1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Hello again to everyone out there in hollywood Land, and 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: welcome once again as we dip into our archive of 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: insane stories from the intersection of Hollywood and true crime. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: This week, we're bringing you our episode on David Lynch. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: There was never a director or a visionary like David 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Lynch before him, and despite all the imitators, there will 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: never be another like him again. His work was the 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: stuff of dreams and nightmares. It didn't always make sense, 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 1: but in hindsight, that was a gift to us. That 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: was a notion which set us free. The question wasn't 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: what does it mean? The question was would you remember it? 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: These are the things I remember. Dennis Hopper crying while 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: Dean Stockwell lip syncs a Roy Orbison song, and blue 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: Velvet Willem Dafoe's tiny teeth pressing against the pantyhose stretched 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: around his face, and wild at heart, the person hiding 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: behind the diner in mahal And Drive. These images are 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: as indelible as any major work of art. They follow 18 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: you around, they haunt you, they make you laugh, They 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: make you ask questions, but don't expect any answers, because 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: that would be missing the point. Rip to the great 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: David Lynch. I hope you did this episode, and then 22 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: I hope you will join me later this week when 23 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: we talk about the episode in more detail in the 24 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: wrap Party. 25 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywood Land 27 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: is a production of Double Elvis. 28 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: Way All in Conlifornia Ride and We're Bland all bas 29 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 3: not very Way and a little daughter Lobby and Kyle 30 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 3: and all happy her. I'm Mary. 31 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: And the stories about David Lynch are actually they're quite normal, 32 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: almost bizarrely normal, especially for a dude who's made some 33 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: of the most psychologically haunting films and television shows of 34 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: all time. But the stories that inspired some of David 35 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 2: Lynch's work, those are insane, like the nineteen oh eight 36 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: crime that was the basis for his revolutionary television show 37 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks. That crime involved a brutal murder of a 38 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 2: girl in a small town, a seemingly idyllic town that 39 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,399 Speaker 2: beneath its surface was full of prostitution, orgies, deceit, and corruption, 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 2: and it was all fueled by a political machine so 41 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: powerful it could cover up not one, but multiple murders. 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: The story of Hazel Drew inspired David Lynch to make 43 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: great television. Unlike that clip I played for you at 44 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: the top of the show. That wasn't great television. That 45 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: was a fair use. Sample from the Library of Congress 46 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 2: of Alan Pope performing Murder of Marion Parker in nineteen 47 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: thirty eight. I played you that clip because I can't 48 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: afford the rights to Steve Barn's teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. 49 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of 50 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: radioactive reptile cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was 51 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: the number one movie in America on April eighth, nineteen 52 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: ninety and that was the day that Twin Peaks made 53 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: its television debut, A show about an unsolvable murder inspired 54 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 2: by an actual murder that was intended to remain a secret. 55 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: On this episode, a dead girl, prostitution, political conspiracies, unsolvable mysteries. 56 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: In the secret origin of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. I'm 57 00:03:53,080 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 2: Jake Brennan and this is Hollywoodland. Lawrence Gruber woke up 58 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: to the summer sun in his face and a cloud 59 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 2: of flies buzzing around his head. The rest of his 60 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: friends were still asleep weekends every summer they came out 61 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 2: to this spot, Teals Pond, a mile from Troy, New York, 62 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: and they drank and they fished and they shot the ship. 63 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: Being a teenage boy in nineteen oh eight, it wasn't 64 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 2: all that different from what it is now. Lawrence tossed 65 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: the blanket's side and took a piss behind a tree. 66 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: He wandered back to the campsite and assessed their supplies. 67 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: Nothing for lunch. Someone was going to have to go 68 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: back into town. His friends were snoring, and Lawrence figured 69 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: it might as well be him. He got dressed to 70 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 2: be set off in the long walk along the edge 71 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 2: of Teal's Pond. As he walked, he saw something floating 72 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: in the marsh, a dark lump he couldn't make out. 73 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 2: With the sun glaring from behind it. He thought of 74 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: the antics of his friends the night before, how one 75 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 2: of them had torn off his shirt and whipped it 76 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: into the pond in a drunken frenzy. That was probably it, 77 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: just a shirt. Lawrence put it out of his head 78 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: and made his way into town. Later, as he was 79 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: walking back, the sun beat down from directly overhead, and 80 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 2: the object in the pond. The thing he thought was 81 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: a shirt had floated into the shallows. Closer to the 82 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 2: path he was on, he could see it clearly from 83 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 2: where he stood. It looked bigger than just a shirt. 84 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: Now he got closer to the shoreline, and then his 85 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 2: eyes went wide. He screamed out loud for his friends 86 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 2: to come quickly. There was a dead body in Teal's pond. 87 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 2: The other boys came running, but they pulled up to 88 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: a stop next to Lawrence when they saw the body 89 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 2: face down, arms outstretched as if reaching for them, Blonde 90 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 2: hair floating on the surface around the head, like the 91 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 2: tentacles of a jellyfish. Black crescent shaped combs studded with 92 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 2: rhinestones tangled in the strands. The slow lap of the 93 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 2: tide made it look like the body was breathing. Lawrence 94 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: asked the question. They were all thinking, should we haul 95 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 2: it in? None of them wanted to be the one 96 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 2: to do it, so one of the boys ran off 97 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: through the marsh to find an adult. He came back 98 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 2: with a local farmer who had seen something floating in 99 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 2: the pond the night before, but, just like Lawrence, at 100 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 2: first figured it was nothing. On their way back to 101 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 2: the body. They saw something else in the reeds, a 102 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 2: black straw with three ostrich plumes and two black kidskin 103 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 2: gloves pinned to its brim. The farmer fished the hat 104 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: out of the water. The milliner's mark, a sort of 105 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: signature by the hat maker, was torn out, but there 106 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: was a hat pin there a four leaf clover with 107 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: the letter H. The farmer and the boys waded into 108 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 2: the pond and dragged the body to the shore. It 109 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: was tough work. The body was weighed down by the 110 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: girl's elaborate dress soaked with pond water, and they stopped 111 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 2: to catch their breath before flipping her over. A few 112 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 2: of the boys went into town to fetch the authorities, 113 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: and they told everyone they saw along the way, and 114 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: by the time they got back with the town doctor, 115 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: a crowd was hovering around the pond, like the black 116 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: flies that had hovered around Lawrence when he was asleep. 117 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 2: They all wanted to see who exactly this dead girl was. Carefully, 118 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: the doctor rolled the body over. Her skin was black 119 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 2: and wrinkled. Her eyes and tongue bulged out from her 120 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: face and below her chin. A length of pink ribbon 121 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 2: was looped tightly around her neck. Her body was so 122 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 2: bloated from days in the water that the ribbon was 123 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 2: embedded into the girl's flesh. The doctor carefully cut the 124 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 2: ribbon free, knowing it didn't make any difference. It felt 125 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 2: like the kindest thing he could do. A boy watched 126 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: from the crowd. He knew who she was, knew it 127 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 2: even before they flipped the body over. He talked with 128 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: the girl wearing the very same dress about a stone's 129 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 2: throw from this very spot just five days earlier, but 130 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 2: the boy clammed up. The boy wasn't saying shit about 131 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: that now, and the body was taken to the nearest 132 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: funeral home. A team of doctors worked diligently to determine 133 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 2: the girl's identity and the cause of her death, and 134 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: none of them recognized her by sight alone, but that 135 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 2: could have been due to the state of her body. 136 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 2: She was in her early twenties, blonde, medium build. Her 137 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 2: eyes were clattered over but the ben blew. The fancy 138 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 2: dress and hat meant she had money to spend. She 139 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: wore no wedding ring. Beyond that, the only clues were 140 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: the H on the hatpin and the initials HIB scratched 141 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 2: into the back of a brooch. Her lungs were full 142 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 2: of air, thus the reason why her body was bobbing 143 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 2: on the surface of the pond, And there was no 144 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 2: water in her stomach, and that ruled out drowning. There 145 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: was a blood clot on her brain from a blow 146 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: to the back of her head. Was a blunt object, 147 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 2: a rock or a club. It hadn't been hard enough 148 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 2: to fracture her skull, but the doctor said it would 149 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 2: have been enough to kill her instantly. Then there were 150 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 2: the bulging eyes, and the tongue, and that pink ribbon 151 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 2: around her neck. The doctors argued in the cramp basement 152 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: of the funeral parlor. Some thought she'd been strangled. Others 153 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: weren't so sure. Each doctor shouted over the other, until 154 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: finally one voice silenced them all. It was a blow 155 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: to the head that killed her, same as it was 156 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: with Billy May. Billy May. That name had been on 157 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 2: all their minds, none of them wanted to speak it. 158 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 2: Three years earlier, Billy May Brown had washed up dead 159 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 2: in another lake a few towns over. She'd gone out 160 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 2: rowing with her boyfriend. She planned to tell him she 161 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 2: was pregnant, and when she did, he beat her to death. 162 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: With a tennis racket, then capsized their boat and swammed ashore. 163 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: Billy May's murder was still fresh in people's minds, which 164 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 2: meant people were going to ask, was this new dead 165 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: girl pregnant? Was Billy May's story playing out all over again. 166 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: The doctors didn't check to see if this girl was 167 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 2: with child. If they did, they never said. There was 168 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 2: no evidence in the police reports of a pregnancy or 169 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 2: of a sexual assault. The determination that the girl had 170 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: died of foul play meant that the DA's office was 171 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 2: going to get involved. The District Attorney himself looked like 172 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 2: to each step right out of a Western tall, dark 173 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 2: and handsome, a rare Irish Catholic in New York's mostly 174 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: Protestant Republican party. The DA was no for his toughness 175 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 2: on crime as well as his party loyalty. He put 176 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: out notices in the local papers about the girl's body. 177 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 2: Two days later, no one had come forward, so the 178 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: funeral director prepared to bury her in a pauper's grave. 179 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: Then the doorbell of the funeral home rang. The funeral 180 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: director opened it. A man stood in the doorway. The 181 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 2: man spoke, in a shaky voice. He'd heard about the 182 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: body found and teals pond in that fancy dress with 183 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: a black straw hat and ostrich plumes. Based on the description, 184 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 2: it sounded like someone he knew, his daughter, Hazel Irene Drew. 185 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: The funeral director thought of the hat pin with the 186 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 2: letter H and then the brooch with the initials HID 187 00:11:46,120 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 2: carved into the metal of the backing Hid. Hazel Irene Drew. 188 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: Angelo Bado Lamente sat at an old Fender Rhodes piano. 189 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: David Lynch sat next to him. A cassette recorder sat 190 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 2: quietly on top of the keyboard. It was nineteen eighty 191 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: eight and Lynch was assembling the project that would become 192 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 2: television's Twin Peaks. It was a huge risk for the director. 193 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: The arthouse Au tour behind such underground classics as Blue 194 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 2: Velvet in eraser Head. This was long before the Sopranos 195 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 2: and long before what's called prestige television. Back then, talent 196 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: like David Lynch did not work in television. Television was 197 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: considered by some to be trash. But David Lynch was 198 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 2: a visionary, and he was currently trying to envision television 199 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 2: as art. His starting point was the story his co 200 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: creator Mark Frost, had told him about local history from 201 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 2: the town in upstate New York where Frost grew up. 202 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 2: It happened eighty years earlier a beautiful blonde girl was 203 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 2: found murdered floating in a pond in the woods. Lynch 204 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: was using that story as inspiration as Angelo Bado Lamenti 205 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: worked on an evocative composition by his side. Okay, David, 206 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: Angelo said, what do you see now? David Lynch closed 207 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: his eyes. He was there in the woods, in the dark. 208 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: A soft wind blew through the pines. On the keyboard, 209 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: Angelo slowly alternated between an A flat and C minor. 