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Hey, weirdos. I'm Alayna.
I'm Ash. And this is Morbid It do be B.
My voice is like almost back.
I don't think it sounds too bad.
It doesn't? Okay, good.
It always sounds worse to me.
No, she might wince a few times throughout this, though.
Yeah. I hurt a rib coughing.
Cracked. Cracked a rib coughing.
I have like a hairline fracture.
Who the fuck gets a hairline fracture coughing?
How violently do you cough?
This was a - I don't know if any of you out there - No, I know some of you out there are experiencing this because - Everyone is.
everyone's fucking sick.
So we've had this like fucking illness that just spread around my fam bam.
And it was for weeks.
Spread around my fam, bam.
You know? And it was literally like four weeks straight of all of us just not being able to get over this.
Girlie girl, I don't know why you're talking in the past tense.
It sounds like a TB ward up in here still.
It does. And now you're part of it.
You're coughing up in here.
I mean, everybody is.
We're taking everybody down with us.
I feel fine, though.
I feel I'm I've been on antibiotics I'm like I'm good to go do you have pneumonia right now um no I had pneumonia oh okay but um I got yeah that's what that's the thing this whole thing started with these weird little these that's the thing with these things you know and they all started with these weird colds and then we all got like some kind of respiratory thing I got pneumonia and then we all got secondary infections with it I got a sinus infection I have been taking gain I don't know about you well hopefully I've been taking so many COVID tests oh we've been COVID testing like it's going
out of style yeah because we've also been going to the doctors yeah them too yeah it's been wild up in here my nose hurts we're close to being like knocking on wood here we're close to being we're all feeling like decent okay so I'm like let's please just keep this going but my goodness does my rib hurt yeah that's rough not great but it's not fun but but I'll get through it.
We'll be fine together.
You'll survive. You know, we'll be fine.
I think the other day I just like manically bought ghost merch about it.
I love that for you.
I manically bought a new pair of, well, I shouldn't even say a new pair because it's a first pair for me.
I bought my first pair of Jordans, guys.
Look at you. And they're purple and they're velvet.
Oh, you showed me a picture of those.
I can't wait to buy them.
I love that. I also manically bought those.
I love it. We love a manic purchase.
Yeah, I think I was just like really frustrated being sick and I was like, I'm going to buy a bunch of ghost merch. I think I was just in my brain and it said, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy things to make you happy.
It'll work until it doesn't.
Just buy things until you're happy, yeah.
Woo. Make that a TikTok sound.
I like that. I think it's a little too fast for a TikTok sound.
It might be. The 30 -second clip.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Okay, yeah. you know here we are um i don't know if you guys can tell but it is morbid late night it sure is a doobie it is um but it's my case this week it's ash centric it's an ash centric case i don't want to claim her oh yeah even this case is not ash centric i don't want to claim i don't claim this i could hear you while you were like writing this one and i was like huh what's what's gonna happen happened here yeah well well nervous yeah i wrote a few things and i was like oh look what i just wrote and she was like what the fuck is this case like what's going on yeah this is uh the case of candy
mosler and melvin powers oh they were fucking yeah they were also related eek bad news bears dot com that's forward slash yucky dot org thank you yeah um but yeah so it all starts on june 29 June 29th, 1964.
Oh, we're in the 60s.
Of course. I love it.
It's groovy, man. It is very groovy.
So on June 29th, 1964, wealthy Florida banker Jacques Mosler was stabbed to death in his home in Key Biscayne.
I didn't look up how to say that and I'm sorry.
That sounds good. Thank you.
I hope it does. It did.
So at the time, he was actually separated from his wife, Candice.
She actually had moved to houston and she was just living a life of luxury on jock's dime oh which like get a girl but like don't but like uh -oh like yeah like live a life of luxury but like on your own dime yeah you know and already i'm like oh yeah candace candace he provided her with a very generous monthly allowance it was to support the children but it definitely wasn't just going to the children i think she was like giving herself a lot of that um but now because jock's murder murder was so brutal, police actually believed that it was a crime of passion, which made his wife one of the primary suspects.
And it really didn't take long for the detective's hunch to be proven right.
Candace Mosler was responsible for the death.
But as I love to say, that was just the beginning.
It was only the beginning.
It was only the beginning.
The scandalous and sensational trial of Candace Candy Mosler and her nephew turned lover.
What a sentence. Oh, Yeah Melvin Powers was it was one of those trials of the century.
It was filled with money, power, lurid stories of incestuous sex and Jack's murder didn't necessarily start like American tabloid journalism but it dragged it into its modern era.
That makes sense. Many tabloids were written about this and readers were devouring every fucking detail.
All of the details were outrageous outrageous and they were page turners oh yeah it was like a blind item yep so jock he was born jock uh moscavici i did look that up and i gave myself a phonetic key look at that he was born on may 5th 1896 in galatz romania to jacob and sophie moscavici um when romanian society became like more and more hostile toward jews at the end of the 19th century jacob and sophie were like you you know what?
I think we're going to take these three children that we have and get the fuck out of here.
I think that was a great choice.
I do agree. They wanted to move to the U .S. because back then people wanted to do that.
And they decided to settle in Buffalo, New York.
Oh, yeah. Look at that.
And that was in January of 1901.
Now, years later, when he was about 12 years old, Jacques' parents actually ended up separating and he moved in with his mom and his siblings to Chicago and his father moved away and kind of like did his own thing in the Bronx.
Just like dipped? Yeah, sort of.
Wow. I know. That's not great.
No, it's not. Wow. Sad.
Okay. Yeah, I just love...
No, it's not. No, it's not great.
That's the that on that.
I'm like, see you later.
Can't argue that point.
It's sad when your dad leaves.
Trust me. just kidding oh yeah but yeah so now that he didn't have the luxury of being supported by two incomes jacques actually decided to drop out of school pretty much just after they arrived in chicago and he started selling newspapers and candy not his like soon -to -be wife but actual candy like actual num num num candy num num num yeah precisely um he would sell the newspapers and candy on the city street corners.
And he was just like trying to help support his family.
That's cute. It really is.
So in 1915, when he was 19 years old, he decided he was going to change his last name because he wanted it to be like a little more American.
I think he just wanted that.
Yeah. Who doesn't? Me.
He changed it to Mosler.
And he moved again.
And this time he moved to New Orleans.
And he found work as a loan manager for a local car dealership.
Pretty good job. And it was the first of many jobs for him in the finance industry with the success that he ended up having as a loan manager he felt pretty confident in his abilities after a couple of years and he actually made the leap and started his own business that he named mosler motor exchange i shopped there yeah i love an alliteration i do too so let's go yeah he opened it in 1918 uh with the help of a small loan from people that he had back in chicago some business associates people you know those friends Associates.
Absolutely. Yeah. And that same year, he married his GF, Evelyn Kaiser.
Look at Evelyn. Just, like, they're just killing it.
They are. You know, like, new business, new lady, let's go.
Now, Jacques and Evelyn worked side by side at Mosler Motor Exchange, and they were able to grow the company more and more, especially as automobiles became more accessible to people.
The auto industry at that point was, like, kind of really just coming into fruition.
Like cars weren't necessarily new, but it was becoming more and more mainstream.
And along with that came repossession of cars.
Uh -oh. On owners that couldn't pay for the loans they had taken out to buy said cars.
Repo the genetic opera.
Yes, yes, exactly. You know?
So Jacques could have chosen to see that as a risk.
But like the businessman that he was, he saw an opportunity there.
And he opened one of the first car rental agencies in the American South.
Look at him. Okay. Now by 1930, Jacques' business smarts allowed him and Evelyn to move to a way bigger home in New Orleans.
And just after they moved in, Evelyn gave birth to a daughter who would be followed by three more girls by the end of 1935.
That's a lot of gals.
So many kids. He actually ends up with a lot of fucking kids by the end of this.
a lot of kids no like a lot of fucking kids wow like one two three four seven maybe i don't know a lot he's you know he's a fan of procreation loves it loves to procreate and adopting there you go so by all accounts his story was like kind of like the not even kind of by all accounts it was the quintessential american story of somebody who came to america with nothing but used their street smarts and their fucking power and their gumption and turned it into boatloads of success.
The American drum. The American drum, if you will.
So by the 1950s, the Masler brand, if you will, had expanded and they now offered a ton of different lending products and services in Louisiana and in Florida.
But unfortunately, Jacques' success was built at least in part on on the failure and misfortune of others.
Oh, that's bad. Because his company would offer high -interest loans to borrowers with low credit ratings who were more than likely to default on those loans.
And actually, this happened so frequently, which it's not funny, I'm just nervous laughing.
It happened so frequently that one of his former business partners referred to him as brutal, inhuman, ruthless, indecent, and cold -blooded.
Here I am being like, you know what, jock?
look at you get it jock go jock and then it's like no he was like a fucking monster and it's like oh yeah well that's just like one person's account yeah it's just one person other people liked him other people's real bummer yeah i mean i don't necessarily think you should go into business knowing full well that like promising people a good amount of money and then saying like oh i know you're probably not gonna yeah that's not great it's just it's mean business it is it's not a nice business you know i don't know jock though and me either i never bought a a car from him so i don't know either
i did buy a car from a lot of shady people though there you haven't we all and i i never defaulted on my loans though so there's that yeah i was gonna say and i defined i was like no i didn't know i did not that's a feather in your cap never did so like jacques kind of you know grim upbringing and business but early years of our girl not our girl really but for the sake of story our girl candy mosler's life um they were a far cry from From the Southern High Society in which her life would end.
