1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,199 Speaker 1: You would sit there with a book or a newspaper 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: and just half listen to the police radio, which is 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: a constant chatter in your ear. You're listening, but you're 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: not listening, but certain cueues will alert you. 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: It was October twelfth, nineteen sixty four. Lance Morrow was 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: listening to the Metro police scanner. He was fresh out 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: of Harvard working as a cub reporter for a DC newspaper. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: He happened to be at police headquarters that day, just 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,319 Speaker 2: filling in for a coworker. I know that feeling when 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: you're just sitting there waiting for something newsworthy to happen. 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: He didn't wait long. 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there just about getting on toward noon, 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: and I heard on the police radio cruiser twenty five, 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: Cruiser twenty six, cruiser twenty seven proceed to I believe 15 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: it was the thirty eight hundred block of Canal. 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: The cruisers racing to the scene weren't just any police cars. 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: Well, the first thing I knew was that that was 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: three homicide cruisers being called for some reason, and that's 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: extremely unusual. 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: They were responding to a murder. 21 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: I'd never run into that. The second thing I knew 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: was that was in Georgetown. 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: Lance grew up in Georgetown. He knew the streets like 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: a local cab driver, and he knew the people just 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: as well. 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: And my parents knew Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon pretty well. 27 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: He was used to living in the background of history. 28 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: Rarely had he been caught in the crossfires of it. 29 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 2: But a murder in Georgetown at midday, now that was 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: unheard of. 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: It was just below Georgetown University by the river, and 32 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: as it turned out, it was on the canal. And 33 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: I jumped in a car. I got there an amazingly 34 00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: short time. 35 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 2: Lance parked his car on Canal Road. Just below it, 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 2: there was the canal itself, and running beside that canal 37 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 2: was a dirt road called a towpath. He spotted two 38 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: African American men fixing a stalled car on the road 39 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: in front of him. The guys were mechanics from the 40 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: local ESO station. They called the police and they told 41 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: Lance they heard the whole thing go down. 42 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: There was a guy shooting a woman across the canal 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: from where they stood. They heard shots and ran across 44 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: the road, looked across the canal, saw a guy struggling 45 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: with a woman. I talked to these guys. They were 46 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: still there, and I said, what happened? And they told 47 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: me that one of them pointed to something that looked 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: like a laundry bag almost or a bag of clothing, 49 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: and he said, that's her. That's her. And I said, 50 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: who is it. He said, that's the one that was shot. 51 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 2: This is Murder on the Towpath. And I'm your host, 52 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: Soledad O'Brien. I've been a journalist for over three decades. 53 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: I've covered politics, I've reported on crime, justice and race 54 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: in America, and I'm really interested in the way they 55 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: can all intersect. That's one of the things that drew 56 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: me to this story. It weaves together all those things 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 2: around a single event, a murder, A murder that would 58 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 2: become emblematic of the nineteen sixties, a time of political 59 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: and cultural upheaval, A story that ruffled feathers even back then. 60 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 2: A legendary newspaperman, a CIA director, and even JFK himself 61 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: play a part. What's fascinating is that this tale has 62 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: never really gone away. Decades later, people argue about what happened. 63 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 2: Relatives of the victim hesitate to speak about her publicly. 64 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: Relatives of the alleged killer do too. It's a story 65 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: so complex and mysterious that conspiracy theorists have come out 66 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 2: of the woodwork. Even to this day, people still ask 67 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 2: who killed this woman in broad daylight. Over the next 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: eight episodes, I'll introduce you to the two women at 69 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 2: the heart of the story. Mary Pinchot Meyer was a painter, 70 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 2: a pacifist, and a woman who grew up rich but 71 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 2: didn't like to follow rules. Dovey Johnson Rowntree became a 72 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: civil rights lawyer at a time when black people were 73 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: systematically stripped of their rights. 74 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 3: She was a. 75 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: Minister too, and determined to use the law to defend 76 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: all God's children. The lives of these two women ran 77 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: parallel to one another until one horrible day in nineteen 78 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 2: sixty four. Both were smart and confident, They had brilliant minds, 79 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: and in other worlds, I wonder if they might have 80 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 2: even met, but they had now her cross paths in 81 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: the district. Except after one of them was killed. At 82 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: that moment in nineteen sixty four, their lives suddenly intersected, 83 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: and now their legacies are forever intertwined. Let's start at 84 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: the moment that would bring them together the day one 85 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 2: of them was murdered. Her name was Mary Pincho Meyer, 86 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: and her final day started like any other. It was 87 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: two days before her forty fourth birthday, one of those 88 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 2: crisp days that actually makes you happy. Summer is over, 89 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 2: cool enough for a sweater, but still bright and sunny, 90 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 2: with a blue sky streaming above. Mary was painting. She 91 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 2: loved to paint. It was somewhere between a hobby and 92 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: a job for her. She had spent thirteen years married 93 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: to a cia man named cord Meyer, holding down the 94 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: fort while he traveled and spoke around the country. By 95 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: this time, Mary resented her then husband and what he represented. 96 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: After their divorce, their two sons went away to boarding school, 97 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 2: Mary suddenly had a lot of time alone and could 98 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: devote it to her craft. On most days, she'd hold 99 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 2: herself up in her studio and just paint and paint 100 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 2: and paint. Her studio was how you would imagine an 101 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: artist haven would be. It was a converted garage with 102 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 2: two skylights, littered with notebooks. 103 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 3: Artists have things called paint books. 104 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: The pages are quite It's a high quality paper thicker 105 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: and most of the pages had swatches of paint on it, 106 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: and then slight descriptions of how that color was achieved. 107 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 2: That's Ben Bradley. I remember him from when I was 108 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 2: a kid. He was a newspaper legend. You might remember 109 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 2: him too from Watergate. He was editor in chief of 110 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 2: the Washington Post when they broke the story. He also 111 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: happened to be Mary's sister's husband. Mary was exploring a 112 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: new artistic style. She was painting these concentric, colorful circles 113 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 2: on round canvases, known in the art world as Tondo's. 114 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: They gave you a window into Mary's art and the 115 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 2: way her mind worked. Her routine was the same. Every day. 116 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 2: Mary went into her studio, turned up the electric space heater, 117 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: poured coffee from her thermos, lit up a cigarette, and 118 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: then she would paint for hours on end until that 119 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: time of the day when concentration becomes difficult and the 120 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 2: mind grows hazy. Like clockwork. Around noon, Mary would go 121 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: for a walk on the towpath just when she was 122 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 2: losing focus. Mary savored walking on the towpath in the winter. 123 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: She'd even ice skate along the ice that blanketed the canals. 124 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: Her daily walks gave her the time space to think, 125 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 2: get inspired, and that was what Mary was doing on 126 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: October twelfth, nineteen sixty four. Before heading out, Mary had 127 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: put on her gloves and pedal pushers. She layered herself 128 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: with a cable knit blue Angora sweater. The inside of 129 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 2: her gloves had a cleaner's mark that said Meyer that 130 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: would later help police identify the body. She slipped her 131 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 2: red tube of lipstick in her pocket and put on 132 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: her white paint splattered PF flyers. That day, she had 133 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: a chore to do, a fun one. 134 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: She had a cat that had laid some kittens. 135 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 2: That's Nina Burley. She wrote a biography of Mary, called 136 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 2: a very private woman. 137 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 3: She was just about to put a sign out to 138 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 3: say free kittens, and she headed out of her house 139 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 3: and walked down the cobblestone streets. She walked down the 140 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 3: street to the what they call the towpath alongside the canal. 141 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: Mary's converted studio looked like all the other garages on 142 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: the alleyway. Some of her closest friends and family lived nearby. 143 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: Mary's sister Tony lived in the townhouse on one end. 144 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 2: She was the sister married to Ben Bradley and before 145 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: they moved to the White House, the Kennedys lived nearby. 