210 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: The base was slow, like the lapping of the pond 211 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 2: water against the shore, the breath like movement of a 212 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: body floating on the surface. That's good, David Lynch said, 213 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: not from behind a tree, as a very lonely girl. 214 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 2: And the music rose. It came out of the dark 215 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 2: and drifted to the shore, and then it built to 216 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: something bright but sad, a ghost glowing in the dark woods. 217 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 2: It was so beautiful, the vision, the music, that it 218 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: broke David Lynch's heart. Then it all fell back, sinking 219 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: into the darkness, until there was only the low pulse 220 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 2: of the waves on the shore, and David Lynch jumped 221 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 2: up and hugged his composer. That's it, he said, that's 222 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks. In the spring of nineteen oh eight, Hazel 223 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 2: Drew and a group of her friends went to see 224 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 2: a fortune teller. Spiritualism and seances were all the rage, 225 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: and some of the girls were true believers, but Hazel 226 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 2: thought that it was all just bolt. Look at this 227 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 2: guy with his chintzy turban and flowing robes, telling each 228 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 2: girl a version of the same story. A tall dark 229 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 2: man will come into your life, and a handsome blonde 230 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: stranger will sweep you off of your feet. The death 231 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: of a distant, forgotten aunt will bring you sudden riches. 232 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 2: But when the fortune teller got to Hazel and started 233 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: at her palm, his face went pale. He paused for 234 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 2: a moment, and then he spoke, you'll be dead before 235 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: the end of the year. Hazel Drew, who will be 236 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 2: transfigured by David Lynch's imagination eight decades later into the 237 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 2: character of Laura Palmer, first seen wrapped in plastic when 238 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks was broadcast into twenty million homes. It was 239 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: a poor country girl whose family lived in the woods 240 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: near Teal's pond. She moved out of her family's cabin 241 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: when she was young and took a job working as 242 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 2: a domestic servant in the city of Troy. Troy was 243 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: a town of metal refineries and textile mills, only a 244 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 2: short train ride from the state capitol in Albany, in 245 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: a few hours from New York City. In nineteen oh eight, 246 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 2: Troy was one of the richest cities in the US. 247 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 2: Hazel's first job was in the house of the city's 248 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 2: first treasurer, who happened to be a major player in 249 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 2: the local Republican party. He was married with two kids. 250 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: Hazel was only sixteen when she began working for him. 251 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: Hazel continued to work for the treasurer until ten grand 252 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,119 Speaker 2: went missing from the city's coffers and he became embroiled 253 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: in a scandal. They pinned it on his deputy, but 254 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 2: he still resigned in disgrace. It was at this time 255 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 2: that Hazel resigned her post in his house, and she 256 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: never gave a reason. Next, she took a job in 257 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 2: the home of a coal merchant who happened to be 258 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 2: another powerful local Republican. On her first Christmas. In the 259 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: new house, Hazel complained she wasn't feeling well. She decided 260 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: to go stay at her uncle's cabin in the woods 261 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 2: by Teal's Pond. She'd been there for two weeks when 262 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 2: an envelope full of cash arrived from her coal merchant employer, 263 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 2: along with the notes saying that she'd been replaced. She 264 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 2: came back to Troy and took a job in the 265 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 2: home of a third prominent Republican, a professor at the 266 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 2: local college who was also the city engineer. He was 267 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: accused in the press by overstaffing the city's engineering department 268 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 2: with incompetent cronies Shocker pulling ridiculous salaries, but the district 269 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 2: attorney never got around to investigating. Hazel Drew left her 270 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 2: position there without warning, without reason, on the morning of 271 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 2: July sixth, nineteen oh eight, and that was just days 272 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: before her body was found. When she left that final house, 273 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 2: Hazel packed her suitcase with all of her things and 274 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: dropped it in a locker at the train station. The 275 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 2: next night, the local boy who was in the crowd 276 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,719 Speaker 2: that gathered around the discovery of Hazel's body, the one 277 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 2: who recognized her about the dress alone ran into Hazel 278 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 2: as she walked in the tall grass near Teal's pond. 279 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: This was the encounter that he didn't say shit about. 