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And welcome. To My Favorite Murder. It's the mini-sode. Where we read you your stuff.
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Don't you love it? We do. It's so easy. It's so easy. Should I kick this one off?
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Do it, Karen. Hello, everyone. This first email I'm going to read to you, the subject line is,
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my dad's seven degrees of murder separation. Right? Hi, MFM fam. That's what the kids say these days, fam.
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Fam. Yeah. It means family. Oh, great. Let's just dive in. That's what it says in this email.
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That's not me. I want to talk about other bullshit forever. Yeah, me too. But this person wants to dive in.
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My dad was helping me move out of yet another terrible mid-20s apartment. Oh, my God.
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Can we just take a moment? Oh, been there, then again, and then been there again and again.
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How about the first studio apartment you live in after you stop living with people?
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Oh. And you finally live in, that's when I got started getting cats. The best time of my life was in that little studio in Hollywood, fucking Santa Monica
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and Western, the worst neighborhood. Oh, shit girl. Yeah, but it was the cutest apartment.
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Was it really? Yes. It was a hidden gem? It was one of those old brick ones that are super tall.
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Oh, yeah. It was like an old timey one. Oh, did you have brick on the inside of your apartment?
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Oh, that's rad. It's so cute. Mine was on Grace off Coanga. And I really loved the apartment.
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I had friends that lived on the fourth floor, and I lived on the second floor. And I really loved my apartment manager, Polly.
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What's up, Polly? Hi. He was the best, and I would always be late with my rent. And he was like, Karen, come on.
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Come on. I'd be like, okay. And then one time after I stopped drinking, I lost a ton of weight because I wasn't drinking 12 beers every night.
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Right. and he stopped me to say I was too thin and he was worried and I was like that's the most beautiful
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thing you could ever say to any woman that's not true and body positivity yes the ride was an hour
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each way and we ran out of things to talk about on the way back naturally I brought up MFM and
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started sharing with him New Jersey stories from the podcast since that's where we are from
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turns out this man is the seven degrees of separation from many high and low profile
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New Jersey, New York stories. He told me how him and his friends broke into, quote,
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that asshole John List, end quote, his house, and played floor hockey in the ballroom where List put his family's
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bodies. Oh my god. The mansion is only 15 minutes from where I grew up. He went on to say
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how my great-great-some relative knew Charles Lindbergh and thought he killed his baby and tried to cover it up
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when one of his practical jokes went wrong. What? Apparently, Lindbergh had a fucked sense of humor.
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the fuck up. Yes, this is alleged. I want to hear more. I know, right? My jaw dropped even further when he finally
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told me that he'd once bought cocaine off a notorious club promoter and murderer, Michael Alec.
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Oh my god. When my dad used to DJ at the Limelight in NYC. Shut your fucking mouth.
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Who is this man? Who is this man? How old is this man? How available is this man? My dad has worn
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nothing but freshly ironed Dockers and a polo shirt all my life, and here he is telling me how he used to buy drugs from a murderer.
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insane oh my god he even told me how he witnessed a low-profile murder in my hometown and was called
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as a witness the stories kept spilling out over memorial day weekend i went to my family's house
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and my dad handed me a stack of super rad vintage true crime novels dude in the collection of books
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was his annotated copies of about the hillside strangler bundy mind hunter and a bunch of others
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i finally learned where my true crime obsession comes from side note when i first went to college
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in nyc my dad taught me to stand on the subway platform with my back up to the wall so no one
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could come up behind me pro tip which kind which kinds of groups of people are threatening slash
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to be aware of when walking around late and that seems problematic and how to pull a knife on
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someone quickly man dads are great stay sexy and talk to your parents about murder they might
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surprise you much love be oh my god amazing i i think it's so true parents are untapped
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sources. They don't talk to their kids about stuff like that because it's, you know.