Oh, really? Yes. Candace Weatherby, her maiden name.
She was born in the tiny Georgia town of Buchanan.
Oh, I love the name Buchanan.
I also do because of the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
So she was born on February 18th, 1920.
She was the fifth of nine children born to Lizzie and Lonnie Weatherby.
Like Lizzie and Lonnie, can we just?
Lizzie Lonnie. So freaking cute.
I love her. But sadly, life was kind of hard for this family.
First of all, it's a huge fucking family.
Yeah. They're a rural family and everybody in this family was expected to work on and help out with the family farm.
Do you ever realize how much you write one word?
Rural juror. Rural family.
Now, yeah, so like everybody had to help out on the farm, even the kids.
They had jobs like picking cotton, collecting all the eggs, the whole nine.
Now, tragically, in 1932, when Candy was 12, this is really sad.
Her mom gave birth to a stillborn baby girl.
Oh, that's awful. And not only that, she also ended up dying two days later, her mom, because of the complications from the delivery.
Yeah, because remember, this is like in the 30s, you know?
so this meant that Candy's father was going to have to be the sole caregiver and the only financial support for the six remaining children in the house well according to Candy the strain of being solely responsible for so much in the wake of such an incredible tragedy really caused her dad to have a nervous breakdown and so he had to just like get out of there he left the kids in the care of their maternal grandparents who were William and Priscilla Brannan and he moved away way to a nearby town and just kind of like started over but I don't even think he started over I think it was more like
he just went there he just went deeper into a hole yeah exactly like was alone oh yeah but I'm sure that caused like a lot of abandonment abandonment issues for the kids you know of course so any hope that Candy had that life with her grandparents would be any kind of improvement to the life that she had on the farm quickly evaporated oh no pretty much as soon as she moved in with them she realized that this was like at best a lateral move oh yeah to escape the really shitty reality that had become her life though when she was a teenager she spent as much time as she could reading tabloid magazines
fashion magazines she was just dreaming of the day when she could leave this small georgia town and just go do like glamorous shit that's all she wanted to do classic yeah but unfortunately for her her grandfather who was a mormon bishop relationship had other plans for her oh he wanted to marry her off and he had already chosen the man that was gonna make that all happen come on in 1937 when she was in 11th grade candy had to drop out of high school and she started dating albert norman johnson he was 11 years older than her and he had been handpicked for her by her grandfather and i'm saying
you because normally that's like 11 years is not crazy in the grand scheme of things but when one of you is in high high school that's too much that's way too many years and that's you and it's like i don't want to be set up by my grandpa uh no no i don't want my grandpa and i'm not even finished with high school yet like thank you the man you're gonna marry no thank you albert and they did get married they got married in 1939 and they ended up moving to alabama okay so random right that's very random yeah but norman got work there as a superintendent for a concrete company uh he brought in like
a little more than $1 ,300 a year which today would be about $27 ,000 a year so like not like the best but not the worst but things were so different that it's like yeah I don't even really know how to like compare that yeah exactly so three years later Candy gave birth to a son and they named him Norman after his dad and at 20 years old in 1940 she was a married mom living in a rented house in small town Alabama she didn't have a lot of friends she was worlds away from where where she had pictured herself so many years earlier and this was a far cry from what she'd been hoping for yeah like she
wanted to live a glamorous life she wanted to like be fashionable and get out of the small town living kind of thing yeah yeah it just sucked and then between the age gap and how different they both were norman and candy also just really didn't have a lot to talk about yeah they didn't share anything in common really and all they really had together was a kid so they'd be like hey how's the kid but that could only go so far you know and on top of that candy didn't have really any social outlet so she felt completely isolated and kind of like her life was just passing before her eyes when at the same
time it really hadn't started it was just dragging you know yeah but her opportunity for escape finally presented itself in the winter of 1942.
you don't to say yes she was volunteering as a hostess for the united states organization the uso she had joined this uso a few months earlier and this was when the u .s entered into world war one and in march of 1942 she and about a hundred other young ladies they were shuttled off to alabama to entertain the troops at a uso dance at fort benning this is all very 40s i love it so fucking much i can picture it it's literally the beginning of memphis bell i love that yeah Yeah.
Memphis Belle is my shit.
Such a good movie. I love that movie.
Such a good movie. Matthew Modine in that movie, chef's kiss.
I haven't seen that movie in so long.
Me neither. Damn it, I want to watch that movie now.
I want to watch that movie so bad.
Me and Drew have already committed to disassociating this weekend.
We have a lot going on.
Oh, I love that for you.
Yeah, so maybe I'll show him that movie.
I love that. I always tell him what a good movie that is.
I always tell John what a good movie that is.
Have you never showed it to him?
I don't think I've ever showed it to him.
Maybe we should both do that this weekend.
I think we should do that.
But I love you, but like separately because we're disassociating.
And I'm for that as well.
So rock on. I know every time I think of something like this, like a 40s USO dance, like, you know, with the troops and all that shit.
I think of that song that always plays on those kind of things.
That's like, don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me.
Oh, my God. Anyone else but me.
I love that. I don't know if I know that song.
It's a very like three sisters are always singing it in harmony together.
So we just need one more go.
Okay. Dub dub. And it's very 40s.
Because it's like, don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me.
And then it's like, till I come marching home.
So it's like. Like a troupe.
I love that. Like a troupe.
You should have seen the hand motion she did.
Like a troupe. Like that signified troupe.
Like a troupe coming home.
You're funny. It's cute.
It also reminds me of the episode of Gilmore Girls where they have to do the dance.
That's literally exactly what I think of.
And I think they are singing that song at that dance.
Oh, shit. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Okay. Full circle. Yep.
There we are. Well, it was there that Candy met a man named Winthrop Wynn Rockefeller.
Yeah. Yeah, she did.
And she said, work me off a piece of that.
She said, Winthrop.
She said, Wynn. Count me in.
He was a U .S. Army.
That was funny. He was a U .S. Army sergeant and he was heir to a Rockefeller fortune.
Oh, yeah. You hear Rockefeller, it's like.
Yeah, I don't even care what you look like.
I'm in. Just kidding.
um and as luck would have it he was stationed at fort benning oh my god so candy claimed that the two carried on an illicit affair she visited fort benning every chance she could and she did end up becoming pregnant that's an affair that's that's an affair and she eventually gave birth to a daughter who she named candace rita johnson i don't know if norman um knew oh i don't know know if he was like i don't know if he thought that rita was like his child oh no yeah a little sad that's shitty yeah yeah that's really shitty candace it is she also um lorelei gildemore did yeah she named her daughter
candace after herself yeah so much gilmore girls i think it might come up later too whoa now there is some speculation on whether this affair actually happened or not because like rockefeller like yeah everybody says they fucked a rockefeller you know yeah i you can't throw a stone outside without hitting somebody that's like i fucked a rockefeller you know yeah that's what i'm saying that's always been my problem yeah every time i bump into someone they're like i fucked a rockefeller and i'm like fuck am i the only one like fuck no i never did all right cool but you know so who knows if it happened
because everybody's saying who does know but either way candy and win would have had to part ways in january of 1944 because at that point he was shipped off to the pacific to actually serve in combat.
So in 1945, Candy and Norman, who she was now stuck with and who definitely thought that the newest pregnancy was something that he was a part of, they relocated to New Orleans.
But after a year or so, their marriage finally crumbled.
I could see that. Yeah, you know?
Candy later told reporters, Norman's a fine man, but he was much older than me and we really had nothing in common. So it's really just like, nah.
Yeah, it was just kind of lame.
Yeah, she's like, you win some, them you lose some and he's just like all right and he's like okie dokie yeah i am old so yeah we actually have nothing in common and you're kind of a lot so bye you're a lot to handle i am absolutely obsessed with a sweet treat after dinner and my favorite sweet treat right right now is my mochi.
It's mine, not yours.
Just kidding. You can have some too.
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My mochi. so after the divorce norman ended up moving to colorado and candy and the children stayed in new orleans where she was determined to make a career for herself as a fashion model oh look at that and she did actually start appearing in ads for local clothing stores so like she started doing the thing and then she went to new york on like a just a little trip and she got super Super inspired when she was there because while she was there, she was able to take some classes at the Barbizon School of Modeling.
Oh, we've hit that one before.
She makes an appearance again.
So then she comes home and she's like, okay, idea.
And then she just opened the Candice Modeling and Self -Improvement School in New Orleans.
Wealthy Garden District.
The Garden District.
Do you know about it?
The Garden District is like – that's where all those, like, beautiful houses are.
Oh, really? I think that's where the like AHS Coven house is.
Really? That's where Lafayette Cemetery is.
Like ooh. Ooh okay so.
Garden District. She did that.
She did that. Hell yeah she did.
Also like copy paste much. Yeah.
No it's true. TM. It's like get your own idea.
Exactly but I mean there's lots of modeling schools so whatever.
That's true. But in local ads.
I'm just mad at her because I feel like she did something wrong.
Yeah she fucked her nephew.
Oh yeah I forgot that's one of the.
I feel like she did something like else wrong.
though. Perhaps. But that's bad enough.
I'll take that as the wrong thing.
There you go. So yeah, fuck that.
You copy and paste.
Yeah, don't copy paste.
But in local ads, the school claimed to quote, advise young ladies on makeup and hairstyling, provide tips on maintaining a streamlined figure, prepare them to model in fashion shows, and imbue them with self -confidence, grace, poise, and the elegance of speech that will make you a person of real distinction.
distinction yeah let's imbue some confidence by making your figure streamlined i like how they wrote that like maintain a streamlined figure it's like all right like a streamlined figure you want them to be walking sticks i get it that's fucked yeah that's i mean back then for sure oh definitely but it's like girl that's not confidence it's not confidence your body can look however the fuck you want your body to look yeah you're just gonna make these gals feel bad bad yeah you're gonna beat them down so they think that they're confident yeah not cool not cool at all i see right fucking through
you candy fuck you candy fuck you man she's dead now so we should be careful no you don't like hans you don't like rise her from the dead no i do not i'm good now the school appeared to be successful and it did provide enough income to support candy and her kids but there were also rumors that it wasn't doing that well and that she was actually working as an escort or like a sex worker to make ends meet okay but like whatever if that's what she wanted to do then great yeah now in an effort to enter new orleans upper echelon maybe because she was tired of rumor starting oh you hit that lilo thank
you um she started volunteering with the new orleans opera in 1947 and she offered to meet with the prominent businessmen and wanted wanted to like arrange donations for the organization and that's where she met our guy oh there it is like candy he also had recently been divorced from his wife and despite the 25 year age gap the two began dating and they were adults at this point so who gives a fuck but i love how she's like you know this 11 he's 11 years older than me we don't have anything in common because he's an old rotting bag of flesh yeah and then she's like this guy though that's 25 years
years older than me i think i think we got way more in common the problem with norman was um he wasn't rich yeah yeah it didn't matter the age difference didn't matter it was just that he wasn't rich there was that because the thing was immediately candy got access to the lifestyle that she had been dreaming of since she was a small kid on that rural family farm where she had to pick cotton and collect eggs there you go you know so they got married in 1949 49 uh they got married while he was on a business trip to fort lauderdale like just really made like made a little quick time to get married
i'm like huh romantic yeah so upon returning returning returning to new orleans jacques made the decision that he wanted to relocate the headquarters of his company along with his new family and they wanted all of he wanted all of that to go to houston because business was booming down in texas between the finance and the oil industries So it was a good move.
Now in New Orleans, Candy had dabbled in high society for sure.
She had rubbed elbows with the wealthy people out there.
Hell yeah. But Houston, Houston baby, my girl Meg's place, hometown was different.
It was different all together.
I bet it was. You know?
Yeah. You didn't know where I was with that.
I did not. Well, it was different.
Jacques had purchased up a lot of land in the city's River Oaks neighborhood and they built a brand new three -story red brick mansion oh my fucking dream i love a brick i love a brick i love bricks i love a brick house it was fully staffed candy had maids cooks butlers any worker she could have ever imagined or desired jacques even hired a chauffeur to drive them around and drive him in particular to and from the office like the durand durand song yes Yes, great song.
Yeah, that is a great song.
We listened to that today, didn't we?
We did. Yeah, good song.
But this driver slash chauffeur would be able to use one of the seven luxury cars that sat in the driveway.
What the fuck? Take your pick, baby.
Take your pick. And in the evening after Jacques was done with work, the chauffeur would bring him and Candy to any of the city's most exclusive restaurants and nightclubs.
Damn. he would be wearing a perfectly tailored suit and she would be wearing expensive dresses and furs of course i fucking love glamour not a kid to be seen no not in this life never that they have a full staff yeah exactly get out of here get out of here upon arriving in houston candy's priority was definitely to establish herself amongst the city's upper echelon she had done it in new orleans but now she really wanted to go for it here yeah so she started writing checks with jock's money to the more notable charities and she was throwing funraisers in her newly built home where she quote strolled
from room to room in stilettos greeting her guests with a kiss on the cheek okay look at her i love it i wish losing i wish that it didn't end the way that it did because i'm like you guys could add such a fucking awesome life together yeah you mean like with her fucking her nephew yeah i wish it didn't end i wish it did not end that way either most of us around here would feel the same but the thing was she was like an enigma to the society women of houston like all of them were like what the fuck is she like where did she go she just really popped off and came to town but they all also agreed
that she was charismatic she was flirty and fun but she was also kind and generous they said oh look at that yeah and even when the rumors of her seedy new orleans past started circulating among the houston peers it didn't damage her reputation like it probably would have if somebody who was like less charming or more liked came along but unlike many of houston's high society candy's philanthropy her philanthropy philanthropy her philanthropy i don't want it though philanthropy it's more fun philanthropy sounds like uh phil and i don't know it sounds like something's floppy and it freaks me out
you don't like flops i don't know i just love them about it flip -flop anonymous flip -flop flip -flop anonymous philanthrop philanthrop anonymous there you go um yeah yeah her philanthropy did it again her philanthropy and generosity it really wasn't just for show it didn't seem no it really it really wasn't one night in 1957 while he was in chicago on a business trip jock called candy to tell her about this fucking awful story that he read in the local paper about four children who'd recently been orphaned their father shot their mother oh and stabbed their baby brother to death oh my god and they
had no one holy shit yeah and that's what jacques is saying to candy he's like what the fuck oh my god like i can't believe this happened so this like actually really moved her it seemed like she was really affected by this and almost immediately she got on a plane, went to Chicago, and she and Jacques signed temporary custody papers for all four of those kids and brought them back to Houston.
Holy shit. And the story was picked up by the Associated Press, and it was reported in papers across the country.
And Candy told the reporters, we have nothing temporary in mind, only permanent adoption.
Like she really wanted to give these kids a good life.
Man. Which is nuts.
That makes me sad. Yeah, I hate – I hate this shit.
I do too. It's weird. When it's like they do stuff like this and you're like, oh, you had a chance to be a decent human.
And you were a decent human.
Like, God damn it. You know, like where did it trail off?
Where'd it go? Where do we go from here?
Where did you leave it?
Who'd you give it to?
Oh, fuck. Yeah. God.
Now, you know, whether it was a true act of generosity or something more calculating, excuse me, The adoption story made Candy and Jacques one of the most famous and celebrated couples in Houston.
I do think it came from a good place.
I don't want it to.
These are human beings that they adopted.
I really hope it wasn't for anything other than to make their lives better.
No, it did win Candy a seat on the board of directors from some of the city's most prestigious organizations.
Yeah, I mean, the reality of the situation is as much as we want to sit here and say, no i would i never want to believe that somebody would do that like adopt human being children that have gone through one of the most traumatic events that i could ever fucking fathom yeah for their own personal gain instead of just to make their lives better the unfortunate reality is there are shit people that will do that stuff it's true so i don't know i don't i don't think any of us will know for real what their intentions were but no i'm gonna hope it was pure i think from jock it was probably pure i feel
like it was from jock and i think from candy i think at least part of it came from a pure place yeah but i think she was somebody who was always closing i was just gonna say she seems like somebody who would do anything to get what she wants yeah and she wants to climb those ranks but at the same time it's like you're welcoming these kids into your home you're giving them a better life than they ever could have imagined like yeah they have a driver who can take them anywhere but i just hope that you're giving them the emotional yeah Yeah.
And you know what I mean?
Like the material stuff is great, but it's like, especially what they've gone through.
They needed emotional support.
They need somebody who's there.
Yeah. And it's giving them a hug and telling them like, I'm just really sad for these kids.
Yeah, I know. Exactly.
I hope they were happy.
So I hope they were.
Now, despite the tragic circumstances.
Circumstances. Circumstances.
That brought them to their new home.
The four newest famers of the Mosler family, they seem to take easily to their new lives in Texas.
Norman and Rita, Candy's children from her previous marriage.
They were in their teens at this point when the kids were adopted.
They loved the kids and they found them super charming.
According to Skip Hollinsworth, who wrote a really good article about this case for Texas Monthly, I'm going to link it in my resources.
The expansion of the family actually prompted a bit of reorientation of the Mosler household and in a good way.
Candy transformed their massive ballroom into a playroom for the kids and regularly had Had the chauffeur drive the family to drive in movies together.
Yep. Had the chauffeur drive them to the bowling alley.
The family took vacation a lot in Galveston.
They had a vacation house there.
And Candy even had Jacques build a baseball field in an empty lot across from their mansion in River Oaks.
Okay, so it at least seems like they were trying to give them.
It does. And one of Jacques' employees taught the family how to play baseball.