280 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 2: He thought her dress was just about the prettiest thing 281 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 2: he'd ever seen. He couldn't forget it now he knew 282 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: a boy like him never stood a chance with a 283 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 2: girl like her. And it was later in the evening 284 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: when a man who ran the hotel at the edge 285 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 2: of town saw a car driving up the hill towards 286 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: Teal's pond. He could see a man in the driver's 287 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 2: seat and a girl in the passenger seat. Well, when 288 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 2: the same car came back down the hill, this time 289 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 2: there was no girl, just the guy behind the wheel. 290 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 2: Three days later, Hazel Drew's body was found floating in 291 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 2: Teal's pond. Think about this for a moment. Here's a 292 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 2: dead girl, one who had worked in the homes of 293 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 2: not one, but three major players in the town's local 294 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: Republican party, all of them married men, and at least 295 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 2: two of whom were involved in some sort of scandal. 296 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 2: She made four dollars and fifty cents a week. That's 297 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty dollars today, and her employers 298 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 2: and friends said she was quiet and demure. She was 299 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: a church goer who had admirers, but she had no boyfriend. 300 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 2: Hazel Drew was a good girl, but Hazel was also 301 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 2: a girl who wore the finest clothes and took regular 302 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: train trips to New York City to pick them out. 303 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 2: Witnesses had seen her on the train with different men, 304 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 2: or meeting different men at the station, or even double 305 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 2: dating with friends in one of the touristy lake towns nearby. 306 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 2: As the DA and his investigators dug deeper, there seemed 307 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 2: to be two Hazel Drews, the prim church girl, and 308 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 2: then another girl who was living it up, way beyond 309 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: her means. The money was coming from somewhere, and it 310 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: wasn't from the four dollars and fifty cents a week 311 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: she was making over the table. Maybe Hazel had a 312 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 2: boyfriend she hadn't told anyone about, one from a rich family. Maybe, 313 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 2: like Billy may Brown, Hazel had been killed by someone 314 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 2: she loved, murdered in a rage. Maybe she'd been romantically 315 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 2: involved with one of her married employers. The DA noted 316 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 2: that Hazel's sudden illness and weeks of recovery looked an 317 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 2: awful lot, like a girl trying to get rid of 318 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: an unwonted pregnancy. What if the envelope of cash that 319 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 2: showed up from her boss was in severance pay, but 320 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 2: the first installment of hush money, or maybe that envelope 321 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 2: came from Mam Fay, the madam of a half dozen 322 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 2: row house brothels and Troy's booming red light district. MAM's 323 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 2: house just happened to be next to the police station. 324 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 2: Cops came in regularly to check on things, but they 325 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: rarely made an arrest, and they always left happy. MAM's 326 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 2: house was a few blocks from the home of Hazel's 327 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 2: second employer and right behind the campus where her third 328 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 2: employer taught. Ma'am Fay was always looking for new recruits. 329 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 2: Girls in that line of work made piles of money 330 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 2: quick that they burned out just as fast. A full 331 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 2: timer in one of MAM's houses might have one hundred 332 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 2: and fifty clients in one week. But not all the 333 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 2: girls were full time. Some kept their day jobs and 334 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 2: turned tricks at night for extra cash, cash to buy 335 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: fancy clothes, cash to catch the train to New York 336 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 2: for a blowout weekend. But there was another theory, one 337 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 2: that connected Hazel's extra income to the woods near where 338 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 2: she'd been murdered, because Hazel Drew wasn't the first pretty 339 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 2: young working girl in Troy to go missing. We'll be 340 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 2: right back after this. 341 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 3: We're We're, We're. 342 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 2: Minnie Clifford woke up with a start. Deep in the wood, 343 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 2: she could hear someone screaming. Her husband kept on snoring 344 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 2: next door. Minnie slipped out of bed and went to 345 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 