1 00:00:01,980 --> 00:00:04,479 Speaker 1: Hello again to everyone out there in Hollywood land and 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: welcome once again, as we dip into our archive of 3 00:00:07,060 --> 00:00:10,940 Speaker 1: stories from the intersection of Hollywood and true crime. This week, 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,220 Speaker 1: we're bringing you our episode on David Lynch. Lynch or 5 00:00:15,260 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: the larger so-called Lynchian concept has always been synonymous with 6 00:00:19,820 --> 00:00:22,510 Speaker 1: weird as in, did you see that movie? It was 7 00:00:22,650 --> 00:00:25,890 Speaker 1: so Lynchian. I didn't get it. As in that movie 8 00:00:25,930 --> 00:00:29,190 Speaker 1: was like my dreams. It was often strange, often wonderful, 9 00:00:29,270 --> 00:00:32,370 Speaker 1: and always a bit hard to understand. But David Lynch 10 00:00:32,390 --> 00:00:35,590 Speaker 1: gave us more than weirdness. He gave us a reimagining 11 00:00:35,690 --> 00:00:39,150 Speaker 1: of the murder mystery crime show with Twin Peaks after 12 00:00:39,670 --> 00:00:42,250 Speaker 1: he already gave us a reimagining of the small town 13 00:00:42,330 --> 00:00:45,220 Speaker 1: crime film with Blue Velvet. And speaking of Twin Peaks, 14 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:48,740 Speaker 1: as dreamlike and nightmarish as that show could be, it 15 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: was also deeply rooted in reality. It was based on 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,300 Speaker 1: a nearly 80-year-old unsolved case involving a young girl whose 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,270 Speaker 1: body was found floating in a pond in New York State. 18 00:00:59,170 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: Like that case, it was always Lynch's intention that the 19 00:01:02,220 --> 00:01:05,410 Speaker 1: case of Laura Palmer and Twin Peaks go unsolved. Because 20 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,490 Speaker 1: solving a murder, ending a story, closing the book on 21 00:01:08,530 --> 00:01:12,149 Speaker 1: a mystery, that was not David Lynch's bag. The mystery 22 00:01:12,430 --> 00:01:15,209 Speaker 1: was the thing. And so David Lynch gave us all 23 00:01:15,270 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: permission to not know. He gave us permission to not 24 00:01:18,580 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: understand everything and thus set us all free. I'll talk 25 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:25,740 Speaker 1: more about all of that here in the Hollywoodland feed 26 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:28,060 Speaker 1: on Wednesday in a new episode of The Rap Party. 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,140 Speaker 1: And then on Friday in the screening room, I'll do 28 00:01:30,170 --> 00:01:34,420 Speaker 1: a deep dive into David Lynch's 2001 feature film Mulholland Drive. 29 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,540 Speaker 1: But right now, please enjoy our episode about the brilliant 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,660 Speaker 1: David Lynch and the real-life cold case that inspired his 31 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: groundbreaking show. 32 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,250 Speaker 2: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 33 00:01:46,790 --> 00:01:51,470 Speaker 2: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywoodland is 34 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:52,850 Speaker 2: a production of Double Elvis. 35 00:01:59,860 --> 00:02:07,190 Speaker 3: A happy, bright, and gay were planning for their Christmas 36 00:02:07,990 --> 00:02:17,410 Speaker 3: not very far away. They had a little daughter, a 37 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 3: sweet and goodly child, and all the folks a-beautiful, a 38 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,100 Speaker 3: merry and sparkly smile. 39 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,950 Speaker 2: The stories about David Lynch are, actually, they're quite normal. 40 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:38,630 Speaker 2: Almost bizarrely normal. Especially for a dude who's made some 41 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:42,090 Speaker 2: of the most psychologically haunting films and television shows of 42 00:02:42,150 --> 00:02:46,190 Speaker 2: all time. But the stories that inspired some of David 43 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:52,380 Speaker 2: Lynch's work, those are insane. Like the 1908 crime that 44 00:02:52,419 --> 00:02:56,460 Speaker 2: was the basis for his revolutionary television show, Twin Peaks. 45 00:02:57,430 --> 00:02:59,970 Speaker 2: That crime involved a brutal murder of a girl in 46 00:02:59,990 --> 00:03:04,790 Speaker 2: a small town. A seemingly idyllic town that, beneath its surface, 47 00:03:04,910 --> 00:03:10,290 Speaker 2: was full of prostitution, orgies, deceit, and corruption. And it 48 00:03:10,310 --> 00:03:13,900 Speaker 2: was all fueled by a political machine so powerful it 49 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 2: could cover up not one, but multiple murders. The story 50 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: of Hazel Drew inspired David Lynch to make great television. 51 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 2: Unlike that clip I played for you at the top 52 00:03:25,940 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: of the show, That wasn't great television. That was a 53 00:03:29,540 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: fair use sample from the Library of Congress of Alan 54 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,910 Speaker 2: Pope performing Murder of Marion Parker in 1938. I played 55 00:03:37,950 --> 00:03:40,610 Speaker 2: you that clip because I can't afford the rights to 56 00:03:40,670 --> 00:03:44,850 Speaker 2: Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And why would I 57 00:03:44,910 --> 00:03:49,250 Speaker 2: play you that specific slice of radioactive reptile cheese? Could 58 00:03:49,290 --> 00:03:53,170 Speaker 2: I afford it? Because that was the number one movie 59 00:03:53,190 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: in America on April 8th, 1990. And that was the 60 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: day that Twin Peaks made its television debut. A show 61 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: about an unsolvable murder inspired by an actual murder that 62 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: was intended to remain a secret. On this episode, a 63 00:04:09,220 --> 00:04:15,650 Speaker 2: dead girl, prostitution, political conspiracies, unsolvable mysteries, and the secret 64 00:04:15,850 --> 00:04:21,229 Speaker 2: origin of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. I'm Jake Brennan, and 65 00:04:21,370 --> 00:05:04,029 Speaker 2: this is Hollywoodland. Lawrence Gruber woke up to the summer 66 00:05:04,089 --> 00:05:06,650 Speaker 2: sun in his face and a cloud of flies buzzing 67 00:05:06,690 --> 00:05:11,470 Speaker 2: around his head. The rest of his friends were still asleep. Weekends, 68 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:15,450 Speaker 2: every summer, they came out to this spot. Teal's Pond, 69 00:05:16,010 --> 00:05:19,220 Speaker 2: a mile from Troy, New York. And they drank and 70 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,780 Speaker 2: they fished and they shot the shit. Being a teenage 71 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 2: boy in 1908, it wasn't all that different from what 72 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 2: it is now. Lawrence tossed the blankets aside and took 73 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,900 Speaker 2: a piss behind a tree. He wandered back to the 74 00:05:31,940 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: campsite and assessed their supplies. Nothing for lunch. Someone was 75 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: going to have to go back into town. His friends 76 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,740 Speaker 2: were snoring. And Lawrence figured it might as well be him. 77 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 2: He got dressed and he set off on the long 78 00:05:44,230 --> 00:05:47,730 Speaker 2: walk along the edge of Teal's Pond. As he walked, 79 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:49,830 Speaker 2: he saw something floating. 