146 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 2: In fact, Mary and Jackie Kennedy would sometimes take their 147 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 2: walks on the towpath together. Mary was of that ilk 148 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 2: she could ask Jackie to walk with her. We know 149 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 2: she crossed m Street because that day a long black 150 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: car with official plates slowed and a rear window rolled down. 151 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: It was her friend, Polly Wisner. Polly's husband was the 152 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 2: head of the CIA's covert operations for many years. He 153 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 2: worked with Mary's ex husband Cord at the CIA. Polly 154 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 2: had one of those mid Atlantic accents that old movie 155 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: stars like Catherine Hepburn had. She waved and said goodbye 156 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: Mary with one of those long a's. Polly was the 157 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: last friend to see Mary alive. From the moment Mary 158 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: was shot on the towpath, it would take just forty 159 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 2: five minutes for them to arrest a suspect. Forty five minutes. 160 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: I mean, this was a very fast moving situation. 161 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 2: That's Lance Morrow again, the cub reporter who had gotten 162 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 2: to the scene quickly. He had stopped to talk to 163 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 2: the car mechanics, then race down to the towpath. He 164 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: knew a secret way. 165 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: I knew that there was a tunnel underneath the canal, 166 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: and I knew it was there, so I ran to 167 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: that tunnel. It was about fifty yards from where I 168 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: was standing. You had to part fines to go into it. 169 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: But I ran through the tunnel, and all the time 170 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: I was fairly frightened because I thought that the killer 171 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: was still loose. So I ran through the tunnel, came 172 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: up into the sunlight through the vines that hung over 173 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: the entrance on the other side, came up onto the towpath, 174 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: and I ran to where the body was, and I 175 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: saw a woman lying crumpled up in the fetal position. 176 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: The woman had been shot twice, a bullet to the 177 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 2: brain and a bullet to the heart. This is not 178 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: what reporters like us expect to see the actual body 179 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 2: of the murder victim. 180 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: I saw no blood. 181 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 2: It was surreal, and so she. 182 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: Looked like she was asleep. She was dressed in an 183 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: angora and pedal pusher pats and what looked like ballet 184 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: slippers to me, but there's something like that slip on things. 185 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: She had an air of money about her, in the 186 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: sense that you could see that her hair was She 187 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: was a very good looking woman. I could see her profile, 188 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: although she was turned away from me sort of, but 189 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: I could see that her her haircut was expensive, if 190 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: that makes sense. 191 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 2: Lance could tell the victim was a woman of means 192 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 2: and beauty, but at that point no one knew who 193 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 2: she was. After seeing her on the ground, one officer said, 194 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of dead women, but none who 195 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 2: looked beautiful when dead. She even looked beautiful with a 196 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: bullet in her head. When I read that line, I 197 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 2: was kind of horrified. I mean, there's something twisted about 198 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 2: a woman being judged on her looks even in her death. 199 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 2: But the truth is Mary was striking. She was always 200 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: the prettiest woman in the room. She had that it 201 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: quality that drew people to her, especially men. Mary sported short, 202 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: blonde hair and had piercing blue eyes. She was thin, athletic, 203 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 2: had an air of grace kelly about her. Mary was 204 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 2: born into high society, but it was more than that. 205 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: She was inherently regal. Even though Lance had arrived quickly 206 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 2: to the crime scene, the police had already come and gone. 207 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 2: If they were going to catch the killer, they needed 208 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 2: to block off the exits to the towpath as soon 209 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 2: as possible. Time was running out. They left Mary out 210 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 2: in the open as they searched. That's how Lance, all 211 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 2: of twenty five years old, ended up having a moment 212 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 2: alone with her. 213 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: I mean, here's this woman. She looked very serene, her 214 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: face was very serene, and it was a weird dreamlike 215 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: quality about it. 216 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 2: Lance is now almost eighty, but he has never forgotten 217 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 2: that day. Trust me. It's not every day a reporter 218 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: comes across a dead body. I've only ever seen them 219 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 2: at natural disasters, but a murder in a city park. Never. Washington, 220 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 2: d C. Has always been a very segregated city. Crimes 221 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 2: in the city only got the attention of the cops 222 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 2: in the media if you had the right address. If 223 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: you lived in a black neighborhood, chances were the police 224 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,119 Speaker 2: weren't rushing to the crime scene. Same thing with journalists. 225 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: And from the address you knew perfectly well whether it 226 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: was black or white, and if it was white, it 227 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: was interesting and you would pursue it. If it was black, 228 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: unless there was some unusual circumstance about it. The phrase 229 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: from the city desk was cheap it out. Cheap it out, 230 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: which means give it three paragraphs on the inside. In 231 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: other words, the black life in Washington was not covered. 232 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: Sounds about right. I've spent a lot of time in DC, 233 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: and I can tell you Georgetown is a very swanky place. 234 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: The towpath is filled with joggers, couples holding hands. It's 235 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 2: one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. The 236 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 2: Clintons have a house there, Nancy Pelosi has a condo, 237 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: and you might spot Jill Biden running. But it wasn't 238 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 2: always like this. Historically, Georgetown had always been a black neighborhood. 239 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: In the early twentieth century, white federal employees trickled into 240 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 2: the area, and by the fifties Washington's white elites moved in. 241 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: Less than ten percent of the area was black. Here's 242 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: Nina the biographer again. 243 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 3: Mary Meyer and Ben Bradley and Jackie Kennedy were people 244 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 3: who had come in and gentrified this area in the fifties. 245 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 3: In the forties and. 246 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 2: Fifties, Mary's actual home was near her studio. It was 247 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 2: a little blue townhouse right in the center of Georgetown. 248 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 3: So it was, you know, this little community of people 249 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: who lived on the other side of this giant park, 250 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 3: Rock Creek Park, which separates off Georgetown from the rest 251 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 3: of Washington, d C. And so they lived in a 252 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: kind of bubble of you know, this is our community, 253 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 3: and they didn't lock their doors. They definitely felt safe there. 254 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: Once the white people moved in, the police and reporters 255 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 2: took the neighborhood more seriously, which doesn't surprise me. But 256 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 2: the towpath was still a paradoxical place. You'd find sleeping 257 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 2: drunks next to a beautiful view of the canal with 258 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 2: lily pads on it. After Mary waved goodbye to Polly, 259 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 2: she passed the entryway to Key Bridge, the large concrete 260 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 2: bridge connecting d Seed to Virginia. Her daily route was straightforward. 261 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 2: She walked west all the way to Fletcher's boat House, 262 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 2: a fishing spot since the nineteenth century. Then Mary would 263 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: turn around and make her way back east to her studio. Now, 264 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 2: the actual details after Mary enters the towpath are a 265 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 2: bit fuzzy. We don't know exactly how it all went down. 266 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 2: Sources disagree on the order of events, But here's what 267 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 2: we've gathered from court documents, eyewitness accounts, and a bunch 268 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 2: of books that have pieced together Mary's final moments. We 269 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 2: know she walked along the wooden footbridge to get down 270 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: to the towpath. Once she was on the path itself, 271 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: Mary should have been able to hear the cars humming 272 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: above her. The road was above the canal. If you 273 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 2: go there, you can hear the occasional traffic sounds or 274 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 2: see the car roofs floating above the gray stone wall. 275 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 2: Around twenty minutes or so into her walk, Mary was 276 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 2: attacked from behind. A man held back her arms, preventing 277 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 2: her from getting away. Mary squirmed desperately trying to break free. 278 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 2: She was strong, maybe she thought she could topple her assailant, 279 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 2: but the man was too much for her. She yelled, 280 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: somebody help me. She hoped someone anyone over the stone 281 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 2: wall on Canal Road could hear her. The mechanics heard her, 282 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 2: but it was too late. Then a gunshot. A mechanic 283 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: named Henry Wiggins slowly made his way to a stone 284 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 2: wall on Canal Road, which overlooked the towpath in the canal. 