2: the window. A fingernail moon lit the pines. Their little 346 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 2: cabin was tucked away in the woods by Sam Lake, 347 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 2: a few miles from Teal's Pond. It was quiet, and 348 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 2: Minnie told herself that that's the way she liked it. 349 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: She told herself she didn't miss the noise and bustle 350 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 2: of the city. The scream came again, and from where 351 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: she stood, Minnie couldn't tell if it was a good 352 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 2: scream or a bad scream. She knew a thing or 353 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 2: two good screams. Back in her city days. She had 354 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 2: been one of ma'm Fay's girls, only for a few months, 355 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: just to scrape some cash together. Ma'am used to tell 356 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: the girls to put a little life into it. Some 357 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 2: nights the whole house would swell with screams as the 358 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 2: girls tried to outdo one another with their performances. But 359 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: this scream coming from the woods didn't sound like that 360 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 2: kind of scream. This scream didn't make many nostalgic. It 361 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 2: made her think of the men who thought their money 362 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 2: bought them the right to rough her up, of the 363 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 2: girls who never came back from their last client of 364 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: the night, or didn't show up the next day. When 365 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 2: that happened, Minnie told herself that the girl must have 366 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: left town. She must have taken her money and bought 367 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: a little cabin off in the woods, someplace quiet. Minnie 368 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 2: told herself that, but she never believed it. A chill 369 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 2: ran down her back, and she listened a minute longer, 370 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: nothing but owls and crickets and frogs on the pond. 371 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 2: And many climbed back into bed, but it would be 372 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 2: a long long time before she fell back to sleep. 373 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 2: A few miles from the spot where Hazel Drew's body 374 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 2: had been found, there was a private resort camp called 375 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 2: the Alps. It was owned by two brothers, furniture dealers 376 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: in Albany, who were big in the state Republican party 377 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 2: and well connected in Troy. As a rule, what happened 378 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 2: at the Alps stayed at the Alps. It was a 379 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 2: frequent summer locale for Troy's richest and most politically powerful, 380 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: so many rumors of the goings on there got quieted 381 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: down real fast. In fact, after Minnie Clifford told police 382 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 2: about the scream she heard that night in her bedroom, 383 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 2: she quickly turned around and denied to the DA that 384 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 2: she'd said any such thing. But secrets were tough to 385 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 2: keep in Troy. People talked. They talked about wild sex 386 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 2: parties at the Alps, local businessmen and politicians, and plenty 387 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: of available girls. Some of those girls on loan from 388 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 2: man Fay, some recruited from the factories, girls who wouldn't 389 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 2: have sex for money, but might be whined and dined 390 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 2: into a compromising position. And deep in the woods at 391 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: the Alps, there was no one to hear them protest, 392 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: no one to hear them scream. When conversation turned to 393 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: the orgies at the Alps had also turned to another 394 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: dead girl whose murder had gone on saulved seven years before. 395 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: Like Hazel Drew, Mammy Killian was a pretty girl who 396 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 2: found her way from the country to the bustle of Troy. 397 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: She worked in the factories and drew the attention of 398 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: several men above her station, and like Hazel, Mammy was 399 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 2: found dead floating in the Hudson, a blow to the 400 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 2: back of her head and a ribbon wrapped around her 401 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 2: neck so tightly that by the time her water bloated 402 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 2: corpse was found, it was embedded into her flesh. The 403 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 2: medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but the press had 404 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 2: questions about how a girl managed to kill herself by 405 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 2: a blow to the back of her own head and 406 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 2: violence strangulation. The medical examiner shrugged it off. The police 407 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 2: didn't bother to investigate. A local brewer, who happened to 408 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: be Troy's former mayor and a former United States senator, 409 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 2: anonymously offered a massive reward for information leading to the 410 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 2: discovery of Mamy's killer. The brewer ran the Democratic machine 411 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 2: in New York, which was just as corrupt as its 412 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: Republican counterpart. The information that got dug up in pursuit 413 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 