251: The Killing of Indy 500 Driver Elmer George

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this gripping episode of Seven Deadly Sinners, we speed into the dangerous intersection of fame, power, and betrayal to uncover the shocking true story of Elmer George — a former race car driver turned IMS radio director — whose life ended in a blaze of gunfire on Memorial Day weekend, 1976. Just hours after the Indianapolis 500, George’s lifeless body was found on a rural Indiana farm, the result of a violent confrontation that left the racing world stunned.

Was it a crime of passion, a calculated hit, or a family feud gone fatally wrong?

We peel back the layers of a tangled web involving George’s crumbling marriage to Mari George — daughter of Indy racing magnate Tony Hulman — and her secret relationship with Guy Trolinger, the man who would ultimately pull the trigger.

Strap in.

Oh, and Go Pacers.

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1:10.8	Thank you guys so much for listening.
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1:14.2	And I also love hearing your stories.
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1:31.2	Okay, I hope you guys are cool with this. There's going to be a theme for the next couple weeks
1:37.0	as we are leading up to going to the Indy 500. Something I'm a little bit terrified of,
1:43.0	considering, I don't know if you listen to the
1:44.6	Lamont's episode. If you haven't, I encourage you to go back and listen to that. It's probably one of
1:49.6	the scariest sports disasters of all time with the most amount of human casualties.
1:58.9	I've also just heard a bunch of interesting things about the Nd-500, so I feel like it's
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