00:00:00
This is exactly right. Bro, from the show last night to this drive, why is it never chill?
00:00:10
Because this is our life. Backstage, on the road, it's loud, messy, real. And that's the best part. Whole crew, no plan, just moving.
00:00:19
Good thing Nissan builds for that kind of chaos. Not just test tracks, real life scenes. Late nights, road trips, all of it.
00:00:26
That's why it holds up. Nissan was ranked number one in initial quality among mainstream brands by J.D. Power.
00:00:33
Yeah, you can tell. 2026 Nissan Rogue built for what really happens. For J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Initial Quality Study Award information, visit jdpower.com slash awards.
00:00:44
Awards based on 2025 model year, newer models may be shown. You're locked into a lot of things you can't change. Weather, traffic.
00:00:51
Hey, stay in your lane. Your wireless carrier's latest price hike. But you can unlock a better way.
00:00:57
Unlock the savings at Boost Mobile and save up to $600 a year. Switch to the $25 a month unlimited wireless plan.
00:01:03
No contracts, no price hikes, and you keep your phone. Stop being locked into their games.
00:01:07
Unlock the savings at BoostMobile.com slash unlock. Based on average annual single line of payment of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers
00:01:13
compared to 12 months on the Boost Mobile unlimited wireless plan as of January 2026.
00:01:16
For full offer details, visit BoostMobile.com. Most wellness routines fail somewhere between day one motivation and where did I put that powder?
00:01:24
That's where Grooms comes in. Grooms packs over 20 vitamins and minerals, greens and prebiotics into a snack pack of tiny delicious gummies.
00:01:33
No powders, no pills, just a simple way to support gut health, beauty, energy, immunity, recovery and cognition.
00:01:39
Plus, the ingredients in Grooms are backed by over 35,000 research publications.
00:01:45
It's a convenient, comprehensive formula designed for real life. Get up to 52% off with code CRY at gruns.co.
00:01:52
That's code CRY at G-R-U-N-S dot C-O. Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder, the mini-sode.
00:02:16
It's the mini episode. It's the short one that comes on Monday at the beginning of the week.
00:02:23
You remember? Remember today's Monday? Sorry about that. I don't have a happy one at the end.
00:02:32
Do you? So I'll go first. Do you have a good one? Like a good ender? Yes. Okay. This one says, my queens, spooky quarantine.
00:02:41
Y'all are amazing. Steven Mustache is the eighth wonder of the world. Yada, yada, yada.
00:02:45
Let's get right into it. They said it like Mustache is Stephen's last name. Stephen Mustache.
00:02:51
Stephen Mustache. He's my favorite art, 80s art band. Yeah. Lead singer. Yeah. I'm from South Bend, Indiana, home of Notre Dame.
00:03:01
But this story takes place in the next town over, Elkhart, Indiana, home of the RV capital
00:03:06
of the world. I really need to get out of this state. That sounds rad. I want an RV.
00:03:11
My boyfriend's family grew up here too, but now his badass aunt lives in LA being a movie producer.
00:03:17
You may have seen her Netflix original documentary, Knock Down the House, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:03:22
When speaking to her recently about my boyfriend's and my passion for true crime, she asked if we had heard of the cold case story of a woman who vanished from her yard in Elkhart in the mid-80s.
00:03:32
We very much had not heard the story, and through her account of it and reading articles I found online, I learned of the heartbreaking and mysterious story of Ada Haradine.
00:03:41
Ada was a 39-year-old mother of two living in an upscale Elkhart neighborhood in 1985.
00:03:46
Every other day when her then 9-year-old son got off the bus, she would be waiting outside of her house for him.
00:03:52
When her son got off the bus that day on May 8th at 3.20 p.m., his mother was not there to greet him, nor was she in the house when he went inside.
00:03:59
The crazy part is that Ada was seen only 10 minutes earlier outside before her son arrived home.
00:04:04
Those 10 minutes will forever be a mystery about what truly happened to Ada and who had the senseless mind to take her away from her family.
00:04:12
Unfortunately, three years later, her remains were found located only 20 miles from her house by a mushroom hunter.
00:04:18
Yes, that's a thing here. She was confirmed to be beaten to death and was identified through her wedding ring that was still found on her all those years later.
