The Trail Went Cold - Episode 47 - Karyn Kupcinet

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

November 30, 1963. West Hollywood, California. After not being heard from for over two days, the nude body of 22-year actress Karyn Kupcinet is discovered on the couch inside her apartment. Her death is initially suspected of being a drug overdose, but when the coroner discovers a broken hyoid bone in Karyn’s throat, he rules that she was a victim of strangulation. Years later, Karyn’s death is unexpectedly linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with allegations that she was murdered because she attempted to make an anonymous phone call and prevent the assassination minutes before it happened. Was Karyn Kupcinet a victim of foul play or was her death simply the result of a tragic accident? In this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a case which is one of Hollywood’s most baffling unsolved mysteries and the source of an unlikely conspiracy theory surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyn_Kupcinet http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/kupcinet.htm http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-per-flash-karyn-kupcinet-1124-20131124-story.html “Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.” by James Ellroy The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	November 30th
0:02.0	1963 West Hollywood California
0:08.0	After not being heard from for over two days the nude body of 22-year-old actress Karen Kupsonant is discovered on the couch inside
0:16.2	her apartment. Her death is initially suspected to be a drug overdose, but when the coroner discovers
0:22.3	a broken hyoid bone in Karen's throat, he rules that she was a victim of strangulation.
0:28.0	Years later, Karen's death would be linked to conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
0:35.2	and allegations that she made an anonymous phone call to warn people of his death minutes
0:39.7	before it happened.
0:41.8	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, but uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, and uh,
1:05.0	and uh, and uh,
1:06.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Oh, Catherine, Miss Wellenmelon wanted me to tell you that Herbie is...
1:30.0	Herbert, Herbert?
1:32.0	Herbert? Herbert? H-E- B. R. T is Herbert. How do you spell Herbert? Not why Herbie? It's Herbert.
1:38.7	Bert. Right. Call me Bert. Just not a habe. Herbert.
1:42.3	That Herbert! is to have his breakfast.
1:47.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:51.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and that sound clip you just heard was from the
1:55.5	1961 comedy of the ladies man and it's probably the only time you'll ever hear audio from
2:00.8	Jerry Lewis on this podcast. The reason I played that scene is because it happened to be the screen debut of actress Karen Kupsonant, who would die under mysterious circumstances only two years later and is the subject of today's episode.
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