10. Truman Capote: The Socialite, the Shooting, and the Suicide, Part 1

07/21/19 • 35 min

A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught relationship and accuses Ann of murder by writing a vicious short story about her. This is part 1, which focuses on Capote's own tumultuous life.

This is the third episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.

If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.

Host: Paris Brown

Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown

Recorded at The Dope Spot Studios, Pomona, CA., USA.

Music:
Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and
Tchaikovsky. "Piano Concerto No. 1," 1874-75, as performed by Martha Argerich, 1975.
Creative Commons attribution license.

Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected]; IG: nathalie_rattner).

Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics (IG: st.anchor).

Reddit discussion group

This is the third episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.

If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.

Host: Paris Brown

Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown

Recorded at The Dope Spot Studios, Pomona, CA., USA.

Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected]; IG: nathalie_rattner).

Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics (IG: st.anchor).

Reddit discussion group

Previous Episode

9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2

In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. This is the story of a woman tormented by the dead poet Sylvia Plath, the refusal of Sylvia's husband Ted to commit to her even after he fathered her child, and the memory of her narrow escape from Hitler and the Holocaust.

This is the second episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.

If you like this episode, please subscribe and rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher.

Host: Paris Brown

Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown

Music by: Dr. Frankenstein. "Theme for 'The Mad Thinker'" from The Cursed Tapes: Stolen Songs from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab, 2005
and by
Punch Deck. "Oppressive Ambiance," 2018, under a Creative Commons attribution license.

Next Episode

11. Truman Capote & Ann Woodward: Miss Bang-Bang, Part 2

A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught relationship and accuses Ann of murder by writing a vicious short story about her. This is part 2, which focuses on Ann and Billy Woodward and the infamous shooting.

At the 45-second mark, Batty the podcat joins in with the cutest little squeak ever.

This is the fourth episode in the podcast's second season, "Stranger than Fiction." Click on our website link below for source information.

If you like this episode, please subscribe, rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher, and consider supporting us at Patreon.

Host: Paris Brown

Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown

Recorded at The Dope Spot Studios, Pomona, CA., USA.

Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner ([email protected])

Logo lettering by: St. Anchor Graphics