March 5, 2018 • 20 mins
This week's hometowns include sand dune sinkholes, suspicious thrift store finds, and a horrifying call-in story about babysitting.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hello, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder Minyaso, Minyaso.
It's from Manyasset, you know, Manhasset, your.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Favorite place where we tell you your own stories about
maybe about murder, maybe about razors, maybe about stuffan walls,
maybe about sinkholes, maybe about something you found out about
your grandpa when he dies.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Maybe it's that your grandpa is an alien.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Maybe your grandpa was a sinkhole.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Maybe your grandpa is the center of the earth. Uh huh,
made of hot magma where the Lochness Monster is passing
through on his way from one lake to the other.
That's right, that's how they travel.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Listen, look, look, and listen to our our fucking rambling
bullshit on your way to work Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This is an organized podcast of single topic true crime.
You can't handle it.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We take you. We take this very you. We take
you very seriously. We take it very seriously, and.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We take every topic that exists seriously.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Let's do this. No bullshitting. Okay, you go first.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No bullshit, that's our guarantee to you. This one says
mom had a banger hometown, Oh, Georgia, Karen Stephen, So
my mom had a banger for me tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's British.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Write that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, like the party Yep, it's like a party sausage.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's a little one, really long party sausages that you
cut up into thirty piece That's what I was going
to say. Did you mean the mani ones with too?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Like the little ones that you make into pigs in
a blanket? Oh? How good are those little smokey little smokies.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You can also take them camping guys. Focus please, So
my mom had a banger for me tonight, kept insisting
she's told me, But no fucking way I would have
forgotten this horrifying Joe. My mother grew up in Homboldt,
South Dakota. Oh it's not British at all, in a
small trailer house with her parents, raging alcoholic father, younger
(02:16):
brother Barry, and little sister Becky. One night, my mom
says she was out late with friends, smoking dope. As
she recalls, yep, Brenda is the bees me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh my god, name is Brenda. There's no children named Brenda.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, that's done. The Brenda's and the Carla's, and the
Denise's and the Ryls.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Are not You know, what can you picture a little baby,
little sweet baby. And now picture it's named Barbara. That
has always been to me like that, like when I
meet a person named Barbara, and like you are a
baby named Barbara, a baby name.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Although Barbara Gray, who is all of our mutual friends,
I love her name on her.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think it suits her perfect. It's so perfect. But
it's almost like it's like an eighties sitcom. Name her perfectly. Yeah,
and now we're bullshit.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's the height of bullshit you. But also, if you
haven't listened to the Lady to Lady podcast, that's how
you're going to get to know Barbara Gray and her friends.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That's why we told you this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, that's that we planned it. We rehearsed it twice
and now we're executing it. And we did a great job. Okay,
here's the thing about this email. That's ready. Okay, So
she's the Beasneys smoking pot with her friends. Comes home late.
She had thought that her brother Barry was still out
with his friends while her younger sister was in the
front yard having a quote camp out sleepover and a tent.
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She had gotten ready for bed and climbed in the
way her bed was placed. She could see directly down
her hallway, and after she got in bed that night,
she remembers looking down the hallway and seeing a man
crawling down the hallway towards her. Crawling, not walking on
but on his fucking hands and knees.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That's the most menacing way to move towards someone.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It's straight out of like the ring. It's very because
then the next thing that happens is their elbows turn in.
It all goes backwards, and then they go up a
wall like a crab.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, she tried to scream, but it was, of course,
the reaction of I'm too fucking terrified to find my
own goddamn voice the worst. But the intruder heard her
squeak and froze even scarier. She finally found her voice
and screamed for her dad. From there, her dad, mother,
and brother, a brother holding a rifle.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I thought it was going to be her brother in
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, it was not her brother in the hallway. They
go on, uh, running down the hall after this guy.
He decided to fucking hide behind the tent. Oh my god,
where the little girl is in where my young aunt
and her friend were sleeping. My uncle Barry lines up
a shot as my mom's dad leaps and says, don't
shoo the girls. The guy ended up running off. They
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still have no idea who the man was.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh no, I thought I was gonna be whimsical and
funny because her brother was really drunken crawling to his bed.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, that's what I thought was gonna happen. No, if
her brother was drunk, he got a shit right back together,
grabbed the rifle in his room.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, no, it wasn't him. I thought that's how it
would go.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I mean, he came for the rescue, he was there.