80 00:05:49,529 --> 00:05:50,029 Speaker 3: In the marsh. 81 00:05:50,950 --> 00:05:53,510 Speaker 2: A dark lump he couldn't make out with the sun 82 00:05:53,610 --> 00:05:56,969 Speaker 2: glaring from behind it. He thought of the antics of 83 00:05:57,010 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 2: his friends the night before. How one of them had 84 00:05:59,540 --> 00:06:01,739 Speaker 2: torn off his shirt and whipped it into the pond 85 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 2: in a drunken frenzy. That was probably it. Just a shirt. 86 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:07,700 Speaker 2: Lawrence put it out of his head and made his 87 00:06:07,750 --> 00:06:11,409 Speaker 2: way into town. Later, as he was walking back, the 88 00:06:11,470 --> 00:06:15,510 Speaker 2: sun beat down from directly overhead. The object in the pond, 89 00:06:15,950 --> 00:06:18,510 Speaker 2: the thing he thought was a shirt, had floated into 90 00:06:18,550 --> 00:06:21,990 Speaker 2: the shallows, closer to the path he was on. He 91 00:06:22,029 --> 00:06:24,990 Speaker 2: could see it clearly from where he stood. It looked 92 00:06:25,050 --> 00:06:27,850 Speaker 2: bigger than just a shirt now. He got closer to 93 00:06:27,870 --> 00:06:32,020 Speaker 2: the shoreline. Then his eyes went wide. He screamed out 94 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: loud for his friends to come quickly. There was a 95 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,950 Speaker 2: dead body in Teal's Pond. The other boys came running, 96 00:06:40,010 --> 00:06:42,310 Speaker 2: but they pulled up to a stop next to Lawrence 97 00:06:42,370 --> 00:06:46,010 Speaker 2: when they saw the body. Face down, arms outstretched as 98 00:06:46,089 --> 00:06:49,130 Speaker 2: if reaching for them. Blonde hair floating on the surface 99 00:06:49,190 --> 00:06:52,690 Speaker 2: around the head like the tentacles of a jellyfish. Black 100 00:06:52,790 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: crescent-shaped combs studded with rhinestones tangled in the strands. The 101 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 2: slow lap of the tide made it look like the 102 00:07:00,380 --> 00:07:04,740 Speaker 2: body was breathing. Lawrence asked the question they were all thinking. 103 00:07:05,740 --> 00:07:08,620 Speaker 2: Should we haul it in? None of them wanted to 104 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:10,580 Speaker 2: be the one to do it. So one of the 105 00:07:10,620 --> 00:07:12,780 Speaker 2: boys ran off through the marsh to find an adult. 106 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: He came back with a local farmer, who had seen 107 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 2: something floating in the pond the night before, but, just 108 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,980 Speaker 2: like Lawrence at first, figured it was nothing. On their 109 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,660 Speaker 2: way back to the body, they saw something else in 110 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: the reeds. a black straw hat with three ostrich plumes 111 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,500 Speaker 2: and two black kidskin gloves pinned to its brim. The 112 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 2: farmer fished the hat out of the water. The milliner's mark, 113 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,700 Speaker 2: a sort of signature by the hat maker, was torn out, 114 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,619 Speaker 2: but there was a hat pinned there, a four-leaf clover 115 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 2: with the letter H. The farmer and the boys waded 116 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:47,860 Speaker 2: into the pond and dragged the body to the shore. 117 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: It was tough work. The body was weighed down by 118 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: the girl's elaborate dress soaked with pond water. and they 119 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,820 Speaker 2: stopped to catch their breath before flipping her over. A 120 00:07:57,860 --> 00:08:00,460 Speaker 2: few of the boys went into town to fetch the authorities. 121 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: They told everyone they saw along the way. By the 122 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: time they got back with the town doctor, a crowd 123 00:08:06,690 --> 00:08:09,110 Speaker 2: was hovering around the pond like the black flies that 124 00:08:09,130 --> 00:08:12,170 Speaker 2: had hovered around Lawrence when he was asleep. They all 125 00:08:12,210 --> 00:08:17,210 Speaker 2: wanted to see who exactly this dead girl was. Carefully, 126 00:08:17,290 --> 00:08:20,690 Speaker 2: the doctor rolled the body over. Her skin was black 127 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: and wrinkled. Her eyes and tongue bulged out from her face, 128 00:08:24,870 --> 00:08:27,510 Speaker 2: And below her chin, a length of pink ribbon was 129 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:31,070 Speaker 2: looped tightly around her neck. Her body was so bloated 130 00:08:31,130 --> 00:08:33,990 Speaker 2: from days in the water that the ribbon was embedded 131 00:08:34,030 --> 00:08:38,979 Speaker 2: into the girl's flesh. The doctor carefully cut the ribbon free, 132 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,339 Speaker 2: knowing it didn't make any difference. It felt like the 133 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 2: kindest thing he could do. A boy watched from the crowd. 134 00:08:49,450 --> 00:08:51,990 Speaker 2: He knew who she was. Knew it even before they 135 00:08:52,030 --> 00:08:54,670 Speaker 2: flipped the body over. He'd talked with a girl wearing 136 00:08:54,710 --> 00:08:56,929 Speaker 2: the very same dress about a stone's throw from this 137 00:08:56,990 --> 00:09:00,420 Speaker 2: very spot just five days earlier. But the boy clammed up. 138 00:09:01,070 --> 00:09:04,170 Speaker 2: The boy wasn't saying shit about that now. The body 139 00:09:04,190 --> 00:09:06,550 Speaker 2: was taken to the nearest funeral home. A team of 140 00:09:06,610 --> 00:09:09,809 Speaker 2: doctors worked diligently to determine the girl's identity and the 141 00:09:09,870 --> 00:09:12,490 Speaker 2: cause of her death. And none of them recognized her 142 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:14,950 Speaker 2: by sight alone. But that could have been due to 143 00:09:14,990 --> 00:09:18,610 Speaker 2: the state of her body. She was in her early 20s. Blonde. 