2: of his reward money linked Mammy with several major players 414 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 2: in the Republican party. Story surfaced about rich Troy residents 415 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 2: wooing girls with trips to Albany, wine soaked boondoggles that 416 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 2: ended in the state capitol's red light district. There were 417 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 2: also reports of factory girls being offered joy rides and 418 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: automobiles and luxury coaches and then taken out to the Alps. 419 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 2: Mammy Killian, they suggested, was an innocent girl caught up 420 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: in the local republican's web of sexual perversion, and when 421 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 2: she tried to defend her honor against some unidentified predator, 422 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 2: she was killed. Evidence, rumor and hearsay mounted. The citizens 423 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 2: of Troy, riled up by the sensational press, demanded the 424 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 2: police investigate further, but the medical examiner's ruling of suicides stood. 425 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 2: Witnesses recanted their testimony or outright disappeared. After a few weeks, 426 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 2: the case was closed. And who let the case close 427 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 2: The same lawman who was now letting the Hazel Drew 428 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: case flounder without a suspect. Maybe the DA didn't want 429 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 2: a suspect. Maybe that's why he tried to hush up 430 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 2: the witness who saw the car speeding toward Teal's pond 431 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: and that of Hazel Drew's murder. He told the press 432 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 2: that the driver had been identified but refused to give 433 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 2: them a name. What was the da covering up? And 434 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 2: why did it seem like Hazel Drew a girl who 435 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 2: was either lily white and innocent, as her parents and 436 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 2: friends claimed, or a girl with a bad reputation as 437 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 2: some of the newspapers were starting to hint at. Why 438 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 2: did it seem she was connected to half of Troy's 439 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: prominent Republicans? Just who left Hazel drew dead in Teal's pond. 440 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 2: It washed up on the river's edge near the Blue 441 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: Pine Lodge, wrapped up in a large sheet of plastic. 442 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: Pete Martel was the first resident of Twin Peaks to 443 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 2: discover it. He was walking by on his way to 444 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 2: go fishing when he stopped dead in his tracks. He 445 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 2: got closer. The plastic was a little opaque, but he 446 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 2: soon managed to figure out what was inside. It was 447 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 2: a body, a girl's body. Pete called Sheriff Truman, who 448 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 2: arrived at the scene with his deputy in the town doctor. 449 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 2: They unwrapped the plastic, a body as gray as the 450 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest sky lips, blue skin, water logged and peppered 451 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 2: with sand. They knew immediately who the seventeen year old 452 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 2: girl was everyone in Twin Peaks Knewer Sheriff Truman, the deputy, 453 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 2: the town doctor, Pete Martel. They all just stood there, 454 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 2: choking back tears and thinking the same thing. Who killed 455 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 2: Laura Palmer? That was the central question of David Lynch's 456 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: groundbreaking TV show, Twin Peaks. Television's first ever au tour 457 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 2: driven series, Twin Peaks combined elements of soap opera, young 458 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: and dream analysis, slapstick comedy, and horror, wrapped them all 459 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: around a murder mystery that boiled down to that one question. 460 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 2: That question was also the line used by ABC's marketing 461 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 2: team to generate buzz for the show, which became an 462 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 2: unlikely hit when it debuted in April of nineteen ninety. 463 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 2: But David Lynch wasn't interested in answering that particular question. 464 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: He didn't really care so much about solving Laura Palmer's 465 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 2: murder as much as he did telling the stories around 466 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 2: the murder. To Lynch, it was all about the mystery, 467 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 2: not just of Laura Palmer's fate, but of the entire 468 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 2: town of Twin Peaks, the waitresses, the truckers, the bad 469 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 2: boys and the good girls, and the federal agents. With 470 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: their insatiable hunger for coffee and pie, the strange woman 471 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 2: who kept a log for a pet, and the bizarre 472 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 2: man who talked backwards. That's what Twin Peaks was about, 473 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 2: the things that couldn't be easily explained, the secrets that 474 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: people kept. But ABC didn't want a show built on secrets. 