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Speaker 2: Today we are covering the case of Candace or Candy Mosler.
Speaker 2: Candy was a socialite in the nineteen sixties. Her story
Speaker 2: centers on scandal and money. Her highly publicized trial was
Speaker 2: one of the most sensational of the sixties. Candace or
Speaker 2: Candy was born in the small rural town of uk
Speaker 2: in Georgia. She was one of twelve children and they
Speaker 2: were raised on a farm. That sounds weird. They weren't
Speaker 2: raised like animals on the farm. The family lived on
Speaker 2: a farm where the children were raised and the family
Speaker 2: didn't have much money. When Candy was twelve, her mother, Lizzie,
Speaker 2: who was pregnant, gave birth to a stillborn baby. Lizzie
Speaker 2: herself died a few days later because of the complications
Speaker 2: during childbirth. So now Candy's father was left with twelve
Speaker 2: children to raise on his own. And I mean this
Speaker 2: is like a huge, out of left field thing for him.
Speaker 2: So he ended up turning to the bottle and he
Speaker 2: began drinking heavily and eventually he just abandoned his family.
Speaker 2: So the kids went to go stay with family members
Speaker 2: and Candy. Candy never graduated high school. She actually left
Speaker 2: and got married. She married this man and they went
Speaker 2: on to have two children. But this wasn't for Candy.
Speaker 2: Candy had big dreams. Candy was a person that throughout
Speaker 2: her life, I guess you could describe her as very vain.
Speaker 2: She liked big blonde hair. She had her aspirations set
Speaker 2: a lot higher, and throughout her life you'll see that
Speaker 2: she doesn't even really like to tell people her age.
Speaker 2: Everything showy and big and you know. So, Candy went
Speaker 2: to New York trying to break through as a model,
Speaker 2: and she studied at the Barbezone School of Modeling. She
Speaker 2: was meeting the right people, although she never had her
Speaker 2: huge breakthrough she was looking for. She moved to New
Speaker 2: Orleans and there she created the Candice Modeling and Self
Speaker 2: Improvement School, kind of selling herself as like a person
Speaker 2: that was a model but is now doing this. She's
Speaker 2: still involved in philanthropy, rubbing the elbows, and through one
Speaker 2: of these meetings, the newly divorced Candy met newly divorced
Speaker 2: Jacques Mosler, so Jacques or Jack Mosler. Little about him.
Speaker 2: His father died when he was young, and he was
Speaker 2: raised by his mother, and from a young age he
Speaker 2: was very driven to have a good life for himself
Speaker 2: and to provide for his mother. This gave him a
Speaker 2: really strong work ethic, and Jack worked very hard. He
Speaker 2: made his wealth through car sales, through finance through a
Speaker 2: repo company he owned, which those are three things to
Speaker 2: have in a row that I guess you could call
Speaker 2: the trifecta if you can sell a car, high interest
Speaker 2: it and repoet right. So Jack was married before, like
Speaker 2: I said, he was recently divorced, and from that marriage
Speaker 2: he had four children with his previous wife. And I
Speaker 2: guess him and his wife, his ex wife weren't on
Speaker 2: like super bad terms. It just you know, wasn't meant
Speaker 2: to be. Jack was significantly older than Candy. It's hard
Speaker 2: to give an actual number because Candy, like I said,
Speaker 2: she doesn't like to share her real age, but it
Speaker 2: is thought that they were about twenty years apart. So
Speaker 2: the two of them hit it off and they were
Speaker 2: married in nineteen forty nine. They seemed like a great
Speaker 2: fit Jack would spoil Candy. Jack, who was worth millions,
Speaker 2: bought her a twenty eight roum mansion in Texas where
Speaker 2: a couple could live. He also had a place in Florida,
Speaker 2: and Candy still you know, big hair, meeting the right people,
Speaker 2: going to charities philanthropy. In nineteen fifty seven, Candy and
Speaker 2: Jack heard about these four children who suffered a tremendous loss,
Speaker 2: leaving them without parents to care for them. Not to
Speaker 2: get too far into it, but basically their father murdered
Speaker 2: their pregnant mother and the father is now institutionalized. So
Speaker 2: Candy heard of these children that were, you know, to
Speaker 2: be put in foster care, war to the state, whatever.
Speaker 2: And she came from a large family and she wanted
Speaker 2: to keep these kids together, and Jack, who loved children
Speaker 2: as well, was on board. They agreed to take these
Speaker 2: four children in and plan to fully adopt them, which great.
Speaker 2: But everything changed in nineteen sixty one when Candy's sister
Speaker 2: told her son her son's name is Melvin, to contact
Speaker 2: his aunt. That sounds very confusing, sorry, but basically Melvin
Speaker 2: is Candy's nephew, Melvin Powers. He just got out of
Speaker 2: serving a stint for some sort of con he just
Speaker 2: he pulled, We'll tried to pull. So Melvin called his
Speaker 2: aunt Candy, who is married to millionaire Jacques, hoping to
Speaker 2: maybe get a job a foot in the door somewhere,
Speaker 2: and Candy said, sure, come on down to Texas and
Speaker 2: we can figure something out. So Melvin did just that.
Speaker 2: He went to Texas and he moved into the twenty
Speaker 2: plus room mansion with his aunt Candy and Jack. He
Speaker 2: got a job working as a salesman, getting his life
Speaker 2: back together, saving up money. During this time, Jack he
Speaker 2: wasn't doing so great and he started staying more in Florida.
Speaker 2: He was having health issues and so Candy, meanwhile, was
Speaker 2: left alone a lot. Jack suspected that Candy was cheating,
Speaker 2: and then when one of his workers told Jack what
Speaker 2: they saw, this kind of confirmed Jack's suspicion even more.
Speaker 2: But he wanted to see for himself if Candy was cheating.
Speaker 2: So Jack went back to Texas and while at the house,
Speaker 2: he checked Candy's diary and he found out that, in fact,
Speaker 2: his wife was having an affair. He also found out
Speaker 2: with who Candy was having an affair with her own
Speaker 2: nephew insert puke sound. Jack was disgusted as am I,
Speaker 2: Jack went to talk to a lawyer to give him
Speaker 2: his options. I mean, obviously Jack was going to kick
Speaker 2: Melvin out, but he had to decide whether to stay
Speaker 2: married or file for divorce. But the thing is, if
Speaker 2: he filed for divorce, Candy takes half. So he had
Speaker 2: a lot to think about because this is the sixties,
Speaker 2: it's a different time. This could affect his image, his company,
Speaker 2: his fortune. Well, he went and he fired Melvin, and
Speaker 2: Melvin was escorted out of the Texas mansion, a whole ordeal.
Speaker 2: Two armed men had to take him off property. Melvin
Speaker 2: didn't go easy, and on his way out he vowed
Speaker 2: he would quote return as the owner of the mansion.
Speaker 2: So Jack and Candy remained married, but they both kind
Speaker 2: of live their own lives. Jack didn't want to let
Speaker 2: Candy get half of his money by filing for divorce,
Speaker 2: and the prenump was set up that if Candy filed
Speaker 2: for divorce, she would only get two hundred thousand, and
Speaker 2: she wanted more than that. He was worth thirty three million.
Speaker 2: So Jack was staying at the Florida home and now
Speaker 2: we're in June nineteen sixty four. Candy and the kids
Speaker 2: go to visit Jack in Florida, and one night, at
Speaker 2: about one am, Candy just said she was going to
Speaker 2: go to the hospital. Because Candy had a history of
Speaker 2: suffering from excruciating migraines should get shots to deal with that.
Speaker 2: It was an issue that plagued her for years. It
Speaker 2: wasn't anything new, so Candy got ready to go to
Speaker 2: the er. She piled all the children into the car
Speaker 2: drove off. While she was out, somebody broke into Jack's home.