144 00:09:19,030 --> 00:09:22,610 Speaker 2: Medium build. Her eyes were clattered over but they'd been blue. 145 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:26,130 Speaker 2: The fancy dress and hat meant she had money to spend. 146 00:09:26,870 --> 00:09:30,610 Speaker 2: She wore no wedding ring. Beyond that, the only clues 147 00:09:30,630 --> 00:09:32,969 Speaker 2: were the H on the hat pin and the initials 148 00:09:33,390 --> 00:09:37,990 Speaker 2: H-I-B scratched into the back of a brooch. Her lungs 149 00:09:38,070 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 2: were full of air, thus the reason why her body 150 00:09:41,020 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 2: was bobbing on the surface of the pond. And there 151 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: was no water in her stomach and that ruled out drowning. 152 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,099 Speaker 2: There was a blood clot on her brain from a 153 00:09:49,140 --> 00:09:51,380 Speaker 2: blow to the back of her head with a blunt object, 154 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,569 Speaker 2: a rock or a club. It hadn't been hard enough 155 00:09:54,590 --> 00:09:57,070 Speaker 2: to fracture her skull, but the doctors said it would 156 00:09:57,090 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 2: have been enough to kill her instantly. 157 00:09:59,480 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: Then. 158 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,540 Speaker 2: There were the bulging eyes and the tongue and that 159 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 2: pink ribbon around her neck. The doctors argued in the 160 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: cramped basement of the funeral parlor. Some thought she'd been strangled. 161 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 2: Others weren't so sure. Each doctor shouted over the other 162 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:16,860 Speaker 2: until finally one voice silenced them all. It was a 163 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 2: blow to the head that killed her, same as it 164 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:25,310 Speaker 2: was with Billy May. Billy May. That name had been 165 00:10:25,330 --> 00:10:27,489 Speaker 2: on all their minds, but none of them wanted to 166 00:10:27,570 --> 00:10:31,829 Speaker 2: speak it. Three years earlier, Billy May Brown had washed 167 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:35,030 Speaker 2: up dead in another lake a few towns over. She'd 168 00:10:35,090 --> 00:10:37,910 Speaker 2: gone out rowing with her boyfriend. She planned to tell 169 00:10:37,970 --> 00:10:41,270 Speaker 2: him she was pregnant, and when she did, he beat 170 00:10:41,290 --> 00:10:44,270 Speaker 2: her to death with a tennis racket, then capsized their 171 00:10:44,340 --> 00:10:48,060 Speaker 2: boat and swam to shore. Billy May's murder was still 172 00:10:48,140 --> 00:10:51,179 Speaker 2: fresh in people's minds, which meant people were going to ask, 173 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,059 Speaker 2: Was this new dead girl pregnant? Was Billy Mays' story 174 00:10:55,140 --> 00:10:59,740 Speaker 2: playing out all over again? The doctors didn't check to 175 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:02,420 Speaker 2: see if this girl was with child. If they did, 176 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 2: they never said. There was no evidence in the police 177 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: reports of a pregnancy or of a sexual assault. The 178 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,730 Speaker 2: determination that the girl had died of foul play meant 179 00:11:11,750 --> 00:11:15,010 Speaker 2: that the DA's office was going to get involved. The 180 00:11:15,050 --> 00:11:17,849 Speaker 2: district attorney himself looked like he'd step right out of 181 00:11:17,890 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 2: a western. Tall, dark, and handsome. A rare Irish Catholic 182 00:11:22,780 --> 00:11:26,540 Speaker 2: in New York's mostly Protestant Republican Party, the DA was 183 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: known for his toughness on crime as well as his 184 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 2: party loyalty. He put out notices in the local papers 185 00:11:32,740 --> 00:11:36,100 Speaker 2: about the girl's body. Two days later, no one had 186 00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:39,940 Speaker 2: come forward. So the funeral director prepared to bury her 187 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,500 Speaker 2: in a pauper's grave. Then the doorbell of the funeral 188 00:11:43,540 --> 00:11:47,380 Speaker 2: home rang. The funeral director opened it. A man stood 189 00:11:47,420 --> 00:11:51,150 Speaker 2: in the doorway. The man spoke in a shaky voice. 190 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:54,510 Speaker 2: He'd heard about the body found in Teal's Pond in 191 00:11:54,550 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 2: that fancy dress with the black straw hat and ostrich plumes. 192 00:11:58,620 --> 00:12:01,820 Speaker 2: Based on the description, it sounded like someone he knew. 193 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:08,250 Speaker 2: His daughter, Hazel Irene Drew. The funeral director thought of 194 00:12:08,260 --> 00:12:10,570 Speaker 2: the hat pin with the letter H and then the 195 00:12:10,590 --> 00:12:13,910 Speaker 2: brooch with the initials HID carved into the metal of 196 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:51,830 Speaker 2: the backing. HID. Hazel Irene true. Angelo Badalamenti sat at 197 00:12:51,870 --> 00:12:55,500 Speaker 2: an old Fender Rhodes piano. David Lynch sat next to him. 198 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,100 Speaker 2: A cassette recorder sat quietly on top of the keyboard. 199 00:13:00,179 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 2: It was 1988, and Lynch was assembling the project that 200 00:13:04,020 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 2: would become television's Twin Peaks. It was a huge risk 201 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 2: for the director. The arthouse auteur behind such underground classics 202 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:17,420 Speaker 2: as Blue Velvet and Eraserhead. This was long before The 203 00:13:17,490 --> 00:13:22,250 Speaker 2: Sopranos and long before what's called prestige television. Back then, 204 00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:27,630 Speaker 2: talent like David Lynch did not work in television. Television 205 00:13:27,990 --> 00:13:32,110 Speaker 2: was considered by some to be trash. But David Lynch 206 00:13:32,450 --> 00:13:35,630 Speaker 2: was a visionary. And he was currently trying to envision 207 00:13:35,730 --> 00:13:40,250 Speaker 2: television as art. His starting point was a story his 208 00:13:40,330 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 2: co-creator Mark Frost had told him about. local history from 209 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,450 Speaker 2: the town in upstate New York where Frost grew up. 210 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,350 Speaker 2: It happened 80 years earlier. A beautiful blonde girl was 211 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,610 Speaker 2: found murdered floating in a pond in the woods. Lynch 212 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,410 Speaker 2: was using that story as inspiration as Angelo Badalamenti worked 213 00:13:57,490 --> 00:14:02,370 Speaker 2: on an evocative composition by his side. Okay, David, Angelo said. 214 00:14:02,850 --> 00:14:06,309 Speaker 2: What do you see now? David Lynch closed his eyes. 215 00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:10,990 Speaker 2: He was there, in the woods, in the dark. A 216 00:14:11,070 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 2: soft wind blew through the pines. On the keyboard, Angelo 217 00:14:15,820 --> 00:14:21,790 Speaker 2: slowly alternated between an A-flat and C-minor. The bass was slow, 218 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:25,170 Speaker 2: like the lapping of the pond water against the shore. 