Farewell My Lovely: A Real-Life Detective Noir

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It was a cold one out there the day she walked into his life—gray, like the color of her eyes. She showed up like a shiny silver dollar in the path of a starving man—exactly what he needed, at exactly the right time. Blonde. Young. Full of big ideas. She was a small-town dame in the big city, ready to take the place by storm. She was a perfect pearl. And he knew she’d believe whatever he told her. He was about to teach the girl a hard lesson: That in the big city, you can’t trust anyone. Sometimes, not even yourself.

Join us for a true story that could have come straight out of the pages of a Raymond Chandler novel, a fascinating vintage story about a young woman who inadvertently became a tool in the hands of a clever kidnapper-killer. We bet you've never heard of this one!

Sources:
St. Clair McKelway, The New Yorker, 1953: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1953/08/08/the-perils-of-pearl-and-olga
https://uselessinformation.org/pearl-lusk-x-ray-camera/

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:23.3	It was a cold one out there the day she walked into his life, gray, like the color of
0:27.3	her eyes.
0:28.4	She showed up like a shiny silver dollar in the path of a starving man, exactly what
0:32.5	he needed at exactly the right time.
0:34.8	Blonde, young, full of big ideas.
0:37.6	She was a small town daim in a big city, ready to take to place by storm.
0:41.9	She was a perfect pearl, and he knew she'd believe whatever he told her.
0:46.1	He was about to teach the girl a hard lesson, that in the big city, you can't trust anyone.
0:51.5	Sometimes not even yourself.
0:53.9	This is Farewell, my lovely, a real life detective noir.
1:11.7	So campers, for this one, we're in New York, New York, the last day of the year, December
1:16.0	31, 1946.
1:18.9	It was an eye-wateringly cold day as two young women sat across from each other on the
1:23.4	train, heading into Manhattan.
1:26.1	They were both by themselves, independent working girls chasing their dreams in the big city.
1:31.3	They didn't know each other, and they didn't yet know that their lives were about to crash
1:35.3	into each other, changing both of them forever.
1:39.3	One of the women was 28 years old, tall and pale with dark hair and eyes.
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