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Weird. Yeah. It's like, it's scary. But when you if you an adult if you have your own apartment your parents will tell you about fucked up shit they know Talk to your parents like adults and they talk to you like an adult too Ask them questions about their lives because you just don do that as a kid As someone child you don ask them questions about their lives and then you find out all these interesting things
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That's right. And you can actually say, right now, I'm preparing your biography.
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Right. You will die soon. Yeah. Please tell me everything while you still have the chance.
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Exactly. How's your arthritis? Do you need some Boniva? What did you do in high school?
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That was creepy. Okay. Back in the pioneer days. I have a dad one too. My dad worked for a kidnapping.
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I have a dad. That's what I thought you were saying. My dad worked for a kidnapping rapist.
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Hey, what's up? I used to be so jealous of all the murderinos whose relatives told them of their personal hometown murders until it finally happened to me.
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Hey. Last weekend, my dad and I were going out of town on a three hour drive to visit my sick grandma when the unthinkable happened.
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My dad asked me to put on my, quote, murder cast. i'm always listening to and tell and telling him about nervously i searched for the perfect debut
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episode to ease him in and i finally decided to play my favorite episode weapon bush episode 81
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what the fuck why did we i don't even know weapon bush we'll have to ask steven about it after he
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doesn't know he must know he he walks all of this out as he should episode 81 when georgia tells the
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satisfying story of how Dr. Jeffrey McDonald was caught for murdering his wife and two sweet baby
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angels. I cringed and tried to talk over the more gruesome details of Karen's Peter Curtin story so
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my dad wouldn't freak out and change his mind in wanting to listen and bond with me over this
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quote taboo subject. We got through the episode and I decided to play a minisode to get some
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laughs in. In the middle of the minisode, my dad says to me, hey, something like that happened to
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me. I'm sorry, I'm doing Marty's voice. I don't know. I love it. It's perfect. I couldn't believe
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it. It was finally happening to me. I paused the podcast and tried not to seem too eager.
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My dad tells me about this one horrible supervisor he had in the 80s when he landed a job as an
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assembly line worker, question mark? Who cares? She says. He said he hated a supervisor because
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he never did any work unless the big bosses came around and was rude to everyone he came into
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contact with. My dad left the factory, question mark, to serve in the Air Force. And when he came
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back, his mom, my grandma, asked him, did you ever work with George? My dad rolled his eyes and said yes.
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Then my grandma proceeds to tell my dad that he was arrested for kidnapping and rape. She writes,
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so this fucking guy kidnapped a young girl from his neighborhood, tied her up in his home,
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and would rape her repeatedly every day. Sorry. When the parents held a search party
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to look for her, all caps, this fucking guy would be looking for her alongside the rest of his neighbors.
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Yeah. After a few weeks of being held captive, the girl managed to get away and tell authorities everything.
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Yes. Badass. Yes. She wrote. After the first few episodes ended, my dad turned to me and said,
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wow, so do they have an episode about JonBenet? Yes, we do, sir. We absolutely do.
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I'm sorry this is such a long email. I just had to share this exciting bonding moment
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between me and my dad. Thank you and SSTGM, Brittany. I love it, Brittany. I love it.
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Congratulations on finally cracking that case. That's right. That dad case. That's right.
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It's an exciting feeling. It is. It can happen to you, too. I hate that band, though.
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You, too? That's stupid. It can happen to Bono and The Edge. I'm not going to read the subject line of this.
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Hi, everyone. First off, thanks for making our, parentheses, we're tag-teaming authoring this.
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Workday is so much more enjoyable. We're glad our coworkers don't know we actually listen to a murder podcast all day instead of music.
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but you definitely make the day more enjoyable. Second off, confession. We are not the protagonists of the story,
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but it was way too good not to share with you. We live in Chicago, and this last winter was a very cold one.
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Near the end of January, the temperatures reached minus 27 degrees. With a wind chill, it felt like minus 50 degrees.
