Episodes

  • Trailer: Hollywood Death Trip

    Trailer: Hollywood Death Trip
    Jul 7 2022
    Available on July 7th James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip is a highly stylized true crime series that examines five notorious, unsolved, midcentury-Hollywood murders. In gruesome and heartbreaking fashion, the series starts with Ellroy examining his own mother’s murder. Next, it’s the Karen Kupicnet Killing, followed by Stephanie Gorman, and many more. Concluding with Sal Mineo’s 1976 murder.
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    Less than 1 minute
    Free with 30-day trial
  • Episode 1: My Mother's Murder

    Episode 1: My Mother's Murder
    Jul 7 2022
    James Ellroy enlists the help of the LA County Sheriff’s Cold Case squad to reinvestigate the 1958 murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy.
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    37 mins
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  • Episode 2: Glamour Jungle Part #1

    Episode 2: Glamour Jungle Part #1
    Jul 7 2022
    Karyn Kupcinet popped pills and danced in the nude. Her boyfriend was a primetime star, who may or may not have strangled her to death. It's Hollyweird at its most brutal; a young actress cut down in the prime of her life. Only who did it, and why? Ellroy picks up the trail with the help of the LAPD’s Cold Case Squad.
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    45 mins
    Free with 30-day trial
  • Episode 3: Glamour Jungle Part #2

    Episode 3: Glamour Jungle Part #2
    Jul 7 2022
    Karyn’s diary reveals a young woman unraveling. Her death seemed almost preordained. Hollywood chewed her up and left her void of life. By the time death came, it seemed a foregone conclusion. But the trauma reverberated through the decades. The sad conclusion and an elegy for a Hollywood actress.
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    29 mins
    Free with 30-day trial
  • Episode 4: Stephanie

    Episode 4: Stephanie
    Jul 7 2022
    The brutal murder of 16-year-old Stephanie Gorman forced West LA to lock it doors and fear its neighbors. It was random, it was vicious. The terrifying tale of a killer without remorse. Ellroy picks up the case, only to fall in love with the victim.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
    Free with 30-day trial
  • Episode 5: Clash By Night Part #1

    Episode 5: Clash By Night Part #1
    Jul 7 2022
    Salacious Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in the carport of his Hollywood Apartment. But Mineo’s screams went unheeded as he died in a pool of his own blood. Ellroy steps into '70s Hollywood to find out who did it, and why.
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    42 mins
    Free with 30-day trial
  • Episode 6: Clash By Night Part #2

    Episode 6: Clash By Night Part #2
    Jul 7 2022
    Joined by LAPD detective Glynn Martin, Ellroy dives into the police files and retraces the killer’s final days.
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    44 mins
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  • Episode 7: Body Dumps Part #1

    Episode 7: Body Dumps Part #1
    Jul 7 2022
    El Monte Redux, cats and kittens. Ellroy thought he’d never have to go back to that same San Gabriel valley hell hole again, but dead women own him. It's a life sentence. There's no parole and no possible means of redress or atonement. His mother's unsolved murder case June, 1958. The Betty Jean scales job January 73, 15 years. Two devastated women. One cannot run from one's delirious destiny.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
    Free with 30-day trial