Speaker 1: A note to the listener. The following story contains some
Speaker 1: adult content and language. Once was a square, such a square,
Speaker 1: little square, and he loved the trim triangle. But she
Speaker 1: was a flirt, and around a skirt vainly she made
Speaker 1: him dangle. Oh, he wanted the wed, and he had
Speaker 1: no dread at the mess that woes and wrangles, for
Speaker 1: he thought that his fate was to pro cuiriate cute
Speaker 1: little squares and triangles. That's a good one. Girl has
Speaker 1: a dream. Girl moves to tinseltown. Girl gets a day
Speaker 1: job where girl meets doctor, renowned playboy doctor. The doctor
Speaker 1: falls for the girl. Maybe the girl rejects the doctor.
Speaker 1: The doctor doesn't like that because the doctor is used
Speaker 1: to getting what he wants. The girl is later found
Speaker 1: dissected in a parking lot. Must have been the doctor.
Speaker 1: That's the only theory that I've ever read about the
Speaker 1: prime suspect in the Angel of Vine case. And unfortunately
Speaker 1: for Dr Adler Harrison, it was the only theory that
Speaker 1: anyone read. Montgomery, Palmer and the detectives in the investigation
Speaker 1: had nothing. They were grasping at straws from the get go,
Speaker 1: and due to the geographic happenstance of Marlene and Adler's
Speaker 1: respective workplaces. Adler was the longest straw, and so the
Speaker 1: media paid more attention to the possibility of his guilt
Speaker 1: than his actual exoneration. This led to the end of
Speaker 1: a prominent medical career and any aspirations as a Hollywood socialite.
Speaker 1: Harrison was doctor to the Stars. He ran with the
Speaker 1: original rat pack, which did not include Sammy and Dean.
Speaker 1: By the way, Sinatra recall Bogard, Hepburn, Spencer, Tracy. The
Speaker 1: list goes on. He was hob nobbing with royalty, but
Speaker 1: once Confidential magazine to follow up off piece labeling him
Speaker 1: the Surgeon Slasher, he became an instant pariah, ousted from
Speaker 1: high society as well as their annual physicals, and so
Speaker 1: Adler Harrison disappeared from the public eye along with his practice.
Speaker 1: But if Adler Harrison really is innocent, then why is
Speaker 1: he standing in the office of the man who might
Speaker 1: know where Marlene Marie Evans was the night of her
Speaker 1: death from Vox Populai and the Los Angeles. Harold, this
Speaker 1: is the Angel of Vine. My old heart ain't gaining
Speaker 1: no ground because my angels appies here. Drop up the script.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, need to get up. I could just
Speaker 1: hand it right to it. I'm sorry, he just ship.
Speaker 1: Should I call security? You're Adler, Harrison Adler. Should I
Speaker 1: call security? No? Not if you want to keep your
Speaker 1: job you want. I don't think Leonard shouted be too
Speaker 1: happy to know that just any random stranger could get
Speaker 1: into his office. All right, just calm down, that won't
Speaker 1: be necessary, imagin Just close the door and go back
Speaker 1: to work. Yes, Adler, who are you? Doesn't concern you,
Speaker 1: says the man who's breaking and entering. What are you
Speaker 1: doing here? You don't get to ask the questions right now?
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be in here? What were you
Speaker 1: looking for in there? Where the hell do you get
Speaker 1: off telling me where I am and am not supposed
Speaker 1: to be? So you're saying, that's Leonard Show secretary. That's
Speaker 1: what you're telling me. Sure you want to stick to
Speaker 1: that story. That's not show secretary. That is Mr Shaw's secretary.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you think she was his girl? His girl?
Speaker 1: You Hollywood people have got a strange way of thinking.
