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MFM Minisode 158

January 20, 2020 /

This mini-sode of My Favorite Murder features stories about true crime, urban myths, and personal experiences related to murder and survival. Key discussions include a chilling encounter with Paul Bernardo, a murder mystery involving a cannery worker, and a bizarre theft at a Burger Chef.

One listener shares a story about a friend who narrowly escaped becoming a victim of Paul Bernardo, the infamous Scarborough rapist. The friend unknowingly interacted with him at a bar, and her life was saved when she moved out just before he planned to attack.

Another story recounts a murder at an Alaskan cannery, where a body was found in a cold storage area, leading to dark humor about the situation. The storyteller humorously reflects on the absurdity of playing basketball near a body bag.

A listener recounts the unsettling experience of discovering that their college landlord was a convicted murderer, revealing the bizarre circumstances surrounding the crime and the landlord's subsequent life.

The episode wraps up with a lighthearted tale of a child stealing a straw dispenser from a Burger Chef, showcasing the humorous side of unexpected situations in everyday life.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling true crime stories and bizarre experiences, including encounters with notorious criminals and strange thefts.

Episode

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Data accurate as of 2020-26. Hello! And welcome! To My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode.
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We're bringing it at you. Your letters, your stories, your urban myths passed down to us and read back to you.
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In your face! Into your face for the year 2020. That's right. Go. First one. Okay.
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No subject line because apparently the website doesn't take it anymore. That's right.
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hi for your friends and also the hosts of the show when i was in 10th grade we had a sex ed
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class once a week during our gym period and during our discussions sorry i just lost my place
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immediately and during our discussions we got into the topic of consent and rape this is when
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our gym teacher shared the following story with us that still gives me chills to this day
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she had a close friend during university who worked at a local bar um she had big red curly
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hair and a personality to match, so she made friends with the patrons really easily.
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She had one guy that came in somewhat regularly who she would talk to often and tell him how
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her classes were going and just other small talk. He was handsome and charming and always tipped well, so of course she never turned down a
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chat. Just by chance, in all their talks, she never happened to mention to this man that she was
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planning on quitting her bar job and moving into her boyfriend's place across the city,
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and this is what saved her life. Because it turns out that man was Paul Bernardo.
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Shut your mouth, face. He had found out where her parents' house was that she was living in at the time
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and would watch her for weeks from the window and videotape her in her room. Holy fuck.
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He wrote in his journals about her, referring to her as, quote, Big Red, and this is eventually how she found out she was one of his potential victims
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because this is how he would often greet her when he would come in. Oh, my God. We're talking the Scarborough rapist.
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We're talking the Ken and Barbie killer. Paul Bernardo, the worst thing to come out of Canada
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since some band that could be a funny reference right here that's Canadian. The night he planned to attack her happened to be the day after she moved out,
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so she never came home to her parents that night, therefore saving her life. Bernardo was caught pretty soon after, I believe,
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and that's when she went to the police after recognizing him on the news, and they put the pieces together.
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She even had to watch some of the videos he took of her just to confirm it was in fact her.
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God. How unnerving would that be? Yeah, you'll never feel safe again. I learned about your podcast
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from a popular influencer and fan. Shout out Dr. Pepper Princess. Who's that? I'm going to follow them right now.
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Oh wait, someone's calling me. Why is someone calling me? Is it the Dr. Pepper Princess? Oh my god, what if it's the
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Dr. Princess? Ask her if she heats up her Dr. Pepper around the holidays and makes
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hot toddies out of Dr. Pepper. Let me see. Dr. Pepper Princess. Alright, here she is.
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Oh yeah, she's a murderino. And an influencer? Probably too. Sure. Yeah. Thanks, Dr. Pepper Princess.
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And I have been hooked ever since. Thanks for helping me get through my workday and make my boyfriend occasionally think I'm plotting his murder.
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So, yeah, stay sexy and don't make friends with serial killers just because they tip you well.
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Amethyst. That was excellent. That was incredible. Excellent, Amethyst. Good job.
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Good job. This is what we like. This is the stuff. All of my stories today are written really well.
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Beautiful. I mean, every single one I've written, not even the ones I'm doing. So, good job, you guys.
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keep it up everybody's everybody's on doing their it's peak performance time everyone's writing like
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in their actual voice which i like yes totally we love that okay ready yes okay this is called lighthearted but it creeped out alex trebek
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yo in episode 204 you mentioned working in alaska canneries as a way to get quick dollars and or get
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away from the messes you have made my brother and i and many of our friends paid for college
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by working at a cannery on the Alaska Peninsula in the late 80s and early 90s. There are no towns just 120 people on the edge of the Bering Sea And so many stories but this is the murderiest one One of the years I was up there there was a storm and the fishing boats couldn go out to fish so they were in port doing drugs being horny and starting fights Sure Cannery workers and fishermen did not
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socialize. We preferred Crown Royal to meth and not being assaulted to being assaulted.
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Sure. But one of the methed up fishermen somehow got into one of our parties and proceeded to
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aggressively hit on all the women and used a modified lighter to try to light up the walls
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on fire. Okay. That's not how you party. Nope. The scariest of the cannery dudes,
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he was rumored to be an actual crip from LA, hiding out in the wilds of Alaska and I can totally believe that,
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started to escort this asshat back to his boat. The would-be arsonist. I'm sorry, just really quick.
