Episode Seven: Blood and Money

In the final episode of The Missing Candy Heiress, the investigation reaches a turning point as long-standing narratives are reexamined and new questions come into focus. Drawing on previously unseen documents and firsthand accounts—including rare, exclusive interviews with Richard Bailey—our on-the-ground reporting takes us to Glenview, Illinois, where we visit Helen Brach's estate for the first time, sit down with Glenview Police, and uncover new evidence that has never before been made public.

As past and present converge, the story expands beyond the disappearance itself—raising deeper questions about legacy, influence, and what remains unresolved after decades of speculation.

A culmination of years of reporting, this final chapter reframes the case, leaving listeners to consider what justice and clarity truly look like when definitive answers remain out of reach.



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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

This episode contains brief excerpts of copyrighted material for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting under Title 17, United States Code, Section 107. This episode also contains explicit descriptions of domestic violence. Listener discretion advised.

SPEAKER_14 0:27

Richard Bailey had been writing to me for years, sometimes a couple times a month, sometimes it would go eight months or a year before I'd get another letter from him. They were all long and rambling, but you know, not disconnected. It was not the ramblings of a madman. It was somebody who was passionate about what he believed in and what he thought was at least the truth through his eyes.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

This is Chuck Gowdy, an investigative TV reporter who's covered the Hellenbrock case in the Chicago News since 1980.

SPEAKER_14 1:00

I was always trying to maneuver this one-way relationship, and for the longest time it was very close to doing it as a prison interview. It never happened, but as I was kind of tracking the case, there became this release date in the offing, and when it became a solid date, I flew to Florida with a crew.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

After several failed appeals, Bailey's attorney secured his compassionate release from federal prison. In July 2019, just weeks before his 90th birthday, Richard Bailey was a free man. Following his release, he agreed to sit down with Chuck Gowdy.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

Could you describe seeing him after all those years and your impression sitting across from him?

SPEAKER_14 1:49

He was suddenly an old man. Uh when Bailey walked into the hotel, uh, and we have video of this in the piece, he was uh a couple inches shorter than I recall, certainly a few pounds uh you know lighter. And he he was not hobbling like you might expect somebody in his 90s, and uh walked in with a big grin on his face, happy to be able to sit down and um tell his version of the Alan Brock story.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Gowdy says Bailey still carried himself with the same confidence he displayed during his Rico case almost 25 years earlier.

SPEAKER_14 2:26

I recall that his handshake was tight and he looked me in the eye, uh somebody who probably had rehearsed that from 50 years ago when he would meet people attempting to control a situation, uh, which is exactly what I did in that moment. And when we sat down, uh he struck me as somebody who's very good at ingratiating himself to a certain scene, whether it's just the two of us talking, or if there's somebody behind the camera in that moment, uh, or with the hotel front desk clerk on the way out. He he knew how to manipulate people.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

For our Zoom interview with Gowdy, we screen shared his 2019 interview with Richard Bailey so that we could discuss it.

SPEAKER_04 3:11

Let's play the 2019 piece, and then once you watch it, then you can just sort of tell us afterwards what you think, like, oh, right here, or what moments that either made it into the piece or didn't make it into the piece, because obviously you spoke to him for a couple hours.

SPEAKER_10 3:26

Everyone could see this.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_14 3:28

Even at age 90, Richard Bailey still calls himself the golden tongue for his conversation skills, or as some just shorten it, his conning skills. Tonight, the I team with the sweet truth, according to Bailey, about the disappearance of 65-year-old Helen Voorhees Brock. Bailey now says his relationship with Brock was different, that they were going to be married. We were badly in love with each other.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

Immediate reaction you want to share?

SPEAKER_14 3:54

Well, during his prison years, he managed to hone some key details of what became his story, notably the belief that Helen Brock and he were going to be married. There was certainly no evidence of that from anybody close to Helen Brock.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Gowdy asks Belly a simple question: why he agreed to the interview.

SPEAKER_13 4:17

Why didn't you just want to put it behind you and enjoy the time you have? I could never live like that. Going and dying, and the whole world think that I kill Helen Brock. So did Helen Brock ever make it back from the Mao Clinic? Or was she abducted in Minnesota? That's a$65 question.

