The Olympian and the Ingenue: Spider Sabich and Claudine Longet

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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When a famous French actress and singer meets a handsome Olympic skier in 1970's Aspen, Colorado sparks fly. The duo becomes the IT couple of the party scene - that is until one of them ends up dead. Was it an accident or something more sinister? Sources: 1. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13681642/spider_sabich 2. Snow Industry News: https://www.snowindustrynews.com/articles/2023/august/spider-sabichs-killler-claudine-longet-lists-aspen-mansion-for-595-million/ 3. Stowe Reporter: https://www.vtcng.com/stowe_reporter/on_snow/revisiting-the-scandalous-spider-sabich-shooting-story/article_0fba6b4e-bb80-11ee-99d6-171d5dfd6456.html#:~:text=At%20a%20celebrity%20ski%20race,children%20into%20his%20Aspen%20home. 4. Birmingham Post-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/795107393/?match=1&terms=dr%20mary%20frances%20sabich 5. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/11/archives/miss-longet-weeps-at-an-autopsy-report-on-sabich.html#:~:text=Sabich%20had%20been%20expected%20to,in%20her%20hand%20while%20Mr. 6. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25122163/?match=1&terms=spider%20sabich 7. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25131335/?match=1&terms=claudine%20longet 8. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/01/archives/miss-longed-given-30-days.html 9. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25125612/?match=1&terms=%22claudine%20longet%22 10. Greeley Daily Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/25130517/?match=1&terms=%22claudine%20longet%22 11. Aspen Dreams: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22559121-aspen-dreams 12. Aspen Times: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/spider-sabich-lives-on-in-film-and-party/ 13. Ski Racing: https://skiracing.com/on-spider-sabich-day-in-snowmass-the-ski-racing-icon-was-honored-for-his-imprint-and-legacy/ 14. GQ: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/claudine-longet-aspens-femme-fatale 15. Power, Privilege, and Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBCOS8473s 16. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/13/archives/miss-longet-on-stand-describes-shooting-her-lover.html This Week's Episode Brought to You By: Lume Deodorant - Control Body Odor ANYWHERE and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code LOVEMURDER at LumeDeodorant.com! EarnIn - Download EarnIn today in the Google play or Apple app store! When you download the EarnIn app type in Love Murder under PODCAST when you sign up – it’ll really help the show. https://app.earnin.com/ Shopify - The Platform Commerce is Built On - $1 per month trial https://shopify.com/lovemurder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Jessie, well, last week was one of the most devastating cases we've ever covered.
0:05.6	What do you have for us this time?
0:07.9	When a famous French actress and singer meets a handsome Olympic skier in 1970s, Aspen, Colorado, sparks fly.
0:15.6	The duo becomes the it couple of the party scene.
0:18.8	That is, until one of them ends up dead.
0:21.5	Was it an accident?
0:22.9	Or something far more sinister?
0:25.5	I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder.
0:29.6	I'm The The Good. Hi, Andy. Hi, Jessie. Welcome back, everyone, to Love Murder, a podcast about plots, shots,
1:01.2	and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder
1:06.6	Pod and on Facebook by searching Love Murder podcast. If you are enjoying this show, please love slash murder, a five-star rating on your podcast app,
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1:18.4	Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, you can check out
1:22.3	our Patreon website.
1:24.5	If you don't know what it is, it's essentially a subscription-based platform where you can
1:29.2	listen to the episode ad-free. You can join our amazing monthly watch parties and happy hours
1:36.6	that we do. There's a bunch of different options and tiers that you can pick from, but it's also
1:41.6	something that we're really excited to announce you can gift to your
1:44.3	loved ones this year. So if you don't know what to get your friends and family and they are fans of
1:49.7	the show, that is a wonderful gift to give them. Absolutely. And right now we have 60 bonus episodes.
1:55.6	So you can have yourself a merry little binge if you'd like to join the Patreon. Okay, Andy, I think after
2:03.7	last week we really needed a palette cleanser, a different scene, a different time, and right now
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