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hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is morbid [Music] it do be 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 um I Heard a rib coughing cracked cracked already Airline pressure who the
[ __ ] 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 [ __ ] sick and it's so we've had this like [ __ ] illness that just spread around my fam bam and it was
for weeks spread around my family you know and for it was literally like four weeks straight of all of us just not
being able to get over that girly girl I don't know why you're talking in the past tense it sounds like a TB Ward up
in here it does and now you're part of it you're coughing up in here yeah I mean everybody is we 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 it that's the thing this
whole thing started with these weird little these that's the thing with these things you know and things 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 I
don't know about you well hopefully I've been taking so many kova tests oh we've
been covered testing like it's going out of style because we've also I've been going to the doctors yeah too yeah it's
been wild up in here but 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 it's not great but that's not fun but I'll get through it we'll be fine
together you'll survive you know we'll be fine I think the other like the other day I just like manically bought ghost
merch about it I love that for you I manically bought um a new pair of well I shouldn't even say a new pair because
it's a first pair for me I bought my four my first pair of Jordans guys look at you and they're proud of you they're
purple and they're velvet oh you showed me a pair a picture of this I can't wait
to buy them and I also manically bought those so 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 gonna buy a bunch of ghost merch I think I was just in my brain and
it said bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye thanks to make you happy it'll work until it doesn't just buy things too
you're happy yeah make that a tick tock sound I like that I think it's a little too much um fast
for a tick tock it might be the 30-second clip 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 here yeah well well nervous yeah I wrote a few things and I was like huh
look what I just wrote and she was like what the [ __ ] is this like what's going
on yeah this is uh the case of candy mozzler and Melvin Powers uh-oh they were [ __ ] yeah they were also related
eek bad newsbears.com key.org thank you yeah um but yeah so it all starts on June
29th 1964. oh we're in the 60s of course I love it it's groovy man it is very groovy and we so on June 29th 1964
wealthy Florida Banker Jacques Mosler was stabbed to death in his home in key best 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 Candace she actually had moved to Houston and she was just living a life of luxury on
Jacques dime which like get a girl but like don't but like 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 I'm 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 Jacques 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 Deaf 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 mozler and her nephew turned lover what is that oh I hate that yeah Melvin
Powers was it was one of those Trials of the century it was filled with money power lurid stories of incestuous sex oh
and Jacques murder didn't necessarily start like American tabloid journalism but it dragged it into its modern era it
makes sense many a tabloids were written about this and readers were devouring every [ __ ] detail all of the details
were outrageous and they were Paige Turners oh yeah it was like a blind item yup so Jacques he was born Jacques
moskavichi I did look that up and I gave myself a phonetic key look at that he was born on May 5th 1896 in Lots Romania
to Jacob and Sophie moskovici one Romanian Society became like more and more hostile toward Jews at the end
of the 19th century Jacob and Sophie were like you know what I think we're gonna take these three children that we
have and get the [ __ ] out of here I think that was a great choice I do agree um 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 uh 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 that's not great no it's not wow
sad okay yeah I just love no it's not no just not it's not bad on that see you later can't argue that yeah it's sad
when your dad leaves interesting yes [Laughter] I'm just kidding but 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 okay
actual num num num candy 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 you know I think he just
wanted that yeah who doesn't I mean not me so 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 um 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 Pet Shop there yeah I love 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 those people you
know those friends Associates absolutely yeah and that same year he married his GF Evelyn Kaiser look at Evelyn just
like but they're just killing it they are you know like new business new 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 yeah 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. it's a lot of gals so many kids he actually ends up with a lot of [ __ ]
kids by the end of this and I just a lot of [ __ ] kids no like a lot of [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] power and their gumption and turned it into boatloads of success the American dream the American drama
so by the by 19 yeah by the 1950s the Mosler 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 the failure and Misfortune of others because bad his company would offer High interest loans
to borrowers with low credit ratings who were more than likely to default 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 Jack go jaw Jacques
and then it's like no he was like a [ __ ] monster and it's like oh yeah well that's just like one person's
account you know 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 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's not
nice business you know I don't know Jacques though and me either I never bought a car from him so I don't either
I did buy a car from a lot of shady people though haven't we all and I I never defaulted
on my loans though so there's that yeah I was gonna say and I Def and I was like
no I didn't even no I did not that's a feather in your cup never did so like Jacques kind of you know Grim
