Big Shot
Money can lead to dangerous outcomes. A generous gift one year leads to a triple homicide decades later. In 1978, a triple homicide occurs inside a home in Palm Springs, California. The trail follows multiple trusts, family disputes, and suspicious characters across California to Texas and even Denmark and Zimbabwe. At the center, a trust setup by Barbara Hutton decades earlier for her cousin Curtis Hutton. Other people and subjects include: Sophia Brownell Hutton Friendly, Edward “Ed” Friendly, Suzanne Friendly, Edward Hutton, Andreas Christensen, David St. John, Antonio Garrido, Michael Taylor, Franklyn Hutton, E.F. Hutton, Grace Hutton, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Jessie Woolworth Donahue, Jimmy “Jeem” Donahue, “Ticki” Germaine Touquet; Palm Springs, California; Santa Barbara, California; San Francisco, California; Houston, Texas; Copenhagen, Denmark; Zimbabwe; family trusts, family disputes, triple homicide, international investigation, Interpol, identity theft, rising financial insecure times Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
October 14, 2022
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Money can lead to dangerous outcomes. A generous gift one year leads to a triple homicide decades later.
In 1978, a triple homicide occurs inside a home in Palm Springs, California. The trail follows multiple trusts, family disputes, and suspicious characters across California to Texas and even Denmark and Zimbabwe. At the center, a trust setup by Barbara Hutton decades earlier for her cousin Curtis Hutton.
Other people and subjects include: Sophia Brownell Hutton Friendly, Edward “Ed” Friendly, Suzanne Friendly, Edward Hutton, Andreas Christensen, David St. John, Antonio Garrido, Michael Taylor, Franklyn Hutton, E.F. Hutton, Grace Hutton, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Jessie Woolworth Donahue, Jimmy “Jeem” Donahue, “Ticki” Germaine Touquet; Palm Springs, California; Santa Barbara, California; San Francisco, California; Houston, Texas; Copenhagen, Denmark; Zimbabwe; family trusts, family disputes, triple homicide, international investigation, Interpol, identity theft, rising financial insecure times
Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
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