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Whoever is going to write the movie about the crip that goes up to the Alaskan cannery and I guess that's me. That's what
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I'm volunteering for right now. That's what you were. You just found your life's goal, your life's vision.
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God, damn it. I'm going to have to pull some other people and so somebody can write accurately to the Crips lifestyle.
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Sure, sure. Oh, my God, that would be the funniest fucking movie of all time. That's right.
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And then he turns into this hero because people are just like, uh. Well, wait. Oh.
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Oh, no. There's more. Shit. No, no, no, no. Well, maybe. Okay. The would-be arsonist's body was found at low tide.
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Oh, no. He had been squished between two boats that were rafted up to each other.
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Was he pushed? Did he fall? The Alaska State Police sent an officer out to investigate,
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but the weather delayed his arrival for several days. The plant managers didn't want to put the dead guy in the blast freezer
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because that might contaminate any eventual autopsy. So they put him in our general cold storage warehouse.
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That was not quite as cold. It was also where our basketball hoop and ping pong tables were.
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Oh, no. So there was this body bag. We kept them on for eventualities. Sure. Amazing.
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Yeah. What if your job just kept body bags for just in case? It's just part of it.
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For eventual things that eventually happen. That should go into the initial want ad.
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It's 100% right. It's one of those body bag jobs. It was against a wall, and the ping pong balls kept ending up between him and the wall, and no one wanted to go get them.
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Oh, no. So after a day or so, we had to switch to basketball when we ran out of ping pong balls.
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The basketball would bounce off the guy and roll back to us. I will never forget the sound a basketball makes when it bounces off a partially frozen person.
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eventually the state police officer arrived and interviewed lots of us and basically came to the
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conclusion that whatever had happened the guy probably had it coming huh wow it says huh i was
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on jeopardy in 2005 and this was the quote cute story i told alex trebek when they do the
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introductions he was appalled also during the game the prompt was a nickname for a private detective
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and i got a buzz in and proudly say what is a dick alex i've had a great isn't that the answer
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Yeah. They weren't wrong. Yeah. Okay. I've had just the fact that you get to say those words.
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Got it. I've had a great and interesting life, but that's probably the high point.
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Stay sexy and don't let death interfere with your basketball. And if you get a chance to say dick on national TV, you should definitely do it.
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You should definitely do it. Stephanie. Stephanie. Wow. That is a rich, rich story.
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A menagerie. But I really could see that person falling between boats and like being such a weird way to die.
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that's a weird way to kill someone else if that person and I bet you if they thought he was a
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that they're putting that on him because they're like oh he's a gangster it's also like would the guy have walked him
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back to his boat or just out of the party right he's not like get out of here this isn't he's not a total gentleman
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he's not about he's not making sure he gets home safe he's not trying to court him
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he's just like get the fuck out of here all the way out and then the guy fell into the water that's what I'm going with
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because I don't want the Crips to be mad at us. Who does? In this day and age, you've got to not piss off the Crips.
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It's important to... Okay, how about this one? Oh, this has a subject line. My landlord from college was a convicted murderer.
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Fun. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and furry friends. Okay. My hometown is from San Francisco, at Karen.
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However, the actual murder takes place in Rattlesnake Canyon, New Mexico. But let me backtrack a bit.
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I went to school at the University of San Francisco, and for three of my four years, I lived in a second-story apartment with three other girls a few blocks from campus.
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We had two landlords, one of whom constantly raised our rent. Gotta love Bay Area real estate.
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This story's about him. Eventually, we all graduated, moved out, and went our separate ways.
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Flash forward to a couple years later, and I'm working my boring desk job listening to another true crime podcast when they suddenly mention a case of a, quote, mercy killing,
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and mention the name of my mean college apartment landlord. This dude has a very specific name.
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Humperding. Bowenacky. Bob Jones. He has a very specific name, and it took half a second and one Google search to find out
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that my ex-landlord killed his best friend while they were stranded in the desert.
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Oh, I almost did this story. For real? Yes. This is nutso. I mean, you should still do it.
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Should I? Well, I'm about to tell you something. I know. Fuck. Apparently. You got to get on it.
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I fucking know. It's so crazy. Apparently, the two were road tripping from Boston to California in 1999 when they decided to camp out.
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The problem, they only brought three pints of water, one pint of Gatorade and a topographical map that they both didn't know how to read.
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They used one pint of water to boil hot dogs and immediately got lost hiking in the desert for a few days.
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Both were dehydrated and went to great measures. I'm talking drinking your own pee, folks.
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Of course you are, people. Folks, pull out a tie, wipe your brow. They also made a terrible mistake of eating cactus fruit which is extremely dehydrating when unripe and can make you violently ill So by day three after both puking their guts out and seeing no light at the end of the tunnel my landlord best friend asks him to stab him through the chest My landlord does
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it, stabbing him twice through a sleeping bag, only there were no sleeping bag fibers found on
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the knife. Interesting. This is where it gets fishy. It's already fishy. Yeah. Landlord then
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covers his friend's body with a 70 plus pounds of rocks, then tries to slit his wrist, but is