upbringing in business the 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 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 Daisy Buchanan beautiful Daisy Buchanan there
you go yeah so she was born on February 18 1920 she was the fifth of nine children born to Lizzy and Lonnie
Weatherby like Lizzy and Lonnie can we just Lizzy Lonnie so freaking cute horrible but sadly life was kind of hard
for this family first of all it's a huge [ __ ] family yeah they're a rural family and everybody in this family was
expected to work on and help out with the family farm slowly 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 that 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 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 whoa 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
break yeah 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 Brannon and he moved away 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 uh candy had that life with her grandparents would be
any kind of improvement to the life that she had on the farm quickly evaporate 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 [ __ ] that's all she wanted to do classic yeah but unfortunately for
her her grandfather who was a Mormon Bishop 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 ew and he had been
hand-picked 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 he was in 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'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
thirteen hundred dollars a year which today would be about 27 000 a year so like I don't like the best
but not the worst but things were so different that it's like yeah I don't even I wouldn't even know how to like
compare that yeah exactly so three years later candy gave birth to a son and they
named him Norman afterwards 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 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 be fashionable 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 Dragon you know yeah but her opportunity for escape finally
presented itself in the winter of 1942. you don't 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 out of Uso dance at Fort Benning this is all very 40s I love it so [ __ ] much I can
picture it it's literally the beginning of Memphis Belle I love that yeah Memphis Belle is my [ __ ] such a good
movie I love that movie Matthew Modine in that movie chef's kiss I haven't seen that movie in
so me neither damn it I want to watch that movie I want to watch that movie so bad me and Drew have already committed
to disassociating this weekend we have a lot of them yeah so maybe I'll 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 I don't think I've ever showed it to him maybe we should both do that this weekend I think we
should but I love you but like separately because we're absolutely 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 [ __ ] 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 it's a very like three sisters are always singing it in harmony together so we just need one more game
and it's very 40s I like don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else with me
and then it's like till I come marching home so it's like oh like a tree um 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 [ __ ] yeah I'm pretty sure okay full circle yep there
we are well it was there that candy met a man named Winthrop win Rockefeller yeah yeah she did and she said work mail
she said Winthrop she said Win Count Me In he was a US Army huh 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 oh 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 not an affair that's that's an affair and she eventually gave birth to a daughter who she named
Candace Rita Johnson two I don't know if Norman um knew uh-oh I don't know if he was like I
don't know if he thought that Rita was like his child oh no yeah that's shitty yeah yeah that's really shitty Candace
it is she also um Lorelei Gilmore did yeah she named her daughter Candace oh you're right yeah
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 [ __ ] a Rockefeller
you know I you can't throw a stone outside without hitting somebody that's like I [ __ ] 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 [ __ ]
a Rockefeller am I the only one I'm like [ __ ] 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 Wynn 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 his pregnancy was something that he was
a part of yeah 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 you lose
some and he's just like all right and he's like okie dokie yeah I am molds so yeah he's like that we actually have
nothing in common and you're kind of a lot yeah you're allowed to handle [Music]
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wondry app [Music] 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 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 had
that one before it makes an appearance again so then she comes home and she's like
okay idea and then she just opens the Candace modeling and self-improvement School in New Orleans wealthy Garden
District the Garden District do you know about it the Garden District is like the that's
where all those like beautiful houses are oh really that's where the I think that's where the like um AHS cabin
houses oh really that's where Lafayette Cemetery is like oh okay so Garden District she did that mm-hmm she did
that oh yeah she did also like copy paste much candy you know no it's true TM it's like get your own idea exactly
but I mean there's lots of modeling school so whatever that's true but in local I'm just mad at her because I feel
like she did something wrong yeah she [ __ ] her nephew oh yeah I forgot that's what that's 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 [ __ ] that you dropping yeah so copy paste but in local ads the school
claimed to quote advise young ladies on makeup and hair styling 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 yeah let's imbue some confidence by making your figure streamlined I like
how they wrote that like maintain a streamlined figure even like a sweet dreamlined figure you want them to be
walking sticks I get it that's [ __ ] yeah that's if 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 [ __ ] you want
your body to look yeah you're just gonna make these gals feel 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 [ __ ] through you candy [ __ ] you Cassie [ __ ] you man she's
dead now so we should be careful no you know like Hans you know like rise her from them 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 rumors 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 to like arrange donations for the
organization and that's where she met our guy Jacques 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
[ __ ] but I love how she's like you know this 11 he's 11 years older than me we
don't have anything coming because he's an old erotic bag of Flesh yeah and then
she's like this guy though that's 25 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 like the age difference to that 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 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 industry so it was a
good move now 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 like I did not well it was different Jack had purchased a plot of land in the
City's River Oaks neighborhood and they built a brand new three-story Red Brick Mansion oh my [ __ ] 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 show four to drive them around and drive him in particular
to and from the office like the Duran Duran so yes great song yeah that is a great song
[Music] we listened to that today and 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 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 [ __ ] love glamor not a kid to be seen no not in this life never
that they have a full staff yes 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 Jacques money to the more
notable Charities and she was throwing fundraisers 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 was losing I wish that
it didn't end the way that it did because I'm like you guys could have had such a [ __ ] awesome life together
yeah you mean like with her [ __ ] her nephew yeah 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 [ __ ]
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 CD New Orleans past started circulating among the Houston Piers it didn't damage her reputation
like it probably would have if somebody who was like less Charming or well liked
came along but unlike many of Houston's High Society Candy's philanthropy [Laughter]
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 know
something about it flip flop an anonymous flip-flops flip-flop Anonymous there you go um yeah yeah her
philanthropy and generosity it really wasn't just for show it doesn't seem no it really it
really wasn't One Night in 1957 while he was in Chicago on a business trip Jacques called candy to tell her about
this [ __ ] 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 silly [ __ ] yeah and
that's what Jacques is saying to Candy he's like what the [ __ ] oh my God like I
can't believe this happened so she 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 oh my God all four of those kids and brought them back to Houston holy [ __ ] 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 the permanent adoption like she really wanted to give these kids a
good life and which is nuts that makes me sad I hate I hate this [ __ ] 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 and you were a decent human 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 your nephew oh [ __ ] 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 jock
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 he 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 this situation is as much as we want to sit here and say no I 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 [ __ ] fathom yeah for their own personal gain instead of just to make
their lives better the unfortunate reality is there are [ __ ] 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 Jacques it was probably pure I feel like it was from shock 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 sounds 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 and you know I mean like the phys the material stuff is great but it's like
especially what they've gone through they needed them emotional 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 that brought them to their their new home the four newest members
of the modular 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 hollandsworth 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 mossler household and in a good way candy transformed their massive Ballroom into a playroom oh for the kids
and regularly had the show for 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 and an empty lot from across from their mansion in River Oaks okay so at least seems like they
were trying to give them it does you know and one of Jacques employees taught the family how to play baseball so it's
adorable it does sound like they like they gave to their lives they put emotion yeah like that 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 Andy had finally achieved her dream life
the life of wealth and privilege that she'd always wanted and it seems like she was happy to share it with others
but then in 1961 a phone call from her sister Elizabeth said in motion a series of events that would turn Candy's entire
world inside out and change absolutely [ __ ] everything in the most irreversible of ways oh yeah okay so
Candy's older sister Elizabeth who is better known as babe her nickname is babe babe and I'm pissed that my
nickname's not babe I mean nobody can be babe except except for sinister Palm by that's true
that's true it's given Dark Side even darksided if you haven't followed that go follow it give a dark side hand
um yeah um yeah but they called her babe and her last name is 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 twenty thousand dollars worthless of worthless stock in a fake Magazine subscription firm so
he's a piece of [ __ ] 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 uh-oh 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 candies because of decisions that they made
in 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 to do that anyways like I goodbye but to your sister yeah like that's [ __ ] 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 them on over and it's interesting because I'm like did she already have feelings for him or
is this something that happened when you 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 13 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 Arizona and his father owned and operated Powers Aviation it's
kind of funny because it reminds me of um Dell 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 will 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 oh just Gonzo awesome throughout most of his high school career he was lazy he was
grumpy he was disrespectful he sucked yeah sounds like it yeah I just he also he was a bully oh [ __ ] 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