475 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: They wanted the truth, which David Lynch knew always gets 476 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: in the way of a good story. Hazel Drew had 477 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,719 Speaker 2: a secret, and she wanted to find out what it 478 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: was worth. She knew it was worth something to the 479 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 2: right people. There were those two brothers, the Albany furniture 480 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: dealers who owned the resort in the woods known to 481 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: locals as the Alps. They would have an interest in 482 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 2: keeping rumors about wild orgies and missing girls quiet. They 483 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 2: were the Democratic politicians eager to get dirt on one 484 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 2: of Hazel's former employers, all of them prominent political rivals. 485 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 2: And then there were the Republicans who might pay to 486 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 2: have that same secret hushed up. On the day before 487 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 2: she was murdered, Hazel Drew took the train from Troy 488 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 2: to Albany, a rat's nest of political corruption. Half an 489 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 2: hour later, she turned around and came back. Later that afternoon, 490 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: a phone rang in a bar in South Troy. The 491 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 2: bartender picked up. He was more than a bartender. He 492 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: was also a low level operative for the Republicans, kind 493 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 2: of guy who might visit several ballot boxes on election day. 494 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: He nodded as the voice on the other end spoke. 495 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 2: He didn't say much. He hung up and called the 496 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 2: local livery. Hazel was walking the streets of Troy, feeling 497 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 2: sure of herself. No more domestic work in her future. 498 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 2: Her things were waiting for her in a locker at 499 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: the train station. She was getting out, the bartender pulled 500 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,239 Speaker 2: up alongside her in his rented car. He asked if 501 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 2: she wanted to go for a ride. Hazel loved riding 502 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: in cars. She loved being in motion on trains, on trolley's, 503 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: on ferries, and she knew the bartender from the bar 504 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 2: and around the neighborhood. Why the hell not, she figured 505 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 2: one last ride through the woods, one last lap around 506 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 2: Teal's pond. The bartender was chatty. He wasn't the kind 507 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 2: of man Hazel had to be afraid of. He wasn't 508 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 2: powerful like the men who lured girls like her off 509 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 2: into the woods and made them disappear. He was a 510 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: boy from the neighborhood, splurging on a nice ride for 511 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 2: a night out. But by the time they got to 512 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 2: Teals Pond, something had changed. Maybe it was the nervous edge, 513 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 2: maybe it was being back here in the woods where 514 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 2: she'd grown up. The bartender was headed towards dive bar 515 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 2: frequented by lumberjacks and roughnecks who lived outside of town. 516 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 2: Hazel asked if she could be let off here by 517 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 2: the pond. The bartender agreed and said he'd pick her 518 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: up on his way back into town. Hazel drifted along 519 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 2: the edge of the bank as the sun began to set. 520 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 2: The few carriages that passed by thought they saw not 521 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 2: a girl but her ghost, picking berries and letting her 522 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 2: hand trail along the tops of the tall grass. She 523 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 2: was saying goodbye to all this. She was ready for 524 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: her next life. She didn't hear the car as it 525 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: came back and parked nearby. She didn't hear the sounds 526 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 2: of the bartender trudging across the marsh and his nice 527 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 2: shoes coming to carry out the order from Albany to silence. 528 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 2: Hazel drew for good. Hazel instead listened to the critics. 529 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 2: The owls started to wake as darkness set in. She 530 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 2: watched the last sliver of the sun disappear into the trees, 531 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 2: right as the clubs struck the back of her head. 532 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 2: When her body was found days later, the DA didn't 533 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 2: want it to look like they weren't bothering to investigate. 534 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 2: But he'd also gotten word, and it was loud and clear, 535 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 2: don't investigate too deeply and keep your hands off the bartender. 536 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 2: In August nineteen oh eight, after one month, the DA 537 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: declared the case closed. The murder of Hazel Drew was 538 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 2: written off as unsolvable. For the rest of the century, 539 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 2: people passing by Teal's pond at dusk might see the 540 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 2: ghost of a girl picking berries, trailing her hand along 541 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 2: the tops of the tall grass. Her story was whispered 542 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 2: around one hundred campfires, and it famously inspired David Lynch's 543 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 2: dark vision of a dead girl wrapped in plastic. But 544 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 2: before there was the story of Laura Palmer, there was 545 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 2: the story of Hazel Drew, a story that ought to 546 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 2: be in pictures. 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