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My favorite murder I found because I was looking up my story when we were in Nashville and I,
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this was a really great story, but I didn't want to do it, but I found this hometown about it.
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So I thought it'd be cool. That's the perfect substitute. Yeah. I just want to like bring attention to it,
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but okay. It says it's called, he touched me inappropriately and I think he murdered a girl.
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Tales from a Nashville taxi. Hey there, Karen, Georgia, Steven and Ferdarinos. My name is Jennifer and I'm writing to you from Nashville,
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Tennessee. Long time listener, first time caller. Like most Nashvilleians, This is not my hometown, but it is my home state, and I have a particular connection to this hometown murder, so I'd like to share it with you.
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Sorry for the intro. I feel like you hate that. We hate intros. No. We need you to plunge us directly into the middle of whatever's happening.
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Look, as book writers, we just want you to know. We're only into middles and endings.
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That's right. Fuck your beginnings. I'm going to start with the murder because storytelling.
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Good. It's already killing it. Sweet. So it's February of 2013 on the east side of Nashville.
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It's a very up and coming area with a serious hipster vibe. Think Silver Laker or Brooklyn.
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Livia Smith, a beautiful, vibrant 32-year-old makeup artist, was out hitting her usual haunts.
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She started at the Village Pub. Awesome mule specials, by the way. Hit up the Holland House.
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Bougie craft bar. Too many flavors of bitters, like why? And ended up at Three Crow, which is a dive where it's still legal to smoke.
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Tweet. Oh my gosh. a little after 1 a.m. she realized she was a bit too tipsy and decided to call it a night a few of
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her friends offered to drive her she lived only seven minutes away but she waved them up and said
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she already called a cab witnesses say the driver was male and not caucasian perhaps middle eastern
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or hispanic according to detectives witnesses also say the cab was a yellow van the yellow cab has no
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record of the pickup and nobody seems to have paid much attention to either the vehicle or the driver
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because it's not unusual to see people getting into a taxi around Five Points. No big deal.
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But Livia never made it home. About three and a half hours after she was seen getting to the cab,
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a neighbor heading to work saw an unfamiliar object by the side of the road. It was Livia Smith's lifeless body less than a block away from her house.
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Investigators know the cause of death, blunt force trauma to the head, and they have all but ruled out the widely speculated method, hit and run.
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But was her death an accident, a homicide? Was the taxi driver involved? okay now into my connection it's january 1st 2015 at 12 30 a.m i had just watched the ball drop at a
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friend's house no at a friend's bar i'd been drinking so i took a taxi home i called yellow
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cab and when i left the bar i left in a yellow van the driver a middle eastern man in his 50s
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suggested i sit in the front seat once we got into the freeway he began forcefully grabbing me
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fondling me and attempting to slide his hands up my dress despite my numerous pleas to stop
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I was absolutely horrified and nothing I did or said seemed to sway him to want to leave me the fuck alone.
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I was hyper aware of the fact that we were going 75 miles an hour on the interstate.
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And if I was too aggressive, i.e. slapped him or screamed at him that I was in danger.
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I think in retrospect, that was his intention. Yeah. When I got home, I called the taxi company and filed a complaint.
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They refused to give me any details about my driver. Suddenly, it seemed there was no record of me even taking a taxi.
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the managers wouldn't take me seriously or even hint that this was a bad thing one manager even said he probably thought you were cute
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uh these guys with this chuckle in his voice like i'd be flattered oh my god for reals he
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thinks i'm cute question mark question mark i obviously called the cops after that then about
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seven weeks later a young student from belmont university was raped by the same driver no way
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they had my report which included the phone number i'd saved from when he called to say he was outside
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the bar. Amazing. And now they had a second victim. They arrested him within a few days.
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I also sued the taxi company. Nice. Good. Yep. When I finally found a lawyer, a fantastic lawyer,
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I might add I was informed that my attacker was a suspect in well obviously Livia Smith murder Oh my God I just think that there are too many similarities The yellow van the driver the unwillingness of the taxi company to cooperate
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not to mention the very plausible scenario in which he assaulted her in the same way and she fought him.
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Yeah. All of this is speculation, of course, because now, thanks to a shoddy plea deal with the DA,
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he's serving 18 months for my sexual battery case and the other victims full on rape.
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There is no justice. Right, Georgia? Right. And I'm starting to think that speculation is all there will ever be.
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Thank you for everything you do. Love listening to the podcast. It's my Thursday highlight.
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Keep doing you. You're the bee's knees. SSDGM, Jen. Fuck. I know. So how does a person that could have been a suspect in a murder just get 18 months?
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That's a great question. Please. Flea deals. Yeah, but yeah, I just, that's really intense and really fucked up.
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It's so scary and sad that she must be thinking like, I know it happened because it happened to me almost.
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And there's nothing you can do about it. I mean, I just wonder if there's some kind of lack of evidence to connect them in a real way.
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Well, the taxi company really should be ashamed of themselves. I really like that idea that she just went and sued.
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It's like they are responsible for those people. That's the whole reason there is licensing and taxi.
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I mean, it's just insanity. Let's move on to something more lighthearted. Can we please?
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My mom, Diane Downs, VIP wedding guest. Yeah. Dear George and Karen, the sassiest ladies I feel like I know, lovely Stephen and all the animals.
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If you came to my house and took a look at our bookshelves, they'd probably seem pretty ordinary.
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On closer inspection, however, you'd notice that dotted about are a number of Ann rule books, part of my mom's extensive collection.
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When I was a kid, I thought it kind of strange that we owned all these books about murder.
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Little did I know that in a few short years, I would catch the bug and become a diehard fan of a podcast named My Favorite Murder, Such Is Life.
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In the mid-80s, my mom was living in Oregon and working as a judge's law clerk. Therefore, she was involved in one of the most notorious trials in the state's history, that of Diane Downs.
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It was an extremely stressful situation for everyone involved. Hearing the prosecution describe how Diane shot her children in cold blood was a harrowing experience.
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Listening to Christy, Diane's surviving daughter, testify against her mother after a year spent recovering physically from being shot and suffering a stroke as a result and healing emotionally from the trauma was an experience my mom will never forget.
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In fact, she describes the trial to this day as an event that really shook her foundations and shaped her as a person.
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My mom also went to interview Diane a couple times in prison to gather more information about her relationship with her children.
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But Diane didn't want to talk about them. Oh, no. She was much more focused on her upcoming fantasy wedding with her pen pal, Randall Woodfield, a.k.a. the I-5 killer.
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No! Remember the football player guy? I covered him a while ago. You've done both these stories.
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That's crazy. A match made in heaven, no? So in Diane's eyes, my mom had become such a good friend during those few visits that she just had to come to the wedding, which, in case you didn't know, didn't happen much to my disappointment.
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Can you imagine the stories? I just want to say a little thanks to my mom who listens to the podcast for carefully nurturing my love for many things, but most importantly, true crime.
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Without that encouragement and possibly even a genetic predisposition for an interest in murder, I wouldn't have come across your podcast.
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And then I don't know where I'd be. Stay sexy and never turn down an invite to a prison wedding.
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Natalie from Scotland. Amazing. Natalie. That's a good story. I mean, it's that is such a like post.
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I usually don't like it like personal serial killer, personal life stuff. It's just all so creepy.
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Fuck them. But Diane Downs is like, it's almost like just continuing proof that she was this like flaming psychopath.
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Yeah. And like no remorse at all. Not even able to cover, like a woman's there to do, to gather information about her children.
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And she can't fake it because she's like, oh my God, I got a letter from a guy. I'm in love.
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Okay. This one, I mean, this is like a heavy hitters episode. I feel like this is called Creepy Van, Nail File, and My Badass Mom.
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Hey, y'all. Like, amazing. Y'all. Y'all is my favorite word. Okay. My fiance and I were on a road trip when he introduced me to your podcast.
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It obviously went good because we listened to it there and back. Seven hour trip.
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And here I am writing to you. Hi. When my mom was 16, which would have been back in the 70s, she was walking down town in a
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very small town when a van pulled up next to her and two men in the front seat asked
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her for directions. Then it says, how fucking common, right? She stepped closer to the van to point on the map when a man jumped out of the back and
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pulled her into the van. she was in the van with two men in the front and two men on both sides of her in the back
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uh my the driver told her how they were going to kill her my mom somehow managed to hold onto her
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purse when the man pulled her into the van she reached into her purse when the driver asked what
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she was doing she replied getting a cigarette out is that a fucking issue but instead she pulled out
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a nail file the ones with the pointy stab in yes and stabbed the driver in the back of the neck
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fuck yeah girl bought the guys next to her and managed to open the van door and jump out of the
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moving vehicle yes amazing stab everybody and get out and fucking run file their fucking jugular vein
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down to a nub and get out i'll give your neck a manicure bitch luckily they were still in town
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and she jumped out in front of a bar where a few men were able to get her inside and calm her down
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they called the police and she was able to describe the men and the van but the men were never caught
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She has always taught me to have something in my purse at all times to be able to save my life.