kind of menacing presents to terrorize people that he thought were weak or vulnerable or just so he could have fun
awesome yeah sounds great a collective 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 do you like that I love that I love that a lot I'm gonna start referring to a lot
of groups of people is that I can I haven't yeah exactly who you think is a dubious character yep yep yep roving
band of dubious [ __ ] characters yeah yep yeah there it is yep yep but he joined them in a door-to-door magazine
subscription service that was not real I was gonna say that that must be nefarious yeah that sounds not nefarious
it's very nefarious it was a scam operated by a career criminal named Arthur Grimsley or the last name like
Grimsley yeah I'm sorry you have to be a I was like there's you have you are a career criminal 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 Shaw yeah calm down real housewives reference you know
it was during one of these door-to-door sales that Mel was actually got for the fraudulent stocksdale sale in 1970 1961
Jesus and that led him first to jail not you by the way I'm in Mel oh I know it's
a thrill I said I was like that was right after yeah you know that's written down
but um 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 gonna even lie to you yeah from the moment he arrived in Houston candy was taken with her nephew
I don't I don't want to be here anymore yeah he had the body and the confidence Swagger of a movie star of your sister's
child yep that's what he has oh of course 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
um a procedure to make his ears closer to his head oh a procedure in which his face was actually sanded in order to
minimize his acne scars and for some reason he got circumcised okay [Music] foreign
[Music] like why right 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 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 to find the Google path yeah but um I didn't need to know that
no I would have stopped no stopped there that's not for my knowledge nope so at Candy's request Jacques hired Mel for uh
a position as a repossessor for one of his Auto Lenders 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 off of their property in River Oaks oh and he
forbade him from ever returning holy [ __ ] and then he himself Jacques immediately left for his condo in
Florida he was like I'm getting the [ __ ] out of here whoa he was pissed about something what the [ __ ] happened but
when anybody asked candy would just say that Jacques 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 would piss
jack off as much as that did I think you might be on decision Yeah 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 is in that movie did they say like by God
we've cracked the code or did they say bye 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 but
probably the king George like King George like by George I think he's got it who's King George like King
George which one like look at that I'm gonna look up like orange it feels like it would be like you know instead of
saying like by God you'd be talking about the the Monarch oh the origin oh okay by George bye George we've cracked
the code 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 it's like a Shakespearean as well I like George better you know by
George well anyways so yeah so Jacques was like bye George I'm out of here by George
I crack myself up but as for why he'd left on an unplanned trip to Florida everybody was like 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 um oversee the opening of a new bank in the Miami area we're gonna be joining him there in the coming weeks
yeah I don't think you are they did oh 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 gotta 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 Jacques apartment around 4 45 a.m she needs some Excedrin Migraine she
certainly does 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 Jacques 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 Jacques had been bludgeoned over the
head with a very very large heavy object and had been stabbed 39 times holy [ __ ]
in the heart and the lungs were they quote thin bladed knife something like a stiletto oh rather than call the police
candy ran to the neighbor Irene Durr who called a local physician Dr John handworker but only reached his
answering service so when Dr handworker finally did reach somebody in the mossler family it was 20
uh 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 of Jacques for many years and he knew him really well but he was like
why the [ __ ] did you guys call me like you got to call the police so Rita told him mother isn't hysteric
she asked me to call you first so he told her he was about a half hour away but that they needed it to call the
police [ __ ] 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 yeah what the [ __ ] so when Deputy James uh 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 Jacques 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 Jorgensen removed the blanket he noted that Jacques 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 [ __ ] 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 death stabbed himself 39 times
like what bludgeoned himself what have you done yeah it's so weird so several days later when the autopsy was
conducted Dr Joseph Davis's report would confirm that jock 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 they never found
what the object was 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 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
[ __ ] so Dr Davis concluded that it would have required considerable force and that alone indicated that this killer
whoever this was was a strong individual 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 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 der 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 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 am 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 mossler's apartment and then
heard heavy footsteps down the concrete stairway which led her to believe that the killer must have been a man
basically just 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 Jacques 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 recovery 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 just it just doesn't like that not in anything that I've ever
seen and also the case lacked the telltale signs of robbery nothing was obviously missing there wasn't really
anything robbery part the other 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 3am 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
