Speaker 1: Hello friends. In this episode, we'll be taking a look
Speaker 1: at ten celebrities for famous people that have gone missing
Speaker 1: and were never found. Now, inasmuch as celebrity or fame
Speaker 1: is not an easy commodity to measure, these stories are
Speaker 1: presented in a random order, so we feel that any
Speaker 1: one famous person is not necessarily more famous than another.
Speaker 1: Join us number ten. Ritchie Edwards, also known as Richie
Speaker 1: Maniac Richie, was born December twenty second, nineteen sixty seven
Speaker 1: in Cardiff, Wales. He's a guitarist for the band called
Speaker 1: Manic Street Preachers and was reported missing February first, nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five at just twenty seven years old. Belonging to
Speaker 1: the so called twenty seven Club is not a membership
Speaker 1: most would be willing to complete the demands to get into.
Speaker 1: Famous musicians that have joined this exclusive club over the
Speaker 1: years are the likes of Janis Job, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim
Speaker 1: Morrison and Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. What
Speaker 1: do these people in this club have in common other
Speaker 1: than being famous musicians, They all died at the age
Speaker 1: of twenty seven now making the rock scene in the
Speaker 1: late eighties, Manic Street Preachers put a new spin on
Speaker 1: the commonplace rock and roll at the time. Not wanting
Speaker 1: to be linked to any one type of music, the
Speaker 1: guitar player and songwriter was cutting edge for the time.
Speaker 1: The music they were producing has been compared to the
Speaker 1: clash meets Guns n' Roses. According to one news article,
Speaker 1: Richie Edwards was seen as the leader of the group,
Speaker 1: but the truth is that it was he and the
Speaker 1: bass player Nicky Wire that shared the responsibilities with songwriting
Speaker 1: just the same, and other production ideas were also shared.
Speaker 1: Ritchie's charisma, intelligence, and artistic voice drew people in and
Speaker 1: made it easy to interview him. A seriously introverted person,
Speaker 1: Edwards was careful with his words and interviews and took
Speaker 1: that part of fame very seriously. It said that he
Speaker 1: wanted fame more than anything and was obsessed with image
Speaker 1: and notoriety and described as vein in many ways. Edwards
Speaker 1: was also a deeply introspective poet. Other band members remember
Speaker 1: their missing bandmate as someone who wanted to become an
Speaker 1: image for the discarded and disenfranchised while being adored and
Speaker 1: taken seriously. In fact, he was so serious that during
Speaker 1: an interview, after telling the reporter that the band was
Speaker 1: for real. Richie actually carved the number four and the
Speaker 1: word reel into his arm of the razorblade required eighteen
Speaker 1: stitches to tide it all up. The band would release
Speaker 1: three records before the mysterious disappearance of Richie Edwards, so
Speaker 1: they aspired to be the biggest band of the world.
Speaker 1: Generation Terrorist, the Holy Bible and Everything Must Go. Edward's
Speaker 1: disappeared between the days of February first and fourteenth of
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. His Vauxhall car was found near Severn Bridge,
Speaker 1: parked and looked as though it had been there for
Speaker 1: a few days. The spot is infamous for jumpers, and
Speaker 1: while it was said that Edward was really depressed, he
Speaker 1: seemed to be coping by drinking and reportedly had a
Speaker 1: prescription for Prozac. His family was reluctant to declare him
Speaker 1: deceased rather than missing. In two thousand and eight, his
Speaker 1: status was upgraded to missing presume dead, even though there
Speaker 1: were still reports of sightings of Edwards all around Asia.
Speaker 1: Arguably one of the greatest mysteries in rock and roll history,
Speaker 1: the disappearance of Richie Edwards at age twenty seven was
Speaker 1: something that his friend said he would do just establish
Speaker 1: himself as a cultural martyr, just as he wanted since
Speaker 1: his early teen years. Number nine James Anthony Sullivan, also
Speaker 1: known as Jim Sully, Sullivan or just Sully. He was
Speaker 1: born August thirteenth, nineteen forty Nebraska, played football in high school,
Speaker 1: and would marry the homecoming queen. He was the seventh
Speaker 1: son of a blue collar family. They would ultimately move
Speaker 1: across the country to San Diego, California, during wartime in
Speaker 1: World War Two. Having played guitar for band called Survivors,
Speaker 1: Once Soley got his hands on a guitar, he was hooked,
Speaker 1: owning his powerful gift of strum. The guitar Soley played
Speaker 1: was as much a part of him as his talented
Speaker 1: hands that played it. Having moved to California as a
Speaker 1: child afforded him the opportunities he would need to find
Speaker 1: others that shared his passion for music. Described as the
Speaker 1: kind of California character who seemed to have stepped straight
Speaker 1: out of Pinchon or DeLillo novel, Sully stood six foot
Speaker 1: two with a signature hannahbar mustache. Very charismatic and charming individual,
Speaker 1: His songs were steeped in mysterious vibes with the lonely
Speaker 1: moldies of days gone by crooners to the likes of
Speaker 1: Nick Drake and Graham Parsons. He had an impressive social
Speaker 1: circle that included Dennis Hoffer as well as other A
Speaker 1: list celebrities, and even made an uncredited appearance in the
Speaker 1: film Easy Rider. Sulvan also recorded his first record, called
Speaker 1: UFO in nineteen sixty nine on a small label in California.
