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My favorite murder Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. Well, it's mini.
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You're welcome. Yeah. What more kind of introduction do you need for this one? We can't keep making up bullshit.
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I can't keep telling you it's mini. and you're not getting it. I can't keep telling you that's Georgia Hardstar.
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I can't keep telling you that that's Karen Hill Gareth and that you guys write us
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in eight letters and we read them to you. No, it is. You know what? This is the wrong attitude. What if there is
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a person logging on for the first time? What if there's a person downloading from the mainframe
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today for the first time? What's up, Jerry? Thank you for joining us. Hi! Did your wife force you?
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G or a J? That's going to be a J. Yeah. That's why it's taken him this long. He thought, boys
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don't like this. Yes, they do, Jerry. Just you wait. There are lady Jerrys, aren't there?
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Yeah, with Gs, but this Jerry is a J. Okay, I didn't know that. Okay, good to know.
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Don't fight the improv. It's the worst thing you can do. Oh, I just said no to your guy that you invited onto
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the show. Shit. Yeah, what are you? I'm trying to flirt with an actual Jerry. Seinfeld!
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Oh, yeah. That's his name. Oh, you want to go first this week? Change it up. Sure.
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Let's do it. Let's let's just make Jerry think that this is how it's always. Jerry is going to be so fucking confused when it goes regular again.
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When he has to binge listen to every episode, he's going to be like, this isn't how I learned how it is.
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I thought the voice that sounds just like the second voice was the first voice. I've had them mixed up this whole time.
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OK, this is called Slept in the Lap of a Serial Killer. Oh, OK. It just starts growing up the son of a Church of Christ preacher.
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You see a lot of shit. And a lot is one word. It's also such a guy thing to just be like, there's no hello.
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No, I don't have to talk to you about your pets. No compliments, of course. It's about my story.
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And here it is. Okay, sir. Go ahead. All right. One thing happened in 1976 when my family lived in Jeffersonville, Indiana, that I will never forget.
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I was six years old at the time. My father would often counsel people with typically the goal of baptizing, i.e. saving them, which is basically the job of a preacher.
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One of these cases I will never forget. It was a man named James Lofton. He was 31 and married to his pregnant wife.
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My folks took them and my younger brother and I to dinner one night. As we drove home, I fell asleep in the backseat in Mr. Lofton's lap.
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After they were both baptized a few weeks later, during a Sunday morning sermon, Mr. Lofton stood up in the middle of the sermon and yelled,
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Y'all need to listen to these, man, because he is speaking the truth. Yes, yes. Acting out in church is my favorite.
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Because you know there's something going on. Uh-huh. No one does it. No. He says, now this thing wasn't normal for your average conservative Church of Christ service.
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No, no, no. And I remember it being extremely awkward. Yes. People get scared when you yell in church.
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Even a six-year-old is like, that's not how this goes. You're supposed to be paying attention to the guy up there, not people in the middle.
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A few weeks later, Lofton stopped coming to church. His wife contacted my father saying she was worried about him and that he was acting very
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strange and not coming home at night. Within a few days, Lofton and a younger accomplice took a car salesman from Louisville, Kentucky,
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across the river from Jeffersonville, Indiana, on a test drive. They drove onto the Louisville Bridge and shot the salesman in the back of the head
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where he fell into the Ohio River. A few days later, Lofton, this time alone, beat to death a couple with an axe and set fire to their house.
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After that, he was captured by police and put into a jail where he would soon escape just a day later.
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He then called my dad, who pleaded for him to turn himself in. I remember the police staking out our house to both protect us and also capture him if he decided to come by.
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The police did eventually catch him within a few days, and he was convicted of one count of capital murder in Kentucky
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and two counts in Indiana. He received three consecutive life sentences. If he's still alive,
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he would be 75 years old So that my story Love your show And you two sexy ladies stay that way and don get murdered And his name Matt Goad And I clicked on his link to that you know in his signature And he this like insanely talented graphic artist it turns out
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Matt! Like famous, insanely talented artist. We should not have talked. You know, this happens every time we talk shit about somebody at the top of their email.
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We regret it by the end. That's right. That's a great story, Matt. Wait, why did he do it?
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Why did he go on a killing spree? I mean, why did he stand up? The same thing that made him stand up in church and scream something is the same thing that made him go on.
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It's just like you're unhinged. No, you know what it is? You got the devil in him.
