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Data accurate as of two 2026. Hello! Hi! And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The menjusod. That's right. That's my new accent. I love it.
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Thanks, it's from Sweden. The Swedes know what I'm talking about. That's right, they understood what this is. They got it immediately. We're about to
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read some of your emails that you've sent to us at myfavoritemurderatgmail.biz. That's right, and you send us emails about all kinds of topics. We'd like to make
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a public call for hometown murder stories again just because we've gone in such weird directions
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at this point we've asked people about for things for stories about things that uh are now almost
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have nothing to do with true crime right so close your eyes think of your childhood or whatever
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high school college and this like thing that shook your town yeah you know everyone like true crime
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thing that shook your town. Yeah. Tell us about it with your heart and like how, you know, we want
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to know the details. And if your grandma's in there, it's a bonus, but she doesn't have to be.
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Yeah. Or if it happened when your grandma was a girl. Yes. We love those two about it. Family
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lore, but true crime based. Right. We just want to just a reminder that that's also what we want.
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We still love that your little sister stabbed you in the face when you're five. God,
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I'll tell that story every day. Exactly. We love it. So don't stop those. We want to do it all,
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but we also want to make sure people still send us their hometowns. You get it. Well, let's go over it one more time.
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Okay. You go first. Okay. Hello to my Queens, furry friends and Steven. Yeah. Let's get to it.
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And then she put an asterisk. I changed names out of respect for victims. Amen. And she did,
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which is great. I also pulled out a detail she left in because I think it's very indicative.
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So it's almost, I changed another name, but not of a person. Got it. The name of a word. The name of a sentence.
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I name words. It's easier. Back in my 20s, I worked at a TV network where I helped produce all of the horribly wonderful countdown shows that you only really watched when you were hungover. While working there, I made friends with a guy named Henry. Whenever anyone in the company needed anything, you always called him. He was a very popular, charming, and good-looking man. Anyway, he became romantically involved with a co-worker of mine. We'll call her Jenny.
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It was under the radar for a while, but after a few months, they decided to dot dot dot get married.
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What? Red flag in all caps. Oh, with an exclamation point. Yeah. And the news of their marital bliss was the talk of our office.
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Cut to six months later. They were separated and Jenny moves in with her sister, Anna, who was also a co-worker.
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One day shortly after their breakup, I'm leaving work to get into an elevator with him.
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We have some small chit chat. I ask him what he's up to that night. He says not much.
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The elevator doors open. I say have a great night and then I'll see him tomorrow.
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Oh, God. Except I don't see him tomorrow. That night, he goes over to his sister-in-law's house where Jenny is staying to bring her a few things she had left after she moved out.
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Jenny invites him in. They have some wine. They're actually getting along well until they don't.
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A few hours later, they start to argue and he becomes enraged. He pulls out a knife and starts stabbing her.
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13 times to be exact Jenny's sister Anna hears the screams She runs to her sister's room
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Where she sees Henry Stabbing her Anna tries to stop him but he turns towards her
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And starts to strangle her Anna is able to kick herself free And gets away but he chases her
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Down the stairs and starts stabbing her With broken wine glass Anna manages to grab the wine glass during the struggle and this badass bitch stabbed Henry in the nuts twice
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Steven just had a physical reaction. Anna runs out of the house where he keeps chasing her.
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She's able to make it to the neighbor's house safely. Henry stops in the driveway and stabs himself in the chest and slits his wrist.
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Oh my God. god a detective at the scene said it was the bloodiest crime scene he'd ever seen in his 30
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years on the job and that's in los angeles holy shit jenny died at the scene anna her sister
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survived henry didn't stab himself deep enough no of course and was convicted of second degree
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murder and involuntary manslaughter and received 21.5 years to life in prison that's it that's not
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enough everyone it's a murder yeah yeah uh it's still hard to shake that i actually knew know a
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murderer and someone that's been murdered uh stay sexy and be careful of office romances
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and then she wrote uh see mom dating in la really does oh amen and that's from s oh my god okay
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that's i love that we just called for this thing and then it's like well here's one now oh yeah
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that's the most intense one well that's awful yeah wow it's crazy that she saw him that night
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I mean, that day on the elevator. Right. And also, it's like, I think we picture, you know, I was just reading a thing on Twitter
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and they were talking about things to do if like a man approaches you and kind of won't
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leave you alone and like different strategy and stuff like that, which is very cool.
