211. The Woodward Case | The Murder of the Century

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

In this extended encore episode, we revisit The Two Mrs. Grenvilles arc to explore both the fact and fiction of the 1955 shooting death of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife Ann, and the class-wide coverup that New York’s fanciest families executed.

Dunne wrote 1985’s The Two Mrs. Grenvilles as a thinly veiled fictional account of the whole sordid tale, which landed right in the sweet spot of his interest in high society’s perfidy. The real account is so much more sordid.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	That's audible.co.uk slash wondery.
0:11.5	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn.
0:19.9	Thank you for joining me today on this encore episode as we
0:24.1	re-enter the world of New York City, and really how everything is always connected around here
0:32.0	in the universe of our man Nick. Well, I am hard at work weaving and connecting all the spider webs in future episodes.
0:41.4	It seemed like the time this week to revisit an epic story within our Dominic Dunn universe,
0:48.5	that of the murder of Billy Woodward by his wife Anne in 1955. This case was so notorious that Dominic Dunn wrote a whole
0:59.2	book about it, the two Mrs. Grenvilles. This story is much alluded to around this podcast. It is one of the
1:08.7	defining moments in the early and later life of Dominic Dunn.
1:14.2	From the vault of January 2020, it is the entire Woodward Ark presented today for you in one big old long episode all smushed together.
1:31.8	If you like long episodes, this is the one for you.
1:37.6	Before we begin, I do want to give some big thanks to our most recent patrons. Thank you,
1:48.0	thank you, thank you, A.W. Awesome. Tracy S. Candice and Jennifer. Holy cats, y'all are the best. Huge thanks to our new supporters and our sustaining patrons. You are made of magic. This week on our not done yet bonuses, we have already
1:55.7	visited happy Rockefeller from all the way back in 1963, we will be continuing our Rockefeller files this
2:05.0	week for a bit of an early insight to what's coming ahead here. If you were looking to expand
2:12.0	your investigation, patreon.com slash done and done is the place to go to learn all about that.
2:19.2	With no further ado and with limited interruptions, I am delighted to present to you,
2:25.4	the intricate web of Dunn's fictional, the two Mrs. Grenvilles, and the facts, too, of Billion and
2:32.9	Woodward, their family, their friends, their passions and scandals, and the cover-up of the century.
2:40.6	Let's investigate.
3:11.2	Music We have spent almost a year now on Dun & Dun setting the paving stones, the infrastructure, really, to deep dive into one of Dominic Dunn's novels, and we simply had to begin with the two Mrs. Grenvilles. The two Mrs. Grenvilles was released in the summer of
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