SPEAKER_14 4:40

On watching it a second time, one of the interesting items that I'd forgotten about was that Bailey calls one of the situations involving Helen Brock the$65 question. Didn't put much value on an answer to what happened to Helen Brock if it's only$65.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Do you think that it's possible that in his own response he wanted to say sort of like$65 million question, but just didn't get there?

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Maybe. Following his release in 2019, the question wasn't just what Bailey was saying, but how clearly he still remembered it.

SPEAKER_04 5:16

Did you at all factor in his age in this interview?

SPEAKER_14 5:21

There's somebody who's 90 or 95 years old, and then there's somebody else who's 90 or 95 years old. I mean, I know some people who are in their 50s who are not lucid, and I wouldn't necessarily trust what they had to say to me. Uh, Richard Bailey seemed as cognizant to me in that conversation as he did through years' worth of letters that he wrote to me, um, and the way he conducted himself in and around the trial.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

This is the investigative podcast, The Missing Candieras, episode seven, Blood and Money.

SPEAKER_09 6:00

Cameras, and everything's gone okay. And I answered all the questions he asked me. What do you think that egghead did to me? After each question, that's what Mr. Bailey said. That's what Mr. Bailey said. That's what Mr. Bailey said. In other words, you're letting him know that it could be a lie. Oh, he stuck it to me real good. I was all excited when I found out that he had it going until I listened to it.

unknown 6:32

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

That's how Richard Bailey remembers his 2019 interview with Chuck Gowdy. We heard his version of events over dozens of recorded phone calls with him, beginning in 2022. Every time Beth calls, he answers the same way.

SPEAKER_09 6:47

Thank you for calling, golden tongue speaking, I help you.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

He even uses that moniker on voicemail.

SPEAKER_09 6:53

That's the greatest, the golden tongue caller.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

It's a name, he told us, the prosecutors had given him because he had away with words. At ninety years old, Bailey rents a room at a halfway house in Florida. He spends his days going on long walks, listening to the radio, and talking.

SPEAKER_09 7:20

But when it comes to anything beyond a phone call, it's uh the only phone I have is a pocket phone, that's what this is. I take no emails or anything. No. You text me, I wouldn't know how to I don't know a text from a jackrabbit.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Bailey doesn't email or text. He uses the post office. And he sends Beth a box that he says will explain his story.

SPEAKER_09 7:43

Yeah, I know I mailed your package today, also.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

Oh great.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Beth calls me as she opens the package Bailey sent.

SPEAKER_04 7:50

Okay, inside two business cards. I'm gonna assume it's one for you and one for me. On it it says World Class Productions, Golden Tongue, Richard Bailey Jr. with a phone number, and then it's a specialist in product development, sales, and marketing.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

In the box, there's also a photograph of Richard and Helen Brock from what he calls a spectacular black tie affair in New York City. Richard is in a white tuxedo and black bow tie. Helen is in pearl earrings, a diamond necklace and fur stole, and her hair is in that familiar braided updo. At first glance, the photo looks authentic. Then, you notice it. Helen's face doesn't look right. Looking more closely, you see Richard has pasted an oversized photo of Helen over another woman standing beside him. The woman he covered up? It's the actress Morgan Fairchild. If you ask Richard, he'll tell you they dated too. But they didn't. Also in the box, a binder full of hundreds of pages. It became his self-published book, The Golden Tongue, with the subtitle, The Innocent Man That Killed Her. According to Bailey, it cost him$12,000 to publish. In the book and on the phone, Bailey tells the same story. The one where he's innocent, but he knows exactly what happened. Beth asks him over the phone, What happened to Helen Brock? Bailey doesn't hesitate.

SPEAKER_09 9:27

The number one hitman in Chicago, I know who he was. And he he was no bullshit artist, excuse my language. He's called the one that put the hit on Helen Brock. His name it's all in the book. I don't remember. It's been so many years ago. But I've got everything now, and that's what I'm telling you. No secrets whatsoever. No question about it. They want to be dead rather than alive when I walked out of that prison. Because they know I'm the only one, the only one in the world that knows the truth. Because I was right in the middle of all of it.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

When Beth asks Bailey how he knows this, he says that he was told by Helen Brock's houseman, Jack Matluck.

