The Returning Mother

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fred's first wife, Jeanne, started flying for United in the 1960s, at the height of the glamorous jet age. The job was adventurous and fun, and it inducted Jeanne into a tight-knit sorority of fellow flight attendants—a group of women who would be first shocked, then haunted by her unexplained death. In this Season 2 bonus episode, a flight attendant who worked with Jeanne the day of her drowning shares new details about Jeanne’s last flight and final hours.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:14.0	I'm Dana Goodyer.
0:16.0	Lost Hills is back with another season 2 bonus episode.
0:20.0	This one comes courtesy of our tip line.
0:22.0	Where a few months ago, I got the kind of email from a stranger that I live for.
0:27.0	Will there be more episodes regarding Fred Rayler, the sender asked?
0:31.0	I worked with Jean the day she drowned.
0:34.0	Jean, as in Jean Rayler, Fred's first wife, the mother of his daughter's Heidi and Kirsten.
0:41.0	I'd been searching for someone who could shed light on that day.
0:45.0	Friday, October 15, 1976, when Jean, a flight attendant for United, flew from LAX to Chicago, O'Hara and back.
0:54.0	When home to Malibu, got in the hot tub with Fred to unwind, and then somehow ended up drowning.
1:02.0	Her death wasn't investigated as a homicide, until Fred's second wife, Verna, and his eight-year-old step-son dug,
1:10.0	drowned under equally suspicious circumstances, less than five years later.
1:16.0	My name's Karen McClain, and I was a flight attendant for United Airlines.
1:22.0	Karen McClain's the one that wrote that letter.
1:25.0	She told me she'd stumbled on the podcast, totally by accident.
1:29.0	My daughter put Spotify on my phone, and I am so lacking in technology and stuff.
1:37.0	And I was just kind of browsing through, and I came across this, and I saw Verna and Doug, and I thought,
1:44.0	wonder if this is about Jean?
1:46.0	Karen flew with Jean just twice, once the Sunday before her drowning.
1:51.0	And then, on the very day, she drowned.
1:54.0	We flew Chicago turns. It was when we were first able to be moms, and we only work two days a week, and we were home every night.
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