Speaker 1: Aspiring to attract a bigger label for his music, Sully
Speaker 1: decided to leave his old life behind and start a
Speaker 1: new in Nashville, Tennessee. In nineteen seventy five, Sully would
Speaker 1: leave California on his way to Nashville after separating from
Speaker 1: his wife, Barbara, pursue a record deal. At the time,
Speaker 1: Barbara Salvin worked at Capitol Records, but none of the
Speaker 1: executives there were interested in her folkey singer husband at
Speaker 1: the time, but others did believe in Sully and that
Speaker 1: was the reason he was going to Nashville. Traveling along
Speaker 1: I forty, he made a stop in Santa Rosea, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and drifted into the desert winds, never to be heard
Speaker 1: from again. Now, this scenario where many people have gone
Speaker 1: missing and few have been found. Santa Rose in New Mexico,
Speaker 1: particularly in the nineteen seventies, was a small town dependent
Speaker 1: on tourists and travelers alike. Around twenty eight hundred people
Speaker 1: called this place home, and it's surrounded by vast desert,
Speaker 1: desolation for miles around, not much more than a pit
Speaker 1: stopped in the middle of the desert, and just a
Speaker 1: few years prior to in the sixties, a major stop
Speaker 1: for travelers on the old Route sixty six, Santa Rosa
Speaker 1: became a mainstay stop for travelers, mainly for fuel and
Speaker 1: snacks after I forty cut through the small town. Sullivan
Speaker 1: was one of these travelers in nineteen seventy five when
Speaker 1: he stopped in Santa Rosa in is a gray vw van.
Speaker 1: March fifth of that year is when things took a
Speaker 1: turn for the Wars. After having been pulled over on
Speaker 1: suspicion of driving well intoxicated, Jim Sullivan stopped in Santa Rosa,
Speaker 1: New Mexico and rented a hotel room, which he never
Speaker 1: stayed in. He contacted his wife and had a very
Speaker 1: cryptic conversation with her. You wouldn't believe it if I
Speaker 1: told you, Sulvan has reported the saint as a strange wife. Jim,
Speaker 1: what's the matter? Is anything wrong? She asked here, if
Speaker 1: I just forget it, I'll call you from Nashville, but
Speaker 1: Sulivan would never make it. Days later, after no word
Speaker 1: from him, Barbara Sulvan called hospitals police departments along the route,
Speaker 1: so she tracked down a department that had made contact
Speaker 1: with him for the traffic stop. An officer is quoted
Speaker 1: as telling her that Sulivan isn't in jail, but if
Speaker 1: you ask me, that's where he belongs. Although he had
Speaker 1: passed a sobriety test and was let go. Selvan made
Speaker 1: his way to the Meson Hotel in Santa Rosa and
Speaker 1: rented a room, but it reported that during the search
Speaker 1: form the bed was still made and the room was
Speaker 1: as first ten as when it was rented out. March eighth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, Sulivan's Great VW was towed from a
Speaker 1: rough mesa studded area twenty four miles south of Santa Rosa,
Speaker 1: and all his belongings, including his prize twelve string guitar,
Speaker 1: were inside a cattle. Han Pete Senna worked for the
Speaker 1: ranch near the area where Sullivan's VW van was found,
Speaker 1: and had seen him that day and asked if he
Speaker 1: needed a ride. We thought he was some cowboy. Sina
Speaker 1: said he had a hand of bar mustache, just like
Speaker 1: a cattle hand. We knew Sullivan declined help and seen
Speaker 1: it was presumably the last person to see him. Friends
Speaker 1: and family immediately knew something was wrong, and one friend
Speaker 1: went as far as to say, I knew he wasn't
Speaker 1: coming back. Jim would never have left his guitar. After
Speaker 1: learning of the guitar being found inside the van, police
Speaker 1: continued to search for Jim Sullivan, but they never turned
Speaker 1: up any new clues as to his whereabouts. Sulivan's brothers
Speaker 1: would take up the cause and conduct their own searches,
Speaker 1: but nothing was ever found. There were several articles placed
Speaker 1: in newspapers asking for the public's help and finding the man.
Speaker 1: Rumors and speculations as to Sullivan's disappearance and the mysterious
Speaker 1: circumstances that surrounded the case fuelled rumors. Some say he
Speaker 1: was abducted by aliens, others claimed there were Maffia ties,
Speaker 1: and then some people think that he just walked away
Speaker 1: from his life. Those are just a few of the
Speaker 1: rumors that people told and retold for years to come.