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He's got the devil in him. But he was baptized. That's what it is. It's that simple.
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It's awful. Aye, aye, aye. Hometown story. Hey, all. Perfect. I just finished this week's episode and was delighted to hear Karen talk about Stull Cemetery.
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I grew up a few miles from there in a little town called LeCompton and thought you might like to hear from someone with a personal connection to the place.
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That's the whole point of what this is. That's what we're looking for. We're setting out those red threads to connect to your picture from the picture we put up three months ago.
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Get back to us about this stuff. When I was a teenager in the 90s, the ruined church and so-called hanging tree were still there.
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By that time, drunken looky-loos... Drunken looky-loos are the best kind of looky-loos.
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Hey, what's that? They look so loud. They look so loud, and it's always pointing and screaming.
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And they want to turn whatever it is into a restaurant, and they're just like, that's cokeheads.
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Okay. Well, one leads to the other. Drunken looky-loos had done enough damage to headstones and cemetery grounds that the community got fed up
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and surrounded the whole thing with a fence. Wow. Things were bad enough that the local sheriffs posted patrols every Halloween.
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That actually makes sense. Yeah. Fucking looky-loos just falling all over the place.
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I think once you destroy a headstone, you're not a looky-loo anymore. That's called a menace.
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I don't know. Drunken menace? That's called... Sorry to loop it all together, but that's called you got the devil in you.
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I mean, am I right? Amen. Hey, sister. This is a Methodist episode of the mini. Naturally, it was a rite of passage for area kids to sneak into the cemetery and scare the shit out of each other.
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Some of my classmates had ridiculous stories about it. My personal favorite, two boys, we'll call them Jay and Ryan, who claim to have found the legendary staircase.
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So do you remember the staircase that supposedly goes to hell with lots of stories around it?
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That's apparently very difficult to find. It's not obvious from what I remember.
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You can't be any looky-loo coming by. No, especially if you're drunk. You're going to be looking in the completely wrong place for a staircase.
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You think it's spiral? It's not. It's not. Spiral. It's not a spiral staircase to help.
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They planned to send Jay down, but only after they'd looped a length of rope around his waist
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and tied the other end to the bumper of Ryan's truck. I'm not sure if they meant to tow Jay out of hell or to use him as devil bait.
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Teenage boys, God bless. At any rate, they never went through with it. They said they heard growling as soon as Jay went down the first step and they ran for their lives.
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Bullshit? The devil? Raccoon disturbed by two dumbasses? I'll let you decide. I never bought into the lore because my parents say the stories that only started circulating when they were teenagers in the 70s.
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And because I have family connection to the cemetery. I'm not Amish, just descended from German farm stock.
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My dad's grandma May and grandpa John are buried there. I never knew John, but my great-grandma May lived to be 92, dying in 1991 when I was eight years old.
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May was a tiny, sweet lady who burned the shit out of fried bologna sandwiches every time.
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Each Memorial Day, until I moved away for college, I visited the cemetery with my family to leave flowers for my great-grandparents.
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We'd often stand in the shade of the infamous tree as we paid our respects. Dad's always been frustrated by the legends about Stull because they've led to people fucking up the cemetery grounds.
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To me, Stull Cemetery is just a peaceful, sad place like any small country cemetery.
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But it's fascinating to track how these kinds of legends come into being. Thanks for the hours of entertainment and for building a fabulous community.
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Lauren. Oh, that's sweet. That was a heartfelt, touching story. Yeah, and then it was a little behind the scenes of Stull Cemetery, the gateway to hell.
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And then it made me remember that Vince made me my first ever fried bologna sandwich because that's totally a Midwestern thing.
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It is. I've never had a fried bologna sandwich. It's pretty good. Did you like it?
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Yeah, of course. It's fried and bologna. It's like what? Yeah, I was going to say.
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Is it like a flat fried hot dog, basically? It's like a grilled cheese, but with fried bologna in it.
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Okay. It's great. Yeah, I'm seeing it. I can picture it now. Okay, Mimi is acting up.
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Mimi's in. Mimi. Okay, this is called... Scream for the microphone, Mimi. Mimi. Scream.
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Mimi. There she is. Okay, lay down. Please. I think we're going to post this as a video on the fan cult, so you'll be able to see Mimi just getting cat hair all over me right now.
