The Cotton Club Murders & The Murder of Roy Raydin

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:

• 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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