251. Newport Mystery | Paul E. Molitor, Jr.

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Alicia definitely falls into a rabbit hole in this episode from the Patreon Vault. Dominick Dunne writes just one little paragraph in his reporting on the von Bulow case that was definitely worth investigating. Dunne makes a mention about Paul E. Molitor, Jr., who was kind of a big deal in Newport for a little while, for his preservation efforts and being a houseguest of Sunny and Claus. But it is really his mysterious death, just at the height of his triumph, that is the real mystery.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn.
0:08.7	Thank you for joining me today for a little bit of a Newport mystery. I'm pulling this one out of our Not Done Yet vault, originally from Patreon, back when we were in the Von Bulow arc.
0:22.5	As we are here today on Bellevue Avenue within our touring journey,
0:28.6	why not split off for a little bit of true crime and a mystery or two?
0:35.2	In this first of our mysteries, we dig into the story of Paul E. Molitor Jr., the house
0:42.3	guest of Klaus and Sonny von Buello. This guy is all slung up within the Newport scene and
0:49.2	has a mysteriously bad end. Dominic Dunn leaves just a little bit of hint in his reporting
0:57.5	that I had to investigate. We talked about Clarendon Court. This is the first follow-up on that story.
1:07.5	If you think you knew everything about the Von Buello case, this one may surprise you.
1:12.9	What is the story of Paul Molitor, at least as I can discover it? Let's investigate.
1:20.8	Music Hey, investigators, Alicia here, and I am not done yet with this story.
1:42.9	Holy cats.
1:47.6	I stumbled across something incredible and a little side rabbit hole that connected with a few things, but still leave so much unexplained. Get a load of
1:55.7	this. So in this week's main feed episode, we took Sunny and Klaus from 1966 to 1980.
2:03.9	I tried to get in as much as I could that pertained into the main feed of that story.
2:10.7	Using some other sources, Dominic Dunn really begins his reporting in the second trial.
2:16.7	So that's cool, but I went back to Dominic's
2:19.5	main fatal charms the social web of Klaus von Buello to get as much out of that pre-second
2:27.6	trial as I could. So that's all fine and good. Dominic Dunn mentions one other thing that happens in 1979 with Klaus von Buello.
2:37.2	He writes about it as just one little paragraph within Fatal Charmed social web of Klaus von Bulo.
2:43.5	It's tiny, just itty-bitty. And it's dropped in when Dominic is talking about Clarendon Court.
2:50.8	During that second trial, while the jury is deliberating,
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