In 1958, a 43-year-old woman was found murdered in Los Angeles the morning after being seen at a drive-in with an unknown man. Many years later, her son became a true crime novelist and started investigating his own mothers case to see if he could find out what really happened to the woman who was taken from his life when he was only 10 years old. This is the story of Jean Ellroy.
BONUS EPISODES
CASE SOURCES
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-30-ls-40260-story.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20398937/geneva-odelia-ellroy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3705804/armando-lee-ellroy
https://venetianvase.co.uk/2020/03/15/the-mystery-of-jean-hillikers-first-marriage-solved/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137490834_4
https://venetianvase.co.uk/2012/02/25/lee-earle-ellroy-the-early-life-of-james-ellroy/
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/the-geneva-jean-ellroy-murder-james-ellroys-mother.4356997/
https://unsolved.com/gallery/jean-ellroy/
https://venetianvase.co.uk/2019/08/16/zasu-pitts-and-jean-ellroy-kindred-spirits/
http://tomahfamilies.com/Tomah%20Family%20Trees/Woodard,%20Daniel/b22087.html
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