But no, there was a full on, fucking crawling intruder
in their house. No, horrifying.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I hate it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
If this ever gets on your cast, I may shit
a brick. So I hope to hear my mom's fucked
up story told by one of your angelic voices. Stay
fucking sexy and don't get goddamn murdered. Nicole, Well done,
Nicole Cole, Go shit a brick. Please go tell a
fucking clothes Barbara Brenda, Brenda Brenda. We say, hi, hey, banger,
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that was a banger? Okay, Oh she meant it. In
the Miley Cyrus way banger.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
There's a Miley Cyrus way to say banger. Yeah, I
don't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And an album to back it up.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Really, I don't know anything about pop culture.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That might be banger's plural anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Huh oh.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Kids these days they're going around being political and smart
with the tongues out, with what they're tongues out. Okay,
this is called thrifted murder dress. Hello, everybody perfect. When
I was with a but a Wee Lass, my mom
was an avid thrifter with no college degree and a
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small child to raise. She started selling thrifted goods on eBay.
Think those teenagers on Deepop but Circon nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't know what any of that means.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Was that some kind of Korean reference?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I think D pop d epop is like an vintage
clothing selling app. Oh someone in line I was like,
where did you get your dress at the meet and greet?
And they said that and I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, So it might be an online store or app.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I remember being obsessed with the eBay and it
was just like, this was nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And yes, at the time, it was so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, the countdown part was the best part. Oh my god,
they didn't have a buy it now.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Shit. No, like you had to in the oridge to
hang in, like you had to find your thing this
is the lamp from my childhood and then.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Fight against other fucking asshole and wherever the fuck would
buy it from right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Out under you for like a penny more.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And that's the reason that you thought you wanted that.
Things about that you actually didn't need or want it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh my god, now we just okay. One day she
found a beautiful nineteen forties dress. The problem it had
bloodstains and what appeared to be a hole from some
from where someone got stabbed. What funny enough, she bought
the dress despite its obvious flaws. At the time, she
thought she could cut she could cut the zipper and
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sell it since there was a market for them, but
she eventually got creeped out and threw the dress away. Well,
we have found some cool stuff at the good will
since then, like ten thousand dollars cash. I'm not joking.
What tell us that story? Did you knew hometown requests? Yes,
random shit you found in like crazy places, found things.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Found things, found store things is awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Doun throw store things maybe like anything found.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Especially money, all big piles of money that you just
kind of found, ten.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thousand dollars cash.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You would shit, that's a that's a drug blazer. I
thought you meant, now we can buy that drug blazer.
Always want to know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That fucking smart tweed blazer with the elbow pockets that
smells a little bit like cigars, but secretly the person's
a coke dealer.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Exactly, you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, we have unfortunately not found another murder dress. As
a kid, I didn't think much of the incident, but
now murderingo me wonders if this dress was part of
some old timey unsolved murder anyway. See all in March, Judy, God,
I can't read today.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, see in March, Judy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
See in March, Judy, juice, are we just gonna wear
that dress?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
March dinner plans with Judy for the live Los Angeles. Ah,
you know, March.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
March is the month where Karen and I leave our
apartments houses and venture out into the world.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We go, and then we'll just kind of dine with
whoever emails us. It happens all the time, Uh, that
was a good story. I mean that is the idea
that that just could be a floating piece of evidence
that they no one got something.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Something like small town jurisdiction was like emptying out the
evidence room.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And they're like, this manchage dress is pretty. I'm just
gonna be a good will.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And then they're like, this pile of cash at someone's
rubbed from a bank, We'll just put it in a
good will. Okay, this is an I survived plus a
sinkhole story.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Say whoa, Karen's like hella trifecta but with two things.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm trifecta minus one.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
What do they call that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Sleek and it's a bifect Hello, Karen, Georgia Stephen an
all associated animals. I like that, like it's civic based.
I live near the Indiana Dunes National Lake Shore, which
is located on the southern of Lake Michigan. A very
common pastime when spending a day at the beach is
to run up and down the dunes. I'm not entirely
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sure why that is, as the sand is always hot
as fuck and have you ever tried to climb a
sand mountain? It sucks. These dunes are known as living
dunes because they move anywhere from a few to upwards
of twenty feet per year. One of the more famous
dunes is called Mount Baldy and is over one hundred
and twenty feet tall. In July of twenty thirteen, six
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year old Nathan Wasner was visiting the dunes with his
family and went to climb Mount Baldy with his father
when all of a sudden, he fell into with sinkhole.