Speaker 1: Sullivan's a strange wiy for accounts finding soulless in thinking
Speaker 1: he was abducted by aliens. It was a lot easier
Speaker 1: than the alternative, she was quoted as saying. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: Matt Sullivan no relation heard the song Jerome off of
Speaker 1: Jim Salvan's UFO album and was transfixed by the folky,
Speaker 1: bluesy American sound. It wasn't even maybe, he says. Within
Speaker 1: the first thirty seconds of Jerome, I knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to record it and put it out. Matt Sullivan is
Speaker 1: the founder of Lights in the Attic, a small independent
Speaker 1: record label. Willing to know more about the artist, Matt
Speaker 1: and his filmmaker wife, Jennifer moz enlisted the help of
Speaker 1: a private detective and another musician to help investigate the
Speaker 1: late Sullivan's missing Santa Rosa hours and disappearance. They met
Speaker 1: and talked to a lot of people that had earlier
Speaker 1: spoken to Sullivan the day he went missing or had
Speaker 1: their own theories. We traced his last known whereabouts, We
Speaker 1: met his family. It was incredibly emotional that Sullivan said
Speaker 1: the re release of UFO in twenty ten, exponitentially outperformed
Speaker 1: the original release, and the same year was promoted on
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast am where people called in with their
Speaker 1: theories on the mysterious disappearance of the talented James Sully
Speaker 1: Sullivan number eight. Connie Converse born Elizabeth Eton Converse August fourth,
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty four in Laconia, New Hampshire. Connie was raised
Speaker 1: by religiously strict parents in a time that was difficult
Speaker 1: for women to break through into professional music careers. Converse
Speaker 1: would win a college scholarship, but would never even finish
Speaker 1: high school, choosing instead to pack up and move to
Speaker 1: New York. Being exposed to the counterculture of the Bohemians
Speaker 1: and the Beatnicks in the nineteen fifties, Converse started her
Speaker 1: music career in the exclusive Greenwich Village, New York scene.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, Connie Converse would go missing, and
Speaker 1: her disappearance would become as much of an enigma as
Speaker 1: much of her life was. In nineteen fifty four, a
Speaker 1: friend of Converse helped to record her first set of
Speaker 1: songs in the kitchen of their home. Working for printing
Speaker 1: firm at the time. Converse was passionate about her music
Speaker 1: and would later be attributed as the first modern singer songwriter,
Speaker 1: arguably some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs of the time.
Speaker 1: Her acoustic sound and sophistication of melodies were done with
Speaker 1: ease and set her apart from other folk performers in
Speaker 1: that era such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Not
Speaker 1: known as the strongest, focused or the best instrument player,
Speaker 1: Converse was, however, able to deliver an intimacy and depth
Speaker 1: in her music that wouldn't be duplicated again for decades.
Speaker 1: She sang about arguing lovers, promiscuity, loneliness, and other life
Speaker 1: events that were taboo for a lady to even speak
Speaker 1: of in those times, let alone sing about. These songs
Speaker 1: came from somewhere deep within Converse, almost like she'd live them.
Speaker 1: Maybe she had. There was a hurt and vulnerability in
Speaker 1: her voice that came out through the words and catches
Speaker 1: the listener right in the feelings. The friend that helped
Speaker 1: her record her songs would later say, the more I
Speaker 1: thought about it, the songs were all about herself. After
Speaker 1: leaving music behind, Converse would go on to edit the
Speaker 1: Journal of Conflict Resolution, did amateur cartoon drawings, and was
Speaker 1: a very vocal political activist. After the recording of that
Speaker 1: first demo in the kitchen and trying to make it
Speaker 1: go over music career, Converse became depressed because the songs
Speaker 1: weren't being picked up by any producers or radio stations.
Speaker 1: This is where her life would take a major turn.
Speaker 1: To deal with the depression she was encountering, Converse would
Speaker 1: turn to drinking heavily. Her depression never receded and seemed
Speaker 1: to be relentless. Decades after recording her first song, Connie
Speaker 1: Converse would finally get the recognition and admiration for her
Speaker 1: music she so desperately saw it in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, a small New York label
Speaker 1: would come across their recordings and produce an album called
Speaker 1: How Sad, How Lonely. The music, considering when it was recorded,
Speaker 1: sounds eerily contemporary. David Hermann of Squirrel Thing Records set
Speaker 1: of Conversus music. He would go on to say, her
Speaker 1: voice is really compelling. Add that to the fact this
Speaker 1: was a woman writing singer songwriter style music in the
Speaker 1: mid fifties, before being a singer songwriter was even a thing,
Speaker 1: and before a female singer songwriter was something that people
Speaker 1: were used to. Add that, with the mystery of her disappearance,
Speaker 1: the whole thing leaves you with more questions than answers.
