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Today in True Crime

June 8, 1978: Jury Decides Legitimacy of Howard Hughes Will

Today in True Crime

Parcast

True Crime, Education, History

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A stranger provided documentation that billionaire Howard Hughes left 156 million dollars to him in a will. But it would be up to a jury to decide whether the will was real or a forgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today is Tuesday, June 8th, 2021.

0:36.6

On this day in 1978, the last will of billionaire Howard Hughes, which supposedly left

0:44.0

$156 million to a stranger he met one time, was deemed a fake.

0:55.6

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.

1:00.8

Today we're covering the forgery of Howard Hughes Will.

1:04.6

Hughes was an American business tycoon, a successful manufacturer, filmmaker, and aviator.

1:11.6

Let's go back to Nevada on June 8, 1978.

1:19.6

The trial to determine whether or not Howard Hughes' alleged will was legitimate

1:24.6

finally went to the jury late in the afternoon. The case had been in progress

1:29.0

for seven grueling months. At stake was Hughes's seemingly boundless estate. The magnate had died

1:37.1

two years earlier, mid-flight from his Acapulco Mexico property to a hospital in Houston.

1:43.9

The jurors had a lot to consider.

1:47.1

They knew the will was delivered to the Mormon church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah,

1:52.2

about three weeks after Hughes passed.

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