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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 95 - James Ellroy

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss the life of true crime author James Ellroy, and his mother Jean who was murdered in Los Angeles in 1958.

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. Hi, this is Desi Jettakin.

0:05.6

I'm back. Yeah, Rachel was gone. I was out of town. And then we were going to record

0:10.5

yesterday, but her flight was delayed. So that's why their episode is coming to you a little late.

0:15.9

Yeah. So apologies. We're very sorry. But we'll have an episode up on Friday as well. So

0:23.1

two in a row. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you guys would like to become patrons of Hollywood crime scene,

0:28.8

you can go donate over on patreon.com slash Hollywood crime scene. This week we had Mo,

0:35.2

Dana, Stephanie, Latabby, Laura, Kate, Anne, Georgia, Jenna, Justin, Emma, Gina, Marie,

0:48.9

Jerry, Heather, Allison, Grace, Hannah, Mandy, Joanne, Donna, Breena,

0:59.0

Anna, Michaela, Amy, Frazier, Reese, Bodie, Sandra, Breena, Justin, my cousin, Karen, what up,

1:11.5

Karen, Rebecca, Jasmine, Brooke, and that's it. Thank you guys so much. Thank you guys. And like

1:20.8

Rachel said, go to the patreon if you want to become a patron. And there are like 80 plus episodes

1:27.1

of bonus content that has never been released. So you can, if you're caught up on the shows,

1:32.0

you'll have a whole stash of new shit to listen to. Yeah. I mean, shit in the best possible way.

1:38.5

This is a case that has been suggested a few times. And then when I saw that the anniversary of

1:45.6

the murder was coming up June 22nd, I thought what better time to do it. That is the anniversary of

1:52.8

maybe not so famous of a murder, but with a very famous connection. And that is the murder of

1:58.1

Jean Alroy, who is the mother of one of the best modern crime writers probably out there. James

2:03.9

Alroy. You probably know him best as the writer of LA Confidential, which is also an amazing movie.

2:11.2

If you like that old school style of crime writers like a Raymond Chandler, like the hard boy

2:15.2

right kind of language, he really, he really does that style of writing. So you'll probably like him

2:21.1

if you haven't read any of his work yet. He also wrote a memoir about his mom's murder, which is

2:27.3

pretty much what I used as a source when writing up this episode. It's called My Dark Places.

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