Speaker 1: There would also be a forty minute documentary by American
Speaker 1: filmmaker Andrea Cohns dedicated to the rediscovery of Connie Converse
Speaker 1: at the Censoria Film and Music Festival that was played
Speaker 1: on Connie Converse Tribute Night. Connie would also find a
Speaker 1: cult following decades after she gave up on her music career.
Speaker 1: People are still drawn to her folk style and her
Speaker 1: adult contemporary lyrics and sound. With the release of her
Speaker 1: songs and the documentary, Connie Converse finally some of the
Speaker 1: spotlights she envisioned so many decades ago. In the summer
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy four, and just days before her fiftieth birthday,
Speaker 1: Connie Converse wrote friends and family to let them know
Speaker 1: her plans to leave her Michigan home and start fresh
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Her plans were only known to her as
Speaker 1: she packed her belongings at her VW beatle and drove
Speaker 1: off into the night. She hasn't been seen nor heard
Speaker 1: from since number seven. Scott Smith bassist for the rock
Speaker 1: band lover Boy Lover Boy. The band was wildly popular
Speaker 1: in the eighties, with some songs on their roster like
Speaker 1: Working for the Weekend, which went to number one in
Speaker 1: Canada and the US, Love and Every Minute of It
Speaker 1: number one in the US This Could Be the Night
Speaker 1: number one in the US, and when It's Over, which
Speaker 1: went to number one in the US. Collectively, they sold
Speaker 1: over twenty three million records and were not a one
Speaker 1: hit wonder. Lover Boy, originally named cover Boy by lead
Speaker 1: guitarist Paul Deane but later changed, was formed in Canada
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight but toured the world over many times.
Speaker 1: Smith was the founding member of the band and bassist
Speaker 1: for the group for the entire time. Their debut was
Speaker 1: opening for the band Kiss in Vancouver, British Columbia, and
Speaker 1: they still sell out concerts to this day. In the
Speaker 1: year two thousand, Smith was on a boat found for
Speaker 1: Mexico from Vancouver, British Columbia, with two friends and his
Speaker 1: girlfriend when a storm started to stir the waves into
Speaker 1: twenty five foot swells that eventually knocked the boat onto
Speaker 1: the port side for the Golden Gate Bridge off the
Speaker 1: coast of Ocean Beach, California. Friend Bill Ellis, who was
Speaker 1: also on the boat, was down in the cabin changing
Speaker 1: into storm gear, and when he made his way back
Speaker 1: to the controls, Smith was missing, along with the boat's
Speaker 1: steering wheel. The remaining crew was able to get the
Speaker 1: boat upright eventually and come about to the area horse
Speaker 1: Smith was last seen. There was no sign of Smith
Speaker 1: nor any debris, even though they searched for an hour.
Speaker 1: The two friends were unharmed and the girlfriend was treated
Speaker 1: for hypothermia and released from a nearby hospital. The Coastguard
Speaker 1: was called and a search was started, but hampered by
Speaker 1: weather and a heavy fog that rolled into the area.
Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty three square miles. We searched, but
Speaker 1: no sign of Smith was ever found. A private search
Speaker 1: and rescue was also done, but they were also unable
Speaker 1: to recover anything from the wreckage and never located Smith's body.
Speaker 1: Experts weighing in on the missing person's case suggested that
Speaker 1: no one could survive in those waters for more than
Speaker 1: two and a half hours due to hypothermia and sharks.
Speaker 1: Scott Smith was just forty five years old. The band
Speaker 1: resumed touring a year after his disappearance in Smith's Memory.
Speaker 1: Number six. Oscar Zeta Acosta, also known as Doctor Gonzo.
Speaker 1: He was born April eighth, nineteen thirty five in El Faso, Texas.
Speaker 1: Acosta was an activist, lawyer, politician, novelist, and was Hunter S.
Speaker 1: Thompson's muse for his nineteen seventy two book Beer and
Speaker 1: Loathing in Las Vegas as the character Doctor Gonzo. Having
Speaker 1: made his mark defending the East Side thirteen, a staged
Speaker 1: high school walk out to protest education inequalities for Mexican Americans,
Speaker 1: which saw thirteen men charged with conspiracy for the planning
Speaker 1: of around twenty thousand students walking on their schools for
Speaker 1: the protest. A highly controversial figure but beloved in the
Speaker 1: Mexican American community, Aacosta would contact his son to let
Speaker 1: him know he was in Sineola, Mexico, right before he disappeared.
