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MFM Minisode 435

May 12, 2025 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about legal challenges faced by women, encounters with notorious criminals, and childhood memories tied to crime.

One listener shares her experience as a local prosecutor, discussing the challenges women face when pulled over by police, referencing the tragic murder of Kara Knott. She highlights the biases in the legal system and recounts her confrontations with male colleagues over dismissing cases involving women.

Another story comes from a listener who worked as a Santa's elf and later discovered that her coworker, Bruce MacArthur, was a serial killer. She reflects on her gut feeling about him and the chilling realization that her instincts were correct.

In a lighter moment, a listener recounts a childhood birthday party where she received gifts from two boys, one of whom later became a convicted murderer. This story illustrates how early behaviors can foreshadow darker paths.

Finally, a listener from Spain shares a bizarre tale of a bear that was poisoned, leading to a drug trafficking investigation, showcasing the unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated events.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling stories of crime, legal bias, and childhood encounters with future criminals.

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Sure. Okay, this one's called My Cara Not Legacy Story. Ahoy hoy to the lovely people of the Fuck Word Murder Mystery Show.
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Hey, long time listener, long time writer. Eventually, one of these will make it onto the show.
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Could this be the one? Let's find out. It's happening. Guess what? When I was listening to episode 474, it cleans ducks.
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I was so struck by George's telling of the story of the tragic murder of Kara Knott and the lasting legacy her family worked to protect.
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Then I realized that her lasting legacy goes far beyond the memorial garden her father put so much work into.
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Remember the story where she was parked at the, it was the cop. Yeah. In San Diego?
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Yeah. El Cajon? Yeah. I'm a local prosecutor, and despite gains made by women in the legal field, it's still a bit of a good old boys club.
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Yeah. I mean, that's everything. We know. That's everywhere. It's getting worse.
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I cannot tell you how many cases I've been assigned to either file or prosecute that are sent in by male officers or filed by male colleagues where a woman is charged with resisting law enforcement in a vehicle, which is a felony here.
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The facts are always somewhat similar. late at night, a solo female driver driving a little bit extra after the lights and sirens
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are activated to get to a gas station or other well-lit place. Yeah. Then a completely compliant woman.
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And yet that extra tenth of a mile means this goes from a ticket for a broken taillight
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to a felony case. Shit. Every time one of these cases hits my desk, I have the same reaction.
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Dismissal. When I finally dismissed, quote, too many of these cases, my supervisor and a very angry
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male cop sat me down and asked why i kept doing this i explained that as women learning how to
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drive we are frequently taught never to pull over on a dark road when we are alone they scoffed and
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said that was preposterous women were safe to pull over anywhere uh would you like to listen
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to our podcast or any of the other millions of true crime podcasts yeah filled with stories
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It is nowhere to do nothing. It is a fantasy men have that women live the same lives as men.
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Right. And that just because they're not that kind of guy, there aren't any of that kind of guys.
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Sir. Sir. Sir, sit down. I recounted the story of Kara Knott and how her murderer was, in fact, a cop.
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You could tell it was a story they had never heard of before and was something that surprised them.
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I told them I had zero plans of changing my approach to these cases, but maybe they should change theirs.
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Then I got up and walked out. Good. I've seen very few cases like this since, and I'd like to think I taught that smug cop a lesson.
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Stay sexy and don't pull over until you are in a well-lit place, but maybe put your hazards on.
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Hannah, she, her. So the idea that it's a felony is very good information. Yeah.
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Because that's like the time I told the story of like the cops tried to pull me over when I was trying to get my drunk friend from a wedding.
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And it was like the hotel was right there. I'm like, I just got to get her to the front door.
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And they lost their minds. But I mean, the idea that we don't know that we're playing with fire to keep ourselves safe.
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Yeah. Or to keep somebody else safe. Where it's like, why in God's name would that be a felony?
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Right. What's the problem? They pulled over at the next exit. That's what you're supposed to do.
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That's what we were all taught to do. Yeah. But also, why wouldn't cops get trained that, like, if it's a woman driving, pull her over at a gas station?
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Like, escort her to the place where there are people and lights. What's the problem with that?
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Well that what Hannah is trying to fucking teach everyone and she doing the Lord work Good job Hannah Well interestingly my first email is from a story I covered Oh And the subject line is I worked with Bruce MacArthur from episode 475 Hi Georgia Karen
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and everyone else. I am from a suburb of Toronto, Scarborough, and I've had my fair share of,
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oh, Paul Bernardo lived in my parents' neighborhood, or my sister was friends with the
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happy face killer's son stories, and then in parentheses, both true. But when I saw what
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Karen covered in episode 475, I knew exactly what I needed to write in. When I was a preteen, I was offered a job that paid cash and that allowed me to bring
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a friend to work with me. It was a no-brainer. My friend and I took this job as Santa's elves for one of those pictures with Santa's
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setups in a mall. It was one of those malls that was one step ahead of a strip mall, but one step below
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a cool mall hangout spot. I'm talking a Walmart, a cell phone prom dress store. Oh, God. That's the Burbank Mall.
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Yes, it is. Isn't it? Yep. Where there's like, I've never heard of that chain of stores before.
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Where's that from? Wow, those are shiny shoes. The country of Georgia? Okay, that's cool.
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Nail salon, bunch of places with for rent signs up. This Santa photo area was also less than ideal.
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We took the pictures with a disposable camera. And yes, I, a 13-year-old, took the pics.
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Oh, God. This is very low rent. Yeah. And we took the film to develop at Walmart's one-hour photo lab.
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Oh, my God. BRB. I'm going to go develop these pics. Now I kind of love the hustle of this.
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We're just like, ugh, by any means necessary. Every day we would go up to the mall management office to get into our elf clothes, and Santa would be sitting there waiting for showtime in his white tank top and Santa pants.
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Super gross, bad Santa vibes. He was a nice enough guy, but after a few weeks of working with him, I could not shake the creepy feeling.
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It got to the point that I didn't come in to pick up my last paycheck at the end of Christmas season.
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That's huge for a kid. Yes, it is. Fast forward to 2017. I'm watching the news with my parents and I hear that finally someone was arrested in relation to the missing persons that Toronto police completely gaslit the city about.
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But that's another story in the village. Imagine my heart dropping and the blood draining from my face when the face of Bruce MacArthur is plastered across the TV screen.
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Jesus. Jesus. All I could say was, holy shit, Santa. Oh, God, that's so chilling. I had no idea that
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my gut all those years before had been right, and this POS was a serial killer. I want to
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acknowledge that while I use the story as my what was your worst job icebreaker answer,
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innocent and beautiful lives were lost. Skanda Navaratnam, Bazir Fazi, Majid Kayan,
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sarusha moody karishna kumar khanah garotnam dean lisowick salim essin and andrew kinsman
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thank you both for all you do for allyship mental health and generally making my commutes more
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enjoyable stay sexy and don't take a job as an elf when you are far too young to get paid legally
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hayley she her wow she worked with a serial killer that is wild also that thing of like
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I think the reason I enjoy stories like that of like and then we I saw the face is because it
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proves your gut is right absolutely if you get a weird bad feeling go get some frozen yogurt
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get out of the place you're in like don't you just wonder though how many of those there are
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that you never find out that your gut was right you know what I mean yes they either never got
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caught or you just missed the story or they just they don't do anything that's like newsworthy but
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You're totally right. Or you get gaslit and a bunch of people tell you you're just a bitch.
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Right. Where it's just like, well, okay. Then I guess I have to be okay with that.
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Okay, I'm not going to read you the title of this one. Okay. It's about her third grade pool party.
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Okay. Hi, here goes. In third grade, I celebrated my birthday with a pool party at my childhood home in Southwest Florida.
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Included on my exclusive list of invitees was my elementary school, quote, boyfriend, Austin, and his best friend, Justin.
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It was kind of an early crush where I basically did not speak to Austin and instead got my friends to tell him that I liked him.
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And so obviously we were dating. You mean the way all first boyfriends are gotten?
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Totally. After an afternoon of playing sharks and minnows in the pool we toweled off for presents birthday cake My grandma had made one of those Barbie doll cakes where the cake was her dress Classic And ginger ale punch the kind with an entire block of sherbet ice cream floating in the
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punch bowl. This is a very late 70s, early 80s party. Yeah. I recall opening Austin's present,
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and it was a set of sequined earrings from Claire's. That's the boyfriend. One pair for
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each day of the week. I had never received jewelry from a, and then it says like man,
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squiggly man before and I was delighted. I'll be embarrassed at such an obvious display of love.
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I then opened Justin's present. That's the best friend. Yeah. And he gave me, all caps,
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a diamond gold necklace. Wait, what grade? Third grade. They're little babies. Uh-oh. Okay. It was
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probably not real gold and it was definitely cubic zirconia, but still. I was newly nine
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years old and completely abashed that my list of suitors had doubled in a single humid afternoon.
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according to my mom's memory, Austin was mortified and upset, and Justin was pretty smug.
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The fallout was what you'd expect. Austin broke up with me via a pass note shortly after my
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birthday party. I think it was a combination of his gift being upstaged and the fact that I
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literally didn't talk to him. My first boyfriend, Eagle, we never spoke. We kissed one set of truth
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or dare. Yeah. What are you supposed to talk about? Never. And that the school year was almost
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over and he wanted to be another squiggly mark single for the summer. Yeah, that summer of third
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grade that really changes your life. You know what? I got to get myself back out there. He's single.
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Austin also stopped being friends with Justin. The rumor mill in the cafeteria confirmed that it was
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like the second time that school year that Justin tried to steal Austin's girlfriend.
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Ew. The third grade is just an episode of Love Island, apparently. I wasn't too heartbroken.
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another friend at my party had gifted me a CD with Sierra and Missy Elliott's song,
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One Two Step. So I was busy choreographing a dance in my free time. We all eventually went to separate schools and I hadn't thought about Justin until my
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sophomore year of high school when the local news reported on his arrest. That's the best friend.