All cats, the dune literally swallowed him.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh my god, nightmare, nightmare.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Apparently all the years of shifting had compromised the integrity
of the surface and allowed for a giant ass boy
swallowing sinkhole. His father and other beach goers immediately tried
to dig him out, but they could not see or
hear him, and the sand was difficult to displace. First
responders arrived in had to use shovels to dig Nathan
out to no avail. After a few hours, they were
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able to drive an excavator up the dune start using
that to dig, but they had to be extremely careful
so it's not to hurt Nathan with a giant metal
claw digging things, so progress was slow, as they would
have the excavator, move a foot forward, dig around with
their arms and shovels that repeat the process for what
I'm sure seemed like an eternity. After what I'm sure
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seemed like an eternity, one of this first responders felt
the top of Nathan's head and was able to pull
him out. He was found in a standing position, as
if he had fallen down a narrow pipe. When he
was pulled out, he was cold, limp and didn't have
a pulse, which wasn't terribly surprising since he had spent
four hours buried in a sand sinkle. That's fucking more fine.
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But then, as he was in the back of a
lifeguard truck on the way to the ambulance, a first
responder noticed that a cut on the top of his
head had started to bleed. His heart started beating again.
He was rushed to a local hospital and then later
airlifted to Chicago, where it was determined that he had
suffered no brain damage, and in fact, his only injuries
appeared to be that cut on his head or someone
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nicked it with a shovel while they were digging I
knew it, and a scratch on his cheek. He has
no memory of the incident, so he's not even traumatiz
what just the parents. No one knows how he was
able to survive that long buried in the sand. Mount
Baldy was closed for a few years afterwards.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Good that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But they reopened it last summer, the big fence and
warning signs around it, saying that if you went inside
the fence you'd be fined. Pretty sure, the death threat
of getting buried alive inside a sand dune is more
of a deterrent than a fine. But okay, stay sexy
and away from sand dune'es kim.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That scares me so much.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That's nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
But the sand dun angels saved him.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes they did. Also, can you imagine being this parents
of like, the longer they search, you're just like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
This, we're looking for my kid's body. Oh that is bananas.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That I have to admit. I read the first page
of that. I did not read this se page, and
I was like, Stephen, you've got the whole world in
your hands right now. I'm like, what is because you
know better than to lead us down the stony path
of then the child just died right sand?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right, Stephen? Sometimes we like that and he knows it well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
True. Sometimes it's just like it printed out that way too,
So that made it probably worse, more dramatic because it
sounds like you had to turn the page. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I was not expecting my kid, Nathan Elione.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I really wanted him to be in a hidden cave
with the Egyptian direct treasure.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's crazy that he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Remember it, because, like I wonder if he was just
like off one another in another plane of existence.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
His whole interior was like, we're shutting all of us
down for we're going to hold for six hours and
we're going to be right back online.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Do you need us not give us a knock on
the head with a shovel.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Just go ahead and dig into my head.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
With the show. Fine.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Instead of writing the last one, I have a recorded
one for my friend. So today's So tomorrow is the
sixth of March Tuesday. And so the episode of Drunk
History in this new season that I'm on is going
to play and it's tomorrow night. Yeah, at what time,
I don't know, nine pm. Sure, Comedy's not Comedy Central. Yeah,
And so it's a special episode called Drunk Mysteries.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I got to do a murder.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So I'm doing that check it out, and it just
so happens that a friend of mine, a good friend
of mine, is the editor of my episode, which is
really cool, and he has a hometown he's always wanted
to tell me he has. So his name is John Cayson.
He has a podcast called Ghosting Around and it's ghost
story like true growth stories. It's really cute, and so
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this is his hometown murder. So thanks for not making
me look like a fucking idiot on drunk history, John, I.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Hope, but we'll see. Hope, we'll see. Okay, here it is.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Hey, everybody's versus my hometown murder slash. I was a
preteen person of interest story. So it was Orlando around
nineteen ninety. I was twelve and a half or so,
and I used to babysit for the two kids across
the street. So one day I'm riding my bike home
from school and I noticed there's a big crowd of
more people and news vans and police cars outside of
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my friend's house, which is just outside the neighborhood from
the end of my street. And so I find out
that between my friend's bedroom window and the brick wall
that surrounded the house. Someone had parked a white truck
in the grass and left it there, And it turns
out that the truck belonged to the mom of the
kids across the street that I babysat for. And then
in the back of the truck, wrapped in a bed sheet,
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was her dead body. She had been killed by a
blunt forced trauma in her bedroom, bought the kid for
a sleep upstairs, wrapped up in her bed sheet, put
in the back of a truck and then driven out
of the neighborhood and parked in front of my friend's house.