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Okay, this is called Our Mother-in-law. It's an amazing video. You know the thing that people haven't seen enough of? Cats.
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Okay, this is called Our Mother-in-law was Patty Hearst's escort for her trial. Yes.
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Hello, MFM crew. I'd be meaning to write this story for some time, but it wasn't until I mentioned it to my ex-husband's wife and fellow murderino Maddie, who said she hadn't heard the story, that we asked our mother-in-law to tell us all the details over a socially distant Mother's Day brunch.
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That's what Mother's Day brunch is for, is tell us about your crazy stories. With your husband's new wife.
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Whatever. That's modern and bold, and I like it. It very emotionally intellectual Or yeah emotionally intelligent It is It is Emotionally intellectual is like a little bit snobby That a little like you bragging about the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths
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Okay. So, actually, oh, this is funny. Our mother-in-law, Jerry Jewett, I must have picked that up, the Jerry,
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was hired by the U.S. Marshals Office in San Francisco as a secretary upon graduation from high school.
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She was hired for the job by a bunch of old men. And she said she got the job because while facing a wall, her boobs hit before her toes did.
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Yay for 70 sexism, right? Wait a second. That was the job interview? Well, essentially, probably.
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Do you think Jerry was being sarcastic when she told that story? Or this was like a literal this is how she got the job?
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I mean, yeah, they probably they're high. Yeah, they probably hired her because she looked a certain way. Yeah, she's, you know, it's like Dolly Parton. It's like nine to five Dolly Parton.
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Secretary, culture, sexism, culture, boobs against the wall. close to the wall. That wouldn't work for me. This A cup is not hitting the wall anytime soon.
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Anyway, the Patty Hearst case was the biggest thing in the news. And when she was arrested and
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tried, she had to have a female escort or matron with her at all times during transport and the
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trial. Being that Jerry was one of only two women in the entire place, she was assigned to be Patty's
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matron. She was required to remove Patty from her cell, take her to and from the car back and
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forth from the jail in Redwood City to the trial in San Francisco and be there with her on on any
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breaks, take her to the bathroom, etc. Our mother in law and all her naive 20 year old wisdom got in
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trouble for many reasons during this assignment. One being she let Patty kiss her boyfriend and
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fellow SLA member Stephen Solia through the cell bars. Oh, she's romantic. She's let him smooch,
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but also the guy who kidnapped her. Oh, yeah. I see. I see the problem with that.
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I see how it's problematic. I see it now. During Patty's 1975 arrest, the police used Jerry as a decoy in the marked van
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to distract the media while they took Patty out through the back in an unmarked car.
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During the trial, Patty and Jerry crocheted a lot and became friends as they spent a lot of time together.
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Patty would ask Jerry to buy her cigarettes and promised that her family would pay her back, which Jerry made very clear did not happen.
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That's the very rich. They always forget to give you $15. They don't realize that $15 is so much money to you. That's not to them.
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You'd have to say to them, listen, Patty, I need this $15 back because to me, it's $2 million. Exactly. Yeah, right. Jerry says that Patty was just like any
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a normal young woman, but she does think Patty had been brainwashed. In the 1988 movie Patty made about her trial, she named one of the jurors,
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Jerry Jewett, as a tiny nod to our mother-in-law. We asked her if they had talked since the trial was over, and she said no, but that she had
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quote, Twittered at her. But Patty never Twittered back. No. Anyway, we knew that we had to share this amazing story
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with you ladies, and also want to thank you for what you do. We adore you, ssdgm rachel and maddie how like you're like that's like history and you're you're crocheting
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like in history let's see this is just starts hi all this is my dad's story my dad is a boomer
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which means he was able to pay for his education at uc berkeley by working a few side jobs i mean
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my dad says that all the time but uc berkeley it would like cost five thousand dollars back then
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It was so cheap. Yeah. And then like, why don't you why can't you pay your way through college now?
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And it's because it's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for one semester. Yeah.
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And then the interest on that student loan. Right. Make sure that you're going to keep paying the student loan well after you've paid it
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right. Three times. But don't worry. The job market when you get out of college is fucked and your opening job is fucking
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30 grand. OK. Yeah. Jerry, stop fucking Jerry. Stop it. My dad is a big guy. So one of these jobs was the security was a security guard for a warehouse in Emeryville.
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There had been a string of warehouse robberies. So his job was to patrol the floor alone until morning.
