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MFM Minisode 131 - The Worst

July 15, 2019 /

This episode features various listener-submitted murder stories, including encounters with notorious serial killers like John Wayne Gacy and Dean Corll. The hosts, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, read and discuss these chilling tales, providing commentary and humor throughout.

One story recounts a listener's father who was friends with Gacy and later learned of his criminal activities. The listener reflects on the eerie nature of their bowling league connection.

Another submission details a listener's grandfather, a crime reporter, who captured the confession of Elmer Wayne Henley, a key figure in the Dean Corll case, using a car phone.

Additional stories include a listener's near-abduction by a man who turned out to be a serial killer and a humorous anecdote about a godfather who stole Gacy's toilet.

The episode blends dark humor with serious topics, showcasing the hosts' unique approach to true crime storytelling.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling murder stories and encounters with serial killers, blending dark humor and true crime commentary.

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or someone's telling you a boring story, you can just throw in an air bud. Yep. And just real quick, listen to some murder stories.
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Okay, these are ones that you guys have sent in to My Favorite Murder at Gmail that I'm going to read to Karen.
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Awesome. Yeah, I haven't read these. Okay. So these will be a fun surprise. Yeah. Let's see here.
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This one is called... I can't read you the name of the thing, but... Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and various animals.
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I just finished listening to Minnesota 83, where you ask for secret life reveals, and my friends have been begging me to send this story in, so here we go.
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Back in the 70s, my parents were in a bowling league. Over the years, you get to know other people in the league, and you all become friends, acquaintances, whatever.
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One of their friends always invited my dad to come over for taco parties, but he never went.
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I don't know why, but all the, it's like, mm-mm. Taco parties. Taco parties, no.
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Fast forward a bit and one night my dad and his friend Sam are at the alley when their friend walks in acting very animated.
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He shakes my dad's hand and puts an arm around Sam and says to them something along the lines of,
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Hey guys, I don't think I can stay very long because the FBI is following me. They pretty much blew him off thinking he was crazy.
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The next day comes and both of my parents were at the local grocery store they worked at.
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They were 18 and 19 years old. And who walks in that morning but Sam holding a newspaper.
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My mom said that he looked like he saw a ghost. What's the front page story that day?
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Their bowling league friend from the night before had been arrested for multiple murders.
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Oh, and who was that guy from the bowling league? None other than the killer clown himself, fucking John Wayne Gacy.
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All caps, fucking John Wayne Gacy. Oh, shit. Sam went on to be his defense attorney.
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Oh, whoa. And Sam and my dad are still friends to this day. He wrote a book about it a few years ago and signed a copy for my dad.
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I remember hearing the story from a young age, but I never really thought much of it until I was a teenager and realized who John Lillian Gacy was.
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Doesn't everyone's parents bowl with notorious serial killers? No, just mine? Okay.
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Anyways, that's all I got for now. Stay sexy and don't join bowling leagues with killer clowns, Alyssa.
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P.S. My dad would like to note that it was the Plains PD following Gacy and not the FBI.
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little crazy clown wow that just makes me think of in the i think it was the made for tv movie or
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could have been the real movie brian dennehy is playing john wing gacy and when it gets to that
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part where he's just like he's like drunk during the day and driving around and just like trying
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to avoid the police oh my god like it just made me pick in my mind in the movie in my mind it was
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brian dennehy walking into that bowling alley yeah hey guys the fbi is following me at the bowling
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alley what if they've gone to his taco party and like been in the house and and then he's like who
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likes magic tricks down to the basement everybody oh jesus so insane okay this says the subject line
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is elmer wayne henley confessed on my granddad's car phone wait shut up holy shit we just did we
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just did fucking dean corral yeah coral dean coral right and i oh my god yeah mama i killed dean
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ready oh my god yes okay hey karen of georgia my family is from a neighborhood just outside of the
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heights in houston yeah garden oaks so i was especially disturbed by this week's story which
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is your story he's talking about at the time uh at the time when the abductions were happening my dad
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would have been the same age as a lot of the young boys who were killed. My granddad, Jack Cato, was also a crime reporter for Channel 2.
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In case you didn't know what we're talking about, this is the serial killer Dean Coral,
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aka the Candyman. We did it a couple episodes back. And he is horrifying. A monster.
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He killed 30 boys 29 boys like teenage and younger boys Horrifying Yeah Okay So the granddad Jack Cato is a crime reporter for Channel 2 the local station in the 70s
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So he says, so I couldn't help but wonder if he had covered those murders and how awful that must have been.