That's adorable. It does sound like they gave to their lives.
they put emotion yeah like it seems like they they were doing things to at least try to brighten them up i think so so as the 1950s came to a close it seemed like candy had finally achieved her dream life the life of wealth and privilege that she'd always wanted and it seemed like she was happy to share it with others but then in 1961 a phone call from her sister elizabeth set in motion a series of events that would turn candy's entire world inside out and change change absolutely fucking everything in the most irreversible of ways oh yeah okay so candy's older sister elizabeth who's better known
as babe her nickname was babe babe and i'm pissed that my nickname's not babe i mean nobody can be babe except except except for sinister palm babe that's true that's true it's given dark sad it's given dark sad and if you haven't followed that go follow it given dark side and um yeah um yeah but they called her babe and her last name was powers so she called her sister candy that day because she needed her help her 20 year uh 20 year old son mel had been arrested and convicted of fraud in michigan because he had quote pursued an 89 year old man to buy 20 000 worth of worthless stock in a fake
magazine subscription firm so he's a piece of shit 152 gajillion percent cool cool yes he'd been sentenced only to 90 days in jail that's stupid but now he was out and babe really didn't know what to do with him she knew that he needed to be pushed onto a better path and she figured that candy would definitely be able to help with that which is when you think about it so sad because babe elizabeth only wanted like the best yeah for her son and she wanted to steer him onto a right path and this one phone call changed his entire life and candy's because of decisions that they made in every fucking
way this is her sister yes like her sister called her and was like i need help that's the thing like it's not even like a case where it's like an in -law and she's not related to her nephew she's full -blown related to him oh my yeah and like my my to do that anyways like i goodbye but to your sister yeah like that's fucking with your sister too like like oh absolutely what no but we're not there yet we're not there we're not there yet we're not there yet so babe was hoping that mel could go stay with candy and jock for a while while he got back on his feet found a job that kind of thing and candy
was always generous with what she had so she said of course i'm always willing to help family like send him on over and it's interesting because i'm like did she already have feelings for him or is this something that happened when he moved in like i'll never know but melvin what's his deal what is his deal he's a dick bag he'd been born on january 13th 1942 in birmingham alabama to garrett and elizabeth babe powers a few years after he was born his father moved the family from uh excuse me moved the family to phoenix nix arizona and his father owned and operated powers aviation it's kind of funny
because it reminds me of um del millard yeah i was just thinking that yeah it was a business that quote fueled repaired and sold small private aircrafts now if garrett's work what uh impressive worth ethic and commitment to his business ever left any impression on mel it was almost certainly gone by the time that mel was in high school just gone so awesome throughout most of his high school career.
He was lazy. He was grumpy.
He was disrespectful.
He sucked. Yeah, sounds like it.
Yeah. Also, he was a bully.
Oh, fuck this guy. He was six foot four inches tall.
He had like a really athletic build.
And a lot of people said that he used his, you know, like kind of menacing presence to terrorize people that he thought were weak or vulnerable or just so he could have fun.
Awesome. Yeah. Sounds great.
A collective boo. Boo, Mel.
thank you so when garrett closed the airport business in 1960 mel used the separation from the family business as an opportunity to get away and see the country you know yeah he just wanted to go travel around the world yeah he's earned it no he joined a quote roving band of dubious characters wow yeah a roving band of dubious characters yeah don't you like that i love that i love that a lot i'm going to start referring to a lot of groups of people is that i can I have in my head exactly who you think is a dubious character.
A roving band of dubious fucking characters.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There it is.
Yep. Yep. But he joined them in a door -to -door magazine subscription service that was not real.
I was going to say that must be nefarious.
Yeah. Because it sounds not nefarious.
It's very nefarious.
It was a scam operated by a career criminal named Arthur Grimsley.
Yeah. With a last name like Grimsley, I'm sorry, you have to be a career criminal.
I was like, you have, you are a career criminal.
You just are. Like that you were born a career criminal.
They handed you the card the day you were born.
Yeah. But these young men would sign up unsuspecting customers for magazine subscriptions and then take the money before the customer realized that the magazines were never coming.
That's nice. Like, okay, Jen Shah.
Yeah. Calm down. Real Housewives reference.
You know. It was during one of these door -to -door sales that Mel was actually caught for the fraudulent in 1961.
Jesus, idiot. And that led him first to jail.
Not you, by the way.
I meant Mel. Oh, I know that.
I just realized that.
I was like, that was right after.
Yeah, you know, that's written down somewhere.
Like, you idiot. But he first went to jail, like we know, and then also, like we know, to Candy and Jacques' front door.
I'm really worried about where this starts.
You should. Yeah. You should definitely worry about it.
You should absolutely be worried.
Yeah, I'm not going to even lie to you.
From the moment he arrived in Houston, Candy was taken with her nephew.
I don't want to be here anymore.
Yeah. He had the body and the confident swagger of a movie star.
Of your sister's child.
Yep. That's what he has.
Oh, gross. Yeah. I hate it.
Yeah. She happily welcomed him into their home.
She gave him his own room, gave him a car to drive whenever he wanted.
But however, if he was really going to fit into her lifestyle, he would have to make a few physical changes.
So not long after he arrived in Houston, he did visit a plastic surgeon for four procedures.
A tonsillectomy, a procedure to make his ears closer to his head, a procedure in which his face was actually sanded in order to minimize his acne scars, and for some reason he got circumcised.
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like why i i was i was gonna ask that same question but i also didn't want to know the answer so i didn't ask it me either and i didn't look further into it i'm really glad i'm gonna lie to you thank you there's just some things people don't need to know there's some things that i just you know and if you don't know if you need to know like just continue down the google path yeah um i didn't need to know that no i would have stopped no stop there that's not for my knowledge.
Nope. So at Candy's request, Jacques hired Mel for a position as a repossessor for one of his auto lenders.
A repo man. A repo man.
We love those. It was actually the perfect job for him though because of his unpleasant attitude and menacing figure.
Yeah, he sounds like a repo man.
Yeah. Finally, he was an asset.
But not for long because by late 1963, about a year and a half after he'd gotten to Houston, Jacques had Mel fired and then had him escorted it off of their property in river oaks oh and he forbade him from ever returning holy shit and then he himself jock immediately left for his condo in florida he was like i'm getting the fuck out of here whoa he was pissed about something what the fuck happened but when anybody asked candy would just say that jock had found out that mel was leaving the company to start his own business and he was really pissed off about that i don't think that's it no me either
i don't think that That would piss Jacques off as much as that did.
I think you might be onto something.
By George, we've cracked the code.
Something about it just doesn't ring true.
Do you know that I just found out that the expression is by George?
What did you think it was?
By God. I mean, you could say by God.
In that movie, did they say like, by God, we've cracked the code?
Or did they say by George?
No, it's like, by George, I think we've got it.
What about cracking the code?
I don't know where that came from.
Oh, by George, I think he's got it.
Why is it George? I don't know.
Oh, probably the king.
George? King George?
By George. I think he's got it.
Who's King George? King George.
Which one? I'm going to look up the origin.
It feels like it would be, instead of saying by God, you'd be talking about the monarch. Oh.
The origin of by George.
By George, we've cracked the code.
dead air an old english oath invoked immediately before charging into battle as late as world war one and it's oh and you know what you can say well you can say like by god george or by saint george huh so there's that well i just found out that it's not just by god the whole time i thought it was by god yeah crazy it's also and it's like a shakespearean as well i like george better you you know?
Bye, George. Well, anyway, so, yeah, so Jacques was like, bye, George.
I'm out of here. Bye, George.
I'm out of here. I cracked myself up.
But as for why he'd left on an unplanned trip to Florida, everybody was like, where's George?
Where's George? And they're like, I don't know, George.
I didn't mean to say that.
Where's Jacques? Like, what happened?
Candy was like, oh, he just went to oversee the opening of a new bank in the Miami area.
We're going to be joining him there in the coming weeks.
Yeah, I don't think you are.
They did. So it seems like Candy may have been trying to put off any speculation about marital issues between her and Jacques.
Seems like it. But she did, and she brought the children with her.
They actually did join Jacques in Florida.
It was just several months later in June of 1964.
All right. Now, as far as the kids were concerned, their trip to Florida was like any other summer vacation.
They went to the beach. They spent days at the pool, at Jacques' condo building.
And they didn't even seem to mind the frequent trips to the emergency room in the evenings where Candy would receive injections to control the sometimes overwhelming migraines that she suffered with for most of her adult life.
Oh. Yeah. That sucks.
Yeah, but I'm like, why can't Jacques just watch them?
Like, why do you got to bring the kids to that?
Yeah, damn. I feel like you're doing something else.
huh in my opinion in my opinion i'm all now the last of the er visits occurred on the evening of june 30th candy piled all the kids in the car and they drove to the hospital but along the way she had to stop to mail some letters at a nearby hotel and then she had to stop again because she had to get dinner for the kids and then finally they got to the hospital a little before midnight what it's just all weird that's strange after waiting several hours to be seen she finally was seen and given her injection and she and the kids finally made it back to jock's apartment around 4 45 a .m she needs
some excedrin migraine she certainly does like that's that's too much that's the ticket yeah so they get back at 4 45 in the morning and it was then that candy made a horrifying discovery when candy and the kids entered the apartment they found jock lying dead in a huge pool of his own blood on the living room floor oh my god his black lab puppy rocky was unharmed but helplessly leashed to the balcony door and like barking for help so jock had been bludgeoned over the head with a very very large heavy object and had been stabbed 39 times holy shit in the heart and the lungs with a quote thin bladed
knife something like a stiletto oh rather than call the police candy ran to the neighbor irene Derr, who called a local physician, Dr. John Handwerker, but only reached his answering service.
So when Dr. Handwerker finally did reach somebody in the Masler family, it was 20 -year -old Rita, and she explained the situation.
She was basically panicking, and she told the doctor, someone's broken into the apartment, and I think my father is dead.
He's lying on the floor.
He's covered with blood.
So the doctor had been actually a close associate associative jocks for many years and he knew him really well but he was like why the fuck did you guys call me and not like you gotta call the police so rita told him mother is in hysterics she asked me to call you first so he told her he was about a half hour away but that they needed to call the police and then i don't he was like you know what i'm gonna call the police for you and then he started making his way to the apartment so nobody there called the police and he's like on his way being like i don't know i'm not at the scene but like i'll
call them there there yeah the fuck so when deputy james georgenson of the miami -dade sheriff's department arrived at the governor's large apartments he was met at the apartment door by the one the only candy and she looked more annoyed or impatient rather than upset or traumatized and she just told him there's been some trouble there's been some trouble like that's one way to put it candace wow so inside the apartment it was more or less what rita had described to dr hand worker worker jock was lying on the floor they had actually covered him at this point with a light orange blanket um one of his legs
was exposed and his hand was still clutching the drapes when georginson removed the blanket he noted that jock was nude other than a white undershirt which was now almost completely soaked in blood yeah and from the doorway which was like several feet away candy screamed oh jack jack what have you done what what have you done she said to her dead husband what the fuck so the comment seems strange to us also seems strange to the deputy and he was like is this lady implying that like her husband's somehow responsible for his own stabbed himself 39 times like what he bludgeoned himself what have you
done yeah it's so weird So several days later when the autopsy was conducted, Dr. Joseph Davis' report would confirm that Jacques had sustained two significant blows to his head.
And they only ever identified, like, that the blows to the head is coming from a blunt object, but they never found what the object was.
Ah, that's interesting.
The first was to the back of his head and it crushed his skull on impact.
Which would have caused significant brain damage or death.
And hopefully he was unconscious.
conscious you would think i definitely would think so now while the other blow was to the side of the face and that one shattered his cheekbone oh my god yeah the stab wounds to the chest again 39 in total were about two inches deep holy shit so dr davis concluded that it would have required considerable force and that alone indicated that this killer whoever this was was was a strong individual huh maybe a big guy I was just gonna say he indicated that the stab wounds to the left lung and the heart were the cause of death but he also indicated that like I said that initial blow to the back of the head would have likely
been fatal which meant that the stabs to the torso were entirely unnecessary and they were really just like complete overkill yeah Yeah.
So now that they're like, okay, murder, duh, the officers do a door -to -door canvas of the building, hoping that maybe somebody caught a glimpse of the killer as they fled the building.
But nobody really saw anything in the early hours of the morning.
But some people did hear things.
Irene Durr, that neighbor who actually called the doctor, she told the police that she didn't hear any struggle.
She did hear the dog frantically barking around 2 a .m. And she later told reporters, that's all I could hear was incessant barking i did not hear any screams or any voices which if you're not hearing any screams i think that first blow did knock him out and absolutely probably kill him yeah another neighbor peggy fletcher also heard what she now believed was the murderer telling officers she was awoken around 2 a .m and she heard a man's voice yell don't don't do that to me oh followed by the dog's incessant barking so the noise prompted her to go to the door and she heard someone close the door to
the mosler's apartment and then heard heavy footsteps down the concrete stairway which led her to believe that the killer must have been a man based on his footsteps and then another neighbor told the police that he had seen a man and a woman leaving the parking lot in a yellow 1959 dodge with a dade county tag just after 2 a .m huh so given the man's wealth and status in the banking industry jock police initially suspected that the death was the result of a robbery gone wrong but then at the same time something about that didn't really feel quite right to them a robbery gone wrong never feels
quite right no people of course are sometimes killed like during a robbery yeah but they're not beaten over the head and brutally stabbed almost 40 times no that's it just doesn't not usually like that not in anything that i've ever seen and also the the case lacked the telltale signs of robbery.
Nothing was obviously missing.
There wasn't really any sign.
Like the robbery part?
Yeah, the robbery part.
There didn't really seem to be any kind of sign of a struggle.
And there was no indication whatsoever of forced entry.
Yeah. So shortly before 3 AM, on the morning actually, that Jacques was murdered, officers had taken a man into custody who was discovered walking along the road with blood smeared all over his shirt.
Wow. Yeah. The man said that he had been assaulted by three teenagers Who stole his car.
So the officers took him to the hospital for treatment.
But now, in light of the murder, the sheriff's office was like, oh shit.
Like, is that the guy that's responsible for Mosler's death?
So they brought him in for questioning, but they eventually released him because it was apparent that he had no connection with the murder.
Oh, wow. Red herring.
What a coincidence.
I know. Isn't that crazy?
And also sad because that's probably true.
Like he actually got.
That's really sad. Yeah, I know.
So they were running short on leads.
they really didn't have any evidence to work from and they were like shit but detectives jerry evans and pat gallagher returned to candy mosler in the hope that she might have some kind of idea about her husband her husband's enemies like anybody that might want to kill him or might want him dead so from the moment they sat down with her she really defied the expectations of what one one would assume, was a newly widowed woman.
Uh -oh. Yeah. But again, we can't judge a book by its cover.
It's never good to judge grieving.
It's not. But she was impeccably dressed.
She did not have a hair out of place.
Not even a piece of jewelry was out of place.
But you know, whatever.
Evans and Gallagher were put off by her calm demeanor, though, and just that she looked perfect.
I mean, yeah, you do have to take some kind of cue from it.
Yeah. It just didn't align with what they expected of somebody who just lost their husband in a fucking shocking act of violence.
I don't know that if I found my husband or my soon to be husband like that on the floor, that my hair would look great.
Yeah, I don't think so, but it's just me.
Different strokes for different folks.
So the detectives knew Mosler was a high -profile man in finance.
And if the murder was not the result of some kind of robbery gone wrong, they thought maybe it had something to do with shady business dealings.
And Kandi was like, oh my god.
Yes, you're right. She was like, oh shit, you nailed it.
That's a great motive.
Thank you for telling me that.
She said, you know what?
It could have been one of the many, many former employees.
It could have been rival bankers.
it could have been customers who defaulted on a loan or it could be this oh and this was something that the detectives were not expecting according to candy when jock would take solo trips to florida he would often use the opportunity to quote entertain young men that he had met on the beach oh we don't know if this is true at all i think this might just be candy telling stories sounds to me like it might be yeah she said in fact just a few days earlier she was visiting the apartment and jac had gotten several phone calls from a man who according to her quote spoken feminine tones wow candy fuck
off candy wow candy and she said you know i'm suspecting that he's leading a gay life out here in florida okay like that's i love how she's taking this as an opportunity to be like yeah you know what i'm just gonna let me just like let me spin this yarn darn.
I'm either going to lie or I'm just going to out him right now.
Out him entirely. Like, that's fucked.
If that was true, you just outed him to like so many people.
That's fucked. And if that's not true, why are you making up stories?
Especially why are you making up stories in a time where that is damaging to someone?
That's the thing. Like, come on, you know, that's not cool.
So it was entirely unexpected, this whole angle, but it did fit a crime scene that pointed toward toward a crime of passion but then at the same time detectives were like i don't know i think she's trying to sell us a story that she wants us to believe not revealing some kind of like embarrassing detail about their personal lives and years later jerry evans one of those detectives would tell the jury that he felt as though she was acting during the interview yeah he said she was speaking softly to the two of them to like theatrically imply that she was so shamed yeah yeah she's like i think he
might be one of those gays one of those gay men like fuck off candy yeah honestly fuck right off candy hate so among the more interesting bits of information gleaned from the door -to -door canvas was that a few of the neighbors had also seen a white chevy sedan leaving the parking lot in the hours just before the body was discovered and when detectives did a little digging into candy's alibi they learned that she had indeed been with the children at the hospital that morning before she'd found Jacques and that they had driven there in her red Pontiac convertible but for this particular trip she
had also requested a white 1960 chevy sedan oh you don't say a bel -air look at that from Jacques company Alan Parker which had been delivered to the uh Key Biscayne Hotel and Villa on June 26th where the family was staying while they were in florida oh the family including mel oh so when they checked with the staff at alan parker they were able to confirm that this car had been checked back into the garage by a tall dark -haired man at exactly 5 19 a .m which was just a few hours after the murder happened so when evans and gallagher returned to speak with candy on the morning of july 1st they found
her in the company of her personal lawyer t .m doyle who was a family friend that for some reason she introduced as vincent caltegron that doesn't fit no his name is t .m doyle i was just gonna say t .m doyle vincent caltegron yeah i don't know about that like okay candy take several seats and uh they also found her so in the company of her lawyer but also two bodyguards that she'd hired to protect protect the family from whoever had killed her husband because she had no idea who it was she had no idea once again she pushed the whole theory of a burglary burglary gone wrong and told the detectives
that thousands and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry was missing from her apartment and they were like yeah like oh i'm so sorry to hear that like could you make us a list of everything missing so that we can circulate it to the pawn shops and you know keep this whole thing going and her lawyer was like no she's too distraught to do that right now absolutely not she could never take a proper inventory at this time she could never she could never you're done you're done you're done so it was obvious now that the burglar story wasn't an option so she returned to the story about jacques secret
gay life yes of course she said that she'd actually gotten gotten additional calls from a myriad of other men.