Speaker 1: Because she calls you Adler genius twice, you should tell
Speaker 1: your lookout to be a little more formal. Mr Harrison
Speaker 1: ah Shaw is not going to improve of this. Have
Speaker 1: you two shacking up? Shall send you to spy on me? No,
Speaker 1: you didn't send me, but she'll get caught eventually. Actually
Speaker 1: never met the man towards the plan you do ransack
Speaker 1: in the office running away together. What if you don't
Speaker 1: tell me why you're here? I may change my mind
Speaker 1: about that call to security. What the hell I'm invested
Speaker 1: getting a murder? Yeah? Funny, I should find you here,
Speaker 1: don't you thank you? Murder? Well? What the hell would
Speaker 1: Leonard Shawn know about a murder? I don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't share that with you if I did.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, I went she I'm going to be back.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, seeing as I'm already here, maybe
Speaker 1: you can clear up a few things for me. I
Speaker 1: would rather we do this elsewhere. You're afraid of image
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we can talk to my office.
Speaker 1: Your office, Yes, my office. I'm the studios doctor, not
Speaker 1: a damn production liey. Congratulations, Yeah, sure, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what you've done with the place. From here,
Speaker 1: they take a long, silent walk across the lot to
Speaker 1: Adler's office. All you can hear are their footsteps and
Speaker 1: a bicycle ball at one point, to which Adler responds,
Speaker 1: good morning. It felt very intense, and I'll admit that
Speaker 1: that maybe that's because of all the questions running rampant
Speaker 1: through my mind while listening to it for the first time.
Speaker 1: But why wouldn't it be tense? This man was a
Speaker 1: potential killer who had either a sixth sense of humor
Speaker 1: or an involuntary sense of irony, because the only thing
Speaker 1: he asked Hank on the walk was this, have you
Speaker 1: seen that new picture? Twelve angry men? I have not. Mhm,
Speaker 1: you should? Everyone should. I want to take a moment
Speaker 1: here to acknowledge those of you who have followed the
Speaker 1: angel le Vine prior to this podcast and have been
Speaker 1: waiting very patiently for this part of the story. Immediately
Speaker 1: following our first episode, I started getting tweets and emails
Speaker 1: like it was Dr Harrison, wasn't it? Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: you can tell me? Or is there anything new with
Speaker 1: Adler Harrison. The most popular sentiment by far was similar
Speaker 1: to this, please tell me there's a tape of Adler
Speaker 1: Harrison's confession. Please. Almost every character of that tweet was
Speaker 1: any and I get it even I jumped the gun
Speaker 1: and brought up Adler's involvement more than a few times
Speaker 1: prior to this episode. Actually, I would cite his name
Speaker 1: while recording these little transitions, and my producer would tell
Speaker 1: me I couldn't because anyone unfamiliar with the case wouldn't
Speaker 1: understand what the hell I was talking about. Well, here
Speaker 1: we are. We're finally going to get everyone caught up.
Speaker 1: It's the attraction to the unknown. Here, the what if.
Speaker 1: Let's say that everything that we can research in this
Speaker 1: case about dr Adler Harrison is analogous to your typical
Speaker 1: Sunday flea market. Right. You go back, maybe not every week,
Speaker 1: but often enough that you're sure you've seen everything it
Speaker 1: has to offer. Um rusted soft drink signs, stainless steel lighters,
Speaker 1: and loose pezz Dispenser's restored mid century living room set,
Speaker 1: a radio flyer full of old toys. But you you
Speaker 1: can't help but look around, just in case there's something
Speaker 1: you may have missed, maybe some unknown treasure, something that
Speaker 1: looks like junk, but it it's actually worth a fortune.
Speaker 1: The seven all our oil painting that turned out to
Speaker 1: be an original renoir. But that's the thing. No matter
Speaker 1: how many times you go back, there's never a rent war.
Speaker 1: It's always the same information as before. But there is
Speaker 1: an almost rabid fascination with Adler. Theorists and self proclaimed
Speaker 1: fanatics of this case have gone as far as to
Speaker 1: create anagrams from his name, as if that were going
Speaker 1: to uncover some long lost clue. And if you can
Speaker 1: tell me the significance of overran harmless adrenaline, I will
Speaker 1: personally let you host the final episode of this podcast.