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quote, too physically weak to do so. He's eventually found to be only moderately dehydrated by a park
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ranger, goes on trial, and pleads guilty to second-degree murder. The judge sentenced him to 15 years of
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prison, with all but two years suspended, followed by five years of probation. After serving a mere
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two years in prison, he eventually moved to San Francisco to be a landlord and had keys to my
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apartment for three years, which is a bit unsettling, considering we unknowingly were
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throwing way too many house parties in a convicted murderer's apartment building.
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But honestly, the most malicious thing he ever did was keep part of our security deposit.
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That's not malicious. That's actually the rule. You can easily find the case online by searching out the details.
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But for anonymity and safety reasons, I felt best to leave out his full name. Very smart.
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That's why I didn't do it. Now you're reminding me. I fucking told you about this.
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He had a really specific name and he's out and he served his time. And I don't really think.
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Yeah, I think he I don't think he he maliciously murdered his friend. It's better to err on the side if he paid his debt to society because us all talking about this all so much and naming people's names and stuff.
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It's like especially when I don't think it's like a cold blooded murder. No, there's well, there's the possibility it wasn't.
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Who knows? I mean, if I got a snack for two hours, I'm fucking hilarious. OK. Oh, stay sexy and always Google your landlord before signing the lease.
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Sarah. Sarah thank you yeah there's so many questionable details yeah I think he eventually kept
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it ended up they were like two miles from really close to the ranger station you can see the shell station right over the hill
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bold wow loving it uh i have two siblings and we were all grade school age at the same time
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my uncle worked the night shift at ups so he would watch us during uh the day after school
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One day he picked us up like normal and took us back to our house. The weather was nice, so he left the front door open for a draft, I guess, IDK.
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He was making us grilled cheeses, and when he makes them, he uses a knife to flip the sandwich.
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This is important, I swear. In the middle of flipping the sandwiches, there's a knock at the door.
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When he goes to answer, it's a cop. My uncle answers the door with a knife in his hand.
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The cop came into the house because he thought it was suspicious for the front door to be left open during the day,
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So he inspected and found a six foot tall husky former Marine at the door with a knife in his hand and three children in the family room fighting over the TV.
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My uncle tried really hard to explain that he was allowed to be there, but the cop was obviously skeptical still.
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So my uncle called my sister out to help. I kind of love this highly proactive policing.
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Yeah, just like I'm not getting a good vibe from this family. Right. I will refuse to walk away.
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She walks out and sees a cop standing in her door with a gun and handcuffs and she just stares out of fear.
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My uncle tried to get her to defend him, but she just stood there silently. And now he's beginning to look like he was feeding her lines.
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Yes. The cop got more agitated and my uncle made me come out and try it again. I skipped out all nonchalant and told the cop everything was cool.
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He didn't believe it all until we called my mom and had her give the okay. Stay sexy and just use a spatula to flip your grilled cheese.
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No name. That is so hilarious. Like this sister, was it his sister that flipped out or the oldest kid?
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who's the person that froze i don't know it's someone's sister wait called out my sister okay
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so the older kid oldest girl like hate coming to them and she's just oh and she's a little girl
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okay i was thinking and staring like like help me her eyes are screaming help me what did i i bet
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she had just been doing something bad she like punched her brother and he was like nothing and
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immediately the cops yeah oh that so good okay get get a of this one Okay Edmund Kemper bullshit causes child possession Okay Question mark Oh Hi everybody I was born and raised in Santa Cruz California and while I was doing some murderino sleuthing
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on Reddit last year, ignoring schoolwork, I discovered that I'd been living one street
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down from Edmund Kemper's mother's house for the better part of five months. Whoa.
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That's where all the bad things happened. Well, to his mother. Didn't he bury some of the bodies on that property?
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I believe just the mother's head looking at the house. God, I think the other women were.
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It was out in the forest. Right. From what I remember. God, there's so many stories like we can't remember all of them.
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I've been low key obsessed with Kemper since watching Mindhunter. Yes. Our friend Cameron.
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Our friend Cameron Britton. That's right. Who is now on. He was the therapist. Did you remember that cameo on The Outsider?
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He's the therapist that the cop goes to. I haven't seen it yet. and he's and you wouldn't recognize he's so low-key it doesn't look like him at all
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but you know because he doesn't look so tall they have him kind of tipped back and he's so low-key
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and he doesn't look like yeah and he's not doing the voice it's a totally different character he's
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such a good actor i know cameron burton from sebastopol you make us proud in sonoma county
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oh my god i'm at a lot of coffee okay good here we go so when i found out that his mom's house
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was so close i immediately drove over to stare at the house and probably creep out the current
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tenants. Like a true 20-something, I posted a video of me freaking out about it on my Instagram
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for all my friends to enjoy or find tasteless and macabre, respectively. After seeing the video,
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my friend Alina messaged me with a simple, my uncle used to live in that house. It was so
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deeply haunted. To which I promptly replied, all caps, bitch, what? It turns out that Alina's uncle
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and his family had lived in the house for several years and that while they were living there,