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At the age of 17, Justin was arrested and convicted of a double homicide and armed robbery.
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Oh, no. Justin broke into the house of a fellow classmate where he shot and killed him and his mother.
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Justin stole a safe containing cash and a gun from the house. After selling the gun and pocketing the cash, he made a whopping $370.
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Oh, God. Absolutely disgusting, and it gets worse. A month or so prior to the murders, the mother and son had allowed Justin to stay with them for a couple days when Justin was kicked out of his house by his own mother.
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following the martyrs justin then expressed his condolences for them on a facebook page
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memorializing their lives must be before he got caught yeah absolutely disgusting but justin is
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serving life in prison fuck him stay sexy and sometimes men display red flag behavior even in
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third grade kelsey oh kelsey kelsey god that is uh yeah the idea i mean it's the thing i would say
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Just for a little bit of money. From the quote from Fargo, we're just like, what the fuck are you doing?
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I'm out of comments about literally people just murdering other people kind of for no reason.
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Yeah, we've said it all in the past nine years. It's true. Well, let's keep going.
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Let's do it anyway. Let's power through it. Not going to read you the subject line of this because they tell me not to.
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It says HIDE TITLE in all caps. Okay. And it just starts. I hope everyone is doing well.
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I've been a murderino all my life. I wrote my high school research paper on serial killers in 1995.
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It was my only A that semester. Wait, this is from Karen Kilgareff? That's crazy.
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Remember in school when you hated everything but what you were interested in and they never
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realized that maybe it was just that you were bored. Yeah. I actually told this story in the
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kitchen the other day that my favorite thing in school was reading aloud. And every time we do
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our podcast, I'm like, it's happening. It's happening. All that practice. And then it just
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says, okay, I'll get started. Thank you. Back in 2010, I was a new real estate agent living in
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Houston, Texas. My broker sent me to show a potential buyer one of her condo listings.
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It's a very nice building in central Houston, so he typically wouldn't show the unit unless the buyer was pre-qualified.
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This individual claimed he would be paying cash, so she made an exception. However, she sent me because she didn't believe him.
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Lady. Ma'am, I arrived at the condo and met a normal-looking man who was probably in his late 60s or so.
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I showed him the amenities and the unit. He was an odd guy, but I got a kick out of his quirkiness and even made him laugh once or twice.
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that's the goal the showing went well and i went back to the office to find my broker looking at
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google images of a man in a courtroom she asked me if it was him and i said yes what is this
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well it was robert durst holy shit well it was robert it was robert durst the scariest man on the face of the planet truly
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Okay. Oh, my God. Black Iris, Robert Durst. Killing in cold blood. The next line is, I didn't recognize him because the jinx hadn't come out, and I'm not from Houston, so I didn't know the Morris Black case.
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I was shocked. I had just watched All Good Things, which is the scripted movie about that relationship that he had.
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So I knew who he was, but not what he looked like. Fast forward to 2015 when the jinx comes out.
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I watched it several times since then and I remember the first time I saw the detectives interview his wife Debbie Chartan because that was the voice on his outgoing voicemail My broker had me call him several times after the showing to see if he was interested in making an offer
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Even though it was still Robert Durst and they knew it? They're like, come on. Money's green.
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Give him that money. And a little bit red with blood. Okay. I mean. Don't I know that's they're in the wrong.
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Don't you know that a serial killer is going to do some complaining and maybe some dishonest
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shit? A hundred percent. His garbage disposal was not broken. Right. You pay with cash?
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You're going to pay the rest of some day? No, you're not. You're going to bury bodies in the walls.
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That's all conjecture and allegations. Good. I can't believe I was all alone with him and shook his hand.
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It's unbelievable how we cross paths with some people in life. And then it just says, yuck.
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Karen, I love your live at the bootleg album. Oh, my dad wants to listen to the album on repeat every road trip.
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And then it says Rex says hi. Hi, Rex. That's so nice. Georgia, I think you're the coolest.
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I still smile and laugh every time you ask Elvis if he wants a cookie. It's the sweetest, most funny thing.
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I wish Elvis could have met Cookie. Thank you both for everything. You know the list.
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You guys really do add so much joy. All the best, Erica. Erica, thank you. Erica, you brought a Robert Durst personal story.
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You made Robert Durst laugh. That's what I would start with at parties. For real.
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Hey, who's the craziest person you ever made laugh? Robert Durst. Is it two truths and a lie?
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Two lies and a truth? Yeah, yeah. You would kill that game. Absolutely. You made maybe more than a sociopath, maybe a psychopath laugh.
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A serial killer, maybe? Yeah. Hello, beautiful. I'm Amy Erick, founder of Madison Reed, a hair color company I named after my daughter.
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Okay, here's my last one. I'm not going to read you the title. Hola. Hey, Tom. I've been listening to your podcast for years
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and always wanted to write in, I'm from Spain, and here we don't get many murders.
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Spain. You're wrong. You're wrong. Have you heard of the Inquisition? No, I'm kidding.
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And the ones we get are not Minnesota-appropriate. They're convoluted and very dark.