Speaker 1: So why, hm, why are we so sure that he
Speaker 1: did it? It isn't because the press of the police
Speaker 1: told us that he was the most logical suspect. It's
Speaker 1: because he was the most logical suspect exhibiting. Marlen Murray
Speaker 1: Evans worked part time as a receptionist for a pediatrist
Speaker 1: in the same medical building that housed Adler's practice. What
Speaker 1: got the attention of the police was Exhibit B numerous
Speaker 1: accounts of Marlene and Adler seen together around the common
Speaker 1: areas of the building Exhibit C. One very specific account
Speaker 1: was that of Anderson Lobli, one of the security guards
Speaker 1: at Midway Hospital. He recalls Adler visibly upset while talking
Speaker 1: to Marlene He said he remembered thinking he would have
Speaker 1: to intervene when Adler grabbed her by the arm. But
Speaker 1: Exhibit D was what led to his arrest, the fact
Speaker 1: that he wasn't just any old doctor. One. He had
Speaker 1: access to both pentobarbital and cicco barbatal, the drugs found
Speaker 1: in marlene system. Two. Adler's father, Dr Richard Harrison, was
Speaker 1: a neurosurgeon who studied under one of the pioneers of neurosurgery,
Speaker 1: Harvey Cushing, so we can assume that from an early
Speaker 1: age Adler was exposed to knowledge of the human spine. Three.
Speaker 1: Adler was set to follow in his father's footsteps after
Speaker 1: medical school, so he would have been well versed in anatomy, dissection,
Speaker 1: and the ability to deftly wield sharp surgical instruments. Four.
Speaker 1: Neurosurgery was in its infant stage. Back surgery required large
Speaker 1: posterior incisions, or more graphically, cutting through the muscle and
Speaker 1: tissue of the back. It's a reach, but it was
Speaker 1: similar enough to the way Marley Marie Evans was mutilated
Speaker 1: that the detectives arrested Adler in his office three days
Speaker 1: after she was found. But with a lack of evidence
Speaker 1: and a decent alibi that placed him out of town
Speaker 1: at the time of the murder. They couldn't hold him.
Speaker 1: Adler Harrison was released from police custody and became a
Speaker 1: dead end the moment he walked out of that precinct.
Speaker 1: So where were are you at night? You're not even
Speaker 1: slightly amazing. I wasn't trying to be Okay, who are you,
Speaker 1: thank brag. I'm a private investigator who hired you. Where
Speaker 1: were you the night of the murder? You're kidding? You said,
Speaker 1: wait until we were in your office. We're in your office. Now,
Speaker 1: where were you? I was cleared, not by me, you weren't.
Speaker 1: Don't make me ask you again. I was in Phoenix. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I read the statement from the surgeon at Northern Mount Hospital.
Speaker 1: What the part I missed was what you were doing there?
Speaker 1: I can't answer that. Don't give me that doctor patient
Speaker 1: confidentiality speech you gave the detectives. I'm not a cup
Speaker 1: and I don't have to behave like one. How would
Speaker 1: you like drink talk? My patient was shooting a movie
Speaker 1: on location and felt ill. Then I have doctors in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: You must know who some of my patients were, and
Speaker 1: it is essential to them, not only to them, to
Speaker 1: their employers at their reputations remain protective. I don't care
Speaker 1: about patients, studios, and reputations. The only thing I care
Speaker 1: about right now is that I'm not talking to the
Speaker 1: man who killed an innocent woman. Oh Christ, will you
Speaker 1: shut your trap already? Bonanza Airlines round trip. I wasn't
Speaker 1: anywhere near Los Angeles. You told me to shoot anything again,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna taste that disk. You always keep your
Speaker 1: boarding passes? Uh No, But under the whirlwind of circumstances
Speaker 1: I returned to I thought it would be best to
Speaker 1: hold onto that one. Smart. It was an emergency appendect
Speaker 1: to me. Okay, while they were filming, my patient experienced
Speaker 1: an abdominal pain severe enough that he fell off his horse.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just tell the cops that, Oh come on,
Speaker 1: and he was a leading man, a cowboy falling off
Speaker 1: his horse. Can you imagine Hopper's headlines? No, I took
Speaker 1: my job very seriously, and I still do what happened
Speaker 1: that day you grabbed Marline. I never grabbed her. I
Speaker 1: don't know why Anderson. I don't know why he would
Speaker 1: say that, other than he's yearning for the spotlight. You
Speaker 1: know how it is when you rent a cops. But
Speaker 1: you did have an altercation. She was always flirtatious, a
Speaker 1: lovely smile. I thought we were flirtatious. It was wrong,
Speaker 1: I guess she uh if you had heard about my reputation,
Speaker 1: went too many stories about nights out on the strip.
Speaker 1: And she wouldn't accompany me to dinner. She was afraid
Speaker 1: that people would immediately assume the wrong idea of her.
Speaker 1: I told her she was being ridiculous. She didn't deserve that,
Speaker 1: and she just left the way she was. You saw
Speaker 1: the crime scene photos, Yeah, the first thing they showed
Speaker 1: me when they brought me in to quote Detective Perkins,
Speaker 1: Maybe this will shake you up. What can you tell
Speaker 1: me about Leonard Shaw? What do you I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's quite the entertainer I hear, mm hmm. It was
Speaker 1: not for a while now, Well then it must be
Speaker 1: pretty quiet and bell air these days from what I
Speaker 1: heard about those parties. What what was that? What that's smirk?
Speaker 1: Let's smirk? You smirk just now? What didn't smirked? What
Speaker 1: aren't you telling me you are out of here? Don't
Speaker 1: you ship ad at me? What? Doctor patient confidentiality. He's sick, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he pays me a lot of money to make
Speaker 1: sure that stays out of the papers. Well, I need
Speaker 1: to see him. Well, I wish you the best of
Speaker 1: luck in your endeavors. I need to ask him some questions, Adler,
Speaker 1: And you want me to do? What? Interrupt his ranting
Speaker 1: to say, Oh, Leonard, this p I just broke into
Speaker 1: your office and he wants to give you the third
Speaker 1: degree in the privacy of your own home. I think
Speaker 1: you should hear him out. I mean, m hm. He
Speaker 1: would certainly find the energy to crack a Brandy snifter
Speaker 1: across my skull. I don't really care how you get
Speaker 1: me in there. Give him this and tell him I
Speaker 1: won't take up much of his time. What could he
Speaker 1: possibly have to offer you? Sorry, investigator client confidentiality. Now,
Speaker 1: to all the devotees, theorists and fanatics, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to tell you, and I have a feeling many
Speaker 1: of you maybe in doubt after all, and I'm playing
Speaker 1: devil's advocate here. We can't see what Adler placed on
Speaker 1: the desk. We don't know if the boarding pass was real,
Speaker 1: right it was his alibi checked out? And you don't
Speaker 1: have to take my word for it. Take Hanks. Oh no,
Speaker 1: there's no way you're getting me up in one of
Speaker 1: those things. He sunny legs, looking better. Yeah, the old
Speaker 1: lady says, you can hardly notice a limp anymore. How's
Speaker 1: she doing? Same? Old ready to pop? I tell you,
Speaker 1: hoping for a little boy, just out for healthy with
Speaker 1: ten fingers and ten toes. You know it. Hank's staying
Speaker 1: out of trouble. You know who I am. The more bars,
Speaker 1: the more more cop bars. Anyway, Well that makes two
Speaker 1: of us. How's that doing it? I haven't heard from him.
Speaker 1: Yanked him right off the street after all of that,
Speaker 1: stuck him trapped in a box. Those guys were killed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't gonna let that happen. You're a good kid,
Speaker 1: always been a good kid. You just gotta stop stepping
Speaker 1: in piles of trouble. No more of that for me, Hank.
Speaker 1: I promised you guys, straight and narrow, good boy. I mean,
Speaker 1: other than this, this doesn't count. Do you get the list? Yep?
Speaker 1: That's the one. YEA got it? What can I see?
