Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. Hello. This is Desi Jannakin. Hey, Desi. Hi. How was your dinner?

Yum. It was good. We stuck our faces.

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Okay, Desi, buckle up because this is a long one today. I also, I don't even really know how to

describe to you what this episode is going to be about, but it is about a crime in which three different men are at the center of that took place in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

I didn't involve a lot of double lives. Now let's just talk about my main sources for this episode. I read a book called

Ensured for Murder by Robin Yocome and Catherine Kandisky. And I also got a lot of really great information from a 1989 Vanity Fair article by Ann Louise Bardak called the murder hustle.

I also got a lot of great info from her follow up article that she did about this case called the murder murder hustle part two.

Oh, so there was two separate articles a few years apart. So yeah, as well as, you know, old newspaper articles involving the case, there was a wealth of information.

And you know, sometimes you just have to write a lot of it down. Yeah, because there's a lot of interesting juicy details in this case.

Okay. Let's start at the top in the early morning of April 16, 1988, a Los Angeles neurosurgeon named Dr. Richard Boggs called the police to report that his patient 46 year old Melvin Eugene Hansen had died of a heart attack at his Glendale office.

Dr. Boggs told police that he had been treating Melvin who went by Jean for years for his heart condition. And that he had tried to get a hold of 911 hours before that, but the line was busy.

Is that a thing? Well, no, guzzly. He told the police that Jean had called him at 3 30 a.m. Complaining of chest pains. He said they met at the office at 5 a.m. and after administering an EKG test,

Jean Hansen collapsed on the floor and died. Police called a coroner to the scene who ruled that the death of Hansen was due to natural causes and Richard Boggs signed the death certificate. Okay.

Now, Jean Hansen was born to Catherine Lolley and Melvin Eugene Snowden in Florida in the early 1940s. He had a younger brother named Donald.

His mother divorced their father when he was just two and his brother was six months old. Not only did she never receive child support, but they really never heard from this dad again.

Catherine remarried to a truck driver named Cecil Hansen who was a deacon at a Baptist church. After two years of college at Florida State and three years in the army, Jean Hansen moved to Atlanta in 1968.

Growing up in a strict Christian home, Jean was a self-hating, closeted gay man. And he had at one point attempted to cure himself with conversion therapy.

Oh. I don't know if it was specifically conversion therapy or just regular therapy, but he was trying to not be gay.

For a while, he was thinking that he could just cure himself with being gay. Right.

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