00:04:28
Heartbreakingly, her husband passed in 1993 from a brain aneurysm, and her case still remains unsolved to this day.
00:04:35
The case was reopened back in 2013, but no new updates have been discovered. I wish I had more information, but tragically, there may never be an answer to many heartbreaking cold cases in the world,
00:04:45
like the heinous Delphi murders of 2017, which took place only 45 minutes away from my college.
00:04:52
thank you for all that you do and arrest the murders of brianna taylor ssdgm emma i mean i
00:04:58
don't it's it's so uh i don't like cold cases i don't like the idea that a mom disappeared from
00:05:03
her house and no one knows why and her body was found three years later it's the most scary it's
00:05:09
everyone's worst nightmare whether it's your uh you're the mom and your child no longer as a mom
00:05:15
whether it's that you're a child and your mother just one day isn't there i mean it's worse it's
00:05:19
so heartbreaking. I just want we say about every single one, but it's the worst. Okay,
00:05:23
let's see this one. The subject line is haunted lake? Question mark? Question mark? Question mark?
00:05:28
Question mark? Hello, MFM fam. First, thanks to my partner for getting me hooked on this podcast
00:05:33
through quarantine. My hometown story is actually a case from my grandmother's hometown of Union,
00:05:39
South Carolina, which is about 30 miles from my hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.
00:05:44
I grew up visiting the house she grew up in and her stomping grounds. I did research and
00:05:49
want to credit Wikipedia Investigation Discovery the LA Times and my family for originally telling me about the story This is just a shout out episode This is so good They listing their Always list your sources That right Nice
00:06:05
Okay, here we go. On October 25th, 1994, Susan Smith reported her two sons ages two years and 13 months missing,
00:06:14
claiming the black man had carjacked her vehicle over the next nine days. Smith provided vague descriptions
00:06:20
of the alleged black man that stole her car and children. police also noticed inconsistencies in her story.
00:06:26
On November 3rd, 1994, Susan Smith confessed and led police to the exact spot in John D. Long Lake,
00:06:32
where she had rolled her car with both children inside. It's believed that Smith was having an affair with a socialite in town, and he did not want kids, even her kids.
00:06:42
The week before the crime, he sent her a letter ending the affair, citing her children as the reason not to continue.
00:06:48
She claims there was no motive and she was not in a right mind state at the time.
00:06:53
Her defense psychiatrist diagnosed her with dependent personality disorder. She was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of murder in 1995.
00:07:00
She's eligible for parole in 2024. Upon further research, I found that John D. Long Lake is actually a man-made lake named after a former KKK member, Confederate flag supporter and South Carolina state senator.
00:07:12
being located in a heavily Republican town and county. There's still no talk of renaming the lake.
00:07:18
Also, a total of 18 people have died at this lake. Oh, my God. That's a ton. Seven of those deaths occurred two years after the Smith murders
00:07:27
when a family came to visit the lake and newly built memorial for the two boys. Two members of the family were outside of the car when it rolled into the lake.
00:07:36
Is this true? They drowned with the five others that were inside the car while trying to rescue them.
00:07:42
No. When the car was recovered from the lake, it was found to still be in park. Creepy, right?
00:07:50
Is the lake haunted? Does this problematic John D. Long Ghost character preside over the lake, taking lives to the other side?
00:07:57
All questions that have no answers. In the 90s, my mother was fresh out of college, newly married and had two children.
00:08:03
My great grandmother forbade my mother from driving past that lake in their town.
00:08:07
She was worried that my mother would be the next victim. Who knows? Thanks again for all you do.
00:08:11
I begin school for my master's in forensic science in August. And maybe one day you'll be covering a murder case that I analyzed evidence in the lab for.
00:08:19
Best Hunter. Wow. That is tragedy upon tragedy. And actually, I feel like I want to look it up, but I feel like I remember that second drowning.
00:08:32
Stephen, did you look it up? You did Susan Smith, right? You've done it before. No.
00:08:36
Who was the one you did? The one who was laughing? Yeah, this was in 96 is when seven people died when their car rolled down the boat ramp into the lake.