[ __ ] 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 wow red herring what a coincidence I know
isn't that crazy and also sad because that's probably 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 [ __ ] but detectives
Jerry Evans and Pat Gallagher returned to Candy mossler 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 would assume was a newly
widowed woman yeah which 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 a 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 like 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 [ __ ] shocking Act of vibe yes 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
probably not that's just me Different Strokes for different folks so the detective's new 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 Candy was like oh my God yes you're right she was like oh [ __ ]
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 recording the candy when
Jacques 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 in my opinion yeah she said in fact just a few days earlier she was visiting the apartment and Jacques had
gotten several phone calls from a man who according to her quote spoken feminine tones
wow candy [ __ ] 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 mommy's Gonna Miss yarn I mean they're gonna lie or I'm just gonna out him
right now I would have been tired nice like that's [ __ ] if that was true you just outed him to like so many people
that's [ __ ] yeah and if that's not true why are you making up stories yeah especially why are you making up stories
in a time where that is damaging 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
point it pointed 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 she's like I think he might
be one of those gays one of those gay men like [ __ ] off candy yeah honestly [ __ ] right off candy hate so among the
more interesting bits of information gleaned from the duel to duel 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 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 Allen 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 am 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 cultegrone
that doesn't fit no his name is TM Doyle I was just gonna say t m Doyle Vincent culture gron yeah I don't know about
that like okay Andy takes 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 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 is too
distraught to do that right now absolutely not she could never take a proper inventory at this time you 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 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 oh 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 Jack's apartment and it came
back as belonging to one Melvin Lane Powers boom [Music] foreign 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 Allen 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 7 10 a.m flight from Miami to Houston on June 30th um was boarded by a man by the name of M
Powers Mosler who's that M Powers Mosler I don't know 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 Jock'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 [ __ ] is that that's really [ __ ] 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 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 okay good we're really
hitting a wall here yeah we are it's late it is so excuse us if we're like Millions
so on Monday July 6 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 oh 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 mossler Continental Hilton Hotel Mexico I hate this oh just so you know yeah the
letters addressed 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 who heard Matthew guys please make it stop her Matthew I hate it
[ __ ] 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 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 could have come for me yeah like he's like stand down like shut up yeah
basically said via the Press candy takes 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 he was always such a tender
boy he had no hate for no one 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 [ __ ]
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 chase 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 have made up the name I think it was it's a first name last name did you ever 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 Aunt
Amanda seyfried's character is like Seth yes Seth rozakowski is that what's his name the two were seeing 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 seeing the two the two the two I think you were right with Chris I think it's Chris isil
isils the two received canoodling last week at Chris eisel's Halloween party there it is like why did they hit that
right why does um uh Mr Mr Duvall why does he know that yep 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 [ __ ] her nephew that's
bad the real [ __ ] bad for the Daughters of the American Revolution Emily Gilmore would read her to Phil
Emily Gilmore would ruin her [ __ ] life forever she would get the last T oh absolutely always never get the first
one [ __ ] love Emily Gilmore who doesn't but at this point candy 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 claims she was
suffering from a form of battle fatigue uh like the drama mama a form of battle fatigue like ma'am you don't even know
you performed for the uh at the Uso for the troops like and you're gonna sit there and say you are experiencing
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 [ __ ] week it's like I'm here because everything sucks yeah crying but the door to her door the door to her
door the 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 she's a lot like [ __ ] 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 Jacques and the children out of the wreckage I don't think so but what
about an atomic blonde candy she was blonde um 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 oh I do 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
meanwhile the Harris County grand jury they continued their exploration excuse me 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 melon 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 Jacques 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 Arlington National 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
announced to 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 a shot of Jacques I
just said Jacques 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 [ __ ] a couple of God