Speaker 1: It's Sonny? Oh oh yeah, yeah, and uh he got
Speaker 1: what you're looking for, the son of a bitch was
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. Yeah, yeah, it does here you go for
Speaker 1: your troubles. Oh yeah, if I spotty? Are you sure
Speaker 1: you're better? Positive? Before I changed my mind? Put that
Speaker 1: list back where you found it. You gotta heck, let's
Speaker 1: see how to add for me, will you? And thanks?
Speaker 1: Come on, Hank, thank you. Headler didn't do it, then,
Speaker 1: who the hell did? That's the sixty four question, sounder, bitch,
Speaker 1: Let's see how much of this we got left? No Shaw,
Speaker 1: no more Adler, no their leads. The five tapes that
Speaker 1: follow are of Hank from his office. He's talking to himself, pacing, cursing,
Speaker 1: racking his brain to the point of mental exhaustion. On
Speaker 1: one tape, he falls asleep, and it's nothing but snoring
Speaker 1: for four hours. He tries to make sense out of
Speaker 1: literally nothing, everything short of anagrams of Adler's name. He
Speaker 1: goes over every detail we've covered so far, and then
Speaker 1: he goes over all of it again. He reads the autopsy,
Speaker 1: Perkins crime scene report, picks apart every sentence of Adler's file,
Speaker 1: and the only conclusion that he comes to is that someone,
Speaker 1: at one point everyone is lying to him. He starts
Speaker 1: to sound a little desperate and juvenile, sometimes drunk and
Speaker 1: incredibly onely. I felt sorry for him, but that faded
Speaker 1: quickly when I remember that Hank had a family through
Speaker 1: all of this, his wife Lois, seven year old Phillis,
Speaker 1: and her younger sister Arlene. In my own mental exhaustion,
Speaker 1: my marathon of listening to tape after tape, I still
Speaker 1: had no idea how long it had been since he'd
Speaker 1: been home, and I remembered my exchange with Phyllis. My
Speaker 1: mother used to say, all he cared about was that
Speaker 1: dead girl met and Angel. It makes more sense now.
Speaker 1: Gi was a tough cookie, all right, Maybe the mccombo
Speaker 1: or the truck. Are you kidding me? It's gonna have
Speaker 1: any idea? What the hell you're talking about it? You're
Speaker 1: an idiot, damn it. Two little girls you've fostered. Calm down,
Speaker 1: What the hell did you? You don't forget about me?
Speaker 1: I don't care about me. You can tell me to
Speaker 1: go to hell for all though. All I care about
Speaker 1: but what they missed? You working, always working for? What?
Speaker 1: Take her home? What you like? Other propos lives better
Speaker 1: than yours? This of this, piles and piles of ship
Speaker 1: and who's watching the kids look at this thing. Damn it.
Speaker 1: This wasn't cheap, the kids of the dotty It's not
Speaker 1: been the damn thing. Well, why do you even need
Speaker 1: to turn it on? You had no business bringing it
Speaker 1: down here. And I'm on a case. Hen turn that
Speaker 1: thing off. I think better with it on. There's too
Speaker 1: many thoughts to connect that I don't know when something's
Speaker 1: gonna click. You're worry me, man, This this is the work.
Speaker 1: Ain't not gonna worry about what says? You've been hold
Speaker 1: maybe five times in the past month. It's able. Have
Speaker 1: you been sleeping here when I got to explain myself
Speaker 1: to you now too? And I had a lead. Go home, Hank,
Speaker 1: see your daughters, and this is the work. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: can only assume that Hank made an occasional appearance at
Speaker 1: home because there were no further visits from Lois or ed.
Speaker 1: That said, the next eleven tapes of Hank are more
Speaker 1: of the same of what I described earlier. He sounds
Speaker 1: almost manic at times as he airs his frustrations. Eleven
Speaker 1: tapes weeks of self imposed mental torture over a lack
Speaker 1: of clairvoyance. What am I missing? What am I not seeing?
Speaker 1: What he couldn't have seen were the two looming phone
Speaker 1: calls that would change everything. Hey Briggs Hello. The Angel
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