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Oh, I see. Like the Inquisition. Like the Inquisition. I love that you pulled out the Inquisition.
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When I heard this story, I knew my chance had finally come. In April 2020, a brown bear named Cachou, C-A-H-O-U, Cachou, Cachou, Cachou, was found dead at the bottom of a ravine in the Pyrenees in northeastern Spain.
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Pyrenees? Yeah, Pyrenees. Like the dog. Yes. It was first assumed that the bear had died fighting another animal, but soon the cause of death was revealed to be anti-freeze poisoning.
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Is this an RFK story? No. Did you ever hear that story about RFK finding a bear carcass and then taking it home for the meat?
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This is not that. Okay. Because bears are protected species here. Who knew they had bears in Spain?
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I wouldn't have guessed that. Yeah. The police quickly opened an investigation on Catru's death.
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A judge allowed suspects' phones to be wiretapped for a dead bear. Yes. And in the process of finding the bear's killers, the police stumbled upon a drug trafficking ring.
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It says, yup, they were smuggling cocaine paste from Colombia and refining it at a lab in a nearby town.
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Ten people have been arrested so far, including the mayor of a village in the region.
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As for Kachu, a forest ranger and formal local government official were arrested for his murder back in November.
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Some people are saying that to thank investigators for their work in bringing him justice, Kachu led them to this major drug bust.
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Holy shit. I like to imagine him with little guardian angel wings. A guardian cocaine bear angel.
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Yeah. I don't know. They don't say exactly how it happened, but bear obviously was hanging out at a fucking meth lab.
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Caught in the crossfire. I mean, he could have been the Spanish version of our cocaine bear.
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Yeah, but the antifreeze is part of cutting the cocaine probably, right? Oh, is it?
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It's got to be. It's what makes cocaine so good. It gives it those effervescent bubbles.
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It gives it its effervescence. You just love it so much. Got in baby aspirin. I hope you enjoyed the story.
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I love your podcast. My friend Katie introduced me when we first met three years ago, and it's only one of
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the many things she's done to keep me sane since. She's a badass murderino who makes me proud to be her friend every single day.
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I hope to one day travel to the U.S. so that we can go to an MFM live show together.
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Maybe we'll come there and we'll cover the Inquisition. Oh, my God. We just thought entire Inquisition.
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I think it was a couple hundred years, 400? Or something. Here. Karen and Georgia, you're the best company an anxious insomniac could ever hope for.
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Thank you for everything you do. SSTGM, Ana. Ana, gracias, Ana. Gracias. Lo siento. I don't speak Spanish.
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But man. Cocaine bear. International cocaine. If you've got a cocaine bear story from your city or country.
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Okay, well, we're just going to keep the hits coming. Okay. I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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Karen Georgia and the beloved MFM crew. Truly beloved. Long time listener here. I've been plotting to write in some of my Santa Cruz murder lore for ages.
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But after listening to episode 475, I had to pause everything and tell Karen, colon.
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Yes, I did see Steve-O at the Burbank airport. We got a Steve-O story. Steve-O! Okay.
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It was 2019. I had just made it through TSA and was heading toward my gate when here comes Steve-O
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casually walking through the terminal with his dog Wendy. Oh, come on. That's the cutest.
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Karen, he was wearing a hat. But it was more of a dad trucker hat than a classic skater hat just to set the record straight.
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Thank you. Although I don't know if I want to get that into like I'm not going to keep my eye out for Steve-O at all times.
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No. Someday I'll just be sat on a plane next to him and then for real though. It like the kind of thing where you like I didn realize that I loved pistachio so much until I was served up a big thing of pistachio gelato And I like this is my favorite flavor That my Steve sitting next to me
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I get it. I get it. Okay. Because I'm starting to feel like an absolute third grader about talking about it this much.
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But then I'm also loving it. This is literally the second time you've talked about it.
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So I think we're good. I'm just saying, don't call him and tell him. Okay. It says, and yes, it was Wendy, the sweet, adorable street dog he rescued from Peru in 2018.
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while filming a web series. That's right. He found her living on the streets completely alone
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and the two instantly bonded. He flew her back to the U.S., gave her the dream dog life,
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and even got her a pet passport. And then in parentheses it says, which is kind of the cutest sentence ever.
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In 2019, they were traveling everywhere together for his bucket list tour. She went on stage with him at comedy shows
00:26:17
and was basically his VIP co-star. Did you know that? No, I saw something about him finding the dog,
00:26:23
but not on that. Very sweet. Yeah. He looked so happy and healthy, and it genuinely warmed my heart.
00:26:28
I grew up on jackass, and seeing him with this sweet pup clearly thriving after everything he's been through was honestly kind of beautiful.
00:26:36
It is. Anyway, this memory has been living rent-free in my brain, and I knew y'all would appreciate the Steve-O dog dad content.
00:26:46
Stay sexy and always fly out of Burbank. XO Sadie. Perfection Sadie. Good one. Girl, thank you.
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Guys those were a great batch Thank you so much So fun Send your story whatever it is to my favorite murder at Gmail Also if you have a celebrity sighting you would like to tell us about that we not talked about
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we love it. We don't care. Yeah, there was a stretch of celebrity sighting stories that were
00:27:11
really good. I think it's because it was Colin Farrell based and then it kind of went out from
00:27:15
there. But I think it's important to tell people it can be your favorite celebrity. We will like
00:27:20
how much you like it. Totally. Yeah, that's all it is. And like how nervous you were or like how
00:27:25
embarrassing it was. And then we need a photo if you have one too. All those things. Yeah. Okay,
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Episode Highlights

