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MFM Minisode 189

August 24, 2020 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about John Dillinger, a murder in a small town, and a haunting discovery in a home. Hosts Karen Kilgareth and Georgia Hardstark read listener emails that share personal and historical tales of crime and family.

One listener recounts how her grandmother, Elma, encountered John Dillinger in 1933 when he and his gang stopped at their farm for gas. This unexpected meeting resulted in a generous $50 bill that helped the family during the Great Depression.

Another story details the tragic murder of a young boy's mother, Mary, by her son, Dominic, who was later released from juvenile detention without significant consequences. This shocking tale highlights the complexities of juvenile justice.

Listeners also share heartwarming stories, including a touching tribute to a couple, Tootie and Dick, whose love story included a sweet tradition of sharing puzzle pieces. Their bond continued even after their passing.

The episode closes with a humorous account of a listener discovering that their home was once the site of a murder, adding a spooky twist to their new life.

TLDR

Listeners share true crime stories, including encounters with John Dillinger and a haunting home discovery.

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Own the dream. Hello. Hello. And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The Minya Sode. We read you your stuff back.
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That's Karen Kilgareth. That's Georgia Hardstark. We're your hosts and the hired readers for this
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Right. What reality is. Anyway, here's your first email. And we just started lying.
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Are you ready for this one? I think I'm going to read you the title. Okay. Because it's simply John Dillinger saved my grandma.
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Beautiful. Oh, hi there. Not too long back. Well before the pandemic, so it feels like more like years ago.
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My incredible grandma, Elma, and then in parentheses, jackpot grandma name, right?
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Was the oldest of six on a remote farm not too far from Hicksville, Ohio. One day in 1933, a nice looking car pulls down the long dirt road leading to the house.
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My great grandpa is already outside doing farmer stuff. So he approaches the car as four very well-dressed men step out.
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The main guy introduced himself as John and politely asked my great-grandpa if they could pay him to fill up their car with gas.
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Apparently, this kind of thing wasn't too uncommon, since this was around the time that gas-powered tractors and farm equipment had become normal,
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so almost all farms would retain their own large supply of gas. The men stood to the side as my great-grandpa agreed and began filling up the tank.
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As he was filling the car, he glanced into the backseat and saw four submachine guns.
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What? Can you have a submachine gun back then? In 1933. You've never seen anything like that.
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It would look like a laser from Star Trek. Totally. Horrifying. Just an old farmer.
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You know he was wearing overalls. Oh my God. Okay. Four submachine guns propped in the backseat.
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The man he was filling up the car for was none other than John Dillinger. I guessed it.
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Yeah, you know, right from the title. Looking up the timeline and location of John Dillinger's whereabouts, this was most likely one of their first stops right after Dillinger's first escape from jail in Lima, less than an hour and a half away.
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My great grandpa. Is it Lima or Lima? I wonder. My great grandpa stayed calm and continued to be polite and unassuming to the men as they did the same.
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When he was all finished, John walked over to my grandpa, thanked him and handed him a $50 bill and simply left.
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My great grandpa or any of the family had never seen a bill that large. This was in the middle of the Great Depression and times were getting tougher and tougher to feed a family of six and keep the farm maintained enough so that they could keep it My great grandpa knew if he called the police the only proof he have this event was the single bill which is about in today money
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Holy shit. Yeah. Hi. And they would have had to take it as evidence. So he made the call to keep
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quiet and use the money towards saving the family and the farm. Because of this, my grandma had far
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more opportunities to go to bed with a full stomach at night. My grandma, Elma, passed away
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two years ago. I live 12 hours away from her, so when we heard she was in bad health,
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we planned a trip as fast as we could see her. We let her know when we'd be in town and were able
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to make it in time to have a great visit with her as if nothing was wrong. She passed away two days later, and I truly believe
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that she held out until she was able to see us one last time. Thank you, girls, for all of your fun energy. Stay sexy
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and tip your farmers well. Audrey. Alma! Shout out to Alma. Wow. Shout out. Yeah. This one just starts. Hello, MFM BFFs. That's clever. I was it was September of 1994. And I had just started my senior year at high school in an acquaintance of mine, Dominic, who was a junior got pulled out of class the morning of September 22nd to be given the news that his mother, Mary had been found dead near their home.
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Dominic and his mother lived alone together, his father being estranged. Apparently, Mary had been found on a forested path that connected two cul-de-sacs in an
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upper-class neighborhood. She had been stabbed multiple times. Another also interesting connection to the story, my third grade teacher and longtime
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family friend was the one who found her. Oh, no. So small town. This was devastating and scary news to Dominic and her school.
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During that time, a sleepy, safe town with little crime that I remember as a teen.
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A few days went on and Mary's funeral ensued, which I attended with some friends.
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Dominic was there receiving condolences from family and friends. I gave Dominic a hug and apologized for the loss of his mom.
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All caps, BUT THEN. Yes. There's always a BUT THEN. You're just waiting for that BUT THEN.
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On October 5th, 1994, Dominic was arrested for Mary's murder. The real story is that Dominic planned to murder his mother the night of September 21st
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and suggested they go for a walk that evening. He concealed a large butcher knife with him
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and stabbed his mother 29 times, even after she was dead. He then drove out to the country
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and disposed of the weapon. He placed his bloody clothes in his backpack and took them to school the next day
