6. Cold Pricklies
Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
Western Sound and Pushkin Industries
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The sheriff’s department orders a new set of autopsies on Verna and Doug, to be conducted in secret. Now, there’s enough evidence to arrest Fred. Meanwhile, detectives talk to his neighbors, coworkers, and friends. Some say he’s a charming, dedicated family man, while others whisper of a dark side and a hair-trigger temper. Also, one of Doug’s best friends remembers life in the Roehler household.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, this is Steve Martin. |
| 0:12.0 | You might know me from among other things. |
| 0:13.9 | My TV show Only Murders in the Building, where I play a guy who records podcasts. |
| 0:19.0 | In real life, I'm a guy that made an audiobook. |
| 0:22.0 | It's called So Many Steves, afternoons with Steve Martin. |
| 0:26.0 | I created it with my friend, New Yorker Rider, Adam Gopnik, and you can find it at pushkin.fm |
| 0:31.6 | and wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 0:37.6 | After Verna and Doug drowned off Santa Cruz Island on January 2, 1981, their bodies were |
| 0:52.8 | flown by helicopter back to Ventura County, where they were declared dead. |
| 0:58.3 | The next day, January 3, they were autopsyed by the county's acting medical examiner. |
| 1:04.5 | He concluded that they drowned by accident. |
| 1:10.6 | But Santa Cruz Island is actually in the jurisdiction of Santa Barbara County. |
| 1:14.7 | So that's why, when Candy Hinman wanted someone to investigate Fred, she called the Santa |
| 1:20.2 | Barbara Sheriff's Department and they took her call. |
| 1:26.2 | Candy's tip put the accidental drownings of Verna and Doug in a new uncomfortable light. |
| 1:33.0 | What if their deaths were not an accident? |
| 1:36.2 | Verna and Doug were about to be cremated, so the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department put |
| 1:40.3 | a hold on their cremations and brought their bodies back to Santa Barbara to be autopsyed |
| 1:46.9 | again in secret. |
| 1:51.5 | The date is January 9, 1981. |
| 1:54.1 | The location is the Cottage Hospital, Morg. |
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