SATIN PUMPS-Steve Kosareff
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 4 February 2021
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Summary
Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife?
Or did the gun accidentally discharge as he claimed?
Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to speak to his wife Barbara about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. But the plan went awry and the conversation turned deadly with Barbara’s lifeless body ending up in her in-laws’ backyard next door.
After a high-speed chase with police, Finch was arrested the next morning in Las Vegas and charged with Barbara’s murder. Then, during his court hearing in West Covina, Carole was arrested on the witness stand and charged as his accomplice.
Soon others were named as part of a larger conspiracy. But who were they and what parts did they play in these deadly events?
Set against the midcentury CinemaScope glamour of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Palm Springs, “Satin Pumps: The Moonlit Murder That Mesmerized The Nation”​ is a true crime memoir written by former Finch patient, screenwriter and author Steve Kosareff. SATIN PUMPS: The Moonlit Murders That Mesmerized The Nation-Steve Kosareff Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History   https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History, |
| 0:13.4 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:16.1 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author, talking |
| 0:24.0 | about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History. |
| 0:28.2 | True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski. |
| 0:43.2 | Good evening. |
| 0:44.6 | It was the mid-century murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years |
| 0:49.7 | to radio, television and newspapers through three trials. |
| 0:54.3 | To hand some wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour, planned to kill his glamorous |
| 0:59.5 | socialite wife, or did the gun accidentally discharged, as he claimed. |
| 1:06.0 | Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carol Ann Treggoff, |
| 1:13.4 | drove from their Las Vegas lovnest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West |
| 1:18.5 | Covina to speak to his wife, Barbara, about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. |
| 1:24.2 | But the plan went awry, and the conversation turned deadly, with Barbara's lifeless body |
| 1:29.0 | ending up in her in-laws backyard next door. |
| 1:33.1 | After a high-speed chase with police, Finch was arrested the next morning in Las Vegas, |
| 1:38.1 | and charged with Barbara's murder. |
| 1:40.8 | Then during his court hearing in West Covina, Carol was arrested on the witness stand and |
| 1:45.5 | charged as his accomplice. |
| 1:48.9 | Soon others were named as part of a larger conspiracy, but who were they and what parts did they |
| 1:54.2 | play in these deadly events. |
| 1:57.4 | Set against the mid-century cinemascope glamour of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Palm Springs, |
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