Gary DeVore's Perplexing Final Act - Part 2

We're back with Part 2 of trying to figure what the hell happened to Gary DeVore. In this episode we'll retrace his final days before he went missing - who he talked with, what his demeanor was and how law enforcement handled the investigation (spoiler: not well).   Episode Sources: “The Missing Scripts Of Gary DeVore: How A Podcast Helped Unearth Lost Work From Hollywood Screenwriter Who Disappeared” by Peter White, Deadline, Dec 13, 2023 “The Mystery of the Dead Hollywood Screenwriter Whose Hands Were Never Found” by Thomas Gane, Vice, May 5, 2016 “Autopsy Suggests Former Carp Screenwriter Was Murdered” Santa Barbara Independent, Aug 25, 2010 “Screenwriter mysteriously killed in 1997 after finishing script that revealed the ‘real reason’ for US invasion of Panama had been working for the CIA…and both his hands were missing” by Mia de Graaf, Daily Mail, Jan 17, 2015 “Mystery Surrounds Writer's Death” CBS News, Jul 9, 1998 “DeVore No Longer Suspects Sleuth” CBS News, Jul 14, 1998 FBI Records - Gary DeVore “Witnessed: Fade to Black” Season 5 “The Bizarre Death – and Life – of Publicist/CIA Operative Michael Sands” by Frank Swertlow, The Wrap, Apr 13, 2012 “CIA’s Hollywood Liaison May Be Behind Disappearance of Hollywood Screenwriter Who Knew Too Much” by Mel Elorche, CovertAction Magazine, Oct 10, 2023 “You’ll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again” by Julia Phillips “The Little Producer that Couldn’t” by Mark Frankel, Spy Magazine, Aug 1989 “Elite Attend Maria Cole DeVore Reception at Her $300,000 Home” JET Magazine, Nov 6, 1969 “Babylon Confidential” by Claudia Christian “Maria Cole to Wed White TV Writer-Producer” JET Magazine, July 17, 1969 Gary Devore, Petitioner-appellant, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, Respondent-appellee, 963 F.2d 280 (9th Cir. 1992) “PRODUCTION CHIEF BUYS--AND SELLS—SCRIPTS” by David T. Friendly, Los Angeles Times, Ju