SPEAKER_09 10:13

The houseman. I called him as soon as I got from Florida there to Chicago. And I says, What has happened? Oh, he's nervous. I can't talk, I can't talk, or what have you. Well I says, Meet me at the Holiday Inn in about an hour. He met me over there. Man, I mean to tell you, he sat down shaking like a leaf. He said, Richard, there's about four or five of them waiting for her. She tried to get out of there. He grabbed her. He says, I couldn't do a thing about it. They would have killed me. What the housekeepers told me, everything. Wow. It's terrible what they did to her. They put her right in the furnace and burn her up.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Why do you think Jack Matt like trusted you with this information? Why did he pick you?

SPEAKER_09 11:00

I'm not gonna answer something, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Richard says the mob was behind what happened to Helen. And their motive was simple. Money.

SPEAKER_09 11:09

The minute I was convicted, the mob started collecting 178,000 per month. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

From from who?

SPEAKER_09 11:17

From the Brock Estate.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

How? Who were who was writing on those checks?

SPEAKER_09 11:22

You you you're not listening to me. I told you first thing they do to torture you if you're worth a fortune. And that's what she was. She was at that time the richest woman in the world. And that's what the mob knew, and they was gonna get it. And it's just what they did. I'm I'm sure over the years they must have collected at least 20 million dollars from the Brock Estate.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

The more Bailey told us about what he knew, the more we wanted to sit down with him for a face-to-face interview. But every time Beth asks Richard if we can come interview him in person in Florida, he deflects. So she tracks down someone who sees Bailey almost every day.

SPEAKER_15 12:05

I couldn't put my finger on it until you said it. He's stuck back in when when did he get convicted? 95. Yeah, so he's stuck back then.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

This is Francois, Bailey's landlord in Orlando.

SPEAKER_15 12:19

One time he literally packed up all his stuff, went to Chicago, and before he left, I told him, I said, Bailey, where are you gonna find these people? I I know where it works. I said, but that's over 25 years ago. The person might have retired. No, no, no, you don't understand. I know my way around Chicago. When he came back, he admitted to me, he's like, I didn't recognize anything.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Francois works as a physical therapist and owns the property where Bailey rents a room.

SPEAKER_15 12:49

There's something about Bailey. He has the order of somebody who's got money. That's that's asking whatever you look at. You don't look like the average 95-year-old that I've seen lives in that house. All he's doing is looking for the next big score. And he believes it's Oliver Stone.

SPEAKER_09 13:44

I'm gonna set up a meeting somehow somehow, somehow. I got located Oliver Stone. I'm gonna do a movie on my case.

SPEAKER_04 13:51

Hmm. When's the last time you talked to Oliver Stone?

SPEAKER_09 13:55

Well, I'm I haven't talked to him since I got out. I'm I'm in a bad spot right here where I can't uh seem to make any connections.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

At 93, Bailey has no visitors and very little money. Francois drives him on errands because Bailey has outlived most of the people in his life. All of his siblings and friends, business associates, both of his ex-wives. But his sister-in-law, Shirley, still lives in the Chicago area. She was married to his brother, Bill.

SPEAKER_06 14:27

Uh, him and his first wife, they had two children, a girl and a boy. His son was very ambitious and captured himself quite a bit, but one day they found him dead at the stables. Dead how? Uh he shot himself. So I'm told.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

How do you know how old he was? Was he like a young man? Um around late 20s or 30s, something like that. And do you how did that affect Richard?

SPEAKER_06 14:59

He never even told us anything about it. Somebody else told us months later. He was very private about that, never even talked about it. The daughter became an attorney when things started hitting the news, they would go way out and have lunch together. And then when he was arrested, ever since then, she distanced herself from him and had no contact. My husband was always we've lived in Florida for about three years. Every Monday we've gone visit him. He was always a beat. I know he never would comp wasn't really complaining about anything. So that was wonderful that he had such a good uh life.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Bailey sees things differently, even his own mortality.

SPEAKER_04 16:07

Oh, really? That would make you so you think you're gonna live to 123?

SPEAKER_09 16:15

Oh, without a doubt. You're kidding, my you know what kind of um problem I have?

SPEAKER_03 16:21

No.

SPEAKER_09 16:22

Nothing. Everything is perfect at 93 years old.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

A few weeks later, we received a voicemail.

