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Brandi starts us off with the strange story of millionaire adventurer Michael Marin. Marin likened himself to the dapper man in the Dos Equis commercials \u2014 the Most Interesting Man in the World. As obnoxious as that sounds, he wasn\u2019t wrong. Marin lived most of his life on top of the world, which made it all the more shocking when he fell.

Then Kristin treats us to another old timey Kansas City case. This story starts innocently enough. John and Myrtle Bennett invited their friends Charles and Myrna Hofman over to play bridge. Everyone was having a great time\u2026 until they weren\u2019t. John played a bad hand, Myrtle insulted him, and John slapped her several times. But Myrtle didn\u2019t take it sitting down. She ran to her mother\u2019s room and came out with a loaded gun. As crazy as that night was, Myrtle\u2019s trial was even crazier.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\n\u201cBridge Slaying Story Related,\u201d The Morning Chronicle
\n\n\u201cLast Hand at Park Manor: The Trial of Myrtle Bennett,\u201d The Jackson County Historical Society Journal
\n\n\u201cThe Bridge Murder Case,\u201d Wikipedia
\n\nThe book, \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age,\u201d by Gary Pomerantz

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cThe Extreme Life and Dramatic Death of Michael Marin\u201d by Michale Kiefer, The Arizona Republic
\n\n\u201cArson in America: The Odd Tale of Michael Marin\u201d independentmail.com
\n\n\u201cThe Millionaire Arsonist\u201d by Heather Sutfin, swordandscale.com

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