But neither detective took the bait.
They were like, we see what you're doing here, lady.
Absolutely. Instead, they told her that the white Chevy that she had rented had been located and it was discovered to have blood inside of it.
Ooh. Yeah. So she responded and told them she knew nothing about it and she had asked a porter to return the car when she realized that she wouldn't need it after all.
She'd never even driven it wow sure okay maybe not yeah but a break in the case finally came that afternoon when the technicians working on that car ran a fingerprint and they had found that in jock's apartment and it came back as belonging to one melvin lane powers boom This message is sponsored by Greenlight.
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So a few hours later, six more fingerprints belonging to him were discovered inside of that car.
Oh, damn. Six more fingerprints, so seven in total.
Explain that. Given that the car had been returned to the Alan Parker lot at the airport, the detectives were like, oh, good.
Our killer dropped off the car and immediately flew out of state.
That's great. Yeah.
But they had to, like, obviously check in on this.
And when they did, they found out that the passenger list for the 710 a .m. flight from Miami to Houston on June 30th was boarded by a man by the name of M.
Powers Mosler. Who's that?
M. Powers Mosler? I don't know who's that.
That's not anybody's name that I know.
Yeah, it doesn't sound familiar.
Your last name's not Mosler.
No, it's not. So within a day or two of Jacques's murder, Jacques, excuse me, it had been pretty obvious that he was not killed in a robbery gone wrong.
Yeah. Then the detectives put no stock in Candy's theory about him carrying on some kind of secret gay life.
And in fact, between the fingerprints found at the apartment and in the Bel Air and the passenger manifest for the flight from Miami to Houston, they were pretty sure that they found their killer, or at least knew his name.
Ding, ding, ding. Now they just needed to know why he had killed Jacques.
Yeah, I would like to know.
Yeah. So on Friday, July 3rd, the Houston police arrested Melvin Powers at the mobile home sales company that he recently opened with money from Mosler.
Wow. Like, how fucked is that?
That's really fucked.
Yeah. And based on evidence that had been collected from the scene and at the airport, he was charged with the murder of Jacques Mosler.
Damn. Yep. He was held at Harris County Jail over the weekend.
end and during that time investigators searched his home and his business for additional evidence additional i don't know if i said that right okay good we're really hitting a wall here you know we are it's late so excuse us if we're like so on monday july 6th a grand jury convened in harris county texas and they were considering whether or not to indict melvin so they did take a recess on tuesday because detectives announced that they had discovered potentially significant evidence during their search of the mobile home company.
Ooh, you don't say.
I do say. On Tuesday, July 7th, they located letters addressed to Melvin Powers, signed only with the letter C, and with a return address of C.
Mosler, Continental Hilton Hotel, Mexico.
I hate this. Mm -hmm.
Just so you know. Yeah, the letters addressed, dressed my darling appeared to be romantic in nature and they included statements like i love you need you you are everything to me darling and i could not think of life without you i really hate this to her death you guys please make it stop her nephew i hate it fucking gross and by that time actually candy had also returned to texas and responded to the discovery by accusing harris county district attorney frank briscoe of being out to get her okay and she said he was out to get her because of some kind of negative remarks she made about him while
she was serving on a grand jury years earlier it was stupid that checks so briscoe was like um you haven't been accused of anything yet but like thanks and also i don't have the power to convene a grand jury and even if i did have a grudge against you uh i don't but none of the actions taken against him like your nephew few could have come from me yeah like he's like stand down like candy shut up yeah hand down basically said via the press candy take several seats yeah he absolutely did yeah so melvin's mother and candy sister babe also traveled to houston at this point over the weekend to see
her son and she told the press that her son was innocent and she said and this breaks my heart she said nobody knows like a mother he was always such a tender boy he had no hate for no one oh Oh, that's sad.
That's, like, really sad.
So within a day or two, the scandalous news of the love letters between Candy, Auntie, and Melvin, Nephew, had been reported in papers around the fucking country.
I hate it. But it was not the first detectives in Florida were hearing of this potential love affair between the two.
Actually, as investigators chased down the burglary and gay lover theories, one of Candy's own relatives had informed Evans that Melvin had actually been kicked out of the house when Jacques discovered Melvin and Candy, quote unquote, canoodling.
I don't want that. The two were seen canoodling at Chris's Halloween party.
Oh my God, thank you.
I don't know if it's Chris.
I just like, I think I might've made up the name.
I think it was - It's a first name, last name.
the two were seen canoodling at chris evans halloween wasn't it like the wasn't it the cousin the cousin the cousin that like um that the that amanda seyfried's character is like seth yeah seth mozikowski is that what's the name of the two were seen canoodling last week at seth no it's not i need to know i don't know you should google it though but i'm just like the two were see the two the two the two i think you were right with chris i think it's chris eisles eisles the two Two were seen canoodling last week at Chris Isel's Halloween party.
There it is. Had to hit that, right?
Why does Mr. Duvall, why does he know that?
He knows. Back to the story.
As the stories of their incestuous romance made their way around Houston's stunt high society, Candy had fled the city at this point.
I mean, what else do you do at that point?
She's a high society lady and it comes out that she's fucking her nephew.
That's bad. Real fucking bad for the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Certainly is. emily gilmore would read her to filth emily gilmore would ruin her fucking life forever she would get the last t oh absolutely always always never get the first one i fucking love emily gilmore who doesn't but at this point candy true is the answer no she she loved at the end she does always she loved just no like different love does not like yeah so candy she fled the city she had to disgrace on her name and her family um and she sequestered herself at st luke's hospital and she claimed she was suffering from a form of battle fatigue like the drama mama a form of battle fatigue
like ma 'am you don't even know you perform for the u .s at the uso for the troops like and you're gonna sit there and say you are experiencing battle battle fatigue yeah oof she sure did she did that just say it's it's been rough say exhaustion yeah at the least it's been a shit week just like i'm here because everything sucks and i'm crying but the door to her door the door to her door door to her door um the door to her room at st luke's was monitored by a private security guard but that actually didn't stop her from allowing many many reporters to crowd around her bedside as she suffered from battle
fatigue and she just had an impromptu press conference she's a lot while suffering from battle fatigue what an i have such admiration she's a she's a lot like fucking ridiculous she flatly denied any romance between her and her nephew and she said that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard if an atomic bomb were to fall mel would have been the first one to drag jack and the children out of the wreckage i don't think so but what about an atomic blonde candy oh there it is she was blonde regardless of what she said to the press excerpts of the letters continued to be printed and a number of photographs
of them together at nightclubs were now circulating it was like perez hilton before perez hilton oh you know after a few days at st luke's the pressure from the press and the public became way too much much and she actually fleed again This time she went to Rochester, Minnesota.
She rented adjoining hotel rooms and she spent a ton of time at the Mayo Clinic.
Okay. You know? Yeah, I know.
Random. I know all about that.
So while she hid from the press in Minnesota, Melvin and his lawyers were actively fighting his extradition to Florida to stand trial for murder.
And in the weeks after his arrest, his lawyer had actually petitioned the court for bond.
That was quickly denied, though, by a judge.
So meanwhile, the Harris County grand jury, they continued their exploration of a possible alternative explanation for Jacques' murder, including a conspiracy which involved shady business dealings.
They were still like, you know, that could have happened.
Absolutely. You're innocent until proven guilty.
Yes. By June of 1965, though, as police continued their investigation into Mellon Candy's romance and Candy's connection to her husband's death, she and the kids visited arlington national cemetery on the anniversary of the murder to lay roses on jock's grave she hired a professional photographer to document this event okay and then she circulated those photos to the wire services for publication in any and all newspapers why is she the way she is i don't know childhood trauma maybe yeah probably possibly according to her doctors had advised her that she was too weak for travel but she insisted
she had to get to all international cemetery and she told them that she wanted to signal to the world that jacques mosler is never forgotten that's what you signaled that's it yeah now so the outside world it appeared that the miami -dade investigation of the murder was kind of actually running out of steam and a lot of people thought that it was doomed to fail but just one month after the scene at jacques graveside a miami -dade grand jury and indicted melvin and candy oh for the murder of jocks of jocks i just said jock mossler based on information and new evidence that they uncovered which suggested
that the two had actually been plotting to kill candy's husband for a couple of years at this point what the fuck a couple of goddamn years a couple of years for the first time and a year candy mosler and mel stood side by side this time before a circuit judge though circuit judge george by george i think he's got it by george schultz and he read the charges of first degree murder and they both pleaded not guilty but judge salts uh schultz excuse me set an august 16th trial date and during that the state would have to make their case as to to why they arrested candy for murder and if she was going
to like really yeah do this i'm curious and in the meantime candace and mel were bonded and released actually and they both returned to houston to await trial so initially the trial was supposed to start on november 15th 1965 but it was delayed a numerous amount of times wow i'm tired i was gonna say cool it was delayed numerous times it was delayed a bunch yeah you know attorneys on both sides were arguing over whether the two should be tried separately, whether they should be tried together.
