July 20, 2020 • 22 mins
This week’s hometowns include a murder trial and poisonous rain.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh, hello, and welcome to my favorite murder, the Mini.
So it's cute, it's short, it's little, don't worry about it,
and we reach it. Your stuff ready?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay? Do you want me to go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is that the most concise, tightest intro we've ever done
for ourselfs ever ever done.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Let's talk about it for a little bit. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What we just did now is the opposite of what
we usually do, which is what I'm doing now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We usually just talk and talk and like we talked about,
you know, what's up with our week and everything, and.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Not this time up and down your boyfriend gets upset,
but not this time.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We're right to the because really, at the end of
what do you think about it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
This title here is Spooky life Saving esp two things.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hello, I'm an ouestie emergency nurse and my stories take
place at work. It's a long, long story, sorry, but
it is about the sort of unexplained intuition we are
all here for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So let's begin. That's right. If it's interesting, it can be.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Long, right, justify your own length with your quality with Okay.
A doctor friend of mine was working one night and
the emergency department was absolutely slammed. He had already worked
a few hours overtime when the doctor in charge asked
him to see just one more patient before he went home.
He scanned the list of people in the waiting room,
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and for no particular reason, a name jumped out to him.
He read the triage notes quote presents with presents after
dental surgery with an ongoing toothache. The man was probably
hours from being seen, but my friend, thinking this would
be a quick case, brought him in. The patient was
obviously in pain, sweaty, and gray, but when the doctor
poked at the gap where his tooth had been removed,
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he didn't complain or even flinch.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Immediately, alarm bells.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are ringing, and sure enough, a few tests later, it
was clear that this man was actually having a very
severe heart attack. He was rushed for emergency surgery and survived,
but may not have if he stayed in the waiting room.
Another two hours jumped forward a few months and I
was working in the fast track area of the ED,
sort of like the patch and fixed spot. We were
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once again slammed, and I was trying to bring in
anyone with a problem that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Could be dealt with quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Again, I can't really explain why, but a woman's name
stood out to me, and I brought her in for assessment.
She had a rash on her leg and had woken
up feeling under the weather, and had read in the paper.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
About some exotic virus. She was now sure she had.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
The rash looked harmless, but during our conversation she kept
grabbing at her jaw. Oh that's nothing, she said, just
a toothache. I asked her to humor me and let
me run a couple of tests, and you guessed it,
she was having a heart attack.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
She was whisked away for surgery, and I know for
sure she survived because a few weeks later she sent
in a complaint because she had only wanted her rash
as checked. What's uh my what? My boss kindly pointed
out that she probably wouldn't have been able to write
an email at all if not for my care.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But old ladies be old lady ing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This sort of thing happens all the time in hospitals,
whether it's some secret force guiding our eyes to a
particular name, or we are just better at our jobs
and we like to give ourselves credit for who can say,
But I know there's one old lady who's there's one
old lady out there's still writing strongly worded emails because
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of me SSDGM and thanks for the good times.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Claire.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh my god, that's she's being clarious.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
She lived to complain another day, that old lady.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Wow, I bet it's just intuition at that point, like
you just you know, you see someone, you see these
little signs that don't even crosh her mind, but you can,
you know, hopefully. I mean, yes, it actually makes me
feel a lot better this whole except for the fact
that they're trying to find quick patients. I don't love that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But well, you got to fit them into your schedule.
She's always about health.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But I mean, I'm going to be seen at some point, but.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Eventually to actually eight hours. But it does I do.
I agree.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I like that vibe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That there's something else going on, that your your instincts
kick in when you work that job right, and almost
like it's a pheromone. You can smell where this person's
actually in danger. There's something else going on you're not
conscious of it. Did you ever watch Nurse Jackie?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, I really liked it. I just didn't like the
personal stuff that much.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The personal stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, like I like you wanted just wounds, cauterizing wounds.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I wanted like her drug addiction. And I don't know,
I just didn't like her so much. Yeah, she was
the real asshole.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I just.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Hated the like the weird doctor who would grab women's breasts.
That's one of the fucking storylines. When he got nervous
around women, he would uncontrollably quote grab a woman's breast.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And it was just like, who the what year was
this made? Was this name in the sixties? I that
did stop me in my tracks.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But the rest, you know, it's Edie Falco, who's like
supreme being. And I just loved that vibe because it
really is like that that's a function It's like a
functioning addict, which is a fascinating thing that they got
really right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I also thought her husband was way too hot for TV.
I love that fucking guy's face. He's and he was
too nice. I didn't like her. She was this is
not a regular episode. We will not talk for two hours.
