August 31, 2020 • 24 mins
This week’s hometowns include a badass survivor story and a Richard Ramirez connection.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lasting, Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
My favorite murder minis it's me. It's so tiny it's
fit of your pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh my god, it's happening. What is happening? What's happening
to us?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What is happening? We read your stuff at you. You
know that's Georgia the hard Star part of Karen kilgarriff
dot com email.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
If you want to write to Georgia, it's dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's a Georgia hart Stark at Karen Kilgarriff dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And please please go to Stephenmay Morris dot gov to
vote early and often. Let's do it. The subject line
of this is nurse slash badass story. Great, Hey, pandemic pals.
A few episodes ago, you guys asked for nurse mom stories.
And while I'm not a mom, I am a nurse.
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I work at a very busy er in Houston. I
have so many stories, but I thought you guys would
appreciate this badass survivor story. Let's get into it. Early
one morning, a woman was brought into the trauma bay
after being held hostage, raped and beat for almost two days.
I can only imagine what this poor woman went through.
On the second day, her attacker let her have some
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privacy and use the bathroom. While in the bathroom, the
woman mustered up the courage to attempt to escape. She
took the ceramic toilet tank lid and hit it behind
her back. When her attacker opened the bathroom door, she
hit him over the head with it, knocking him unconscious. Yes, yes,
go starting out strong? Holy so good. Yeah. Props to
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the woman for having the bravery and wits about her
to use a toilet lid as a weapon. Hell yes,
she ran for her dear life, flagged down help on
a nearby road, and was promptly brought to our er.
A few hours later, another patient was brought into the
trauma bay. This man had sustained numerous facial fractures after
being being hit on the head with Yep, you guessed it,
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a toilet lid. The attacker and the victim were in
the same trauma bay, and neither of them had any idea.
What are the chances Houston is the fourth biggest city
in America and these two end up in the same
er in adjacent room. What what the fuck? It literally
says that good, that's correct. This same thing happened in
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the the British series with the Hawk guy and Gillian Anderson.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, the the on the blank, the blank, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Steven gets five dollars. Remember that that happened in the fall?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I believe I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
He gets brought, I'm pretty sure, and you see the
victim watch him get rolled in and I was like, never,
that would never happen. Well it did. I was wrong. Luckily,
our charge nurse is amazing and put two and two
together quickly. We were able to move the woman to
a safe room in another part of the er before
she was further traumatized by seeing her attacker again. We
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obviously did not let her know that our attacker was
in the same building. Can you imagine the sheer terror
of escaping a brutal tack only to find out that
your attacker is right down the hall. Thankfully, the woman
was able to be discharged home later that day, and
the man went to jail after we treated his injuries.
Hope you guys like my survivor's story as much as
I do. Anyways, I love you guys. Your podcast has
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provided some much needed distraction during this pandemic where your
freaking masks people SSDGM.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Tiff amazing, amazing. When would you not listen to a nurse? Okay,
this one is called the time my Grandma Saw the
Devil and I'm not going to read you the rest
of it, but it's from our friend to the family,
Seline Beth calderon the Ted Bundy documentary. Friend who was
on the way. Yeah, I remember, She's awesome, she says, Hey, y'all.
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Since there's been a request for grandparents' stories, I finally
got all the information about the time my aunt and
grandmother saw El Diablo walking past their home in Monterey Park, California.
In nineteen eighty five, a man was terrorizing neighborhoods across
southern California and seemed to frequent the East Los Angeles area.
As Georgia mentioned in her zoot Suit Riot story, this
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part of Los Angeles was heavily populated by Latinos. One afternoon,
my aunt and grandmother were doing some work in the
garage and noticed a man walking past their house. My
grandma said she froze and could feel evil radiating off
of him. My aunt then looked up and felt the
same feeling. She also claims a crow than cod but
loll I'm not sure on that one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
On the whole family has cinematic tendencies, so they know
how to.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Tell it exactly. The crows like man, that guy's here,
he's creeping me out right. Guys, well, well, they could
not figure out how and why this man could give
us such a bad vibe. They continued on their work.
