Florence Buzzell's Love Diary
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Episode 379 tells the scandalous and tragic story of a young business school student who enters into an unfortunate relationship with her sponsor, a wealthy cattle dealer 30 years her senior. He’s on the scene when she turns up dead with a mysterious gunshot wound in her head, and the resulting trial is a textbook example of a judicial circus with surprise witnesses, courtroom theatrics, and a crowd of overly exuberant spectators. Pay particular attention to the subplot involving the dead girl’s mother.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:07.0 | Sarah Buzzle, sister-in-law of the victim, gave a detailed story of the fatal day. |
| 0:15.0 | She said that Florence Buzzle, Fred Wheeler, and her husband, John, |
| 0:21.3 | drove to the house in Chesterville in Wheeler's truck about 11 o'clock the morning of June 7, 1941. |
| 0:30.3 | The beer was brought out. |
| 0:32.9 | She fixed the time spent in beer drinking by the noon-hour whistle of the sawmill in the valley below. |
| 0:39.3 | Quote, I was sitting by the window sipping beer and saw the men go by. |
| 0:44.3 | Florence asked me when I was going to wean my baby so she could take the baby back with her to the farm. |
| 0:50.3 | She made out John's check for Wheeler to sign. |
| 0:53.3 | I hung out my clothes, then my little boy asked me when we were going to have dinner. |
| 0:58.0 | I stepped along to the living room and asked Florence to go down to the store. |
| 1:02.0 | She was lying face down on the couch, and Mr. Wheeler was sitting on the couch. |
| 1:07.0 | My husband was out in the shed. |
| 1:10.0 | It was after the time dinner should have been, |
| 1:13.0 | sometime around one o'clock, for I saw the men come home from their dinner from the mill and go |
| 1:18.3 | back. Florence didn't want to go. Mr. Wheeler allowed he didn't want to go, and told me to take the |
| 1:25.5 | truck. I said I hadn't a license. He said if a cop stopped me, |
| 1:30.3 | he'd pay for it. I took my little boy and girl and went to the store." |
| 1:36.3 | Mrs. Buzl said that sometime before she went to the store after her husband had passed out |
| 1:42.3 | on the shed floor, Florence asked Sarah for the target pistol, |
| 1:46.6 | hanging on the kitchen wall. |
| 1:48.6 | Quote, I lugged it from the kitchen to the front door and gave it to her, got the cartridges |
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