MYSTERY: Mary Pinchot Meyer
Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast
Not Your Mom Media
4.6 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, we explore the life and mysterious death of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a woman with high-profile connections, including John F. Kennedy and the CIA. We’ll discuss her tragic 1964 murder, the acquittal of the man charged with the crime, and theories about CIA involvement linked to her affair with JFK and the disappearance of her diary, which may have contained explosive information.
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| 0:41.4 | Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend, Melissa. Hi, Melissa. |
| 0:55.6 | Hi, Mandy, How are you? |
| 1:01.8 | I am doing well. I felt like I was going to say more there, but there's just, and your face was so just like looking up at the clouds, even though you're inside. It was a really |
| 1:08.0 | beautiful moment. I'm sorry everyone didn't get to see that. I am facing the window, actually. I've moved my whole setup. All my recording equipment is now facing the window. So I am looking out the window, listening to the bird's chirping and the sun shining. And it looks like a beautiful day outside. Perfect. Yeah, no, it is a really pretty day. I know we get into the |
| 1:28.4 | weather a lot, but come on, give it to us. You know, how long will this last? It's one of the |
| 1:32.3 | only things we have, truly. It's, it might be the only thing we have have here. But Mandy, I know you are |
| 1:40.3 | so pumped about this episode, and I'm pumped because I know you're pumped. So this will be a |
| 1:45.9 | great wild story that I wasn't really aware of, but you know maybe too much about. Possibly. |
| 1:51.5 | Maybe. Yes. I have definitely heard this story before. And I was really excited when I saw that |
| 1:57.6 | Haley wanted to research it for real and not just like Reddit research this case. |
| 2:03.8 | Because it is a real story. |
| 2:07.4 | I'm really excited. |
| 2:08.6 | But if you have listened to the show for a while, you know, if there's one thing I love, it's a good conspiracy theory. |
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