SPEAKER_07 16:31

Oh, hi Ben, it's Shreddy Bailey. Uh, I have some bad news for you. Richard passed away.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Hours later, Chuck Gowdy at ABC 7 got word.

SPEAKER_14 16:44

I believe that um I learned Richard Bailey died from somebody who knew him who called and said, Bailey's gone. And it was that simple. I think that day we ran a story on Bailey taking these secrets to his grave.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

As part of our investigation, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Glenview Police Department for case files related to the Brock investigation. Our request was denied. But after a successful appeal to the State Attorney General, the decision was reversed. We received hundreds of pages of official documents. Some of it we'd seen before, some we hadn't. Within the files, we came across a document that pointed to the very beginning of the case. This document is a supplementary incident report written by the Glenview Police Department on April 5, 1977 at 2.21 p.m. The report reads The investigation began in the entranceway and up the staircase to the second floor. Once on the second floor, Mr. Matlick asked where we wished to go from here, as he had to unlock doors for us to make entry. The responding officer advised him to unlock Mrs. Brock's bedroom, as we would check this room first. After entry was gained to this room, officers began checking the carpeting in Mrs. Brock's bedroom with negative results. In the adjoining bathroom of Mrs. Brock's bedroom, blood stains were found on the outer portion of the bathtub. There were spots which were processed and found to be blood. This means police found blood inside Helen Brock's bathroom less than two months after her disappearance. The report continues. At this time, the responding officer called the station and spoke to Detective Baumann and was advised to return to the station. We advised Mr. Matlik that we would return at another date to conduct a further search of the premises. This information doesn't appear in any public reporting. It never came up in court during the 1995 Rico case that sent Richard Bailey to federal prison. We asked his defense attorney about it, and he told us he doesn't recall ever being made aware of this. Yet the discovery of blood in Helen Brock's home is in the earliest investigative documents about this case. So Beth makes a call to the chief of the Glenview Police Department. And then she calls me.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

Okay, I got a call back from Deputy Chief Michael Mizerkovich of Glenview PD.

unknown 19:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:33

It was 5,000 times better than I could have expected. This might change a few things. Very friendly. And he's like, So you want to come in? And I said, Yeah. And he was like, Okay, well, sure, I'll sit down with you. You know, I'll bring in the the two other detectives or deputy chiefs that work on cold cases. And I said, Can I record? And he was like, sure. He goes, I don't know how much we're gonna be able to tell you. And I said, Can I bring a camera crew? And he was like, Glennview is a little bit, they don't really like us giving media interviews. So as long as we sort of stay off camera, it seems to be okay with them.

SPEAKER_10 20:14

What is it going to consist of beyond just speaking to them?

SPEAKER_04 20:19

He said he's willing to show stuff. I'm going in at eleven fifteen on May first.

SPEAKER_10 20:26

Okay. Well, does it make sense for me to meet you out there?

SPEAKER_04 20:30

That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

After years of scouring documents, interviewing sources, and digging for answers, we head to the place where it all began. Glenview, Illinois.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Chicago's Ohio International Airport. The local time is approximately 7.15.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

We actually did not find out it was the Brock home. I was under the impression that it was another home that was a large property. It was not until we were here doing the inspection that the homeowner told us that it was the Helen Brock home.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

This is interior designer Suzanne Glavin. She and her husband Bernie now own the Brock estate.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

I think for some that may have been a deterrent. For me, that was very exciting. Then that really piqued more interest once we actually closed on the home. I really wanted to understand the case and what exactly happened in 1977. I know that the home sat vacant for about seven to ten years. And from what we understand, everything was left untouched.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Suzanne and Bernie invite us to tour the home during our visit to Glenview.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

Oh, see, that's the ice cream parlor there. That's on the first floor. We can mic you. Okay. Um, okay, good.

SPEAKER_10 21:58

What's the dog's name? It's Bailey.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

Hi Bailey!