The next morning, on July seventh, one street over Joyce Nelson,
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who was sixty one, was beaten to death in her
home where she lived. This was the third murder in
their neighborhood in under three months. A few months later,
in my uncle's hometown of Boyle Heights, Richard Ramirez was
captured by a mob of residence on August thirty first,
which is today.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, this is the anniversary of the citizens of Boyle
Heights rising up together and running through the streets and
tackling Richard Ramirez and catching the nightstalker themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
On their own.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Incredible, Happy anniversary, Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Right well by five think go high five a Boyle
Heights resident. While my uncle wasn't part of the capture,
he still remembers seeing people fleeing to the scene. I
grew up always hearing the story of when my aunt
and grandmother saw El Diablo, but I always thought it
was actually the devil himself growing up Catholic, you know, sure,
I didn't find out it was Richard Ramirez until I
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told my family I would be starting a project on
Ted Bundy. With blank stares and confusions. My mother responded,
why would you pick him and not Richard Ramirez. We
were all scared for our lives during that time. Come
to find out, Ramirez killed in almost every single neighborhood
that my family members lived in at the time, from
Montebello to Mission Viejo, Whittier, Rosemead, Monterey Park and finally
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ending his spree and Boyle Heights. Then I was finally
given the contact the context of the Diablo story, and
just recently my aunt told me her version. So she
always thought it was the Devil. She didn't push yet.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was picturing a guy walking with a really nice
maybe it's a bit where Woes of London of me,
but in a really nice sharkskin suit, but on a
little tiny hoof feet walking by uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
My grandmother, Esperanza, passed away in two thousand and five,
so I was never able to hear the full story
from her. But don't worry. She played a big role
in my interest in true crime since she purchased those
super graphic Latino magazines that would show the most obscene
content on the cover, like when Selena was murdered and
there was a picture of her on the autopsy table
showing the gunshot wound. No, and she says, Oh, the
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joys of a LATINX childhood. Anyways, stay sexy and make
sure to search your family's history with well known serial
killers before you research the wrong one. Sending lots of
hugs to you all during this friend of the pod,
Selene Beth Calderon, Oh good one.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right, Selene Nice. Selene needs to make a documentary about
Richard Ramirez now right, dedicated to Esperanza.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's Esperanza, what a great name.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So good? Oh man, that's I really, I mean, I
just love that story of just like they spotted him,
they knew who it was. They were just setting get
that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
They're killing your neighbors, yes, and terrorizing and like old people.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean, just a horror show. Okay, this subject line
is espresso, martinis and a hometown hit man. Fun, what's
up guys? As a murderino and a bartender. The recent
chat about espresso martinis finally gave me an excuse to email.
The general recipe has equal parts of vodka, coffee liqueur
you were right, Georgia, and a shot of espresso. They
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combine all the fun of being drunk with the joy
of having the caffeine jitters. They're super popular in Australia
and New Zealand, so naturally the pretentious hipster bartenders think
they're kind of trashy Onto my hometown. I'm from Canberra City,
with a nationwide reputation for being boring and small, but
we have some pretty cool bars. There's a popular one
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in the middle of the city known for its fun,
tropical vibes think tiki drinks, palm leaves, and lots of
hens parties. Recently, one of my friends was working there
and instead of the usual groups of young women in
cocktail dresses, the bar was filled with big, burly middle
aged men. But hey, no judgment, scary looking men are
allowed to enjoy some sweet, sweet tiaki drinks.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Am I right? That's hell? Yeah, you're right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now everyone has to go watch the kids in the hall.
Sketch Girl drink drunk, which is one of the funniest okay,
Folly plays a girl drink drunk where you can't stop drinking,
like big blue things with pineapples sticking. It's the best okay.
Later in the night, one of the men was standing
in the bar when cool, calm and collectedly, another man
walked up to him and stuck a knife in his throat.
No scuffle, no provocation, just a straight up stabbing. The
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man who had been stabbed took a sip from his drink,
pulled the knife out out of his own throat. This
is so Australian, and walked out into the street, where
he died in view of nearly every single person in
Camberra trying to have a fun night out during COVID.
Needless to say, oh my god, so this just happened,
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Needless to say, all hell broke loose in the bar.
Turns out, turns out all these big burly men in
the tiki bar were in fact two branches of a large,
well known biker gang. This is bikey gang. But I
feel like let Australian listeners please let us know if
you call biker gangs bikey.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Gang or there's just tricycle. What it's like, they called
tricycles bikeys. There are these big burly dudes in a tricycle,
the big burly of fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
The man who had very calmly cut the other man's
throat was the hit man of the group. It's still
a mystery as to why they went out drinking together
just before a murder. So is why they chose to
very publicly kill one of their members when usually they
just quote unquote disappear. However, what we have found out
is that tiki bars are a great way for gangs
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to launder money. Oh tiki but bars specifically, I mean
those are minds of drinks. Have you mean mind? Yeah,
that's true. You're like, who's how did you How in
God's name do you just spend six hundred and eighty
dollars tiki bar? Oh tiki bar? Okay? Yeah, all that, Pineapple.
Thank you for all the quality entertainment over the years.
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As the only female bartender at my bar, the stories
you've told have made me fiercely protective of my customers,
particularly young women. If you ever see a Canberra bartender
wearing an MFM logo pin, please know that you are
in safe hands, and I might even buy you a drink. Cheers, Alissa,
Oh my god, did that catch us? I mack at
you in a good place. I know, it's very sweet.
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I love that idea.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So good.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you know what, there's this podcast out right now
about this woman whose father was in like Hell's Angels. Oh,
and so I've been listening in like about a lot
of biker stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Hold on, let me if I know it.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's a called biky gang, called the Biking Gang.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh no, it's called Relative Unknown. It's good. Okay, Yeah, okay,
that was great. You had two fucking hits so far.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I mean I wrote them. I'm just giving Alyssa and
her friend's credit.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That was great. You're ready for uh pervert story? Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I mean it's I'm long overdue.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay. This one's called the Kirkwood Tickler.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm sorry to laugh. It's not no, obviously, my reaction
is this nervous. It's like that, it's just so bizarre.
