S3 Ep296: Johnny Stompanato: Mob Ties and Malicious Behavior (Part 2)
Crime Weekly
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4.8 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
of silver screen royalty, a violent storm was brewing. Johnny Stompanato-
charming, dangerous, and deeply entangled with one of Hollywood’s
biggest stars- would soon be found dead on the floor of a Beverly Hills
mansion. Was it an accident based on a misunderstanding, a mother's
desperate act, or something far more sinister? Today, we unravel the
sensational murder that rocked Tinseltown, and left the world wondering
what really happened behind Lana Turner’s closed doors.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome back to Crime Weekly. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
| 0:16.0 | And I am Derek Lavasser. |
| 0:18.1 | So today we're diving into part two, |
| 0:20.4 | the Johnny Stapanado, Lana Turner, and Cheryl Crane, sort of, I guess, true crime, scandal, old Hollywood case. |
| 0:31.3 | It's got everything. |
| 0:32.7 | We already kind of went through episode one, Lana's childhood, how she got to where she got, all her many husbands. |
| 0:39.6 | Peaks and valleys of those relationships. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, and her, you know, how she gave birth to Cheryl, |
| 0:45.4 | her only living child throughout all of these marriages |
| 0:48.6 | and relationships. |
| 0:50.3 | And I mean, we have a lot to talk about today, |
| 0:52.5 | so I think we should just dive in. |
| 0:53.6 | Do you have anything you wanna talk about before we dive in? The only thing I'll say is last week was a lot |
| 0:58.8 | of information. And it wasn't necessarily about the crime, but that's what we do here. You're going to |
| 1:04.6 | know everything about the case. And you have to understand the why and maybe the reasoning or the |
| 1:08.7 | rationale behind why these crimes are committed and thinking |
| 1:12.4 | about who's involved with this specifically Cheryl and Lana, you need to know the backstory. |
| 1:17.9 | We're going to get to Johnny. |
| 1:18.9 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:19.9 | We're going to talk about the specifics of the crime itself. |
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