The prosecution preferred the latter.
They were just arguing up and down the wazoo.
So tired. Up and down that wazoo.
You know. But the delays and multiple pretrial hearings really provided additional opportunities for Candy to grab the spotlight.
And she never missed a single opportunity.
Of course she didn't.
She was a stunt queen without a crown.
Now during the pretrial hearing in october she arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her 11 year old son eddie and at at her own urging he told reporters that he was there so they won't take my mommy and put her in jail oh my god kill me like don't use your child for fucking performative what yeah that's really sad that's fucking up your kid but similarly when jury selection finally got underway on january 22nd 1966 candy actually invited a large number of reporters into the apartment that she started renting in florida so they could just i don't know like witness her in all her domestic glory
and just report it back to the nation and she claimed that she had been given the wrong idea like they had all been given the wrong idea about her oh her statement to the press during that event would set the stage for the entire defense.
She said, I wasn't perfect.
My husband wasn't perfect.
But it was our personal life.
Just like you have one.
Just like everyone has one.
If everybody's private life was laid bare and was brought forth into the open, how many of us could stand the exposure?
I don't think that's the issue here.
No, the issue is that, like, you might have killed your husband and at the same time you were fucking your nephew.
you. Yeah, I think those two things are really, like, what we're really worried about here.
Like, you might have had your nephew lover kill your husband.
Yeah, like, I don't give a shit about anything else in your life.
I just care that you might have killed your husband with your boyfriend -nephew.
I don't like it. And, you know, like, sure, that's a solid point, like, if your life was brought into the exposure.
Absolutely. It's 100 % true.
But, like, don't be a murderous and incestuous human being.
And then your life won't get brought.
Because, like, that's not the issue at hand here.
Well, then your life won't get brought into the forefront yeah and also your life was always in the fucking forefront because you wanted it to be sell like the pictures of you at his grave you news outlets invited all of the people that you were telling this to here it's like so this is not beyond your control you're inviting it exactly but anyways the trial finally began at 9 a .m promptly on february 1st rabbit rabbit 1966 and richard gerstein was arguing for the state clyde woody and marion rosen were arguing in candy's defense and percy foreman and william walsh were arguing on behalf of melvin powers
because of the scandalous and taboo nature of the relationship between the defendants the jury and everybody else in the room probably expected sensational opening remarks from the prosecution they were probably fucking ready for it but in his opening statement assistant state attorney richard uh hudo made no mention of incest or any of the salacious details that that were reported in the press, and he said only that the state would prove that an illicit affair was just one of the motives for murder.
Whoa. I'm like, I don't know if we could boil that down to an illicit affair.
Yeah, I'd call it something different.
Just call it incestuous.
His straightforward approach was a little different than Percy Foreman's theatrical presentation to the jury in his opening remarks.
Foreman and Clyde Woody would eventually present evidence and testimony that they claimed would prove their client's innocence.
But before doing so, they said, you know what, let's muddy the waters a little bit here and remind the jury that there were more than a few people who would have wanted Jacques Mosler dead.
Eek. Foreman told the jury, the state has told you that Jacques Mosler was stabbed in excess of 39 times.
If each one of those 39 knife wounds on Mosler's body was inflicted by a different person, there would still be many times that number of persons left left with justification wow that's that is a lot to say you're talking about a man that was brutally murdered yeah holy cow holy cow is right like whoa yeah if i was on the jury i'd be like you're a piece of yeah i feel like that was real shitty to say my dude i'm not gonna believe anything you say from this point on yes yeah like immediately excuse me i'm out excuse me i'm gonna disagree with everything he says excuse me i don't like that guy he
could show me evidence and i don't give a shit because he's an asshole judge that guy's a dick that guy's a dick i'm out gotta go yeah sorry to delay your trial but from there he launched into a dramatic character assassination that included accusing jacques of many things he said that he was accusing him of you know i don't even want to say this he was accusing him of like awful awful things oh really yeah just like oh and And like not even – no, I shouldn't even say awful things.
Awful things for back then.
Okay. You know what I mean?
Yeah. Basically saying that he was like voyeuristic.
He was a gay man. He, you know, all these terrible things.
But they're making him into this like creepy criminal.
Yes. Element. Exactly.
You know? And he assured them that if Jacques' shady business dealings hadn't gotten him killed, then surely his sexually deviant life did.
Being gay. Yeah. To which I say.
Get fucked, sir. Exactly.
And I wrote that in my notes with one of those old hearts that we used to write with like the arrow pointing left and then the three.
Get fucked, sir. Heart.
That's right. Heart.
Yeah. Just like, I hate that back then.
It was like, he was gay, so he got murdered because he was gay and that's yucky.
It was probably just being gay.
Like, shut up. Yep.
Ugh. So by the time the prosecution was finally able to call their witnesses, the defense had put on such a performance that anything a witness had to say would have been bland as fuck by comparison but the witnesses for the prosecution they did make a compelling case on the 10th day of trial a handyman who had actually worked at the mosler home told the jury about how on more than one occasion he caught quote miss candy and mel a huggin and a kissin a huggin and a kissin a direct direct quote oh and a kissing oh i hate it i hate it so much every now and again it gets worse every time yeah yep
now among the other witnesses called by the prosecution to testify as to the romantic relationship between aunt and nephew was jess young who was a private detective from texas young had actually known powers in another context and told the court that he and his his wife had run into Mel and Candy at a motel in Nassau Bay in Texas where Powers introduced Candy as his wife remember Powers is Mel introduces Candy as his wife oh my and called her Mrs. Powers oh my god and then referred to Candy's son Eddie as their child what the fuck he said that it was was his wife's son by a former marriage but like
now it was their child together oh my god yeah gross according to young powers described himself as very much in love and the two took frequent vacations together to sun valley and mexico and in his cross -examination foreman though pointed out that this guy young and his wife had met mel when they purchased a mobile home from him sometime earlier and then that later that home was repossessed so it poked a hole in the repo yep he said it didn't make you happy to have powers come and take your trailer you didn't pay for did it so that essentially just implicated to the jury that this this is not credible
it was retaliation yeah exactly so that unfortunately poked a whole hole in that now the trial's 10th day turned out to be what the Miami Herald referred to as, quote, the most unsavory days of the long and bitter courtroom spectacle.
Whoa. The defense took every fucking opportunity they could to imply or accuse any of the prosecution's witnesses of everything from petty retaliation and ignorance to infidelity and of course, homosexuality.
All without evidence, always with objection, but still it was devastating to the state's case against Mel and Candy.
so the court romantics and theatrics almost entirely on the part of the defense were no doubt exhausting for the judge the jury the prosecution fucking everybody except for the reporters in the room especially the tabloid reporters it was all what dave so perfectly called journalistic catnip oh my god and that's our friend dave who helps us with research dave is hilarious he called it journalistic catnip that's a great way to describe that i love him a lot.
Reporters from all over the country had actually arrived in Miami, like traveling from everywhere.
And they wanted to provide daily updates on the case in like whatever paper they were writing for.
Actually the Houston Chronicle referred to it as overflowing with quote, love, heat, greed, savage passion, incest, and perversion.
All of those things should not go together.
No, none of, barely any of those things should.
And the Chicago Tribune said that it was, quote, lubricated by sex, nourished by sex, and varnished with sex. What?
This trial. This trial.
Lubricated? What was the second one?
Lubricated, nourished, and varnished with sex. Lubricated, nourished, and varnished.
I'm honestly, sorry, I just swallowed in your ear, but I'm honestly shocked that they were able to like publish things like that.
Yeah, they didn't give a fuck.
Lubricated by sex in the fucking Chicago Tribune?
Damn. the fucking newspaper to eat your breakfast you just kick your feet up your dad just opens the paper and is like well fuck that case is barnished by sex yeah that'll change you damn yeah yeah and the trial's glamorous and titillating air was only fed into titillating main star candy mosler oh boy she arrived to the courthouse every fucking day dressed in furs skin tight dresses and And stilettos.
Of course. It was like she was attending a fucking Hollywood premiere rather than a murder trial in which she was the accused.
She's the defendant in a murder trial of her husband, possibly by her and her nephew lover.
Yep. And she's like, I better wear the best shit ever.
Yeah. She's like, let me just offend PETA while I'm at it.
Yeah, absolutely. You know?
