the pages of one of her own novels.

0:15.2

She was a romance mystery writer who happens to be married to a chef.

0:19.4

But this story didn't end with a happily ever after.

0:23.4

When I stepped into the kitchen, I could see that

0:26.8

Chef Brophy was on the ground and I heard somebody say,

0:29.6

call 911.

0:31.6

As writers, we'd written our share of murder mysteries.

0:34.4

So when suspicion turned to Dan's wife Nancy, we weren't that surprised.

0:38.8

The first person they look at would be the spouse.

0:40.3

We understand that's usually the way they do it.

0:42.6

But we began to wonder, had Nancy gotten so wrapped up in her own novels,

0:48.0

there are murders in all of the books, that she was playing them out in real life?

0:53.0

Follow happily never after, Dan and Nancy, on the Wondery App,

0:58.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:00.0

You can binge all episodes of Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy, early and ad free right now by joining

1:07.5

Wonderie Plus.

1:09.5

Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that you can binge the entire season right now, ad free, by becoming

1:16.2

a Pushkin Plus subscriber.

1:18.8

Sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Lost Hills Apple Podcast Show page or visit Pushkin dot FM slash plus.

1:26.6

Now on to the episode. When Mitreichrester's

1:34.1

disappeared in September 2009, investigators searched her car,

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