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hello hello and welcome to my favorite murder mini so we're bringing it at you your letters your stories your urban myths passed down to us and read back to you
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in your face into your face for the year 2020 that's right go first one okay no subject line
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because apparently the the website doesn't take it anymore that's right hi for your friends and
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also the host of the show when i was in 10th grade we had a sex ed class once a week during
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our gym period and during our discussions sorry i just lost my place immediately and during our
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discussions we got into the topic of consent and rape this is when our gym teacher shared the
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following a story with us that still gives me chills to this day. Oh, dear. She had a close friend during university who worked at a local bar.
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She had big, red curly hair and a personality to match, so she made friends with the patrons really easily.
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She had one guy that came in somewhat regularly who she would talk to often and tell him how her classes were going and just other small talk.
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He was handsome and charming and always tipped well, so of course she never turned down a chat.
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Just by chance, in all their talks, she never happened to mention to this man that she was planning on quitting her bar job
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and moving into her boyfriend's place across the city. And this is what saved her life.
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Because it turns out that man was Paul Bernardo. Shut your mouth, sis. He had found out where her parents' house was that she was living in at the time
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and would watch her for weeks from the window and videotape her in her room. Holy fuck.
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He wrote in his journals about her, referring to her as, quote, Big Red. And this is eventually how she found out she was one of his potential victims, because this is how he would often greet her when he would come in.
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Oh, my God. We're talking the Scarborough rapist. We're talking the Ken and Barbie killer, Paul Bernardo.
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The worst thing to come out of Canada since some band that could be a funny reference right here.
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That's Canadian. The night he planned to attack her happened to be the day after she moved out.
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So she never came home to her parents that night, therefore saving her life. Bernardo was caught pretty soon after
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I believe and that's when she went to the police after recognizing him on the news
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and they put the pieces together she even had to watch some of the videos he took
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of her just to confirm it was in fact her. God. How unnerving would that be? Yeah
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you'll never feel safe again I learned about your podcast from a popular influencer
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and fan. Shout out Dr. Pepper Princess. Who's that? I'm going to follow them right now. Oh wait someone's calling
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me. Why is someone calling me? Is it the Dr. Pepper Princess? Oh, my God. What if it's a Dr. Princess?
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Ask her if she heats up her Dr. Pepper around the holidays and makes hot toddies out of Dr. Pepper.
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Let me see. Dr. Pepper. Princess. All right. Here she is. She's a murderino. Oh, yeah.
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And an influencer? Probably, too. Sure. Yeah. Thanks, Dr. Pepper, princess. And I have been hooked ever since.
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Thanks for helping me get through my workday and make my boyfriend occasionally think I'm plotting his murder.
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So, yeah. Stay sexy and don't make friends with serial killers just because they tip you well.
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Amethyst. That was excellent That was incredible Excellent Amethyst Good job Good job
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This is what we like This is a step You want to hear one about Ted Bundy's car? Hell yes
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All right Okay Hey Karen, Georgia, Stephen And chorus of furry pals Okay All right
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We were talking about JonBenet Ramsey at a party And ended up with a bunch of Non-murderinos
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In that classic party huddle Where everyone shares their hometown And favorite murders
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Nice Dream huddle One of our friends is from Tallahassee, where Ted Bundy ended his murder career.
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When old Ted was ferried to and from the courthouse in those days, they would drive him there in a station wagon with a grill between the front seat and the back.
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For some reason, when the state sold the station wagon, our friend's dad, being an entrepreneurial sort, decided to buy the Bundy mobile.
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Yes. So whenever his friends and his brother went anywhere as kids they went in that station wagon still with the bars between the front and back seats Okay sorry The dad bought the station wagon but used it as the family car
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And left in the dog great. Left in. Serial killer great. Left in the serial killer.
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You'll get choked to death if we didn't have this here. Great. Dad. Our friends even took turns.
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Our friend even took turns with his brother playing Ted Bundy. Yes. As in, oh, who's going to be Ted today?
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Set in a sweet southern twang. Oh, my God. A bit that our friend doesn't know is this.
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The reason that station wagon was sold off, almost certainly because Bundy was executed in 1989.
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Yeah. SSDGM and don't put your kids in the Bundy mobile, Talia and April. That's rad.
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I mean, it all has to go somewhere. It has to go somewhere. And that somewhere is the fucking 80s.