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And then someone else retreated it and wrote, but please remember that the danger, the largest
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percentage of danger comes from people, you know, and it's like, I think that's, it's
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fine to cite but it's like but that's a thing that what's happening here i think is like no one
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would expect it right these are these are like these crimes of passion these things that like
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yeah and or it's like this guy is my co-worker he can hold a job he's sane he's normal he's in
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an office with me he does a good job therefore he wouldn't hurt anybody right yeah i think that's
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the just don't the secret is to not trust anyone okay right no matter where they work not going to
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read you the subject, but it does start similarly to yours. Hey, Queens, cats, and mustache. Wow.
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Everyone's getting it down to a science. That's right. My dad recently reminded me of a murder
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scene he found in his town with his grandpa. My dad said when he was about 10, he was coming home
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from visiting his grandpa in Hump Tulips, Washington. Spell that please. H-U-M-P, then the word tulips.
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Hump tulips. And then it says, yes, that's a real place. second only to sprankers new york he came across a car wreck and a man sitting on the side of the
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road being a small town in the middle of nowhere they got out and helped the man get a hold of
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the police and a tow truck the man said he was driving with his wife and child in the car and
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they had died on impact the cops came and didn't ask them any questions besides asking if the man
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had anything to drink he let the tow truck take the car away all caps with the bodies inside
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What? Yeah. Old timey small town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seemed like an open and shut case of driving on a dark road in the mow of nowhere and missing
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a deer. But my dad said that night stuck with him and his grandpa for a long time because what
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woman in 1960s leaves the house naked? No. My dad said he even mentioned it was odd to the police, but small town cops suck.
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Well, 30 years. Careful. I know. well 30 years later the husband comes forward and said he murdered his wife and child that night
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put them in the car and tried to kill himself by crashing the car the small town cops never
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thought a family man would murder his wife and young child so they never looked into the
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further into the case anyway stay sexy and don't get murdered p.s accounting is boring
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I would know because I am one cat. Oh, that's awful. When you said what what woman drives naked, I just got this chill where it's just like something ain't right.
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Yeah. I mean, like, you know, for a fact, something's not right. Why would why in God's name would that woman be naked in a car?
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Totally. That's horrible. Ask one question, please. Please just ask a couple questions.
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Just a couple. This starts. What's the crake? So this is from Ireland. Okay. Hey, ladies. And I don't know if I'm saying crake, right? Of course, but that's what it looks like. But I've seen it written when we were over there. Yeah, I guess it's slang. Okay, grandma. This is not a murder, but a hilarious story from one of my grandmother's friends.
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Love it. Look, that's also what this show is. We all need it right now after those first two stories.
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Right? Please. I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and my mom has told me this story many times throughout my life, and it's probably one of my faves.
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So back in the 70s, times were hard due to the troubles. A lot of women didn't work.
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My grandma's friend, let's call her Sally, was a single mother, and times were hard.
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So she decided, you guessed it, to turn to selling her services for a bit of the extra money.
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Oh, I put the duh in there. For a bit of extra money. She was approached by a man with an odd request in the south of the city.
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We're from the, in parentheses, we're from the north, so a couple miles away. He has asked her to wear a shroud, yes, a funeral one, and get into a coffin.
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Oh, no. As it's for a bit of cash and money is tight, she agrees. Why not? Yeah.
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Then he tries to put the lid on the coffin. And Sally freaks out and bolts out of the house and runs down the main road in this funeral shroud.
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Fair to say she got a few horrified looks along the way. Thank you for making me feel less lonely in the true crime world.
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Please add Belfast to your next UK and Ireland tour. I would love to see you guys.
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Stay sexy and don't get in a coffin wearing a funeral shroud when alive. Linz. What exactly is a funeral shroud?