219 00:14:26,190 --> 00:14:29,830 Speaker 2: The breath-like movement of a body floating on the surface. 220 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:34,030 Speaker 2: That's good, David Lynch said. Now, from behind a tree 221 00:14:34,780 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 2: is a very lonely girl. And the music rose. It 222 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,780 Speaker 2: came out of the dark and drifted to the shore. 223 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: Then it built to something bright. but sad. A ghost 224 00:14:46,340 --> 00:14:50,359 Speaker 2: glowing in the dark woods. It was so beautiful, the vision, 225 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,250 Speaker 2: the music, that it broke David Lynch's heart. Then it 226 00:14:55,310 --> 00:14:58,030 Speaker 2: all fell back, sinking into the darkness until there was 227 00:14:58,090 --> 00:15:00,310 Speaker 2: only the low pulse of the waves on the shore. 228 00:15:01,530 --> 00:15:04,620 Speaker 2: David Lynch jumped up and hugged his composer. That's it, 229 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:16,820 Speaker 2: he said. That's Twin Peaks. In the spring of 1908, 230 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:18,859 Speaker 2: Hazel Drew and a group of her friends went to 231 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: see a fortune teller. Spiritualism and seances were all the rage, 232 00:15:23,180 --> 00:15:26,100 Speaker 2: and some of the girls were true believers. But Hazel 233 00:15:26,140 --> 00:15:28,500 Speaker 2: thought that it was all just bull. Look at this 234 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,700 Speaker 2: guy with his chintzy turban and flowing robes, telling each 235 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,070 Speaker 2: girl a version of the same story. A tall, dark 236 00:15:35,110 --> 00:15:37,270 Speaker 2: man will come into your life, and a handsome blonde 237 00:15:37,310 --> 00:15:40,070 Speaker 2: stranger will sweep you off of your feet. The death 238 00:15:40,110 --> 00:15:42,870 Speaker 2: of a distant, forgotten aunt will bring you sudden riches. 239 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 2: But when the fortune teller got to Hazel and started 240 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:50,620 Speaker 2: at her palm, his face went pale. He paused for 241 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,350 Speaker 2: a moment, and then he spoke. You'll be dead before 242 00:15:54,380 --> 00:15:59,190 Speaker 2: the end of the year. Hazel Drew, who would be 243 00:15:59,230 --> 00:16:02,870 Speaker 2: transfigured by David Lynch's imagination eight decades later into the 244 00:16:02,910 --> 00:16:06,450 Speaker 2: character of Laura Palmer, first seen wrapped in plastic when 245 00:16:06,490 --> 00:16:10,370 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks was broadcast into 20 million homes, was a 246 00:16:10,390 --> 00:16:13,050 Speaker 2: poor country girl whose family lived in the woods near 247 00:16:13,090 --> 00:16:16,510 Speaker 2: Teal's Pond She moved out of her family's cabin when 248 00:16:16,550 --> 00:16:18,630 Speaker 2: she was young and took a job working as a 249 00:16:18,670 --> 00:16:22,180 Speaker 2: domestic servant in the city of Troy. Troy was a 250 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:25,900 Speaker 2: town of metal refineries and textile mills. Only a short 251 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,660 Speaker 2: train ride from the state capital in Albany and a 252 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: few hours from New York City. In 1908, Troy was 253 00:16:33,020 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: one of the richest cities in the U.S. Hazel's first 254 00:16:36,740 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 2: job was in the house of the city's first treasurer, 255 00:16:39,340 --> 00:16:41,460 Speaker 2: who happened to be a major player in the local 256 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: Republican Party. He was married with two kids. Hazel was 257 00:16:45,380 --> 00:16:49,140 Speaker 2: only 16 when she began working for him. Hazel continued 258 00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:52,500 Speaker 2: to work for the treasurer until 10 grand went missing 259 00:16:52,570 --> 00:16:55,570 Speaker 2: from the city's coffers and he became embroiled in a scandal. 260 00:16:56,430 --> 00:16:59,090 Speaker 2: They pinned it on his deputy, but he still resigned 261 00:16:59,150 --> 00:17:02,830 Speaker 2: in disgrace. It was at this time that Hazel resigned 262 00:17:02,870 --> 00:17:06,930 Speaker 2: her post in his house and she never gave a reason. Next, 263 00:17:07,010 --> 00:17:08,550 Speaker 2: she took a job in the home of a coal 264 00:17:08,590 --> 00:17:12,470 Speaker 2: merchant who happened to be another powerful local Republican. On 265 00:17:12,510 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 2: her first Christmas in the new house, Hazel complained she 266 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 2: wasn't feeling well. She decided to go stay at her 267 00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: uncle's cabin in the woods by Teal's Pond. She'd been 268 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,619 Speaker 2: there for two weeks when an envelope full of cash 269 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 2: arrived from her coal merchant employer, along with a note 270 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,230 Speaker 2: saying that she'd been replaced. She came back to Troy 271 00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:31,810 Speaker 2: and took a job in the home of a third 272 00:17:31,869 --> 00:17:35,169 Speaker 2: prominent Republican, a professor at the local college who was 273 00:17:35,369 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 2: also the city engineer. He was accused in the press 274 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:43,070 Speaker 2: by overstaffing the city's engineering department with incompetent cronies, shocker, 275 00:17:43,330 --> 00:17:46,750 Speaker 2: pulling ridiculous salaries, but the district attorney never got around 276 00:17:46,790 --> 00:17:50,570 Speaker 2: to investigating. Hazel Drew left her position there without warning, 277 00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 2: without reason, on the morning of July 6, 1908. That 278 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 2: was just days before her body was found. When she 279 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 2: left that file