These stories do not disappoint in the bizarreness of the
fact that there are these errant, one off people that
are just weirdo. There are criminals, but with a big
serving a rido.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Normally we don't. We don't think shame unless hey or
a sexual assaulter.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yes, it has to be. Consensuality is the key to kink, right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It can't be a tickler, a one sided tickler, be
consentual Swiss cheese, otherwise which does not exist. Sorry, okay, sorry,
hi y'all. Oh boy, do I have a hometown for you.
I grew up in a town outside of Boston and
come from a big family of massholes. My older sister
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attended Boston College the Fighting Eagles with their Jesuit agenda,
and during her junior year she decided to live off
campus with some of her friends in an old house
on Kirkwood Road. From twenty eleven to twenty thirteen, there
had been several reported break ins in the neighborhood, including
many residential homes around b c's campus. Nothing was stolen,
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there were practically no traces left in any of the homes. However,
in a few cases it was reported a dark figure
was seen watching over men as they slept. Oh In
twenty fourteen, these break ins escalated, with up to five
occurring in a night, with many BC students taking up
residents on Kirkwood and the surrounding area, doors were frequently
left unlocked. One night, many of the men living on Kirkwood,
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including some of my sister's neighbors and friends, reported similar
break ins, but with a twist. The shadowy figure instead
stood over these men and in some cases tickled their feet.
The criminal was then coined the Kirkwood Tickler and continued
to strike across campus, targeting the feet of young men.
After my sister graduated, there were no other reported run
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ins with the tickler. However, the hysteria of tickler culture
shook my sister and the students living on Kirkwood. The
tickler was never caught. Some say the ghosts of the
tickler still haunts the area, and some students report supernatural
or not sightings of the tickler out of their bedroom window.
Stay sick natural, it's actually at dude. It couldn't be
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more real, It could be more human. Stay sexy and
lock your doors, Julia, Oh my for real?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So that's that is like the sister perve to remember
the Pedlama tickler that my friend Audrey Crandall wrote in
That's the same exact thing. But young girls, Yeah, if
you haven't seen The twenty sixteen documentary Tickled Oh Yeah
relates to this directly. I highly and I mean I
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recommend it. It's a mind blowing documentary because it starts
one spot and friends of the fam Dave Anthony and
Gareth Reynolds are featured because they did this story on
the DALUK, which is a great it's a bizarre history podcast.
If you've never listened to it, it's very funny. So
those guys are great and it's you know, and then
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the stories are real, So Dave finds the most insane
historical stories and then just kind of walks you through them.
But they are actually in this documentary because they covered
this story and this and this reporter who is either
I think he was from New Zealand. He went and
started in investigating it and unraveled a thing that was
so much bigger than the original point of the story.
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It's that I swear to you. April Richardson and I
went and watched this documentary and when it was over,
it was that the remember the sun Dance movie theater
in the on Cressent Heights, the Sunset five No, yes, yes, yes,
yeah yeah, But then it later became yeah, so there was,
I would say all together. There was like nine people
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in the theater to watch this documentary, and when it
was over, we all turned to each other, like the
whole audience turned to each other and went, what the
but like we all started talking to each other because
it was that mind blowing and that like, Yeah, so
if you haven't seen Tickled, it's from twenty sixteen, highly
record it's so funny. We did this last night too,
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constantly making a list of things people watched and said
they liked, because we're always looking for stuff to watch
and so bach to consume.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So bored. We've watched everything, watched it all, watched it all.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, well that's a new one. If you have you
seen that documentary?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Did you saw it years ago? I completely forgot about it. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
This last one is the subject line is postal worker,
because I think we called out for if you're a
postal worker, tell us weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Hey, MFM crew, I'm a postal worker and I thought
i'd share a couple of stories from the processing side. Okay,
First of all, we are the biggest shipper of drugs
in the country. You're welcome. We all know those coffee
beans and packages are hiding weed. Props to the ones
that straight up send weed without any concealed scent, you've
got some balls. God the oh my, well, just putting
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weed in a box and putting some tape on it
and giving it to the mailman amazing. Well, I was
a clerk. One of the funniest parts of my twelve
hour day, six days a week was when jail mail
came through. Ladies, whoever is taking those picks of you
is a good friend, and we've seen parts of you
not meant for public viewing. M remember not to overstuff
the envelope. It gets caught in the machines and your
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bits and pieces are out there for the whole post
office to see. No, so some people sending sending in
it's like, hey, you know you need this is what
you need when you're inside. But then if the envelopes too.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There's too many photos in there. There's just too many angles.
Pick three or your favorite.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah. One of the worst things to happen was when
someone sent a fecal sample in an envelope and jam
it jammed in my machine. Someone's shit was everywhere and
I vomited in the trash can what the fuck? Oh
my god, listen. If you're mailing in your ballot this
election mail early, don't take chances. Your new voting date
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is October twentieth, not November third. Make sure your vote
gets counted. We have an election. We have election coordinators
in every district in the country. We're working diligently to
make sure ballots and election mail get clear every day.
Go buy some sweet stamp or merch and clean off
your porch steps sidewalk for your carrier. I never thought
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about that. That's right, there's male carriers who have to
run gauntlets of people's garbage and bullshit to get to
deliver mail. I never thought about that. Stay sexy and
don't forget to seal that envelope of naughty picks.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
B be amazing. I love that's we wanted. I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Good inside information.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Good love the voting info as well.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yes, thank you so much for that. That's hilarious. Yeah, okay.
My last one is hero Cat Saves the Dog. Sup y'all.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
A long time ago you asked for hero Cat stories,
and I finally worked up the ambition to actually send
this in. My in laws moved to a rocky Mountains
Foothill neighborhood outside of Albuquerque, just over ten years ago.
The house came with a cat flap, which they assumed
was for a cat the previous owners had had nope out.
The flap was installed specifically for the common cat that
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nobody owned, but everyone took care of. He had toys, beds,
food bowls, and a different name in every house in
the neighborhood. I love those cats neighborhoods. Mabbi right, gotta
be right, must be. My in laws called him Miowi
because he liked it to talk a lot. He said
Maoi without the e, so Maui. He liked to talk
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a lot I took. It took him all of one
day to come in and climb all over my highly
allergic father in law, who quickly became his favorite person.
My in laws took him to the vet and tried
to make him an indoor cat, but he was having
absolutely none of it. Instead, Maui came and when is
he pleased spending most of each week with my in laws,
made friends with their dog Brady, and went for family
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walks in the foothills every single day, meowing the whole time.
I love cats.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
As he was mowing. What he was saying is I
love this. It's so great to get outside. You guys
are fun. There's two their families that never leave the house.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You guys get the good cat food.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
That's all I like you about hanging out here.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
One day on their regular walk, Maui did something he
had never ever done before. He started growling. He crouched
down with his hackles fully raised, staring intently at a
bush about ten feet away, and made this terrifying low, growling,
hissing noise. Now, this is an off leash area, and
Brady was wandering close to that bush. The way Maui
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was acting totally freaked my mother in law out, and
she called the dog back. The second the leash clipped
on Brady's caller, Maui made the most blood curdling yowling
noise and charged at the bush where a and this
is all caps fully grown bobcat had been hiding. WHOA
Mauie and nine pounds semi stray house cat chased this
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thirty plus pound bobcat over one hundred feet, then came
prancing back like the little king that he was. Save
the dog, because he would have gotten the.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Dog because I would.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maui lived for another five years or show after this,
getting spoiled with cans of wet food. The older he got,
the more he stayed with my in laws until he
was basically an indoor cat at their place. He passed
away peacefully in my father in law's favorite chair, which
they still call the Maui chair. Oh, stay sexy and
invite the neighborhood cat in for some wet food. It
might just save your dog Rosie.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes, that is the cute. Now, could we please have
pictures of Mowie, Please just see him.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
What if they sent us a picture and it's a
bobcat and we're like.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Oh, guys, guys, those were they were relatives. They were
having a family quarrel. There was no Now that's the best. Also,
I love those kind of cats that follow you when
you are and don't like flip out and don't go
other places or whatever like. That's that weird because cats
aren't pack animals. So when they do stuff like that,
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it's like because they like you.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's because they like you and they.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Know that your dipshits walk right by a bobcat bush
as if that's your right and privilege when it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Watch her back from Bobcats.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
What a good patch this week?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What the word is? Batch? Characters and batches, real good ones?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The word you guys said last night, you're a niece
and I what was it? Which she was stranglers. She
was trying to say stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, she goes stranglers and they go, no, I think
you mean what did I say you?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, no, it is stranglers. And then I was watching
you guys talk about it, and then I finally like waited
for you to be done. I was like, it's stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's being this thirteen year old and I'm telling her
what the correct word, and I'm totally wrong. And then
Karen turns to us and goes and just tells us
in the most straight voice. It was very abras Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That story about those seventh grade girls you guys were
talking about, they weren't stranglers. They were stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It was so in character for me. It was almost
like that wasn't I wasn't. That wasn't a joke. We
socially distanced. Hang it was fun.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh, it was nice. K Yeah, because my family came
down as a global warming refugees because north northern California
is on fire and where they're from they have fires above, below,
and east of them. So there was a smoke dome
over Petaluma, and then the smoke dome fell when the
fog came in, so Laura was like, we're just inhaling
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ash and bits of you'r. They're just coughing and it
was terrible. So they came down here to Los Angeles
where the air is clear, so crazy are and hung
out for a week. It was super fun.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I love it and we had so much fun to night.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Thanks for writing those in. Send more guys my favorite
murder at Gmail or on our website. Send them there.
We love them. You're the best.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Goodbye, Elvis.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I want to COOKI
Lasting, Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
My favorite murder minis it's me. It's so tiny it's
fit of your pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh my god, it's happening. What is happening? What's happening
to us?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What is happening? We read your stuff at you. You
know that's Georgia the hard Star part of Karen kilgarriff
dot com email.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
If you want to write to Georgia, it's dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's a Georgia hart Stark at Karen Kilgarriff dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And please please go to Stephenmay Morris dot gov to
vote early and often. Let's do it. The subject line
of this is nurse slash badass story. Great, Hey, pandemic pals.
A few episodes ago, you guys asked for nurse mom stories.
And while I'm not a mom, I am a nurse.
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I work at a very busy er in Houston. I
have so many stories, but I thought you guys would
appreciate this badass survivor story. Let's get into it. Early
one morning, a woman was brought into the trauma bay
after being held hostage, raped and beat for almost two days.
I can only imagine what this poor woman went through.
On the second day, her attacker let her have some
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privacy and use the bathroom. While in the bathroom, the
woman mustered up the courage to attempt to escape. She
took the ceramic toilet tank lid and hit it behind
her back. When her attacker opened the bathroom door, she
hit him over the head with it, knocking him unconscious. Yes, yes,
go starting out strong? Holy so good. Yeah. Props to
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the woman for having the bravery and wits about her
to use a toilet lid as a weapon. Hell yes,
she ran for her dear life, flagged down help on
a nearby road, and was promptly brought to our er.
A few hours later, another patient was brought into the
trauma bay. This man had sustained numerous facial fractures after
being being hit on the head with Yep, you guessed it,
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a toilet lid. The attacker and the victim were in
the same trauma bay, and neither of them had any idea.
What are the chances Houston is the fourth biggest city
in America and these two end up in the same
er in adjacent room. What what the fuck? It literally
says that good, that's correct. This same thing happened in
(02:45):
the the British series with the Hawk guy and Gillian Anderson.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, the the on the blank, the blank, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Steven gets five dollars. Remember that that happened in the fall?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I believe I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
He gets brought, I'm pretty sure, and you see the
victim watch him get rolled in and I was like, never,
that would never happen. Well it did. I was wrong. Luckily,
our charge nurse is amazing and put two and two
together quickly. We were able to move the woman to
a safe room in another part of the er before
she was further traumatized by seeing her attacker again. We
(03:28):
obviously did not let her know that our attacker was
in the same building. Can you imagine the sheer terror
of escaping a brutal tack only to find out that
your attacker is right down the hall. Thankfully, the woman
was able to be discharged home later that day, and
the man went to jail after we treated his injuries.
Hope you guys like my survivor's story as much as
I do. Anyways, I love you guys. Your podcast has
(03:48):
provided some much needed distraction during this pandemic where your
freaking masks people SSDGM.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Tiff amazing, amazing. When would you not listen to a nurse? Okay,
this one is called the time my Grandma Saw the
Devil and I'm not going to read you the rest
of it, but it's from our friend to the family,
Seline Beth calderon the Ted Bundy documentary. Friend who was
on the way. Yeah, I remember, She's awesome, she says, Hey, y'all.
(04:17):
Since there's been a request for grandparents' stories, I finally
got all the information about the time my aunt and
grandmother saw El Diablo walking past their home in Monterey Park, California.
In nineteen eighty five, a man was terrorizing neighborhoods across
southern California and seemed to frequent the East Los Angeles area.
As Georgia mentioned in her zoot Suit Riot story, this
(04:39):
part of Los Angeles was heavily populated by Latinos. One afternoon,
my aunt and grandmother were doing some work in the
garage and noticed a man walking past their house. My
grandma said she froze and could feel evil radiating off
of him. My aunt then looked up and felt the
same feeling. She also claims a crow than cod but
loll I'm not sure on that one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
On the whole family has cinematic tendencies, so they know
how to.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Tell it exactly. The crows like man, that guy's here,
he's creeping me out right. Guys, well, well, they could
not figure out how and why this man could give
us such a bad vibe. They continued on their work.