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And I hope I can pass that advice along as well Because without that nail file I not sure if my mom would be here today or shit me either stay sexy and nail file save lives samantha north carolina yes samantha say
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hi to your mom for us yes man and and then high five her for being a badass that's right because
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also yeah she had to think of it do it and then act do a little meryl streep acting yeah of like
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I'm trying to smoke you fucking asshole. Is that okay with you? Yeah. Which I actually recommend.
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It went in doubt. If you take the bitch route, it at least kind of dazzles people a little bit.
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Like it's that time I got pulled over and my friends, I was stone cold sober, but all my friends were like blind drunk in the back.
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Cause we'd just been to their wedding. And the cop tried to pull me over right as we were turning into the hotel.
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And I refused to pull over. Cause I was like, no, we're almost there. And so then he was like,
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pull to the right. He went insane. And I just, there's a part in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, where they're like, if a cop pulls you over,
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you have to get aggressive. And you and it's like, you shock and awe them. And then they might let
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you go. And I just was like, Yeah, can you see that there's a drunk bride in the backseat? I just
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started yelling at this cop. Meanwhile, I didn't have shoes on. And my eyes were bright red,
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because I had had contacts in all day long. But I honestly, I was so cold sober. You only do that
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if you're confident enough that you haven't done anything wrong. Yeah, I was actually doing the
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rightest thing that anyone in that city was doing that night because everyone was shit-faced i'm just
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like no not me and then he basically made like three people get out and walk and let let us go
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wow so it worked okay i'm just saying it works when you like instead of it it just surprises
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people and they don't know what to do yeah like a cocky confidence yeah like yeah you fucking
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asshole let me smoke in your car yeah and like a like a snap decision too like not even like
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taking a beat it's like no i'm fucking here yeah and also you can put your cigarette out on people
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too that that fucks with them yeah fireworks on hair um and skin yeah um i love all of it also
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it's a good way to like re-channel your fear yeah because you can channel fear right into aggressive
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like bitchy aggressiveness um that's a good acting style you can take one and it seems like the other
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Every family has its fair share of crazies. I happen to have a crazy Aunt Janet on both sides.
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One of which is the attention-seeking compulsive liar type that you can talk about and laugh at the ridiculous things she believes she can get away with, while the other Janet is the reason I'm writing you.
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my dad is the youngest of nine siblings all of which my badass grandma raised on her own as a
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widow in northern indiana we grew up several states away from all my extended family so i
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always assumed not meeting the other aunt janet had something to do with distance or just bad
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timing of our visits nope typical story of kids not being included in all the details of what's
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really happening growing up i would get bits and pieces of janet stealing people's identities
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credit cards and all that. They believed this included her victimizing family members too,
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including my dad. But thankfully it seemed to just end up in changing cards moving on and trying to guess at whatever name Janet would be going by now Then several years down the road my grandma gets a call all caps from the FBI
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They asked if Janet had contacted her recently and informed her that she was dangerous and my grandma was to make them aware if Janet tried to reach out or contact her in any way.
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Turns out Aunt Janet wasn't satisfied with your typical stealing. she decided to go in a more Dorothea Puente direction.
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She apparently had conned several elderly people into letting her be a caregiver
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all the while she would collect their social security checks except when she was on the verge of getting caught
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she didn't bury them in the yard she would freaking set the house on fire to start on to the next victim.
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Oh my god. This happened dozens of times across several states. Since then no one in the family has heard from her
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but she is still wanted by the FBI and is still at large. Because of this, I had to get my dad's permission on writing this in,
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in which he requested that I change her actual name because of how dangerous and clever she is.
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He said not to underestimate what she's capable of, which isn't at all ominous to hear from your dad.
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I'm thankful my dad made sure that my sister and I always had more than a healthy fear of creeps,
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to the point where we weren't allowed to spend the night at any of our friends' houses,
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which was aggravating until I understood more when I got older. He also made sure I read The Gift of Fear, which is a book I recommend everyone read at some point.
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I'm so thankful also to have you to keep me knowledgeable in all sorts of ways to stay sexy and not get murdered.
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And while in line for the meet and greet, my closest friend Chloe and I recovered memory of why I started listening to the podcast.