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It the veil that you put over the face Okay I believe That what I thought okay you know i sure it another word for t over there could be anything how do i know how would you know how
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really would i know that's terrifying funeral shroud or is it no shroud of turn was the full
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body yeah she was basically like wrapped up like a mummy steven's nodding he's looking at it's a
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funeral i just pictured a lacy black veil but i don't think that's what it is no no no oh steven's
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Oh, it's like, it's like a. Oh, it's she. Okay. He asked her, based on the picture Stephen just brought up, to be wrapped up.
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Yeah. In like sheets, essentially. In sheets, full covered, head to toe. Yeah. And so she's running down the street.
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She's basically running down the street like a mummy. That's what, that's the part that threw me off.
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Because I was like, so what? It's just a. Okay. No, that's a lot worse. You know, we really put the context clues together in this.
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We asked the internet. Yeah. As we're learning and growing. It says this bamboo burial shroud is $2.99 on FuneralDirect.com.
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Oh, wow. So, like, they're expensive. Get a bamboo one. Be organic. It essentially, guys, looks like a funeral shroud looks like what a body is in sometimes if there's a burial at sea.
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Yeah. Where the body is wrapped like that. So, basically, this woman was running up the street like a mummy.
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Guys, we figured it out. God bless everybody. Hey, y'all. Hey. Hi, y'all. Hi. Hey, y'all.
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When I was 16, my mom and I lived in a house in the middle of nowhere. It's normally pretty quiet.
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One night, about 2 a.m., I noticed a light outside my bedroom window and realized there was somebody in our backyard with a flashlight.
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I got nervous and went to get my mom, but when I left my room and walked down the hall, I spotted her crouching in the kitchen and frantically gesturing for me to be quiet.
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She had seen the light, too. We waited for what felt like 10 minutes as the light appeared in every window as the person outside walked around the house.
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Finally, somebody knocked on the door and my mom peeked out the curtains, gave me a look and then opened the door.
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It was a police officer. He told my mom that they had received a phone call from our home phone, but nothing was said, only heavy breathing.
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They thought someone had broken in and we were trying to keep from alerting an intruder.
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My mom told them that was impossible because we did not have a phone line at the time.
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And besides, it was just her and me in the house. Eventually, the cop left and we went back to bed.
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I don't like this at all. The next morning, however, we opened the living room curtains and nearly had a heart attack
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as on the window were two handprints as if someone had been trying to look through the window.
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What? Yeah. Parentheses hands? Parentheses hands next to your face. Around your eyes.
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Okay. Over the next six months, my mom and me would routinely come home to find all the lights on, our dressers and medicine cabinets emptied, wall decorations taken off the wall and on the other side of the room.
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And once I came home from a date and found every light on and every door open. What?
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Including the front and back doors. Everybody. Yeah. Run. I had to beg a friend to come check the house with me because I was too afraid to go in.
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Then, as suddenly as it started, it all stopped. My mom thinks it was a married woman my mom's ex-boyfriend had been cheating with that had been harassing my mom's phone for over a year.
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Oh, no. My mom had physical evidence of the affair that she was holding onto for safekeeping and blackmail.
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And she believed the woman was waiting until we were gone and trying to find it and never did.
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But wanted us to know she was watching. Yeah. To this day, I still get nervous visiting my mom overnight because I'm worried that this mysterious intruder will come back.
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Stay sexy and don't let weirdo women follow you home. Oh. And there's no name. Wow.
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How, like, it's harassment and terrifying. also the visual I had in my head of walking into like seeing something scary and then trying to
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figure out what's going on walking into the kitchen see your mom crouched down and show you
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like making gestures to be quiet is like such a panic moment what scared me more was walking
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getting into the house and all the lights are on and the doors are open yeah that's that's just like
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and true love for quote your people, i.e. murderinos. I was listening to the Hallmark
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Perf story and it took me back to my retail management days. I worked in a store called
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Garden Botan... Sorry. I worked in a store called Garden Botanalia. No. And then in parentheses,
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it was like bath and body. Our uniform was a company shirt and we were allowed to wear any
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bottoms as long as they were black. So you just go crazy in those retail jobs. Be yourself.