Speaker 2: Candy returned to the house after driving around and not
Speaker 2: going to the emergency room for hours, she walked into
Speaker 2: this horrific scene. She found Jack on the floor wrapped
Speaker 2: in a blanket. Doctor handworker was called and he made
Speaker 2: his way to the emergency. He found the millionaire lying
Speaker 2: on his living room floor, covered in a blank It
Speaker 2: was stab marks and blood pooled all around him. The
Speaker 2: doctor checked for a pulse and found none Jack, who
Speaker 2: was wearing only a robe and a T shirt. Later
Speaker 2: in the autopsy, they would be determined that Jack was
Speaker 2: struck in the head with a blunt object and that
Speaker 2: he was stabbed thirty nine times. The scene was brutal.
Speaker 2: Whoever did it clearly had a significant amount of strength
Speaker 2: and anger. And I forgot to mention, but Melvin's a
Speaker 2: big boy. Dude's like six' four and he's a pretty hefty. Guy,
Speaker 2: police while, unseen gathered as much as they. Could they
Speaker 2: found a bloody fingerprint at the. Scene they spoke to,
Speaker 2: neighbors and some of the neighbors gave a description of
Speaker 2: a man fleeing From jack's house in a, vehicle and
Speaker 2: they'd later put together that the vehicle description matched the
Speaker 2: vehicle That candice would often use from her husband's, company
Speaker 2: like he had a fleet of, vehicles and this was
Speaker 2: one that she pretty often. Used the vehicle was later
Speaker 2: located near the, airport the same airport Where melvin flew
Speaker 2: in and out of right around the time of the.
Speaker 2: Murder they also could Place melvin not far from the
Speaker 2: crime scene the night of the murder at a bar
Speaker 2: in the. Vehicle they also found a bloody fingerprint which
Speaker 2: would later be identified As. Melvin's at the, house they
Speaker 2: Found jack's. Diary in the, Diary jack talked about his
Speaker 2: wife and her blood nephew's affair and basically said that
Speaker 2: if they don't kill me, First i'll have to kill.
Speaker 2: Them melvin was. Arrested the next, day they Checked melvin's.
Speaker 2: Clothes they found blood, spatter but this was the sixties
Speaker 2: BEFORE dna, testing so the blood spatter was merely considered circumstantial.
Speaker 2: Evidence candy hired the best of the best attorney For,
Speaker 2: melvin and Then candy herself got arrested and she hired
Speaker 2: a legal team for herself as. Well the trial was very.
Speaker 2: Odd candy treated the trial more like a fashion show
Speaker 2: or like a. Pageant is just very, strange you. Know
Speaker 2: the prosecution argued That candicce And melvin's motive was that
Speaker 2: thirty three million, reasons you know WHAT i. Mean they
Speaker 2: brought up that they tried to hire a hit man
Speaker 2: before to Kill. Jack they brought up the ancestual, affair
Speaker 2: showing love letters between the two And jack's. Diary they
Speaker 2: brought up the print at the, scene the print in
Speaker 2: the vehicle that both Matched. Melvin's, like that's pretty damning
Speaker 2: bloody fingerprints at the scene and in the. Vehicle candy argued,
Speaker 2: that you, know this is absurd and just this is not.
Speaker 2: Me this is What candy, Argued so do not at.
Speaker 2: Me this is not HOW i. Feel this is COMPLETELY
Speaker 2: i don't even know what to. Say So candy argued, that, oh,
Speaker 2: well her husband became, ill so he became a, homosexual
Speaker 2: which she is so, absurd and the trial became more
Speaker 2: about a. Slander it was like a slander campaign on
Speaker 2: a dead man and to out HIM i, guess WHICH
Speaker 2: i don't even know if he was, gay but if he,
Speaker 2: does it doesn't really, Matter like this is a murder.
Speaker 2: Trial but, Anyways jack being in a robe and only
Speaker 2: having A t shirt on was what the defense tone in.
