The Backstory with Patty Steele

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The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star

We’ve seen it too many times: A young star begins the climb to the top, only to be murdered by an obsessed lover or fan. Dorothy Stratten burst onto the Hollywood scene when she was just 19 years old…and she was dead by 20.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 (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

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  The Backstory (Replay): Illicit sex in old Hollywood

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  The Backstory (Replay): The unexplained blast that shook the world