Dearly Departed Podcast

Episode 3 - The Addams Family

Scott and Mike discuss The Addams Family and the deaths of cast members Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, and Ken Weatherwax. We also talk a little about Carol Channing, the Manson Family, the famous Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and more!

Video: Watch a short video of Dearly Departed Tours and Museum's Sharon Tate Birthday Party, with their newly acquired personal effects (Link)

Link: Check out LA Woman Tours!

Article: Read about Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil getting recommended for parole (Link)

Video: There used to be a recording online of Beausoleil and fellow former Manson follower Clem Grogan playing in a band together in prison (probably Beausoleil's "Freedom Orchestra" band) where we're pretty sure Beausoleil called Grogan out by name, but the link appears to have been taken down. However, this live video of the band from 1978 appears to show the two of them performing together (Link)

Link: Support Justice for Homicide Victims

Buy: In Morticia's Shadow: The Life & Career of Carolyn Jones

...and Addams Chronicles: An Altogether Ooky Look at the Addams Family by Stephen Cox

Some of the cremains of Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley)
on display at Dearly Departed Tours and Museum in Hollywood

Link: Check out the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Article: Judy Garland's remains moved to LA (Link)

Article: Read about the man buried in the crypt over Marilyn Monroe (Link)

Video: Amazing newsreel footage about the lynching of the accused murderers of Jackie Coogan's college friend, Brooke Hart (Link)

Jackie Coogan's roadster after the crash that killed both his father
and his best friend, fellow actor Junior Durkin

Article: An interesting blog post about the crash and Coogan's friendship with Durkin (Link)

Dearly Departed Podcast co-host Mike Dorsey with Batman series actor Burt Ward (Robin) in 2012

Episode 2 - The Wasp Woman

In this episode we discuss the bizarre murder of B-movie actress Susan Cabot, AKA Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman! 

Covered in this Episode:

IN THE NEWS

Article: People Magazine's 1987 write-up on the missed interview between Molly Ringwald and Lillian Gish (Link)

Article: Ringwald's defense of the missed interview (Link)

"Early in my career I was asked to do an interview with Lillian Gish and I was really excited. But then everything got screwed up, I smashed my finger in a door, the taxi took me to the wrong end of town, it was the middle of winter, I couldn't get another taxi, and I was heart-broken because they said she didn't want to do it anymore. So I got flowers and wrote her a note and said how sorry I was, and they just wrote this sort of... like... horrible piece on how I stood up this sweet old woman who had a plate of cookies waiting for me. I mean they couldn't have written it to be worse. They got a much better article out of me that way than if I'd showed up, and it started this feeling that I was a bratty actress who didn't care and left people waiting. I've never been the kind of person who would do that."

MAIN FEATURE

:: The Wasp Woman ::

 

The Wasp Woman (1959)

Article: JFK files: CIA lined up actress for date with Jordan's King Hussein during visit to United States (Link)

Jordan's King Hussein (1957)

Timothy Scott Roman, Susan Cabot's son

Article: Scott's write-up on the death of Susan Cabot at FindADeath.com!

Susan Cabot's house and the scene of her murder

Bold laundry detergent - murder weapon hiding spot

Susan Cabot's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends

WRAP-UP

Article: Death Tour Owner Makes Sure Forgotten Actors Get a Headstone (Link)

Actor Johnny Arthur's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends

Article: Scott's write-up on the death of actor Herve Villechaize at FindADeath.com!

Bullet hole from gun that killed actor Herve Villechaize

Video: My Dinner with Herve trailer (Link)

Link: Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas