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Oh, hometown murders, right? That's what it was all based on. You know, fun stuff. Here we go.
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Are you ready? I'm ready. Do you want to go first this time? No, I don't want to screw this up for everyone.
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God forbid. Let's not break it if it's already fixed. Right? It's so fixed this way.
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It's a fixie. The subject line of this one is, my dad found one of the victims of the machete murder,
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but fucking didn't tell me for 26 years. Dad. Hello from the airport. Hi. Hi. I flew home for New Year's to spend some time with my family.
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One night, some friends from college came to my parents' house for dinner. My friend and I talked about different serial killers we love, in parentheses, you know what I mean,
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for a solid 45 minutes at the dinner table before my dad decides to chime in. He asked, has the podcast that you like done Juan Corona?
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You did that one, right? Which one was that? Juan Corona. I think you did. Okay.
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We said that we didn't think so, as it didn't sound familiar. I asked why he asked about this one specifically.
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He talked for a full few minutes about the guy before casually mentioning that he found one of the bodies.
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Oh, I know. This was, this was. Guy Branham's. The hometown. Yep. Okay. Exactly right.
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I have to stop saying that now. That's the name of our company. Correct, Georgia.
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He then carried on with this conversation without going into any detail. I sat there shell shocked for a few seconds before shouting, hold up, start from the beginning and tell me everything.
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Apparently in the early 70s, my grandfather was testing the water in aquifers below orchards in Northern California.
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And my dad helped him dig holes in said orchards. One day my dad was digging a hole and came across a human hand.
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My dad and grandpa apparently were more annoyed than freaked out because they had to stop digging for the day.
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They went home. That's so they're fronting. They went home and called the police who came and dug up the rest of the body.
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It turns out the body was one of the 25 farm workers that Juan Corona, a.k.a. the machete murderer, killed in a four-month span in 1971.
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Oh, my God. That's the guy that he would kill the migrant workers and bury them in the orchards and nobody could trace them.
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Took their money and shit. Yeah. Yeah. My grandpa then made up joke business cards with, quote, sorry I missed you, Juan Corona.
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Oh, my God. I have no idea who he gave these cards to, but it's the only funny thing my grandpa has ever done.
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My dad swears he's told me this story, but I guarantee I would have remembered my dad finding the body of a serial killer victim.
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Stay sexy and never dig holes in an orchard. Cat. Oh, my God. Sorry I missed you.
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I wonder how many untold bad stories there are waiting to be told to murdering us right at this very moment.
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There's, I think, bottomless goal minds of them. That's right. Dads are so quiet.
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That's men are raised to keep it all inside. Which they should. We appreciate it.
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Yeah. I mean, shut up. No one cares. But however. Okay. Share your feelings. Okay.
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This is called when a beauty school student encounters a serial killer. Okay. Greetings all.
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My name is Sarah and I live in San Diego. I actually just got tickets for your January San Diego show for Christmas a couple days ago and I so excited I be going with my mom who this story is about Guess what It happened last week the other day It was so much fun
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It was really, really good. What's up, San Diego? We could feel her presence. We could.
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Even though I was born and raised in San Diego, half of my childhood was spent driving up the California coastline
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and spending entire summers in Northern California, north of Napa Valley, where my mother is from.
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It sounds like Petaluma to me. I'm sorry. What's up? She had quite a few crazy stories about her time in Northern California.
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And my favorite one is this. When my mother was 17 or 18 years old, she went to beauty school in Napa Valley.
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It was a small school that was located on a small one-way street. And if you've ever been to a beauty school, you know that nine times out of ten,
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they have one of those huge glass windows that are floor to ceiling so people walking by could look in,
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see a student doing hair, and possibly come in. As a three-month beauty school dropout, I agree with all of this.
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You get this? I'm here to corroborate this. What did you learn? Did you learn anything that you still remember?
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A little bit. I learned how to do finger waves because it was the 1920s, apparently.
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And they've never updated their beauty school shit. Right. Start with the basics.
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Right. And then just a little bit. I can still cut my bangs pretty well, but that's about it.
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Nice. Okay. My mother was always positioned at the very last chair right next to the window.
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Well, one day in the middle of a sunny afternoon, what seemed like the entire Napa Valley police
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force and surrounding counties forces descended on this very small, very tight little one-way
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street from all directions. There were cars pulling up onto the sidewalks and sirens blaring.
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Across the street from the beauty school, less than 40 feet from where my weather was
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standing next to the window, there was a phone booth. 20 minutes earlier, the Zodiac Killer had called the police from that phone booth.
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Oh my fucking God. Needless to say, the police went in every shop and questioned all the people inside,
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but no one remembers seeing anything or anyone of significance. I always tease my mom that it was the one lone male beauty school student
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who snuck out the back door and went around to make the call. Maybe. She said that they have a scene similar to this scenario in Karen's favorite movie, Zodiac.
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Though that doesn't mean much since he was always calling and taunting police, so I'm sure that was an amalgamation of different phone calls.
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Looking forward to seeing you next month. Already happened. I can't wait to hear what stories you come up with.
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Already did them. Did them. always sarah oh god i don't know why that's so exciting to me because if she had looked up at
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the phone booth which she probably didn't just didn't there was nothing i was normal dude with
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a crew cut and those army issue black frank glasses right how do you go amazing yeah write
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this down yeah you wouldn't also i'm thinking of the city of napa in she said it was the 70s right
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I think so. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like a tiny town. Tiny. Like this is pre wine boom. So Napa is just another little burg over a hill. Yeah. Like it's not big at all. I just can't. I it's like I'm weirdly starstruck. It's not healthy. Okay. That's what this podcast theme is. It's not healthy. To be starstruck. Starstruck. Okay. The subject line of this is FBI raid at my neighbor's house two weeks ago. Oh my God. Hi, all. My name is Claudia. And I am a 16 year old listener.
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Claudia, go to bed. Hi, Claudia. Hi, Claudia. I love Taylor Swift, too. I have always been interested in true crime, and while listening to this podcast, wished
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I had a hometown murder I could share. That all changed two weeks ago when my neighbors had their house raided by the FBI.
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Holy shit. That all changed. Okay. I live in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a typical suburban neighborhood.
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Two streets down from me is the most expensive house in Raleigh. The houses in my neighborhood are very modest and nothing fancy, so this mansion is out
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of place being at the end of the street with old dirty townhomes here's the story an older russian
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couple couple lived in the mansion with their also russian housekeeper housekeeper's husband
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and son the wife was having an affair with the housekeeper's son oh my god the husband found out
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and hired a hit man to have the son be kidnapped taken into the woods forced to admit he was having
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sex with the wife on video and then be killed. Holy shit. There's a lot of other info that isn't important, but basically the murder plot never went through.
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The FBI found out and raided the house and the couple got busted for money laundering
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and a ton of other charges. My dad also told me that they had an apartment downtown filled with guns.
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Like a little pied-a-terre downtown. Sorry if this doesn't make sense. My neighborhood is...
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it was perfectly written perfectly honey i know 16 you're always doubting yourself but you nailed
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it perfect uh my neighborhood is full of other crazy white people like the cute young couple
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everyone loved who are busted for having a secret 12 year old daughter locked in the basement that
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they had been physically and mentally abusing for years holy shit she buried the lead she went
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russian first when this is the fucking oh my god yeah my next door neighbor's car has also been
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broken into three times while everyone was sleeping so maybe it's time to move please don't
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move away without your parents um claudia don't do it love the podcast and sorry this email was
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so long i have other fun ghost stories that i will send in a separate email if you're interested
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we are stay sexy and move out of your country club neighborhood claudia i love it amazing
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stay at the um pod office if you want that's right okay that was great 16 year olds send us
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your stories. We want to hear from you. That's right. And go to bed. Now go to bed. Tased and
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covered in cooking oil A first responder story Oh no no Yes Dear Karen Georgia Steven and animals My boyfriend was a first responder for some time and among the numerous wild calls he encountered this one by far is my favorite My boyfriend worked as an EMT at an ambulance company in Milwaukee Wisconsin One day he was stationed downtown and he received a call for a tased person Upon arrival he soon came to realize there was a bit more going on than just a tasing
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Yeah. In the entrance of an apartment building, there was a female lying face down, wearing a crop top and booty shorts, arms handcuffed behind her back, and covered head to toe in cooking oil.
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No. No. What a sight to see at eight in the morning. For some reason, I feel like dousing yourself in cooking oil would be a nighttime activity.