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Then y'all got to the confession part and I jumped off the couch, freaking the crap out of my dog.
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I have heard this story a million times. that's because when Elmer Wayne Henley confessed to his mom,
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Mama, I killed Dean. Oh my God. He was using my granddad's car phone. It's in a video you can watch.
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Really? Yeah, on YouTube there's a video of him doing that. Oh, it's so good. Okay.
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My granddad died in 2006 when I was a senior in high school. This was such a big moment in his reporting career.
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They included it in his obituaries over 30 years later. Hell yeah, they did. He was on the scene.
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According to this one, my granddad handed Henley the car phone, knowing that he would be able to hear the whole conversation.
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Then he grabbed the camera, started filming and caught the infamous confession on tape.
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If it's not too weird to say it, warm my heart to be reminded of another part of my granddad's amazing life on one of my favorite podcasts.
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Even if it was about a truly gruesome murder story from my hometown from one anxious, depressed person who loves her therapist to another.
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all around hello stay sexy and don't get murdered xoxo genevieve oh my god that's awesome i for some
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reason at the beginning i assumed this was from a guy and said he at the beginning but um that is so
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epic i killed d mama and they have the other they have her side of the conversation on and that must
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be why that must be how he got it he had it all hooked up yeah that is so legendary she's crying
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he's crying Jesus Christ wow thank you Genevieve yeah well I have a Dean Corll story too
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do you really this says this has been could have met the candy man hello Karen Georgia Stephen
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you in Dallas in November in 1973 when I was 12 years old my mother and I lived in an
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apartment complex in the north houston neighborhood of spring branch my best friend craig also 12 and
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his older brother robert 14 lived the next complex over we were all latchkey kids so we usually spent
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the two and a half hours between school and dinner doing pretty much anything but homework
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the complex had a large courtyard that faced the street and we hung out there a lot farting around
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the way boys do at that age yep teenagers salami and cheese salami and cheese sandwiches on white
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bread with mustard, right? That's boys in the 70s. That's it. One afternoon, not long before the last
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day of school, we were throwing a football around when a guy pulled up in a van. He got out and
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walked over to where we were playing, looking up at the second floor apartments like he was trying
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to find his way around. He was older than us, probably 17 or so, and we didn't pay any attention
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to him until he walked up and started talking to us. He was really nice, tallish and thin with long
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brown wait with long blonde hair and wire rim glasses just said hi and started shooting the
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shit talking about football robert my friend's brother brother spoke with him the most probably
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because he was older the blonde guy invited robert to a party telling him there would be lots of
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girls there and that there'd be plenty of beer and food even some weed if he wanted robert basically
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said no thanks both he and craig were from a pretty religious family and then the guy turned
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to me. What about you? He said, Come on, it'll be fun. I remember feeling that weird tingle in my
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stomach. I'll never forget it. I have felt it a few times since but this was the first time
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something was off. I was always a shy kid. So I looked at the ground and said something about how
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my mom wouldn't let me and I get in trouble if I did, which was absolutely true. Besides,
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I was 12 years old. I didn't even really like girls that much. And yet I damn sure wasn't
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interested in beer and pot. He didn't seem mad or irritated. He just said something along the
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lines of that's too bad man catch you next time and he got in his van and drove off and that was
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it until a few months later when i saw his picture on tv i recognized him right away his name was
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david brooks he and elmer wayne henley assisted serial killer dean coral for years by procuring
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boys for coral for coral to rape torture and murder then bury in a boat shed and benches
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i remember during my teen years really resenting my mom's strictness but then i would remember that
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it was likely the very strictness that kept me off the torture board attended to by the Candyman, and I'll
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cut her some slack. Thanks for listening, stay sexy, and never, ever, ever get in
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the van. Yours, Glenn. Oh my god. Dude. It's so creepy. Yeah. Like, but you could just
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do that back then. Yes. It's like wandering hippies starting up conversations was totally de rigueur.
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No one even thought about it. Like, that they would want to talk to young kids would make sense yeah oh i know thank god those boys
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were like that's together and smart and religious like that alone i feel like saved them from