00:08:45
Yes. Holy shit. Okay. Thank you, Stephen. I just wanted to make sure that that wasn't.
00:08:51
I sounded very suspicious when I said that. Oh, you know what? This one was the one where she shot all three of her kids.
00:09:00
That's Diane Downs. That's the one. That's Diane Downs from, I believe, Portland or like the Portland area.
00:09:06
That's one of the first ones I ever did. because that was one of the first Ann Rule books I ever read.
00:09:10
It's so awful. What a horrible, I mean, after that second drowning, I do now remember reading about that second drowning three years later
00:09:20
whenever Hunter said it was and just being like, oh, my fucking God. I don't know about the part that it was still in park, that seems like,
00:09:28
but I mean, any detail about a second horrible group drowning at the same lake is so scary.
00:09:36
How do you go to that lake on a picnic in the summer and just be like, doot, doot, doot?
00:09:41
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't either. I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, everything about this lake sounds like it sucks.
00:09:47
Sorry, Lake. Okay. This is just called Hometown Story. Hi, everyone. Don't want to miss anyone, so this will do.
00:09:56
Thank you. I've never been one to do something like this, but thought this story was too cool not to share.
00:10:01
I was born and raised in the North Jersey town of Morristown, New Jersey. Morristown is a...
00:10:06
New Jersey. What did I say? No, no, no. They just said New Jersey twice in a row.
00:10:10
New Jersey. In the New Jersey town of Morristown, New Jersey. Morristown is a super cute and diverse town with a picturesque town center and lots to
00:10:18
do. This is from the tourism board from Morristown, New Jersey. When growing up in Morristown, the town's rich history is drilled into our brains while
00:10:26
at school. Just a couple of cool facts. Elizabeth Shuler was staying in Morristown when Alexander Hamilton was courting her.
00:10:32
Washington had headquarters here during the Revolutionary War and Peter Dinklage was born here.
00:10:38
Hey, but one historic story that was not taught in school, but we all know is the murder of the Sayre family and subsequent hanging of Antoine LeBlanc.
00:10:49
Antoine LeBlanc was a French immigrant who arrived in Morristown in the mid 19th century.
00:10:54
He was hired by the Sayre family as a handyman, but LeBlanc was from a well to do European family and didn't like his meager work in the US.
00:11:02
I mean, who among us, asshole? Yeah, for real. Only a couple weeks later, he murdered Mr. and Mrs. Sayre as well as their servant, Phoebe.
00:11:10
Then he took any valuables he could with him and frantically ran away, headed towards New York City.
00:11:16
Stupidly, he left a trail of stolen items as he tried to escape. Because of this, the murder scene was quickly discovered and he was found at a tavern in Hackensack, about 30 miles away.
00:11:27
LeBlanc was subsequently tried and sentenced to be hanged. The story gets worse, though.
00:11:31
After being hanged in the town center, might I add, his body was taken to Dr. Canfield's office where they conducted experiments by hooking his body to batteries and trying to resurrect him.
00:11:42
Still gets worse. His skin was then sent to a local tannery where a bunch of wallets, purses, book jackets, etc. were made as keepsakes.
00:11:52
Imagine hearing this story as a child. this all sounds like a tall tale but in the 90s a death mask of his face and wallet made of human skin said to be his was found in a local collector house after his death
00:12:06
I believe it's stored at the police department now. They say that all the, quote, keepsakes are scattered through Morristown and the surrounding area.
00:12:14
Maybe heirlooms kept by longstanding local families. Grandma's dead, everyone. Here's what you get.
00:12:20
And here's a fucking face. You get a people book. of a murderer. Jesus. And then she writes,
00:12:27
and done. Sorry it was so long, but it's such a good murder slash local history slash legend story.
00:12:33
I've been listening to you since the beginning and always get excited to hear new episodes every week.
00:12:37
And I guess I'll do one of these. Stay sexy and don't buy antique wallets at garage sales.
00:12:43
Francisca. Like San Francisco, but without the San and ending with an A. Thank you.
