On this episode of They Walk Among America… Huntington Hartford rubbed shoulders with some of the elites during his “playboy” years throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In photographs, he posed alongside Salvador Dalí and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In the wake of his father’s death in 1922, he had become one of the heirs to the estate of his grandfather, George Huntington Hartford, who headed the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. At just 12 years old, Hartford inherited $90 million, equivalent to around $1.25 billion today. In 1942, he purchased a 160-acre estate in the picturesque Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and named it The Pines. On the morning of July 20th, 1959, Henry Brugger and Salvador Senjas were beginning their caretaking shift at the lavish estate. As they worked outside under the sultry summer sun, a man scrambled up Sullivan Canyon, which fronted The Pines. He looked extremely dishevelled as he muttered something about an accident at the cliff ledge…

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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.

This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.

Researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.

Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann. 

Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.

MUSIC: 

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

As Dusk Descends by Wicked Cinema

Lord of the Dead by CJ-0

Grimly by Wicked Cinema

Music Box by Stephen Keech

Guided by Lincoln Davis

Ghosts by Enoch Yang

Forsaken Ritual by Cody Martin

Only In Winter by Shimmer

Additional musical compositions by Kory Hilpmann.

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