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But global warming is a hoax? Okay. Literally colder than Antarctica, Alaska, and the North Pole.
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Because of this, the entire city shut down, and most companies let their employees work from home,
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which pretty much meant drinking spike-taught chocolate and watching movies. Hell yeah.
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God bless. Well, some of our friends also worked from home and during the day began hearing weird noises from their attic.
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This better not be a creepypasta. But they said friends. Yeah. Okay. I believe them so far.
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We'll see. They believed it was just some animal trying to escape the cold temperatures.
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So to get proof for their landlord, they stuck a selfie stick into the attic opening to try to get a photo of the animal.
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When they brought the selfie stick back down And went to look at the photo It turned out not to be an animal
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But instead the photo revealed a man crouching down in the corner Trying to avoid being captured on the phone
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No In all caps, UGG MY WORST NIGHTMARE Turns out this man had moved into our friend's apartment
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Before they moved in When the unit was empty Our friends moved in in September So they had been unknown cohabitating with this man
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For five months No, no, no, no Five months turns out when they would go to work during the day he would come down from the attic and live in
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their apartment he used the shower ate their food and watched their tv who knows what else
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holy shit the worst part was that the opening to the attic was in one of their rooms thank the lord
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he wasn't a creepy sexual predator and i'm so glad he never physically hurt them but he definitely
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emotionally scared the bejesus out of them can you imagine looking at that photo that photo silently
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and then everyone turns and runs out the door i mean here's the thing we're doubting that this
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could be a creepypasta this could be based on other stories who cares picks or it didn't happen
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it seems like they have picks yeah these are gettable picks right if pos yes thanks for
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listening to this mary and katie do you think they kicked him out or just started charging him rent
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they like if you shower a couple more times a week this is a fine situation like we not gonna make you pay like part like half of it because you only staying in the crawl space Yeah you just have to crouch up there Like give him like a quarter of the rent
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Yeah. Right? Sure. Why not? If he's not, I mean, if it's been that long and he hasn't done anything creepy to them,
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he's a pretty fucking good roommate. How about you build some fucking stairs? Yeah.
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Mary and Katie's friends. We've all had bad roommates. That sounds like a great roommate.
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Yeah, exactly. He waits till you're gone, lets you have your life. Does he do the dishes he must have?
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or they would have noticed. That's a good point. That's an amazing point because I was in a standoff one time
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when I lived in Sacramento in the haunted house. Yeah. We would not do the dishes
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and we all blamed each other. Like you're the one that never does it. And the kitchen sink
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was just filled with dishes all the time. Did I ever tell you about the time I had a similar roommate situation
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and we were out of paper towels and I was like, hey, we've all bought paper towels.
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It's your turn to buy paper towels. And she goes, I don't really use paper towels.
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And then she leaves me a note about borrowing something of mine in my bathroom on a paper towel as it was she was too stupid for
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it to be on purpose yeah because it would have been fucking pretty great how great is that
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okay this is from my friend brooke van poplin so she says hey gang i sent this to georgia over two
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years ago when you still read about hometown murders and i'm so thrilled that after many
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excellent stories about things found in walls first responder stories and i think even sinkholes
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you've returned to good old-fashioned murder stories from where you grew up. And this is that.
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This is my hometown murder story from the Detroit suburbs where my dad was a cop
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and I was more than likely blasting Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation cassette from my boombox and roller skating in my basement.
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There are some conflicting details and stories, but this is the most reported version I found.
