Underbelly L.A.
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Underbelly L.A.
Underbelly L.A. is a podcast about the parts of Los Angeles that the lights of Hollywood don’t reach. Each episode, Hadley Meares shares a new story about the city’s dark side. This is a TableCakes podcast.
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7 Episoden
The Crimes of Valhalla
In Burbank, there’s a cemetery named for a mythical land of the dead that today is known as the burial place of many famous aviators. It didn’t start...

Patriarchy in Action: The Violent Life of Griffith J. Griffith
His name is forever associated with largest park, and indeed Griffith Park is one of the jewels of the city even today. But that legacy — and the bron...

Edward Hickman, the Fox
One Saturday in December, 1927, Los Angeles was rocked by news of the gruesome murder of a child. A citywide manhunt for the killer quickly spread acr...

The Rattlesnake Killer
In August of 1935, Robert S. James committed one of the worst-planned murders in the history of Los Angeles, in the process earning himself the nickna...

The Blonde Rattlesnake
In the second installment of our series looking into L.A. criminals who were decidedly not masterminds, Hadley examines Burmah White. Was she a bad gi...

Hazel Glab, the “Oklahoma Two-Gun Girl”
The new season of Underbelly L.A. looks not at the city’s criminal masterminds but at the city’s criminal also-rans, who gained infamy in spite of the...

An Interview With Hadley Meares
More than the host of Underbelly L.A., Hadley Meares is a journalist, historian, explorer and occasional stand-in for Amy Poehler. As she prepares for...