53 | The Kentucky Cannibal: Levi Boone Helm - Black Cat Report | UFOs, Cryptids, True Crime & Paranormal

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Today we're going to leave the comforts of your air conditioned
house with the sweltering heat outside.
We're going to leave the fast food restaurants in the small
batch brewery, slinging out drinks down the road from your
house behind. We're going to head to the
plains of the frontier where thelaws weren't rules but just
general guidelines, where a bandfull of hellions could ride in

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and murder the leaders of the town.
Then move to the next town and pretty much get away with it.
We're going back to a time just before the start of the Civil
War, before the United States was really united.
It's time for us to delve into our first cannibal and our
cannibal month. It's time we fried up a story.
I didn't see you there. Something big is going on here.

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From hunting Ghosts to Bigfoot. Paranormal, Ufo's, True Crime,
and more. We won't just be.
Spouting articles I was researching for your
entertainment. Beginning of a new.
World. The best squad you'll ever
fucking eat. True story.
It's basically like one day you walk outside and you see that
the ants are playing with matches.
This is the black. Cat report.
See you on the other side. Welcome to the Black Cat Report

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in episode 53. Last week we had a mini episode
release, but now it's time to get into the juicy stuff, The
gory stuff, the carnivorous stuff.
I'm Joey, your host for this episode, and with me is the
mouth watering Gill. Hello.
Hello, the scrumptious Selena. Hello.

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And the delectable Betsabe is out for today.
We'll also have a special guest with us today, Pete Quint.
Rachel. Hell yeah.
Yeah, it's a It's a word that means with great flavors.
Fancy pants for the win. The MSG of Sisters do want to

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hop in real quick and kind of give a little bit of back story
about why we're releasing this episode so late and kind of
we've veered off track a little bit with Cannibal Month, so
Rachel and I's father. Passed away last week on
Thursday. So we've been dedicating, you
know, all of our time and everything to to family, to

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taking care of our mom and to tobeing together.
That's kind of obviously throwing things off the rails.
Really appreciate all the love and support and understanding
that folks have given us, the folks that have kind of like
been in the know about stuff. There's no need to like reach
out or anything if that hits youlike hearing something like
that. Just if you can, if you're in

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good standing with with your family, just, you know, shoot
them a text right now and just tell them that you love them.
Tell them that you appreciate them, Tell them that you care
for them. So yeah, not to bring things
down too much or whatever, but just kind of wanted to let you
know what we hopped off scheduleand just give a shout out to the

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good parents out there because yeah.
We're only here for a little bitand some of us, as we're going
to get into today, get eaten along the way, so let's just hop
right into that. Well, thank you, GAIL.
Thank you for that. Well, Colonel Sanders has
nothing on our first cannibal today.

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We dig into Levi Boone Helm, theKentucky cannibal.
Levi Boonhelm was born on January 28th, 1828.
He's not related to Levon Helm, the famous drummer and singer of
the band, but his parents were Joseph and Nancy and were poor

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and could never get ahead in life.
Boone was born in Go Ahead. Kentucky Fried Children.
Love it. Love it.
Sadly, we will not be getting into Kentucky Fried Children
this episode, but there might besome Kentucky Fried Men.

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Boone was born in Lincoln County, which is part of
Danville, KY and a household of 10 brothers and sisters.
It's a lot of kids. His parents, looking for a
better life, bought a wagon train to head to Missouri.
Slowly they scratched and clawedtheir way to owning their own
home and finding their own pieceof land, the author of the book,

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who is in the show, notes. Here describes an incredible
detail how much the Helms parents were well liked in their
town. But instead of going into that
detail, I'm going to go and moveahead into our protagonist.
In this tale, the author was just like probably for 1520
Pages was just going into how many people would help the

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family. It was just a whole bunch of
stuff and it was really very interesting.
It does come in later, but yeah.He wasn't coming from like a
complete lack of community and isolation and like, you know,
just like really like out there in the sticks.
Like he did grow up in a somewhat supportive, caring
environment. I'm assuming, like people cared

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about. That and as we find out later,
the dad actually was like very well liked, was a great person
and as well as the mom and the community was they loved him so.
Going into it, Boone's body matured fast and by the time he
was 10 he was big. As most the other 16 year olds,
he was described as prone to rage.

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Go figure, and in a fight he would be the one who finished
it. He had a cunningness in him
though, that no other kid could match.
He was a bully, even though he was much younger than the rest
of kids. He was around well.
By the time he was a teenager, he would perform fun
exhibitions. He could wrestle and beat the

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men in their 20s, which is crazyfor him being like 131415, you
know. So he would do this really cool
thing. So he would throw his knife down
on the ground while he was riding on horseback and then
jump down off the horseback, grab the knife, hop back on the
horseback before it would stop running.
So he would just be like, you know, damn it is crazy.

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He was a great fighter. Yeah, he was a big fighter.
Obviously, as we were saying earlier, he wanted to prove to
everyone that he could win. He would wait until people would
come out of the Taverns at nightand then pick fights with them
so they'd be wasted just walkingout.
And he's just like, oh, you, let's fight.

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And so he would always win. It's one of those, the
Australian Kentucky, one of those Kentucky Australians that
we we've heard so much about. Exactly.
Yeah. His parents kept their distance
from him because obviously they became afraid of him.
And they're also disappointed inhim because, I mean, he
literally just beaten up everybody he could as a kid.

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Boone was a very proud man and adding to his rowdy and violent
ways already. He and the local sheriff, of
course, didn't see eye to eye, so.
Right. He's a little taller than the
sheriff, you see. Yeah, he was.
He was bigger. You know, the sheriff's at these
times are always the you know, like big gutted chewing Tobaki

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spitting on it with his feet up at the at the old Sheriff's
Office. So after one of the boxing
matches outside the Tavern left one of the local drunkards badly
beaten and almost near death, the sheriff put out a warrant
for Boone's arrest. So this honestly is the most.
Coolest cinematic thing I think I could ever see for this guy's

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life. Instead of running away or
giving up, Boone riding his horse, rode up the steps and
into the courthouse, not gettingoff his he he didn't get off his
horse. He burst into the court that was
in session. They were having a yeah and
started cursing and yelling, saying what foul of a judge

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added his name to a warrant. His angry and vocal disruption
actually got the judge to drop the charges against him and then
drop the charges of contempt of court, which he had just gotten
for riding into court. Literally.
I just had these floors swept and waxed.

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Now your horses in here and there's shit all over the place
and there's knife marks in the floor.
Could you just leave? Yeah, so after they dropped the
charges, he'd never got off his horse the whole time.
He trotted back out of the courthouse, down the steps where
the sheriff and some of the sheriff's men were waiting,

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watching him to see if they could arrest him because they
figured that he was going to getarrested.
All right, pink Daisy, time to do our happy dance.
Try, try, try, try, try, try. It's like, yeah, show them your
moves. Try, try, try, try.
Boone looked at the sheriff and just smiled at him as he trotted

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out of town. Fucking ballsy, man, I was.
Like, this dude is sad ass. Yeah, yeah, he knew what he was
doing. It's also like he's in there for
like basically whatever the equivalent of like disorderly
conduct is. And he got over charges of
disorderly conduct with disorderly conduct.
Yep. Like that's a whole fire.

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I. Was fired.
Yeah, he did. So as he turned 20 years old,
most of his brothers and sistersmoved out of the farm, but Boone
remained. He pretty much drank away all
his money and was just working the farm, you know, taking over
his father's stuff. So he's pretty much Boone's
farm. He's pretty much the person in

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high school that just never moved out his parents house and
took up the family business. You know the guy.
You see him in the bar every weekend?
Yep. On this horse.
Yeah. On his hand, Boone decided that
he was ready to start playing the field.
He found a woman that he liked named Lucinda Browning.

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They married only three months after he had trotted into the
courthouse to protest his charges.
So three months after that, theymarried.
Jeez. Damn.
Yep, very quick. On their wedding night, he spent
most of his time courting his first love.
That's right, liquor. All right, I was going.

