This is a story local to us, and we've never heard it discussed on any other podcast.

In 1959, a glamorous, well-to-do doctor's wife named Barbara Jean Finch was gunned down one night in front of her mid-century modern West Covina, California home. A witness, her young au pair, saw the murderer with her own eyes. It was Barbara's estranged husband, Bernard "Bernie" Finch. But what the au pair didn't notice was Bernie's lover, Carole Tregoff, hiding in the bushes on the property. Even after Bernie fled the scene, she stayed there all night. Why was Carole there, and was she part of a plot to get rid of Barbara so that she and Bernie could marry? Join us to find out and, along the way, travel to Las Vegas and back, meet an accused gigolo hitman, and muse over why celebrities were so enamored with Bernie Finch. This is the third episode in the podcast's first season, "Accessories to Murder."

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Hosts: Paris Brown and Desi Robba

Produced, written, & edited by: Paris Brown

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 Lobo Loco. "Town Searching Murder" from Headcrash, 2018.

Podcast artwork by Nathalie Rattner ([email protected])

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

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SOURCES AND RECOMMENDED READING:

Closer, Gary. The Many Faces of Carole Tregoff Pappa.

Jones, James Linder. A Murder in West Covina: Chronicle of the Finch-Tregoff Case. Chaparral, 1992.

Mikulan, Steven. “Murder in Black and White.” Los Angeles Magazine. 23 Apr. 2013.

“People.” The Morning Call. 29 Jun. 1977.

Tregoff, Carole. “Carole Tells Her Own Story.” Los Angeles Mirror. 12 Apr. 1961.