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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Presenting Badlands Season 3: Brittany Murphy: Pills, Paranoia, and Poison (Excerpt)

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms got ya covered-feed

True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The only thing more shocking than Brittany Murphy’s untimely death at the age of 32 was what happened next: more unexpected deaths, rumors of poisoning, and even murder. Listen to the all new season as well as the first two seasons, available to binge on Amazon Music.For episode notes and other great shows, visit doubleelvis.com and join the Disgraceland community on Twitch and Instagram for behind the scenes talks, music history discussions, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Brittany Murphy came into our lives as a lovable tie in Clueless.

0:04.3

Quirky and adorable, she was really destined to be a big star.

0:08.3

And after Clueless, her star only continued to rise.

0:12.0

So how did the wildest successful star end up dead at the young age of 32 after a bad

0:16.6

case of pneumonia?

0:17.9

Brittany didn't suffer through her pneumonia alone.

0:20.6

Both her mother sharing and her new husband Simon watched her suffer, but neither sought

0:25.5

to get her the proper medical attention she desperately needed.

0:28.9

And just six months later, her husband Simon was found dead at the age of 40, also from

0:33.2

pneumonia.

0:34.5

Rumors swirled around that toxic mold was found in their mansion, and that was the cause

0:38.2

of the couple's untimely death.

0:40.4

And there's another theory that Brittany's own mother sharing poised her daughter.

0:44.4

But what's the truth?

0:45.8

The truth might just be stranger than the conspiracies.

0:48.5

We're going to play you a preview of Badlands Season 3 right now.

0:52.6

Make sure you listen to Badlands Season 3 every Wednesday wherever you get podcast, or

0:57.8

binge the entire season on Amazon music.

1:00.6

A shiver shot up Brittany Murphy's spine.

1:03.4

It started in her abdomen and then crawled up to her chest, where it hammered on her

1:08.4

ribcage and clawed at her lungs.

1:11.7

She tried to breathe through the sensation, but she could barely breathe at all.

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