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To think you said the horse. Man with priorities.
Come on, Pink Daisy, let's get adrink.
He drank himself pretty much under the table, so that she
carried him across the thresholdwhen they were going into, and
she laid him on the bed, man, she.
Must have been. Strongest fuck.
I mean, I just imagine that she,like, had him over her shoulder

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and was like dragging him in because this guy was a big guy,
you know, he wasn't small. I would have just been grabbed
him by the ankles and drag him. Yep, I would have just moved the
bed to where he fell down. Sorry, baby, I'm not strong.
It's OK. I'll put something under your
head. Put some cardboard under him and

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pull him that way. So after he woke up, he dragged
her into the bed and as the author said, he basically raped
her. Yeah, that turned pretty bad.
Throughout their marriage, he would make sure that she acted
perfect or he would punish her. So this is the start of like,

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the not funny parts. He punched her in the face and
beat her. She spent more time than not
with a black eye, so Boone was pretty much a complete and total
alcoholic. He ran up tabs on any bar that
would have him and Lucinda. Would have to, as well as being
beaten, would have to deal with the bar tabs.

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And so with any money that she could scrounge, she would go to
the bars and pay some of his bartabs for him.
Which is she was living life of hell with this terrible person.
But luckily for her, she got a bit of respite.
Some of Boone's friends convinced him to go on a mining

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trip. He literally just picked up and
left. Didn't tell her.
I mean, that makes sense with this guy, honestly.
So. Yeah, the best.
Probably for the best. She didn't even know he was gone
until a few days when he didn't come back.
But to be fair, he really left because nobody would give him
booze anymore. So.

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Fuck you. I'm going to go make my own
liquor. Pretty much.
So once he came back, his wife, Lucinda, had got the idea.
She's like, I'm divorcing this guy, I'm done.
So she set up divorce. He and his normal way, wanting
to know who was to blame and whoput the money up for the
divorce, went to the courthouse to find out.

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But he eventually found out dismayed, and he was dismayed
and angry to learn who did it. It was Boone's father who put
the money up, Joseph Lucinda, who was also pregnant with their
child. Had all of her finances and
whatever she needed taken care of by Boone's father.

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That's why I said the the why people loved him.
This guy was a great guy. Even though this literally
bankrupted Joseph and his family, they lost their house,
he still made sure they give themoney to Lacinda so that Lacinda
and his grandchild would be OK. Boone basically destroyed
everything that his family had built.

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And his family left on the firstwagon out.
Yep, that's a very sad and. The baby were.
Okay. Yeah, they were Okay.
They still stayed in the town because they were pretty good
with money. So now Boone was alone and
nobody was there to restrain him.
He no longer had his father looking down on him.

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Boone had hit rock bottom and itwas time for him to start over.
Some of Boone's cousins came to town to hang out and drank with
them. One cousin named Littleberry.
Shoot. What?
The fuck is that nickname? Yeah.
I don't. That's his.
Name LB. S Yep, he was the younger cousin

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of Boone. They drank together and talked
about going West to the gold rushes of California.
For at that time, I think we should.
Just head West. We ain't got shit to do here.
Come on, Boo. Boone would ply and pry into
getting Little Berry to go West with them.
So it's really Boone trying to get him to go West because

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Little Berry you know just got into town was just was just
chilling, wanted to relax, drinking at the bars, one of the
things that. Don't fall far from the Bush.
Yeah, One of the things that they said is Little Berry was
young, so he was. He was a little bit naive.
So they would he was, you know, open to talking to Boone, right?

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So he's manipulative. I can't say the word.
He's manipulative. He's able to be manipulated,
Yeah. Yeah.
And but he was smart enough to leave the bars before Boone
would get too drunk because he knew the he knew the reputation
of Boone. So he was like, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna go home. Yeah, He knew the pattern so
little. Bears bruise.

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Easy. I gotta go.
I gotta go. Shoot, he finally, after weeks,
got a handshake and an agreementto go West.
So the little Berry was finally like, okay, fine, let's go.
They were so drunk that you knowwho did not make stupid promises
to go while they were wasted. So the next day Boone was like,

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I'm so ready to go. So he met up with little Berry
at his house, woke him up. Boone noticed there was nothing
packed or ready to go. So Boone's like.
Little Berry he. Let the pimp and down.
Yep, Boone asked. What do you think about the
Texas question? You know, he's just asking this

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question. Yeah, cuz he didn't want.
To this the hot politics at the time.
Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I mean, if you were little
Barry, knowing your cousin, would you want to go West with
this guy? Yeah.
Well, it's in the name, yeah. Well, of course, Littleberry
said. I say no.
So this would lead to his first murder.