So everyone suspected her a strange husband obviously who lived
on a house boat three years or three hours away,
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because they were going through a big, messy divorce and
she was asking for the house, the kids, and the
business that they owned together. So after all this happens,
no arrest were made, Still, no rest were made, still insulved,
but the dad moved back into the house, to the
chagrin of everyone. And then to make it worse, he
asked my parents one day if I am available to
babysit again, and without asking me, they say yes because
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they don't want him to suspect that they suspect him
of killing his wife. So anyway, I'm over at their
babysitting at night, and there are still blood splatters on
the floor, circled by sharpie and I didn't even look
in the bedroom because I did not even want to
even mess with that. But as I'm putting the kids
to bed that night, one of the kids stops me
and says, hey, John, and I say yes, and he says,
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I missed my mom, And so my twelve year old,
unequipped self, I think, just said I know, like I'm
han solo, and then went and sat downstairs for a
couple of hours waiting for the murderer to come home.
Doing long story short, I turned out, or at least
I got out of there.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
However, years later, this is a little dan Ma. When
I was thirty about my mom tells me that when
the murder first happened, the detectives came over to our
house and asked for a pair of my shoes to
compare to the bloody footprints at the crime scene, which,
of course she let them have my shoes. I never
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found out which pair of shoes they were that exonerated me,
but that is the story of how I became a
preteen person of interest. Anyway, I hope you dug the
story and I guess to stay sexy and don't babysit
for a murderer.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Another thing, John is one of the sweetest people you've
ever met in your life, so like that, like him
as a twelve year old must have been like an
angel baby.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Also, I love the answer. I know, I know, just
like I bet that helped that little kids instead of
like go to bed or wherever weird adults would say, right,
that's just kind of like a kid going, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's an acknowledgment of your pain instead of being like,
don't be sad, which is like it feels.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Like we're gonna have to change a very very long
ago like a declaration that we made on this podcast,
which is no male babysitters.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's what I was thinking too, because that's what I
wanted to say, is like John is a sweetheart. Yeah
it's okay. I promise everyone he didn't do it at
twelve years old. How can you imagine suspecting a twelve
year old like he's one of your suspects.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
They have to clear everybody. It's not like it hasn't happened.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, he said that we text about it and he
said it's been The case has been opened a couple
of times, but they haven't found any you know, found anything.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But the father. The kids stayed in the house where
their mother was murdered.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, with the blood, blood on.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The wall, and the father moves like that's so unhealthy
for those twos.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Totally horrible. I guess. Yeah, I don't know how they
turned out, but it's super sad.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh yeah, I like it though, I like a first
person told right, always thought.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I mean, especially like somebody know you're like, like he's
been trying to tell me that story forever.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I mean, there's there's truly nothing better. Also, that's how
it happens for so many people, where it's like he's
just an innocent twelve year old and all of a
sudden he knows that people murder each other, like all
these things become real, and he also gets shoved into
a weird adult.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Position and his parents send him back over to a
murderer's house because they don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Rude, because they don't want to be rude to the murderer.
Nuts it's crazy. I mean, they don't even have the like, oh,
he's gonna go to camp that week, right, they don't
even lie.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Sure he's available. Of course, we're not suspicious of you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And it's like, even if it wasn't the dad, you're
sending him back to the murder house at night alone
as a twelve year old with kids. Yeah, like the
killer's still on the loose, even if it's the dad
or not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Can't those kids leave that house and come to a
different house? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Why don't they come to house to take care, to
get baby sat and stay there forever.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'll call his mom on the ship.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We're going to have some words with this one.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We really have to get on the horn with you, missus.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Caseon case in point. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's that exact thing that made him the great television
editor that he is today.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
These are the things that build us.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's true. Yeah, I think that's it. Send us your
shit my favorite murder at Gmail, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, keep it up. We love all these stories.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You guys are the best. Stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A goodbye?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Hey, Elvis, you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Good boy,
Hello, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder Minyaso, Minyaso.
