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MFM Minisode 401

September 16, 2024 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features true crime stories from listeners, including a stabbing incident in Springfield, Ohio, and two solved cases in Beaumont, Texas.

Listeners share their hometown stories, starting with a tale from Kara about a man named John who was stabbed and crawled to his grandparents' house for help. The hosts discuss the bravery of staying in a home after such a traumatic event.

Another listener recounts two recent cases solved by Texas EquiSearch, including the discovery of Kay Alana Turner's body after a year and the resolution of a 25-year-old cold case involving Kimberly Langwell.

The episode also features a story about a neighborhood listserv discussing a house with a tragic murder history, sparking debates among residents about the ethics of disclosing such information to potential buyers.

Finally, a listener shares a humorous childhood story about bartending at a fundraiser when they were ten years old, highlighting the absurdity of the situation and the fun of interacting with adults.

TLDR

Listeners share true crime stories, including stabbings, cold cases, and humorous childhood bartending experiences.

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My favorite murder Hello! And welcome. To My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. We read you your stories.
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We don't know how to explain it again. We sound passive-aggressive. we're smiling but we're mad you know that feeling you want to go first sure my first email of today
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the subject line is classic hometown across from grandma's house three minute read hi karen in
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georgia if you're reading this on the minisode it's quite possible i'm walking my dog at the
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moment and smiling like a crazy lady i always listen to this show while i'm walking my dog
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and have oft thought that between my smiles, giggles, belly laughs, frowns, and gasps,
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people in the neighborhood surely think I'm crazy anyways, if the shoe fits. My hometown happened to my grandma and grandpa in the 90s in Springfield, Ohio.
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They lived in the same house on a fairly busy main road for years. And then in parentheses, it says my grandpa still lives there.
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And the man across the street, we'll call him John, was a nice middle-aged man who had always lived alone.
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His house was an old schoolhouse converted to a home, and because he had inherited a good deal of money from his family,
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it sounds like his house was filled with all the things you can buy when you inherit a good deal of money from your family.
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One summer night, in the middle of the night, my grandma wakes up to a gentle but persistent knock on the front door.
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When she goes to the door and looks outside, there is John lying on her porch, stabbed in the side and bleeding all over her green porch carpet.
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It turns out John had been at a public event downtown that night and had been followed home and men had broken into his house.
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They tied him up with telephone cords, robbed him blind, and stabbed him for good measure before making their escape.
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He had managed to untangle himself from the phone cords, crawled across the street with the knife still in his side, and up my grandparents' driveway to get help.
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when my grandpa finally woke up and came outside to see what was happening he had one bit of advice
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for john do not pull out the knife john lived to tell this tale and oddly enough for our family
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continued to and still does to this day live alone in the same house the men who robbed him were
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never caught but i guess he figured they already took everything and wouldn't be back i personally
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would have been out of there the next day my grandma passed in january of 2022 and boy do i
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have some happy memories in that house of hers. She was a sassy, crazy lady herself, and she wasn't
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always nice to everyone, but she was always nice to me. Oh, that gets me. From when I was a little
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girl until the day she died, she made me feel like somebody. And if you can make someone in your life
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feel like somebody, then I would say you're a pretty special person. Stay sexy and don't pull
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the knife out. Kara rhymes with Sarah. Okay, that was a perfect hometown. Just executed.
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like if it was the olympics yeah 10.0 10 10 you fucking landed it stuck it whatever great job but
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also like how frightening the knock in the middle of the night alone if it's someone you knew and
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they're just like sorry i forgot my keys that's scary enough yeah and opening the door and then
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staying in that house would you stay i don't and they didn't get caught but i bet maybe you know
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there is really something to the idea of like he survived that yeah and went through it and he's
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like, it's my house. I'm not going to get chased out of my own house. It's very brave. I would just
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like ramp up that security and get a dog. Yeah, that's great. That's the perfect excuse. Get four
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dogs. Exactly. Okay. I'm not going to reach the subject line. Okay. This email is probably going
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to be a little lengthy. I timed it at a two minute read. So maybe not super lengthy. Anyways,