00:12:48
I would have called you Francesca, so I appreciate it. New Jersey. New Jersey like New Jersey
00:12:58
but San Francisco wow that was yeah those ones it's so nice when they're from the 1700s
00:13:07
and we can just go like oh people back then deny that it's happening to this day
00:13:12
but I do think that I'm pretty sure when they say death mask they mean they do a
00:13:19
mold of the face when they're dead not it's not a human face i was just like they skinned his face and no okay no that makes more
00:13:26
sense it's not it's not silence of the lambs uh shrunken head three no no yeah okay i'm pretty
00:13:34
sure please correct me new jersey if i'm wrong everyone in new jersey will let you know
00:13:39
bro from the show last night to this drive why is it never chill because this is our life
00:13:46
backstage on the road it's loud messy real and that's the best part whole crew no plan just moving
00:13:54
good thing nissan builds for that kind of chaos not just test tracks real life scenes late nights
00:14:00
road trips all of it that's why it holds up nissan was ranked number one in initial quality among
00:14:05
mainstream brands by jd power yeah you can tell 2026 nissan rogue built for what really happens
00:14:12
For J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Initial Quality Study Award information, visit jdpower.com slash awards.
00:14:19
Awards based on 2025 model year, newer models may be shown. This is Vaadi Divalukia from A Really Good Cry.
00:14:26
A lot of wellness routines start with motivation and then somewhere between week two and a half-use supplement draw.
00:14:32
Gruens was created to make daily nutrition simpler. Instead of pills or chalky green drinks, Gruens packs over 20 essential vitamins and minerals,
00:14:39
greens and prebiotics into a snack pack of delicious gummies it feels approachable and
00:14:44
not demanding the convenient comprehensive formula supports gut health beauty energy
00:14:49
immunity recovery and cognition in one daily habit groons contains six grams of fiber which
00:14:55
is more than two cups of broccoli and the ingredients in groons are backed by 35 000
00:15:00
research publications which is part of what makes the formula so intentional groons is vegan gluten
00:15:05
free dairy free nut free and made without artificial colors or flavors plus it's methylated
00:15:10
so key nutrients like b12 and folate are informed your body can actually use it's comprehensive
00:15:16
nutrition designed for routines you can actually stick with get up to 52 off with code cry
00:15:22
at grooms.co that's code cry at g-r-u-n-s dot c-o nicks that's k-n-i-x leak-proof underwear isn't
00:15:31
just for one moment, it's for all the everyday moments you didn't realize leak-proof underwear
00:15:36
could make easier. Maybe it's day one of your period. Maybe it's a long travel day. Maybe it's
00:15:42
hot outside. You're on the move and you just want to feel fresh. Their leak-proof underwear comes in
00:15:48
a range of absorbencies, from light to ultra, and helps protect against periods, light leaks, sweat,
00:15:55
and everyday surprises. And because they look and feel like real underwear, they're soft,
00:16:00
invisible under clothes and machine washable. No extra hassle. No complicated routine. Just
00:16:07
dependable protection you can wash and re-wear. See why millions have made the switch to leak-proof
00:16:14
underwear. Visit Nix.com. That's K-N-I-X dot com and use code FLOW15 for 15% off. That's K-N-I-X dot
00:16:23
com code flow 15 okay subject line of this one dump stories for murderinos and treasure hunters
00:16:31
yay dear karen george and steven and menagerie of pets are we still doing dump stories because i
00:16:38
have a pretty good one in the 70s i was a little girl and my dad worked for lnn railroad oh cool
00:16:44
uh in louisville kentucky when they went on strike to make ends meet during the strike he
00:16:50
got a job working at a local dump yes yeah the workers were allowed to take home yeah
00:16:56
sorry that's hilarious just take what you want the workers were allowed to take home anything
00:17:03
that interested them it's like on their on your first day when you're getting when you're going
00:17:07
through yeah walking through and then the boss just gestures across the dump anything of this
00:17:14
is yours gleaming and glittering but it's like not like they're gonna have a lost and found
00:17:18
probably like that makes sense just fucking take it it's already someone's trash throw it out there
00:17:22
yeah exactly whether it's a couch or okay so um but i just like the phrase anything that interested
00:17:28
them and my dad brought home various treasures my favorites were from a school that had been
00:17:34
that was being demolished yes i was three and thrilled to have my very own chalkboard and
00:17:39
school desk that's amazing oh my god remember when you just wanted shit like that as a kid
00:17:43
Like your own real desk. Okay so I think I bragged to you about this before but the first house we lived in in Petaluma on Eucalyptus Avenue there were two small chicken barn things Little chicken coops I trying to say in our side field Yeah And so me and my sister each got our own playhouse So they were like they were probably like six feet tall and then like 15 feet long
00:18:10
Oh my God. Little wooden chicken coops that all the chickens had been cleared out of.