  • Madison Reed's Hair Color Revolution
    Transform your hair color experience with Madison Reed's innovative, female-led approach.
    “Forget everything you know about hair color.”
    @ 00m 43s
    May 12, 2025
  • Stay Safe on Dark Roads
    A prosecutor shares the dangers women face when pulled over by police at night.
    “Stay sexy and don't pull over until you are in a well-lit place.”
    @ 04m 54s
    May 12, 2025
  • A Chilling Encounter with Robert Durst
    A real estate agent unknowingly meets the infamous serial killer Robert Durst.
    “Holy shit, Santa.”
    @ 08m 15s
    May 12, 2025
  • Cachou's Mysterious Death
    A bear named Cachou was found dead, leading to a shocking investigation.
    “It was first assumed that the bear had died fighting another animal, but soon the cause of death was revealed to be anti-freeze poisoning.”
    @ 21m 58s
    May 12, 2025
  • Drug Trafficking Discovery
    The investigation into Cachou's death uncovered a major drug trafficking ring.
    “And in the process of finding the bear's killers, the police stumbled upon a drug trafficking ring.”
    @ 22m 29s
    May 12, 2025
  • Steve-O's Heartwarming Dog Story
    A listener shares a touching story about Steve-O and his rescued dog, Wendy.
    “He found her living on the streets completely alone and the two instantly bonded.”
    @ 25m 58s
    May 12, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • The future of hair color is here at Madison Reed.
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  • Holy shit, Santa.
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  • You made Robert Durst laugh.
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  • Holy shit.
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  • I like to imagine him with little guardian angel wings.
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  • Stay sexy and always fly out of Burbank.
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Key Moments

  • Hair Color Revolution00:43
  • Stay Safe Advice04:54
  • Meeting a Serial Killer08:15
  • Childhood Crush Drama11:46
  • Cachou's Death21:43
  • Investigation Opens22:21
  • Steve-O Sighting24:42
  • Heartwarming Dog Story25:58

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