Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Everyone has a mistake they wish they could erase.

A poor decision they'd like to undo or a path they wish they had taken.

Unfortunately there is rarely an eraser for our actions.

We make a choice and we live with the consequences.

One woman however refused to accept those limitations.

She set out to show the world that no mistake was so bad that it couldn't be erased, or

at least covered up.

Her name was Betty Claire McMurray and she was born in 1924 in Dallas, Texas.

Her father, Jessie McMurray, managed an auto parts supply store while her mother Christine

ran a small knitting shop.

Christine also helped foster a love of art in her daughter and taught her how to paint.

After graduating high school, Betty married her first husband Warren, with whom she had

her first child, Michael.

Their marriage didn't last long though.

After their divorce in 1946, Betty and Michael, along with her mother and sister, moved

into a house her father had left her after he passed away.

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