Episode 365 - Connie Francis Part 3
Hollywood Crime Scene
Rachel Fisher
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In the conclusion to our series we discuss Connie's later life and career, a shocking incident involving Bobby Darin, and the horrific crime she fell victim to in the 70's.
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| 0:39.2 | Connie Francis, the last episode. Yeah. Of this series. So dramatic. Well, it's not the final chapter. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah. Because the final chapter, you can only say that for a part four. True. Because of Friday |
| 0:54.1 | the 13th. |
| 0:55.4 | There's like a precedent. |
| 0:57.0 | So I'm not sure what, the end of this trilogy. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes. |
| 1:01.9 | I guess. |
| 1:02.6 | Anyway, my main source for this episode is Connie Francis's |
| 1:07.4 | 2017 memoir among my souvenirs. |
| 1:10.8 | I also read a little bit of her 1984 memoir, Who's Sorry Now? |
| 1:15.2 | And a lot of contemporary newspaper articles. |
| 1:20.7 | We talked about Connie performing in Vegas last episode. |
| 1:25.9 | She performed there a lot in the 60s. It wasn't necessarily like a residency |
| 1:30.8 | because she wasn't living there, but she was performing there a lot and like regularly. |
| 1:38.4 | Like she would live there for like weeks at a time. Right. While she performed. So sometime in the 60s, during one of Connie's engagements at the Sahara in Las Vegas, |
| 1:49.2 | she got a phone call from Bobby Darren's brother-in-law. |
| 1:53.2 | Now, he was her brother-in-law slash stepfather because if you remember, |
| 1:59.9 | his sister turned out to be his mother. |
| 2:02.7 | Right. |
| 2:03.2 | And his sister was married. |
| 2:05.0 | Right. |
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