house, Hazel packed her suitcase with all 280 00:18:02,660 --> 00:18:04,500 Speaker 2: of her things and dropped it in a locker at 281 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:07,470 Speaker 2: the train station. The next night, a local boy who 282 00:18:07,510 --> 00:18:09,470 Speaker 2: was in the crowd that gathered around the discovery of 283 00:18:09,530 --> 00:18:12,169 Speaker 2: Hazel's body, the one who recognized her by the dress alone, 284 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 2: ran into Hazel as she walked in the tall grass 285 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,860 Speaker 2: near Teal's Pond. This was the encounter that he didn't 286 00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 2: say shit about. He thought her dress was just about 287 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:23,490 Speaker 2: the prettiest thing he'd ever seen. He couldn't forget it. 288 00:18:24,220 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 2: Though he knew a boy like him never stood a 289 00:18:25,859 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 2: chance with a girl like her. And it was later 290 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 2: in the evening when a man who ran the hotel 291 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 2: at the edge of town saw a car driving up 292 00:18:32,859 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 2: the hill towards Teal's Pond. He could see a man 293 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: in the driver's seat and a girl in the passenger's seat. 294 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: When the same car came back down the hill, this 295 00:18:40,980 --> 00:18:43,340 Speaker 2: time there was no girl, just the guy behind the wheel. 296 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 2: Three days later, Hazel Drew's body was found floating in 297 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 2: Teal's Pond. Think about this for a moment. Here's a 298 00:18:51,510 --> 00:18:53,609 Speaker 2: dead girl, one who had worked in the homes of 299 00:18:53,650 --> 00:18:56,330 Speaker 2: not one but three major players in the town's local 300 00:18:56,369 --> 00:19:00,130 Speaker 2: Republican Party. All of them married men, and at least 301 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:02,350 Speaker 2: two of whom were involved in some sort of scandal. 302 00:19:02,869 --> 00:19:04,490 Speaker 2: She made $ 4. 303 00:19:04,390 --> 00:19:04,790 Speaker 3: 50 a week. 304 00:19:05,090 --> 00:19:08,649 Speaker 2: That's about $ 150 today. Her employers and friends said she 305 00:19:08,690 --> 00:19:12,530 Speaker 2: was quiet and demure. She was a churchgoer who had admirers, 306 00:19:12,630 --> 00:19:16,690 Speaker 2: but she had no boyfriend. Hazel Drew was a good girl. 307 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,820 Speaker 2: But Hazel was also a girl who wore the finest 308 00:19:20,930 --> 00:19:24,340 Speaker 2: clothes and took regular train trips to New York City 309 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: to pick them out. Witnesses had seen her on the 310 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 2: train with different men or meeting different men at the station. 311 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:33,460 Speaker 2: or even double dating with friends in one of the 312 00:19:33,510 --> 00:19:37,930 Speaker 2: touristy lake towns nearby. As the DA and his investigators 313 00:19:37,970 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 2: dug deeper, there seemed to be two Hazel Drews, the 314 00:19:41,940 --> 00:19:45,580 Speaker 2: prim church girl, and then another girl who was living 315 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:51,389 Speaker 2: it up way beyond her means. The money was coming 316 00:19:51,470 --> 00:19:55,060 Speaker 2: from somewhere, and it wasn't from the $ 4. 50 a week 317 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,020 Speaker 2: she was making over the table. Maybe Hazel had a 318 00:19:58,060 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: boyfriend she hadn't told anyone about, one from a rich family. Maybe, 319 00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:05,300 Speaker 2: like Billy Mae Brown, Hazel had been killed by someone 320 00:20:05,340 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 2: she loved, murdered in a rage. Maybe she'd been romantically 321 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,530 Speaker 2: involved with one of her married employers. The DA noted 322 00:20:12,570 --> 00:20:15,850 Speaker 2: that Hazel's sudden illness and weeks of recovery looked an 323 00:20:16,190 --> 00:20:18,190 Speaker 2: awful lot like a girl trying to get rid of 324 00:20:18,230 --> 00:20:21,830 Speaker 2: an unwanted pregnancy. What if the envelope of cash that 325 00:20:21,890 --> 00:20:24,790 Speaker 2: showed up from her boss wasn't severance pay, but the 326 00:20:24,830 --> 00:20:28,980 Speaker 2: first installment of hush money? Or maybe that envelope came 327 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: from Ma'am Faye, the madam of a half-dozen row house 328 00:20:32,780 --> 00:20:37,270 Speaker 2: brothels in Troy's booming red light district. Ma'am's house just 329 00:20:37,350 --> 00:20:40,210 Speaker 2: happened to be next to the police station. Cops came 330 00:20:40,250 --> 00:20:43,130 Speaker 2: in regularly to, you know, check on things, but they 331 00:20:43,190 --> 00:20:46,899 Speaker 2: rarely made an arrest, and they always left happy. Ma'am's 332 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:49,179 Speaker 2: house was a few blocks from the home of Hazel's 333 00:20:49,220 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 2: second employer, and right behind the campus where her third 334 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: employer taught. Ma'am Faye was always looking for new recruits. 335 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,590 Speaker 2: Girls in that line of work made piles of money quick, 336 00:21:01,130 --> 00:21:04,419 Speaker 2: but they burned out just as fast. A full-timer in 337 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:07,500 Speaker 2: one of ma'am's houses might have 150 clients in one week. 338 00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 2: But not all the girls were full-time. Some kept their 339 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,900 Speaker 2: day jobs and turned tricks at night for extra cash. 340 00:21:14,660 --> 00:21:18,030 Speaker 2: Cash to buy fancy clothes. Cash to catch the train 341 00:21:18,070 --> 00:21:21,209 Speaker 2: to New York for a blowout weekend. But there was 342 00:21:21,250 --> 00:21:25,189 Speaker 2: another theory. One that connected Hazel's extra income to the 343 00:21:25,230 --> 00:21:30,190 Speaker 2: woods near where she'd been murdered. Because Hazel Drew wasn't 344 00:21:30,230 --> 00:21:33,369 Speaker 2: the first pretty young working girl in Troy to go missing. 