There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cop of murder.

Some cases have twists, turns, and a lot of conspiracy and speculation.

So much so that a short podcast like ours only seems to scratch the surface. On October 14, 1920, a woman was born who would live a life

filled with political intrigue and secrets. A woman whose death, in addition to being unsolved,

leads to far more questions than answers.

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer was born on October 14,20 in New York City, as the eldest of two daughters born to Amos Pinchot, a wealthy lawyer and a key figure in the Progressive Party who funded the Socialist magazine The Masses, and his second wife Ruth, a journalist who wrote for magazines like the nation and the New Republic, and the niece of two-time governor of Pennsylvania.

Raised in the family's home in Milford, Pennsylvania, Mary spent most of her life rubbing elbows with left-wing

intellectuals, and when she was older, became a student at the Brearley School and Vassar College.

It was at Vassar that she became

exposed to and grew quite interested in communism. In 1934, while attending a dance at a

private school in Connecticut, Mary met a boy named William Atwood, and the pair hit it off and

began dating. The following year, she met another very important man in her life,

a man who, unbeknownst to her, would alter the course of her entire life, John F. Kennedy.

But more on that in a moment. After her graduation from Vassar in 1942, Mary started working as a journalist at the United Press and Mademoiselle.

Two years later, Mary met a man named Cord Mayor, a Marine Corps lieutenant who lost his left eye due to a shrapnel injury overseas.

He, like Mary, was a pacifist, something for which, in combination with her membership with the American Labor Party, earned her some scrutiny from the FBI.

The pair married in April of 1945.

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