Speaker 1: He was never seen again. Having grown up in Texas,
Speaker 1: Acosta played football in high school and was president of
Speaker 1: his student body. After graduating, he departed for Panama, where
Speaker 1: he was in the United States Air Force and became
Speaker 1: a Baptist preacher. Deciding to return to the States, Acosta
Speaker 1: entered night school become a lawyer. This allowed him to
Speaker 1: become the lawyer for the Chicano Movement, helping immigrants from
Speaker 1: Mexico fight for civil rights. Being a lawyer also helped
Speaker 1: a run for Sheriff of Los Angeles with the promise
Speaker 1: of ultimate dissolution of the department. A Costa received over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand votes, but needed a million or more
Speaker 1: to win. A close friend of Hunter S. Thompson, he
Speaker 1: would regularly accompany the writer to Las Vegas while Thompson
Speaker 1: was collecting information for his best selling book turned movie,
Speaker 1: Beer and Loathing and Last Vegas to Dust. Cover of
Speaker 1: the book would show a cost In Thompson sitting at
Speaker 1: the bar at Caesar's Palace, shot glasses, emptied their whiskey,
Speaker 1: and assault shaker of illicit substance at the ready. The
Speaker 1: book would portray a Costa as a three hundred pound
Speaker 1: drug addl Samowan, when in reality he was a two
Speaker 1: hundred pound Mexican American. This would be the only complaint
Speaker 1: he would have about how he was portrayed in the book.
Speaker 1: Many people knew that the Costa would often show up
Speaker 1: in court barefoot and high. Thompson would explain that his
Speaker 1: reasoning for the portrayal of his friend was to keep
Speaker 1: the lapd in court officials from harassing Acosta as he
Speaker 1: was a lawyer in the area. A documentary on the
Speaker 1: life of Oscar at Zada Costa was really call it
Speaker 1: The Rise and Follow of the Brown Buffalo and can
Speaker 1: be found here on YouTube. It follows Acosta's education activist
Speaker 1: rallies that he held his defense of the East LA
Speaker 1: thirteen is run for Sheriff, and his two book deal
Speaker 1: depicting his life in an autobiography. The book called Revolt
Speaker 1: of the Cockroach People follows his career as a lawyer
Speaker 1: and supporter of Mexican American civil rights. We are the
Speaker 1: janitors of the world. A Costas quoted as saying. He
Speaker 1: also gives his opinion on the militia type behaviors by
Speaker 1: police agencies on Americans and especially minorities. A Costa has
Speaker 1: strong views on this subject and said that they are
Speaker 1: not a policing agency any longer, they are a militia.
Speaker 1: These type quotes made him a legend in the minds
Speaker 1: of Mexican Americans as a Costa was fighting for their rights.
Speaker 1: During the making of The Rise and Fall of the
Speaker 1: Brown Buffalo, the producers were able to use rare footage
Speaker 1: and lines recorded before a Costa's disappearance in his own voice.
Speaker 1: This was an amazing accomplishment because other than Fear and
Speaker 1: Lawthing in Las Vegas, the Costa was rarely filmed in public.
Speaker 1: A Costa was married to Secoro Aguiniga, a paralegal, fulklorico
Speaker 1: dancer and also a chakana activist. She was able to
Speaker 1: introduce Acosta to many of the key figures in the
Speaker 1: Chicano movement. They had one son together that has kept
Speaker 1: his father's case alive for decades, never giving up hope
Speaker 1: of information that would lead to finding him. Very little
Speaker 1: details have been released on Acosta's disappearance in the forty
Speaker 1: four years plus. Since his disappearance, Oscar Zeta Costa has
Speaker 1: become an almost mythical legend due to the huge cult
Speaker 1: following for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, both the
Speaker 1: book and the movie. His missing person case is considered
Speaker 1: cold and has had no new leads in decades. Number
Speaker 1: five Michael Rockefeller. We will note here that Rockefeller is
Speaker 1: rumored to be the most total name in high society.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people they claim to be
Speaker 1: Rockefellers that aren't, but Michael was the real deal. He
Speaker 1: was born into American royalty on May thirteenth, nineteen thirty eight,
Speaker 1: in New York, the father that would eventually become the
Speaker 1: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In nineteen sixty one, seven
Speaker 1: months into a world tour, the catamaran Rockefeller was on
Speaker 1: overturned and he was thrown into the water after being
Speaker 1: hit by wave near osmod off the shores of New Guinea.
Speaker 1: He made it to shore, but was never seen again.
Speaker 1: Here's where the disappearance turned strange. At first, it was
Speaker 1: presumed that the famous Rockefeller drowned and was lost to
Speaker 1: the waters forever. However, conspiracies and wild accusations about local
Speaker 1: tribesmen living in cannibalistic colonies were accused of killing and
Speaker 1: consuming the twenty three year old. Now, while it's true
Speaker 1: that the area does have colonies that probably have never
Speaker 1: seen a piece of paper nor a light bulbman do
Speaker 1: practice cannibalism in some instances, that particular act is usually
Speaker 1: reserved for elders that have passed away in the tribes,
Speaker 1: and the members consumed the body to inherit specific traits,
Speaker 1: the wild spirits of, or even the soul of their
Speaker 1: deceased family member. In other words, it's done as means
Speaker 1: of ancestor worship, and they wouldn't need an outsider. The
Speaker 1: debate as to the young Rockefeller's fate is still debated
Speaker 1: to this day. At the time of Michael Rockefeller's disappearance,
Speaker 1: there was no high society page in the newspaper to
Speaker 1: cover such stories. Years later, there was a documentary made
Speaker 1: from Netflix twenty fourteen, The Search for Michael Rockefeller. There
Speaker 1: was also a Broadway play, a rock song, a book,
Speaker 1: and a TV series in the nineteen eighties. The fact is,
Speaker 1: no one really knows what happened to Michael Rockefeller, and
Speaker 1: speculation on this strange case is boundary. Great whispers all
Speaker 1: the way from high society gatherings to magazine articles for
Speaker 1: years to come. Number four Barbara Newell Follet Barbara was
Speaker 1: a jazz age prodigy writer. She was born in nineteen
Speaker 1: fourteen in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was a high achiever
Speaker 1: from the start, having published her first novel, The House
Speaker 1: Without Windows of the tender age of twelve, she was
Speaker 1: destined to go far in life. The progeny of literary
Speaker 1: legacy Wilson Follett, who was a literary critic of Professor
Speaker 1: and Helen Thomas Fallett, famed children's author. She was homeschooled
Speaker 1: and showed great promise at a very young age, so
Speaker 1: also cureed her own language, she called fark Sue, which
Speaker 1: she spoke in her imaginary world called fark Solia. Age four,
Speaker 1: she'd started writing poetry and was well on her way
Speaker 1: to being an American great. Her first novel, which was
Speaker 1: started at age eight and finished by twelve, had to
Speaker 1: be recalled by memory, as the original manuscript was lost
Speaker 1: in a fire. The novel was critically acclaimed and launched
Speaker 1: Fallett into celebrity status as she turned just thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: The Voyage of the Norman Dy, her next book, was
Speaker 1: released in nineteen twenty eight, and while she was writing
Speaker 1: this novel, she was also reviewing and editing for other writers,
Speaker 1: appearing on radio shows, and the cover of several magazines
Speaker 1: of the era was the talk of the town. Later
Speaker 1: that same year, her father would leave her mother for
Speaker 1: another woman, perhaps having been her mused leaving her father
Speaker 1: left her spending out of control, and she stopped writing
Speaker 1: all together. This is a small writing from followed at
Speaker 1: that difficult time as to what she was feeling. It reads,
Speaker 1: my dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought
Speaker 1: they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in
Speaker 1: their grave, making my heart strings twinge. I mean no
Speaker 1: particular dream, you understand. Put the whole radiant flock of
Speaker 1: them together, with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime.
Speaker 1: They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of
Speaker 1: a world of time and money. At age sixteen, Violet
Speaker 1: would move to New York with her mother during the Depression,
Speaker 1: and what a hard life it was with the teenager.
Speaker 1: She would go on to take a secretary job and
Speaker 1: meet her future husband, whom she married in nineteen thirty one.
Speaker 1: She was to have been the happiest in these years
Speaker 1: as a wife, but she couldn't get any of her
Speaker 1: writing published until nineteen thirty four, when she penned her
Speaker 1: third novel, Lost Ireland, followed by a fourth, Travels Without
Speaker 1: a Donkey, which was to be her last. Suspecting her
Speaker 1: husband of infidelity, their marriage began to fall apart, and
Speaker 1: one night, finding themselves in a heated argument, Wallett walked
Speaker 1: out of their apartment and into the night, never to
Speaker 1: be seen again. She wasn't reported missing until two weeks
Speaker 1: later by her husband, and he would wait a further
Speaker 1: four months to request a missing person's bullet and be published,
Speaker 1: for no one recognized her married name, and so little
Speaker 1: attention was paid by the public until nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: when a newspaper would write about the disappearance and it
Speaker 1: finally hit the mainstream media. Folett could have changed the
Speaker 1: face of the literary world forever, but she went missing
Speaker 1: just as she was starting to really live her life.
Speaker 1: Her mother suspected Falin's husband of having something to do
Speaker 1: with their disappearance, and pend a letter to him that
Speaker 1: can be read online. Fallett's father made several pleas for
Speaker 1: her to either come home or her safe return, but
Speaker 1: no clues ever surfaced. In a haunting excerpt taken from
Speaker 1: her first novel, Barbara Newell Follett wrote, she would be
Speaker 1: invisible forever to all mortals, save those few who have
Speaker 1: minds to believe iyes to see. To these she is
Speaker 1: ever present, the spirit of nature, a sprite of the meadow,
Speaker 1: a naig at of lakes, a nymph of the woods.
