Ann & Billy Woodward | Morbid | Podcast
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- In the early morning hours of October 31, 1955, millionaire socialite Ann Woodward heard a strange noise in the hallway just beyond her bedroom door in the sprawling estate she shared with her husband, Billy, and their two children. There had been a series of robberies in the wealthy neighborhood that month, so Ann had kept a shotgun next to her bed for safety. Rising from her bed, Ann grabbed the gun and crept towards the door, slowly opening it so as not to attract any attention. Visibility was low in the darkened hallway, but she could see the vague shape of a man moving towards her and without hesitation, Ann raised the shotgun and fired in the direction, striking the figure and cutting him down. With the threat neautralized, Ann moved towards the figure on the floor only to realize she’d shot and killed her husband, Billy Woodward.
At least that’s the official version of the story. The investigation moved incredibly quickly, in the way it always seems to for the wealthiest among us, and Ann Woodward was cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of her husband-it was simply an accident. Yet there were many among Ann and Billy’s family and friends who believed Ann had intentionally shot her husband that night in order to prevent him from going forward with a messy divorce that would have brought an end to the glamorous high society lifestyle she spent her entire life working to secure.
Ann Woodward was never able to escape the rumors and gossip from those she’d once counted as friends, all of which was made exponentially worse by novelist Truman Capote, whose slanderous fiction many believe drove Ann to suicide. Ann’s untimely death meant that many questions would forever go unanswered: did she really kill her husband in order to remain among America’s elite moneymakers?
Thank you to the amazing Dave White of Bring Me the Ax Podcast for research!
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At 35:30 when you’re taking about gossiping and you said “Susie’s sh*tty pie she brought to the potluck last week…” I laughed so hard, because for a while I worked as a church secretary/accountant and they had archived church council meeting minutes and they wanted me to digitize them. The council Secretary who made the notes from 1923-1926 threw so much shade. One of the notes said “Refreshments this evening: Tea, chicken salad (contributed by Beverly Whitman/Too much onion) and Apple cake (contributed by Maude Covington/very dry) I loved reading those notes. She was so b*tchy. It was amazing. 😂
And my name's Susie so I was upset! Hey! Nothing wrong with my pie!
@@susanmissett-king1839 as a fellow Susie, I agree, our pies are the stuff legends are made of!
42:33 the way she was treated by the “wife” is exactly how I was treated by my mother-in-law from even before she met me. She is a narcissist though. She actually said because I didn’t go to college and my mother was an alcoholic that meant I would be one too and that I wasn’t good enough to be in their family. Her words.
That was in 1994. We married in 1998. Divorce will be finalized soon hopefully.
I’m LOVING your book and hoping there’s more coming.
gotta comment to say, trauma bonds are between the abuser and the abused. It gets used as a "friends bc you understand each other" way, but its more "i control you, and you'll love me bc I'm your everything and you cant leave me" kinda deal.
Hey Morbid, any chance of covering the Anneliese Michael ( exorcism) case?
I’m not here to fuck spiders hahaha
Idk why I sent this like a text.. like the episode isnt already uploaded …
Idk it’s 5am here 🦘 🕷️ 😂
I dont think billy flipped a switch, I think he found out his love used to be sexually involved with his father, found out that was the only reason they even dated, and couldnt get over it. But making fun of her and public and what not is uncalled for lol like let her go if you hate her now
So, "friends" who lend you $500 are probably getting something from you.
So not friends who loaned 500 dollars whom is part of the problem um" Lilly"
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I find it hypocritical to judge or trash talk someone for the things they enjoy or like to do but turn around and trash talk someone who simply doesn’t agree with another persons actions when it lines up with the things you guys agree with like in this episode you shit talked people who enjoy bug game hunting or people who”who travel and go to another country to hunt giraffes or big cats” when it’s completely legal and in most cases beneficial for the population of that animal bc mature giraffes when they get to a certain size and maturity will kill all the younger male giraffes causing inbreeding bc there isn’t enough males to mate bc the one bigger male had went around and killed them all. The legal hunters arnt just going around mass killing animals just for the hell of it most times it’s for a reason. another thing I can’t remember the episode it was but you always slam guys for cheating on their wife’s and saying why not just divorce but in that episode the woman cheated and one of you said well o can see why I don’t blame her blah blah blah all bc you just didn’t like the guy bc of how he snapped and killed her bc of her cheating. It’s not good either way no matter who was doing it male or female. The episodes are great but sometimes I feel like you guys are one sided just bc it’s a female.
Agreed. The bias is pretty thick.