WEBVTT - By the Power of the Moon: Dr. Dante 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.840 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio Saren Elizabeth. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:06.640 What's up, dude, I got a question for you. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.400 I got a question for you. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.000 Okay, fine, you guys first, what's your question? 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.040 You know what's ridiculous? Oh? 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.880 Yes, I do? Oh, okay, okay, Mark Twain and Tesla. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.480 Yeah, like Tesla the guy, the guy. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.600 Okay, like Nicola Tesla, my dude, right, two of my 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.840 favorite guys in history. Do you know they were friends? 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:25.400 I did. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.040 Yeah, they were really good friends. They met in a 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.120 gentleman's social club and both like billiards. That's not what's ridiculous. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.880 What's ridiculous is that Tesla once played a really crappy 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.120 joke on his friend. Yeah. So in the past, Mark Twain, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.400 he complained to Tesla about how he had this really bad, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.440 recurring bouts of constipation. Right, So Tesla's like, oh, don't worry, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.680 I got you, buddy, I got this new invention. You 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.199 got to come by my lab, but it'll hook you 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.199 all up. And he's like, really, for reals, yeah, come 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.199 by it. He's so he goes and he checks it 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.559 out and this is vibrating, humming, oscillating metal disc. He's 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.160 like how is this gonna help my my constipation? I'm 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.560 all jammed up, Tesla. And Tesla's like, oh no, here's 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.840 what you do. You get on this and it imparts 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.480 vitality and he's like, what do you mean in parts 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.959 of by tell he's this one of your electric doo 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.920 witsy He's like, yeah, yes, this is one of my electrict. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:07.360 Like, what do you mean get on it? 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.160 So yeah, So this is what he says, is you go, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.360 when you stand on top of this stand metal oscillating 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.800 disc and oscillating just going up and down, but don't right. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.560 So he's like, yeah, you go, do stand on that 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.800 and it'll give you this really pleasing feeling and you 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.479 don't have to worry about being constipated. It'll be basically 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.520 shake it at you. And he's like what He's like, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.640 oh are you for real? To Tesla and fast you 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.880 can say Caliverari's county. He jumped right up on there, 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.440 and Tesla he told him, now, when I tell you 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.000 Twain to get off this thing, you gotta get off right. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.840 And Mark Twain's like, oh you bet, you don't you 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.280 worry about that? Flip the switch, Tesla, And so Tesla's 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:39.600 like go now. You can imagine him like in his 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.160 white suit and Tesla's there and like the black rubber 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.600 smock and gloves and electricity is arcing everywhere in the background. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.880 He's like, okay, stand still, Twain, and he hits the 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.400 switch right, and electricity surges through the cables and then 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.920 now arcing right and everything's sparking and going crazy. And 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.680 inside this crazy voltage crackling all around him is Mark 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.560 Twain and he's just delighted. He's laughing. It feels like 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.920 I don't know, like MDMA, but electricity. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.280 Right, He's just this amazing He's not like getting electrically 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:09.200 just beggled. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.120 No, No, there's like a surge of Like the Tesla 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.040 it had figured out ways to run lots of voltage 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.760 around as long as you didn't run a lot of 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.560 ampage into the person. So it's the amps that kill you, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:19.440 it's not the voltage. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:20.080 So I didn't know. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.400 Yeah, the amperage was was was not so much that 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.400 it could hurt him. So the vaults are just racing 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.760 past him, just basically sparking the air, right, so just 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.720 turning into like a light show of crackling electricity. And 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.680 so this was the Tesla is just like, you know, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.919 telling Twain, Oh you enjoy any Twains, it is great. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.280 He's like, okay, now you need you need to get 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.760 down off the disk. In Twain it's like, nah, I'm fine, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.320 this is great. He's like, no, no, you really need 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:41.960 to get down off the disk. And Twain it's like, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.280 don't tell me what to do when I'm having pleasure, boy, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.640 just leave me alone. And so he does, and Tesla's like, okay, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.880 well you'll find out for yourself. And all of a sudden, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.000 Twain found out for himself it had indeed done what 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.760 it had been practiced and purported to do. It had 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.320 imparted vitality, and it had jiggled everything loose. He started 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.480 to feel the first leak cawling down his leg and 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.880 he's like, Tesla, my man, the water closet post haste. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.600 And he had to make a bee line for the 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.600 water closet. And Tesla just pointed out and he had 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.200 made Mark Twain soil his white suit. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.160 Wow, yes, I thought you were gonna say. He said, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.960 to stand on a plate and it would jiggle him, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:19.639 just jiggle the dukie. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.440 Yeah, well no, that was it did. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.239 But there's all the lights stuff going around electricity, so 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.120 weird science. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.679 Yes, exactly. He was ever seen like the things where 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.359 he's like sitting in his like lab and there's like 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.919 this huge arcing reactor to just kind of imagine that 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.920 that was his laboratory. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.400 Why aren't people doing that now? Like, doesn't that seem 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.000 like something that be doing Instagram people totally come into 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:41.560 my orb. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.040 They do actually do this. You know. They have the 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.840 stuff now where they strap on like this oscillating thing. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.280 It's supposed to jiggle your muscles into being stronger and 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.280 it's like a late night kind of TV ad. Yeah, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.280 it'll get the it'll get the poop addy and the muscles. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.360 India interesting. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.440 Yeah, check that out that that's ridiculous. A lot of 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.080 it that's so ridiculous. Do you want to know what 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.280 else is ridiculous? Or for it hypnotizing your way to millions? 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:08.680 Tell me more. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.520 This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.880 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:43.360 one hundred percent ridiculous. You are damn right, Yes, my nephew, Yeah, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.960 he's four. Yes, I've talked about him a little bit 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.080 on the show before totally good kid. He has this 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.320 thing now where he holds out his hand like baby 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.239 Yoda and he says, by the power of the moon, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:54.560 I hypnotize you. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.160 Oh yes, I've seen him do this. Yeah, you're shown. Yeah, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:58.479 show me the videos. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.200 Of then, because I always play. Yeah, he orders me 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.960 around to have fun here we do, we have, we 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.520 have fun. The last time he was over here, he 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.560 hypnotized me and told me to walk into the kitchen okay, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.760 and then he told me to pick up a watermelon 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.839 that was on the counter, and like, at this point 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.479 I thought he was going to make me drop it 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.320 on the floor or like set it on my head. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.120 Gallagher gag. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.880 Yeah, and I was prepared to like, oh, I broke 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.320 the spell, look at me. And then he told me 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:27.839 my order cut it and serve it to me before. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.680 It was like a really clever way to ask for 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.520 of course I did, but it was really hilarious, like, yes, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.039 cut it, and that's the only time I've ever been hypnotized. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:37.640 Okay. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.039 You said before I think on here that you don't 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.159 think you can be hypnotized. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:42.480 No, I don't believe that I can. So therefore I 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.599 don't think it's possible. I won't submit to what you 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.720 have to do, which is this power of suggestion same 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:47.240 I don't think. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.240 I mean only if I'm told to pick up a watermelon. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:50.600 I'm mule stubborn. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.400 But you know, like people get into it though. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.760 Recom people all the time. I'm suggesting it doesn't work. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.719 Just you have to think it works exactly. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.360 And there's like the subliminal messaging hypnosis where people listen 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.480 to tapes while they sleep. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.000 But I know somebody work for them, so I believe it. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.840 And then there's the hypnosis we see on TV procedurals 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.919 where a victim is hypnotized to remember facts. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:13.480 I don't know about that, so. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.240 I've heard that happens on shows. And then there's entertainment 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.719 hypnosis like loungejacks magician. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.600 Like yeah, walk like a chick in clock like a duck. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.080 I feel like there were more of these in like 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:26.400 the sixties through the eighties. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.800 There's more all the nightclub aacs. That's why it fill off. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:30.840 People don't go to club. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.080 Yeah, thereose are old nightclub Take vaudeville, run that into 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.600 the nightclub. After TV kills off vaudeville and then he 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.719 goes underground, becomes a little darker, a little more edgy, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.599 little sexier, and then it gets killed by the seventies 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.400 with the Dean Martin Row. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.279 No, the seventies eighties we had hypnotists. I think the 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.640 nineties is when I'm talking about the nightclub acs my hypnosis. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.400 I'm sure that you could catch like a hypnotist show 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.400 now in Vegas or Branson. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.600 People do that stuff. People will still love that. Yeah. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:03.080 Well, there's one notorious hypnotist from the loungeacked hypnotist area. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.839 If you say hypnotist too many times stopped chizing its. Yeah, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.480 but he was this guy also a ridiculous criminal. Ronald Peller, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.440 come on down. Yeah. He was born in nineteen thirty 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.720 and he said in an interview that he grew up 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.360 in Kuala Lumpur with his parents, his brother, and his sister. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.520 And then he said his sister and his parents died there, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.920 that they were killed in an attack by Malaysian insurgents, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.240 sad story. And then he and his brother got shipped 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.040 off to an orphanage in Chicago. Okay, the boys dipped 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.280 out on the orphanage when he was eleven, so like 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.760 nineteen forty one, they started living on the streets and 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.120 thus began their criming ways. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.400 Oh wow, Yeah. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.760 They would take cheap watches, it'd stick them in the 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.640 packaging of expensive ones and then sell them on the street. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:50.640 Classics. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.000 Classic. He saved, and he saved that sweet watch money. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.520 And when he was eighteen, he rented a suite at 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.320 the Palmer House hotel and he and all his little streeters. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.840 Like his eighteenth birthday or just like I'm eighteen. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.560 I I think I'm eighteen, and now they'll let me 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.920 run around. Okay, So he had all this little group 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.600 of minions, his little urchins, and they said, come on 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.560 live with me, so they all live there. Later he 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.040 told his future wife that he was raised in Singapore. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.960 Okay, they are starting to sound like lies. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.200 He said he went to college there and eventually got 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.480 a doctorate in psychology. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.760 But the truth I've said that at parties on the truth. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.160 Zarin is that he grew up in Chicago with his 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.240 parents and his brother. No adventures in Southeast only adventures 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:34.800 in his head. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.600 Ah, the ones in the mid ones in the mine. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:38.880 So they're the best kind. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.800 By the nineteen sixties, he was performing as a nightclub hypnotist. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.400 He'd graduated. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.080 It's like a cruise ship magician. It just sounds a hypnotist. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.040 There's a really good short documentary about him called Mister Hypnotism, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.600 super easy to find online. He talks about how in 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.800 his early days he would put gray paint in his 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.320 hair to look old and season oh smart, and he 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.680 has this whole riff about how you know, then he'd 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.360 fall asleep and it would get all over his face 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.720 and over the lady's face too. One of those guys, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.480 ah so Ronald Pellar, but he called himself Ronald Dante, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.800 or more popularly doctor Dante. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.920 Doctor Dante, doctor Dte in the house. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.280 And he also conducted self help seminars using hypnotism. According 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.680 to The Wall Street Journal, he had a whole pitch 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.840 at these performances slash seminars. He would say, quote, look around. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.680 You see the fat people and the chainsmokers. See the 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:42.320 folks with nasty children, strained marriages, and stressful jobs. They're 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.199 burned out, they're blue, they're ripe for you. You can 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.199 be their neighborhood hypnotist. You'll handle stress one night, smoking 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.079 the necks on weight lost night, you'll stuff your fattest 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.719 friends into sturdy chairs in your living room, turn the 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.800 lights low, put on soft music, and entrance them with 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.280 words like fatty greasy front foods are noxious. Afterwards, you'll 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.439 do a few hypnotic parlor tricks. You'll have some someone 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.120 make like a concrete slab while you stand on her stomach. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.200 It's easy. You can get incredibly rich at it. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.680 This is insane like and in the era of tupperware parties. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.679 If this is also one of the pictures, you're going to. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.440 Yeah, so he's like, do this at home. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:19.240 Yeah? 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:19.360 No. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.680 In July, No thanks, I'm good love. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:29.160 July of nineteen sixty two, Claire Rosamond Golden Kissel Pillar. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.840 That's a heck of a name. Yeah. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.520 She filed suit against her husband, Dante the Hypnotist. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:34.800 Oh not Ron Dante. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.400 No. She said that he hypnotized her and that while 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.000 she was in a trance, he convinced her to marry him. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.520 I would totally read a book called The Hypnotist Wife. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.320 I'm sure there is one. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:48.959 I just want want to read. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.239 That night, I imagine him like, by the power of the moon. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.440 You will marry me? Say I do? So? 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:02.520 He hypnotizes her hypnotie Mary and hypnotizes her and makes 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.000 makes her give him money. Wow, nineteen thousand, three hundred 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.040 and forty two dollars and twenty two cents. WHOA, why 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:10.840 so specific? 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.559 We asked, Yes, why so specifical? 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.679 As it was every last dime that she had in 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.320 her bank account. Oh, he was like, by the power 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.560 of the moon. Yes, be my bride and give me 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.120 and just empty your bank empty. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.880 Your bank account into my pocket and maybe stopping my bride. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.280 After that, papers in their reporting on this said that 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:28.760 the marriage was never consummated. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.400 How did I know? 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.040 And that Claire and Dante never lived together as husband, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.680 So like, this must have happened like in the bathroom 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:35.240 of the nightclub. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.600 Yeah, a one day wedding, yes, or one day marriage. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:43.880 So February nineteen sixty three, a judge upheld her claims. So, yes, 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.040 indeed he used the power of the moon on you. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:51.480 And she said that she gave Dante an endorsed check 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.920 made out to him. It's like, yeah, I did that, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.760 but I did it because he wasn't going to cash it. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.000 He said he was. He said he was going to 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.560 use it quote as evidence of financial condition with certain 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.959 tax officials. I'm not sure what that means, but I 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.360 think he's like going to show it to the I 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:07.760 R S. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.439 I kind of get it. Good for this bill, I 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.400 don't be it's not the lie that I had questioned them? 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.360 Is that someone believe the lie? Fill out this check? 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.520 I need this, it's feign I need to do bookmark 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.880 for my book the moon. Could you just fill out 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:21.240 this check? 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.079 The power of the moon. It makes you serve a 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:24.240 four year old watermelon. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.280 It makes her stuff. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.480 It is. Uh so he wasn't supposed to cash the check. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.439 He cashed the check and then he used that money 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.720 to buy us savings bonds in his mom's name, the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.559 mom who's supposed to be dead in Kuala Lumpur. Yes, yeah, so, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.000 the judge said Claire quote was under hypnotic influence to 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.200 such an extent that she did not fully comprehend the 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.440 nature and significance of her actions and was rendered thoroughly 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.960 incapable of consenting or entering into marriage relationship freely and voluntarily. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.560 Wonder what the legal statutes are around hypnotism. You know, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.560 what do we have about this? It's all about exercise 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.720 and control. The law is all about exercising control and 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.880 so forth, or your will. But if you have somebody 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.120 else exercise and control over you, are they then legally 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.840 culpable for what you do? Could you then say, oh, 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.920 whatever crimes I did, as long as you have a hypnotist, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.280 you're like, it's on his How far does this work? 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.520 But honestly, is this not the best endorsement for the hypnotists? 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.600 The law set I would practice in the newspaper. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.080 So he didn't need Claire. He had his sights on 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:31.760 bigger fish. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:32.120 Sure. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.880 On May ninth, nineteen sixty nine, he got married again. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.760 Of course, in the course of his life he got 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:38.800 married seven times. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:39.600 Wow. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.080 Yeah, but this was the most spectacular. He was marrying 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.280 a woman who was on her seventh marriage. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.199 How did they find each other? Like at a convention? 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.080 No, they met at a disco three months prior, and 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:52.160 there they were. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.000 You can find someone married seven times? 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.640 Well, there they were in Vegas. They're trying the knots. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.120 The bride min up model actress fem A Tall, America's 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.480 number one sweater girl. Born Julia Jean Turner. You know 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:06.800 her as Lana Turner. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:07.760 Oh no way? 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.120 He married Lana Turner. Wow. So Let's not forget that 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.440 Lana Turner was previously mixed up with mobster Johnny Stompinado. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.320 Oh yes, john he wooed her. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.120 They began dating. It was a violent relationship. Stompinado was 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.440 a domestic abuser, was absolute filth, scum of the yearth I. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.600 Just know the stuff about the salt pepper. He was 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.160 a grinder. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.160 He was a horrible person. On the set of Another Time, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.760 Another Place in London in nineteen fifty seven, Stompinado threatened 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.440 Lana Turner and Sean Connery with a gun. Whoa and 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.000 Connery double O seven to the guy. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.520 This is when Sean Connie was mister Universe. He's a 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.400 huge body. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.200 Grabbed the gun and like twisted Stompinado's wrist. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.800 He yes, He's like, break the gun. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.000 You're playing boshaw. And then April fourth, nineteen fifty eight, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.840 Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl stabbed and killed Stompinata as he 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.280 was beating Lana. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.240 Turn I also know about that. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.000 I don't count this as one percent because he doesn't 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.000 deserve the respect of one percent. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.400 A lot like unt more self defense. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.520 It was it completely was she saved her mother. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:14.960 Monster. They don't consider that murder. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.640 Yeah he was. It was a huge scandal. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.080 Yes, it was definitely. That's how I only know the stories. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.080 Yeah, but her career didn't really suffer. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.760 No, No, she was a sweetheart of America. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.000 Yeah, it was whining down though her career when she 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.240 hooked up with Dante. H So, about a month played 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.360 the back nine. About a month after he married Lana Turner, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.680 someone tried to kill Dante. Oh no, it wasn't Sheryl 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.760 O Good. So he pulled into the garage of his 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.360 apartment building in his car, not just like in a canoe. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.360 He was in the process of emptying the place out 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.120 and moving into Lana's house, and as he went to 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.400 get out of his car, someone popped out and shot 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:53.400 at him five times. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:54.680 I guessing this was an old lover. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.320 Then well, no, the dude takes off. The windshield of 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.440 Dante's car was shattered and he had cuts from the glass. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.200 Oh didn't get hit out of the five bullets. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.000 This is what Lana Turner said in her nineteen eighty 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.200 two autobiography quote, shortly after our wedding, he was shot at, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.720 or so he said, in an underground garage by a 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.640 gunman wearing an Australian bush hat. He got a lot 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.360 of attention in the papers. Maybe that was what he wanted. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.400 I'm going to go with the lie, you know why, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.640 the very specific details. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.040 So he wearing an Australian bush hat. Really his eyes 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.720 were hazel. This is what Dante said, quote, I don't 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.800 know anyone who would want to kill me, unless it 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.840 would be someone who is jealous about the woman I 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.200 just married. Oh yeah, yeah, so poor Lana Turner, she 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.160 can't catch a break and the partner can be a 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.400 good man apparently, Yeah, that's what I'm saying, and things 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.040 about this winter. Dante kept piling up. So right after 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.120 this supposed attempt on his life, like hours later, Oh nice, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.440 he was arrested on a felony grand theft warrant. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:55.480 Ooh. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.520 A year before, in nineteen sixty eight, he'd been arrested 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.800 for trying to steal eighteen thousand dollars worth of motor boats. Wow, which, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.879 like when you say it's like ballparking the price, Like 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.680 I asked for a bag of motor boats? Like weigh 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.359 it out eighteen coptoat? How do you get pinched for 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.240 trying to steal boats? Though he tried, he didn't success. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.000 Does she just love the bad boys who were not 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:18.360 at bad boys? Well? 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.399 Power the moon. So he wrote a check for eighteen 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.959 thousand dollars to Ronald Snyder of the Marlin Boat Company 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.679 out of San Anna, California, that was to pay for 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.520 seven sixteen foot boats. And the check bounced, and so 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.800 Snyder went to Dante's like, where's my money? What the heck? 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.199 Bub and Dante said, tranquilo cool out, I'll bring the 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.720 cash tomorrow morning. Fine, says Snyder, bring the cash, you 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.119 can have the boats. And then Snyder walks off in 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.160 his short shorts and deckshes. So then that night Snyder 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.280 went down to the office and he noticed something fishy. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.720 The lock on the gate was broken. And with each 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.080 detail this sounds more and more like a later episode 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.520 of Colombo. But so what else did Snyder find besides 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.159 the broken lock? Just Dante overseeing a crew loading the 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:04.920 boats on into a. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.840 Flatbed truck loading the boats. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.200 Yes, just load him up. He was arrested but never 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.879 showed up for court. And remember he married Lana Turner 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.840 on May ninth, nineteen sixty nine. November fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.960