Nurse Jackie. Okay, what sorry? All right? No, you put
We'll put a pin in that for later. Anyway, if
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you want to hear part two, the Nurse Jackie a debate,
come back.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Do you want to hear everything that's wrong with their Jackie?
We're going to start a fan call.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
For we were being positive about her husband. That guy
is fucking hot as hot and blank as fuck.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
No, I yes, Okay, that time my professor testified in
a murder trial. Greetings murdering now, cult leaders and companions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I'm a student into my second year of veterinary school
in Colorado and wanted to send in a story one
of my professors shared with the class. This semester, my
pathology professor was giving us a lecture onto cropsies and
examining post mortem for signs of animal abuse. Mid lecture,
he went off on a tangent about how we could
be asked to testify with our findings in court and
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proceeded to tell us this story. One day, my professor
was asked to perform a nekruptcy on a cat. I
think I got that right, and was asked specifically to
run tests for cyanide poisoning as cause of death.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
After finding that cyanide was indeed in the cat system.
He was asked by the police to present his findings
to a judge and jury during a murder trial. Turns
out the man had killed his mother by poisoning her
with cyanide and then proceeded to cut up her body
and hide it in to quote my professor, those cheap
rubber made tupperware containers.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Which he kept in the back.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Huh this which is so depressed, I know, which he
kept in the back of his truck until he was
caught by police. My professor's testimony was used to prove
that the man had committed premeditated murder, practicing first by
poisoning his cat.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My professor matter of factly ended his story by saying, so, yeah,
he was guilty and went to jail, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Think he's dead now.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Anyway, I thought you'd appreciate this story more than most
of my classmates did. I'm working as a veterinary technician
this summer, and your podcast gets me through my drive
home after standing for eleven hours and wrestling unhappy dogs
all day.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh h.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Friendly reminder to all new COVID inspired pet owners out
there that your local veterinarians are swamped with a massive
with a massive increase in new pet adoptions during quarantine,
so please be patient with us while we help your animals. Also,
please try to spend at least an hour away from
your animal each day or they will develop massive separation
anxiety after quarantine.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I love the advice from bats. That's so good.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Thank you both for brightening my days and making me laugh.
Stay sexy, and don't trust tupperware contents. Mackenzie whoa, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A lot to digest in that story. There is, and it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is funny to think about people who have never had
pets before, who are like, why are the vets.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Taking so long? And like you and me know that
it's always like that. It's there.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know what, the second you buy a pet, it's
the vets world and you just live in it. They're
going to hand you a piece of paper it says
randomly that costs six hundred and sixty dollars, and you're
going to go, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
May have another.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Totally because I need to keep this motherfucker alive that
needs to eat my shoes all the time. Zoom, let
me zoom look at those out towards Oh Justice, sleep
like like like they have paper routes at five miloney
and now they're so.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Exhausted they do nothing Angel that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Actually, that's very true about the over bonding with the pets,
except for I have it. The other day George and
Frank got up and left the room at the same time,
and I was like, what is letting me legit hurt
my feelings?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
It is sometimes annoying.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
One.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm like, I have three cats and there's not a
single one in the room right now, Like, why do
I have three cats? If I'm not going I'm not
paying for I never I should never be alone when
I'm sitting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I made it so that I didn't have to you
you're not playing your part for us. That's right, Okay,
My next story subject line CIA Grandpa story. Yay, Yes,
now they're all coming out of the woodwork.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's right. Hi, y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I was just listening to the July sixth minnisode where
Georgia read the story about the CIA Grandpa, and I
thought i'd share my own CIA grandpa story even coming right.
It's been a long time family joke that my grandpa
was in the CIA and that we would find out
for sure when he died. He was a quote international
lawyer in Paris, entire career yeah, one hundred percent, and
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spent most of my mom and aunt's childhood traveling all
over the place, but especially.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
To Northern Africa for work.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Growing up, I would always ask him if he was
in the CIA, and he would always respond by saying,
if I was, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Tell you, Dad, I started, dad thing, I read that incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If I was, I couldn't tell you, could I That's
a more polite version how they'd say it in my family.
I'm not telling you child, myob Two years ago, my
girlfriend did Christmas with us, and being a good journalist
she is made sure to sit at the dining table
with my grandpa for hours, asking him questions about his
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life and his career, and his stories did not disappoint.
One of my favorites was how he used to travel
to Algeria all the time for work.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
He flew there so frequently that the airport security agents
knew who he was and would always let him through
without the customary bribe. One day, my grandpa in Paris
got a call from a friend saying that his son
was in Algeria. And for whatever reason he couldn't get
out of the country. My grandpa immediately got on a
plane to Algeria because he'd been there so much for business.
