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MFM Minisode 377

April 01, 2024 /

This episode features listener-submitted true crime stories, including a shocking tale of a dermatologist who murdered his wife and a family member's history of bank robbery.

One listener shares a harrowing account of their dermatologist who, after discussing his divorce, was later found guilty of murdering his wife. This story highlights the contrast between his public persona and his horrific actions.

Another listener recounts their family's dark history, revealing that their great uncle was a drug addict who killed two people in the 1960s. The listener reflects on the impact of this crime on their family.

Additionally, a story about a cousin who set a record for bank robberies in Portugal is shared, illustrating the unexpected connections between family and crime.

The episode concludes with lighter stories, including humorous anecdotes about family quirks and the importance of safety, showcasing the blend of dark and light themes in true crime storytelling.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling true crime stories about murderers in their families and unexpected connections to crime.

Episode

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Goodbye. Hello! And welcome. To my favorite murder. The Minisodes. Whee! You've sent these stories into us, so we've chosen to read them.
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Yeah, we want to share your stories with the world. No secrets, no gatekeeping. Want me to go first?
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Sure. Okay. This one is quite something. I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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So it starts, Hello, girlies and pets. I've been listening to years of MFM in the last few months since I found you, and I'm finally mostly caught up.
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I've been hesitant, but this story is too good not to share, so here it is. A few years ago, while I was going through architecture school in the U.S., I visited home, and then in parentheses it says, small town on the coast of Italy.
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Oh, what a drag. Architecture school was so stressful that I was losing the will to live, lost a lot of weight, even my hair, gasp.
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So my sweet mom decided to take me to our family's dermatologist who had known me since I was a child
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During that visit the doctor and my mom caught each other up on their lives like old friends do
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And he told us he was going through a divorce. I remember feeling sad for his family
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We knew his wife and they had three small children as well He then went on with the visit and proceeded to pull on my hair to do a test to see if I was just being dramatic
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And then decided that I was just very stressed and needed to chill out for my hair to stop falling out
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and then it just says eye roll fast forward to a few months later i'm back in the u.s at school
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my mom calls me one day and shakily tells me to look up our dermatologist online
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remember that during the visit he told us about his divorce well this piece of shit had lured his
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wife into their family's villa under false pretenses of having to discuss the sale of
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some art in their collection and then a parenthesis that says yes wealthy people's problems
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and then it says but what he actually was there to do was beat her to death they found her body
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mostly naked and the police implied that he had sexually assaulted her as well i also found out
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later that not long before murdering her he had physically attacked his then ex-wife in public
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while she was at a very popular beach club with her new partner and their kids i heard this from
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family and friends who are present in the scene although this incident was not talked about on the
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news. They caught him at his parents' house in Tuscany while he was trying to run. He had his
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passport and a bunch of money. He never confessed to the murder, but was convicted and is now in jail
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for the rest of his life. The thing that bothers me most about this story, other than the fact that
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he touched me with the same hands that he had killed a woman with, is that this doctor had
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publicly campaigned for many years against jealousy killings of women by their male partners,
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and even organized a series of fundraising events to raise awareness on the issue.
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What? I hope this makes it through to you. I love you guys. You're the best at what you do.
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And you've opened my eyes about the dangers around us, especially women. Bye. C.S.
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She, her. Wow. Talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing, right? So a doctor, like just a community pillar.
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Yeah. Just horrifying. Yep. It could be anyone. It could be anyone with uncontrollable rage issues that they don't think that they have
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to ever work on or get under control. Right. Narcissism. Okay. This one's called Murderer in the Family.
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Hello ladies and assorted pets I a newer listener to the podcast Shout out to my therapist for recommending it Inside job an inside job And started listening from the beginning I currently on episode 114 I was going to write
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to you about my hometown murder, 13-year-old Eric Smith, who murdered four-year-old Derek Robbie.
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But I'm pretty sure you already covered it in one of your earlier episodes. I don't think we ever
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covered that one. Did you know what? I think wasn't he like one of the youngest murderers ever
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to be sentenced or something. That was the kid with the red hair, right? Yeah. Then I did cover
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it. So instead, I figured I'd tell you about my grandfather's brother who murdered two people back
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in the 60s. And then it says, I'm pretty sure that's when it happened. I learned all of this
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from my dad because my grandpa doesn't talk much about his family. I wonder why. But apparently,
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my great uncle went through a very bad drug addiction and ended up killing two separate
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people and stealing their cars to sell for drug money. The saddest part about the whole story is
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that one of the men my uncle killed was on his way to the hospital to meet his sixth child who
