Preview: Bad Bad Thing Season 2 The Blackstone Sisters

Cold Case Files

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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TV show producer Jill Blackstone is accused of killing her disabled sister Wendy, and some of their rescue dogs, by leaving them in a garage with a barbecue grill. Jill blames the deaths on accidental monoxide poisoning But police believe she staged the scene. Who will you believe? Reported and hosted by Emmy award winning journalist, Barbara Schroeder.

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0:00.0	Hi cold case fans! If you're looking for even more true crime, here's a preview of the first
0:04.8	episode of Season 2 of Bad Bad Thing from Emmy award-winning journalist Barbara Schroeder.
0:10.1	This season follows the 2015 case of TV show producer Jill Blackstone, who was accused of killing
0:15.5	her disabled sister Wendy and some of their rescue dogs by leaving them in a garage with a barbecued
0:21.3	grill. Jill blames the deaths on accidental monoxide poisoning, but police believe she staged the scene.
0:28.0	Who will you believe? Bad bad thing, Season 2 is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:39.3	Hello. My god, are you there? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. It has been crazy to try to get in to
0:46.8	see you. I know, I don't know why. They don't either. You're listening to a recording of a
0:53.6	conversation between a prisoner, Jill Blackstone, and one of her friends. How are your spirits?
1:02.2	Fine, I'm just reading a lot and you know that they call our unit the BK unit, baby killers.
1:10.4	We have a lot of child cases, which is charming. Yeah, I mean it's chaos in there. There's everybody
1:16.7	fighting with everybody. There's always some more going on. Until she ended up buying bars,
1:21.8	Jill Blackstone had a great reputation. She was a talented TV producer for shows like Dr. Drew,
1:28.6	divorce court, and Jerry Springer.
1:34.9	Jill was also respected and admired for what she did when she wasn't working. In fact,
1:40.4	somebody once called her a saint because not only had she started her own animal rescue,
1:45.6	where she found new homes for dozens of abandoned dogs, but she also took care of her disabled
1:50.6	sister, Wendy Blackstone, who had serious vision and hearing problems. The sisters had been
1:56.4	roommates for almost two decades. Until one Saturday morning in March of 2015, when an ambulance
2:03.6	was dispatched to Jill's house in Studio City, California. Paramedics find Jill in her bedroom.
2:09.9	They find Wendy and the sister's three rescue dogs, Izzy, Bruce and Bentley, out in the garage,
2:16.2	all four are laying motionless on the ground. Nearby is a toppled over portable barbecue grill.
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