We're back with Part 2 of trying to figure what the hell happened to Gary DeVore. In this episode we'll retrace his final days before he went missing - who he talked with, what his demeanor was and how law enforcement handled the investigation (spoiler: not well).

Episode Sources:

“The Missing Scripts Of Gary DeVore: How A Podcast Helped Unearth Lost Work From Hollywood Screenwriter Who Disappeared” by Peter White, Deadline, Dec 13, 2023

“The Mystery of the Dead Hollywood Screenwriter Whose Hands Were Never Found” by Thomas Gane, Vice, May 5, 2016

“Autopsy Suggests Former Carp Screenwriter Was Murdered” Santa Barbara Independent, Aug 25, 2010

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“DeVore No Longer Suspects Sleuth” CBS News, Jul 14, 1998

FBI Records - Gary DeVore

“Witnessed: Fade to Black” Season 5

“The Bizarre Death – and Life – of Publicist/CIA Operative Michael Sands” by Frank Swertlow, The Wrap, Apr 13, 2012

“CIA’s Hollywood Liaison May Be Behind Disappearance of Hollywood Screenwriter Who Knew Too Much” by Mel Elorche, CovertAction Magazine, Oct 10, 2023

“You’ll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again” by Julia Phillips

“The Little Producer that Couldn’t” by Mark Frankel, Spy Magazine, Aug 1989

“Elite Attend Maria Cole DeVore Reception at Her $300,000 Home” JET Magazine, Nov 6, 1969

“Babylon Confidential” by Claudia Christian

“Maria Cole to Wed White TV Writer-Producer” JET Magazine, July 17, 1969

Gary Devore, Petitioner-appellant, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, Respondent-appellee, 963 F.2d 280 (9th Cir. 1992)

“PRODUCTION CHIEF BUYS--AND SELLS—SCRIPTS” by David T. Friendly, Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1986

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“Maria Cole, Nat Cole’s Widow, Weds TV Producer” JET Magazine, Oct 30, 1969

“An offer they couldn't refuse” by Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, The Guardian, Nov 13, 2008

“'The Writer With No Hands’ - An Interview With Matthew Alford” Standing Stone’s Blog, Oct 10, 2014

“Fatigue Cited in Screenwriter’s Fatal Crash” by Scott Glover, LA Times, Oct 10, 1998

“The CIA In Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television” by Tricia Jenkins

“Did the CIA Kill A Hollywood Writer? | The Writer With No Hands (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories”

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