It's from Manyasset, you know, Manhasset, your.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Favorite place where we tell you your own stories about
maybe about murder, maybe about razors, maybe about stuffan walls,
maybe about sinkholes, maybe about something you found out about
your grandpa when he dies.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Maybe it's that your grandpa is an alien.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Maybe your grandpa was a sinkhole.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Maybe your grandpa is the center of the earth. Uh huh,
made of hot magma where the Lochness Monster is passing
through on his way from one lake to the other.
That's right, that's how they travel.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Listen, look, look, and listen to our our fucking rambling
bullshit on your way to work Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This is an organized podcast of single topic true crime.
You can't handle it.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We take you. We take this very you. We take
you very seriously. We take it very seriously, and.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We take every topic that exists seriously.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Let's do this. No bullshitting. Okay, you go first.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No bullshit, that's our guarantee to you. This one says
mom had a banger hometown, Oh, Georgia, Karen Stephen, So
my mom had a banger for me tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's British.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Write that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, like the party Yep, it's like a party sausage.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's a little one, really long party sausages that you
cut up into thirty piece That's what I was going
to say. Did you mean the mani ones with too?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Like the little ones that you make into pigs in
a blanket? Oh? How good are those little smokey little smokies.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You can also take them camping guys. Focus please, So
my mom had a banger for me tonight, kept insisting
she's told me, But no fucking way I would have
forgotten this horrifying Joe. My mother grew up in Homboldt,
South Dakota. Oh it's not British at all, in a
small trailer house with her parents, raging alcoholic father, younger
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brother Barry, and little sister Becky. One night, my mom
says she was out late with friends, smoking dope. As
she recalls, yep, Brenda is the bees me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh my god, name is Brenda. There's no children named Brenda.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, that's done. The Brenda's and the Carla's, and the
Denise's and the Ryls.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Are not You know, what can you picture a little baby,
little sweet baby. And now picture it's named Barbara. That
has always been to me like that, like when I
meet a person named Barbara, and like you are a
baby named Barbara, a baby name.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Although Barbara Gray, who is all of our mutual friends,
I love her name on her.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think it suits her perfect. It's so perfect. But
it's almost like it's like an eighties sitcom. Name her perfectly. Yeah,
and now we're bullshit.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's the height of bullshit you. But also, if you
haven't listened to the Lady to Lady podcast, that's how
you're going to get to know Barbara Gray and her friends.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That's why we told you this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, that's that we planned it. We rehearsed it twice
and now we're executing it. And we did a great job. Okay,
here's the thing about this email. That's ready. Okay, So
she's the Beasneys smoking pot with her friends. Comes home late.
She had thought that her brother Barry was still out
with his friends while her younger sister was in the
front yard having a quote camp out sleepover and a tent.
(03:35):
She had gotten ready for bed and climbed in the
way her bed was placed. She could see directly down
her hallway, and after she got in bed that night,
she remembers looking down the hallway and seeing a man
crawling down the hallway towards her. Crawling, not walking on
but on his fucking hands and knees.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That's the most menacing way to move towards someone.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It's straight out of like the ring. It's very because
then the next thing that happens is their elbows turn in.
It all goes backwards, and then they go up a
wall like a crab.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, she tried to scream, but it was, of course,
the reaction of I'm too fucking terrified to find my
own goddamn voice the worst. But the intruder heard her
squeak and froze even scarier. She finally found her voice
and screamed for her dad. From there, her dad, mother,
and brother, a brother holding a rifle.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I thought it was going to be her brother in
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, it was not her brother in the hallway. They
go on, uh, running down the hall after this guy.
He decided to fucking hide behind the tent. Oh my god,
where the little girl is in where my young aunt
and her friend were sleeping. My uncle Barry lines up
a shot as my mom's dad leaps and says, don't
shoo the girls. The guy ended up running off. They
(04:53):
still have no idea who the man was.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh no, I thought I was gonna be whimsical and
funny because her brother was really drunken crawling to his bed.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, that's what I thought was gonna happen. No, if
her brother was drunk, he got a shit right back together,
grabbed the rifle in his room.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, no, it wasn't him. I thought that's how it
would go.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I mean, he came for the rescue, he was there.
