Bad Bad Thing: The Blackstone Sisters

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Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songwriter, is by turns introspective and theatrical, poetic and confessional. She sat down with John Seabrook at The New Yorker Festival in 2019 to reflect on her band’s rapid rise to stardom. She also spoke about her turn toward sobriety after years of heavy drinking. “The first year that I stopped, I felt like I’d really lost a big part of who I was and how I understood myself,” she says. “What I understood is that that was rock and roll, and, if you couldn’t go the hardest, you were letting rock and roll down.” But eventually getting sober let her connect more deeply with fans and with the music. “To be conscious and to be present and to really feel what’s going on—even though it’s painful, it feels like much more a truly reborn spirit of rock and roll,” she says.  Welch wrote the music and the lyrics for “Gatsby: An American Myth,” which opened in June at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Family secrets are exposed by an FBI forensics search of the sister’s computers, and a third, elusive Blackstone sister makes an appearance. Then, one of Wendy Blackstone’s secrets are revealed – information that friends believe could have kept her alive, if only Jill had known. And finally, we hear Wendy’s own words, from the weeks, days, and moments before she died.

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Evidence kept under wraps until now sheds new light on secrets Jill Blackstone had been keeping. And two people closest to the case break their years long silence to help set the record straight, about what really happened to Wendy Blackstone. 

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Jill Blackstone finally explains why she wasn’t in the garage with Wendy and the dogs. The Blackstone trial is resolved, yet doubt remains. But an anonymous source comes foreword with new information to make sure Wendy Blackstone’s story is never forgotten.

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A stunning three-and-a-half-hour interview police conducted with Jill Blackstone, released here publicly for the first time, exposes new details about the decades long Blackstone sisterhood and how Wendy and the dogs might have died.   

Suspicious evidence leads to Jill Blackstone’s arrests, and an upcoming trial. Friends of both sisters share stories of Wendy’s disabilities, and their special bond. First responders reveal the contents of notes found in the sister’s house, and a letter found by Wendy’s body. 

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A sisterhood is shattered, when Wendy Blackstone – who was nearly blind and deaf, is found dead in a garage next to a tipped over barbecue grill. Also in the garage? Three rescue dogs. Police do not believe Wendy’s sister Jill Blackstone, a respected TV producer, who claims Wendy and some of the dogs died by accident.

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TV show producer Jill Blackstone is accused of killing her disabled sister Wendy, and some of their rescue dogs, by leaving them in a garage with a barbecue grill. Jill blames the deaths on accidental monoxide poisoning  But police believe she staged the scene. Who will you believe? Coming October 4.