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216: A Hollywood Scandal & the Disappearance of Annie Le

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Let's Go To Court!

Comedy, True Crime, History

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Patricia Douglas had been misled. She, like all the other girls and young women who’d answered MGM’s casting call, thought she’d been hired to dance in a movie. Instead, she was taken to a wild party, held in honor of MGM’s salesmen. Patricia did her best to avoid a creepy salesman named David Ross, but he followed her into the parking lot and attacked her. 

Then Brandi tells us about the disappearance of Annie Le. Annie had a lot going on. She was a busy doctoral student at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology. In a few days, she was set to marry the love of her life. But then she disappeared. Surveillance footage showed her entering a Yale building, but never leaving. 

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“It happened one night…. At MGM,” by David Stenn for Vanity Fair
The documentary, “Girl 27”
“Visiting film salesman freed of ‘haymow’ party charges,” San Bernardino Daily Sun, June 18, 1937
“Figures in the probe of film party scandal,” the Kansas City Times, June 17, 1937
“Movie colony party trial starts today,” The Cushing Daily Citizen, June 17, 1937

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The Vanishing Bride-To-Be” episode A Wedding and A Murder
“Lab Murder: The Brutal Slaying of Yale University Student Annie Le” by Kym L Pasqualini, soapboxie.com
“Annie Le: The Yale Lab Murder” by Kristal Hawkins, The Crime Library
“Annie Le couldn't wait to get married. On her wedding day she was found murdered” by Nama Winston, mamamia.com.au
“Annie Le: Yale grad student touted as 'next Einstein' was murdered by lab technician days before her wedding” by Pritha Paul, meaww.com
“Raymond Clark III "Control Freak"; Did It Lead to Annie Le's Murder?” By Edecio Martinez, CBSNews
“Read the full statement Raymond Clark III made about killing Annie Le” New Haven Register
“Murder of Annie Le” wikipedia.org


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0:00.0

He sat there doing all this financial mumbling, working out, is everything gonna be okay?

0:04.8

It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around.

0:09.8

Sage empowers finance professionals like Kat to feel more rewarded with helpful business tools

0:15.2

and advice from real experts. Sage, helping business flow.

0:20.3

One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice.

0:25.0

Two experts!

0:26.7

I'm Christine Caruso. I'm Brandi Egan. Let's go to court!

0:32.6

On this episode I'll be talking about a Hollywood scandal.

0:36.5

And I'll be talking about the disappearance of Annie Leigh.

0:41.5

I find disappearances very intriguing. Do you know the case? No.

0:44.5

I bet you do once we get in it. Oh, is it super famous? I don't think so.

0:50.6

Okay, but I bet you've not knowledgeable. No, I bet you've heard about it.

0:54.2

Beautiful and effortlessly chic. No, all those things.

0:59.2

Thank you for saying that about me. Of course. So kind.

1:03.6

Have you seen that unpronged? Everyone, we're in this second time today that you've made

1:09.3

somebody call you effortlessly chic. Brandi, I have to tell you something.

1:16.0

In the past week, I have read not one, but two books about French women and how to

1:23.9

be more like the French. And I couldn't be less like a French woman is what I've discovered.

1:29.1

It's like I've learned about their makeup routine and it's like, oh, just a little

1:33.6

mascara at the base of your lashes. You don't want people to.

1:36.2

Oh, my girl, Sammy does it. I know. I know. Just on a touch of mascara on my outer lashes.

1:43.0

And everyone, when she says, my girl, Sammy, is a woman who does not know that I exist on TikTok.

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