The next morning, on July seventh, one street over Joyce Nelson,
(05:27):
who was sixty one, was beaten to death in her
home where she lived. This was the third murder in
their neighborhood in under three months. A few months later,
in my uncle's hometown of Boyle Heights, Richard Ramirez was
captured by a mob of residence on August thirty first,
which is today.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, this is the anniversary of the citizens of Boyle
Heights rising up together and running through the streets and
tackling Richard Ramirez and catching the nightstalker themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
On their own.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Incredible, Happy anniversary, Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Right well by five think go high five a Boyle
Heights resident. While my uncle wasn't part of the capture,
he still remembers seeing people fleeing to the scene. I
grew up always hearing the story of when my aunt
and grandmother saw El Diablo, but I always thought it
was actually the devil himself growing up Catholic, you know, sure,
I didn't find out it was Richard Ramirez until I
(06:23):
told my family I would be starting a project on
Ted Bundy. With blank stares and confusions. My mother responded,
why would you pick him and not Richard Ramirez. We
were all scared for our lives during that time. Come
to find out, Ramirez killed in almost every single neighborhood
that my family members lived in at the time, from
Montebello to Mission Viejo, Whittier, Rosemead, Monterey Park and finally
(06:45):
ending his spree and Boyle Heights. Then I was finally
given the contact the context of the Diablo story, and
just recently my aunt told me her version. So she
always thought it was the Devil. She didn't push yet.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was picturing a guy walking with a really nice
maybe it's a bit where Woes of London of me,
but in a really nice sharkskin suit, but on a
little tiny hoof feet walking by uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
My grandmother, Esperanza, passed away in two thousand and five,
so I was never able to hear the full story
from her. But don't worry. She played a big role
in my interest in true crime since she purchased those
super graphic Latino magazines that would show the most obscene
content on the cover, like when Selena was murdered and
there was a picture of her on the autopsy table
showing the gunshot wound. No, and she says, Oh, the
(07:35):
joys of a LATINX childhood. Anyways, stay sexy and make
sure to search your family's history with well known serial
killers before you research the wrong one. Sending lots of
hugs to you all during this friend of the pod,
Selene Beth Calderon, Oh good one.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right, Selene Nice. Selene needs to make a documentary about
Richard Ramirez now right, dedicated to Esperanza.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's Esperanza, what a great name.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So good? Oh man, that's I really, I mean, I
just love that story of just like they spotted him,
they knew who it was. They were just setting get
that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
They're killing your neighbors, yes, and terrorizing and like old people.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean, just a horror show. Okay, this subject line
is espresso, martinis and a hometown hit man. Fun, what's
up guys? As a murderino and a bartender. The recent
chat about espresso martinis finally gave me an excuse to email.
The general recipe has equal parts of vodka, coffee liqueur
you were right, Georgia, and a shot of espresso. They
(08:40):
combine all the fun of being drunk with the joy
of having the caffeine jitters. They're super popular in Australia
and New Zealand, so naturally the pretentious hipster bartenders think
they're kind of trashy Onto my hometown. I'm from Canberra City,
with a nationwide reputation for being boring and small, but
we have some pretty cool bars. There's a popular one
(09:02):
in the middle of the city known for its fun,
tropical vibes think tiki drinks, palm leaves, and lots of
hens parties. Recently, one of my friends was working there
and instead of the usual groups of young women in
cocktail dresses, the bar was filled with big, burly middle
aged men. But hey, no judgment, scary looking men are
allowed to enjoy some sweet, sweet tiaki drinks.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Am I right? That's hell? Yeah, you're right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now everyone has to go watch the kids in the hall.
Sketch Girl drink drunk, which is one of the funniest okay,
Folly plays a girl drink drunk where you can't stop drinking,
like big blue things with pineapples sticking. It's the best okay.
Later in the night, one of the men was standing
in the bar when cool, calm and collectedly, another man
walked up to him and stuck a knife in his throat.
No scuffle, no provocation, just a straight up stabbing. The
(09:55):
man who had been stabbed took a sip from his drink,
pulled the knife out out of his own throat. This
is so Australian, and walked out into the street, where
he died in view of nearly every single person in
Camberra trying to have a fun night out during COVID.
Needless to say, oh my god, so this just happened,
(10:15):
Needless to say, all hell broke loose in the bar.
Turns out, turns out all these big burly men in
the tiki bar were in fact two branches of a large,
well known biker gang. This is bikey gang. But I
feel like let Australian listeners please let us know if
you call biker gangs bikey.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Gang or there's just tricycle. What it's like, they called
tricycles bikeys. There are these big burly dudes in a tricycle,
the big burly of fourth graders.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
The man who had very calmly cut the other man's
throat was the hit man of the group. It's still
a mystery as to why they went out drinking together
just before a murder. So is why they chose to
very publicly kill one of their members when usually they
just quote unquote disappear. However, what we have found out
is that tiki bars are a great way for gangs
(11:04):
to launder money. Oh tiki but bars specifically, I mean
those are minds of drinks. Have you mean mind? Yeah,
that's true. You're like, who's how did you How in
God's name do you just spend six hundred and eighty
dollars tiki bar? Oh tiki bar? Okay? Yeah, all that, Pineapple.
Thank you for all the quality entertainment over the years.
(11:25):
As the only female bartender at my bar, the stories
you've told have made me fiercely protective of my customers,
particularly young women. If you ever see a Canberra bartender
wearing an MFM logo pin, please know that you are
in safe hands, and I might even buy you a drink. Cheers, Alissa,
Oh my god, did that catch us? I mack at
you in a good place. I know, it's very sweet.
(11:48):
I love that idea.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So good.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you know what, there's this podcast out right now
about this woman whose father was in like Hell's Angels. Oh,
and so I've been listening in like about a lot
of biker stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Hold on, let me if I know it.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's a called biky gang, called the Biking Gang.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh no, it's called Relative Unknown. It's good. Okay, Yeah, okay,
that was great. You had two fucking hits so far.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I mean I wrote them. I'm just giving Alyssa and
her friend's credit.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That was great. You're ready for uh pervert story? Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I mean it's I'm long overdue.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay. This one's called the Kirkwood Tickler.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm sorry to laugh. It's not no, obviously, my reaction
is this nervous. It's like that, it's just so bizarre.
