What a Creep

What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 5
“The Cotton Club Murders”

This week’s episode covers the 1983 murder of Roy Radin, a theatrical producer with ties to a planned film called The Cotton Club. At the time, director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Robert Evans were developing the film, a period crime drama loosely inspired by the original club. Radin was found murdered execution-style in a remote canyon in California. The killing was eventually tied to a tangled web involving cocaine-fueled ambition, mob connections, and a bitter feud over money tied to the movie’s production. One of the key figures implicated was Karen Greenberger, a drug-addled femme fatale with ties to organized crime.

Trigger Warnings: Murder and sexual assault.
Sources for this episode:

• Roy Raydin Wikipedia
• Wondery Hollywood & Crime
• All That is Interesting
• Golden Globes 
• UPI
• Vulture
• The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade
• Los Angeles Times 1991
• New York Times 1983

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What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 4
William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper publisher, media mogul, and politician. He all but created yellow journalism (also known as tabloid journalism), focusing on sensationalism over facts to sell more newspapers. He made the blueprint for sensationalized, politicized, and profit-driven media. He owned 28 major newspapers, 18 magazines, radio stations, and film companies. 
Hearst was one of the first media moguls to become a public figure. Now we have Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others who are part of the news and control it. In other words, we probably wouldn’t have Fox News without Hearst. Gee, thanks, you creep. 
Sources for this episode

• BBC
• Britannica 
• “Citizen Hearst” on PBS
• Hearst.com
• HearstCastle.org
• New York Times
• PBS
• Wikipedia

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What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 3
Brian Buckmire (ABC News Legal Contributor)
Host of Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy

Sean "Diddy" Combs was among hip-hop's most influential entertainers and entrepreneurs for decades. But Diddy’s star began to implode when a video came out showing the music mogul assaulting his then-girlfriend. There had long been whispers about Diddy's aggression. But critics say his influence and relevance kept the rumors quiet until now. A raft of new lawsuits detail shocking allegations of sexual abuse and manipulation orchestrated in so-called "freak offs" -- sex parties Diddy allegedly ordered, videotaped, and controlled.

Diddy now faces federal charges that include sex trafficking. He has denied all wrongdoing and said all encounters were consensual. A new podcast from 20/20 and ABC Audio traces how whispers of abuse came to light and led to Diddy’s downfall. ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmire takes listeners inside the rise and fall of Diddy, the allegations and his defense in a six-part weekly narrative series launching March 25, and returning with twice weekly real-time updates once the trial slated for May gets underway. Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy, 

Trigger warning: Sexual assault and sex trafficking. 

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What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 2
Stephen Collins & Jeffrey Jones (Replay ep!)

Stephen Collins is best known for his role on the wholesome WB drama series 7th Heaven, which aired from 1996 to 2007. Jeffrey Jones is likely most recognized for portraying the cartoonish principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the clueless dad in Beetlejuice. The Max show "Hollywood Demons" includes an entire episode discussing Collins's disturbing behavior, featuring testimonies from one of his victims. So we thought replaying this episode while Sonia goes on a well-deserved vacation would be good. Stephen Collins & Jeffrey Jones- What Creeps!

Trigger warning: Child molestation and digital child sexual assault
Sources for Stephen Collins

• ABC News
• ABC News
• InTouch Weekly
• New York Post
• People Magazine
• StephenCollins.com
• TMZ
• Yahoo
• Wikipedia

Sources for Jeffrey Jones

• Entertainment Weekly
• Hollywood Reporter
• Jeffrey Jones interview on YouTube
• Wikipedia

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What a Creep
“The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar” (1912)
Season 29, Episode 1

Margo & Sonia love us a creepy historical crime, and what is more puzzling than the case of Bobby Dunbar? In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family trip to Swayze Lake, Louisiana, sparking a massive search. Eight months later, a boy resembling Bobby was found with a handyman, William Walters, who insisted the child was Bruce Anderson, the son of Julia Anderson. Despite her claims, the Dunbars took the boy and raised him as Bobby. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed he was not biologically related to the Dunbars, meaning the real Bobby Dunbar's fate remains unknown, making this one of history’s most haunting cases of mistaken identity.

Sources for this episode:

• Ranker
• Wikipedia 
• This American Life ep 352
• BuzzFeed Video
• Morbid Podcast
• Country Roads Magazine
• All That’s Interesting
• IFL Science 

Trigger warning: Child abduction 

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What a Creep
Ricky Schroder & Fred Savage
Season 28, Episode 10

Ricky Schroder is probably best known as Ricky on “Silver Spoons.” Fred Savage is perhaps best known as Kevin Arnold on “The Wonder Years.” Both were child stars, and they are also total creeps.