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Yes. Because they're just like, no, no, we're going to buy that and leave it like that.
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It doesn't matter that the worst serial killer. I just thought he was the entrepreneurial spirit was that he was going to then sell it to some kind of a place or museum.
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I thought so too, but it must have been like $10. It must have been. He's just always looking for a bargain.
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They're just like, no one wants to be in the haunted station wagon. I'll take it.
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It's hilarious. I would drive it. No, I wouldn't. Would I? Would I? I don't know.
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Do it. Hi, MFM crew and animals. I started listening to this show this past summer and just got caught up enough to finally send in the story.
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I love you guys, but I'll save the pandering for the end and get right into it. My parents were both thriving young adults in the 70s and 80s, a.k.a. prime serial killer time.
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One night after dinner, I decided to ask them if they had any crazy stories to tell me.
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But really, I wasn't expecting much. But then my dad said, oh, yeah, I parked the Gallegos' van.
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From 1978 to 1980, Gerald and Charlene Gallego terrorized Sacramento, kidnapping young girls and young women, holding them hostage before killing and disposing their bodies, disposing of their bodies.
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All of the victims had been raped and beaten before they were murdered. And out of the 10 victims, nine bodies were found, including 21 year old Linda Aguilar, who was four months pregnant.
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The two were arrested in late 1980, early 1981. And in 1983, Gerald. Who cares if I'm pronouncing it right?
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Gerald was sentenced to death. However, that was overturned and he died in prison in 2002.
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Charlene received 16 years and eight months after promising to fully cooperate and confess everything.
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She was released in 1997. No, no deals for killers, please. She was released. I know.
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As a team, serial killer team. Yeah. You know what? That's fine. Go rent an apartment somewhere and get a job at the drugstore.
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You know what? You're going to have less years than some of your victims had on earth in jail for your crimes.
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Good point. Fuck you. During their spree, my dad was working as a parking attendant at Harrow's Casino in Lake Tahoe.
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Oh, my God. God, I love it. That casino is legendary. Every couple of months, Gerald and Charlene would drive up to the valet in a large beat-up van, of course.
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My dad said that whenever they pulled up, he and his coworkers would argue over who had to go park it and get the car because of the terrible smell inside.
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I don't even want to imagine what he was surrounded by every time he got into that man.
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That's like making my skin crawl. I expected that to be the end of it. I had never heard of the Galegos before, so I was ready to go up to my room and do all the research to craft this hometown.
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Then my mom turned to him and said, who is that old woman that came into the hotel in Sacramento?
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the one with all the bodies in her backyard. And I immediately stood up and screamed,
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you serve drinks to Dorothea Puente. This is like my hometown. Yeah. After the casino, my dad worked as a bartender at the Holiday Inn in Sacramento.
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Yes. I guess Dorothea thought he mixed a good drink because my dad remembers her coming in a lot.
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And every time she did, my dad would tell her, could tell there was something off about her.
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She creeped him out beyond belief. Oh my God. A little old lady. Yeah, creepy. Especially the fact that she tipped in jewelry instead of cash.
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That's pretty baller. Each time she came in, she'd have a brand new ring or necklace to give out.
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Oh, wait, no. Yeah. See what that means? I see. My dad would always turn them down, but one of the waitresses he worked with had developed
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a collection of all the pieces that Dorothea would give her. Holy shit. Thank God dad never took them because after her arrest, the police came in and interviewed
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everyone. When the waitress mentioned the jewelry, the police immediately had her turn everything over, informing her that they had most definitely belonged to the victims that had been found in her backyard.
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Oh, it's so creepy. She's like, you can have this whole jewelry box and my dresser.
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Right. Here's my D. And my earlobes. Love the podcast and thank you for making my college experience a little bit easier.
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Stay sexy and don't get in a van that smells weird or accept jewelry from creepy old ladies.
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Jess. Nice one, Jess. That was a twofer. Right? That was a Sacramento powerhouse.
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It's weird that we've never done the Galleguses. Yeah, I've never heard of it. That was an early one for me.
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I was like 12 when that happened. Wow, you got to do it. But I don't know why. Maybe that one was kept from me somehow.
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Yeah, I've never heard of that one. All right. This is called I danced awkwardly in front of the Cheshire murderer.