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I'll get straight to it. I am from Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, to be exact. In the past
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two weeks, we've had two cases solved with the help of Texas EquiSearch, a nonprofit search and
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recovery organization. Wow. The first case is about a girl I went to high school with,
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Kay Alana Turner. She was intelligent, driven, and charming, just an all-around amazing person.
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In March of 23 during what was likely an episode of psychosis she fell asleep on someone driveway in a town outside of Houston Texas They called the police and long story short the police scared her and she fearfully fled on foot
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into the woods nearby. She was never seen again. Over 400 days went by with no trace of Kay Alana
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until one day with the help of Texas EquiSearch, her body was found on a private property in
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Magnolia, Texas. Texas EquiSearch was with Kay Alana's family the entire 400 plus days
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searching until they found her. The second case is a 25-year-old cold case out of Beaumont, Texas.
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Kimberly Langwell went missing in July of 1999. Her car, phone, and keys were found right off the
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main road in Beaumont, but she was nowhere to be found and was never seen since. Flash forward 25
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years, Beaumont PD issued a search warrant for the home of Terry Rose, Kimberly's ex-boyfriend.
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With the help of Texas EquiSearch, they were able to use ground-penetrating radar and were able to
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locate Kimberly's remains under the concrete at Terry Rose's property within minutes.
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Though the outcome of both of these cases is not what was wanted, at least there are two families
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in Beaumont, Texas who can have at least a little bit of closure tonight. Stay sexy and support your
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local search and recovery organization however you can, M. Wow. Yeah. I would love to know more
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Goodbye. This email, the subject line is Murder House. And it says, Dear Karen, Georgia, Alejandra, pets, and other exactly right friends at all.
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Karen has spoken about Nextdoor and neighborhood list serves before. And so when our local listserv went into overdrive over a previously unknown to me true crime a few weeks ago, I knew I had to share.
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We moved into the neighborhood less than a year ago, though I'm from the general area, so I'm counting this as a hometown.
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And then in parentheses it says yes. Absolutely. Yes. The answer is yes. There are no rules.
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No. First, the true crimes. One of the nearby houses in my suburban D.C. neighborhood, which we'll call the park for now, was the site of not one but two separate sets of murders in the early 2000s.
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Both are truly tragic. In the first, a former state official and his young daughter were murdered in an apparent home invasion crime spree.
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In Maryland, realtors do not have to report previous crimes to buyers, so the next owner had no idea about this sad story when he bought the place a year later.
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The buyer, a popular middle school principal, apparently performed a couple exorcisms before he moved in after neighbors told him about the house's history.
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Sadly, several years later, this educator was murdered after what he thought was an online date that turned out to be a robbery setup.
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After this, the house sat vacant for a while, and then its number was changed, and it went back up for sale under a different address.
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And now the main event. From my perspective, as part of the Park A to Z series in the almost monthly neighborhood newsletter, and then parentheses, it says, yes, we have a newsletter.
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The editor struggled to find something to publish for why and chose to reprint a story about the murders from 10 years ago under the banner yellow crime scene tape.
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So they do like a newsletter that has a theme, an alphabetical theme. this editorial choice provoked shall we say strong reactions yeah in a seemingly endless
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reply all email chain with the subject line the murder house people weighed in arguing that it
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was disrespectful to the people living in the house today others argued over the tone and the
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language included in the old article yet others used it as a jumping off point to resurrect other
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neighborhood disagreements. Some defended the choice to reprint the article, arguing that we
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shouldn't forget the past. My favorite email tangent, however, sent to the entire community.
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Someone pointed out that another commenter probably meant grizzly with an S instead of
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grizzly with two Zs when describing the details of these crimes. These murders, this list serve,
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and a lot of longtime residents with ongoing beef with other locals equals a truly wild
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introduction to our new neighborhood So this was a place they just moved to I didn really get that from the beginning CC all Holy shit Anyways thank you for your banter stories and reassurance during so many phases of my life
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Stay sexy and don't wade into neighborhood listserv battles, especially where murders are involved.