SPEAKER_09 22:02

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

That's right. The Glavin's dog, a golden doodle, is named Bailey. We walk through the same front door that Helen had used for years. The same door Glenview Police used in 1977 when they filmed the interior of this home looking for evidence. Wow, I'm like very overwhelmed. We have spent several years pouring over this case, and we've virtually been to this house and this property so many times it feels surreal to be here. The foyer still looks the same, with a side table by the door. It's easy to imagine Helen's candy dish filled with starlight mints.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

What I did love about the style of the home as far from an interior design point is the um the way that they were doing the ceilings as far as being rolled, which is not done anymore.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

We toured the first floor, seeing the marble fireplaces, the herringbone hardwood floors, and the ice cream parlor she had installed.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

I was fascinated to know that she loved the color pink of and there is a lot of pink marble in the home, um, beautiful fireplace surrounds. This home has several fireplaces. That's actually one element that I fell in love with. And so I would never change like the original like fireplace surrounds or anything like that, because I really appreciate where that came from and especially who she was as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

There is a sense in the home that Helen is still here. The Glabins feel it too. They tell us there have been some unexplained events over the years.

SPEAKER_12 23:37

My son and his girlfriend uh call us when they were out of town one time and they were hearing sounds from that tunnel above the garage, and they were disturbed by it. And then we hear noises, but I credit that to an old home. The doorbell goes off once in a while. And so I'd say it's a loose connection somewhere. Kids will say that's Helen Think alone or something going on.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

The only other thing that was strange, I heard something like kind of thrown, and um we didn't. I'm like, what happened? You know, like I didn't we all were kind of around, and then we it was the candy dish that had gotten toppled over. And you know, things like that don't bother me. Like I said, you know, I only have compassion for her and love on her. I mean, if anything, I I feel like she's a protector, a woman-to-woman thing.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

They take us upstairs to the second floor, to Helen's wing of the house, her sitting room, bedroom, and the ensuite bathroom.

SPEAKER_11 24:37

So uh, this is the master. A lot of this was redone. The bathrooms are original, but oh, this tub?

SPEAKER_04 24:45

Is this tub the original tub?

SPEAKER_11 24:47

I don't know about that. It seems a little for lack of a groovy.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

This is the room where Glenview Police found blood in April 1977. According to the report we obtained through our FOIA request, blood stains were found on the outer portion of the tub.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

I'm interested in this story and knowing what happened to her because I think she's been not fairly represented. I think she must have been very, very frightened. And I can't help but to put myself in those shoes. And I think not knowing what happened to her is really something that if it if it were me, you know, you'd want someone fighting for you.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Recording now. Say something.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

This is Beth. I'm in Glenview.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Good.

SPEAKER_04 25:43

Glenview Police Department, May 1st, 2025.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

It's a little bigger than it looks on the internet, I'll tell you that much.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

This is totally the place where they denied my foyer.

SPEAKER_10 25:56

For sure. This is please use the phone on the counter. Pick up no need to dial.

SPEAKER_04 26:04

We're here to see um Deputy Chief Mizurkowitz. Oh, oh, sorry, there's now there's somebody at the window. Hi, yes. Hi, hi Commander Jen Smith. Hi, nice to meet you, John Rox. Hi, Beth. Nice to meet you. Are you recording? We have our labs on. Is that okay? Is that all right?

SPEAKER_02 26:28

We weren't told this was gonna be recorded.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

No, no, this is for a podcast. Yeah, nobody told us that. We're not allowed to make statements.

SPEAKER_04 26:36

Is Ms. Is Merserkowitz here?

SPEAKER_02 26:38

They're in a different meeting right now. That's what I'm gonna say. Oh, should we just wait until we I they're I don't know if they're gonna be free to meet with you. Oh, yeah. Oh, we were told it was being uh it was being recorded because we have policies against being recorded.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Oh, okay. We'll turn it off. Yeah, I mean, we talked to him about it.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