He told the kid to meet him at the consulate building,
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where he picked up the kid and two one way
plane tickets that were waiting for them at the airport.
He just slipped the airport security some money and so
he and this kid could get on the plane back
to Paris, and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All was well. Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
My grandpa died in February, and while we still don't
know for sure whether he was in the CIA, a
bunch of men I've never seen before who said they
were in the American Foreign Legion with him showed up
to the funeral. My grandpa was always the person people
would call if they needed help, and unless you met him,
you can't really describe the impact he had on every
when he met. Not to mention, he welcomed my girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're a couple of gays. We're a couple of gays. Oh, oh,
my god, the fu's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He welcomed to my girlfriend into the family with open arms.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's lovely.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He and my grandma met while they were in law
school and my Grandma was one of the three women
in her class to actually sit and pass the bar,
only to then to never practice law and become a
painter and model in Europe instead. Family is so sex fascinating.
One of the other three women was none other than
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who my grandpa has always been secretly
jealous of, secretly married to. I know, i'd say I
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hit it, says Grandpa, But I would think it would
be Grandma would be secretly jealous of the grandpa's in
Algeria doing his thing. But it says Gravy that she
got so famous. Oh yeah, maybe I'd say I hit
the grandparent lottery.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You're right about that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Stay sexy and ask your grandparents questions.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Ivy, Ivy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
The first thing I think it was, you need to
marry that girl friend, because what a rad girlfriend. If
you can bring a partner to a family party and
they can like do their thing and talk to your grandparents,
and that's a cool person.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To Yes, they know how to be, they know how
to hang. Yeah, you'll need more of those people in
our lives. Amen, Hell Loujah, that was a great one.
This might be one of my favorite stories. It's shit
it reminds me of the town on fire story.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Really, no matter what you say now, I'm going to
say I don't like it. Okay, I didn't. I didn't
really like that. Okay, this is called poisonous jello rain.
Oh shit.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Hey, y'all, my grandpa is currently in the process of moving,
so we've all been doing a lot of house hunting.
One place we found was in Oakville, Washington, south of
Puget Sound. We didn't know much about Oakville, so we
researched the town a bit to see what it's like.
What we got was a very exciting and honestly perplexing surprise.
Turns out Oakville is famous for the most bizarre weather
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anomaly I've ever heard of, gelatinous blob rain. What And
I just want to say, for the fucking record, Aliens,
I'm one hundred behind Aliens that this is the cause.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Ready, i'd say local chemical comp Yeah, but me, maybe
there's you gotta hear the weird fucking things. No, No,
I'm deciding already to wait. Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
On August seventh, nineteen ninety four, at about three am,
the first bout of jello rain began to fall. It
was clear like normal rain, but much unlike normal rain.
It was gooey to the touch.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh my god, It.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Smeared in winchelled wipers and looked vaguely like mushy hailstones
on the ground. This unsettling precipitation fell six times over
a three week period and covered twenty square miles. Oh
but that's not the weirdest part. Not only was this
rain texturally fucked, but also those who came in contact
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with it fell very ill. They experienced shortness of breath, vision,
lost vertic Jesus, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Think I have it. You have it now.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They experienced shortness of breath, vision loss, vertigo, and nausea
which lasted for months for some. Several pets also died
after being exposed to the goop. Samples of the rain
gooo were tested and found to contain human white blood cells,
but two kinds of bacteria and eucharotic cells that suggest
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it was part of something alive. But to this day,
no one knows what the fuck fell from the sky.
Theories include jellyfish bits blown into the air by bomb.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Tests why would there be human dnata.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Great question, bio warfare experiments, and waste from airplanes, but
none of these fit perfectly. I'm calling aliens. They said,
they said it, and I agree. Needless to say, we
were pretty unenthused about buying a house there after reading
all that, but I was naturally fascinated and immediately thought
to tell.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You folks about it. Smart.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I got my info from the Unsolved Mysteries wiki and
there are plenty of articles about it if you want
to check it out for yourselves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You can't make this shit up.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Stays and don't move to Oakville, Lila from Seattle.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
God due human fucking that is blood cells?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh, human blood cells, that's right, not human day That
is so unnerving. The consistency element of it is very upsetting.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I want to know about this.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
The bacteria has to be in like, I wonder where
the bacteria has been seen before. I wonder what the
hell you chorotic cells means? And if I'm saying it right,
so many questions.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Kind of sounds like the Eucharist, like little there's bodies
of Christ DayMen in there?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, Lila, Lila, great, great job, great and amazing great?