Speaker 1: Number three. Glenn Miller, also known as Alton Glenn Miller,
Speaker 1: leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra Glynn, was born on
Speaker 1: March first, nineteen oh four, in Clorinda, Iowa, United States. Miller,
Speaker 1: a master of big band composition, arranged pieces such as
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania six five thousand in the Mood Moodlight Serenade, and
Speaker 1: many others still popular to swing and big band lovers
Speaker 1: to this day. The musically talented Miller attended elementary school
Speaker 1: in North Platte, Nebraska, taking a job milk and cows,
Speaker 1: and was able to purchase his first musical instrument, a trombone,
Speaker 1: to play in the town orchestra. At this time in
Speaker 1: his life, his family had moved to Grant City, Missouri,
Speaker 1: where Miller would pick up the art of mastering other
Speaker 1: musical instruments. In nineteen eighteen, their family would move one
Speaker 1: more time to Fort Morgan, Colorado, where Miller would attend
Speaker 1: high school and play football, who would lead his team
Speaker 1: to the Northern Colorado American Football Conference in nineteen twenty,
Speaker 1: being named the best left end in Colorado. He would
Speaker 1: graduate the following year with the intention of becoming a
Speaker 1: professional musician. Nineteen twenty three, Miller would see himself attending
Speaker 1: college at the University of Colorado and Boulder three. He
Speaker 1: would fail three of US five classes because he was
Speaker 1: more interested in attending plays and musicals in the city
Speaker 1: than he was in study. He would drop out soon
Speaker 1: after failing the classes to pursue his music career full time.
Speaker 1: Playing for several musical bands around Los Angeles, Miller would
Speaker 1: be mentored by some of the most talented musicians of
Speaker 1: the era. This would allow on time to hone his
Speaker 1: craft and form the band he wonted soon after having
Speaker 1: his part as a solo trombonis cut after another musician
Speaker 1: was hired. Miller decided to start composing and arranging his
Speaker 1: own pieces. In nineteen twenty eight, he would have a
Speaker 1: book published called Glenn Miller's one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: Jazz Breaks for Trombones and would write his first composition
Speaker 1: called fourteen eleven. Becoming successful in his music career, Miller
Speaker 1: was ready to settle down and arranged for his college sweetheart,
Speaker 1: Helen Berger, to marry him having his band Benny Goodman's Boys,
Speaker 1: they would make their way to New York City, joining
Speaker 1: bands to play for a couple of Broadway shows. His
Speaker 1: first movie appearance would be on the Big Broadcast of
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty six. Finding it difficult to separate themselves from
Speaker 1: other big bands of the time, they disbanded in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight after showing Bridgeport, Connecticut. Miller's success wasn't over though.
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty nine he would play Carnegie Hall, a
Speaker 1: very prestigious and important milestone for musicians at that time.
Speaker 1: In nineteen forty one, Glenn Miller would put his music
Speaker 1: career on hold to enter the Air Force in World
Speaker 1: War Two as an officer with the rank of Special
Speaker 1: Services Officer and eventually reaching the rank of major. He
Speaker 1: would play in big bands for the military, touring around
Speaker 1: several countries with the band. On December fifteenth, nineteen forty four,
Speaker 1: Miller would board a plane leaving England bound for Paris.
Speaker 1: The small engine plane was lost over the English Channel
Speaker 1: due to what it was speculated to be a frozen
Speaker 1: fuel line on the plane. Another theory as friendly fire
Speaker 1: took the small plane down or even enemy fire may
Speaker 1: have been the result, Alton Glenn Miller was awarded a
Speaker 1: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on March twenty fourth, nineteen forty five,
Speaker 1: was presented to Miller's wife, Helen Miller. No trace of
Speaker 1: the plane nor the remains of Alton Glenn Miller was
Speaker 1: ever found. Number two Licorice mkeshneye KAA Christina mckshney. She
Speaker 1: was born on October second, nineteen forty five, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Speaker 1: As a child, she loved writing poetry when incorporate those
Speaker 1: writings into her music. As an adult, hanging out at
Speaker 1: local music clubs, mkeshney would meet the man that would
Speaker 1: introduce her to the person that would make her aspirations
Speaker 1: of being a musician come true. In nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 1: Herbert Jance and mkeshney would meet at one of those
Speaker 1: local clubs. Jansh had quit his job as a nurseman
Speaker 1: to become a full time musician, and recognizing mccashney's talent,
Speaker 1: introduced her to his flatmate, Robin Williamson that would create
Speaker 1: the band that would launch her and stardom. Mckshney's folksy
Speaker 1: voice and how she presented on stage made making her
Speaker 1: start very easy looking to move and take their act
Speaker 1: to London. The three friends played local clubs and saved
Speaker 1: money to make the move. In nineteen sixty three, the
Speaker 1: three some did indeed make the move, and drawing from
Speaker 1: American acts such as Pete Seger and Woody Guthrie, the
Speaker 1: trio practiced and played in London clubs together for a while.
Speaker 1: The plan was for jansh and mccshney to marry, and
Speaker 1: those plans went forward for a while, but without notice
Speaker 1: or reason, Chance left London from Morocco and left mccashney
Speaker 1: behind with Williamson. They decided to head back to Edinburgh
Speaker 1: and Williamson would pick up a gig with a local duo,
Speaker 1: Clive Palmer, playing once a week in the Crown Bar.
