Episode 287: The story behind sensational 'Headless Body in Topless Bar' headline
Brad Hunter joins Nicola Tallant to discuss the famous headline from 1983’s New York Post
Sunday World investigations editor Nicola Tallant
Nicola Tallant
IT was the headline that vent viral 1983 style, inspired the movies and is being celebrated by old school tabloid hacks across the world 40 years on.
"Headless Body in Topless Bar" was penned by the legendary New York Post editor Vincent Musetto after a cocaine-fuelled crime spree by criminal Charles Dingle.
Nicola is joined by journalist Brad Hunter, formerly of the New York Post, about the headline and the gruesome story behind it.
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