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was born that morning. I was able to find more information on his crimes in a memoir of one of
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his arresting officers life and says crazy to think that my family members crime stuck with
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this officer enough for him to put it in the book. My uncle was eventually caught and sentenced to
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prison. He did his time and then lived out the rest of his life as a law-abiding citizen.
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I met him once before he died, and I remember being shocked that he was the murderer in the
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family. I definitely would have put my money on a few other family members. Thank you so much for
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your podcast. It makes me feel more normal for being obsessed with true crime. SSDGM, Kirsten.
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Yeah, that feels extra tragic that they could have just stolen the cars and gotten the same thing.
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Right. Why did you have to kill people? Just take the thing that you need to translate into drug money or whatever.
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Just senseless killing on the way is horrifying. And then someone you know and are related to that just feels so unsettling.
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Well, the subject line of this email is shit my murderino grandma says. And then in parentheses, it says quick and easy.
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Which really swayed me. And then it just starts, I don't have a cute greeting, so I'll just use my
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go-to for when I encounter someone I haven't seen in years in the grocery store and say,
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hey, how's it going? And keep moving. My family loves to keep secrets. So unfortunately,
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this email contains none. Please give me your tips for cracking withholding family members,
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exclamation point. Get them drunk. Exactly. Alcohol. And then it says, I grew up as a third
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generation sacramentin, and then in parentheses, it just has a question mark, and had literally
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never even heard about the East Area Rapist until the first episode of your podcast.
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Wow. But it explains a lot. My grandma Jean, who we call Grammy, was in her 40s with a teenage daughter at home
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when the East Area Rapist was committing his awful crimes. To this day, Grammy's incredibly vigilant about personal safety, locks her car doors
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immediately after getting in, checks the stopper and the sliding door every night,
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sets her house alarm every single time she leaves or goes to bed. That's pretty standard. If you're
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not doing that, get on Grammy's level right now. You should be doing all those things.
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A plus. When my papa passed away, she strongly suggested that their longtime neighbor
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would need to house sit during the funeral because someone may see in the paper when the funeral service was and knowing that no one would be home would use that opportunity to
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rob the house. She's on it. That's right. That's a thing. She's on it. Growing up 10 minutes from
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Grammy, her cautious habits and urgings no doubt played into my Murderino origin story,
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but she is also borderline batshit in plenty of other ways. Once I was spending the night on her
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couch and we were gathering bedding for me to use, needing a blanket, I pointed to a plush blue one
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in the closet, still in its packaging, and suggested, what about this one? She tells me no
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because she hasn't decided if she wants to be buried with that one. Yes that right Grammy bought a blanket from Costco with the intention of taking it to the grave What Wow Yes Yeah Let her if she wants to
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Sure. This had to have been five years ago now. And contrary to what she's always telling me, she's still with us at 92 years old.
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I'll have to check back in to see if she's made a decision on that blanket or if it's up for grabs now.
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So stay sexy and make sure your grandma doesn't want to be buried with that blanket before you borrow it.
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Jay, she, her. Oh, my God. They say the cortisol and adrenaline from constant fear of true crime will take you early.
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But clearly, it's keeping her alive. Not the case for Grammy. Not at all. Grammy.
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Well, and also, I think that's a really interesting point because, you know, there's people who, like us, who elect to involve ourselves in true crime.
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Yeah. But then Grammy was forced into it because there was an active, like, uncaught serial rapist in her neighborhood.
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Yeah. And she had to get real super quick. And I think that's like, over the years, it's almost like more and more the murderinos show up because of the experiences they've had and the things that they have gone through and seen for themselves.
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Where it's like, there's no benefit to leaving your sliding glass door unlocked at night.
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And we've been hearing for years, we never thought it would happen in our neighborhood.
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No one locked the doors. It's like, let's stop with that. You know, we've learned from that.
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Right. Let us lecture you, if only just for the one person that locks the door when they should.
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Yeah. Okay. It's called a search party for me. You shouldn't have. Hi, MFMers, which looks like motherfuckers, like a shortened motherfuckers, which is kind of cool.
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I like that. Yeah. I don't have a murder story, but I do have an I was a dumb kid story, question mark.
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So when I was around five years old, I went missing, kind of. My parents and siblings couldn't find me.
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They yelled in the house and I didn't respond. I looked all over the house and yard and still no Lindsay.
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So they started looking around the neighborhood. They were going door to door and had all the neighbors out looking as well.
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Eventually, the police were called and they were added to the search. No one could find me anywhere and my parents were panicking.
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Oh, that feeling. Oh, that's every parent's nightmare. Nightmare. After a couple hours of looking, my mom went to my bedroom and laid on the floor and cried.
