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Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

7. Love or Money

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After Fred’s arrest, detectives start looking into his finances. How does a civilian employee of the Navy afford a beachfront home, on a gated road in Malibu, and a brand-new $150K sailboat? Also, they learn that the Roehlers owned large insurance policies. Could that be the motive the cops are looking for?

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

Malibu was ruled by one man, Mickey Dora, a surfer, a con man, a threat.

0:17.0

The best surfer and bad boy at Malibu.

0:20.0

Then, one day, Mickey vanished, leading law enforcement on a seven-year hunt around the globe.

0:27.0

I live outside the law.

0:30.0

To many, he's a legend.

0:32.0

He's the greatest surfer who ever lived.

0:36.0

But he cast a shadow over Malibu.

0:39.0

To this day, he's known as Malibu's Dark Prince.

0:44.0

I'm Dana Goodyer.

0:45.0

From Western Sound and Pushkin Industries, the number one podcast, Lost Hills is back with season three, The Dark Prince.

0:55.0

Lost Hills, The Dark Prince, launches on June 12, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.0

Subscribe to Pushkin Plus and you can binge the whole season early and add free.

1:06.0

Find Pushkin Plus on the Lost Hills Show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm.

1:26.0

A week after his arrest in early April 1981, Fred took a polygraph exam.

1:32.0

Surprisingly, it wasn't ordered by law enforcement.

1:35.0

It was ordered by Fred's defense team.

1:38.0

Polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable.

1:41.0

But Fred's lawyers were hoping that a successful polygraph would help prove his innocence.

1:47.0

There was a lot to go over.

1:50.0

Fred had entered a plea of not guilty, but the second autopsy showed trauma to Verna and Doug.

1:56.0

Bruises and marks that seemed to bolster the cops working theory.

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