These stories do not disappoint in the bizarreness of the
fact that there are these errant, one off people that
are just weirdo. There are criminals, but with a big
serving a rido.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Normally we don't. We don't think shame unless hey or
a sexual assaulter.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yes, it has to be. Consensuality is the key to kink, right.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It can't be a tickler, a one sided tickler, be
consentual Swiss cheese, otherwise which does not exist. Sorry, okay, sorry,
hi y'all. Oh boy, do I have a hometown for you.
I grew up in a town outside of Boston and
come from a big family of massholes. My older sister
(13:27):
attended Boston College the Fighting Eagles with their Jesuit agenda,
and during her junior year she decided to live off
campus with some of her friends in an old house
on Kirkwood Road. From twenty eleven to twenty thirteen, there
had been several reported break ins in the neighborhood, including
many residential homes around b c's campus. Nothing was stolen,
(13:48):
there were practically no traces left in any of the homes. However,
in a few cases it was reported a dark figure
was seen watching over men as they slept. Oh In
twenty fourteen, these break ins escalated, with up to five
occurring in a night, with many BC students taking up
residents on Kirkwood and the surrounding area, doors were frequently
left unlocked. One night, many of the men living on Kirkwood,
(14:10):
including some of my sister's neighbors and friends, reported similar
break ins, but with a twist. The shadowy figure instead
stood over these men and in some cases tickled their feet.
The criminal was then coined the Kirkwood Tickler and continued
to strike across campus, targeting the feet of young men.
After my sister graduated, there were no other reported run
(14:32):
ins with the tickler. However, the hysteria of tickler culture
shook my sister and the students living on Kirkwood. The
tickler was never caught. Some say the ghosts of the
tickler still haunts the area, and some students report supernatural
or not sightings of the tickler out of their bedroom window.
Stay sick natural, it's actually at dude. It couldn't be
(14:53):
more real, It could be more human. Stay sexy and
lock your doors, Julia, Oh my for real?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So that's that is like the sister perve to remember
the Pedlama tickler that my friend Audrey Crandall wrote in
That's the same exact thing. But young girls, Yeah, if
you haven't seen The twenty sixteen documentary Tickled Oh Yeah
relates to this directly. I highly and I mean I
(15:22):
recommend it. It's a mind blowing documentary because it starts
one spot and friends of the fam Dave Anthony and
Gareth Reynolds are featured because they did this story on
the DALUK, which is a great it's a bizarre history podcast.
If you've never listened to it, it's very funny. So
those guys are great and it's you know, and then
(15:43):
the stories are real, So Dave finds the most insane
historical stories and then just kind of walks you through them.
But they are actually in this documentary because they covered
this story and this and this reporter who is either
I think he was from New Zealand. He went and
started in investigating it and unraveled a thing that was
so much bigger than the original point of the story.
(16:06):
It's that I swear to you. April Richardson and I
went and watched this documentary and when it was over,
it was that the remember the sun Dance movie theater
in the on Cressent Heights, the Sunset five No, yes, yes, yes,
yeah yeah, But then it later became yeah, so there was,
I would say all together. There was like nine people
(16:27):
in the theater to watch this documentary, and when it
was over, we all turned to each other, like the
whole audience turned to each other and went, what the
but like we all started talking to each other because
it was that mind blowing and that like, Yeah, so
if you haven't seen Tickled, it's from twenty sixteen, highly
record it's so funny. We did this last night too,
(16:49):
constantly making a list of things people watched and said
they liked, because we're always looking for stuff to watch
and so bach to consume.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So bored. We've watched everything, watched it all, watched it all.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, well that's a new one. If you have you
seen that documentary?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Did you saw it years ago? I completely forgot about it. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
This last one is the subject line is postal worker,
because I think we called out for if you're a
postal worker, tell us weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Hey, MFM crew, I'm a postal worker and I thought
i'd share a couple of stories from the processing side. Okay,
First of all, we are the biggest shipper of drugs
in the country. You're welcome. We all know those coffee
beans and packages are hiding weed. Props to the ones
that straight up send weed without any concealed scent, you've
got some balls. God the oh my, well, just putting
(17:45):
weed in a box and putting some tape on it
and giving it to the mailman amazing. Well, I was
a clerk. One of the funniest parts of my twelve
hour day, six days a week was when jail mail
came through. Ladies, whoever is taking those picks of you
is a good friend, and we've seen parts of you
not meant for public viewing. M remember not to overstuff
the envelope. It gets caught in the machines and your
(18:07):
bits and pieces are out there for the whole post
office to see. No, so some people sending sending in
it's like, hey, you know you need this is what
you need when you're inside. But then if the envelopes too.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There's too many photos in there. There's just too many angles.
Pick three or your favorite.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah. One of the worst things to happen was when
someone sent a fecal sample in an envelope and jam
it jammed in my machine. Someone's shit was everywhere and
I vomited in the trash can what the fuck? Oh
my god, listen. If you're mailing in your ballot this
election mail early, don't take chances. Your new voting date
(18:45):
is October twentieth, not November third. Make sure your vote
gets counted. We have an election. We have election coordinators
in every district in the country. We're working diligently to
make sure ballots and election mail get clear every day.