285 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 2: He didn't see the murder, but he heard all of it. 286 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 2: Lance Morrow said he didn't see any blood when he 287 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 2: arrived on the scene, but there's good reason think Henry 288 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 2: saw blood. Quite a lot of it. 289 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 4: She left blood on tree branches where she was trying 290 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 4: to pull herself up and escape. 291 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 2: That's Ron Rosenbaum who wrote about Mary in his book 292 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 2: The Secret Parts of Fortune. 293 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 4: And then eventually she got back up to the towpath 294 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 4: in full view of a guy named Henry Wiggins, who 295 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 4: had parked his car on the other side of the 296 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 4: Cno Canal near a gas station and was gazing out 297 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 4: at the towpath and actually saw the struggle in which 298 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 4: Mary was shot. 299 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 2: She was on her knees, clinging to a tree, literally 300 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: holding on for dear life. Mary tried to push the 301 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 2: killer away while protecting her head leaning on the tree. 302 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 2: The murderer was trying to drag her out of view. 303 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: Then Mary used every ounce of life she had left 304 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,479 Speaker 2: in her She got up and ran toward the canal 305 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 2: and the wall where Henry was, but with a shot 306 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 2: to the head, she couldn't make it any further. She 307 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: fell to the ground. That's when the killer insured Mary's fate. 308 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 2: He shot her once more, this time in her back. 309 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 2: The bullet hit her shoulder blade and punctured her a 310 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 2: order her heart stopped. Henry Wiggins, the mechanic. 311 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 4: Hurt it all sadly, tragically, he uh witnessed a murder. 312 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 2: He heard the two shots by the time Henry got 313 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 2: to the stone wall, he peered over and saw a 314 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 2: black man standing over a woman's body. The man wore 315 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 2: a light tan jacket with a dark dark cap. Henry 316 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 2: and the killer locked eyes. Henry quickly hid behind the barrier. 317 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 2: He didn't want to be the next victim. When he 318 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: peered over the wall again, he saw the man putting 319 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 2: a dark object into the pocket of his zipped jacket. 320 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 2: Henry and the killer looked at each other again. The 321 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 2: killer wasn't afraid. He didn't rush to leave the scene. 322 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: That's pretty strange. Instead, he walked away slowly into the 323 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 2: dense screenery next to the Potomac. He was gone. Now 324 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 2: it was up to the police to find the phantom killer. 325 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 2: Henry didn't waste any time. He immediately drove his car 326 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 2: back to the ESSO station and called the police. A 327 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: black man had killed a white woman in broad daylight 328 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 2: in Georgetown. Within four minutes, the manhunt began. Our reporter 329 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 2: Lance Morrow was at the crime scene by then. A 330 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 2: policeman gruffly told him to step aside. 331 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, It's a good thing I 332 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: wasn't black, because they had a description of the killer, 333 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 1: and the killer was a young black man. But anyway, 334 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: the cops knew I was a reporter. I was standing 335 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: there with a notebook in my hand and so on, 336 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: so it was pretty clear who I was, and most 337 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: of them had seen me around. 338 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: The police took over securing the crime scene. There's a 339 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,479 Speaker 2: striking image that later made the rounds. It shows a 340 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 2: crowd of men around this dead woman. There are may 341 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: be eight of them standing there, and Mary is lying 342 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 2: lifeless on the ground. 343 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: Guys from the homicide squad, whom I knew, Guys wearing 344 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: white raincoats and black you know, the cops, and then 345 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: a few uniform police the homicide squad guys standing over 346 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: the body, or they was ignoring the body, but they 347 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: were talking among themselves. It's a rather odd effect to 348 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: have the body there and then these guys just standing 349 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: around talking. It's an eerie eurie effect. 350 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 2: The police sent a dragnet of cars to the area. 351 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: There were very few marked exits to the towpath, and 352 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 2: police were sent to cover each one of them. They 353 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 2: figured if they could cover their bases quickly the killer 354 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: would be trapped. That's part of the reason why it 355 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 2: all happened. Within minutes. Time was running out. Anyone who's 356 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: visited the towpath knows it's outside. Sure, yeah, but there 357 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 2: are only so many places to get in and to 358 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 2: get out. I've been there. If you're standing in the 359 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 2: spot where Mary died, you either need to dive into 360 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: the Potomac and swim away, climb a wall and cross 361 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 2: canal road, hide in a tunnel, or use the few 362 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 2: official exits. Mary's body lay near a small tunnel that 363 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 2: carried water near the canal. It's called Foundry Branch Tunnel. Now, 364 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 2: if you're looking at a map, this area is where 365 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 2: the murder happened. There were only a few exits. According 366 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 2: to the police, the murderer could not escape. Officer John 367 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 2: Warner was on the ground that day searching for the killer. 