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to throw away in the dumpster. A search warrant of the home revealed Mary's blood throughout the house
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and on Dominic's shoes, which were soaking in bleach. So he was arrested and logged
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in a juvenile detention facility. Here's the kicker, though. Since he killed his mother before Measure 11, he was not tried as an
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adult. He was sent to McLaurin School for Boys, where he was released in 1999 at the age of 21.
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In fact, he doesn't even have to report to a parole officer or get mental health treatment.
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He can get a concealed weapons permit and can answer that he has never been convicted of a
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crime on job applications. Why? Because he was a juvenile. Oh, okay. He has since changed his name,
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and I think he's been arrested for fraud in the last few years or something like that.
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he never said why he did it although he did admit to causing mary's death i did find him on facebook if you're interested and then gave us a link to his facebook good god
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stay away what are you doing don't do that and i took all the last names in this and i took them
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out stay sexy and don't hug a mother murderer p.s tonight i finished hbo's i'll be gone in the dark
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and i've been crying for hours so good so dark so sad and yes georgia i agree that karen looks
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great in purple. Love you both so much, Robin. Yay, Robin. Robin tried to even that out at the end with a nice compliment,
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but that was a horrible story. It was horrible. But it is so crazy that you can just get
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out and live your normal life, which is what makes sense. That's what the point of juvenile arrests are for.
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You would hope, though, that that level of overkill would be treated differently
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than the other kids that are in juvie for stealing cars and, you know, or doing drugs
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or something like that. Because it's a completely different thing. Premeditated murder.
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I think maybe that's what Metro 11 is. I didn't look it up. But premeditated murder is a bit of a...
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Yeah. I mean. Crazy. But what do we know? Right. Here, we'll take a nice left turn into a lighthearted area.
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The time my mom almost accidentally killed my dad. Hey, MFM fam. Last Sunday, I was playing cards with my parents and my newlywed husband.
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and my mom said that she had a story for me. So my dad wears a CPAP machine at night
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and there's a filter system for it where you put distilled water and my dad ran out of water
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so he asked to borrow some from the gallon. My mom used for ironing. Oh no. Wow.
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Because he didn't want to go downstairs and go downstairs and get... No, he'd have to leave the house.
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So she had her own distilled water stash for special ironing. Got it. he didn't want to have to go down to, you know, the CVS.
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Okay. So from the gallon, my mom used for ironing until he could go out and get his own.
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So the first few nights he started sneezing and coughing really badly, but only at night.
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My parents couldn't figure out what was going on with him, worried it might be COVID related.
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The next time my dad went to fill his water in his CPAP machine, he noticed the water
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looked weird, like milky and not clear. He took a closer look at the gallon. It was the bleach water that he had mixed for cleaning.
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My mom had accidentally given him a gallon of bleach water mixture instead of her distilled water.
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Luckily, my dad caught it and cleaned it out, and he thinks he didn't use any. We really gave my mom a hard time since she's always watching shows like Snapped and Cold Case Files.
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We joked that this was her clever way to poison him to death. All is well. My dad is alive and is not, quote unquote, sick anymore.
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We told him to be extra nice to my mom just in case Thank you for bringing humor and joy in these tough times we in My fucking hurry is that COVID did not stop me from getting married We had a very small beautiful outdoor ceremony and I got to marry the love of my life That lovely Stay sexy
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and label your bleach water correctly, Molly. Oh my, she could. I wonder if that would have
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killed him. It absolutely would have, just inhaling bleach night after night. You wouldn't
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This one just starts, just called a hometown story and starts, Well, my murder story is not from my hometown.
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It does involve my family member, my great-great-grandmother. Her name was Selma, and she was murdered in Brooklyn, New York in July 1927.
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Wow. Selma had owned a boarding house on Prospect Place that she lived in with her family.
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When she and her family moved out, she entrusted the boarding house to her friend, Sarah, 76
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year old. And I looked it up. So this is this sounded so far fetched to me that I looked it up and it's all fucking
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true. So I looked it up. This woman was 76 years old, Sarah Brownwell. So she entrusted the boarding house to her friend, Sarah.
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A handyman was hired to work in the boarding house, Ludwig Halvorsen Lee. He was a Norwegian immigrant who received free room and board at the boarding house in exchange
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for keeping up with the maintenance for no salary. One day, a neighbor noticed something strange.
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Water was leaking from the cellar of the boarding house and flooding her yard. Come to think of it, she had also heard some strange noises from that same cellar the night before.
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When she knocked on the boarding house door to talk to Sarah, the owner, she was greeted by Ludwig.
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He explained that Sarah was, quote, out of town, and he would take care of the leak in the cellar.
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Several days passed, and the water problem was not fixed. The neighbor called my great great grandmother Selma since she was the former owner and explained the issue.
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The neighbor watched as my great great grandmother entered the boarding house and never came out.
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Soon mysterious packages started appearing around Brooklyn at Prospect Park, a train station, a church, etc.
