The Backstory with Patty Steele

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The Backstory: Prostitution and murder in the old west

Belle Cora went from minister’s daughter, to prostitute, to San Francisco’s richest madam, to wife of a man hung for the murder of someone who insulted her—all that before her death at 34.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  The Backstory: Did Leonardo da Vinci invent robots and the helicopter??

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  The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood

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  The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack

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  The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates

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  The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge

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  The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman

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  The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold

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  The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorc…

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  (Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier

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  The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing

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  The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star

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  The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility

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  The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago

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  The Backstory: Weird trends: from live ornamental hermits to garden gnomes

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  The Backstory: Spiderman and…presidential corruption?!

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  The Backstory (Replay): Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles