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The Ballad of Billy Balls

S1 [BONUS] That’s Not the Girl You Described | The RFK Tapes

The Ballad of Billy Balls

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.49.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the night of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, waiter Vincent DiPierro told police that he saw a girl in a polka dot dress standing with Sirhan in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel. Bill and Zac pay DiPierro a visit and hear an unbelievable story.

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, Zach here with a new bonus episode.

0:03.6

Anyone who listened to this series knows that I went on a real journey of discovery over

0:07.4

the course of the season, and Bill and I ended up disagreeing on what we thought happened

0:11.8

in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel.

0:14.1

And today, I'm going to share one of the moments where I started to question the conspiracy.

0:20.5

It has to do with the girl in the polka dot dress.

0:24.9

In episode 5, you heard from Sandra Serrano, the young campaign worker who saw a girl in

0:30.0

a polka dot dress the night RFK was assassinated.

0:33.2

This girl came running down the stairs in the back, came running down the stairs and said,

0:37.9

we've shot him, we've shot him.

0:40.9

And I said, who did you shoot?

0:42.9

And she said, we shot Senator Kennedy.

0:45.7

After a few days of looking for the girl, the Los Angeles police brought Serrano to a

0:50.1

guy with a lie detector, Sergeant Hank Hernandez.

0:53.6

You know that this is wrong.

0:54.6

You might want to be pushing it off with a smirk on your face with a smile, but you know

0:58.2

that deep inside of you for half time.

1:00.6

I didn't remember seeing a girl.

1:02.8

This story is around.

1:04.8

This didn't happen.

1:07.0

Hernandez bullied Serrano into changing her story.

1:10.2

But there was another person who said he saw the girl in the polka dot dress.

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