What's it called instinct on sending it into us?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Guys? We want more like that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You know, what you're doing, Lyley? You know it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
My last one here. The subject line is little Hands
Mystery solved. Oh yeah, hey mfmfam. When I listened to
this week's minisod and Karen read the let about the
girl on spring break who woke up with the mysterious
handprints on her legs that got darker over a few
days and eventually revealed tiny hands, I was cracking up.
I'm no doctor, but I think I may have sold
her unsalt mystery.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I've been back and forth with my son's pediatrician all
week about a mysterious rash on his hands and arms.
I have a feeling this girl would have received the
same diagnosis as my son. It turns out that my
son has phido photodermatitis, which is a skin reaction to
citrus juice and oil on the skin, which is then
exposed to sunlight and creates a bad burn. This makes
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sense because he was making lemonade outside with his grandma
before the rash appeared. Some of the marks appear like
splatters on his arm, some look like spills, and others
like fingerprints. Our doctor told me that this condition is
also commonly called Margarita Margherita dermatitis, because people often get
this while they're mixing Margarita's outside in the sunshine. I
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would be willing to bet that these girls were probably
spending their spring break sun bathing pool side, squeezing limes
into their beers and marks.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Without a care in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The fact that her college brain went straight to it
must be a ghost is kind of hilarious because it's
very murdering. Is kind of hilarious and very murdery. No
minded of her. I'm sure telling her ghost story is
probably way more fun at parties, so.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
She can take it or leave it.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, happy summer, and remember stay sexy and wash your hands,
especially after making lemonade Margaritas.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Anika, that's for Annika.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I'm not sure that is so simple, And I would
like to tell the handprint girl that she is she
has our permission to not have listened to that story
just now, to put her fingers in her ears. Say
la la, la, la la. Keep telling your ghost story.
In ten years when you go to parties again.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It is a better story. It's so creepy it really
stays with you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The idea that it's just from your drinking and you
probably didn't even remember touching your thighs that much.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is a whole different kind of spooky.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, so pick it, you know, pick It's like a
different party, different story.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, and it turned out that could be a good
one too, Like you guys, I thought I had that,
and then it turns out that's good too.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Okay, that way you get to talk extra long at
the party. Okay, this is just the hometown story. Hello friends.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
My grandfather on my mom's side died when I was
around nine years old. It hit me hard because he
was the one good male role model in my life.
We were devastated because he was a grumpy but wonderful
old man who could barbecue a mean raca ribs, but
also because my mom was pregnant with my younger brother
at this time and they never got to meet. About
a year or two later, my brother was starting to
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walk and do all sorts of toddler things. We were
just leaving a Mexican restaurant we went to often, and
we grabbed peppermints from the front.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Like usual.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
We got in the car, each of us unwrapping our
mints and sucking on them. Then my baby brother, who
barely knew how the world worked, said want cigarette?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Want cigarette?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Uh huh, and pointed his baby finger at a peppermint
in my mom's hand.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
What cigarette? This made her freeze.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
This was because my grandpa and grandma had a problem
with smoking for years.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
When I was.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Born, they decided to kick the habit for good because
they didn't want me growing up around cigarette smoke. My
grandpa had a lot of trouble, so every time he
wanted a cigarette, he'd eat a peppermint.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Thus he came to call them his cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
My brother was a sweet baby angel who had no
idea what a cigarette was. This convinced my mom that
ghosts were real, and that the ghost of my grandfather
stuck around so he could see my baby brother.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Isn't that crazy? You want cigarette?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I'm not. I'm not sure if I'm sold on ghost yet.
But the idea that my grandparents are still around in
some capacity brings a special warmness to my heart. So
maybe I'd like it. I'd like to believe it, just
for that.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's insane, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So before I finished writing this, I just want to
say thank you for all you do. I have ADHD
and it's very hard for me. To focus, so I'm
usually listening to your podcasts to help me focus. I've
become more confident in my abilities as a badass young woman,
and I'm glad that you created a space where people
who are interested in true crime can feel so empowered
and included. Yyy, stay sexy and don't get murdered. But
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if you do, maybe haunt your loved ones for a
while and teach a toddler what a cigarette is. Definitely,
and then it's just a little heart, no name.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh yeah, that was great?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Was that sweet cigarette one? And the mom's like gloves,
chokes on the pepper metow and then hands the baby
a cigarette and that's like, I want I need one too.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
That was trippy.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh my god, what a good batch. This was a
real grandpa I love it. Love a grandpa story I have.
I had some good ones this week that I used
to haven't used. I'm excited to use next week. Guys,
good job, what a show, and you're the ones that
make it possible. Keep sending your hometowns to us at
my favorite murder dot com dot at gmail.
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That's right, great, joy, sexy, and don't get murdered.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Go bye, Yeah Elvis, Do you want a cookie
Oh, hello, and welcome to my favorite murder, the Mini.