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Hey, to each his own. That's right. Everybody has a different jam. Or oil. she had been she had just been tased and first responders called to transport her to the hospital
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for medical clearance could uh before she could be arrested okay so the handcuffs were from the
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cops oh good okay she had been tased by them right and now she had to be checked out this was all a
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a city a city ordinance based tasing minus yeah the cooking oil is the thing that probably wasn't
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by the cops. Yeah, that happened before. The cooking oil dousing was personal. And it's probably
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reason why she was tased, I'm sure. Yeah, that interplayed with the reason. Exactly.
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Let's see. This brought up the task of moving her to a cot to transport her in an ambulance.
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Good luck! This is normally an easy task. However, the woman refused to move and was covered in cooking oil.
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The boyfriend said their gloves were just sliding off her body. They needed a few extra hands to
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move her. Then it turned into a porn. It ended up taking six oil covered individuals to get her on
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a cot and strap her down. They essentially had to yank her up by the handcuffs. Ow. Yeah. After
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this ordeal, the first responders hands, uniforms and everything in the back of the ambulance was
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coated in oil. My boyfriend said they had to return to the station and switch out equipment
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before their next call because they couldn't use any of it due to being so greasy. Hopefully this
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woman got the help she needed and won't have to cover herself in oil again for who knows what
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reason my boyfriend has no idea what she was getting arrested for or why she looked like she
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just came out of a deep fryer stay sexy and keep the cooking oil in the kitchen kelly oh embarrassing
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if you just if you're just trying to do a super moisturizing yeah treatment conditioner yeah
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treatment everyone's like put put coconut oil all over yourself and she's like the one time i do it
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I get fucking arrested. The one time I do it, I get into a fight with my neighbor while I'm doing it.
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Right. Which would have happened at any time. I just happen to be my. But I was especially worked up because I was covered in oil.
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Right. Yeah. Insane. I thought my fear, it sounded so much, so much more horrible.
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I thought they just came upon a woman who was handcuffed, laying in a doorway, having been tased.
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Like that it was all separate and she was by herself. No, she got. No. horrifying yeah yeah okay that's yeah it's not that it's a best case scenario right it was this
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it was a self-oiling yes it was be you be proud yeah oil it up okay yeah we're fine we're fine
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Goodbye. my last one here the subject line is a ghost saved my life right oh are you gonna am i It might as well say a love letter to Karen Kuliar It my favorite I love it Listen to this shit
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That's how it starts. That is how it's done. Yeah. Listen to this shit. On New Year's Eve, when I was six months old, my parents laid me down for bed one night
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Huh? It being the 80s, he was forced to get up and turn down the TV as we didn't have a remote, in parentheses, which they still tell me to this day is the reason they had me to change the channel.
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That was a dramatic wording. who okay woke her up to ask her to ask if it was her and upon realizing it wasn't then rushed to my
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room they rushed to my room your daughter's amazing whistler a baby whistler baby whistler
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my room was ice cold but i was drenched in sweat when they took my temperature it was 105.4
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x-ray of my chest which they found my lungs filled with pneumonia the doctors told my parents how
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lucky they were to have brought me because i could have been dead within hours if not for them
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checking on me fast forward to the fourth of july where our next our neighbors were throwing a pool
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party my dad started talking to the wife who had lived there for 30 years and out of curiosity
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my dad shit his pants at that point and probably had a look of shock and horror on his face.
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stopped whistling when her newborn daughter passed away from pneumonia no no no stay sexy
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care if this is fake it's great writing and if it's real even better oh my god isn't that
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i mean dude a hundred distant beautiful whistling in and of itself is insanely creepy
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yeah but but then gorgeous also a baby she's still there isn't she she's still there isn't she
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maybe dismantle that side of the house. There's something in the, there's something in the walls or something.
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Brightening. Put your baby to sleep in the kitchen from now on. Please move that crib over by the microwave.
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And the microwave starts going off. Look at you and your whistle. Isn't that the most beautiful pneumonia whistling you've ever heard?
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I have a little one, but I feel like that is a great way to end it. Okay. Your story.
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Whatever you want. Next week. That was beautiful. so beautiful so beautiful touching touching feeling whistling whistling loving oil learning
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