345 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word, word, word. Minnie 346 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,460 Speaker 2: Clifford woke up with a start. Deep in the woods, 347 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,139 Speaker 2: she could hear someone screaming. Her husband kept on snoring 348 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,710 Speaker 2: next to her. Minnie slipped out of bed and went 349 00:21:58,730 --> 00:22:02,630 Speaker 2: to the window. A fingernail moon lit the pines. Their 350 00:22:02,670 --> 00:22:05,290 Speaker 2: little cabin was tucked away in the woods by Sand Lake, 351 00:22:05,990 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 2: a few miles from Teal's Pond. It was quiet And 352 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,010 Speaker 2: Minnie told herself that that's the way she liked it. 353 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 2: She told herself she didn't miss the noise and bustle 354 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,110 Speaker 2: of the city. The scream came again. And from where 355 00:22:21,170 --> 00:22:23,570 Speaker 2: she stood, Minnie couldn't tell if it was a good 356 00:22:23,609 --> 00:22:26,510 Speaker 2: scream or a bad scream. She knew a thing or 357 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:30,070 Speaker 2: two about good screams. Back in her city days, she 358 00:22:30,090 --> 00:22:33,060 Speaker 2: had been one of Ma'am Faye's girls. Only for a 359 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 2: few months, just to scrape some cash together. Ma'am used 360 00:22:36,740 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 2: to tell the girls to put a little life into it. 361 00:22:39,790 --> 00:22:42,550 Speaker 2: Some nights, the whole house would swell with screams as 362 00:22:42,590 --> 00:22:45,270 Speaker 2: the girls tried to outdo one another with their performances. 363 00:22:46,830 --> 00:22:50,030 Speaker 2: But this scream, coming from the woods, didn't sound like 364 00:22:50,109 --> 00:22:54,170 Speaker 2: that kind of scream. This scream didn't make Minnie nostalgic. 365 00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:56,370 Speaker 2: It made her think of the men who thought their 366 00:22:56,390 --> 00:22:58,859 Speaker 2: money bought them the right to rough her up. Of 367 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,060 Speaker 2: the girls who never came back from their last client 368 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 2: of the night or didn't show up the next day. 369 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,020 Speaker 2: When that happened, Minnie told herself that the girl must 370 00:23:07,060 --> 00:23:09,510 Speaker 2: have left town. She must have taken her money and 371 00:23:09,550 --> 00:23:12,290 Speaker 2: bought a little cabin off in the woods someplace quiet. 372 00:23:13,350 --> 00:23:17,149 Speaker 2: Minnie told herself that, but she never believed it. A 373 00:23:17,190 --> 00:23:20,169 Speaker 2: chill ran down her back, and she listened a minute longer. 374 00:23:20,790 --> 00:23:23,350 Speaker 2: Nothing but owls and crickets and frogs on the pond. 375 00:23:24,270 --> 00:23:26,649 Speaker 2: Minnie climbed back into bed, but it would be a 376 00:23:26,690 --> 00:23:34,030 Speaker 2: long time before she fell back to sleep. A few 377 00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 2: miles from the spot where Hazel Drew's body had been found, 378 00:23:37,310 --> 00:23:40,530 Speaker 2: there was a private resort camp called The Alps. It 379 00:23:40,570 --> 00:23:43,949 Speaker 2: was owned by two brothers, furniture dealers in Albany, who 380 00:23:43,970 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 2: were big in the state Republican Party and well-connected in Troy. 381 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 2: As a rule, what happened at The Alps stayed at 382 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: The Alps. It was a frequent summer locale for Troy's 383 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,619 Speaker 2: richest and most politically powerful. So many rumors of the 384 00:23:57,660 --> 00:24:02,230 Speaker 2: goings-on there got quieted down real fast. In fact, after 385 00:24:02,290 --> 00:24:04,610 Speaker 2: Minnie Clifford told police about the scream she heard that 386 00:24:04,670 --> 00:24:07,820 Speaker 2: night in her bedroom, She quickly turned around and denied 387 00:24:07,859 --> 00:24:11,219 Speaker 2: to the DA that she'd said any such thing. But 388 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:15,770 Speaker 2: secrets were tough to keep in Troy. People talked. They 389 00:24:15,790 --> 00:24:19,530 Speaker 2: talked about wild sex parties at the Alps. Local businessmen 390 00:24:19,570 --> 00:24:23,470 Speaker 2: and politicians and plenty of available girls. Some of those 391 00:24:23,510 --> 00:24:27,590 Speaker 2: girls on loan from Ma'am Faye. Some recruited from the factories. 392 00:24:28,130 --> 00:24:30,530 Speaker 2: Girls who wouldn't have sex for money, but might be 393 00:24:30,590 --> 00:24:34,230 Speaker 2: wined and dined into a compromising position. And deep in 394 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 2: the woods, at the Alps... There was no one to 395 00:24:36,670 --> 00:24:40,719 Speaker 2: hear them protest, no one to hear them scream. When 396 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:43,140 Speaker 2: conversation turned to the orgies at the Alps, it also 397 00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: turned to another dead girl whose murder had gone unsolved 398 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: seven years before. Like Hazel Drew, Mammy Killian was a 399 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,899 Speaker 2: pretty girl who found her way from the country to 400 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: the bustle of Troy. She worked in the factories and 401 00:24:56,340 --> 00:24:59,820 Speaker 2: drew the attention of several men above her station. And 402 00:24:59,859 --> 00:25:03,959 Speaker 2: like Hazel, Mammy was found dead, floating in the Hudson, 403 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,429 Speaker 2: a blow to the back of her head. and a 404 00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:09,270 Speaker 2: ribbon wrapped around her neck so tightly that by the 405 00:25:09,310 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 2: time her water-bloated corpse was found, it was embedded into 406 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,260 Speaker 2: her flesh. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but 407 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,980 Speaker 2: the press had questions about how a girl managed to 408 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: kill herself by a blow to the back of her 409 00:25:22,060 --> 00:25:26,950 Speaker 2: own head and violent strangulation. The medical examiner shrugged it off, 410 00:25:26,970 --> 00:25:31,590 Speaker 2: and the police didn't bother to investigate. A local brewer, 411 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:34,609 Speaker 2: who happened to be Troy's former mayor and a former 412 00:25:34,670 --> 00:25:39,219 Speaker 2: United States senator, anonymously offered a massive reward for information 413 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,060 Speaker 2: leading to the discovery of Mamie's killer. The brewer ran 414 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: the Democratic machine in New York, which was just as 415 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,830 Speaker 2: corrupt as its Republican counterpart. The information that got dug 416 00:25:49,890 --> 00:25:52,430 Speaker 2: up in pursuit of his reward money linked Mamie with 417 00:25:52,530 --> 00:25:56,790 Speaker 2: several major players in the Republican Party. Stories surfaced about 418 00:25:56,910 --> 00:26:01,150 Speaker 2: rich Troy residents wooing girls with trips to Albany, wine-soaked 419 00:26:01,230 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 2: boondoggles that ended in the state capitol's red-light district. There 420 00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:08,730 Speaker 2: were also reports of factory girls being offered joyrides and 421 00:26:08,890 --> 00:26:12,130 Speaker 2: automobiles and luxury coaches and then taken out to the Alps. 422 00:26:14,450 --> 00:26:18,129 Speaker 2: Mammy Killian, they suggested, was an innocent girl caught up 423 00:26:18,190 --> 00:26:21,780 Speaker 2: in the local Republican's web of sexual perversion. And when 424 00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:25,020 Speaker 2: she tried to defend her honor against some unidentified predator, 425 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 2: she was killed. Evidence, rumor, and hearsay mounted. The citizens 426 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,220 Speaker 2: of Troy, riled up by the sensational press, demanded the 427 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:39,340 Speaker 2: police investigate further. But the medical examiner's ruling of suicide stood. 