Gumshoe Diaries

By: Mickey Ramos and Mark Ebner
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  • A Hollywood True Crime Podcast covering Mark Ebner's "How I got those stories" stories. Mark Ebner is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has covered all aspects of celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, Hustler, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar, The Daily Beast, Gawker, BoingBoing, Esquire and New Times. He has produced for and/or appeared as a commentator on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, A&E, DiscoveryID, Comedy Central, REELZ, Showtime, The History Channel, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, TruTV, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" "The Today Show," "The Early Show," "Out Front with Erin Burnett," "Anderson Cooper 360," "Fox & Friends," Inside Edition," "Hard Copy," "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn," and "Crime Watch Daily." Ebner also consulted on the Trapped in the Closet episode of South Park for Comedy Central, and for NBC/Dateline on “The Paris Hilton Tapes." He hosted the crime show “Rich and Reckless” for TruTV, and was a featured guest on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." More recently, he is featured in the top-ranked Hulu documentary, "God Forbid," and he co-authored "Off The Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty" with Giancarlo Granda for William Morrow. His other books include the NY Times bestseller Hollywood,Interrupted, Poison Candy, Being Uncle Charlie, We Have Your Husband, and the Hollywood true-crime saga, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton. Producer Mickey Ramos is a veteran TV Producer & Mark's friend of over 20 years. Mickey and Mark met at Comedyworld.com, a hybrid terrestrial & Internet radio dot com that crashed and burned in 2001. Mickey has produced television for Netflix, National Geographic Channel, Disney, Fox, TBS, MTV, Discovery, OWN, TLC, Paramount Channel, Spike TV and others. Mickey has also done voices for 'South Park' the TV show and video games, being one of the few people that has killed Kenny. You can also find her picture hanging on Chef's cafeteria wall as the 'Fruits are Fun' poster child.
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Episodes
  • S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 1 of 3

    S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 1 of 3
    Feb 26 2023

    Ebner wrote this story for Maxim Magazine in 2009 shortly after the untimely death of American Actor and icon David Carradine.

    EPISODE 1:

    David Carradine died in a Bangkok, Thailand hotel room in 2009 at the age of 72.

    His death was ruled a suicide by Thai authorities.

    Michael Baden performed a second autopsy ruling out suicide.

    So, there's that...and nothing more since 2009.

     

    Developed, Produced, Edited, Sound designed by Mickey Ramos
    Original Music by Daniel Espy

     

    To read the original Maxim article "The Last Days of David Carradine" go to: https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/single-post/2019/12/10/the-last-days-of-david-carradine-unexpurgated
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    39 mins
  • S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 2 of 3

    S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 2 of 3
    Feb 26 2023

    EPISODE 2: 

    Marina Anderson, David Carradine's 4th wife, confirms details of the story.

    Ebner meets colorful people with info:

    *Bangkok Dan, an Ex Pat living in Thailand that educates Ebner about body snatchers.

    *Flamenco Antonio Piñeda, a fixer type that hooks Ebner up with David Winters, of 'Westside Story' fame.

    *David Winters, an English-born American actor, dancer, choreographer, producer and director that was a friend of David Carradine's and has stories of being drugged and robbed himself.

    *Thai Police Colonel Somprasong Yenthuam, Superintendent of Lumpini Police station. Scary guy. Not helpful.

    *Unnamed translator kid that sheds light on what's really going on in the Thai police station.

    *Hears that Porntip is in town. PORNTIP!!

     

    Developed, Produced, Edited, Sound designed by Mickey Ramos
    Original Music by Daniel Espy

     

    To read the original Maxim article "The Last Days of David Carradine" go to:

    https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/single-post/2019/12/10/the-last-days-of-david-carradine-unexpurgated

     
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    50 mins
  • S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 3 of 3

    S1 The Last Days of David Carradine - EP. 3 of 3
    Feb 26 2023

    EPISODE 3: 
    Marina Anderson, David Carradine's 4th wife, confirms details of the story & adds her thoughts on what she believes happened to her ex-husband David Carradine.

    Ebner meets colorful people with info:

    *Pornthip Rojanasunand, aka Dr. Death, a Thai forensic pathologist and medical doctor that concluded Carradine's crime scene was trampeled and rendered useless.

    *Bangkok post reporter that had David Carradine's morgue photos, the real photos not the fake photos floating around the press.

    *Hotel manager Aurelio Giraudo, a small Italian man that offers neither assistance nor access to the hotel's surveillance footage.

    And hear the 2009 press release from the Brothers Carradine regarding the passing of their brother David.


    Developed, Produced, Edited, Sound designed by Mickey Ramos
    Original Music by Daniel Espy

     

    To read the original Maxim article "The Last Days of David Carradine" go to: https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/single-post/2019/12/10/the-last-days-of-david-carradine-unexpurgated
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    37 mins

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