We're escorted into the Glenview Police Department. With the implied condition, our microphones stay off. Commander Smith takes us to the elevator, to a second floor conference room. She sits across from us, her partner beside her, and places two cell phones on the table between us, one on top of the other, screen to screen. Before we can begin, she makes it clear, an on-the-record interview was never approved. She says it's against Glenview Village policy per the town manager, despite the fact that the meeting had been scheduled over the phone with the deputy chief and confirmed by email. So we pivot and ask about the case. We tell them we've been told before the case is considered, quote, open-ish. Here we're told something different. The case is open. So we ask what it would take to close it. The answers don't come. So we go directly to the evidence. The blood found in Helen's bathroom. Was it ever tested? Do they still have it? Is there a reason the discovery was never made public? Again, Commander Smith just listens. She doesn't dispute any of it, but she doesn't offer answers either. The conversation continues like this for the better part of an hour, until eventually, we tell them we have another interview scheduled and we're escorted back to the elevator. Then, just before the elevator door opens, Commander Smith returns. She says, The Deputy Chief will see us now. We're brought back to the same conference room. This time, Deputy Chief Michael Mizerkowitz joins us. He greets us with a smile, but Beth doesn't linger. She goes straight into it. What is the status of this case? Again, we're told it's open. Then he adds something more. He says, the State Attorney General has enough evidence to close the case. Beth asks the obvious question, so you know who killed Helen Brock? He says, Yes. She follows up. Was it Richard Bailey? He says, No. Was it Jack Matlik? At this, the Deputy Chief glances over to Commander Smith for a moment. She holds her hands up, telling him, You're the Deputy Chief. I'm not saying it. You're closer to retirement than I am. Then, the Deputy Chief tells us, yes. Meaning, according to the Glenview Police, Jack Matlik killed Helen Brock.

SPEAKER_10 29:49

Do you think he would have that in him?

SPEAKER_16 29:51

Oh yeah, I know he does. I seen her face, I seen her body. He beat the daylights out of her. We had pictures. I mean, she was her face was all black and blue, her jaw was broke, her arms were all bruised up, her chest was all bruised up, she looked bad. I mean, it was like someone just wanted to kill her.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

This is Tracy. I'm at her home in rural Pennsylvania to speak to her about Jack Matlick and his relationship with his third wife, Janice. Tracy dated Janice's son for years and spent a lot of time around Matluck.

SPEAKER_16 30:24

Even when I threatened to call the cops because, you know, him beating her, he says, No, you're not. When the cops finally came, he says, I didn't hit her.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

And what was the end result there?

SPEAKER_16 30:40

I don't know what influences he had, but somehow Jack made it go away. He makes everything go away.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Tracy remembers Matlik threatened that if anyone tried to report him to the police, he could get the mob after them. Then just as quickly, he would turn around and give Janice expensive gifts.

SPEAKER_16 30:58

The one necklace that he gave to her. I mean, I said, Oh, that's really nice. I says, you know, I'm glad you have it. And then she told me that that this is real. I'm like, real what? She says, This is a real diamond and real gold. I'm like, Jack bought that for you? She just said, Well, he said he did.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Tracy said this continued throughout the years she dated Janice's son, from 1992 to 2004. She says Matlik never held a job and rarely spoke about his past, except when he talked about working for this big famous lady he took care of never said the last name, he just said Helen.

SPEAKER_16 31:36

And she was rich. Once I didn't believe him, because there was no last name. And everything was Helen. Helen, I did this for Helen, I did this for Helen. I'm like, you did what? Well, I took care of her, I ran her around, I was I was her butler, I was her um what do they call chauffeur. You said I didn't believe him. No, I couldn't believe him. It's just like, how would a man like him, that is not nice, not polite, hates men and boys? How I just couldn't believe it. Just by looking at him, I was like, nah. My first impression of him was like, he is a nobody. You know, he's just you, like me, a nobody.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

When he when he would talk about that, did he ever give any indication about what had happened to her? No. So he didn't say she died or went missing or anything like that?

SPEAKER_16 32:29

No, she he no, he said that he dropped her off somewhere, and that's the last he seen of her. That's all we said. He didn't go any further than that. What do you mean that's the last time he's seen her? You know, if you're a chauffeur, didn't you pick her up when she came back or when she was done? And he wouldn't answer that. Because I'm nosy, I like to ask questions. He'd get mad and turn around and say, That's enough. We're done. I don't want to talk about it no more. I even asked Jan Jan, do you know any more about this? No, who is this person? He's I don't know, I'm not allowed to say nothing. I said, Come on, Jan, tell me. No, because if it gets out then I get in trouble and he may hit me or or yell me, and I'm afraid of him, so so she could she wouldn't say nothing.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Eventually, Janice tells Matlik she wants a divorce, and she kicks him out of her house. But when she later became sick and needed constant care, Tracy says Matlik found his way back into Janice's life by presenting himself as the one who could help, saying, You need me here, you need someone to take care of you.