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their three-year-old daughter started acting really strange. Oh, no. When three-year-olds get creepy.
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Why is your nightgown all wet and your hair all wet? And why did you crawl out from the sewer grave?
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I want to wear your skin, mommy. Steven, don't put that mommy at the end. Okay. Remember that Halloween prank of Steven?
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The little girl would get up in the middle of the night, find a, all caps, knife.
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Uh-uh. How did she reach kitchen counters? and stand silently in doorways staring at her family.
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That's just a phase. She became super fascinated with the kitchen and would talk about cooking people up
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and one time tried to smother her mother with a pillow so she could, quote, have her around forever.
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Oh, dear. On top of this creepy child shit, Alina always got an uncomfortable feeling being in the house
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and wasn't told what Kemper had done to his mother there until she asked her uncle why the house always felt so strange.
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the little girl did that shit for six years no the family had come to the decision that she was
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just a straight-up psychopath and they until they moved out of the house and the daughter
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immediately went back to normal never mentioning her desire to kill and cook her mother ever again
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she's now 17 and as well adjusted as a 17 year old can be alina admits that that it could have
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just been some creepy child shit they do weird stuff but her family is 300 sure that she was
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possessed by something attracted to the violence that took place in that house. Anyway, love your
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podcast. My friend Kira got me hooked on it. And I'll use y'all as an example. And I use y'all as
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an example for when I try to get her to consider therapy. It's useful, Kira. Kira. That's on the
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page. It's useful, Kira, in all caps. Thanks for all your hard work, Kenna. That's so creepy. I feel
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unsettled by that. I trust the family if they're saying she was normal before and then she was that
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way at the house and normal after just like an evil energy he was so evil and bad things happen
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like it it's such a long accumulation of bad vibes in that house bad stuff happening oh all right
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let's do it let's wrap it down actually a positive what's it called what do we call them uplifting
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light-hearted uh okay high assorted mammals another burger chef murder this is not but it
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is super weird. It's 1982. I'm 16 years old and working at the Burger Chef in New Hope,
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Minnesota. And yes, I'm wearing a brown and orange polyester uniform. And yes, I smell
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like an unholy blend of fry that grease, sweat and polo. It's past nine on a weekday
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night and it's been raining torrents for hours. We haven't had a customer in ages. Imagine
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being a 19 year old named Norman. Oh my God, he was young. A young Norman. That has sent
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everyone but me home for the night. We're sitting reclining on the counter talking about
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ACDC and killing time until closing when a car pulls up and parks next to the door, not in a
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parking space, but right by the door. For a while, nothing happens. But then someone gets out of the
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car, dashes across the sidewalk and enters the store. It's a maybe five year old kid, gender
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unknown, dressed head to toe in a yellow rain suit and looking for all the world like the Morton
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Salt Girl. Oh, before Norman and I can even hop off the counter and think about taking an order.
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This rain-slickered apparition walks full speed to the condiment and napkin counter, grabs the wooden straw dispenser, the cool old kind with the round glass window showing the straws, and the wooden knob you turn so that two arms would emerge cradling a striped straw in their slots.
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Yeah, that's good writing. Uh-huh. Tucks the straw dispenser under his slash her arm like a football and runs full speed out the door, across the sidewalk, and into the car, which immediately hits the gas and peels out of the parking lot.
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Holy shit, it's a family straw dispenser hit. That's right. Norman and I watched him slash her leave the store,
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then turn to each other in stunned disbelief, then just start laughing. It was one of those things in life that is so bizarre and surreal
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that I would have thought I dreamed or imagined it if Norman hadn't seen the whole thing.
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So weird. No big crime. No murder. Just weird. Yes. But I have to say, I can only assume that in the course of time,
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that rain-slickered little shit probably grew up to be a mass murderer. Stay sexy and don't steal straw dispensers.
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Christian. Can you imagine, though, if this family went into Burger Chef and the five-year-old uses
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the straw dispenser and goes berserk about how much they love it? He won't stop talking about it.
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Just obsessed. Can I have one? Can I get one? Whatever. His big brother's like, will you stop talking? Shut up. I'll drive you down there, but you have to get it yourself.
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That sounds like absolutely something that my cousin Stevie would involve us in.
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Totally. Hey, here's the thing. Steal it. They won't care, but I'm not doing it. Just go do it
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so you shut up. That's so right. Or just some young parents. Yeah, yeah. Really young, cool parents.
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Or like, listen, it's a hard world. You better start learning how to get what you want.
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Mommy and daddy's rooms smell like smoke sometimes. I just love it. It's a five-year-old.
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It's a five-year-old. That's out of control. Amazing. The best. Send us your weird stories like that,
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the weird things that have happened to you that you can't explain. Love it. We'll believe it.
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Sure. It's my favorite murder at Gmail. And stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye.
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Elvis, do you want a cookie? bro from the show last night to this drive why is it never chill because this is our life
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backstage on the road. It loud messy real And that the best part Whole crew no plan just moving Good thing Nissan builds for that kind of chaos Not just test tracks real life scenes late nights road trips all of it
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Episode Highlights

