On February 17, 1977, Helen Brock, the 65-year-old

hearest to the Brock Candy Empire and one of the richest women in the country,

vanished without a trace. Helen had been at the Mayo Clinic and Rochester, Minnesota

for a check-up. She was headed to her 18-room mansion, set on a seven-acre estate in

Glenview, a suburb of Chicago. From there, she planned to travel to her

condominium in Florida. The doctor's gave Helen a clean bill of health, and on her

way out of town, she stopped at the clinic's gift shop to buy some towels, a

cosmetic powder box, and a soap dish. She spent $41, she used her Amex card, and

told the clerk to please finish wrapping her items because she said,

I'm in a hurry, my houseman is waiting. Now the clerk would later tell

investigators that she remembered this conversation well because that phrase

just wasn't common. Helen apparently was alone at the clinic, but she did have a

houseman. His name was Jack Matlich. He worked for Helen as a driver, butler,

kind of a jack-of-all-trades. He was a handyman and did odd jobs around the

house. Once Helen left that gift shop, she was never seen alive again. Helen's

disappearance would become one of the area's most notorious unsolved mysteries.

It would eventually evolve into a crazy case that involves shady household

help, a sweet-talking jiggle-o, and a deep dive into the world of horse-hit men,

where thoroughbreds are assassinated for money. I'm Catherine Townsend, this is Red

Colour. Helen Brak was born in 1911 in Ohio, and the first part of her life was

actually pretty traditional. She grew up on a farm, lived through the depression, and

married her high school sweetheart. But by the time she was 21, she was divorced,

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