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Abrazos, la. Wow. Oh, my God. Yeah. That's a fucking wake-up call. Do you think that new home buyers or potential home buyers should be told about these things?
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Yeah. I think so too. Why not? I know they have like a three year or 10 year in some places,
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you know, where it's like if something happened the past 10 years, but it's like,
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yeah, I want to know, especially if fucking home invasion. Yes. And did they get caught? I want to know that shit.
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It feels to me like if they're leaving it out, then the question to ask is why won't you leave
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it in? Like if that's something that you're trying to omit, then what is the danger of
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including it because you're clearly doing it for a reason money and money money and sales but like
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law pointed out those neighbors that have lived there are going to come and tell you the second
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they meet you so you might as well just disclose yeah and then they're gonna feel like they got
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fucking tricked it's gonna be shitty and then they'll never use you again i mean i wonder if
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that's like a state to state it'd be interesting to know what the is it like area state whatever
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where the disclosures or is it a national rule? Yeah. Let us know, Realtor Murderinos. Yeah. And
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then tell us a story about it. And also you can say why we're wrong if there's something about
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this we're not considering because it just seems like why not just tell the whole story? Yeah.
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Explain to us, please, in a hometown. Okay. This one's called Circus Tornado. It's a little long.
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It says four minute read. Super worth it. So, all right. We'll see. Better fucking bye baby.
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We that's all you're really painting yourself into a corner there. Okay. Hey, y'all. My first
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episode of MFM was coincidence island and I've never looked back. You two and your team are
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fabulous. That's a great first one. If you're like recommending the podcast to someone coincidence
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island. That's a good one. I swear y'all asked for natural disaster stories at one time. So I
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interrogated my 63 year old mom, Colleen, about the deets and compared them with my tiny child
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memory to get the most accurate retelling of this bonkers and extremely true story. To the point.
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Extremely true makes me worried. Why are you? Extremely, Karen. It's so extremely true. It's
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beyond real. My family moved from South Louisiana to Atlanta, Georgia in the mid 80s, where we're
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used to hurricanes, not this bullshit. I think she means the tornado. Yeah. In the spring of 89,
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the Shriner Circus came to town and our family as well as some neighbors decided to go. I was five
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and my little brother Alex was three. My mom recalls the weather looking overcast,
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but that we were going straight to the big top tent so we didn't worry about a little rain.
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We secured some popcorn and our honorary red Shriners Fez hats and then filed to our seats,
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which were just super huge metal bleachers. And of course we went to the top. As the circus began,
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it started to storm even harder. We noticed things were getting all wet just as two tightrope walkers fell off the ropes
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and into the nets below. my dad looked up and the giant tent was ripping wide open about that time the ringmaster got on
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the pa and yelled for everyone to drop below their bleachers immediately cue panic in reality sorry
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not that i know but that's not the way to handle that tornado situation i don't know everyone drop
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below the bleachers people who are 20 feet in the air do your best like what are you what that's not
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planned. There's no plan. There's no plan in place. In reality, it was probably only a 12 to 14 foot
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drop from where we were. But to a child, it looked like we were in the stratosphere. It's one story.
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That's a lot. It's 14 feet is a story and a half. As an adult, that's a lot. Yeah. My dad dropped
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down first. Mom handed us down one at a time. Then she dropped. I remember popcorn all over the floor,
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which I was particularly upset about. I too believe it's a superfood, Karen. Thank you.
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A group of adult men started running towards the back of the tent. It was then that we saw the industrial poles holding up the big top were, all caps,
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lifting out of the ground. The men were running to hold it down at no avail because it lifted them up with it.
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My mom says I was pretty upset, but not as much as my brother. And it says typical, am I right?
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She was holding him as he screamed when a clown approached and offered a piece of candy.
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This was a genuine but poor attempt at consolation to which my brother promptly freaked the fuck out, pissing off the clown who said, just shut the fuck up, kid.
