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Speaker 1: A note to the listener. The following story contains some

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Speaker 1: adult content and language. This box just had a bunch

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Speaker 1: of little dresses, and I'm assuming they're yours, either mine

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Speaker 1: or your aunt ar Lean's one of ours? And what

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Speaker 1: size is that? Um? Seven? It must be mine? Is

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Speaker 1: this Hank? That's him, my mysterious grandfather. Wow? Here was

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Speaker 1: there aren't a ton of those, Beth. Where did you

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Speaker 1: find that one? It was in a box, Mark Hughes.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense. That was the judge. It was so handsome. No, no,

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Speaker 1: not not a judge, my grand The voices you're hearing

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Speaker 1: with me are a Phyllis Briggs Turner and her daughter,

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Speaker 1: Beth Turner. Phillis owns a breakfast spot just outside of Seattle,

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Speaker 1: and Beth is a freelance writer for an online magazine.

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Speaker 1: Here they were taking me through some of the belongings

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Speaker 1: left behind by Phyllis's late father, Hank Briggs, a private

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Speaker 1: detective in the Los Angeles area in the nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 1: Can you help me with this? Oh? Yeah, of course, thanks? Mom?

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Speaker 1: Was this photo from the war? Uh? No, it's basic training,

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Speaker 1: I think, Ah, Jesus, I can't believe we kept all

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Speaker 1: of these. There's so much stuff. Hank died just over

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Speaker 1: two months ago, and the arrival of all of his

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Speaker 1: belongings to Phyllis's house is fairly recent and was somewhat unexpected. See,

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Speaker 1: Hank had lived alone for years with little to no

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Speaker 1: contact with anyone, so when Phillis and Beth showed up

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Speaker 1: to clean out his house, they expected to find just

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Speaker 1: like but hidden away in the attic of hank briggs home.

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Speaker 1: We're missing pieces in one of the most famous unsolved

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Speaker 1: murders Hollywood has ever known. From Vot's Popula and the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Harold, this is the Angel of Vine. Why

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Speaker 1: old heart ain't gain and no ground because my Angels.

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Speaker 1: I'm Oscar Simons of the Los Angeles, Harold, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Angel of Vine. A little bit about me

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Speaker 1: and my involvement in this crazy story before we begin.

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Speaker 1: Some of you already know me in my podcast, so

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Speaker 1: please bear with me. As I explained to those who

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Speaker 1: may be listening for the first time, I promised to

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Speaker 1: try and make it brief I've always been fascinated by

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Speaker 1: investigative police work, specifically when that work reaches its limit,

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Speaker 1: where there are no more clues or leads, and all

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Speaker 1: information and options seem to have been exhausted. A cold case. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of the most famous of these cases is the

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Speaker 1: Angel of Vine. Chances are you've heard the name, even

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Speaker 1: if you don't know the details now. Like so many others,

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Speaker 1: this case has always been of great interest to me.

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Speaker 1: It was a gruesome murder for any time period, but

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Speaker 1: in its tracks when it seemed as if there was

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Speaker 1: nowhere left to look. Everyone just stopped looking. Everyone except

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Speaker 1: for Hank Briggs so Beth for the record, for our listeners,

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Speaker 1: Why am I here such deep questions so early in

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Speaker 1: the morning. No, Um, you're here because I called you

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Speaker 1: about my grandfather's tapes that I found, that my mother

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Speaker 1: and I found. And what about those tapes led you

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Speaker 1: to me? We have to go back a little. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: Right yeah, l A p D contacted Seattle p D,

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and left everything to me? Wow? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's your average house call. No, not so much. How

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Speaker 1: long had it been since she's senior Valley? Long time?

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Speaker 1: Not since my mother's funeral. I'm sorry, don't be so

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Speaker 1: After that, you had l A. Yes, we flew down

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Speaker 1: We didn't meet the realtor there until the next day.

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Speaker 1: and what do you see the trappings of a mad hoarder.

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Speaker 1: in those boxes? We found the tapes? Where was he? Right?

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Speaker 1: So I'm following the guy, and he drives right past

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Speaker 1: if I don't get anything on him. So I sneak

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Speaker 1: can you believe? Then, how the hell am I going

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Speaker 1: When I showed the pictures to each his own, I guess,

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Speaker 1: Beth insisted on shipping it all here. I never met him,

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Speaker 1: like some more coffee. Thanks. Okay, so you ship all

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Speaker 1: you describe what a mini phone is? Yeah? So it's

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Speaker 1: you mean? Well, I knew the name the Angel of Vine.

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Speaker 1: the crime scene, botus, I did. Jesus Christ. A warning

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Speaker 1: Hank reading Detective Lieutenant Robert Perkins report of when he

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Speaker 1: would later be identified as Marlene Murray Evans, dubbed by

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Speaker 1: the media the Angel Levine. Body was lying souppine let's

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Speaker 1: tell me about Hank? We know he was a police officer.

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Speaker 1: there for? You come? Highly recommended, Mr Briggs. Urban was

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