The Cotton Club Murder | Friday the 13th | 5

Death of a Starlet

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On the night of May 13th, 1983, Roy Radin makes plans for a dinner meeting with Lanie Jacobs, only to be ambushed in the back of a limousine. The chilling details of how Radin was murdered are finally revealed, as detectives get a prime suspect to confess to the grisly plot. But as investigators close in, a shocking new development threatens to upend the entire case. Meanwhile, Lanie Jacobs abruptly relocates to Florida.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Hollywood and crime
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0:12.6	Wonderly. It's Friday the 13th, May 1983.
0:31.7	Around 10.30 a.m.
0:34.7	Roy Radin stood in the kitchen of his hotel suite, staring into the refrigerator.
0:40.3	He had no interest in food. His stomach was in knots thinking about tonight's dinner with
0:45.3	Lainey. Jonathan sat at the breakfast counter, sipping some strong coffee. Neither one of them
0:51.3	had slept well. Roy remembered the sun coming up just as he finally dozed off.
0:58.6	Jonathan started to speak, then stopped abruptly.
1:03.5	Roy told him to just spit it out.
1:06.9	Jonathan doubled down on why Roy shouldn't go to dinner with Laney.
1:11.0	He was convinced that something sinister would happen.
1:14.4	But Roy cut him off.
1:16.1	He'd been doing some thinking and had come up with a plan to ensure he'd be safe.
1:21.6	It involved Demond Wilson.
1:24.4	Demand is going to come here before dinner.
1:26.9	I'll make sure he brings his gun. At the word gun,
1:31.2	Jonathan buried his face in his hands. Roy ignored him. Instead, he emptied some cocaine
1:39.1	from a baggie onto the counter. He took a long sniff, then laid out the details of his plan. Right before
1:48.3	Laney's arrival, Demand would go wait in his car so she wouldn't spot him. He would follow
1:54.2	Roy and Lainey to La Scala and just happened to bump into them. Then, after dinner, Roy would leave
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