Episode 2 - The Wasp Woman

Dearly Departed Podcast

Mike Dorsey

True Crime, Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss the bizarre murder of B-movie actress Susan Cabot, AKA Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman!
Covered in this Episode:
IN THE NEWS
Article: People Magazine's 1987 write-up on the missed interview between Molly Ringwald and Lillian Gish (Link)
Article: Ringwald's defense of the missed interview (Link)
"Early in my career I was asked to do an interview with Lillian Gish and I was really excited. But then everything got screwed up, I smashed my finger in a door, the taxi took me to the wrong end of town, it was the middle of winter, I couldn't get another taxi, and I was heart-broken because they said she didn't want to do it anymore. So I got flowers and wrote her a note and said how sorry I was, and they just wrote this sort of... like... horrible piece on how I stood up this sweet old woman who had a plate of cookies waiting for me. I mean they couldn't have written it to be worse. They got a much better article out of me that way than if I'd showed up, and it started this feeling that I was a bratty actress who didn't care and left people waiting. I've never been the kind of person who would do that."

MAIN FEATURE
:: The Wasp Woman ::

The Wasp Woman (1959)
Article: JFK files: CIA lined up actress for date with Jordan's King Hussein during visit to United States (Link)

Jordan's King Hussein (1957)

Timothy Scott Roman, Susan Cabot's son

Article: Scott's write-up on the death of Susan Cabot at FindADeath.com!

Susan Cabot's house and the scene of her murder

Bold laundry detergent - murder weapon hiding spot

Susan Cabot's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends

WRAP-UP
Article: Death Tour Owner Makes Sure Forgotten Actors Get a Headstone (Link)

Actor Johnny Arthur's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends
Article: Scott's write-up on the death of actor Herve Villechaize at FindADeath.com!

Bullet hole from gun that killed actor Herve Villechaize

Video: My Dinner with Herve trailer (Link)
Link: Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas

Transcript

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0:00.0	From Hollywood's famous El Coyote Restaurant, it's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your hosts, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.
0:26.3	And welcome to episode two of the dearly departed podcast. I'm Mike Dorsey.
0:27.6	I'm Scott Michaels.
0:36.2	And we are here at the amazing El Coyote restaurant in Los Angeles, California, who are so gracious to let us have our show here.
0:39.7	Very kind of them. And mm, mm, mm, they're food's good.
0:44.0	I used to really dog on it a long time ago, but no, I love it here.
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:45.4	Yep.
0:46.5	El Cote is amazing.
0:50.3	News of the week.
0:58.3	So last week, we talked, or I guess a couple weeks ago now, just so you know people listening at home, we are recording two shows at once because it is the holidays, and so we just
1:04.6	recorded our Christmas show, and now we are doing the show that we'll play after that, because
1:09.3	we'll all be doing holiday craziness
1:11.5	when we would want to release this. So for that reason, looking ahead, we don't know what
1:17.9	the deaths of the week are going to be. We are not that good by the time that this airs.
1:21.9	But if we had a wish list.
1:23.5	Who would you put on that wish list, Scott? What kind of hate mail can we get for next week?
1:29.3	I would never wish anyone dead.
1:31.1	But what is the expression?
1:32.7	There are some obituaries I've read with pleasure.
1:37.1	And I've just tried, you know, I, you know, I could, it'd be really mean to say Molly Ringgold, wouldn't it?
1:44.1	And I would be pretty cruel. How about David Spade? You know, I could... It'd be really mean to say Molly Ringgold, wouldn't it? And that would be pretty cruel.
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