They had wealth.
They had fame.
So, why did they wind up here before their time?
DEATH IN PARADISE podcast
A relentless investigative reporter/author exposes the hidden truths about the murders, suicides and accidental deaths of some of the most famous celebrities in modern history.
From Natalie Wood to Sharon Tate. From Robert F. Kennedy to Janis Joplin. The book DEATH IN PARADISE, the landmark history of the Los Angeles County Coroner, is the basis for a richly layered podcast series that goes where mainstream journalism never dared.
Brad Schreiber was hired by a book packager to research and write a history of forensic science and infamous coroner cases in Southern California. Given rare and complete access to the files of the L.A. Coroner, he couldn’t resist uncovering uncomfortable facts.
MANSONLAND
There are things you’ve never been told about L.A.’s most notorious murders, involving drug dealing to celebrities, organized crime ripoffs, Charles Manson’s loss of control of some of his followers and a corrupt D.A.’s office which broke the law, fearful they would not get the death penalty for Manson.
GEORGE REEVES, SUPERMAN
Television’s Superman couldn’t withstand the fatal bullet likely shot into him by his lover, Leonore Lemmon. The guests downstairs in Reeves’s house at that moment later told conflicting stories. Lemmon’s use of controversial superlawyer Edward Bennett Williams resulted in a finding of suicide, forensically impossible.
DONALD DEFREEZE AND THE S.L.A.
Schreiber’s book Revolution’s End proved Donald DeFreeze, black leader of the supposed radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army, kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst, was a paid LAPD informant and double agent, run by the CIA and others to undermine leftist activists and the Black Panthers in California. He and five white followers, who never knew of his past, died in a shootout and fire on live national TV, which began the spread of SWAT teams in cities across the US.
DEATH IN PARADISE has been published as a hard cover, trade paper and e-book.