27: The Lana Turner Murder Trial; Or, Don’t Stompanato On My Heart This Was A Thing: The Retro Podcast

To start off the second half of season one, we decided to go for the most popular kind of podcast: TRUE CRIME! Hollywood is filled with scandals, but there haven’t been many bigger Tinsel Town scandals, than The Lana Turner Murder Trial.

In the 1950’s, Lana Turner was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Sadly, she was dating a violent mobster named Johnny Stompanato. Mr. Stompanto’s violence came to an end when he was discovered stabbed to death in 1958 in Turner’s home. The person holding the knife… Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner’s 14-year-old daughter.

This week, Rob teaches Ray about Lana Turner’s hairdresser, how the media took this story and ran with it, and why famous mobster Mickey Cohen was involved with Johnny Stompanato. Seems Fishy!


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Robert W Schneider
Mark Schroeder
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Daniel Schwartzberg
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