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It was November 1989 when two teenagers, Joseph Pisano, 17, and Bruce Michaels, 16,
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went on an armed robbery spree that claimed the lives of Rochester, Michigan, residents, Glenn and Wanda Tarr. The teens chose their victims at random, which is an extra layer
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of scary bullshit. After finishing dinner, 58-year-old Wanda Tarr, a life insurance agent,
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went to meet with a client and before doing so, stopped to withdraw money from an ATM where Bruce
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and Joseph had been lurking around waiting for a victim. They followed her into a quiet neighborhood
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she was heading into and cut her off and held her at gunpoint. She was only three miles from her
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home. They forcibly robbed her for a sum total of $15 and then kidnapped her. The monsters drove her
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into a park in Pontiac, which is a neighboring city to Rochester Hills, and fatally shot her in
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the head and just dumped her body there. They neatly stacked her insurance forms next to her
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body. What sucks about Pontiac in that era is the sound of gunshots was nothing to rouse attention
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or suspicion. Then using Wanda's ID, this is the fucking worst, Joseph and Bruce figured out how to
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navigate back to the Tarr's residence where they broke into the house and told 53-year-old Glenn Tarr that they'd
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abducted his wife. Glenn, a GM Chevrolet executive, was tied up while they ransacked
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the house for jewelry and electronics. Then, kidnapping Glenn, they shoved him into the trunk of a car and stole
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the other two cars, a Chevy Cavalier and a Geo Prism. Oh, what a great car. The Geo Prism.
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Why don't those exist anymore? Because they're being used as gift boxes. for a lot of things.
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Good. The two then drove Glenn to two other ATM machines in the area but apparently failed
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to get money out of them, says one source. But another source says they got $500 total
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plus the $15 they took from Wanda. So $515 total. Maybe just $15. Oh, source-wise.
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Yeah, got it. The assailants drove Glenn oh, this is so awful back to the exact place
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in the park where they had shot and killed Wanda who was lying there murdered in front of Glenn
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when they shot him six times and dumped him next to his wife's body. So they made him look at his dead wife before they killed him.
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It sounds like it. That's fucking the definition of evil. Remember how we asked for hometowns?
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We've changed our mind. Right? Several hours later, at 5 a.m., a neighbor called the police,
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noting that the TARS house looks suspicious. The garage was open and empty, but the lights on, which is not typical.
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Later that morning, a woman walking her dog in Pontiac Park found the TARS lifeless bodies.
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A search for the killers and stolen cars ensued, and while my dad was on patrol,
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he actually found one of the cars belonging to the TARS abandoned on the outskirts of Rochester
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in a really rural part of town on a dirt road normally reserved for teenage, underage,
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beer drinking, and shenanigans. And then she writes, guilty. I asked my dad if he remembered if he found the Prism or the Cavalier,
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and he said he honestly couldn't remember. Being from Motor City, this is inexcusable to me, but whatever.
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True. As for the killers, they were clearly young and dumb, and after robbing and killing the TARS,
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these two psychopaths went to a dance club and bragged about what they had done.
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they were sloppy in every rest in every respect and picked up by police quickly the violence and
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senselessness of their acts really rocked the community and the two received maximum sentences
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of life without parole even spookier turns out our good family friend was at a mcdonald's near
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the tarz house on the night they were murdered she was with her two her young boys eating inside
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when two creepy teens came into the golden arches and they eyeballed her and her kids in a way that
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made her feel incredibly threatened it was joseph and bruce as she found out a few days later when
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their mug shots appeared in the news wow after being arrested she went cold when she recognized
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them instantly the way the murder timeline works out is that the murderers stop by stop into mickey
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d's after killing wanda but before killing glenn whoa whether it was before they abducted glenn
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and put him in basically it could have been with while he was in the trunk outside or not they're
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not sure of the timeline and she fucking saw them in mcdonald's and was creeped out by them
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they're eating food yeah they're getting a snack between murders the tars have five children one
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of which has spoke out that his faith has given him the ability to finally forgive the teenage
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killers after all these years scary fucking stuff thank you for the many hours of twisted companionship mixed with advocacy for victims mental health awareness and tough talk about how we women are a force when we come together for good Love you both and stay sexy and try not to be the victim of absolute bullshit you have
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no control over. Yeah. From Burke Van Poplin. And she has a podcast that's a bunch of friends of mine called Side Work.
