The Marlboro Man

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On September 11, 2001, the world was watching the attacks on the World Trade Center – and no one noticed as Larry McNabney, a 52-year-old wealthy and prominent attorney, was drugged and taken out of his hotel room in a wheelchair. After his body was found hundreds of miles away in a vineyard, the hunt for the killer would lead police to a woman who changed names and identities as often as she changed her hair color. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	While the whole world was watching the horrific events that unfolded on September 11, 2001,
0:13.2	when the terrorists hijacked planes that flew into the World Trade Center in New York
0:16.4	City in the Pentagon, another much quieter drama was unfolding in a hotel room in City
0:23.4	of Industry, California.
0:25.8	Everyone there was glued to their TV screens, watching the World Trade Center crumble.
0:31.1	So no one noticed that 52-year-old Larry McNabbney, a wealthy lawyer who had been attending
0:36.0	a horse show there with his wife and sub-friends, vanished without a trace.
0:41.2	In that suburb of Los Angeles, Larry was being slowly poisoned and his friends were distracted
0:47.8	as someone wheeled him out of his hotel room in a wheelchair and drove him to his death
0:53.4	without anyone ever noticing.
0:56.1	I'm Catherine Townsend, this is Red Collar.
1:23.2	Larry McNabbney was a character.
1:25.5	He was a personal injury lawyer, so he was one of those guys who had billboards all around
1:29.9	town.
1:30.9	He lived in Reno, Nevada, but also had a practice in Las Vegas, and in the legal profession,
1:36.7	Larry McNabbney was a big deal.
1:39.2	He had these super over-the-top TV ads.
1:42.5	He would dress up as the Marlboro man and act like a cowboy, and they worked.
1:47.7	Over the years, as a criminal defense attorney and later as a personal injury lawyer, Larry
1:53.2	McNabbney made a fortune.
1:55.6	According to author Carlton Smith's book, Cold Blooded, a true story of love, lies, greed,
2:00.9	and murder, Larry was handsome and charismatic and always the life of the party, but he also
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