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No. It says STFU, but I'm guessing the clown said, just shut the fuck up, kid. From a clown.
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That clown wasn't, again, not really thinking things through. Or just like, so you're just going to run up to a toddler while all this crazy stuff is happening.
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Hey, you're smoking candy. Shut the fuck up. Oh my God. I'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate that we come from South Louisiana.
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If you don't know anything about Cajun women, we are clinically insane when it comes to our babies.
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With my brother in one arm, my mother shoved this clown square in the chest and screamed,
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get the fuck away from my family. Yeah, good. He did. Sidecar, my mom says here, and that's how we learned to hate clowns.
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As if there weren't already enough reasons, but it's still valid. What seems like hours had only really been minutes and eventually the storm passed.
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As we emerged from the tent, the aftermath was evident. Claw machines, plush prizes, booth games, food carts, broken and strewn all over.
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Candy colored chaos as far as my little eyes could see. You'd think this would be a prime looting sitch for some kid, but we didn't give a single shit.
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We just wanted to go home. When we did get home my mom saw in the news that we had been in a EF3 tornado That a big one Is it five of the big one I think it either five or one It goes up or down I can remember Thankfully no one was hurt
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that day. I held on to that little red fez for a long time, but ultimately it was lost sometime along the way to
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adulthood. I hope you enjoyed this story as much as it was terrifying. Stay sexy and shove an angry
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clown today. April, she, her. April, if you still have that fez. Oh my God. Sorry, I don't still have the fez from my childhood tornado trauma.
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That's okay. We're okay with that. You shouldn't hold on to everything. You don't have to.
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Although a little kid wearing a fez is kind of amazing. I would love to see it. Or a dog.
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Quince.com slash MFM. Goodbye. Okay, the subject line of this email, unfortunately, is crematory that didn't cremate.
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A lot of us have heard this story or similar and it's horrifying. Hello, besties and best for friends. This is a little long, but I swear it's worth it.
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It's actually not. It's not even a page long. In February of 2002, my dad was the deputy coroner, and he received a call while out with me and my little brother.
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He told us he had an emergency, and it couldn't wait that we would have to sit in the truck and knock it out.
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We pulled up to a place I had never been that almost looked like a shop for vehicles, but had a stone sign that read Tri-State Crematory.
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There were police, GBI, white vans, and people everywhere, some in yellow hazmat suits.
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I was scared shitless, to say the least, because I myself was 11 and my brother was four.
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Anyway, after being there for what felt like an eternity, my dad came back and I asked what happened.
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He replied, there were people that weren't taken care of after they passed away.
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I thought, what does that even mean? As it turns out, when people were taken there, they weren't being cremated.
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Their loved ones were given back ashes of burned papers or boxes or stuff like that.
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Why? I remember when this story came out and selling it. No, they just were like overwhelmed and they weren't like saying no to anyone.
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So they wanted the money. But the bodies were like, it's the craziest story. It's so nonsensical and horrible.
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And I don't think I could be thinking of a different story because I don't think that's the only time it happened.
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Oh, my God. Oh, so this one. Sorry, this one happened in Georgia. Her father was a deputy coroner in Georgia.
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I do want to say thanks for speaking out about mental health. And also, you speak so kindly about health care workers.
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And I work in a children's hospital and feel very underappreciated most of the time.
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You guys are amazing. Never forget that. Stay sexy. If you get called to a horrific scene that will traumatize your children, don't take them.
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Love, Victoria. She heard. Aw, Victoria. Oh, you should cover one of those or like a couple of those cases.
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Wouldn't that be cool? I mean, terrible. Well, just to find out how that something like that would happen.
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Yeah. Like, yeah. Like the different reasons that those places do that. There is an episode of The Opportunist, one of my favorite podcasts hosted by Hannah Smith, that goes into one of these things.
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And it's not a crematory. It's an autopsy. It's a person performing autopsies. And you're just like, what, how, why the entire time.
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It's so crazy. I'm going to listen to that. Yeah. Okay. Here's my last one. It's a, the, the title is I'll see your 10 year old bank teller
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and raise you a 10 year old bartender. And it just starts. Hey, mofos. I just listened to