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He was instructed to never under any circumstance let anyone into the building. The job is going well until one shift when there's banging on the warehouse door.
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He opens the little security window to peer out into the street. And there standing in the light is a nun.
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She's in full habit in a bad part of town in the middle of the night. She tells him her car broke down.
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Can't she come in and use the phone? Brilliant. My poor Catholic dad feels so conflicted, but he has to tell her that he can't open the door until morning.
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She asks him, please, please, can she come in? She just needs to make a phone call.
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He tells her he really can't, but that he will make the call for her. So he goes to call the police.
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When he comes back to the door, the woman is gone. The police arrive and there is no broken down car and no nun
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Oh my god Was she really a nun in trouble or did she have a costume and hidden accomplices who would have robbed the warehouse
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Possibly harming my dad in the process We'll never know Maybe my dad will find out when he gets to Catholic heaven and meets a pissed off nun
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Actually at the gates they're like remember that nun you didn't help? Bye You're going down
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You're on the water slide straight to hell straight through the stall cemetery by stay sexy and don't trust someone just because they have a
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uniform emma i love that because i feel like so all of us would have opened the door like your
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first instinct is to open the door and he refused to as a catholic especially as a catholic which i wonder if they looked up beforehand of like what would work on this specific would be a you know it almost too it almost too too good of a
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disguise it sound it is reminding me is it a marky mark movie is it like the italian job
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is there something like that yeah wasn't there one with nuns was it the town nun masks but then
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the masks were like zombies no i think you're something like that what's the one with whoopi
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in Philadelphia, well known for its Muter Museum. We are huge fans of your podcast,
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which is such an honor. That museum is so fucking cool and badass. I'm so bummed I've never been
00:21:42
there yet. In your most recent episode, the question of how common was the practice of
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binding books in human skin came up and we wanted to offer our expertise. Hell yes, Muter Museum.
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Our historical medical library just happens to have the largest confirmed collection of
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anthro, anthro, I'm going to get this. Anthropodermic? Like derma? Karen, you're so sorry.
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No, you're right. I love words. I love words. Anthropodermic books in the country. So we
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thought we'd share what we know. It wasn't uncommon for 19th century physicians and surgeons to tan
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human skin and subsequently use the leather as book bindings. Traditional 19th century tanning
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began by soaking an animal skin in lime water. After the skins had soaked any flesh, fat and
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hair was removed from the skin by hand. Ew. The defleshed skins were soaked again in lime water
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for a few days and then soaked in baths of tannin, usually derived from tree bark, that were made
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progressively stronger over a period of weeks or months. Once tanned, the skins were dried,
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rolled and pressed into leather. Of course, this brings up the question of whether the doctors
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had their patient's permission, which in many cases can't be confirmed. Three of our five
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anthropodermic books came from the skin of one woman, Mary Lynch, who died of trichinosis on
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January 16, 1869, at Old Lockley in Philadelphia. One of her attending physicians, John Stockton Howe,
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removed a piece of her skin from her thigh sometime between her death and burial. In June of 1887,
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Howe used the skin to partially bind three books, all dealing with women's reproductive health.
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We don't know if Howe had Mary Lynch's permission or why he chose to bind books about conception and childbirth with her skin.
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These three books, in addition to the other two anthropodermic books in the library collection, represent a unique convergence of text and medical specimen.
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The books as collections of text remain valuable sources in the history of medicine.
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The books as objects force us into uncomfortable considerations of the use of human skin and bindings and whether the use of human skin diminishes the value of the text.
00:24:00
rendering them mere objects of moral curiosity. So smart. If you're ever in Philadelphia,
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we would love to give you a private tour and love to take it. Oh, please stay sexy and don't let
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your skin be turned into a book without your consent. The staff at the Muter Museum of the
00:24:16
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. And then I remembered that I have a friend who's this really
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smart librarian who was working on a book about this practice. So I looked it up and it actually
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comes out next month in October. How fucking weird is that? It's called Dark Archives, a librarian's investigation into the science and history
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of books bound in human skin. And her name's Megan Rosenblum. I just, I completely forgot that.
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Well, that's girl. That's such good news that that book is coming out because I would love to know why they
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did that and what the, I mean, like, yeah, apparently it just doesn't. It's so creepy to me.
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This book gets into all of that. How cool is that? Because we've heard a couple of stories about creepy doctors.