00:18:15
And it was just like whatever you wanted to do in there was fine. That's every kid's dream.
00:18:18
Right? Don't touch the razor wire. Have fun. Try to avoid the rusty nails. But so my dad would come and knock on the door like we would end up playing in one and, you know, whatever.
00:18:30
It was like this is the schoolhouse. This is the house, whatever. And my dad would come and knock on the door and pretend to be a delivery man and just bring us shit to like decorate our houses with.
00:18:40
And one time it was the backseat of his of his Volkswagen bug. So it was like we had a couch all of a sudden.
00:18:45
The coolest. It's that was the best because it also it had this side armrest. Oh, my God.
00:18:50
It was that old of a bug. and then the other time he brought us each our own school desk i don't know where he got them
00:18:56
he may have seen them in like someone else's front driveway or whatever but having our own
00:19:01
school desks at home i don't know what happened it made me go insane it was my favorite favorite
00:19:07
you were spoiled as a kid obviously i was spoiled with garbage just like this person
00:19:12
and their dad chicken coops and garbage spoiled when you live out in the country
00:19:17
This is why Karen is the way she is, is because she was just spoiled. Oh, so much garbage all around me, piled up around my feet like I was the little princess of garbage.
00:19:27
OK. Oh, she said about that school desk, the cool kind with the swivel chair and the top that opened to store your books.
00:19:33
It's the kind we had. I'm talking about. Yes. It's called the dump special. Dad loved history and geography, looking at maps and reading about various places around the world.
00:19:43
He was the only worker who asked to bring home books and was and was teased by his new co-workers for even asking.
00:19:50
Oh, my God. One day he picked up. This is where it gets good. One day he picked up a very heavy box of books that came from an old house and placed it in his truck to go through that evening.
00:20:01
After dinner, he gets the box out of his truck, pulls the books out one by one and starts flipping through them.
00:20:07
When a gold coin drops out of one onto the books. Immediately, my brother claims the coin for his own, and my dad says he can have it but not spend it, explaining coin collecting to us.
00:20:18
He picks up and flips through a few more of the books. Just as my brother and I are about to lose interest in the contents of the box, he picks up the last book and a strange look comes across his face.
00:20:29
It turns out there are at least 50 more gold coins in the bottom of the box. Telling no one what he's found, he goes back to work the next day, heads straight to the area where the contents of the old house were tossed,
00:20:40
and finds three more boxes containing collectible coins. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
00:20:46
It's a full on jackpot. Who threw that away? Like the guy died. And that's that thing when old people start hiding shit around their house
00:20:54
and then they die. Don't tell anybody. He quietly placed them all in his truck and brought them home.
00:21:00
Oh, my God. Over the years, my dad collected many more coins. After my parents divorced in the 90s, he remarried.
00:21:06
And to my knowledge, never sold any of the coins. Dad passed away in 2009 and he left everything to his second wife with instructions to give certain items to my brother and myself.
00:21:15
Dad also collected arrowheads that he found throughout his life while farming and specified that my brother should have those.
00:21:21
He has thousands and once had an archaeologist come to our house who told him his collection was, quote, museum worthy.
00:21:28
Oh, my God. So my brother requested that my stepmom let me have the coin collection.
00:21:34
She claimed that she had not come across any coins and had no idea what he was talking about.
00:21:39
I seriously think she might have donated the damn coins to Goodwill. Oh, no. Oh, it hurt.
00:21:46
I just wanted to know how much they were worth. Yeah, this is like an Antiques Roadshow moment right here that we're being robbed of.
00:21:52
Totally. Dad never put his coins on display, just kept them in ratty old boxes with the books he brought home from the dump,
00:21:58
because he thought if he were ever robbed, no one would look there or steal books.
