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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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Maybe you’ve seen death masks of famous people like King Tut or Napoleon. But the 1888 death mask of a completely unknown teenager in Paris was used to create Resusci-Annie . . the CPR doll. And that inspired one of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits!
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0:00.0 | Have you ever seen a death mask, maybe in a museum, or even just a photo of one? |
0:05.0 | Like a lot of us, you probably thought, wow, that's creepy. |
0:08.8 | But they served a really practical purpose, and one of them has become world famous. |
0:13.6 | You may have touched her yourself. |
0:15.3 | And Michael Jackson referenced her in a huge hit record. |
0:18.9 | I'm Patty Steele. |
0:19.7 | The Origin of the Line, Annie, are you okay? |
0:23.4 | Next on the backstory. |
0:26.4 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:30.8 | In 2012, 16-year-old Brian Herrera was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to do homework. |
0:38.1 | No suspects. |
0:39.2 | No witnesses. |
0:40.2 | No justice. |
0:41.2 | I would ask my husband, do you want me to stop? |
0:43.7 | He was like, no. |
0:44.5 | Keep fighting. |
0:45.5 | After nearly a decade, a breakthrough changed everything. |
0:49.1 | This is Cold Case Files Miami. |
0:51.4 | Stories of families who never stopped fighting. |
0:57.0 | Listen to Cold Case Files Miami on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. From IHeart Podcasts, before social media, |
1:04.2 | before cable news, there was Alan Berg. He was the first and the original shock shock. |
1:10.2 | That scratchy, irreverent kind of way of talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot and I'm going to hang up on you. |
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