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Unravel

Snowball 04 | Charmed

Unravel

ABC Australia

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Following the trail to Lezlie Manukian, Ollie and his other brother Simon end up in California. With a muscle car and loud Hawaiian shirts, the brothers look every bit like '80s TV detectives as they head off on their very first stakeout. But, when the trail runs cold, they decide to chase down a lead at Lezlie's first restaurant in the resort town of Lake Tahoe. Meanwhile, Lezlie's emails become stranger than fiction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an ABC podcast.

0:05.0

In this episode, we've used voice actors for Leslie and her parents,

0:09.8

as well as her mysterious lawyer, Eric T. Weiss, and his staff.

0:15.6

I'm sorry that now you'll never really know what was real or not.

0:21.6

Leslie wrote that and her divorce letter to my brother Greg.

0:25.6

It's like she was toying with him.

0:28.6

You'll never really know what was real or not.

0:31.6

Leslie does draw blurry lines between fantasy and reality.

0:36.6

She just probably wouldn't have expected anyone to start reading between those lines.

0:42.3

But that's what I'm doing now.

0:45.3

And I've uncovered what I reckon is the strangest part of this whole story.

0:51.3

I've found something completely bizarre.

0:55.0

In all those emails in the box of Leslie Docs that my dad kept,

1:00.0

they reveal Leslie had a book deal with a big time publisher.

1:06.0

To tell the story of her life?

1:11.5

Well, I am going to start on the book next week.

1:15.9

He believes you would be great at script writing.

1:19.8

Oh, my head is spinning.

1:23.7

Welcome to Unravel Season 4.

1:26.7

I'm Olly Wards, and this is Snowball.

1:30.3

So Leslie was writing an autobiography,

1:48.1

like some kind of memoir of her crazy life.

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