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About waitressing? About waitressing and waiting tables and the inner restaurant stuff.
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Restaurant stuff. That's great. Yeah. God, that's so. Here's the thing. it's like how did they find each other those two teens right and how did they it's like they how
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did they both realize i want to know the dynamic between the two of them yeah it's like the dc
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sniper where you're like this isn't common no how are the two of you together both perfectly okay
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doing this right like call like the columbine shooters it's just like you're both yep and
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moving forward without the fucking second thought right it's it's insane it's and there's so many
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chances to stop to go, oh my God, that just happened. That's the worst thing of all time.
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I'm running or something and it doesn't. It's just, it's just so creepy. It just escalates.
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Goodbye. Here's my last one and we'll fold McDonald's back into it. Because we did ask for drive-thru stories, remember?
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Yeah, this is weird. There's a, I got a couple good ones, but this one I love. Hi, Karen Georgian sweet furry angels.
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No. Have I got a creepy fast food story for you? Okay, so when I was 16, I had just gotten hired at McDonald's.
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In the car, on the way to my first shift, my mom, my mom, Canadian, my mom says to me,
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did I ever tell you about the CIA agent in the drive-thru? I said no, and she proceeded to tell me the story of when my uncle worked at a Burger King drive-thru
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in the town of Surrey, British Columbia. FYI, I asked my uncle to fill in some of the blanks in the story when I knew I was going to write you.
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Great. Fact-checking. right we should try it sometime this is this is basic true crime reporting and you've done it
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great who what when where how that's it it was sometime in the late 80s and my uncle was working
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at the front counter when a woman pulled up to the drive-thru and handed the girl at the window
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a note that said call this number and tell them i'm being followed the lady sped off and the girl
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opened the note which said something like i work for the cia and i'm being followed call this number
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since this is canada the manager called the good old rcmp to have them investigate soon the
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Small Town Burger King was swarmed with cop cars and RCMP officers who are all deciding whether or not to call
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the number themselves or forget about it since the lady was probably just a crazy
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person. Well, they end up calling the number and it turns out to be a all caps direct line
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to the CIA or the Secret Service. Oh my God. And then in parentheses my mom and uncle can't decide which one.
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But I think isn't Secret Service just for protection of like the president and stuff? No matter what
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is it's i don't know we'll be wrong yeah you're right i'm guessing cia okay the officers gave the
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americans on the other end all the information that they asked for and interviewed everyone
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working that day including my uncle who says it was one of the most thrilling days of his career
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looking back on it now he says that the lady who came through the drive-thru was probably just some
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disturbed woman who happened to have the direct line to an american intelligence agency but i guess
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we'll never know i'm sorry hey guess what uncle it was your experience and it's your life but you're
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fucking wrong yeah that's crazy you guys you guys yeah you don't understand how hard it is to get the
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phone number to the cia because you're canadian that's right that's like being able to call
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dudley do right yeah no it was totally a cia that's a cartoon canadian bounty i'm being insulting
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to everybody uh thank you for making my commutes to school so much more interesting and also your
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book is the best birthday present i've ever received stay sexy and don't give crazy people
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a direct number to the CIA. She wasn't crazy, goddammit. It's the perfect cover.
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She could have been crazy, but she was also a CIA agent. She was absolutely a CIA agent.
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And maybe crazy, but that's okay. You go deep cover because you don't look like a CIA agent.
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You don't have slick back hair. It's not some men in black thing. What a smart thing to do
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to hand it to the fucking, like you're handing money. That's so CIA. Yes. It's straight out of CIA 101.
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And she called the number with the CIA. Yeah. What do you mean? It was in a pizza place next door.
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And I love that she fucking like bombed her by getting the RCMP to fucking show up instead.
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So whoever's following her was like, oh, that was absolutely her and them. Anyway, stay sexy
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and don't give creative. Oh, I already said that. Sorry. The only thing I didn't say
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is the signature, which is just the letter A. Oh, she's in the CIA probably. That's some CIA shit right there.
