Okay, Jesse, last week's OC Double Murder was a total karma bomb.

What's the story this time around? A toxic marriage between a celebrity and his,

well, let's say, entrepreneurial wife leads to devastating consequences and a true Hollywood homicide.

I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder.

Hi, Andy. Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about schemes,

dreams, and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on Twitter and Instagram

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app, subscribe and review to help new people discover the show. Thanks again so much to all of you

who reviewed this week and also our new patrons. This week we are so pumped to shout out,

Maggie K and Erica L, Angela B and April Diana C and Brooke B, and last but not least, Melissa E.

Now, I think last week we had a fair bit of housekeeping. It was like, ended up being like four minutes,

which is just way too much for us, Andy. So I think today we should just get right into the show.

What do you say? Totally, totally. It was a hot steamy August night at Burbank,

California's Chadney's restaurant in 1998. The jazz joint had a prime location across the street

from the NBC studios and had once been a regular spot for Johnny Carson and his famous guests.

But the years hadn't been kind to the old jazz club, its best days were most certainly behind it.

It remained a haunt, however, for many of one's famous actor or musician,

whom you could probably say the same thing about. On this particular night,

there was one such man in the crowd there to take in the jazz stylings of trumpet master Jack

Sheldon. His name was Robert Blake, a once child star who had carved out a pretty decent

career for himself, still mostly known for his hit 1970s TV series, Beretta, in which he played

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