The Cotton Club Murders & The Murder of Roy Raydin
The Cotton Club Murders & The Murder of Roy RaydinUpdate: 2025-05-09
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What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 5
“The Cotton Club Murders”
This week’s episode covers the 1983 murder of Roy Radin, a theatrical producer with ties to a planned film called The Cotton Club. At the time, director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Robert Evans were developing the film, a period crime drama loosely inspired by the original club. Radin was found murdered execution-style in a remote canyon in California. The killing was eventually tied to a tangled web involving cocaine-fueled ambition, mob connections, and a bitter feud over money tied to the movie’s production. One of the key figures implicated was Karen Greenberger, a drug-addled femme fatale with ties to organized crime.
Trigger Warnings: Murder and sexual assault.
Sources for this episode:
Season 29, Episode 5
“The Cotton Club Murders”
This week’s episode covers the 1983 murder of Roy Radin, a theatrical producer with ties to a planned film called The Cotton Club. At the time, director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Robert Evans were developing the film, a period crime drama loosely inspired by the original club. Radin was found murdered execution-style in a remote canyon in California. The killing was eventually tied to a tangled web involving cocaine-fueled ambition, mob connections, and a bitter feud over money tied to the movie’s production. One of the key figures implicated was Karen Greenberger, a drug-addled femme fatale with ties to organized crime.
Trigger Warnings: Murder and sexual assault.
Sources for this episode:
- Roy Raydin Wikipedia
- Wondery Hollywood & Crime
- All That is Interesting
- Golden Globes
- UPI
- Vulture
- The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade
- Los Angeles Times 1991
- New York Times 1983
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