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Each unfortunate person who opened these sacks was greeted by a different severed body part.
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What? I fucking swear I looked it up. It's all true. Even the crazy name of the dude.
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While the police noticed that some body parts were missing from the collection, they could tell that it was the body parts of two different women.
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As they started to put two and two together, the disappearances of Sarah and Selma, the water problem in the cellar, the packages of body parts, they realized they needed to investigate the boarding house.
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As the police entered the cellar, they were greeted instantly with the smell of death.
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They found the remaining body parts of Selma and Sarah stuffed in the cellar pipes, causing the water leak.
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They also discovered several bottles of lye that had been emptied over the body parts in order to dissolve them faster.
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The receipt for the bottles was found, and when police checked with the store clerk, he recalled Ludwig buying the bottles.
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The police eventually found my great-great-grandmother's ring in a box in Ludwig's room.
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My great-great-grandfather had the unfortunate job of identifying the remains of his wife.
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The story came together at the trial Ludwig had wanted to return to Norway but had no money since he worked at the boarding house for free He knew that rent day was coming up and he accosted Sarah He killed her with an axe in order to procure the money When my great great grandmother Selma came to investigate the water leak she either happened upon Ludwig chopping up Sarah body or the already chopped up body of Sarah
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She ended up becoming an unintended victim to Ludwig's axe. The defense tried to cross-examine my great-grandfather, Selma's son,
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and accused him of murdering the ladies since he still lived at the boarding house.
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However, my great-grandfather denied this and the evidence against Ludwig was strong.
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Ludwig was charged with the murder and died by the electric chair in 1928. And then there's no signature.
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There's no opening and there's no signature. Someone's just like, hey, I have the craziest hometown, essentially.
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That's it. Goodbye. They peaced out at the end of that letter. Wow. Can you imagine like in your family lineage that that happening?
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It's so horrible. Also, so do I get this right? that somebody watched their great great grandmother walk into that boarding house and she just never
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returned. Yeah. So I think the next piece of information I would want to hear in that story
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is how quickly did that witness go to the cops? I don't think they must not have been like,
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they must just have seen them go in and went about their business. You know, they were like,
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oh, she's taking care of it. Yeah. There's nothing to check back in with in any way.
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I'm not. Yeah, I'm not going to knock on that door. Guess Sarah just went home. No, thanks for any kind of results on what happened there with the flood.
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No, no flood in my neighborhood. No further questions. I'm out. All good. Actually, let's talk about something else right now.
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Have you been watching the new season? The 1933 version of the Great Depression. Have you watched the new season?
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Oh, my God. It's so depressing. Okay, you ready for this? Yeah. My finals? Yeah.
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Hello, all. I'm finally doing it. After years of listening to other people's stories, I'm finally sharing my own.
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Do it. I really put a lot of drama into that. My grandparents, Helena, who went by Tootie, and Dwayne, who went by Dick.
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What? Amazing. This is why we ask you to always give your fucking grandparents names.
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Please. Legendary. Dick and Tootie. Did anyone's grandparents use their real names?
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They were married for 60 plus years, had five kids and a slew of grandkids. They were everything grandparents should be sweet, loving and cute as buttons.
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They were always together. My grandma never got a driver's license. So always together.
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And my grandpa loved to do puzzles in his retirement. Big puzzles. I'm talking thousand plus pieces.
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Holy shit. He'd work on them for days on end with no help from grandma until it was time for the very last piece.
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He always gave her the last piece of every puzzle so she could finish it because, well, he adored her.
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Oh, my God. Yeah, let's just take a quick break. Oh, for crying times. This is how love is supposed to work.
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I love you, Vince. Vince, I love you so much. You know what I did last night? Speaking of relationships and trying to make them last 60 years, I was changing my pillowcase.
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And so I got another one for him and then just threw it on his pillow for him to do later.
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And then I was like, you know what? If this were Vince, he would put the pillowcase on my pillow for me.
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So maybe take that extra fucking step and put the pillowcase on Vince's pillow instead of just tossing it on his fucking side of the bed.
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Hell yeah. There you go. There it is. Feels good, right? It did feel good. It did.
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It was your idea. You did it. And of course, I told him so I could get credit for it.
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Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. Go ahead. I love it. No, no, that's great. That's so sweet.
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Yeah. Talk about let's do some readjusted goals. How about not just not just finding someone that texts you back?
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How about someone that gives you the last piece of their puzzle that they worked on?
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Or puts your pillowcase on. Or like Georgia does. Or more so puts your pillowcase on.
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Okay. Cut to my grandpa passed away, leaving my grandma and all of us devastated.
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This person had been her true partner in every sense for practically her entire life.
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Grandma gave away all the puzzles Grandpa had in the house as she didn't like doing them.
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And then one day, months after Grandpa's passing, my grandma was at her dresser, looked down and saw one puzzle piece.