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doing anything because they knew satan was in their presence they could feel him yeah they
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could feel satan amen um mama mama mama mama killed dean all right this one's called vicarious
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encounters with infamous men okay hey mfm crew all right what up i've been a fan from the very
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beginning earlier this week i was having a couple beers with my dad we have a strange relationship
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you ready for this yeah we have a strange relationship since he spent 17 years in prison
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in new york state for killing my mom when i was three and a half wow and i read that i was like
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great job steven wow great job picking this one i know okay she says i know i know how can i still
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see or talk to him, right? I'll just say it's complicated. Not right Shit We don I mean yeah It your father I get it There lots of there lots of things And understandable that alcohol involved when you guys hang out
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My mom didn't even kill anyone and I have to fucking drink around her when I'm with her.
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Look, I mean, you only have two parents. I mean. The enormity of that. Yes. It's just like.
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No one will ever understand that unless they've gone through it. Yeah. And who knows what the dad said.
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I mean, who knows? anyway who knows who knows yeah anyway for the she says anyway i'm not saying it to you anyway
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karen anyway uh anyway for the first time this week i really got some details about what prison
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was like he apparently only ever spent a month in quote the box or solitary confinement because
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he refused to snitch on a guy who started a fight with him he said having a reputation as a snitch
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stays with you the whole time you're inside the only thing worse is being a convicted child master
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He was in Attica for a while, and he said that he used to play Pinochle with David Berkowitz,
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the guy who was Son of Sam. I mean, I hope this isn't a lie, but if it is, it's great writing.
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It doesn't seem like... Pinochle is the funniest card game that you could name. And you're playing it with Son of Sam.
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With Son of Sam. Fuck. Great, just great contrast. I love it. While he was there, he and a guard would make each other laugh by walking by Mark David Chapman's cell
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and singing John Lennon songs. No! what the fuck holy shit all in all a pretty fucked up situation
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but it has occasionally yielded some interesting stories I love you both and I hope that next time you're in Philadelphia
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we can hang out and be BFF I'll make you cookies in the meantime stay sexy and don't get
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murdered all do the same smooches to you and Steven and the animal crew XOXO Steph
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Steph I mean that's fascinating What an interesting person. Her. I mean, her. All of it.
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Yeah. Also just that the experience of a person, you know, like the inside prison experiment,
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all those shows, it's also, I'm, cause I'm sure it's hellish and terrible, like the night of or whatever.
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It's all just like this huge panic, but like kind of anecdotal stories about being inside prison is,
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is a very fascinating way to get that information. Cause they imagine, you'd imagine the like day to day stuff.
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It's like, it's pretty boring. Right. It becomes like, you know, you're 12 years into a life sentence and you're like, this
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is what I do now. And yeah, there's been a couple of fights and I've had to go and there's this and that,
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but there's probably not much going on. Until someone jumps you in the laundry room.
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Yeah. With a shank. Is that what they use? Maybe they shank you. Maybe they garrot you.
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Maybe you learn to make prison wine. Maybe you are able to order through the guy that gets stuff like a catalog.
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Yeah. get yourself some mushrooms. Top ramen? Oh. Some mushrooms for your top ramen.
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Can you imagine doing drugs and mushrooms in a fucking prison? I think you'd go out of your goddamn mind.
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But I think it's just, yeah, just to pass the time. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Mushrooms would be bad though.
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Goodbye. So this is Deb L. And she says, my hometown murder is me, or rather would have been me
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if not for, well, let me explain. Oh. My profile picture is me in kindergarten in 1967 in Norwalk, California.
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I was a child on the spectrum before there was a spectrum to be on Back then I was just weird Debbie and mostly I was a loner in a crowd of people and this is still true FYI One day I headed to a good
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friend's house across the alley. We lived in an area there was a lot of apartment buildings and a
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few single family homes. To get to my friend's apartment we had to go through the carport. As I
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approached the I know right as I approached the area I saw a man with long surfer hair sitting in
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his car i had to pass by this car but something about him made me wary as i got closer he opened
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up his passenger passenger door from the inside and gestured for me to get in you know as i looked
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into the car i could see he wasn't wearing pants uh and his uh stick shift was present and alert
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uh she doesn't mean the car she does not jesus i ran back to my house while he was screaming for
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me to come back. And then I told my mom what I saw. Let's just say my mom was not a kind woman.
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And I was slapped for describing a man's penis. I was told to never talk about that again. And
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she blamed me. Hey, 1967. Yeah, this was back before people understood how humanity worked.
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We talk about it a lot. Yeah. Let's see. And then moving ahead three more days. I was again
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walking to meet a friend on the other side of the same apartment building. I mean, her mom was just
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like get out of here her mom's like hmm my young child just described a naked man in a car screaming
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at her go back outside that was her that's her answer uh i avoided the carport and as i made it
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around the corner i passed a car parked on the road i didn't see the driver as i got near the
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door of the car he suddenly sat up opened the door and grabbed my arm and started pulling me
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into the car fuck i screamed kicked bit hit scratched and clawed my way away from him yes
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Good girl. A woman walking on the street heard the commotion and came running. That's right.
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And he drove off. What if it was like, and then she slapped me across the street?
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Another mean mom came from across the street to hit me in the face. Anyways, I'm in a psycho ward now because people are the worst.
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I didn't tell my mom about the second one because, well, you know, and being four, I couldn't be sexy except to a fucking pervert.
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Wait, wait. Yeah. Four years old? Yeah. Wait. she said six originally wait um nope she was four fuck what can you imagine a four-year-old
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walking around the street we know like even a four-year-old out of a car seat these days makes
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people nervous much less just fucking oh bye mom i'm gonna go take the alley to my friend's house
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i'll be back later when i feel like it yeah i might go bowling i'm four i gotta live my life
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two years later he would grab an eight year old off the street and take her to his Hollywood apartment
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and here's where it gets familiar where he raped and beat her badly and then would begin
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his rapey murdery spree until he was finally caught the man Rodney Alcala I know it's difficult to believe
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being that I was four at the time that I'd remember this however it wasn't until the late 90s
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when I saw a headline with his picture and I screamed because staring out at me from the computer screen was that face from 34 years ago that I
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finally had a name to put with the face. I hadn't even read the article to know what he'd done,
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but I knew he was the guy who tried to grab me twice. Also, ever since this moment, I'm hype.
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My hypervigilance is always on high alert. People think it's funny to come up behind me and startle
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me. It wasn't who. So that's how you earn the right to grow up and stay sexy. Not getting
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murdered way to go deb hell yeah rodney alcalda if i'm pronouncing it correctly alcalda alcalda
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he's the one that was on the dating game yeah that is the that's one of my favorite when that
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one comes on of all those crime shows i always have to watch that one because first of all he's
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such a creep yeah overtly and he was also the photographer right yeah so he'd go to these like
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open call like photo shoots at the beach with like women in bikinis who were like i want to be a
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model and the photographer be like i'm a photographer because i have a camera yeah come
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back to my place and i'll take some photos of you sounds great let me grab my four-year-old child
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oh my god i wonder how many like how many murders are can be attributed to him that were never
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haven't been right i mean if he's doing shit like that and i know he went from like california
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to florida and i mean oh monster he's he needs to get we need to go in depth on that guy let's do
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it um right now let's do it uh give me yours okay i'm not gonna say the okay subject line guys
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you wouldn't believe what stories you get from your family members after years of thinking they
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don't have any cool murder-esque stories so i'm currently in training to be a truck driver you
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guys keep me sane when i'm driving my trainer is a nightmare and on my off weekends i've been going
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to my godfather's house and hanging out with him we start talking about how there's been so many
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things about Bundy on TV and somehow I managed to bring up John Wayne Gacy. Well, my godfather
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very nonchalantly goes, oh yeah, a couple of my buddies stole his toilet before they demolished
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the house. Of course I made him tell me everything. And apparently they were in the area of his house
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and they thought it'd be fun to go up there to go up there before it was completely dismantled.
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So fun. Cause you know, they raised that thing to the ground. Yeah. Um, when they got there,
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they see that Gacy's toilet was sitting out on the front lawn. So like any 20 something year old guys, sure enough, they loaded up and they take it home.
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Ew, no. And years later, guess what? The guy still has John Wayne Gacy's toilet just sitting in his garage and tells everyone.