SPEAKER_16 33:34

She was getting really sick because I believe that he was not giving her the proper medication. That's what I believe, because she her liver was failing, and there should have been no reason her liver was failing. None. We took care of her, she got that proper medicine, she was gone. I mean, she was a go-getter. He came up, she started drifting down real slow. He killed her slowly, but Charlie killed her. Just because he wants to control everything. He thought she had a lot of money in the banks, you know. He thought she, you know, she had, but she didn't have nothing. He milked it all out. So she had a good pension. I know she had life insurance policy, but like when she died, Jack took care of everything. We didn't get nothing. We didn't even get to see the place after she died. It was cleaned out the day she died. He cleaned it out. Gone. I mean, he took the car, he took everything. Every single little thing she had. And where did he go? We have no idea.

SPEAKER_10 34:44

What are we trying to find? Uh last name is Matlik M-A-T-L-I-C-K.

SPEAKER_12 34:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 34:48

What's first name? John.

SPEAKER_12 34:51

Did you know the location of a Mr. Matlik M-A-T-L-I-C-K?

SPEAKER_10 34:58

Is that John? John, yes. I'll get in your car and I'll probably just hold me on up, okay? Alright, great, thank you. Here's Janice.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

82BSM boy three.

SPEAKER_10 35:09

I don't think he has a marker. You're standing on him.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

You're standing on him.

SPEAKER_10 35:14

So would this be his plot here? There's just no marker? I believe that's the case. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

I'm standing in the Butler Cemetery. The man Glenview Police told us killed Helen Brock died in 2011. Eight years before Richard Bailey was released from federal prison. Matlock's Urn is buried in the same plot as his third wife, Janice. He's right on top of her.

unknown 35:58

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

In her will, Helen Brock directed that her fortune be used to fund a private, nonprofit organization to benefit animals. The Helen V. Brock Foundation. This again is reporter Chuck Gowdy.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

What, if anything, do you know about the Brock Foundation and what happened to Helen's fortune?

SPEAKER_14 36:20

We did a couple of pieces of reporting at ABC on the Brock Foundation, its existence, uh it's it's a fairly secretive organization. They would never return our calls or emails.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

The foundation has no website, no social media presence, and when we called, they wouldn't agree to an interview.

SPEAKER_08 37:04

Me and my one of my sons. And they run the whole thing. I think it's 115 million right now. And I can't fight them out there. And my sister was an animal lover. And she wanted primarily the money would go for animals. But right now they're running the whole thing, and uh most of the money goes to the Catholic Church and all things around Chicago there.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

As part of our investigation, Beth reviewed more than 20 years of the foundation's tax returns. For four decades, the foundation has been required to give away between five and seven million dollars per year. But the overwhelming majority of that money hasn't gone to animal welfare programs. It instead has gone to Catholic schools, Catholic parishes, and Catholic charities. Helen Brock was not Catholic. No one in her family was Catholic. But the attorney placed in charge of the foundation in 1985, Raymond Simon, was. As is his son, who today runs the Brock Foundation, along with family members, business associates, and longtime colleagues. And according to records, for more than seven years, a Chicago priest also served as a paid board member. Today, Helenbrock's fortune is worth more than$128 million. For decades, the story of Helenbrock's disappearance has been buried under myths. Conspiracies that took on a life of their own. Those have now been effectively debunked. Today, nearly everyone connected to this infamous Chicago mystery is gone. Richard Bailey, the man sentenced in connection with Helen's murder, died alone in a Florida hospital, still proclaiming his innocence to the end. And the man Glenview Police told us killed Helen Brock, her houseman Jack Matlik, is dead too. So there's no trial coming. No verdict. No one left to answer for what happened. What remains is what was left behind. A fortune meant to care for animals, not being used the way Helen intended. And her resting place in the towering marble monument in her Ohio hometown, beside her parents, her husband Frank, and her beloved dogs, Candy and Sugar, that remains empty. For us, telling this story has always been about more than just solving an infamous cold case. We wanted to find out who Helen Brock was in order to find out what happened to her. After all this time, that still matters. This has been the Investigative Podcast, The Missing Candieras. If you or someone you know is affected by domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or at thehotline.org.