Speaker 2: On they, said, oh because he had A t shirt
Speaker 2: and a, robe he must have been sneaking a man
Speaker 2: in the. House the defense argued that a male lover
Speaker 2: Of jack's that was jealous had to have killed. Him,
Speaker 2: like where are they getting? This the defense was really
Speaker 2: pushing this bash campaign on a man, that like, again
Speaker 2: cannot defend. Himself and, again if he was gay or,
Speaker 2: not it does not. Matter it's just so fucked, Up
Speaker 2: like if they're outing him and he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: be if he even is, gay who knows who? Cares but,
Speaker 2: look she got me distracted, Too AND i think that
Speaker 2: was what she tried to do in the trial because
Speaker 2: the trial should have only been about his. Murder the
Speaker 2: whole thing was a. Circus people would spend all day there.
Speaker 2: Watching they'd bring their own lunch to make sure they
Speaker 2: didn't lose their. Seat it was like the you, Know
Speaker 2: Johnny depp. TRIAL i was going to say way more
Speaker 2: than The johnny dep, trial but now That i'm thinking
Speaker 2: back to The Johnny depp trial was so. FUNNY i
Speaker 2: could not stop watching. That so the, jury this is.
Speaker 2: Insane the, jury after all evidence was, presented came back
Speaker 2: with a verdict of not, guilty not guilty for the
Speaker 2: people on the, back not. Guilty it seemed like her
Speaker 2: smear campaign. Worked candy then leaving HER i don't, know
Speaker 2: she's in like this delusional. State she thinks she in
Speaker 2: like a movie or. Something she went and gave a
Speaker 2: kiss to every member of the, jury and then who you,
Speaker 2: Know she's starring in her own movie in her. Mind
Speaker 2: candy hopped into Her cadillac with her boyfriend slash, nephew
Speaker 2: kissed on the, lips and then they drove off into the.
Speaker 2: Sunset Then candy went on about her, life continuing the,
Speaker 2: relationship if you can call it, that with her nephew
Speaker 2: for another. Year they ended up breaking up And candy
Speaker 2: who inherited all that money and is now a you, know.
Speaker 2: Multimillionaire she redaimed her husband's company after, herself and she
Speaker 2: remarried to a man much younger than, her he said
Speaker 2: to be about nineteen years her. Junior and then her
Speaker 2: husband quote unquote fell off a balcony in their. Mansion
Speaker 2: he suffered brain. Trauma so Then candy, just you, know
Speaker 2: she doesn't want to deal with, that so she just.
Speaker 2: Divorced candy died at what people have said put her
Speaker 2: age at around fifty five from a drug overdose from
Speaker 2: her migraine headache. Medicine but some people say that when she,
Speaker 2: died they learned that she was sixty. Two SO i,
Speaker 2: MEAN i don't really know her real. Age it's kind
Speaker 2: of all over the. Place but when she was, found
Speaker 2: she was wearing only her bathrobe and of course a
Speaker 2: full face of. Makeup melvin never did get, married but
Speaker 2: he did get a significant amount of help From candy,
Speaker 2: financially and he became A texas real estate. Developer his
Speaker 2: business went up and down and up and. Down but
Speaker 2: it said that he went To candy's funeral with these
Speaker 2: ostrich alligator skin. Boots he just became this big. Showy
Speaker 2: one article used the word. Flamboyant i'm just Picturing, goofen
Speaker 2: just new Boot. Goofin but he brought this young blonde
Speaker 2: on his arm to say goodbye to his aunt slash ex,
Speaker 2: girlfriend and he died at sixty eight years old at
Speaker 2: His houston, house neither one of them having to ever
Speaker 2: pay for what they did To, jack and officers didn't
Speaker 2: even continue investigating because they knew who did. It they,
Speaker 2: knew they just got. Off it's just an insane case
Speaker 2: of how public opinion can sway such A it's just
Speaker 2: such a bizarre. Story i've never heard of it. Before
Speaker 2: but that was of your, request and that was Insanely
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