This is a story that made headlines around the world.

Alec Baldwin, a prop gun, and a tragic death on a movie set.

Most people know the basics of the story, but what happened to Helena Hutchins is far more

complex than the initial headlines ever revealed. In today's episode, we're breaking down the

story behind Rust, how it came together, and how it went wrong. This wasn't just an accident. It was

the result of a series of failures, ignored warnings, and alleged negligence that ended in an

entirely preventable tragedy. Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true

crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy, how are you?

I'm doing so great. I am singing from the rooftops. My kids are officially out of school. Your kids are

officially out of school. School's all for summer, baby. We are officially out for summer. I am so, it's just like a sigh of relief that I

It is. It is. I think I told you, maybe on our bonus episode, I just was paranoid. I was going to somehow sleep through an alarm

this week because it's finals and it's actually important in high school. You know, like all those

things where you're like, I can't screw you up. So I just feel relieved, knowing like there's

nothing on our agenda that we have to be there at a certain time right now. So right there,

that's a break. It just makes everything better. So right there, that's a, that's a break.

It just makes everything better. Yes. Oh, it's so nice. And now we're going into a three-day weekend, which we don't really have three-day weekends, but our spouses do. So it makes it nice. Yeah. Yeah. So this is a great way to kick off the summer for us. I'm excited. Me too. I'm actually, yeah, now I'm looking forward to all the, now that school is behind us,

I feel like I'm actually getting more excited about all this fun summer things, you know, that my family loves to do, I mean, everyone's family loves to do fun summer things.

But I don't know why I said it like that.

Like we're stuff like.

I don't know if you guys have heard of this thing called water. Sometimes we like to put our feet in and swim. Well, it's true, but sometimes those can be also the most exhausting things you do in the year. It's true. Everything water and sun related. But yeah, I'm excited. We're going to have a good summer. All of us, I'm claiming it for everyone. We're all going to have a good summer this year.

So claim it. Claim it. Believe it, receive it. Yeah. So I'm excited to get into this episode this week. I learned so much.

Yeah, I am super excited to get into the episode this week because, as we kind of said, and most people probably heard in the beginning, this is a popular and pretty

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