This is

this is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. Where does this fit in into the tapestry of your family history?

It's not something that the family has taken with any kind of joy.

My father would mention armor on occasion, but he wouldn't say anything about why we didn't know armor that we'd never met him, you know, as one of our uncles and his sisters who were my grandfather's children my

aunts they just didn't want to talk about it if it came up it was whispered

about it wasn't something you know you broadcast because again they were pillars of the community they were very

deeply religious we didn't even want to acknowledge that they were or of the family. Los Angeles during the early years of prohibition was a city that drew to it great artists and sleazy con men like Armour Phillips.

But in July of 1922, Armour had more to worry about than just the police because his

wife Clara believed that he was cheating on her with a young widow named Alberta Meadows.

Clara had always been dramatic. She was a chorus girl who had hoped to be a movie star,

but lately she was increasingly agitated and

their fights became more violent.

Clara Phillips was at her neighbor Julia McElroy's house on Flower Street.

She flinched when she heard the loud knocking.

It was her husband,

her husband, armor, and he sounded furious.

He yelled for Mrs. McElroy to let him inside.

It was Saturday, July 8th of 1922.

Clara hid quietly behind a door and listened as her husband bellowed at Mrs McElroy.

He had no idea that his wife was hiding around a corner, listening.

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