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Ooh. Hi, Georgia, Stephen, and associated creatures. Nice. My hometown is the very suburban and rather affluent town of Cheshire, Connecticut, made famous by the home invasion murders of the Petit family that occurred there in 2007.
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Horrible. The crime was shocking in its brutality and also because one of the murderers came from a prominent local family.
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Joshua Kamatsajewski. Is that right? Insane. Yes. was adopted by very religious parents who also took in foster children one of whom allegedly
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sexually abused him as a boy joshua's adopted paternal grandparents were extremely prominent
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figures theodore komosar jeffsky was a famous russian theater director and son of a princess Shit Three exclamation marks We love royalty on this show
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And Ernestine Stodl was a modern dancer who had performed with Martha Graham and became an author and dance teacher later in life.
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Wow. Miss Stodl, as I knew her, lived in a bucolic 65 acre farm in the rural outskirts of Cheshire with her son and his family, including young Joshua.
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Enter me, an awkward preaching with little to no dancing ability, who took lessons in the gorgeous converted barn studio.
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Wow. I recall a high beam ceiling and a baby grand piano that Miss Stoutle herself would play to accompany our efforts.
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And then she would serve us cookies and juice. She was incredibly graceful and refined and an extremely kind teacher.
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Her grandson, Joshua Kamisarzewski, was around my age but homeschooled and would have been living on the grounds of the dance studio when I was traipsing around in tights and a leotard.
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Innocent and carefree and mostly in it for the snacks. In addition to the alleged sexual abuse, he had severe mental health issues and apparently suffered from no fewer than five head traumas during childhood.
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Ugh, God. I was no longer living in Cheshire when the Petit family was murdered.
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Is it Petit? Is that right? I'm not sure. I was going to say Petit. Petit. Is it P-E-T-I-T?
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Yeah, I think it's Petit. Fuck. But I don't know that for sure. Sorry, everyone.
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When they were murdered, but I was definitely creeped out to learn that one of the perpetrators
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was related to my former dance instructor and was lurking on the premises when I was studying
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with her. It was such a senseless act of cruelty, and I was relieved to learn that Mrs. Soto, although still living, was unaware of her grandson's crimes.
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She died a few months after the murders occurred at the age of 95. Such a tragic situation all around, and it shattered the locals' false sense of security in our quaint New England town.
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Thanks for covering the Cheshire murders in one of your early episodes. Yeah, I didn't.
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Right. I got so excited when you mentioned your friend Sean, because of course I know him, and you'd theater with him back in the day.
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Oh my God. That's hilarious. He and James Vanderbeek are probably the only famous people who are not murderers from our
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town. SSDGM, Meredith. Thanks, Meredith. Yeah, that's my friend Sean, who is the one that recommended that.
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That was right when I was starting at a job that he and I worked at together. And he totally did that thing where he was like, hey, so you ever heard of this one?
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Is that the one with the fire? Yes. And the dad runs to the neighbor of like, somebody go do something.
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it's so awful and so extremely violent and sent like when they say senseless and you know when
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sean was telling me about it it's like of course that classic thing where people are like no one
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locks their door everyone walks around it's a very specific like kind of lifestyle and then
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everyone was just horrifying so horrible hey it's us the jonas brothers and guess what we have some
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How do we actually come up with the name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. We were talking
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about a fit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas, and then I
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wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title
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for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the
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Okay. Nurse Mom Stories. Great. Okay. So, Masked Up MFM Crew. A few minisodes ago, you asked for nurse mom stories.
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I meant to write in earlier, but dot, dot, dot, quarantine life with a five-year-old.
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Oh, my God. Damn it. No. Bless you and bless your soul. My mom was a nurse when my sisters and I were growing up.
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She worked in both the ER and in labor and delivery throughout her career in Denver and in Orange County.
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Though her accounts from her time spent as an RN range from crazy car baby deliveries due to massive Denver snowstorms to having to do an emergency C-section solo as an RN due to a doctor not answering his pager.
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Dude! And then in parentheses, the 70s were a different time. A couple stand out.
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Like the time an ambulance pulled up with a non-responsive individual, her and the ER team worked 15 minutes to try and revive him with no success.