00:22:03
That's so true. It is. Robbers aren't going to go and steal a bunch of your books.
00:22:08
They're too heavy. Oh, I've been looking for a Confederacy of Dunces. Oh, I hear this is good.
00:22:14
So I guess someone else may have a treasure story about finding dad's coins in a box of
00:22:19
old books at the Goodwill, which kind of tickles me. But I know my dad would be mad as hell.
00:22:24
Ha ha. It's like cute and sweet, but that should have been your fucking moment. Yeah.
00:22:28
And also just love to find out what the worth of those coins are. Love and peace to you all.
00:22:33
Bridget, Louisville, Kentucky. So anyone in the greater Kentucky area, if you've ever found gold coins in a box at the
00:22:41
Goodwill. Don't tell anyone. Keep that shit to yourself. You do not write in. Finders keepers.
00:22:46
It's M-Y-O-B. Don't say a word. That is fucking great. That was great. We're going to need more like that.
00:22:54
OK, this is my last one. It's not it's not happy. Okay, this one just says, buckle up, ladies.
00:23:00
This is fucked up. Nice. I was in my mid-twenties, single and living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:23:05
I was casually dating on OkCupid. That is tragic in and of itself. No, it's not.
00:23:11
You do you. And I met a guy named Brady. We talked for a few weeks and other than being a little overtly sexual,
00:23:19
he seemed cool. Oh, my God. Red flag. I mean, hey. But again, there you are. again though you are on ok cupid right so it's hard to red flag a thing that's what you kind of
00:23:34
showed up at least to be in the ballpark of yeah and like you have to go in expecting a couple
00:23:38
redder flags than you would have if someone set you up with someone right like definitely i would
00:23:43
love to know the the the how quickly this guy became sexual if it was immediately like
00:23:49
the shocker fingers where you're like, hey, bro, dial it down. Oh, the doctor's shocker.
00:23:57
Remember when that, like, every school student did that in pictures and it was all like, no, I remember look it up. We're not
00:24:05
fucking telling you what it is. If you don't know, this is very early blog, mid 2000s, where it was
00:24:10
like, I remember being a horrified late 20s person going, look at these teens doing the shocker.
00:24:16
That's so disturbing. Oh, my God. We're so prude, except we're a little overly sexual.
00:24:22
Yeah. Okay. We're hiding it. We're trying to hide our over sexuality. Everybody is a little
00:24:27
overtly sexual on the internet, right? Yes, that's what we're saying. I was a little naive at the
00:24:34
time and didn't think anything of it. Anyway, we eventually decide to meet. We meet for lunch at a
00:24:38
little Italian restaurant in my neighborhood. And from the get go, I was creeped out. There was no
00:24:43
definitive reason why he was nice, looked just like his pictures and was generally an okay seeming guy.
00:24:49
But I just had a feeling. After lunch, he invited me to go for a drive to quote someplace peaceful.
00:24:56
And because I apparently have zero instincts for self-preservation, I went along.
00:25:00
We end up at this isolated spot by the river in a part of town I was unfamiliar with.
00:25:06
I still had this nagging feeling that something was off about him. I finally got up the courage to tell him I needed to go home because I left my oven on.
00:25:15
I swear this is the excuse I use. What the fuck, self? It's not the worst. No, I think there's an element of immediacy to that excuse.
00:25:25
Right. But it's also very benign. So it's not going to get a true creep angry. There's nothing
00:25:29
you can do about it. Totally. And it sounds so fake that it why would you pretend like why would
00:25:35
you lie about that? I would I bet that person's acting was on point in that moment when they had
00:25:40
to deliver that line. And I bet this guy was used to people being creeped out by him. So he didn't
00:25:45
think anything of it. Because you know what I was just thinking is what dude on a first OKCupid date
00:25:51
is like, let me drive you to an isolated location. Right. That's it. It's on him to not be that creepy.
00:25:57
Totally. Like, it's not on you to be trust trusting. It's not. You don't have to extend yourself that far when he's not even being standard.
00:26:06
Wait until three dates. Polite. Disrespectful. Totally. It is. It's weird. Well, listen to this, because he reluctantly took me home.
00:26:16
I told him later that I wasn't interested in dating him anymore. And he was super shitty about it.