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Holy shit. Stay sexy and steal toilets, Mason. Amazing. I bet he could sell that fucker.
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Oh, I bet there are collectors that would pay five grand, ten grand for that thing.
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Let's go steal it. Let's steal the stolen toilet. This is just like Nicolas Cage.
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Lisa. Lisa. We're from a small town in northwest Indiana with a population of just over 2,000.
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It was a pretty quiet place to grow up. My grandma was the one who got us interested in true crime from a young age.
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I can remember my grandma listening to her police scanner and watching CORE TV like it was her job.
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Love you, grandma. Grandma also liked to take us to cemeteries for fun. Fuck, yes.
00:24:45
I love her. We attended the local elementary school where one of my favorite classes was art with our teacher, Nita Paradis.
00:24:52
She was an excellent teacher who made her students feel special and talented. Miss Paradis was our art teacher from kindergarten through fifth grade.
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When we came back for sixth grade in 1990, Miss Paradis had left her position and moved away, leaving a very inadequate replacement.
00:25:09
We had an older sister, Laura, who was freshman at the time. So, of course, we got all of our completely age-inappropriate information from her.
00:25:15
Yes, older sister, Laura. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The next school year, we found out that Laura, from Laura, that Miss Paradis was actually
00:25:22
Nita Neary. What? An eyewitness in the Ted Bundy trial. Oh, fuck. She escaped. That's right.
00:25:31
In Colorado? No, it's the Chai Omega. Oh, in Florida? Yeah. I bet she'll tell us.
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I like that you called it Chai Omega. What is it? Kai. Kai! But it's Chai Tea. I didn't go to college.
00:25:45
I didn't know. Can I tell you the truth right now? I didn't know what a fucking RA was until you told me, until you started reading that
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thing. I was like, oh, she worked as an RA in the hospital. Cool. Oh, like a highway patrolman.
00:25:57
Got it. Got it. I didn't. Resident assistant. Listen, yeah, I know. I get it now.
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Look and listen about Santa Monica City College. That's what's up. Boop, boop, boop.
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Okay. So this is really exciting because I reading a stranger beside me or the stranger beside me by Anne Rule right now and so this is a fucking okay anyways be sure like let do it we have another sister nita was an art major and a member
00:26:26
of the chi omega stupid sorority at florida state university she returned to the sorority house
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after a date entering the house through the back door nita heard heard footsteps coming down the
00:26:38
stairs. She remained silent and hidden in the shadows and became an eyewitness to Ted Bundy
00:26:44
leaving the house. She helped a police sketch artist come up with a rendering of Bundy and
00:26:49
later identified him in a photo lineup and in court. Of course, we later heard rumors that she
00:26:54
was in our small town as part of the witness production program. Oh, we still aren't sure if
00:26:58
that was any truth to that. But either way, our small town was probably a nice place to lie low
00:27:03
for a while. Anyway, just wanted to share our little town's connection to a notorious serial
00:27:08
killer thank you for creating a place for true crime lovers to gather without judgment please
00:27:13
keep doing what you're doing stay sexy and don't get murdered carla carla how what a bummer to find
00:27:19
out after she's gone but it totally was witness protection don't you think like head out and
00:27:24
because but if she's already a teacher then that means she got her degree oh so she this he was
00:27:31
past was behind her he was like within the year i think of that so this was the past was behind her
00:27:39
he was already in jail in jail so maybe she was just like get me the fuck out of my existence
00:27:48
right now but also like she really was the final blow to stopping this monster who killed so many
00:27:55
women yeah including two of her fucking sorority sisters at chi omega upstairs that night where he
00:28:03
walked in and walked out like within like 15 minutes yes it was frenzied don't read the
00:28:10
stranger beside me i am having nightmares i had a fucking i had a job interview with ted bundy
00:28:16
the other night no i had a job interview to be his assistant no at his fucking mansion in beverly
00:28:24
Hills. I put my feet in his jacuzzi because I was early. Montessori jacuzzi. The specialty kind Which is so something I would truly do And then at a job interview ted bundy it so symbolic of how show business kills people what jacuzzis you up oh oh karen yes i go deep or
00:28:47
i'm just reading a strange the stranger beside me the most disturbing book about a person who
00:28:53
is the most disturbing person that but but ann rule had rules she she rules but she also
00:29:01
had every tool in the book to look at him and go something's not right and she didn't sense it i
00:29:09
know even when it's so scary elvis he hit his head his eyes weren't crossed anymore
00:29:14
and he spoke french cat but in french oh i want a cookie are you cookie are you cookie boy
00:29:27
uh he doesn't he doesn't understand what i'm saying no he doesn't we can cut any of that and
00:29:33
all of that well fuck yeah that was amazing that was great carla also one of the last carlas i'm
00:29:39
sure there are very few carlas on the planet anymore that's true they're going extinct great
00:29:44
name please send us all your fucking just send us your weird shit you know what i mean like send us
00:29:49
your weird stories that no one you don't think anyone wants to hear yeah we want to hear it we
00:29:52
do and the people who are listening do but that's it yes so it's and steven and steven send them to
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my favorite murder at gmail tell tell steven tell steven what he needs to know in the subject line
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get your shit read. Don't use the word fur babies. I mean, or do it for attention,
00:30:09
but just know that that's really old and no one even enjoys the irony of that anymore.
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Do it aggressively if you're going to do it at all. Yeah. Start a hashtag against us.
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Why are you mad at us? Using. All we've been doing. It's just that thing of trying to,
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do you want negative attention? Do you want positive attention? What if the positive attention doesn't work?
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Then you might as well go negative. Sure. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye.
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Episode Highlights