428 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 2: Witnesses recanted their testimony or outright disappeared. After a few weeks, 429 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,860 Speaker 2: the case was closed. And who let the case close? 430 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,850 Speaker 2: The same lawman who was now letting the Hazel Drew 431 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,330 Speaker 2: case flounder without a suspect. Maybe the DA didn't want 432 00:26:58,369 --> 00:27:01,030 Speaker 2: a suspect. Maybe that's why he tried to hush up 433 00:27:01,050 --> 00:27:03,790 Speaker 2: the witness who saw the car speeding toward Teal's Pond 434 00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:06,690 Speaker 2: the night of Hazel Drew's murder. He told the press 435 00:27:06,730 --> 00:27:09,429 Speaker 2: that the driver had been identified, but refused to give 436 00:27:09,450 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: them a name. What was the DA covering up? And 437 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 2: why did it seem like Hazel Drew, a girl who 438 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 2: was either lily-white and innocent as her parents and friends claimed, 439 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 2: or a girl with a bad reputation as some of 440 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,270 Speaker 2: the newspapers were starting to hint at? Why did it 441 00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 2: seem like she was connected to half of Troy's prominent Republicans? 442 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:58,929 Speaker 2: Just who left Hazel Drew dead in Teal's Pond? It 443 00:27:58,970 --> 00:28:02,270 Speaker 2: washed up on the river's edge, near the Blue Pine Lodge, 444 00:28:02,790 --> 00:28:06,330 Speaker 2: wrapped up in a large sheet of plastic. Pete Martell 445 00:28:06,369 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 2: was the first resident of Twin Peaks to discover it. 446 00:28:09,710 --> 00:28:11,970 Speaker 2: He was walking by on his way to go fishing 447 00:28:12,430 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: when he stopped dead in his tracks. He got closer, 448 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,540 Speaker 2: The plastic was a little opaque, but he soon managed 449 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,550 Speaker 2: to figure out what was inside. It was a body. 450 00:28:23,369 --> 00:28:27,730 Speaker 2: A girl's body. Pete called Sheriff Truman, who arrived at 451 00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:30,969 Speaker 2: the scene with his deputy and the town doctor. They 452 00:28:31,030 --> 00:28:34,590 Speaker 2: unwrapped the plastic. A body as gray as the Pacific 453 00:28:34,670 --> 00:28:40,459 Speaker 2: Northwest sky. Lips blue. Skin waterlogged and peppered with sand. 454 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 2: They knew immediately who the 17-year-old girl was. Everyone in 455 00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks knew her. Sheriff Truman, the deputy, the town doctor, 456 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 2: Pete Martell, they all just stood there, choking back tears 457 00:28:54,860 --> 00:29:00,670 Speaker 2: and thinking the same thing. Who killed Laura Palmer? That 458 00:29:00,710 --> 00:29:03,950 Speaker 2: was the central question of David Lynch's groundbreaking TV show, 459 00:29:04,010 --> 00:29:09,410 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks, television's first ever auteur-driven series. Twin Peaks combined 460 00:29:09,490 --> 00:29:13,350 Speaker 2: elements of soap opera, young and dream analysis, slapstick comedy, 461 00:29:13,410 --> 00:29:16,290 Speaker 2: and horror, wrapped them all around a murder mystery that 462 00:29:16,350 --> 00:29:21,110 Speaker 2: boiled down to that one question. That question was also 463 00:29:21,150 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 2: the line used by ABC's marketing team to generate buzz 464 00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 2: for the show, which became an unlikely hit when it 465 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 2: debuted in April of 1990. But David Lynch wasn't interested 466 00:29:32,460 --> 00:29:35,670 Speaker 2: in answering that particular question. He didn't really care so 467 00:29:35,710 --> 00:29:38,050 Speaker 2: much about solving Laura Palmer's murder as much as he 468 00:29:38,090 --> 00:29:41,890 Speaker 2: did telling the stories around the murder. To Lynch, it 469 00:29:41,930 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: was all about the mystery. Not just of Laura Palmer's fate, 470 00:29:45,430 --> 00:29:49,020 Speaker 2: but of the entire town of Twin Peaks. The waitresses, 471 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,660 Speaker 2: the truckers, the bad boys and the good girls. And 472 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,620 Speaker 2: the federal agents with their insatiable hunger for coffee and pie. 473 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 2: The strange woman who kept a log for her pet. 474 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:02,090 Speaker 2: and the bizarre man who talked backwards. That's what Twin 475 00:30:02,130 --> 00:30:05,890 Speaker 2: Peaks was about. The things that couldn't be easily explained. 476 00:30:06,370 --> 00:30:10,230 Speaker 2: The secrets that people kept. But ABC didn't want a 477 00:30:10,270 --> 00:30:14,250 Speaker 2: show built on secrets. They wanted the truth, which David 478 00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:17,530 Speaker 2: Lynch knew always gets in the way of a good story. 479 00:30:20,950 --> 00:30:23,930 Speaker 2: Hazel Drew had a secret, and she wanted to find 480 00:30:24,050 --> 00:30:26,550 Speaker 2: out what it was worth. She knew it was worth 481 00:30:26,590 --> 00:30:29,900 Speaker 2: something to the right people. There were those two brothers, 482 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 2: the Albany furniture dealers who owned the resort in the 483 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 2: woods known to locals as the Alps. They would have 484 00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 2: an interest in keeping rumors about wild orgies and missing 485 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,830 Speaker 2: girls quiet. There were the Democratic politicians, eager to get 486 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:46,010 Speaker 2: dirt on one of Hazel's former employers, all of them 487 00:30:46,090 --> 00:30:50,230 Speaker 2: prominent political rivals. And then there were the Republicans, who 488 00:30:50,370 --> 00:30:54,170 Speaker 2: might pay to have that same secret hushed up. On 489 00:30:54,210 --> 00:30:56,950 Speaker 2: the day before she was murdered, Hazel Drew took the 490 00:30:57,010 --> 00:31:01,020 Speaker 2: train from Troy to Albany. a rat's nest of political corruption. 