Sources for Ricky Schroder

Ricky Schroder’s Facebook
TMZ
Vanity Fair
VarietyY
Yahoo News
Wikipedia

Sources for Fred Savage
Deadline
Hollywood Reporter
Page Six
Pajiba
Rolling Stone
Vulture
Wikipedia

Trigger warning: Domestic violence and sexual harassment 

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What a Creep: Betty Broderick
Season 28, Episode 9

Betty Broderick is a convicted murderer known for the killing of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his second wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick, in 1989. The case gained widespread media attention (including a memorable appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show) due to its dramatic elements of betrayal, divorce, and revenge. 
Her crimes were the subject of two televison movies starring Meredith Baxter (The Betty Broderick Story) and a USA limited series (Dirty John: Betty) with Amanda Peet and Christian Slater. 

Has she ever taken responsibility for the pain she has caused? We will get into that with this episode. Trigger Warnings: DV, mention of suicide, and murder. 
Sources for this episode

• The Los Angeles Times
• Wikipedia Betty Broderick
• Netflix Dirty John: Betty
• A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
• Spotify podcast: It Was Simple
• Vulture: The Betty Broderick Story
• CBS San Diego
• Oprah interview with Betty Broderick 
• Snapped Betty Broderick
• The Betty Broderick Story: Truth Vs Fiction 
• A Woman Scorned (full movie)
• Good Housekeeping
• Marie Claire
• People 
• Killer Psyche podcast 
• Oxygen channel Betty Broderick 

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What a Creep
Billionaire Boys Club's Joe Hunt
Season 28, Episode 8

We’re talking about the Billionaire Boys Club. You might remember it from the 1987 miniseries of the same name, starring Judd Nelson and Ron Silver. You don’t know it from the 2018 movie “Billionaire Boys Club,” starring Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton, and Kevin Spacey, because it made $618 million in 11 theaters during its opening weekend.

The Billionaires Boys Club was an investment club started by Joe Hunt. Well, he called it an investment club. It was really a Ponzi scheme that led to the murder of two people. What a creep.
Sources for this episode

• Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice
• E! Online
• Investigation Discovery
• Reuters
• The San Francisco Examiner
• San Mateo Daily Journal
• Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Murder

NON-Creep: Alice’s Kids non-profit

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What a Creep
Led Zeppelin on Tour
Season 28, Episode 7

Led Zeppelin is making headlines again with releasing their first official documentary in decades, titled "Becoming Led Zeppelin." The film primarily focuses on the band's music and the early stages of their career as iconic touring legends. One of us is a huge fan (the one leading this episode) and appreciates the band’s remarkable talent while also acknowledging their complicated history, which includes some unsettling stories.

Their life on the road has become part of the groupie lore passed down for decades, and there are also stories involving witchcraft and devil worship connected to Jimmy Page. The band officially broke up in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham. They have regrouped in various forms over the years, but the late '60s and '70s Led Zeppelin—with their numerous tales of debauchery—form the basis for most of this episode. Let's Ramble On, y'all!

Trigger warnings: SA, sexual harassment, grooming, and host Margo breaking out in song from time to time. 
Sources for this episode:

• Daily Fail 
• Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz
• Vanity Fair 
• Story of the Week from “Library of America”
• Ellen Sander: Shake it Up (chapter on Led Zeppelin)
• Rolling Stone
• The Independent
• Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
• I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
• Led Zeppelin Wikipedia 
• The Independent UK
• Far Out magazine
• Far Out Magazine 2
• Led Zeppelin.com Forum
• Metro UK (Shark incident)

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What a Creep
Director Luc Besson
Season 28, Episode 6

Luc Besson is the writer and director of “La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element,” and “Leon: The Professional.” He’s also the writer and producer of “The Transporter” and “Taken” movies. The Daily Beast describes him as “the Michael Bay of France.” The French director has also been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment. What a creep.

Trigger warnings: Rape, sexual harassment, and Sonia’s bad French pronunciation 
Sources for this episode:

• The Daily Mail
• Deadline
• New York Times
• New York Times
• Vanity Fair
• Variety
• Wikipedia

Movie non-profits to support:

• The American Film Institute
• Women Make Movies
• PANO Network
• The Sundance Institute 
• Film Independent.org

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