368 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: He spotted a culvert which eventually dropped fifty feet into 369 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 2: the Potomac, and then he emerged into a clearing. He 370 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: found a man standing in front of him. Here's lance again. 371 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: Eventually they came out of the woods leading a rather 372 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: short five five five six, a black man, a young 373 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: black man. He was just my age, WHI just twenty 374 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: five years old and he was wet. 375 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: Raymond Crump Junior. The police asked Ray for his id. 376 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 2: When he fetched it, water spilled from his wallet. He 377 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 2: was a short, young, skinny man. Leaves and twigs clung 378 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 2: to his body, and he was black. Officer Warner asked 379 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 2: him the obvious question, why was he wet? Ray said 380 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 2: he was fishing, but fell asleep at the bank of 381 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 2: the river. He woke up after he had rolled into 382 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 2: the water. Warner asked Ray to show him the exact 383 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 2: spot where he was fishing. The two were walking together 384 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 2: when they heard a shout. That's him. It was Henry 385 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 2: Wiggins from above, pointing down at Ray. 386 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 3: Crump. 387 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,479 Speaker 2: He was telling Officer Warner they found their man. Warner 388 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 2: handcuffed Ray and brought him to his colleague, Officer Bernard Crook. Yeah, 389 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: that's really his name. They passed Mary's body. You think 390 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 2: I did that? Ray asked. Crook brought a soaking wet 391 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 2: Ray to the station house for an interrogation. Things only 392 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 2: got worse for Ray. One of Crook's men came to 393 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 2: the station. He found a light jacket similar to the 394 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: one Henry saw on Mary's Killer. Krook asked Ray to 395 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 2: try it on. It fit perfectly. Then Ray's story began 396 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 2: falling apart. 397 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: They never found a fishing pole, he didn't have a 398 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: fishing pole, and it turned out later that his fishing 399 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: pole was at his home out in Anacostia, on the 400 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: other side of the city from Georgetown. 401 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: Krook told Ray he had a stacked deck against him. 402 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: Ray began sobbing. Several days later, the United States charged 403 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 2: Ray Crump, Junior with first degree murder. He was arraigned 404 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 2: before the US Commissioner and sent to the DC Jail. 405 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 2: That meant Ray Crump was immediately locked up. The Washington 406 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 2: Post snapped a photo of his arrest. He's wearing a 407 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: white shirt with black pants. A white, bald officer with 408 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 2: glasses trails right behind him. His hands are holding Ray 409 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 2: from behind, pushing him towards his fate. The forty five 410 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 2: minutes it would take to find Mary's killer they were up. 411 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: Did it happen quickly because she was white? Because it 412 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,479 Speaker 2: was a slow day, because it was Georgetown and things 413 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 2: like this weren't supposed to happen here. I don't really know. 414 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 2: Whatever it was a black man had just been taken 415 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 2: in for the murder of a white woman, and in 416 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four, and I think even today that was 417 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 2: bound to capture everyone's attention. News of a murder in 418 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 2: Georgetown trickled out to the public slowly. Cecily Angleton was 419 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 2: an old friend of Mary's. She happened to hear about 420 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 2: a murder on the towpath and called her husband, James Angleton. 421 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: Here's author Ron Rosenbaum. 422 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: Again. 423 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 4: He was a well known but not often written about 424 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 4: figure in Washington, d C. A very powerful one. 425 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 2: In other words, James Angleton was a spook, and not 426 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 2: just any spy. 427 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 4: James Angleton, as most people know, was head of counterintelligence 428 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 4: spy hunting for the CIA and had been for many years. 