00:26:21
I got irate messages about what a stupid whore I was and how I'd never find anybody as great as him.
00:26:28
So sounds great. Sounds great. Yeah. I remember being scared at the time, but eventually the message stopped.
00:26:32
Messages stopped and I forgot. Fucking. That's so terrifying when you're in the middle of that, man.
00:26:36
Yeah. Fast forward a couple of years and a friend sends me a news article about a man who was recently arrested for killing and beheading a man and his pregnant girlfriend before leading police on a chase and eventually killing himself When I saw the name and photo I recognized Brady immediately and was physically sick
00:26:57
This was the creepy guy I went on a date with a few years previously. In fact, at least one of the photos featured in the article had also been used by Brady in his dating profile.
00:27:06
Oh my God. Yeah. This still gives me chills and I had to get up halfway through writing this to
00:27:12
make sure my door is locked. Thankfully, I moved away from Michigan and found a guy that I'm
00:27:16
significantly more confident is not a murderer. Sounds like love. Stay sexy and don't get murdered
00:27:22
in Michigan, Lauren. Hey, Lauren, I just want to say this. You were trying to give your instincts
00:27:27
shit at the beginning of this. Your instincts were spot on and you got yourself home and you
00:27:31
got yourself safe. Do not in any way beat yourself up for that. That was you getting you out of that
00:27:37
situation. You should be proud of yourself and your instincts. Not that, you know, yeah, it's
00:27:41
You can't out instinct a fucking serial killer, but yeah, but you follow your tour.
00:27:48
You followed your intuition and trust that subconscious that serves up the ovens on excuse.
00:27:55
It's so perfect. Yeah, I have explosive diarrhea is a good excuse that you can do.
00:28:01
But then you'd have to prove it. That's when a nice portrait mode picture comes in.
00:28:10
And it's nice to have one saved on your camera. It doesn't have to be yours. That's right.
00:28:14
That's disgusting. Yeah, you can do a Getty image. Pay that $150. Get the Getty watermark out of there first.
00:28:22
Yes. Lasties. Great. The subject line here is, well, I think the subject line gives it away, so I'll just read it.
00:28:28
Hi, friends. Hi. I think you're all so inspiring and wonderful and hope you are staying safe and sane.
00:28:35
Anyway, let's get to it. This is long, but I think it's worth it. Great. A little backstory. I was born on spooky Halloween.
00:28:45
So stupid. I hope Christy Ward is happy that we say that so much. That's hers. Not as hers. And ever since I was little, I would have dreams of loved ones I never met.
00:28:58
Dreams of things happening before they happened and a strong connection to the quote unquote other side.
00:29:03
My grandpa died when I was a senior in high school and he was like my second father and we were always super close.
00:29:09
I was going out of town the weekend that he died and as I was rushing to get my things together
00:29:13
I had an overwhelming feeling I needed to go see him I called and called and no one answered and I was running late for my flight
00:29:20
Well, I never got to see him and he passed that weekend. It's a guilt. I always carry with me
00:29:25
When he died my grandma really struggled and was about to give up altogether About a year later I had this vivid dream of him in the dream I was walking up to their house All the doors and windows were open and there was a bright light coming from inside There was a breeze and I could hear wind chimes truly heavenly I walked into the home and he was sitting in his favorite chair calm as can be
00:29:47
He looked up at me and smiled and said, when you wake up, I need you to check on your grandma.
00:29:53
I can never keep her out of trouble. He told me he loved me and then I woke up. The following morning, I called and called my grandma and she didn't answer.
00:30:02
I drove straight over to her house, knocked on the door, no answer. Normally, I would have left, assumed she was out.
00:30:08
But because of the dream, I started to panic. I went around the back, hopped the fence, only to find that she had fallen on the patio and was trying to crawl back inside.
00:30:18
She had broken her hip in two places. Who knows what would have happened or how long it would have taken someone to find her if my grandpa had not visited me in my dream.
00:30:27
My grandma made a full recovery after and her accident made her realize that she still has more life to live.
00:30:33
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Yes, we did. Stay sexy and find someone who loves you and find someone whose love for you carries on after death.
00:30:45
Madison, come on. One of the all time greats. That was gorgeous, Madison. I can never keep her out of trouble.