damn Yeah couple of years for the first time in a year candy masler 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 Schulz and he read
the charges of first-degree murder and they both pleaded not guilty but judge Schultz uh Schulz excuse me set in
August 16th trial date and during that the state would have to make their case as 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 away trial
so initially the trial was supposed to start on November 15 1965 but it was delayed a numerous amount of times wow
I'm tired I was gonna say it's 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 but up and down that
Wazoo you know but the delays in multiple pre-trial hearings really provided additional opportunities for
Grant candy to grab the spotlight and she never missed a single opportunity she was a stunt a queen Without a Crown
now during the pre-trial hearing in October she arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her 11 year old son Eddie
and at her 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 [ __ ] performative [ __ ] yeah that's really sad that's [ __ ] 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 yeah at the same
time you were [ __ ] your nephew yeah I think those two things are really like what were yeah what we're really worried
about here you might have had your nephew lover kill your husband yeah like I don't give a [ __ ] about anything else
in your life I just care that you might have killed your husband with your boyfriend nephew what I don't like it
and you know like sure that's a solid Point like if your life was brought into this 100 true but like don't be a
murderous and incestuous human being here well then your life won't get brought into the Forefront yeah and also
your life was always in the [ __ ] Forefront because you wanted it you sell like the pictures of you at his grave
you the news Outlet 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
00 a.m promptly on February 1st rabbit rabbit 1966 and Richard durstain 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 expect expected Sensational opening remarks from the
prosecution they were probably [ __ ] ready for it but in his opening statement assistant State Attorney
Richard uh Judo made no mention of incest or any of the salacious details 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 can boil that down to an illicit Affair yeah I'd call it something just call it um incestuous
yeah 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 uh and testimony that they claimed would
prove their clients 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 Jack Mosler dead eek Foreman told the
jury the state has told you that Jacques Mosler was a 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 with justification wow that's [ __ ] that is a lot you're talking about a man
that was brutally murdered yeah holy cow like holy cow is Right whoa yeah if I was in 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 yeah excuse me I'm out excuse 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 [ __ ]
because he's an [ __ ] judge that guy's a dick that guy's a dick come out gotta go yeah it's 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 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 Terror but they're making him into this like creepy criminal yes element exactly you know
exactly 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 [ __ ] 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 yeah [ __ ] sir that's
right heart yeah she's 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 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 [ __ ] 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 kissing a hugging in a kiss a direct quote 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 wife had run into melon candy at a motel in Nassau Bay in Texas where Powers introduce
candy as his wife remember Powers as Mel introduces candy as his wife oh my and called her Mrs
Powers oh my God and then referred to Candy Sun Eddie as their child what the [ __ ] he said that it 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 man now 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
unfortunately poked a whole hole Yeah now the trial's tent 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 [ __ ] 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 states against melon 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 [ __ ]
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 and like whatever paper they were writing for actually the Houston Chronicle referred to it as uh
overflowing with quote love heat greed Savage passion incest and perversion and 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 in this trial this trial lubricated what was the
second one lubricated nourished and varnished lubricated nourished and varnished I'm honestly sorry I just
swallowed in your ear but I'm honestly shocked that they were able to uh like publish things like that yeah they
didn't give a [ __ ] lubricated by sex and the [ __ ] device in the Chicago Tribune like you do something the
[ __ ] newspaper to eat your breakfast you just kick your feet up your dad just opens the paper and is like well [ __ ]
that case is varnished by sex yeah that'll change you damn yeah yeah and the trial is glamorous and titillating
air was only fed into by the leading main star candy muzzler oh boy she arrived to the courthouse every [ __ ]
day dressed in furs skin tight dresses and stilettos it was like she was attending a [ __ ]
Hollywood Premiere rather than um 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 yup and she's like I better wear the best [ __ ] ever yeah
she's like let me just offend Peter while I'm at it yeah absolutely you know so meanwhile the real victim Jacques
Mosler was being [ __ ] 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 everybody's like oh God gross he asked for it yeah literally
isn't that so [ __ ] oh it's very [ __ ] and the thing was to putting the victim
on trial was actually a very typical approach for this guy Foreman too 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 ax by his bedside and frequently summoned Thugs and gangsters into his
home employing them to deal with the blackmailers wow he got them a pirate you're so weird
dude yeah like get [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] 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 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 [ __ ] to focus on you know so