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She swore every puzzle in the house had been given away and the room had been cleaned and vacuumed many times during the passing months.
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But there it was. She knew it was my grandpa reminding her of how much he loved her.
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Uh-huh. Yeah. In the years since, Grandma actually had this occur one more time.
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So when she passed away and we were burying her ashes under a tree next to my grandpa, the two puzzle pieces went in with her and she was back with the missing piece to her puzzle.
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Thanks so much for taking the time to read my story. As many have said before, thank you for bringing true crime obsession, anxiety disorders and self-acceptance to your millions of faithful listeners.
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A special shout out to Karen for sharing British, Nordic, Canadian crime procedural suggestions.
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Seriously, I barely watch anything made in this country anymore. stay sexy and find a cute way to haunt your loved ones when you go.
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Dara. That was gorgeous. How am I supposed to follow that one? That was gorgeous.
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I guess all I have to say is in your face with someone else's puzzle story. This is a competition after all.
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Oh, we didn't. This is a true crime comedy competition show. Comedy competition show.
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It's a lot like America's Got Talent. But without the talent. No talent. Not a lot of America represented in the way that I think they would like to be.
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That was beautiful. That was lovely. Tootie and Dick forever. Tootie and Dick. Tootie and Dick.
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Let's go over to Tootie and Dick's for drinks before we go over to the Fourth of July parade.
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What's our cocktails? The Tootie and Dick's before the cinema. Tootie and Dick are making popcorn, and then we're going to go over to the...
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I can hide candy in my purse, in my enormous grandma purse. Oh, I can't be for the movie.
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Go tell Dick to get grandma's purse. Okay. Oh, that was beautiful. Okay. This wasn't isn't as beautiful, but I really like it.
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I'm not going to read you the title. Hello, good friends of the podcast. A few years ago, my wife and I bought our very first home in Los Angeles.
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The house is old, originally built in the 1920s as a hunting cabin, which is crazy.
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That fucking Los Angeles was that rural, but it's so awesome with several renovations and
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additions in its near hundred year history. Fucking awesome. Out of curiosity, because the house was so old and because we needed to do some renovations ourselves, we searched for old building and renovation permits on the LAD Department of Building and Safety website.
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We discovered that in the 1930s, a woman named Winifred, and then it says great name, Winifred, filed several building permits for the property, including one for a, quote, new private goat house.
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We both thought, what an independent lady to own a home and maybe a goat farm, too, in the 1930s.
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1330s. She must have been really cool and ahead of her time. Oh, how wrong we were.
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Fast forward to a few weeks ago, we were FaceTiming with a friend who works for the LA Public Library,
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and she mentioned how she's been searching old digitized LA articles about badass women through
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the library database. We asked her to search Winifred's name, thinking if we were lucky
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enough there may be an article mentioning her prized goat rearing or something to that nature Nope Instead we found six articles detailing how Winifred strangled her elderly mother in our house Oh most likely our bedroom
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No, because she saw, quote, an evil spirit gleaming in her mother's eyes. Oh, Winifred.
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem our house is haunted, but still pretty shocking to discover a grisly murder took place here over 70 years ago.
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Also, if an evil gleam in her mother's eye was enough to drive Winifred to murder,
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I'm glad she didn't live long enough to see a lesbian couple buy her house from a drug dealer.
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That's why I say this one for last. I'm glad she didn't live long enough to see a lesbian couple buy her house from a drug dealer.
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Anyways, did you hear that part? The drug dealer real estate agent? I love it. People hustle in L.A., man.
00:26:17
It's probably one of those for sale by owner and the guy's just like, can I, I just need to get rid of this place.
00:26:23
You can buy this house. It's haunted. I also got those really good cat mushrooms that people like.
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We're doing a little bit of ecstasy. It's a throwback. Anyway, stay sexy and maybe check if your house is the site of a murder before you buy M&L.
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M&L. Congratulations on your haunted house. Sounds fucking rad. Can you invite us over for pre-show cocktails when this COVID is over?
00:26:45
I mean I feel like you maybe make friends with a Catholic priest if only for the blessing ceremony ritual You know it up to you But I think that if they already haven gotten bad vibes i think they in the clear i mean a hundred year old house you don know what else has been
00:27:05
going on i mean what did the drug dealer do there you know is he haunted he or she i don't want to
00:27:10
be sexist haunting it we don't know yes the drug dealer for getting it to for making his investments
00:27:16
and interests uh what's that called divesting yeah you know it's he's not completely yeah just
00:27:22
depending like a crutch on cocaine. Right. He's also selling home. Diversifying. Is that what you said? Diversifying.
00:27:29
Yeah. Diversifying his portfolio. That's right. Yeah. Send us your stories of haunted
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houses and fucking drug dealers and fucking Tell us a story about a drug dealer getting out of the
00:27:41
business. Yeah. That's fun for COVID. Yeah. Something uplifting. Were you a drug dealer? How did you
00:27:46
get out of it? And like, tell us how great your life is now that you can inspire other drug dealers to
00:27:52
that's right. Or you can be like, I made a parallel move into Amway and it's pretty much the same thing.
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Or did drug dealing save your life? We don't know. Please take, keep it together.
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Not especially not during COVID. You don't want everything else that's going on.
00:28:07
You don't want to be addicted to some terrible drug. No, not at all. It's hard enough.
00:28:10
It is. Don't go looking for problems. You already have plenty. As my sister likes to say to me time and again,
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I love it. Stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye Elvis you want a cookie Bro from the show last night to this drive why is it never chill because this is our life backstage on the road it loud messy real and that the best part whole crew
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Episode Highlights