00:25:44
That's some identity hiding motherfucking bullshit Okay Mine is this one way less murdery than my other two of them Okay This is called The Marshmallow Incident Lighthearted Hello long listener first emailer
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I'm the youngest of four children. We're all very close in age and a pretty physical bunch.
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So there are plenty of stories from my childhood that ended in the emergency room that I could
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tell you about. But one of the more infamous stories took place when I was only about a year old.
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I know the details because it has been told to me about a thousand times. My whole family was roasting marshmallows and palling around in the front yard one summer evening.
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At the time, my brother Micah was three and my sister Naomi was four. Micah wanted to play with one of those plastic yellow wiffle ball bats.
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You know, the kind everyone had growing up. Yep. Yep. His little toddler arms couldn't handle holding the metal skewer with his marshmallow and the bat at the same time.
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So he put the pointy end of the skewer in his mouth to free up his arms. No. Wait, sorry.
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How old? Three? Three. and started reaching for the bat. Baby kebab. My sister was riding around on her tricycle
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and like any bratty older sister, decided that she wanted a yellow bat when she noticed Micah going for it.
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So she rode over and tried to yank it away before he could grab it. In the process, the bat bumped into the skewer in his mouth
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and pushed it all the way back into his throat so far that it actually poked through the fleshy skin
00:27:07
under his ear. Oh no! all right there steven no no steven's perfect that's not okay it happened that's this isn't
00:27:17
creepypasta i i forget that your ears are basically connected to your mouth tender bits
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ear nose throat doctor please no tender bits tender three-year-old bits just like chicken
00:27:30
cutlets cut up and skewered for a delicious summertime treat that right my parents who were presumably busy pouring themselves another glass of wine while all this went down immediately jumped into action threw Micah into the pickup truck and my dad started speeding him to the closest ER
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My dad was too afraid to remove the skewer himself. Good, good. Never remove skewers.
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But little Micah was like, I don't like this, and I want it gone. And he yanked the skewer out while my dad was driving.
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At the ER, the doctors explained that the skewer had missed his carotid artery, the one that supplies all the blood to your brain by less than a centimeter.
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later if it had been punctured he probably would have died if my brother hadn't just pulled the
00:28:10
skewer out himself it would have been an extremely risky surgery to have removed it what yeah but
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lady luck was on our side and micah was sent home half an hour later with a band-aid and a sticker
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to this day metal skewers are strictly forbidden from our house we can only roast marshmallows
00:28:27
with very thin and flimsy sticks we find in the yard and naomi still gets teased for almost
00:28:32
killing our brother over a baseball bat. Yep. Thank you for keeping me entertained
00:28:36
during long commutes and boring days at grad school. SSDGM, Hannah. Holy shit, Hannah.
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That's like, that's why people believe in the Lord or a God of some kind. Right, right.
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Because that's crazy. A miracle. It's a miracle it didn't kill him on the way in
00:28:51
and then a three-year-old performed his own throat surgery. That's right. And lived.
00:28:55
I would like to congratulate Hannah for eliciting the weirdest noises I've ever heard Stephen make in my fucking life.
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Steven, what was that? So sorry. It gets worse every time. It was the flag. Yes.
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And then there was, I think, like, falling off the balcony or something. Yeah. It's just more horrifying.
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Are you gagging? I think I just uttered, yeah, I think it just sounded horror. You feel it.
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Yeah. Yeah, I was, like, feeling it in my... It's happening to you. Yeah. That's how amazing Hannah's storytelling was.
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Hannah, great job. True storytelling. You nailed up. Yeah. Unbelievable. Yeah. Send us your fucked up not fucked up fucked around fucked with stories All of it All of them Don send us fucking stories No fucking stories That not this podcast That not what we about
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That's not what we do. You know that about us. Stop it. And stay sexy. And don't get murdered.
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