00:30:56
That's what got me. I feel like Vince would say that about me. Yeah, for real. And also that he's like, that's such a weird dream where he's all calm.
00:31:05
He's just there not to freak you out, just to deliver a message. And to do it in a calming place that makes her feel like it's familiar, it's calming, says I love you at the end.
00:31:15
Yeah. And also what a lovely like that Madison was bummed that she missed him before he died.
00:31:21
And, you know, that's a regret so many people carry with them. It's a decision. Yeah, people that like are like, oh, I'm going on this trip, but I'll see you soon. And it's people that they know they'll see again. And if they're wrong about that, then they don't they just they have the grief of the death. And then they also have this regret as if that was something they were supposed to be able to anticipate, which is, again, don't do it to yourself.
00:31:42
That's part of my anxiety. I feel like I have very meaningful goodbyes with anyone I talk to because I'm like, my anxiety is that you're going to die. So I have to make sure I have that moment.
00:31:56
Good. Whatever what. Yeah. But then it just makes me not sleep at night. So it's not positive.
00:32:01
Right. Well, yeah, you're going to have to curb it at some point because you have to, if you're going to do it, then you have to get the credit of having done it. Like you're actually being very considerate.
00:32:10
Yeah. And when it does, you'll be three steps ahead of the game. That's what it's all about.
00:32:17
That's it. Yeah. Nice batch this time, guys. Great job, guys. Send us your fucking letters.
00:32:22
I love reading them every week when we get to pick them out It so fun Gold coins and the dumps Are you kidding me That is the stuff life made of Treasure Treasure Please send us your treasure found
00:32:35
stuff. Anything that you're interested in, please come to our dumps and pick it up or drop it off.
00:32:40
How about family, weird family heirlooms, like a face, like a death mask? Sure. Tell us about that.
00:32:45
We want to hear that. Absolutely. Any anything like that. Anything found in a in a dead relative's
00:32:51
house that they forgot to there's nothing better than it used to be back when there was the world
00:32:58
was normal every once in a while there would be that story of like people donating a couch and
00:33:03
it's filled with cash that one yeah i just those are my favorite it's the best nothing better uh
00:33:08
my favorite murder at gmail or on our website myfavoritemurder.com thank you guys so much
00:33:12
for listening and stay sexy and don't get murdered elvis you want a cookie bro from the show last night to this drive why is it never chill because this is our life
00:33:24
backstage on the road it's loud messy real and that's the best part whole crew no plan just
00:33:32
moving good thing nissan builds for that kind of chaos not just test tracks real life scenes
00:33:37
late nights road trips all of it that's why it holds up nissan was ranked number one in initial
00:33:43
quality among mainstream brands by J.D. Power. Yeah, you can tell. 2026 Nissan Rogue built for
00:33:50
what really happens. For J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Initial Quality Study Award information, visit
00:33:55
jdpower.com slash awards. Awards based on 2025 model year, newer models may be shown.
00:34:01
Running a business shouldn't feel like surviving a software group project. One app for accounting,
00:34:07
another for inventory, another for sales, and somehow none of them talk to each other.
00:34:12
That's where Odoo comes in, an all-in-one business management software that brings every part of your business together.
00:34:19
From sales and accounting to inventory and marketing, all in one powerful platform.
00:34:25
No messy integrations, no bouncing between tabs. And best of all, no spreadsheets.
00:34:31
Stop managing software and start managing your business with one unified system.
00:34:36
Try for free today at odoo.com slash iHeartRadio. That's O-D-O-O-O dot com slash iHeartRadio.
00:34:44
Here's the truth. You could literally be adored by everyone and then come home and still get completely ignored by your own cat.
00:34:50
It's classic cat behavior. But new Shiba Premium Puree is a lickable treat that changes all that.
00:34:57
They're protein-rich, made with bone broth, and have the smooth, creamy texture cats go crazy for, especially when it's hand-fed.
00:35:04
Yeah, it's more than a treat. It's a fast pass to favorite human status. So feed your cat Sheba and go from totally ignored to truly adored in just 12 days, guaranteed, or your money back.
00:35:15
Learn more at Sheba.com.