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She opened her eyes and there I was under the bunk bed that I shared with my younger sister, looking at her with my big eyes.
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When my parents and the police asked why I was under there, I told them I was playing a game.
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Oh. And when they asked why I didn't respond to the yelling, I only told them I didn't know.
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I don't remember the incident much, but I will always vividly remember the view of my mom
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sobbing on the bedroom floor while thinking she lost a child. I wasn't in trouble after,
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but I was forced to sit with my mom for a while on her rocking chair instead of being able to go
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play. Stay sexy and don't scare the shit out of your parents for no reason. Lindsay. And actually,
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I remember one time I like stayed out all night when I was like 13 or 14, like on drugs.
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and like they knew I was on drugs. And so they like called my parents, I called the police,
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the police were looking for me. And my brother later told me that he heard my dad sobbing in the bathroom,
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which is like making your parents sob is the worst feeling. And I definitely like changed my act after that.
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You know, that kind of pierced through the haze of like, it's I'm trying to be cool.
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Right. Rebellion and shit. It was like, oh, that's not fun for anyone. Yes. But on behalf of little Georgia,
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I would just like to say, then don't make me walk home from kindergarten by myself. Residual trauma. It's all around us. Make a podcast about it.
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00:16:05
Making plays that end up on everyone's feed, scoring from angles that don't make sense,
00:16:09
rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait for an invitation, and Hyundai doesn't either.
00:16:16
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00:16:22
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It just says, Dear All, I hope this story is in line with the Minisodes theme. I'm at the point where you're accepting rabies related stories.
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I love those. I love when they tell us what we're now accepting in a way that's like, you won't believe this.
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But it also sounds like something I would say if I was sick of it, where it's like, look, I'm at the point where we're accepting rabies related stories.
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Like, this is insanity. That's how it reads to me in my head. They're just actually saying, yeah, I'm just at the rabies section.
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Back half of that is so I can only imagine what kind of stories you're getting nowadays.
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Anyway, I love my family and we are all happy and successful in our own ways. But we've never done anything remarkable enough to be newsworthy.
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We don't have any champion athletes or award-winning scientists or anything like that, which is why I was so excited to find out after 26 years of living with my family that we do have a record setter in the family.
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That's right. My mom's cousin set the national record for bank robberies with a whopping 27 banks robbed throughout Portugal.
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Holy shit. That's a lot. I was obviously super excited about this and mad that I wasn't the only one who had no idea that this cousin even existed.
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So I dug a bit deeper. It turns out his name is Manuel Samois, but he was known by the media as the Portuguese loaner.
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He robbed between 27 and 29 banks. Some articles differ, so I'm not sure which one's true.
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Between 1998 and 2000, accumulating about 500,000 euros. However, all articles also mention that he was terrified while doing these robberies, often shaking while pointing a gun at people.
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No. And even cried once in front of an employee. Oh my God, how confusing. I don't know how to feel right now.
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I know. Apparently, he had a successful business in France, but according to my mom, got involved with a shady Italian.
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If only. and became seriously in debt. He was only arrested because he tried to rob the same bank a second time
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and was recognized. So he was like just under pressure. Yeah, he was actually nervous because he didn't want to be doing this thing,
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but he had to. But he had to 27 times. That's a lot of debts. So much debt. Okay, but wait.
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He managed to break another record after that as the first person to escape from the prison he was sent to.
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Oh, okay. only to be caught again five months later. I never knew this cousin, but my mom and uncle say he was
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a really nice guy and just a normal dude. Although my uncle once illegally crossed two borders,
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and then it says Spain and France in parentheses, because he didn't have his passport when they were
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about to leave. And this cousin said, no worries, just hide under these blankets in the back of the
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car. It's like a drive-in theater. It's not that you can't. Yeah. Yeah. I was so blown away by this
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information that I had to tell everyone I knew right away. Interestingly, and I swear this is
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true, a few days later, I was telling this story to a friend. And after I finished, she said,
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I'm pretty sure I have an aunt who got robbed by a man around that time while she was working
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in a bank here in Lisbon. We immediately checked with her mom and the story tracks.
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Shut up. My cousin robbed her aunt and now we're close friends. Reverse karma, I guess.
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Sorry for the long story. I had to share this with you. I love the podcast and I can't wait to be up to date on the episodes.
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SSDGM and cheers from Portugal. Oh my God. Miguel. Miguel. Thank you. Miguel. That was a great email.
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That was everything we want. And with Kismet at the end. Yeah. Kismet. It would have been great if it was a meet cute.
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Just saying. I mean, it had all the elements. It had everything we needed. Okay.
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My last one's called Hidden Treasure. You love it. Hi, MFM crew. I'll try to keep this short and sweet in hopes it gets picked.