But no, there was a full on, fucking crawling intruder
in their house. No, horrifying.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I hate it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
If this ever gets on your cast, I may shit
a brick. So I hope to hear my mom's fucked
up story told by one of your angelic voices. Stay
fucking sexy and don't get goddamn murdered. Nicole, Well done,
Nicole Cole, Go shit a brick. Please go tell a
fucking clothes Barbara Brenda, Brenda Brenda. We say, hi, hey, banger,
(05:45):
that was a banger? Okay, Oh she meant it. In
the Miley Cyrus way banger.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
There's a Miley Cyrus way to say banger. Yeah, I
don't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And an album to back it up.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Really, I don't know anything about pop culture.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That might be banger's plural anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Huh oh.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Kids these days they're going around being political and smart
with the tongues out, with what they're tongues out. Okay,
this is called thrifted murder dress. Hello, everybody perfect. When
I was with a but a Wee Lass, my mom
was an avid thrifter with no college degree and a
(06:22):
small child to raise. She started selling thrifted goods on eBay.
Think those teenagers on Deepop but Circon nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't know what any of that means.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Was that some kind of Korean reference?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I think D pop d epop is like an vintage
clothing selling app. Oh someone in line I was like,
where did you get your dress at the meet and greet?
And they said that and I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, So it might be an online store or app.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I remember being obsessed with the eBay and it
was just like, this was nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And yes, at the time, it was so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, the countdown part was the best part. Oh my god,
they didn't have a buy it now.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Shit. No, like you had to in the oridge to
hang in, like you had to find your thing this
is the lamp from my childhood and then.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Fight against other fucking asshole and wherever the fuck would
buy it from right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Out under you for like a penny more.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And that's the reason that you thought you wanted that.
Things about that you actually didn't need or want it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh my god, now we just okay. One day she
found a beautiful nineteen forties dress. The problem it had
bloodstains and what appeared to be a hole from some
from where someone got stabbed. What funny enough, she bought
the dress despite its obvious flaws. At the time, she
thought she could cut she could cut the zipper and
(07:37):
sell it since there was a market for them, but
she eventually got creeped out and threw the dress away. Well,
we have found some cool stuff at the good will
since then, like ten thousand dollars cash. I'm not joking.
What tell us that story? Did you knew hometown requests? Yes,
random shit you found in like crazy places, found things.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Found things, found store things is awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Doun throw store things maybe like anything found.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Especially money, all big piles of money that you just
kind of found, ten.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thousand dollars cash.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You would shit, that's a that's a drug blazer. I
thought you meant, now we can buy that drug blazer.
Always want to know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That fucking smart tweed blazer with the elbow pockets that
smells a little bit like cigars, but secretly the person's
a coke dealer.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Exactly, you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, we have unfortunately not found another murder dress. As
a kid, I didn't think much of the incident, but
now murderingo me wonders if this dress was part of
some old timey unsolved murder anyway. See all in March, Judy, God,
I can't read today.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, see in March, Judy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
See in March, Judy, juice, are we just gonna wear
that dress?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
March dinner plans with Judy for the live Los Angeles. Ah,
you know, March.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
March is the month where Karen and I leave our
apartments houses and venture out into the world.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We go, and then we'll just kind of dine with
whoever emails us. It happens all the time, Uh, that
was a good story. I mean that is the idea
that that just could be a floating piece of evidence
that they no one got something.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Something like small town jurisdiction was like emptying out the
evidence room.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And they're like, this manchage dress is pretty. I'm just
gonna be a good will.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And then they're like, this pile of cash at someone's
rubbed from a bank, We'll just put it in a
good will. Okay, this is an I survived plus a
sinkhole story.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Say whoa, Karen's like hella trifecta but with two things.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm trifecta minus one.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
What do they call that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Sleek and it's a bifect Hello, Karen, Georgia Stephen an
all associated animals. I like that, like it's civic based.
I live near the Indiana Dunes National Lake Shore, which
is located on the southern of Lake Michigan. A very
common pastime when spending a day at the beach is
to run up and down the dunes. I'm not entirely
(10:06):
sure why that is, as the sand is always hot
as fuck and have you ever tried to climb a
sand mountain? It sucks. These dunes are known as living
dunes because they move anywhere from a few to upwards
of twenty feet per year. One of the more famous
dunes is called Mount Baldy and is over one hundred
and twenty feet tall. In July of twenty thirteen, six
(10:28):
year old Nathan Wasner was visiting the dunes with his
family and went to climb Mount Baldy with his father
when all of a sudden, he fell into with sinkhole.