So it's cute, it's short, it's little, don't worry about it,
and we reach it. Your stuff ready?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay? Do you want me to go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is that the most concise, tightest intro we've ever done
for ourselfs ever ever done.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Let's talk about it for a little bit. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What we just did now is the opposite of what
we usually do, which is what I'm doing now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We usually just talk and talk and like we talked about,
you know, what's up with our week and everything, and.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Not this time up and down your boyfriend gets upset,
but not this time.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We're right to the because really, at the end of
what do you think about it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
This title here is Spooky life Saving esp two things.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hello, I'm an ouestie emergency nurse and my stories take
place at work. It's a long, long story, sorry, but
it is about the sort of unexplained intuition we are
all here for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So let's begin. That's right. If it's interesting, it can be.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Long, right, justify your own length with your quality with Okay.
A doctor friend of mine was working one night and
the emergency department was absolutely slammed. He had already worked
a few hours overtime when the doctor in charge asked
him to see just one more patient before he went home.
He scanned the list of people in the waiting room,
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and for no particular reason, a name jumped out to him.
He read the triage notes quote presents with presents after
dental surgery with an ongoing toothache. The man was probably
hours from being seen, but my friend, thinking this would
be a quick case, brought him in. The patient was
obviously in pain, sweaty, and gray, but when the doctor
poked at the gap where his tooth had been removed,
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he didn't complain or even flinch.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Immediately, alarm bells.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are ringing, and sure enough, a few tests later, it
was clear that this man was actually having a very
severe heart attack. He was rushed for emergency surgery and survived,
but may not have if he stayed in the waiting room.
Another two hours jumped forward a few months and I
was working in the fast track area of the ED,
sort of like the patch and fixed spot. We were
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once again slammed, and I was trying to bring in
anyone with a problem that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Could be dealt with quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Again, I can't really explain why, but a woman's name
stood out to me, and I brought her in for assessment.
She had a rash on her leg and had woken
up feeling under the weather, and had read in the paper.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
About some exotic virus. She was now sure she had.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
The rash looked harmless, but during our conversation she kept
grabbing at her jaw. Oh that's nothing, she said, just
a toothache. I asked her to humor me and let
me run a couple of tests, and you guessed it,
she was having a heart attack.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
She was whisked away for surgery, and I know for
sure she survived because a few weeks later she sent
in a complaint because she had only wanted her rash
as checked. What's uh my what? My boss kindly pointed
out that she probably wouldn't have been able to write
an email at all if not for my care.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But old ladies be old lady ing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This sort of thing happens all the time in hospitals,
whether it's some secret force guiding our eyes to a
particular name, or we are just better at our jobs
and we like to give ourselves credit for who can say,
But I know there's one old lady who's there's one
old lady out there's still writing strongly worded emails because
(03:34):
of me SSDGM and thanks for the good times.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Claire.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh my god, that's she's being clarious.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
She lived to complain another day, that old lady.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Wow, I bet it's just intuition at that point, like
you just you know, you see someone, you see these
little signs that don't even crosh her mind, but you can,
you know, hopefully. I mean, yes, it actually makes me
feel a lot better this whole except for the fact
that they're trying to find quick patients. I don't love that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But well, you got to fit them into your schedule.
She's always about health.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But I mean, I'm going to be seen at some point, but.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Eventually to actually eight hours. But it does I do.
I agree.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I like that vibe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That there's something else going on, that your your instincts
kick in when you work that job right, and almost
like it's a pheromone. You can smell where this person's
actually in danger. There's something else going on you're not
conscious of it. Did you ever watch Nurse Jackie?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, I really liked it. I just didn't like the
personal stuff that much.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The personal stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, like I like you wanted just wounds, cauterizing wounds.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I wanted like her drug addiction. And I don't know,
I just didn't like her so much. Yeah, she was
the real asshole.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I just.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Hated the like the weird doctor who would grab women's breasts.
That's one of the fucking storylines. When he got nervous
around women, he would uncontrollably quote grab a woman's breast.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And it was just like, who the what year was
this made? Was this name in the sixties? I that
did stop me in my tracks.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But the rest, you know, it's Edie Falco, who's like
supreme being. And I just loved that vibe because it
really is like that that's a function It's like a
functioning addict, which is a fascinating thing that they got
really right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I also thought her husband was way too hot for TV.
I love that fucking guy's face. He's and he was
too nice. I didn't like her. She was this is
not a regular episode. We will not talk for two hours.
Nurse Jackie. Okay, what sorry? All right? No, you put
We'll put a pin in that for later. Anyway, if
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you want to hear part two, the Nurse Jackie a debate,
come back.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Do you want to hear everything that's wrong with their Jackie?
