378: The Murder of "Elvis Girl" Jenny Maxwell w/ Buddy Moorehouse

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jenny Maxwell was one of Hollywood's "it girls", appearing in countless television shows and films. Arguably her most memorable role was that of Ellie Corbett in Elvis Presley's 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii", where she stole every scene she was in. But despite her professional success, her personal life was a mess, much of it due to alcohol, drugs and wild Hollywood parties. By 1981 she was seeking a divorce from her second husband (mob lawyer Tip Roeder) when they were both gunned down outside her condo in Beverly Hills. My guest Buddy Moorehouse, author of "Murder of an Elvis Girl: Solving the Jenny Maxwell Case", has a family connection to this case. His mother was first cousins with Jenny, and solving the mystery of her death was of personal importance to him. He joins me to talk about Jenny and his investigation into her murder almost 40 years after that fateful day. More about the Buddy and his book on his FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063693114310 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.3	Hope you are hanging in there.
1:31.1	I am so glad to have Buddy Moore House with me on the show today.
1:35.3	He is a veteran of the newspaper industry working 26 years as an editor for the Livingston County Daily Press in Pontiac, and he was named the top newspaper columnist
1:47.6	in Michigan by the Associated Press in 2009. He has also worked in public relations and documentary
1:55.3	filmmaking and is a two-time Emmy nominee for documentary filming.
2:03.8	He is here to talk about a book he wrote in 2021.
2:06.9	It is called Murder of an Elvis Girl,
2:09.7	solving the Jenny Maxwell case.
2:12.0	And it's so great to have you on.
2:13.8	Thank you for being here.
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