All cats, the dune literally swallowed him.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh my god, nightmare, nightmare.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Apparently all the years of shifting had compromised the integrity
of the surface and allowed for a giant ass boy
swallowing sinkhole. His father and other beach goers immediately tried
to dig him out, but they could not see or
hear him, and the sand was difficult to displace. First
responders arrived in had to use shovels to dig Nathan
out to no avail. After a few hours, they were
(11:04):
able to drive an excavator up the dune start using
that to dig, but they had to be extremely careful
so it's not to hurt Nathan with a giant metal
claw digging things, so progress was slow, as they would
have the excavator, move a foot forward, dig around with
their arms and shovels that repeat the process for what
I'm sure seemed like an eternity. After what I'm sure
(11:25):
seemed like an eternity, one of this first responders felt
the top of Nathan's head and was able to pull
him out. He was found in a standing position, as
if he had fallen down a narrow pipe. When he
was pulled out, he was cold, limp and didn't have
a pulse, which wasn't terribly surprising since he had spent
four hours buried in a sand sinkle. That's fucking more fine.
(11:46):
But then, as he was in the back of a
lifeguard truck on the way to the ambulance, a first
responder noticed that a cut on the top of his
head had started to bleed. His heart started beating again.
He was rushed to a local hospital and then later
airlifted to Chicago, where it was determined that he had
suffered no brain damage, and in fact, his only injuries
appeared to be that cut on his head or someone
(12:08):
nicked it with a shovel while they were digging I
knew it, and a scratch on his cheek. He has
no memory of the incident, so he's not even traumatiz
what just the parents. No one knows how he was
able to survive that long buried in the sand. Mount
Baldy was closed for a few years afterwards.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Good that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But they reopened it last summer, the big fence and
warning signs around it, saying that if you went inside
the fence you'd be fined. Pretty sure, the death threat
of getting buried alive inside a sand dune is more
of a deterrent than a fine. But okay, stay sexy
and away from sand dune'es kim.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That scares me so much.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That's nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
But the sand dun angels saved him.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes they did. Also, can you imagine being this parents
of like, the longer they search, you're just like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
This, we're looking for my kid's body. Oh that is bananas.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That I have to admit. I read the first page
of that. I did not read this se page, and
I was like, Stephen, you've got the whole world in
your hands right now. I'm like, what is because you
know better than to lead us down the stony path
of then the child just died right sand?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right, Stephen? Sometimes we like that and he knows it well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
True. Sometimes it's just like it printed out that way too,
So that made it probably worse, more dramatic because it
sounds like you had to turn the page. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I was not expecting my kid, Nathan Elione.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I really wanted him to be in a hidden cave
with the Egyptian direct treasure.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's crazy that he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Remember it, because, like I wonder if he was just
like off one another in another plane of existence.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
His whole interior was like, we're shutting all of us
down for we're going to hold for six hours and
we're going to be right back online.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Do you need us not give us a knock on
the head with a shovel.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Just go ahead and dig into my head.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
With the show. Fine.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Instead of writing the last one, I have a recorded
one for my friend. So today's So tomorrow is the
sixth of March Tuesday. And so the episode of Drunk
History in this new season that I'm on is going
to play and it's tomorrow night. Yeah, at what time,
I don't know, nine pm. Sure, Comedy's not Comedy Central. Yeah,
And so it's a special episode called Drunk Mysteries.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I got to do a murder.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So I'm doing that check it out, and it just
so happens that a friend of mine, a good friend
of mine, is the editor of my episode, which is
really cool, and he has a hometown he's always wanted
to tell me he has. So his name is John Cayson.
He has a podcast called Ghosting Around and it's ghost
story like true growth stories. It's really cute, and so
(14:44):
this is his hometown murder. So thanks for not making
me look like a fucking idiot on drunk history, John, I.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Hope, but we'll see. Hope, we'll see. Okay, here it is.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Hey, everybody's versus my hometown murder slash. I was a
preteen person of interest story. So it was Orlando around
nineteen ninety. I was twelve and a half or so,
and I used to babysit for the two kids across
the street. So one day I'm riding my bike home
from school and I noticed there's a big crowd of
more people and news vans and police cars outside of
(15:16):
my friend's house, which is just outside the neighborhood from
the end of my street. And so I find out
that between my friend's bedroom window and the brick wall
that surrounded the house. Someone had parked a white truck
in the grass and left it there, And it turns
out that the truck belonged to the mom of the
kids across the street that I babysat for. And then
in the back of the truck, wrapped in a bed sheet,
(15:38):
was her dead body. She had been killed by a
blunt forced trauma in her bedroom, bought the kid for
a sleep upstairs, wrapped up in her bed sheet, put
in the back of a truck and then driven out
of the neighborhood and parked in front of my friend's house.
