Untold Epstein Story, San Antonio Love Triangle, World Cup Mbappe, Widow’s Bay, and Three Billboards

Anne and I share the stories we read or watched on this week’s Torg Stories Podcast. Check out the links to some of the stories below:

Stories Anne Read or Watched the Week of June 15, 2026

“The Infamous San Antonio Love Triangle That Ended in Murder” by Katy Vine 

• https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/san-antonio-three-emmas-legend/
• Pearl Beer magnate Otto Koehler killed by one of his mistresses in 1914. His wife, his mistress & wife’s nurse and his 2nd mistress all named Emma. The Three Emmas
• After his death his wife reemerged back into society. Was her sickness something he kind of forced on her? A “nervous disorder”. She became the pres if the beer association even
• Authorities wanted to protect rep and the city’s brewers from investigators so sort of swept it under the rug.
• Who was the man who was allowed to leave?
• The 2 emma nurses lived in a house together bought by Otto. Affair stopped when the 1st mistress met a man and got married, so then he got with 2nd mistress. Then the next year he decided to do a payoff and break it off. They thought she was going to be possibly killed by him? She claims he started to choke her, then the other Emma came in and so she got a gun to save the other emma.
• Site of the Pearl Brewing Co. is now a mixed use site called the Pearl which is very popular, including the previously mentioned in our podcast (in relation to the NBA), San Antonio’s best hotel in San Antonio “Hotel Emma”
• Cocktails are named after the emmas etc.

Kylian Mbappe is Scoring All the Goals – and Taking All the Heat”

Vanity Fair, by Aidan Mclaughlin

• https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/kylian-mbappe-cover-story
• French leader of team, left home at 14. Won World Cup at 19 in 2018
• PSG then to Real Madrid, PSG wins Champions League year after he leaves and then again this year.

Widow’s Bay, AppleTV final episode, Creator Katie Dipold, was a Parks & Rec writer, wrote the movie “The Heat” which is a terrific comedy

• Got renewed, nice twist at the end
• Good laughs again at the end.
• Had some nods to Lost with the underground ladder

Stories Bill Read or Watched the Week of June 15, 2026

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 

• Stars Frances McDormand as a mom whose daughter was raped and killed, Woody Harrelson as the town sherriff with cancer, and Sam Rockwell as a racist drunk town cop. Peter Dinklage (Elf and I Care A lot are two of my favorites of his) 
• Set in Sylva, North Carolina! 
• Came out in 2017. 
• My kind of title! 
• 7 academy nominations and 3 wins for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor 
• Rockwell is in another great movie you haven’t seen: The Green Mile. 
• Interesting stuff from Wikipedia about McDormand: grew up in IL, adopted and name change from Cynthia Ann Smith, adopted dad a Disciples of Christ preacher
• Married to Joel Coen! 
• Amazing job from moving around the Midwest and South eventually to the Yale School of Drama. 
• I watched it on HBO Max. 
• There’s a screenwriting book called Save the Cat and it tells you to just have someone state the theme out loud. I feel like it’s this for this film: violence begets violence. 

“The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death,” a NY Times Exclusive by Charles Homans, Steve Eder, Jan Ransom, and Michael Rothfeld 

• Click here for the article. 
• It’s one of those amazing interactive multimedia articles with lots of pictures from the jail and the scene where Epstein died. Also… shot of the outside of the prison that zooms inside, shows a map, and then labels the areas of the prison where Epstein was, 3D tour of the hub of that floor like you’d see on a real estate listing
• Really works to bring to life the story. Here are the opening two paragraphs: Late in the afternoon of July 6, 2019, about a dozen F.B.I. agents and New York Police Department officers gathered at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, waiting out of view of the tarmac so as not to spook their quarry. The day before, they received an email informing them that a private jet would be arriving at 5:20 p.m. Attached to the email was an arrest warrant for its lone passenger, Jeffrey Epstein.Returning from Paris, Epstein was making plans on his phone: a trip to his private island in the Caribbean, a documentary interview with Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser. When the plane touched down, customs agents boarded to check the passports of Epstein and the plane’s two pilots. Then they escorted Epstein into the terminal, where an F.B.I. agent and a detective told him he was under arrest.
• Bad working conditions for the guards. Guards not doing their jobs in some ways understandably. Cameras not working. Just a dysfunctional situation. 
• Interviews and pictures with guards. 
• Interesting Epstein could be scared, shocked and depressed, but also intimidating because of his wealth and access to lawyers who could cause lots of problems for everyone he encountered. 
• It would have taken a massive conspiracy given all the levels of security, different sets of keys, etc. 
• Last two paragraphs: In the end, the autopsy photos were like everything else in the Epstein case, offering more possibilities than conclusions. Every question was easier to ask than to answer. It made the case the perfect petri dish for conspiracy theories, a space in which nothing could definitively be proved wrong, as long as someone wanted to believe in it. It is fitting, then, that the last known image of Epstein alive appears to be a brief fragment of surveillance camera footage at 7:49 p.m. on Aug. 9, the last full day of his life, after his final phone call, as he was led back to his cell for the last time. In it, he is little more than a silver head of hair, visible for a split second — stripped of his wealth and influence, reduced to something vague, elusive, a blur, a ghost. He is there, and then he is gone.

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