S26E21: Trashy Tabloids | Heiress Murders Nazi Sex Fiend!
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In 1936, America was shocked by the details that emerged in a murder trial in New York City. A young heiress, romanced by an older German financier with deep ties to the Nazi party, decided to end things when it became clear that he wouldn't end his marriage to his wife in Germany. Dr. Fritz Gebhardt took Vera Stretz's rejection badly, a gun was drawn, and when police arrived around 2:30 that morning, Fritz was dead and Vera refused to explain why she'd shot him.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.com.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:18.6 | My name is Stacey and Alicia, even I don't know what secret you've been |
| 0:22.9 | cooking up for this episode. So many secrets. It is no secret to you, Stacey, that I am |
| 0:28.1 | obsessed with old magazines. No secret. No secret. I love them. I have stacks and stacks of |
| 0:34.5 | tabloid magazines from the last 100 years, it's my favorite thing. |
| 0:39.8 | It really brings you joy. |
| 0:41.5 | To go through find old articles, who are we talking about confidentially, or look at the old |
| 0:47.7 | advertisements, so to speak. |
| 0:50.5 | There's always something delightful that connects into the spider webs of this trashy universe |
| 0:56.2 | we have built between trashy divorces, trashy royals and done and done and swiftry too. |
| 1:02.4 | The ads in, you know, tabloids from the 40s and 50, they really are. |
| 1:07.6 | I mean, doctors endorsing cigarette brands. |
| 1:13.6 | Doctors as pitchmen for cigarettes. Amazing. Amazing stuff. Amazing stuff. Those were the days. Those were the days. Anyway, all of this is to say that I am |
| 1:25.7 | obsessed with what I am calling trashy tabloids. |
| 1:29.3 | And over on Patreon for our highest level feeds, I have been doing a few of these. |
| 1:35.5 | More are coming. |
| 1:36.6 | They're just delightful snapshots of trash through time. |
| 1:42.9 | Today, for the main feed, I am bringing you an incredible story. |
| 1:48.5 | It has everything you like. |
| 1:50.2 | We got true crime. |
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