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after 15 minutes flatlined the man sat straight up pulled the tube out of his mouth threw it on
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the floor and laid back down all while still flatlined to this day the hairs on the back of
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my mom's neck stand up when she recounts that story what but did he go on to live or was he
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still dead i think he was still dead he was but he did a thing that only living people can do or
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can they that's why they need to keep experimenting on on you're justifying the last letter with the
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next i justifying uh back to the future three that right love for it okay but the thing about my mom time as an rn that stands out most of my sisters and I is how she worked in the ER alongside Jeffrey McDonald No The Jeffrey McDonald still in prison for murdering his whole family
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Not only did she work with him, they were friends. And here's how I found out that little detail.
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One night when I was only 10 years old, I was somehow permitted to stay up late watching TV with my parents before bed.
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That was a mistake. They were watching a made for TV movie called Fatal Vision, apparently about Jeffrey McDonald's murdering of his family.
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I was too scared to move, let alone go to bed. After the movie, my dad looks at me and says, oh, and your mom's friends with him.
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She says he didn't do it. Needless to say, I barely slept for years. And to this day, she says, quote, everyone loved him.
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He didn't kill his family. Oh, no. Uh-huh. Cheers to all the nurses out there, many in my family included.
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be considerate and wear a mask and don't let your 10 year old stay up late watching movies about murderers you know
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Lori. The scariest thing I feel like in a kid's mind it's like my parents know this
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murderer that means that they might be in on it and murderers too. Possibly although I believe that the Jeffrey
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McDonald story is the one that Errol Morris went on to write a book and I think make a movie about
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It's the one with the hippies right? I did that one yeah Yes, you did. And, and Earl Morris's whole thing is that the whole case was botched and it is, he is innocent.
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I just, I wish I couldn't, I wish, I wish I could believe that because the way those poor children were killed is just horrific.
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And the thought of so awful, it's really awful. But I think there was there, it's interesting. I, it's an interesting thing because I haven't figured it out.
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I mean, I, I, I did that case years ago and I still know the details of it. It's just so horrible.
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yeah so it's bad yeah it's very bad i'm adjusting my levels even though i don't really know what
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that means okay okay thank you to steven for dropping uh equipment off at my house without
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touching anything right well you don't know that what you don't know what he touched on that
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on that equipment oh god i mean i don't tell him but i fucking wiped everything down again
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we're good you can absolutely hear you oh shit okay um this one's just called the hometown story
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greetings true crime royalty in the late 90s to early 2000s i was a young teen living in the
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outskirts of baton rouge louisiana there was also a serial killer running loose at this time oh yeah
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the paranoid murderino that i was and still am was convinced he was stalking me and i was going to
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die my mom worked in a bar so i was a latchkey kid so anytime i heard strange noises outside i
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would call her freaked out do you remember how often you used to call your mom at work oh yes
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On your Lashkey Kid? Yeah. At the mental hospital. Me and my sister would be like, Laura won't give me the brush.
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She's like, I have other problems to deal with. I will kill you both when I get home.
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The Baton Rouge serial killer was named Derek Todd Lee. He killed seven women between 1992 and 2003, although there are many others that are not confirmed.
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This case was the first in history to use DNA to determine an unknown person's race.
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The details are quite interesting, but we won't go down that rabbit hole. Lee was arrested in 2003.
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Wouldn't you know it, my mom recognized him. He used to come in and play $100 in her bar's poker machine once a week.
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Oh, shit. Uh-huh. Those bar flies. Later in life, I also read a book called I've Been Watching You,
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which taught me that Lee was raised in the house in front of my family's small private cemetery.
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Your family has a fucking... You have your own cemetery. Oh, bougie. Okay. Okay.
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Queen of the Goths. Who's royalty? Who's true crime royalty now? Your own cemetery.
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That's right. Yep. You guessed it. He played in our cemetery and climbed his trees, etc.
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Well, that's what I have. Stay sexy and keep being open about mental health. I dig it.
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Love y'all. Tiff. Tiff with the private cemetery. Tiff. Tiff, the heiress to the gravestone fortune.
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Who is she? Okay. Good job, Tiff. Send us your stories. All of them. Amazing set, everybody.
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Great job. Great job. My favorite murder at Gmail, or you can do it on the website as well.
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My favorite murder. Please do. Spooky Halloween. Spooky Halloween. And stay sexy.
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And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? I'm Anna Navarro. And on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro,
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Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. You know the famous author Roald Dahl.
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He thought up Willy Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy? Neither did I.
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