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Minnesota 396 where you heard from someone who worked as a bank teller for a day when she was
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10 years old. My fave. This jogged my memory of the time I was a bartender for a day when I was
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10 years old. Every summer in my small Ontario hometown, the Kinsmen, a not-for-profit organization
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here in Canada, put on a Lobsterfest fundraiser. Fucking hell yeah. What? A lobster fest in the Canadian interior?
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They said not sure why they did lobster since the town is nowhere near an ocean, but I digress.
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Karen, you were on it with your geography. Don't try to make me eat shellfish. That was really so frightening to me.
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That's why. Fucking. Okay. The day after the fundraiser, one of the kinsmen who lived on a big property outside town would host a big thank you cookout for the rest of the kinsmen and their families.
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Probably all the leftover lobsters, right? My family wasn't part of the kinsmen since my parents were very involved in the local Anglican church, Episcopalians to you Yanks, and even felt that secular organizations like it were taking the place of church in people's lives.
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Anyway. Anyway. Moving on. My friend's dad was a kinsman and I was staying with them for the weekend or something.
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So they brought me along to the friends and family cookout. I have no idea how or why.
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We'll just chalk it up to being the 90s. But somehow my 10-year-old friend and I got put behind the well-outfitted garage bar.
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Think cave of a well-to-do guy, Tiffany lamps, fridges, all the equipment you need, etc.
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Yes, all the equipment you need except for bartenders over the age of 21. Unsurprisingly, we had no idea what we were doing.
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The first few people who came to the bar had to patiently explain to us which alcohol bottles were what.
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No one stopped to question it They just explained No training It almost like they were like let fuck with people and have these kids be bartenders That hilarious Which alcohol bottles were what how to make a mixed drink open a bottle of beer how much wine to pour et cetera That said
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I picked it up quickly and even started to remember people's names and their drink orders.
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Imagine a 10 year old girl seeing someone approach her bar and saying, hey Chuck,
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another Jack and Coke, another glass of Pinot for your wife. I had a blast. After that, I took a sabbatical from my bartending career until university.
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I bartended slash served for a few years while finishing my degree, then worked nine to five
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jobs in the government and corporate world for almost a decade. After getting laid off from my most recent corporate job and realizing how miserable
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I'd been tethered to my computer for 40 plus hours a week, specifically working from home
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during COVID. Jesus. I'm back to bartending and serving. Hey! I guess my love for interacting with people while serving drinks was instilled in me
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at a young age. Thanks for all you do. Stay sexy and don't recruit children to bartend or maybe do
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XO Catherine. I feel that because I've done serving and I've done corporate and serving
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is so much fun. Yeah. And so interactive. You get to be around people who are happy to be there
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instead of being at work with people who are also at work. Right. And everything's organized
00:26:50
perfectly Everything has to be clean and organized or you going to get fined So it like my fucking brain just like thrives in that place Yeah it must be soothing I know a comic who also bartends and used to write hilarious tweets about it
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Just there's people who are so rude and so insane. Yes. But that can happen to you anywhere.
00:27:10
Definitely. Yeah. And then you just get them extra drunk and then you're like, here, now you're nice.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A tale of a charming neurosurgeon who left a trail of broken bodies.
    “This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.”
    @ 00m 51s
    September 16, 2024
  • Murder House
    A neighborhood's dark past resurfaces, sparking controversy and debate.
    “Stay sexy and don't wade into neighborhood listserv battles, especially where murders are involved.”
    @ 12m 14s
    September 16, 2024
  • Crematory That Didn't Cremate
    A chilling account of a deputy coroner's horrifying discovery.
    “I was scared shitless, to say the least.”
    @ 21m 21s
    September 16, 2024
  • The Horrific Aftermath
    The aftermath of a tragedy reveals shocking truths about how bodies were handled.
    “Their loved ones were given back ashes of burned papers or boxes or stuff like that.”
    @ 21m 51s
    September 16, 2024
  • Childhood Bartending
    A nostalgic story about a 10-year-old's unexpected experience as a bartender.
    “Imagine a 10 year old girl seeing someone approach her bar and saying, hey Chuck.”
    @ 25m 43s
    September 16, 2024
  • Stay Sexy
    A signature sign-off that encapsulates the show's playful spirit.
    “Stay sexy and don't get murdered.”
    @ 27m 32s
    September 16, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • He promised to heal them.
    MFM Minisode 401
  • Stay sexy and don't pull the knife out.
    MFM Minisode 401
  • That's a fucking wake-up call.
    MFM Minisode 401
  • It's the craziest story.
    MFM Minisode 401
  • Stay sexy.
    MFM Minisode 401
  • I had a blast.
    MFM Minisode 401

Key Moments

  • Crematory Horror20:41
  • Police Presence21:21
  • Nonsensical Horror22:10
  • Mental Health Awareness22:24
  • Lobsterfest Surprise24:00
  • Child Bartender25:43
  • Corporate Life26:10
  • Nostalgic Reflection26:24

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