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It's literally because Chloe had accidentally ingested her dad's ashes and made me listen to the hometown in Minnesota 80,
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where the woman kept her mom's ashes in her car for over a year and then accidentally inhaled some
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of her mom in her attempt at releasing the ashes. And I've been a fan ever since.
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Oh my God. That story gets mentioned all the time. It's such a good one. It's so legendary. You ladies have helped me have more confidence in my life. And not only that,
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you've helped me have more confidence about having to use store-bought serotonin.
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But far more importantly, you've helped Chloe through one of the toughest years of her life
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in ways that I couldn't and I cannot express how grateful I am for that. Stay sexy and make sure your family is the ha-ha kind of crazy
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and not the wanted by the FBI kind. Audrey. Chloe and Audrey. Yeah. Thank you. So sweet.
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That's so sweet. I'm crying. So those were all fake names. Okay. Just so everyone's aware.
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I love that she made up the name Janet as a crazy person. No offense. She's not wrong.
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Okay. This is called Permanent Pixie Cut. Lighthearted. And it just starts, Hi. Growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, formerly known as Murder Capital USA.
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Oh, I didn't know that. I've been a murderer, you know, as far back as I can remember.
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I have about 20 stories I could share with you guys from the not one, not two, but three dead bodies.
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My dad came across as a kid with his friends. Whoa. Stand by me style. Because my grandma's house was on a road used by the mob for body dumping.
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Oh, shit. Or my great uncle, who worked as an intelligence agent, was mysteriously found burned to death in the local elementary school playground.
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Oh my god. And then it says, for another time. That's great. This is a story from my middle school years that still makes me cringe to this day.
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As my friends and I were all shuffling into our first of many shitty summer jobs, my hilarious
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best friend at the time started working at our local movie theater. One of the perks of her job was unlimited free movies that she could bring a friend to,
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and I just happened to be her friend of choice for the Bring It On movie showing one hot
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afternoon. Sure. we sat in the back of a very dead theater giggling and sipping sodas
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with only a mom and her daughter a few rows in front of us about 10 minutes into this terrible film
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I felt something yank on my ponytail and immediately turned to my bestie who was known as a jokester
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totally capable of such fuckery she just laughed as I smacked her and we turned back to watch Kirsten Dunst
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do cheer literary stuff that we really couldn't give two shits about because we were punk rock wannabes
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but hey what can I say free movie The show was about halfway over when something drew my attention to the mom and daughter duo sitting ahead of us.
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I watched in horror as a gnarled man's hand reached up from the floor behind them and gently started petting the daughter's long hair hanging over her movie seat.
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Again, I smacked my friend, but this time it was to get her attention as I was too horrified to form words.
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As she finally figured out what I was staring at, she shot up out of her seat and said, oh shit, it's him again, and bolted out of the theater.
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What? she failed to mention that there had been a guy who would sneak into theaters
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lay on the floor and touch women's hair during movies apparently they had never been able to catch the dude because he would somehow leave undetected every time
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until that day it's just so sticky it's like they can't catch the stickiest man in the world
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do you see shit like lollipops sticking to him like he's got popcorn embedded on his back
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horn and old that might be him so gross um still sitting confused and completely creeped out i
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watched as the lights went up the movie cut off and two security guards marched in to pull this
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guy off the floor yeah he's like thanks yeah um he was gaunt with the beatiest little black eyes
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i'd ever seen i wish i could forget his face my friend was in the back standing by her manager
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and the mom and daughter were near hysterical when they were told what had just happened
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Shaken but stoked to see all this excitement, my true crime love and brain slowly began to realize that it probably wasn't my best friend who had pulled my hair at the beginning of the movie.
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No, no, it wasn't. Needless to say, I marched right over to the great clips across the plaza and said, one pixie cut, please.
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And I've sure as hell kept that short hair for the last 20 years. Side note, I've never seen the rest of Bring It On because I'm pretty sure I got to watch the best ending possible for that movie.
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Stay sexy and keep it short, Nicole. God damn. She's lucky enough to have that choice.
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Not all of us can go get a pixie cut. That's right. They'd be like, no, I think, how about you keep it above?
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I'll just do a bun. I'll keep it in a bun. But the idea that, once again, there is a story about a creep who lays on the floor at the movie theater.
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It's like a, it's a thing. Just picture the floor of the movie theater right now.
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That's part of it for them, though, too. I think it is. It's like those guys that get into, um, into the, like, the kidnop.