We're going to start a fan call.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
For we were being positive about her husband. That guy
is fucking hot as hot and blank as fuck.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
No, I yes, Okay, that time my professor testified in
a murder trial. Greetings murdering now, cult leaders and companions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I'm a student into my second year of veterinary school
in Colorado and wanted to send in a story one
of my professors shared with the class. This semester, my
pathology professor was giving us a lecture onto cropsies and
examining post mortem for signs of animal abuse. Mid lecture,
he went off on a tangent about how we could
be asked to testify with our findings in court and
(06:37):
proceeded to tell us this story. One day, my professor
was asked to perform a nekruptcy on a cat. I
think I got that right, and was asked specifically to
run tests for cyanide poisoning as cause of death.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
After finding that cyanide was indeed in the cat system.
He was asked by the police to present his findings
to a judge and jury during a murder trial. Turns
out the man had killed his mother by poisoning her
with cyanide and then proceeded to cut up her body
and hide it in to quote my professor, those cheap
rubber made tupperware containers.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Which he kept in the back.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Huh this which is so depressed, I know, which he
kept in the back of his truck until he was
caught by police. My professor's testimony was used to prove
that the man had committed premeditated murder, practicing first by
poisoning his cat.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My professor matter of factly ended his story by saying, so, yeah,
he was guilty and went to jail, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Think he's dead now.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Anyway, I thought you'd appreciate this story more than most
of my classmates did. I'm working as a veterinary technician
this summer, and your podcast gets me through my drive
home after standing for eleven hours and wrestling unhappy dogs
all day.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh h.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Friendly reminder to all new COVID inspired pet owners out
there that your local veterinarians are swamped with a massive
with a massive increase in new pet adoptions during quarantine,
so please be patient with us while we help your animals. Also,
please try to spend at least an hour away from
your animal each day or they will develop massive separation
anxiety after quarantine.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I love the advice from bats. That's so good.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Thank you both for brightening my days and making me laugh.
Stay sexy, and don't trust tupperware contents. Mackenzie whoa, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A lot to digest in that story. There is, and it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is funny to think about people who have never had
pets before, who are like, why are the vets.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Taking so long? And like you and me know that
it's always like that. It's there.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know what, the second you buy a pet, it's
the vets world and you just live in it. They're
going to hand you a piece of paper it says
randomly that costs six hundred and sixty dollars, and you're
going to go, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
May have another.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Totally because I need to keep this motherfucker alive that
needs to eat my shoes all the time. Zoom, let
me zoom look at those out towards Oh Justice, sleep
like like like they have paper routes at five miloney
and now they're so.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Exhausted they do nothing Angel that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Actually, that's very true about the over bonding with the pets,
except for I have it. The other day George and
Frank got up and left the room at the same time,
and I was like, what is letting me legit hurt
my feelings?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
It is sometimes annoying.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
One.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm like, I have three cats and there's not a
single one in the room right now, Like, why do
I have three cats? If I'm not going I'm not
paying for I never I should never be alone when
I'm sitting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I made it so that I didn't have to you
you're not playing your part for us. That's right, Okay,
My next story subject line CIA Grandpa story. Yay, Yes,
now they're all coming out of the woodwork.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's right. Hi, y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I was just listening to the July sixth minnisode where
Georgia read the story about the CIA Grandpa, and I
thought i'd share my own CIA grandpa story even coming right.
It's been a long time family joke that my grandpa
was in the CIA and that we would find out
for sure when he died. He was a quote international
lawyer in Paris, entire career yeah, one hundred percent, and
(09:58):
spent most of my mom and aunt's childhood traveling all
over the place, but especially.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
To Northern Africa for work.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Growing up, I would always ask him if he was
in the CIA, and he would always respond by saying,
if I was, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Tell you, Dad, I started, dad thing, I read that incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If I was, I couldn't tell you, could I That's
a more polite version how they'd say it in my family.
I'm not telling you child, myob Two years ago, my
girlfriend did Christmas with us, and being a good journalist
she is made sure to sit at the dining table
with my grandpa for hours, asking him questions about his
(10:36):
life and his career, and his stories did not disappoint.
One of my favorites was how he used to travel
to Algeria all the time for work.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
He flew there so frequently that the airport security agents
knew who he was and would always let him through
without the customary bribe. One day, my grandpa in Paris
got a call from a friend saying that his son
was in Algeria. And for whatever reason he couldn't get
out of the country. My grandpa immediately got on a
plane to Algeria because he'd been there so much for business.
He told the kid to meet him at the consulate building,
(11:07):
where he picked up the kid and two one way
plane tickets that were waiting for them at the airport.