testimony ended on March 1st with as much Flair Aaron 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 muzzler and Melvin powers in the murder of Jacques 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
about 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 obscure excuse me the
prosecution's case in his closing arguments uh Arthur Hutto pointed a finger at candy though and declared her
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 Hutto proved to be a
rather unengaging speaker eek quote one of the defense attorneys a secretary and
at least one courtroom spectator appeared to have fallen asleep during his no 80-minute closing statement oh
damn 80 [ __ ] minutes damn and meanwhile the defense reminded the jury that you know despite the salacious
details an apparent preoccupy occupation preoccupation with preoccupation this was a murder case they said it's 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 kiss in case wow 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 John 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 [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] evidence they lost
because they were boring wow that's all this comes down to so this is really just all tabloid [ __ ] that's exactly
what it is the defense teams per C Foreman in particular spent almost the entire trial just
making a mockery of this man yeah and the people fell for it wow so fun that's really sad it's so [ __ ] so 10 days
after the verdict was read a book was published about the murder 10 days 10 days and it was supposed to be adopted
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 a [ __ ] husband as the father of your
children that unfortunate Miami episode are you [ __ ] kidding me unfortunate and she returned to River Oaks but if
she was expecting like fans like she had in Miami she was [ __ ] 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 what did she say hey this yeah she did yes she did thank you oh yeah yeah that's what I
said what did I say how did this how did this goodbye philanthropy philanthropy that one was intentional I love this
hedonist wasn't hedonist hedonists okay thank you you know quotes that's fine regardless of how she was received back
in Houston though having been found not guilty meant that she was free to inherit Jacques huge Fortune of course
yup she also got to take over the majority control of multiple banking institutions holy [ __ ] because he's a
[ __ ] biker and she was installed as chairman of the board on some of those chairman of the poor 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 [ __ ] evidence whatsoever though Judy yeah now after the case had
ended candy and Mel kinda 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 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 what the [ __ ] there was no evidence that he had assaulted her though whoa
it was through my phone at her because I was trying to show her a 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 oh
no chandi got remarried in 1971. what and wait until you hear what happened with this
she married a man named Barnett Garrison he was a self-employed 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 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 rib sorry for
the trigger and multiple lacerations but he was still alive he lived barely holy
[ __ ] 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 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 accident 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 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 wild 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 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
[ __ ] up and that she only left them with 350 a month for living expenses that's [ __ ] 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
[ __ ] wow like no matter what my kids do I don't think I could write them out of my way yeah I mean I don't know but I
feel 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 her hotel she
called the doctor that she saw when she was in Miami and she told them she was getting another one of her violent
migraines and that she was gonna need one of those injections so he came by and he injected her with Demerol and
fenugreen I believe excuse me 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 6 1977 her
secretary found her lying face down on the bed dead from what would have been ruled
a in cautious self-overdose damn she spent her whole [ __ ] life trying to make it and then to stay in the
spotlight and then she ended like that oh my God isn't that [ __ ] crazy wow absolutely [ __ ] nuts that's
Bonkers that's the end of it and that's the end of candy quite literally and where it's like the Mel 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 that story is just bad bad it's bad [ __ ]
[ __ ] 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 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 don't do any of that definitely don't but do
sitting and we hope you keep it weird but it'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 the legal and you should never do that definitely
don't also murder your husband cause that's also incredibly illegal bye yeah I don't do any of that yeah it's illegal
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Candy Mossler was a wild woman. She'd always dreamed of a bold and glamorous Life outside of the small town she came from. Little did she know she would spend a good portion of her adult life and afterlife in that spotlight - just for all the wrong reasons. After Candy discovered her husband murdered in their vacation home she and her nephew Melvin would find themselves on trial for his murder, and worse, their relationship as nephew and aunt would be revealed as much much more.

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Brief Summary

Candy Mosler and nephew Melvin Powers are implicated in the brutal murder of her husband Jacques, leading to a scandalous trial and media frenzy.

Key points

The Case of Candy Mozler. A scandalous trial involving murder and incestuous relationships unfolds.
Jacques Mosler's Rise. Jacques Mosler's journey from poverty to success in the finance industry.
Candy's Ambitious Career. Candy relocates to New Orleans and opens a modeling school, aiming for success.
A Shocking Adoption. Candy adopts four orphaned children after a tragic incident, changing their lives forever.
A Life of Wealth and Philanthropy. Candy establishes herself in Houston's elite society, gaining fame and fortune.
Jacques' Shocking Murder. Candy discovers her husband Jacques brutally murdered in their apartment.

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