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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Marcia Clark's Trial By Ambush

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In March of 1953, retired vaudeville star Mabel Monohan was found brutally murdered inside her ransacked home in Burbank, California. The case became a media sensation, and one woman was painted to be a cold-blooded murderess central to the crime. Her name was Barbara Graham. Former prosecutor and author Marcia Clark reveals a different side of the story, detailing an unjust justice system in her new book, Trial By Ambush. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It was 1953, and gossip flowed freely among the ex-cons and criminals of Los Angeles,

0:36.7

leading many eyes to turn to one woman in particular,

0:40.2

Mabel Monaghan. Mabel, a once vivacious Vodaville star, was now a reclusive shut-in, residing in a

0:47.7

Burbank home. Mabel was used to living in hotels, but when her daughter, Iris, divorced her wealthy entrepreneur husband,

0:55.7

Tudor Scherer, she left her mother the house she had acquired through the split.

1:00.3

Mabel remained close with her former son-in-law, and Tudor frequently visited her in the house

1:05.1

during his trips to Los Angeles. But that amicable friendship sparked rumors that Tudor, who had ties to the mob, was secretly

1:13.8

storing thousands of dollars inside a safe in Mabel's home.

1:18.1

And four thugs, Baxter Shorter, Emmett Perkins, Jack Santo, and John True, wanted the alluring

1:26.0

fortune for themselves.

1:28.0

But the men had a problem.

1:29.8

How could they get Mabel Monaghan to unlock the doors for them?

1:33.8

On the night of March 9, 1953,

1:37.2

Mabel heard a knock on the door.

1:39.3

She opened it, only to find a petite woman named Barbara Graham.

1:44.4

Barbara claimed her car had broken down

1:46.5

and asked if she could use Mabel's phone to call for help.

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