So everyone suspected her a strange husband obviously who lived
on a house boat three years or three hours away,
(16:01):
because they were going through a big, messy divorce and
she was asking for the house, the kids, and the
business that they owned together. So after all this happens,
no arrest were made, Still, no rest were made, still insulved,
but the dad moved back into the house, to the
chagrin of everyone. And then to make it worse, he
asked my parents one day if I am available to
babysit again, and without asking me, they say yes because
(16:24):
they don't want him to suspect that they suspect him
of killing his wife. So anyway, I'm over at their
babysitting at night, and there are still blood splatters on
the floor, circled by sharpie and I didn't even look
in the bedroom because I did not even want to
even mess with that. But as I'm putting the kids
to bed that night, one of the kids stops me
and says, hey, John, and I say yes, and he says,
(16:46):
I missed my mom, And so my twelve year old,
unequipped self, I think, just said I know, like I'm
han solo, and then went and sat downstairs for a
couple of hours waiting for the murderer to come home.
Doing long story short, I turned out, or at least
I got out of there.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
However, years later, this is a little dan Ma. When
I was thirty about my mom tells me that when
the murder first happened, the detectives came over to our
house and asked for a pair of my shoes to
compare to the bloody footprints at the crime scene, which,
of course she let them have my shoes. I never
(17:25):
found out which pair of shoes they were that exonerated me,
but that is the story of how I became a
preteen person of interest. Anyway, I hope you dug the
story and I guess to stay sexy and don't babysit
for a murderer.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Another thing, John is one of the sweetest people you've
ever met in your life, so like that, like him
as a twelve year old must have been like an
angel baby.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Also, I love the answer. I know, I know, just
like I bet that helped that little kids instead of
like go to bed or wherever weird adults would say, right,
that's just kind of like a kid going, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's an acknowledgment of your pain instead of being like,
don't be sad, which is like it feels.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Like we're gonna have to change a very very long
ago like a declaration that we made on this podcast,
which is no male babysitters.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's what I was thinking too, because that's what I
wanted to say, is like John is a sweetheart. Yeah
it's okay. I promise everyone he didn't do it at
twelve years old. How can you imagine suspecting a twelve
year old like he's one of your suspects.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
They have to clear everybody. It's not like it hasn't happened.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, he said that we text about it and he
said it's been The case has been opened a couple
of times, but they haven't found any you know, found anything.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But the father. The kids stayed in the house where
their mother was murdered.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, with the blood, blood on.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The wall, and the father moves like that's so unhealthy
for those twos.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Totally horrible. I guess. Yeah, I don't know how they
turned out, but it's super sad.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh yeah, I like it though, I like a first
person told right, always thought.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I mean, especially like somebody know you're like, like he's
been trying to tell me that story forever.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I mean, there's there's truly nothing better. Also, that's how
it happens for so many people, where it's like he's
just an innocent twelve year old and all of a
sudden he knows that people murder each other, like all
these things become real, and he also gets shoved into
a weird adult.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Position and his parents send him back over to a
murderer's house because they don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Rude, because they don't want to be rude to the murderer.
Nuts it's crazy. I mean, they don't even have the like, oh,
he's gonna go to camp that week, right, they don't
even lie.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Sure he's available. Of course, we're not suspicious of you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And it's like, even if it wasn't the dad, you're
sending him back to the murder house at night alone
as a twelve year old with kids. Yeah, like the
killer's still on the loose, even if it's the dad
or not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Can't those kids leave that house and come to a
different house? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Why don't they come to house to take care, to
get baby sat and stay there forever.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'll call his mom on the ship.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We're going to have some words with this one.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We really have to get on the horn with you, missus.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Caseon case in point. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's that exact thing that made him the great television
editor that he is today.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
These are the things that build us.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's true. Yeah, I think that's it. Send us your
shit my favorite murder at Gmail, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, keep it up. We love all these stories.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You guys are the best. Stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A goodbye?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Hey, Elvis, you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Good boy,
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