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I've written in a few times with a longer story, so hopefully you two can squeeze in
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this feel-good treasure story. Good selling. When I was in my early 20s, my then-boyfriend and I were headed north from Seattle, Washington,
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where we lived, to Bellingham, Washington, to spend a long weekend with friends.
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He was driving my little tin can of a used car while I played DJ in the passenger seat.
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We were almost to our destination when suddenly we heard that stomach-dropping whoop of a police car behind us.
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And then in parentheses, it says, going 85 in a 60 is frowned upon, I guess. We pulled off to the side of the road and, oh wait, what's next?
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We got the usual, do you know why I stopped you, young man? Talk. And then he proceeded to ask for license, registration, and insurance.
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My boyfriend hands over his ID and me, being the unorganized, carefree girl that I was at the time, thinks shit.
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I'm rifling through my glove box, center console, under seats, nothing. It says irresponsible, I know.
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With a pile of old mail, loose papers, and God knows what else, plopped in my lap, I have to lean forward and tell the officer I don't have the documentation he's requesting.
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He hands us a hefty ticket, and as we pull away, I burst into tears. I had no idea on earth how this broke-ass 22-year-old living in an overpriced Seattle apartment was going to pay the man.
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I collect myself and begin going through the pile of randomness on my lap. I come across a plain unsealed white envelope.
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I open her up and right there before my eyes is nine perfectly crisp hundred dollar bills.
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What? It says WTF. Is this yours? I asked my boyfriend. Neither one of us had any clue how or why this amount of money was hidden away amongst the rest of the papers.
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I had purchased the car many months prior to the car. And all I could think was that possibly the previous owner left it behind accidentally
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and I found it when I needed it the most? Or I am a sleepwalking cash stashing freak?
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We'll never know. Let's just say that ticket got paid with plenty to spare. Stay sexy and always know where your car registration is or don't because you just
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might find some hidden treasure. Melanie. And then it says, PS, you ladies are my fave.
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Thank you for all you do and for keeping me sane and entertained through this crazy thing
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we call life. heart emoji. Well, you're welcome, Melanie. It's our pleasure. But never in a million years would
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I've used that $900 cash to pay that ticket. No, no way. Well, you get out of it somehow, right?
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But if you need the money, if you're going to get the ticket, you're going to get the ticket.
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True. I'm just saying, very viscerally felt Melanie's description of the inside of her car.
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And I'm like, I've kind of been that girl for a very long time. And you basically, you get these
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huge life lessons of like, see, now you have this ticket. Now stop being irresponsible. Now get your
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shit together. And then you find an envelope of cash and you're like, not today, motherfucker.
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I'll learn that lesson another time. Someone's telling you otherwise. That sounds like we need to go to TGI Friday.
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All right. Well, thanks for writing in to those people who wrote in and thanks for listening
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to you who listened. Yes, we appreciate you. And if you have a story about rabies
00:25:28
or anything else, please write to myfavoritemurdergmail and stay sexy And don get murdered Goodbye Elvis do you want a cookie
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On the next season of Tenfold More Wicked, a longtime listener reaches out with a tragic family story
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that's been passed down through the centuries. My first name is Carrie. My last name is Nolte, N-O-L-T-E.
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And I am a descendant of Rebecca Briggs, murder victim. About an English Puritan separatist fleeing religious persecution
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who arrives in colonial New England to face an even greater danger. You do get these kind of
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instances where families kind of turn on themselves and any member can kill anyone else,
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where it does spill over into violence. Rebecca Briggs Cornell survives the harsh
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A charming neurosurgeon leaves a trail of broken bodies instead of healing.
    “He promised to heal them.”
    @ 00m 47s
    April 01, 2024
  • Tenfold More Wicked Season 11
    The new season explores a Puritan's death before the Salem witch trials.
    “This season of Tenfold More Wicked, titled Fire and Brimstone, is about the death of a Puritan separatist.”
    @ 01m 41s
    April 01, 2024
  • Murderer in the Family
    A listener shares a shocking family murder story involving drug addiction.
    “The saddest part about the whole story is that one of the men my uncle killed was on his way to the hospital to meet his sixth child.”
    @ 06m 57s
    April 01, 2024
  • The Portuguese Loaner
    A listener discovers their cousin is a notorious bank robber with a tragic backstory.
    “He robbed between 27 and 29 banks.”
    @ 19m 31s
    April 01, 2024
  • Hidden Treasure
    A surprising find in a car leads to an unexpected twist in a ticket story.
    “I found an envelope of cash and you're like, not today, motherfucker.”
    @ 24m 12s
    April 01, 2024
  • Rebecca Briggs' Tragic Story
    A descendant shares the harrowing tale of her ancestor's mysterious death.
    “But was it an accident or was it murder?”
    @ 26m 32s
    April 01, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.
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  • Wow.
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  • Talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing, right?
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  • Shut up. My cousin robbed her aunt and now we're close friends.
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  • Oh my God.
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  • But was it an accident or was it murder?
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Key Moments

  • Charming Neurosurgeon00:37
  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Family Secrets18:10
  • Bank Robbery Record19:01
  • Reverse Karma21:30
  • Life Lesson25:02
  • Historical Mystery26:32
  • Supernatural Twist26:48

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