491 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 2: Half an hour later, she turned around and came back. 492 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,130 Speaker 2: Later that afternoon, a phone rang in a bar in 493 00:31:08,170 --> 00:31:11,670 Speaker 2: South Troy. The bartender picked up. He was more than 494 00:31:11,710 --> 00:31:14,990 Speaker 2: a bartender. He was also a low-level operative for the Republicans, 495 00:31:15,010 --> 00:31:17,950 Speaker 2: the kind of guy who might visit several ballot boxes 496 00:31:18,010 --> 00:31:20,870 Speaker 2: on election day. He nodded as the voice on the 497 00:31:20,910 --> 00:31:24,110 Speaker 2: other end spoke. He didn't say much. He hung up 498 00:31:24,190 --> 00:31:27,630 Speaker 2: and called the local livery. Hazel was walking the streets 499 00:31:27,670 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 2: of Troy, feeling sure of herself. No more domestic work 500 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 2: in her future. Her things were waiting for her in 501 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: a locker at the train station. She was getting out. 502 00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 2: The bartender pulled up alongside her in his rented car. 503 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,250 Speaker 2: He asked if she wanted to go for a ride. 504 00:31:42,830 --> 00:31:46,170 Speaker 2: Hazel loved riding in cars. She loved being in motion, 505 00:31:46,610 --> 00:31:50,470 Speaker 2: on trains, on trolleys, on ferries. And she knew the 506 00:31:50,490 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: bartender from the bar and around the neighborhood. Why the 507 00:31:53,820 --> 00:31:56,580 Speaker 2: hell not, she figured. One last ride through the woods. 508 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 2: One last lap around Teal's Pond. The bartender was chatty. 509 00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:04,260 Speaker 2: He wasn't the kind of man Hazel had to be 510 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:07,260 Speaker 2: afraid of. He wasn't powerful like the men who lured 511 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,020 Speaker 2: girls like her off into the woods and made them disappear. 512 00:32:10,860 --> 00:32:13,260 Speaker 2: He was a boy from the neighborhood, splurging on a 513 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:16,020 Speaker 2: nice ride for a night out. But by the time 514 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 2: they got to Teal's Pond, something had changed. Maybe it 515 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,220 Speaker 2: was the nervous edge. Maybe it was being back here 516 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,209 Speaker 2: in the woods where she'd grown up. The bartender was 517 00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:29,370 Speaker 2: headed towards a dive bar frequented by lumberjacks and roughnecks 518 00:32:29,410 --> 00:32:32,430 Speaker 2: who lived outside of town. Hazel asked if she could 519 00:32:32,450 --> 00:32:35,390 Speaker 2: be let off here by the pond. The bartender agreed 520 00:32:35,430 --> 00:32:36,860 Speaker 2: and said he'd pick her up on his way back 521 00:32:36,890 --> 00:32:40,260 Speaker 2: into town. Hazel drifted along the edge of the bank 522 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: as the sun began to set. The few carriages that 523 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,500 Speaker 2: passed by thought they saw not a girl, but her ghost, 524 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: picking berries and letting her hand trail along the tops 525 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,980 Speaker 2: of the tall grass. She was saying goodbye to all this. 526 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,900 Speaker 2: She was ready for her next life. She didn't hear 527 00:32:56,940 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 2: the car as it came back and parked nearby. She 528 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 2: didn't hear the sounds of the bartender trudging across the 529 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,300 Speaker 2: marsh in his nice shoes, coming to carry out the 530 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,260 Speaker 2: order from Albany to silence Hazel Drew for good. Hazel 531 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 2: instead listened to the critics. The owls started to wake 532 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,620 Speaker 2: as darkness set in. She watched the last sliver of 533 00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 2: the sun disappear into the trees, right as the club 534 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:27,670 Speaker 2: struck the back of her head. When her body was 535 00:33:27,730 --> 00:33:30,490 Speaker 2: found days later, the DA didn't want it to look 536 00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:33,550 Speaker 2: like they weren't bothering to investigate. But he'd also gotten 537 00:33:33,610 --> 00:33:37,310 Speaker 2: word and it was loud and clear. Don't investigate too 538 00:33:37,410 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 2: deeply and keep your hands off the bartender. In August 1908, 539 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,900 Speaker 2: after one month, the DA declared the case closed. The 540 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:51,980 Speaker 2: murder of Hazel Drew was written off as unsolvable. For 541 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,290 Speaker 2: the rest of the centuries, People passing by Teal's Pond 542 00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:58,030 Speaker 2: at dusk might see the ghost of a girl picking berries, 543 00:33:58,730 --> 00:34:01,230 Speaker 2: trailing her hand along the tops of the tall grass. 544 00:34:02,330 --> 00:34:05,300 Speaker 2: Her story was whispered around a hundred campfires, and it 545 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,420 Speaker 2: famously inspired David Lynch's dark vision of a dead girl 546 00:34:09,540 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 2: wrapped in plastic. But before there was the story of 547 00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 2: Laura Palmer, there was the story of Hazel Drew. A 548 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,870 Speaker 2: story that ought to be in pictures. I'm Jake Brennan. 549 00:34:23,930 --> 00:34:26,190 Speaker 2: And this is Hollywoodland. 550 00:34:39,350 --> 00:34:42,509 Speaker 4: Hollywoodland was created by Years Truly and is produced in 551 00:34:42,550 --> 00:34:46,930 Speaker 4: partnership with Double Elvis. Follow, like, rate, and review Hollywoodland 552 00:34:46,950 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 4: wherever you get your podcasts and get in touch with 553 00:34:48,980 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 4: us on social media at Double Elvis. 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