Speaker 1: Williamson and mccashney would become close and started dating. During
Speaker 1: this time, Chance had returned for a short time to
Speaker 1: the area, but after being given another chance to play
Speaker 1: with the band, soon left again. During this time, mccashney
Speaker 1: didn't sting nor play. Williamson was turning around locally with
Speaker 1: Clive Palmer still and held auditions for her guitar player.
Speaker 1: The hired a guy named Mike Herron, and named the
Speaker 1: band the Great String Band. Having been discovered by a
Speaker 1: small record label, the trio was asked to come to
Speaker 1: London and make a record again. Mccashney moved to their
Speaker 1: boyfriend but was still not active with the band. After
Speaker 1: winning an award, the band broke up and everyone went
Speaker 1: their separate ways. Williamson and mccashney made their way back
Speaker 1: to Edinburgh, getting back together with Harron. The resurrected the
Speaker 1: Great String Band and started this second album entered Lecorice mckechhney.
Speaker 1: She started appairing along with the band, not just as
Speaker 1: Williamson's girlfriend, but is a part of the creative process.
Speaker 1: Williamson ann mckeshney would go to Morocco and bring back
Speaker 1: several exotic instruments that the band would incorporate into their music.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty seven they would record the second album
Speaker 1: and Lecice mccashney was born, how the ashes into a
Speaker 1: vocalist for the band. The album went to number one
Speaker 1: in the UK. Next top was Bigger Clubs and they
Speaker 1: were invited to play at the Speakeasy Club, the Queen
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Hall and the Ufo Club, all famous on the
Speaker 1: British Music scene. They would record their third album, with
Speaker 1: the cut The Minotaur's Song being a favorite of the
Speaker 1: band and fans alike. They were nominated for the Grammy
Speaker 1: in the US and would add one more band member
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty eight named Rose Simpson. Invited to play
Speaker 1: at Woodstock, the band would come to America, but there
Speaker 1: were major issues from the start. Their performance seemed doomed.
Speaker 1: They were removed from their originals and ended up playing
Speaker 1: on a date when fans were getting rowdy and tired.
Speaker 1: The band was left out of the recording of the
Speaker 1: entire festival and the soundtrack. Then mccashney started to practice scientology.
Speaker 1: This left her bandmates feeling isolated from her, and she
Speaker 1: left the band in nineteen seventy two. The remaining members
Speaker 1: disbanded in seventy four, and that was the end of
Speaker 1: what was known as The Incredible String Band. Little is
Speaker 1: known about mccashney's life from this point on. What is
Speaker 1: known is she married a musician named Brian Lambert, divorced
Speaker 1: sometime in the eighties. The last time anyone heard from
Speaker 1: her was in nineteen ninety, and it was her sister
Speaker 1: that would be the last person she would talk to.
Speaker 1: She was reported missing late that year, and it was
Speaker 1: surmised that mckashney was last seen hiking in the Arizona Desert.
Speaker 1: Although little is known about Christine Licorice mckshney, one thing
Speaker 1: is for certain. She had an amazing voice and brought
Speaker 1: a genre of music to the United States that we
Speaker 1: may not have if not for her. Number One. Hart
Speaker 1: Crane aka Herald Hart Crane Hart was born on June
Speaker 1: twenty first, eighteen ninety nine and was a modern American
Speaker 1: poet that had a style li Liken the ts Eliot.
Speaker 1: He was labeled difficult and highly stylized by critics. Born
Speaker 1: in Garrettsville, Ohio, he would lead a quiet and tragic life,
Speaker 1: as do many poets. Born to a business driven father
Speaker 1: that invented life savers, Crane will be driven to be
Speaker 1: a success at an early age. However, Crane would leave
Speaker 1: high school his sophomore year and travel in New York City.
Speaker 1: His parents divorced soon after, and Crane took it particularly hard.
Speaker 1: He would become published in the nineteen twenties by several
Speaker 1: literary magazines, with White Buildings containing his best writings. Not
Speaker 1: much more is known about the creative poet, other than
Speaker 1: the loss of his father destroyed him. On April twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two, Crane was on a cruise back to
Speaker 1: New York after having an altercation with a staff member
Speaker 1: and have I've been drinking heavily that day. It is
Speaker 1: speculated that Crane either jumped, fell, or was pushed off
Speaker 1: the ship into the water. His remains were never found
Speaker 1: on his tombstone a simple appetized carve. Harold Hart Crane
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety nine to nineteen thirty two, lost at sea.
Speaker 1: Well there you have it, folks, ten famous people celebrities
Speaker 1: if you will lost and never found. If there are
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Speaker 1: it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good to
Speaker 1: yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there, and I'll
Speaker 1: see you a little farther on down the trail. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.