He just slipped the airport security some money and so
he and this kid could get on the plane back
to Paris, and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All was well. Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
My grandpa died in February, and while we still don't
know for sure whether he was in the CIA, a
bunch of men I've never seen before who said they
were in the American Foreign Legion with him showed up
to the funeral. My grandpa was always the person people
would call if they needed help, and unless you met him,
you can't really describe the impact he had on every
when he met. Not to mention, he welcomed my girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're a couple of gays. We're a couple of gays. Oh, oh,
my god, the fu's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He welcomed to my girlfriend into the family with open arms.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's lovely.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He and my grandma met while they were in law
school and my Grandma was one of the three women
in her class to actually sit and pass the bar,
only to then to never practice law and become a
painter and model in Europe instead. Family is so sex fascinating.
One of the other three women was none other than
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who my grandpa has always been secretly
jealous of, secretly married to. I know, i'd say I
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hit it, says Grandpa, But I would think it would
be Grandma would be secretly jealous of the grandpa's in
Algeria doing his thing. But it says Gravy that she
got so famous. Oh yeah, maybe I'd say I hit
the grandparent lottery.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You're right about that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Stay sexy and ask your grandparents questions.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Ivy, Ivy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
The first thing I think it was, you need to
marry that girl friend, because what a rad girlfriend. If
you can bring a partner to a family party and
they can like do their thing and talk to your grandparents,
and that's a cool person.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To Yes, they know how to be, they know how
to hang. Yeah, you'll need more of those people in
our lives. Amen, Hell Loujah, that was a great one.
This might be one of my favorite stories. It's shit
it reminds me of the town on fire story.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Really, no matter what you say now, I'm going to
say I don't like it. Okay, I didn't. I didn't
really like that. Okay, this is called poisonous jello rain.
Oh shit.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Hey, y'all, my grandpa is currently in the process of moving,
so we've all been doing a lot of house hunting.
One place we found was in Oakville, Washington, south of
Puget Sound. We didn't know much about Oakville, so we
researched the town a bit to see what it's like.
What we got was a very exciting and honestly perplexing surprise.
Turns out Oakville is famous for the most bizarre weather
(13:46):
anomaly I've ever heard of, gelatinous blob rain. What And
I just want to say, for the fucking record, Aliens,
I'm one hundred behind Aliens that this is the cause.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Ready, i'd say local chemical comp Yeah, but me, maybe
there's you gotta hear the weird fucking things. No, No,
I'm deciding already to wait. Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
On August seventh, nineteen ninety four, at about three am,
the first bout of jello rain began to fall. It
was clear like normal rain, but much unlike normal rain.
It was gooey to the touch.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh my god, It.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Smeared in winchelled wipers and looked vaguely like mushy hailstones
on the ground. This unsettling precipitation fell six times over
a three week period and covered twenty square miles. Oh
but that's not the weirdest part. Not only was this
rain texturally fucked, but also those who came in contact
(14:44):
with it fell very ill. They experienced shortness of breath, vision,
lost vertic Jesus, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Think I have it. You have it now.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They experienced shortness of breath, vision loss, vertigo, and nausea
which lasted for months for some. Several pets also died
after being exposed to the goop. Samples of the rain
gooo were tested and found to contain human white blood cells,
but two kinds of bacteria and eucharotic cells that suggest
(15:16):
it was part of something alive. But to this day,
no one knows what the fuck fell from the sky.
Theories include jellyfish bits blown into the air by bomb.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Tests why would there be human dnata.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Great question, bio warfare experiments, and waste from airplanes, but
none of these fit perfectly. I'm calling aliens. They said,
they said it, and I agree. Needless to say, we
were pretty unenthused about buying a house there after reading
all that, but I was naturally fascinated and immediately thought
to tell.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You folks about it. Smart.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I got my info from the Unsolved Mysteries wiki and
there are plenty of articles about it if you want
to check it out for yourselves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You can't make this shit up.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Stays and don't move to Oakville, Lila from Seattle.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
God due human fucking that is blood cells?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh, human blood cells, that's right, not human day That
is so unnerving. The consistency element of it is very upsetting.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I want to know about this.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
The bacteria has to be in like, I wonder where
the bacteria has been seen before. I wonder what the
hell you chorotic cells means? And if I'm saying it right,
so many questions.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Kind of sounds like the Eucharist, like little there's bodies
of Christ DayMen in there?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, Lila, Lila, great, great job, great and amazing great?
What's it called instinct on sending it into us?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Guys? We want more like that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You know, what you're doing, Lyley? You know it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
My last one here. The subject line is little Hands
Mystery solved. Oh yeah, hey mfmfam. When I listened to
this week's minisod and Karen read the let about the
girl on spring break who woke up with the mysterious
handprints on her legs that got darker over a few
days and eventually revealed tiny hands, I was cracking up.