Go buy some sweet stamp or merch and clean off
your porch steps sidewalk for your carrier. I never thought
(19:06):
about that. That's right, there's male carriers who have to
run gauntlets of people's garbage and bullshit to get to
deliver mail. I never thought about that. Stay sexy and
don't forget to seal that envelope of naughty picks.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
B be amazing. I love that's we wanted. I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Good inside information.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Good love the voting info as well.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yes, thank you so much for that. That's hilarious. Yeah, okay.
My last one is hero Cat Saves the Dog. Sup y'all.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
A long time ago you asked for hero Cat stories,
and I finally worked up the ambition to actually send
this in. My in laws moved to a rocky Mountains
Foothill neighborhood outside of Albuquerque, just over ten years ago.
The house came with a cat flap, which they assumed
was for a cat the previous owners had had nope out.
The flap was installed specifically for the common cat that
(20:03):
nobody owned, but everyone took care of. He had toys, beds,
food bowls, and a different name in every house in
the neighborhood. I love those cats neighborhoods. Mabbi right, gotta
be right, must be. My in laws called him Miowi
because he liked it to talk a lot. He said
Maoi without the e, so Maui. He liked to talk
(20:25):
a lot I took. It took him all of one
day to come in and climb all over my highly
allergic father in law, who quickly became his favorite person.
My in laws took him to the vet and tried
to make him an indoor cat, but he was having
absolutely none of it. Instead, Maui came and when is
he pleased spending most of each week with my in laws,
made friends with their dog Brady, and went for family
(20:47):
walks in the foothills every single day, meowing the whole time.
I love cats.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
As he was mowing. What he was saying is I
love this. It's so great to get outside. You guys
are fun. There's two their families that never leave the house.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You guys get the good cat food.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
That's all I like you about hanging out here.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
One day on their regular walk, Maui did something he
had never ever done before. He started growling. He crouched
down with his hackles fully raised, staring intently at a
bush about ten feet away, and made this terrifying low, growling,
hissing noise. Now, this is an off leash area, and
Brady was wandering close to that bush. The way Maui
(21:26):
was acting totally freaked my mother in law out, and
she called the dog back. The second the leash clipped
on Brady's caller, Maui made the most blood curdling yowling
noise and charged at the bush where a and this
is all caps fully grown bobcat had been hiding. WHOA
Mauie and nine pounds semi stray house cat chased this
(21:47):
thirty plus pound bobcat over one hundred feet, then came
prancing back like the little king that he was. Save
the dog, because he would have gotten the.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Dog because I would.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maui lived for another five years or show after this,
getting spoiled with cans of wet food. The older he got,
the more he stayed with my in laws until he
was basically an indoor cat at their place. He passed
away peacefully in my father in law's favorite chair, which
they still call the Maui chair. Oh, stay sexy and
invite the neighborhood cat in for some wet food. It
might just save your dog Rosie.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes, that is the cute. Now, could we please have
pictures of Mowie, Please just see him.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
What if they sent us a picture and it's a
bobcat and we're like.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Oh, guys, guys, those were they were relatives. They were
having a family quarrel. There was no Now that's the best. Also,
I love those kind of cats that follow you when
you are and don't like flip out and don't go
other places or whatever like. That's that weird because cats
aren't pack animals. So when they do stuff like that,
(22:54):
it's like because they like you.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's because they like you and they.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Know that your dipshits walk right by a bobcat bush
as if that's your right and privilege when it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Watch her back from Bobcats.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
What a good patch this week?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What the word is? Batch? Characters and batches, real good ones?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The word you guys said last night, you're a niece
and I what was it? Which she was stranglers. She
was trying to say stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, she goes stranglers and they go, no, I think
you mean what did I say you?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, no, it is stranglers. And then I was watching
you guys talk about it, and then I finally like waited
for you to be done. I was like, it's stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's being this thirteen year old and I'm telling her
what the correct word, and I'm totally wrong. And then
Karen turns to us and goes and just tells us
in the most straight voice. It was very abras Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That story about those seventh grade girls you guys were
talking about, they weren't stranglers. They were stragglers.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It was so in character for me. It was almost
like that wasn't I wasn't. That wasn't a joke. We
socially distanced. Hang it was fun.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh, it was nice. K Yeah, because my family came
down as a global warming refugees because north northern California
is on fire and where they're from they have fires above, below,
and east of them. So there was a smoke dome
over Petaluma, and then the smoke dome fell when the
fog came in, so Laura was like, we're just inhaling
(24:27):
ash and bits of you'r. They're just coughing and it
was terrible. So they came down here to Los Angeles
where the air is clear, so crazy are and hung
out for a week. It was super fun.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I love it and we had so much fun to night.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Thanks for writing those in. Send more guys my favorite
murder at Gmail or on our website. Send them there.
We love them. You're the best.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Goodbye, Elvis.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
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