  • John Dillinger Saved My Grandma
    A listener shares a story of how John Dillinger's visit helped their family during the Great Depression.
    “Because of this, my grandma had far more opportunities to go to bed with a full stomach at night.”
    @ 06m 19s
    August 24, 2020
  • Murder in the Family
    A chilling tale of a listener's great-great-grandmother's murder and the ensuing investigation.
    “Each unfortunate person who opened these sacks was greeted by a different severed body part.”
    @ 16m 39s
    August 24, 2020
  • A Love Story in Puzzles
    A listener recounts the sweet relationship between their grandparents, who shared a love for puzzles.
    “He always gave her the last piece of every puzzle so she could finish it because, well, he adored her.”
    @ 20m 50s
    August 24, 2020
  • Grandma's Puzzle Piece
    A touching story of love and remembrance as a puzzle piece brings back memories of a lost partner.
    “She knew it was my grandpa reminding her of how much he loved her.”
    @ 22m 27s
    August 24, 2020
  • Winifred's Dark Secret
    A shocking discovery about the house's history reveals a grisly murder from the past.
    “We found six articles detailing how Winifred strangled her elderly mother in our house.”
    @ 25m 20s
    August 24, 2020

Episode Quotes

  • You got it. You got it. What?
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  • Stay sexy and tip your farmers well.
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  • What? I fucking swear I looked it up.
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  • This is how love is supposed to work.
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  • Stay sexy and find a cute way to haunt your loved ones when you go.
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  • Stay sexy and don't get murdered.
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Key Moments

  • Unlock the savings00:30
  • Behind the scenes03:22
  • Grandma's story03:59
  • Murder mystery07:24
  • Love in puzzles20:34
  • Love and Loss21:59
  • Shocking Discovery25:20
  • Haunted House25:41

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