Do you know what went down at the Viper Room, the Knight River Phoenix died? Or how about the

mysterious death of Britney Murphy? Are you aware of how Steve McQueen escaped murder at the hands of the

Manson family? The obsessive killing of Dorothy Stratton, the real-life murder that inspired David

Lynch's Twin Peaks, the three conspiracies surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death.

These stories and more are told in the Hollywoodland podcast

where True Crime and Tinsletown collide.

Hollywoodland is hosted by me,

Jake Brennan,

creator of the award-winning

music and true crime podcast,

Disgraceland.

Follow and listen to Hollywoodland

wherever you get your podcasts.

Jerry Mitchell is an investigative reporter in Mississippi.

He works for a non-profit news outlet called Mississippi Today.

But before that, he was at the Clarion Ledger, the state's biggest

newspaper, for more than 30 years. Jerry's written a lot of big stories, but he's probably

best known for his work in reopening cold cases from the civil rights era. One of those cases

was the murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963.

Jerry's reporting resulted in the killer being re-prosecuted and sent to prison 30 years after the crime occurred.

Jerry also wrote about the Birmingham church bombing, in which four little girls were killed.

He tracked down and interviewed the

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