  • Kleenex Ultra Soft Tissues
    Kleenex Ultra Soft Tissues are allergist approved and silky soft, perfect for allergy season.
    “That's why Kleenex Ultra Soft Tissues are ready whenever sneezes strike.”
    @ 00m 09s
    July 15, 2019
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    Start your search for your next car with Cars.com, offering expert advice and tools.
    “Cars.com has the tools and expert advice to help you find exactly what you're looking for.”
    @ 00m 38s
    July 15, 2019
  • Budget Beach Finder
    Vacation planning made easy with Cheap Caribbean's Budget Beach Finder for stress-free searches.
    “Say goodbye to endless scrolling and tab hopping and hello to Budget Beach Bliss.”
    @ 01m 15s
    July 15, 2019
  • Hometown Murder Story
    A listener shares a chilling story about John Wayne Gacy and a family connection.
    “Oh, shit. None other than the killer clown himself, fucking John Wayne Gacy.”
    @ 03m 32s
    July 15, 2019
  • Confession on a Car Phone
    A listener reveals a shocking connection to a notorious serial killer's confession.
    “When Elmer Wayne Henley confessed to his mom, he was using my granddad's car phone.”
    @ 06m 24s
    July 15, 2019
  • The Face from 34 Years Ago
    A chilling moment when the speaker recognizes a face from their past, linked to trauma.
    “I screamed because staring out at me from the computer screen was that face from 34 years ago.”
    @ 21m 06s
    July 15, 2019
  • The Toilet of a Killer
    A bizarre story about stealing John Wayne Gacy's toilet, revealing dark humor in true crime.
    “Holy shit.”
    @ 23m 42s
    July 15, 2019
  • A Teacher's Dark Past
    The shocking revelation that an elementary art teacher was an eyewitness in the Ted Bundy trial.
    “What?”
    @ 24m 15s
    July 15, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • Goodbye.
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  • Yeah.
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  • I know it's difficult to believe.
    MFM Minisode 131 - The Worst
  • What?
    MFM Minisode 131 - The Worst
  • Stay sexy and steal toilets, Mason.
    MFM Minisode 131 - The Worst
  • Oh, fuck.
    MFM Minisode 131 - The Worst

Key Moments

  • Allergy Season00:06
  • Vacation Planning01:01
  • Murder Story01:42
  • Four-Year-Old Freedom20:08
  • Rodney Alcala Revealed20:54
  • The Toilet Heist23:07
  • Art Teacher's Secret24:15
  • Witness Protection Rumors26:54

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