Episode 121: Take the Wheel PT 2
In this concluding episode of a two-parter, Paul and Kate return to the Golden Age of Hollywood, California. A young actress's many connections and relationships make her death an intriguing one, but what could investigators of the time piece together?
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Sources:
The Life and Death of Thelma Todd by William Donati
“From the Archives: Body of Thelma Todd Found in Death Riddle” (The Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1935)
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-thelma-todd-19351217-story.html
“Tragic Death of Blonde Screen Actress Recalls Varied Episodes in Career” (The Los Angeles Times. December 17, 1935)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380623044/?match=1&terms=thelma%20todd
“Miss Todd Reported Seen Long After Death Hour” (The Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1935)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380624051/
“Thelma Todd Quiz Airs her New and Old Loves” (The Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1935)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380628245/?match=1&terms=Thelma%20Todd%20%22grand%20jury%22
“Thelma Todd’s Slippers Take Inquiry Focus” (Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, January 4, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/717460123/?match=1&terms=Thelma%20Todd%20%22grand%20jury%22
“The tragic end of LA’s first celebrity restaurants” by Elina Shatkin (KCRW, March 16, 2023)
“This Exclusive Book Excerpt Unearths the Mysterious Dead Body of the Golden Age Film Star Thelma Todd“ Indiewire (October 28, 2015)