Candy
We’re happy to be back after a nice rest! Well, a nice rest for Dave; Lezah was toiling away down on the old research farm finding new stories to tell on another season of Horse Mysteries.
On this episode, we return to the dangerous and deadly world of Chicago’s horse industry for a story about golden tongues and sweet teeth that we’re calling Candy.
Speaking of tongues and teeth, on this episode’s Horse Bits, Lezah makes an oral presentation!
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It’s great you started Season 2 of Horse Mysteries with a frank discussion about mastication. It’s a perfectly normal and necessary activity for stable individuals.
In this case of Candy, it’s sad the location of the victim’s remains remains a mystery. Even if the shady horse dealer didn’t conspire to murder her, at least he paid a price for preying on her finances. I agree with Lezah that women didn’t have as much clout back then, but these days they are still vulnerable to con artists, especially lonely widows and divorcees. On the same day this podcast episode dropped, there was a news story about a Canadian widow who said she lost nearly 800,000 dollars to a man she never met in person after she posted a dating profile on Facebook. He talked her into paying his “medical bills” and into giving him money to invest “in Bitcoin.” In the piece, an expert on Internet romance scams warned, “If they ask for money, they’re not your honey.”
I’m glad you realized it was JOHN Houseman who was the actor, not A.E. Housman, the poet. His great signature role was the intimidating Professor Kingsfield in The Paper Chase. His character used the Socratic Method to teach contract law. Lezah, do you use the Socratic Method with your students and if so, is it effective?
It’s good to have the both of you back, as someone or other once sang. 🙂
Another jaw dropping story of skullduggery, deceit and, most likely, murder which I thoroughly enjoyed, even though I admit I lost track of who was doing what somewhere around the time wicked old Uncle Silas made his surprise reappearance. What a twist!
The setup to Helen Brach’s disappearance reminded me so much of all those early Columbo episodes where, let’s say, Bradford Dillman would confront brother and business partner, let’s say, Ray Milland, with a phrase like: ‘I know what you’ve been up to, Rupert. I’ve got all the evidence here in this envelope which I keep in my unlocked desk. And I’m taking it to the police – first thing tomorrow morning’. Rookie error, Mrs B…
Keep horsin’ around, mysteriously.
the horse appraiser is the most important person in the story yet they dont have a name and nobody ever found them,very peculiar.