The Cotton Club Murders & The Murder of Roy Raydin
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Season 29, Episode 5
“The Cotton Club Murders”
This week’s episode covers the 1983 murder of Roy Radin, a theatrical producer with ties to a planned film called The Cotton Club. At the time, director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Robert Evans were developing the film, a period crime drama loosely inspired by the original club. Radin was found murdered execution-style in a remote canyon in California. The killing was eventually tied to a tangled web involving cocaine-fueled ambition, mob connections, and a bitter feud over money tied to the movie’s production. One of the key figures implicated was Karen Greenberger, a drug-addled femme fatale with ties to organized crime.
Trigger Warnings: Murder and sexual assault.
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- Roy Raydin Wikipedia
- Wondery Hollywood & Crime
- All That is Interesting
- Golden Globes
- UPI
- Vulture
- The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade
- Los Angeles Times 1991
- New York Times 1983
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.4 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
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| 0:32.3 | This is Margo Donnyu, and my cohort in Creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
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| 0:36.6 | We are the podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | It talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:45.3 | Today, it's an old-timey Hollywood crime from the 80s, Sony. The 80s, when people did... |
| 0:48.3 | People did a lot of cocaine as we're about to find out. |
| 0:55.5 | This is going to be a good one, y'all. |
| 0:57.8 | But first, let's get started by saying that if this is your first time listening, |
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| 1:22.1 | We're talking about creeps and murder and all kinds of horrible things. So yes, this is your warning, earmuffs, if you have to, with your children. |
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