  • The Story of Paul Bernardo
    A woman narrowly escapes becoming a victim of the infamous Scarborough rapist, Paul Bernardo.
    “Because it turns out that man was Paul Bernardo.”
    @ 03m 19s
    January 20, 2020
  • A Convicted Murderer as a Landlord
    A listener discovers her college landlord was a convicted murderer after graduation.
    “Flash forward to a couple years later, and I'm working my boring desk job...”
    @ 10m 40s
    January 20, 2020
  • Creepy Childhood Behavior
    A child living in a haunted house exhibits unsettling behavior that raises alarm.
    “The little girl would get up in the middle of the night, find a, all caps, knife.”
    @ 20m 14s
    January 20, 2020
  • Creepy Childhood Fascination
    A girl becomes obsessed with cooking her mother, leading to unsettling behavior.
    “She could have her around forever.”
    @ 20m 30s
    January 20, 2020
  • Bizarre Burger Chef Incident
    A young child steals a straw dispenser in a surreal encounter at a fast-food restaurant.
    “Holy shit, it's a family straw dispenser hit.”
    @ 23m 31s
    January 20, 2020

Episode Quotes

  • Because this is our life.
    MFM Minisode 158
  • Stay sexy and don't make friends with serial killers just because they tip you well.
    MFM Minisode 158
  • You should definitely do it.
    MFM Minisode 158
  • Stay sexy and always Google your landlord before signing the lease.
    MFM Minisode 158
  • That's just a phase.
    MFM Minisode 158
  • It's a five-year-old.
    MFM Minisode 158

Key Moments

  • Life on the Road00:41
  • Nissan Quality00:58
  • Paul Bernardo03:19
  • Creepy Childhood20:14
  • Creepy Child Behavior20:26
  • Uncomfortable House Vibes20:36
  • Surreal Theft23:19
  • Bizarre Childhood24:45

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