I'm no doctor, but I think I may have sold
her unsalt mystery.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I've been back and forth with my son's pediatrician all
week about a mysterious rash on his hands and arms.
I have a feeling this girl would have received the
same diagnosis as my son. It turns out that my
son has phido photodermatitis, which is a skin reaction to
citrus juice and oil on the skin, which is then
exposed to sunlight and creates a bad burn. This makes
(17:37):
sense because he was making lemonade outside with his grandma
before the rash appeared. Some of the marks appear like
splatters on his arm, some look like spills, and others
like fingerprints. Our doctor told me that this condition is
also commonly called Margarita Margherita dermatitis, because people often get
this while they're mixing Margarita's outside in the sunshine. I
(17:59):
would be willing to bet that these girls were probably
spending their spring break sun bathing pool side, squeezing limes
into their beers and marks.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Without a care in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The fact that her college brain went straight to it
must be a ghost is kind of hilarious because it's
very murdering. Is kind of hilarious and very murdery. No
minded of her. I'm sure telling her ghost story is
probably way more fun at parties, so.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
She can take it or leave it.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, happy summer, and remember stay sexy and wash your hands,
especially after making lemonade Margaritas.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Anika, that's for Annika.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I'm not sure that is so simple, And I would
like to tell the handprint girl that she is she
has our permission to not have listened to that story
just now, to put her fingers in her ears. Say
la la, la, la la. Keep telling your ghost story.
In ten years when you go to parties again.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It is a better story. It's so creepy it really
stays with you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The idea that it's just from your drinking and you
probably didn't even remember touching your thighs that much.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is a whole different kind of spooky.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, so pick it, you know, pick It's like a
different party, different story.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, and it turned out that could be a good
one too, Like you guys, I thought I had that,
and then it turns out that's good too.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Okay, that way you get to talk extra long at
the party. Okay, this is just the hometown story. Hello friends.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
My grandfather on my mom's side died when I was
around nine years old. It hit me hard because he
was the one good male role model in my life.
We were devastated because he was a grumpy but wonderful
old man who could barbecue a mean raca ribs, but
also because my mom was pregnant with my younger brother
at this time and they never got to meet. About
a year or two later, my brother was starting to
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walk and do all sorts of toddler things. We were
just leaving a Mexican restaurant we went to often, and
we grabbed peppermints from the front.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Like usual.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
We got in the car, each of us unwrapping our
mints and sucking on them. Then my baby brother, who
barely knew how the world worked, said want cigarette?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Want cigarette?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Uh huh, and pointed his baby finger at a peppermint
in my mom's hand.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
What cigarette? This made her freeze.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
This was because my grandpa and grandma had a problem
with smoking for years.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
When I was.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Born, they decided to kick the habit for good because
they didn't want me growing up around cigarette smoke. My
grandpa had a lot of trouble, so every time he
wanted a cigarette, he'd eat a peppermint.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Thus he came to call them his cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
My brother was a sweet baby angel who had no
idea what a cigarette was. This convinced my mom that
ghosts were real, and that the ghost of my grandfather
stuck around so he could see my baby brother.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Isn't that crazy? You want cigarette?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I'm not. I'm not sure if I'm sold on ghost yet.
But the idea that my grandparents are still around in
some capacity brings a special warmness to my heart. So
maybe I'd like it. I'd like to believe it, just
for that.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's insane, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So before I finished writing this, I just want to
say thank you for all you do. I have ADHD
and it's very hard for me. To focus, so I'm
usually listening to your podcasts to help me focus. I've
become more confident in my abilities as a badass young woman,
and I'm glad that you created a space where people
who are interested in true crime can feel so empowered
and included. Yyy, stay sexy and don't get murdered. But
(21:19):
if you do, maybe haunt your loved ones for a
while and teach a toddler what a cigarette is. Definitely,
and then it's just a little heart, no name.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh yeah, that was great?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Was that sweet cigarette one? And the mom's like gloves,
chokes on the pepper metow and then hands the baby
a cigarette and that's like, I want I need one too.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
That was trippy.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh my god, what a good batch. This was a
real grandpa I love it. Love a grandpa story I have.
I had some good ones this week that I used
to haven't used. I'm excited to use next week. Guys,
good job, what a show, and you're the ones that
make it possible. Keep sending your hometowns to us at
my favorite murder dot com dot at gmail.
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Speaker 3 (22:23):
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Speaker 4 (22:26):
Go bye, Yeah Elvis, Do you want a cookie
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