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We often wore black tights and a cute little skirt just in case any cuties came into the store.
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Well, we often did attract cuties, but there was this one time we attracted a super perv who loved
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feet, especially in black tights. And he loved to call the shop and tell us how much he
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loved our feet and what he'd like to do with them. What the fuck, man? For real. Like,
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Have that perversion all you want. Keep it to yourself. Don't share it with the world.
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Nobody asked. Yeah. Okay. Parentheses. Oh, just at the end of that sentence, she wrote, yeah, she wrote, insert drive heave here.
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The girls would tell me about his calls and it went on for a couple months, but I never,
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I had never answered the phone when he would call. Finally, I got his call and I was so ready for him.
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He went on with his perv talk and finally asked me, would you like that? I replied in a super sexy voice.
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I heard a quick gasp and the line went dead. And that is how we got rid of the super perv who loved feet.
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Yes. Stay sexy. And remember, there are two ways to talk dirty. Beth. I love it.
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She solved that problem. That's so good. Garden Botanalia. You've never had a better store manager than Beth.
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Amen. Okay. Last one. Hey, MFM crew. Hey. Then it starts, we're in it. We're in it. Last episode, Georgia read the hometown about the girl getting stabbed in the face by her sister, and Karen talked about how kids do things just to see what happens.
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Well, as a lifeguard for five years, I can definitely attest to that. I worked at a private summer camp in Connecticut where the schedule would allow each camp group to come into the pool for an hour a day.
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The kids would come over in shifts and regroup by age, blah, blah, blah. Well, in the four-year-old group, there was often quite a few kids who weren't strong swimmers.
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They would stand the shallow end of the pool and usually just sit on the stairs with their legs in the water.
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This included one four-year-old boy by the name of Logan. Now, Logan was an interesting kid who, despite being four, had the personality of an 80-year-old man.
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Cute! he asked a million questions about what it was like to be a lifeguard and often took it upon
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just to see what would happen and that's in quotes just to see what would happen yeah oh
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logan since he himself couldn't swim he was curious as to what would actually happen
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if you ended up in over your head and on many occasions we had to ban him from the swimming
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pool for attempted drownings. Oh, no. As fate would have it, karma came for him when one day as he was walking around the edge of
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the pool, he fell in himself, sinking like a rock to the bottom. I quickly jumped in and pulled him out.
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And he was so shocked that all he kept repeating was, I drowned and you came in after me and
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pulled me up. I drowned. I drowned. Oh, no. Now Logan was only under the water for approximately three seconds.
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So we had to assure his mother at the end of the day that he did not, in fact, drown.
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Needless to say, he never pushed another kid in the pool after that. Yeah, he learned.
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That's right. Stay sexy and teach your kids to swim before sending them to camp with a pool.
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Jill. Oh, Logan. Well, Logan. I mean, I know that people would interpret that as that he was a homicidal child.
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Right. But I absolutely get that. He was just curious. He wanted to see what it would look like if he fell in.
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Right. How scary that would be. what would happen to his body. I'm going to try this on other people before I attempt it.
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They're fine. I don't want it to happen to me, though. Real people don't have feelings.
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At this point, I would just like to make this note. Yeah. My sister says this all the time because she is a grammar school teacher.
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She one time at a end of school, a school year party at the public pool, was standing around and looked down and there was just a kid at the bottom of the pool.
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Oh, my gosh. And fully dressed, my sister dove in and pulled this kid out. Which is, if you know my sister, my sister brought hot rollers to Ireland.
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She is all about outfits, getting ready, being ready. She doesn't want to dive into the pool for any reason.
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So when she told me that story, I was blown out. But just remember, when children drown, it makes no noise.
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Yeah. There's no splashing. It just is silent and quick. So I just think that's a very interesting detail.
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That's a great warning. As summer is right around the corner. all eyes and aware.
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And also, if there's a Logan in the mix, then you really got to keep your eyes open.
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Keep your kid away from Logan. That's our advice to you. Send us your stories. MyFavoriteMurder at gmail.com.
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