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where I'm thinking this doctor that did that with this story that you just told.
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Right. May have been a creep. Could have been. Yeah. Sounds like it. Real good. I don't know.
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But then maybe in this book, it explains that it was like some, I don't know, what would
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the explanation be that would make me feel better? I'm not sure. There can't be one.
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I mean, it's a bit history, maybe for like history's sake, you know? I mean, but it's a book.
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I know. Just use fucking paper and leave people alone. Well, I bet you'll find out in the book Dark Archives by Megan Rosenblum.
00:25:29
Here's my last one. This just starts. Hi, y'all. I grew up in the East Bay, Concord, California.
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In middle school and the beginning of high school, I used to walk home with my brother.
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And one day I started receiving calls from an unknown caller. The only sound from the phone calls would be heavy breathing.
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This scared the living shit out of me. For years, I would receive these phone calls at random times, just heavy breathing into the receiver.
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At first I thought I have a stalker At 13 through 15 years old I thought I was going to get murdered But also thought this would be such a great TV show Lifetime TV show I mean they are not wrong
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I never told anyone. In retrospect, not sure why I never said something, but whatever.
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Finally, two years after these random phone calls started, I received the last unknown call.
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I was walking home with my best friend, Haley, expecting a phone call to come through, but it never did.
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We finally get to my house, and I get the phone call. the heavy breathing right into the fucking phone then i realized i could actually hear the breathing
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in the other room there was hayley heavily breathing into her phone my god it turns out
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my best friend hayley had been calling my phone blocking her number and breathing into her phone
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for years since we walked home in different directions i never caught her before oh my god
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Thankfully, the heavy breathing didn't just stop there. From then on, whenever Haley would leave me a voicemail, she would just heavy breathe into the phone.
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And that tradition has continued throughout the last 10 years. I now live in San Antonio, Texas, and Haley's still in the Bay Area.
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We're both almost 28 years old. She's still my best friend, even though she terrorized me for years.
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She grew up to be a beautiful wife and fantastic mother to a sweet baby angel, one-and-a-half-year-old little girl.
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Haley, my personal favorite US Postal Service employee, fuck Trump support USPS, has been fighting a rare that was on the piece of paper I just read, has been fighting a rare form of leukemia since quarantine started.
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Legit right in the heat of COVID-19, she found out and has been kicking leukemia's ass ever since.
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She's currently at Stanford receiving a stem cell transplant in order to avoid her leukemia from ever coming back.
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We still talk normally and frequently, even if her sense of humor has gotten slightly darker,
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a lot of death jokes, but whatever makes her feel better, and she's still fighting through it.
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So I like to think even in the darkest times, it's super fucking important to remember the good times,
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even if those good times are tormenting phone calls from your youth So keep in touch with your loved ones socially distance yourself support the USPS vote and most importantly block your number call your best friend and heavy breathe into the
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phone, scaring the living shit out of them. You never know how much you'll appreciate it later.
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SSDGM, Lexi. Oh my god, that's so sweet. I was like mad for her. And then I was like, that's so sweet.
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No, that's a good prank because she like did it to her long enough. Yeah. And I bet you it drove her friend crazy that she never said anything.
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The whole point was probably to get her to freak out. So then she'd be like, it's me, dumbass.
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Yeah, she would have laughed and been like, got you. But it was like three years in.
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But like Lexi was just trying to be like a real soldier about it. So Haley's like, okay, I guess I'll just keep breathing into your phone, you idiot.
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Oh, my God. I love that story. I think that's hilarious. So many levels. Yes, it is.
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Wow. And Haley, keep kicking leukemias. Please do. Please do. Wow. That was incredible.
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That was a great last story. Send us your stories that are like that or not like that or like whatever you want them
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to be. Jerry, it can be anything you want. We do grandparents. We do stuff stuffed in walls.
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We do, of course, traditional hometown, just the scariest murder you heard about when you
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were growing up. Or tell us a funny story from the set of Seinfeld that no one would know about.
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Oh, my God. Wouldn't that be? This one time, Elaine couldn't stop laughing at Jerry Stiller.
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Did you ever hide anything in the cupboards? What was really in the cereal boxes?
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Okay. If this gets posted and anyone snitch tags Jerry Seinfeld, you're kicked out of being a murderino.
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For real. This is not something we want to get back to him. Don't be a nerd. He's not going to Twitter back at us
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