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I was going to say, at campgrounds, they have, like, the permanent but open toilets.
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there have been there have been people caught in those scuba outfits i'm not kidding look it up
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look it up look it up look it up look it up if you don't believe me i refuse send us an email
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if you know about one it's so awful so awful but yeah i i find the movie theater laying on the
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floor is only two steps away from that it's just disgusting uh the subject line of this last one
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is my friend lived in ed kemper's murder house wow uh-huh right hi karen and georgia first off
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Thanks so much for your podcast. I listen to you every week. After listening to episode 39, I thought you might be interested in hearing about my hometown connection.
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One day in early August, I was going to the 13th birthday party of my friend Kiki.
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Kiki! I had a friend who used to call me Kiki because it was so not me. Can I call you that now?
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You can. Totally. It's such a good nickname. It is. My parents were unable to drive me for some reason.
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So that day, my grandpa drove me to Kiki's house. I gave him the invitation so that he could read the address and he did a double take.
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Are you sure this is the address? He asked me. I told him, yes. I'd been there a million times before.
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He started the car and explained that he knew Kiki address because she lived in the house of Ed Kemper a the famous co killer Holy shit He then proceeded to tell me how back in the seventies Santa Cruz was the murder capital of the world Oh my God
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And he relayed right against, up against Youngstown, Ohio. Fight, fight, fight. Turn it over.
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And he relayed the entire horrific story of the Ed Kemper's murder spree of Ed Kemper's murder spree.
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Don't need that. This included the details that women had been dismembered in Kiki's bathtub and their head had been buried.
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their heads had been buried in Kiki's backyard. This was all told to me during the drive to the party
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while I was clutching Kiki's birthday present. He then dropped me off in her driveway and waved goodbye.
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Grandpas are the best. How fun do you think it is to be a grandparent? Anyway, toodaloo.
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I don't want to be a mom, but I want to be a grandparent real bad. That's all only the good stuff.
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I was totally shocked and traumatized. And when I entered Kiki's home, I was freaking the fuck out.
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in my state of horror and because I wasn't that popular and didn't know how to socialize
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I told everyone at the party that we were in a murder house oh welcome home oh my god suddenly
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a bunch of kids were in a frenzy and Kiki realized that I was the one blabbing this story to all of
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her guests she had no idea she lived in his house until that moment as her mom had reasonably kept
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that information on the down low. I completely ruined her 13th birthday party in my idiocy.
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Kiki, I am so sorry. It's in parentheses. And I'm sure I must have pissed off her mom, too.
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Miraculously, Kiki didn't hate me after this. And almost eight years later, we're still good friends.
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So cute. She sometimes reminds me of my big mouth and how I tanked her birthday celebration which is completely deserved Funnily enough she is now super into true crime and she a huge fan of My Favorite Murder She the one who recommended it to me and that why I started listening
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Kiki! Kiki! Stay sexy and don't fucking tell your entire eighth grade class that you're all hanging out at a crime scene.
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Kelsey. Oh. This is, like, you could not be more one of us if you fucking tried, Kelsey.
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that's like that's you could take all those nouns substitute them for other things and that's how i
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lived my entire life that's how you and i became friends that's right exactly it's just like oh i
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i feel social anxiety i'm gonna fix that by talking about the thing i'm interested in yeah
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or not even social anxiety it's like oh i'm so i'm so interested in this everyone i need to tell
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everyone of course you want to know that there are severed heads buried in the backyard oh yeah
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you want to know that down the street from we're out right now someone got you killed once yeah
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Everyone would want to know that. No. What? Why? Where are you going? What eighth grade girls don't want to know about people being dismembered in the bathtub?
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Amazing. Oh, just. I bet they got that house for a song. But also to live there.
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Oh, I mean, that's. God, it's so much. Because even if it was, you know, it was the house where they did something creepy.
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You're always on the verge of it. Aside from the fact that these are some of the worst murders that have ever taken place.
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How do you keep a secret like that when there's like kids and town talk involved?
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Yeah. It's not like you're going to be able to like, okay, can we just not tell Kiki, please?
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Yeah. Of course. The grandpa knew the address. Yeah. What? And he. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing.
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Happy birthday, Kiki. Happy birthday, Kiki. Send us all your fucked up emails like that That was great My favorite murder at Gmail We want to hear them or just go on the website You can submit a hometown there Yep MyFavoriteMurder And stay sexy And don get murdered
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