429 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 4: He was in the middle of a meeting at CIA 430 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 4: headquarters when he got an urgent call from his wife, 431 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 4: who apprised him of the fact that there had been 432 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 4: a murder of a woman on the towpath yet to 433 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 4: be identified. I believe she called up afraid that the 434 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 4: murder on the towpath had been married. It was about 435 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 4: the time that Mary would go running. You know. This 436 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 4: was a very close friend of the fan and they 437 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 4: were both concerned about it. 438 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: Mary's ex husband, Coord was in a meeting in New 439 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 2: York when he got a phone call from his friend, 440 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 2: Wister Janney. He told him that Mary was dead. Coord 441 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 2: immediately flew down to DC to get all the details 442 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 2: on the ground. He knew he had to tell his 443 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 2: sons before they heard it on the news. Since Quentin 444 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 2: was already eighteen, Kord told him on the phone. In 445 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 2: his memoir Facing Reality, Chord writes that Quentin handled the 446 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 2: death with stoic resignation, but Mark was still so young, 447 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 2: only fourteen. Coord called Milton Academy he would fly to 448 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 2: break the news to Mark in person the next morning. 449 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: The school assured him Mark wouldn't see any newspapers. That night, 450 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: Ben Bradley, Mary's brother in law, went down to the 451 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: morgue to identify the body. 452 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: It was her. 453 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 2: He saw Mary for the last time. The next morning, 454 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 2: Kord met with Mark at Milton. In his memoir, Chord 455 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 2: writes his son was so excited to see him he 456 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: saw it as a pleasant surprise, and then Chord gave 457 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 2: him the terrible news. He wrapped his arm around Mark, 458 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: consoling him as his son cried so deeply from such 459 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 2: a profound loss. It was good the school took pains 460 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 2: to hide the news from Mark. Multiple papers wrote that 461 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 2: Mary Pinchot Meyer was dead. The Washington Post said Mary 462 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 2: was a Georgetown artist with a hundred thousand friends. Friends 463 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 2: described her as fearless and elegant, one of the most 464 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 2: beautiful people they had ever known. At first, reporters described 465 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 2: the murder as a robbery gone wrong, but Mary wasn't 466 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 2: caring a purse. She left it at home that day. 467 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 2: Others suggested sexualvi islence had occurred, but there was no 468 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: physical evidence of rape. The New York Times headline read 469 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 2: woman painter shot and killed on canal towpath in Capitol 470 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 2: They ran a photo of her next to the article, 471 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 2: one of the few that exists of Mary in the 472 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 2: public domain. She has short, blonde hair, less Doris Day 473 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 2: Bob and more Princess Diana. She's staring to the right 474 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 2: of her into the distance, almost looking horrified at the 475 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 2: headline of her own death. In the week after Mary's murder, 476 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 2: someone scrawled a phrase on the key bridge in white paint. 477 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: It said move coup Mary. The phrase is a French idiom. 478 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 2: It roughly translates to bad luck. Mary, But the phrase 479 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: can also mean foul play. Foul play, so maybe it 480 00:31:53,880 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 2: wasn't bad luck at all. Next time on Murder on 481 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 2: the Towpath, Ray Crump needed a lawyer, and there was 482 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 2: only one woman who dared defend him. I could make 483 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 2: things right, I thought, and some things I have made right. 484 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 2: She was black herself. Her name was Dobby Rountree. Next episode, 485 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to dig into her remarkable life and introduce 486 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 2: you to a woman whose legal mind would forever change 487 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 2: the course of Mary's case, a case which only gets 488 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 2: more shocking and more complicated with time. That's because what 489 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: Dovey couldn't have known, what most people didn't know, was 490 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 2: that Mary had had an affair with a very powerful man. 491 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression. 492 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 2: That man was John F. Kennedy. I'll unravel the whole 493 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,959 Speaker 2: story starting next week. Murder on the Towpath is a 494 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: production of Film Nation Entertainment and Luminary Media and association 495 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 2: with Neon Humm Media. Our executive producers are me Solidad O'Brien, 496 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 2: Alyssa Martino, Milan Papelka, and Jonathan Hirsch. Lead producer is 497 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 2: Shara Morris. Associate producers are Natalie Rinn and Lucy Licht. 498 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 2: Senior editor is Katherine Saint Louis. Music and composition by 499 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 2: Andrew Eapen, Sound design and mixing by Scott Somerville. Special 500 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 2: thanks to Alison Cohen, Sarah Bacchiano, Rose Arsa, Kate Michigan, 501 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 2: and MICHAELA Celeela