This podcast details true crime cases.

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

It feels good to be back in the studio getting new episodes out for the month of April.

This month I'll be revisiting a series I did back in season one of the podcast, Artful Crimes.

In this series, I'll bring you true crime cases connected to the world of art and artists.

In this episode, an up-and-coming artist who was connected to a high-profile politician becomes the victim of a violent crime.

First, a little history to put this case into context.

On November 22, 1963, our 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot dead as he wrote in a convertible and waved a crowd who came to see his motorcade drive through Dallas, Texas.

24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested 45 minutes later after shooting and killing a police officer who'd stopped to question him.

He denied shooting Kennedy, insisting he was a patsy.

The next day, Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas resident Jack Ruby as he was escorted through the basement of the Dallas police headquarters to be transported to jail.

Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, questions were raised about who was actually responsible for his murder.

Was Oswald solely responsible or was he a patsy, like he said, framed by powerful enemies of the president?

Conspiracy theories around the assassination of JFK would proliferate and still continue until the present day.

Less than a year later, a person close to Kennedy was also murdered in broad daylight.

After her relationship with the slain president came to light, her name would forever be linked to his, and her murder would also become fodder for conspiracy theorists.

Mary Pinchot Meyer's life and death was, and still is, overshadowed by President Kennedy's, but she lived an interesting and storied life of her own.

Lost among her friendships with top-level government officials, prominent journalists, and CIA operatives, her life as an artist is often mentioned as an afterthought.

But the truth is, she had been immersed in the art world for years, and was just coming into her own as a contemporary artist.

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