Hello, I'm Keith Morrison, with a special preview of Murder in the Hollywood Hills, brought to you by Progressive.

Our latest podcast takes us to Hollywood for a story about a smooth-talking predator who lured young women with the promise of fame.

But most of all, it's about how a group of those women banded together to put him behind bars and keep him there.

It was late on a Saturday afternoon when Douglas Kirkland ambled down to the end of his driveway

in the Hollywood Hills to check the mail.

To the west, way out over the Pacific, he might have seen a line of bruise-colored clouds puffing

themselves up.

Looked like they meant business.

L.A. was in for some rain.

It was at that moment that Douglas' wife,

Franz was, who was puttering in the garage, looked up and noticed that a young

woman in a white sports car had stopped in front of her husband.

It was a meiartheid, and there was a very pretty girl pretty blonde girl in there with or it's

what looked with her entire wardrobe next to her and she looked very frazzled.

Rensoise overheard the girl in the sports car

asked Douglas about a house that resembled a castle.

Douglas said he didn't know what she was talking about.

But Francesise did.

And I kind of yelled out, said, you know, the castle is that place on Green Valley.

It's sort of like at the corner of a little street and it's got you know statues all around it a little

turret and all that that's the castle that's what we call the castle.

Relief washed over the young woman's face, along with, what, anticipation, anxiety, excitement,

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