So meanwhile, the real victim, Jacques Mosler, was being fucking crucified by the defense teams. and they were handily turning the public against him because i mean all they had to say really was like he was gay and they were like oh god gross he asked for it yeah literally isn't that so fucked oh it's very fucked and the thing was too putting the victim on trial was actually a very typical approach for this guy foreman to like he did that in almost every trial and in this trial it would be no different he took every opportunity to remind the jury he said quote thousands of people hated the banker
jacques was ruthless in business as any pirate who ever sailed the seven seas a man who received so many threats against his life that he kept an axe by his bedside and frequently summoned thugs and gangsters into his home employing them to deal with the blackmailers wow you call them a pirate you're so weird dude yeah like get fucked into the sun he's like this guy who was murdered in his own home in the middle of the night asked for it was a pirate he's also like thugs gangsters gay people i'm like oh god get some fucking culture get some culture my friend good travel okay but you know all good
things must come to an end yes it does and of course by the time that the mosler trial reached its conclusion it seemed as though many people journalists and readers alike had consumed more than their fill of the story i think by the the end of this people were like i'm done yeah like too much yeah as the jury readied for deliberation the associated press wrote quote the trial story is one of the more sensational for some time but with war and death on grand scale it appears the public doesn't care for crime news the way they once did yeah it's like a whole ass war yeah you know like people have other
shit to focus on so testimony ended on march 1st with as much flair and theatrics as it had opened with there were numerous demands for a mistrial there were motions to dismiss from the defense all of them were denied and over the course of the course of 31 days the prosecution presented the jury with evidence and with testimony that very strongly implicated candy mosler and melvin powers in the murder of jock oh damn there was forensic evidence of mel having been at the scene multiple witnesses confirming candy and mel's romantic and sexual relationship as well as their years -long desire to have Candy's
husband murdered or murder him themselves.
But the defense, like we know, hurled wild allegations, unsupported theories, possible alternative killers, bogus claims all intended to slander the victim.
They just wanted to obscure, excuse me, the prosecution's case.
In his closing arguments, Arthur Hutto pointed a finger at Candy, though, and declared most guilty he told the jury even though she didn't strike the fatal blow the evidence shows she is more guilty than this man whoa and with that he shifted his filter to mel he said she's more guilty unfortunately despite his best efforts though to make a compelling argument in the final hours huddle proved to be a rather unengaging speaker e quote one of the defense attorneys knees a secretary and at least one courtroom spectator appeared to have fallen asleep during his 80 minute closing statement oh damn 80 fucking
minutes damn and meanwhile the defense reminded the jury that you know despite the salacious details and apparent preoccupation preoccupation preoccupation with preoccupation this was a murder case they said it's not Not lubricated or varnished by sex?
No. They said, we're trying them for first degree murder here.
We're not trying a hugging and a kissing case.
Wow. Direct quote. So the jury deliberated for three days before returning to announce that Candy and Mel were not guilty.
I knew it. Not guilty of the murder of Jacques.
I knew it. Candy collapsed in her chair and started convulsively sobbing.
and mel leaned back in his chair like kind of seemed to relax probably for the first time in months even one of the jurors actually threw tears it seemed like he was very relieved but he was crying and he told candy god bless you ma 'am what he didn't think she was guilty the fuck or he probably was like oh my god this poor woman was married to a gay man yeah how terrible and as they left the courthouse candy was met by a mob of adoring fans who were elated with the verdict and shouting, Candace, we love you.
I can't. Are you kidding me?
No. Are you kidding me?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
The district attorney's office, they did make a strong case even if they didn't have a murder weapon.
But from the moment the trial started, it was clear that this had nothing to do with justice.
The prosecution didn't lose the case because they lacked evidence.
They had plenty of fucking evidence.
They lost because they were were boring wow that's all this comes down to so this is really just all tabloid shit that's exactly what it is the defense teams percy foreman in particular spent almost the entire trial just making a mockery of this man yeah and the people fell for it wow so far that's really sad it's so fucked so 10 days after the verdict was read a book was published about the murder 10 days 10 ten days and it was supposed to be adapted into a hollywood film after of course um candy told the press that she had no interest in having a movie made about this but i think that was a big
fat lie yeah and she comes right down to it she'd be like where do i sign she referred to it as that unfortunate miami episode oh yeah the brutal murder of her fucking husband as the father of your children that unfortunate miami episode are you fucking kidding me unfortunate and she returned to river oaks but if she was expecting like fans like she had in miami she was fucking mistaken one of the ladies in high society said after standing next to her at an event and moving her place please i wasn't about to be about to be seen standing next to a hedonist she was a murderer she had sex with her
sister's son i don't know which is worse oh jesus right did she say hedonist Yes.
Yeah. She did. Yeah, she did.
Thank you. Yeah, that's what I said.
What did I say? Hedonist. Hedonist. Goodbye.
Philanthropy. Philanthropy.
That one was intentional.
I love that. Hedonist wasn't.
Hedonist. Hedonist. Hedonist. Okay, thank you.
You know quotes. It's fine.
Regardless of how she was received back in Houston though, having been found not guilty meant that she She was free to inherit Jacques' huge fortune.
Of course. Yeah. She also got to take over the majority control of multiple banking institutions.
Holy shit. Because he's a fucking banker.
And she was installed as chairman of the board on some of those.
Chairman of the board. So with the inheritance, she purchased multiple properties.
She invested in arts and theater projects.
She also founded a music publishing company.
And she wanted to publish and promote love songs that she'd been writing for years.
Ew. she claimed that judy garland had expressed interest in recording her songs there's no evidence of that being true but the press did report that as fact of course no fucking evidence whatsoever though judy yeah now after the case had ended candy and mel kind of went their separate ways after a little bit he stayed in houston and they rarely saw each other because he focused on like a new business in real estate and she decided to stop her nephews oh but they did have a relationship for a little bit yeah in the months in the last months of that relationship things got so bad that they would get
into loud arguments in public and there was one incident where candy actually called the police and demanded that mel be arrested for physically assaulting her there was no evidence that he had assaulted her though whoa i almost threw my phone at her because i was trying to show her picture of them that's them that's them like holding hands being incestuous that's really gross yeah you want to know something crazy i don't know candy got remarried in 1971 what and wait until you hear what happened with this she married a man named uh barnett garrison he was a self -employed electrical electrical
contractor and he also owned a nightclub and he was also 20 years younger than candy so now at first she really loved the older guys but then she loved the younger guys oh yeah she's coogan though she's cool you know tm so she gets married in 1971 to this man barnett but a year later police were called to her mansion and they found him face down on the patio in a pool of blood with a nine millimeter pistol by his side whoa he suffered brain damage a collapsed lung broken ribs sorry for the trigger and multiple lacerations but he was still alive he lived barely holy shit detectives eventually determined
that he had fallen 40 feet from their roof god and had landed on that concrete and when they interviewed candy she said she had no idea what he was doing on the roof but then blurted out that she had shot him oh what but that confused the investigators because he didn't appear to have been shot i'm so confused me as well and them as well everyone so they said that they chalked it up to her being heavily medicated at the time of this fall and the fall was officially determined to have been accidental whoa that's not accidental yeah there's something something's up there unofficially rumors circulated
that he may have gotten drunk and become abusive one night so she jumped or she excuse me she jammed an ice pick in his ear in his ear again this is all speculation and she had a relative help her drag him up to the roof and they threw him off together that was the rumor spreading in high city they're like you remember that candy that used to her nephew high society rumors are brutal yeah i mean yeah that's ruthless absolutely so he lay in a coma for like six months but he eventually regained consciousness but he had no memory of what happened to him oh of course and no memory of being married
to candy whatsoever oh that's why yeah bless his heart yeah in a real way like truly bless him she filed for divorce in 1974 and she told the reporters that she did still love him but that their relationship just wasn't going to work out yeah yeah yeah i don't see it working out after that yeah and her relationship with most of her children was also deeply affected by all of her antics in the years after jacques death in 1973 two of her sons actually filed a lawsuit against her they claimed that she had transferred huge portions of their inheritances to herself that's fucked up and that she only
only left them with $350 a month for living expenses.
That's fucked up. Yep.
So obviously this lawsuit created a big old rift between them, and she actually eventually wrote them out of her will.
Wow. Isn't that fucked?
Wow. Like, no matter what my kids do, I don't think I could write them out of my will.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but...
You're like, I don't know.
I don't know. In October of 1977, Candy flew to Miami.
She was planning to attend a board of directors meeting for one of the banks that she inherited from Jacques.
And after checking into her hotel, she called the doctor that she saw when she was in Miami and she told him she was getting another one of her violent migraines and that she was going to need one of those injections.
So he came by and he injected her with Demerol and Phenergan, which is a painkiller and a sedative.
But what he didn't know was that she had already taken another pain pill prior to his arrival and injection.
so the next day october 6th 1977 her secretary found her lying face down on the bed dead from what would have been ruled a incautious self -overdose damn she spent her whole fucking life trying to make it and then to stay in the spotlight and then she ended like that oh my god isn't that fucking crazy wow absolutely fucking nuts that's bonkers that's the end of it and that's the end of candy quite literally and where it's like and the metal just off he went she spent her whole life just trying to get in the spotlight and like she did but then but in the worst way in the worst possible way and then
spent the rest of her life trying to get out of it but never could damn isn't it like weirdly ironic yeah it's that's oof that story is just bad bad it's bad shit fucking bad i've heard it like a ton of times but i think every single time i just like rummage it out of my brain like i'm like no no no no no no i actually i knew like the name i did not know the whole story at all crazy so that's wild crazy damn yeah so like like don't do any of that definitely don't but do keep listening and we hope you keep it weird but that's so weird that you invite your nephew to your home to give him a better
life and then you start doing the nasty with him because that's illegal and you should never do that definitely don't also murder your husband because that's also incredibly illegal bye yeah don't do any of that yeah it's illegal Thank you.
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