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Oh shit. Boone stabbed his cousin with a
huge buoy knife. Boone.
Boone, not realizing what he hadactually done, looked down at
the knife and saw blood everywhere.
He checked to see if Boone was actually dead or not.
Then proceeded to take everything he owned, grabbed his

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knife out of his cousin and he left him dead on the floor.
Oh shit, I thought there'd be jamming there.
He left town hitting to California.
Damn. Juiced his ass.
Damn. Yeah, he juiced his ass.
Yeah, he I just want to say thisseems like to me more of an
ideological killing for me. I think that he had so much rage

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with everything that he had saidwas being done to him.
He wanted to take it out on something, and I think he had
just realized early on in the talking that Littleberry just
wasn't going to go anyways, was pretty much just an allowance
for him to actually kill somebody.
He was going to kill somebody. This was his like, okay, I'm

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going to do it through this guy.I was going to say, do you think
that basically in killing him itwas kind of almost like how he
burned his bridges at like? Every single, like, bar that he
went to where he just kind of, like, screwed everybody over and
like, had to leave. And it was kind of like, I mean,
obviously this dude has like, norespect for people or for, like,

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people's emotions. This dude ain't got empathy at
all. And so, like, killing little
Barry was kind of like a, OK, now I have to leave.
Yeah. Gave him justification.
Yeah, it gave him something thathe needed to push himself out.
So gotcha. Like he was just looking for an
excuse to kill somebody, basically is what you said,

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right? Yeah, yeah, He just wanted an
excuse he was going to kill somebody.
He just wanted the excuse, like most serial killers that get
that first kill, they're lookingfor the excuse to kill and the
reason, the justification to kill and then they start going
into their like their kill streaks into their so.
Their villain area, and this is going well.

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Boone started his a little earlier, but he's gonna start
going into his, I think, psychotic era, so.
Todd era. Yeah, yeah, sweetie.
How old was he? Boone was like 2120.
He's like, he's like late teens,early 20s at this time.
Jesus, Yeah, yeah, OK, so after he hit it out of town on the

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same day, they found little Barry's body.
And obviously they knew who killed him.
They already knew. So the sheriff and they hired
people to go right out after him.
But they caught up with him before he got to the Indian
reservations. And I want to say that this is
very important because the Indian reservations at the time.

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They were very dangerous for anybody to go to.
He would, he would go out there,they would find him, they would
murder him and then they would come to the towns and start
killing those people because they thought they were getting
invaded. There was like a real
contentious kind of in quotations treaty between those
people and obviously rightfully so because they had literally
all their land taken from them. So I mean there is a

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justification for this so because they.
They they found out, they saw that his horse was dead and he
was scraping at the ground to find water.
So damn, yeah, he was pretty much last legs, you know.
On their way back he was talkingto himself and he kept trying to

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escape. He had been driven mad, so they
basically took him for trial. The judge decided that Boone was
psychotic and they got a doctor to sound off to send him to a
sanatorium. So yeah, you think this would be
the end of him, right? Yikes.
That. I mean, getting sent to a

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sanitarium at in those times like bro in the 1970s, that shit
was like completely inhumane. Could you imagine?
So we gonna we gonna say too like this is a white dude a
young. White dude that is getting sent

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to a sanitarium, like, you really got to be off your
rocker. Like, you really, really got to
be off your rocker. Like, you can get elected as
president at that time, you know, Like, I won't now, but you
can get like that. You know what I'm saying?
They're just like, well, he's too crazy to work, so give him a
spot in office, You know, like, everybody gets Beavers.

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We love him. You know, like this dude is.
He's off it. He was off his rocker for sure.
Well, as soon as he got to the asylum, like the cunning person
he is, he dropped the crazy act and became a model citizen.
So right, he would help the doctors and nurses in any way he

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could. Even with his good behavior, he
was getting restless with being inside all the time.
Because at this time they like the asylum.
They would just. Leave you locked away.
You know, you were just sitting there.
You were not, couldn't go anywhere.
They really weren't looking to treat people at this time.
They were just putting them in aplace to hide away from the rest
of society. So like prisons and jails now?

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Pretty much, yeah. The doctors started giving him
some outside time because, you know, honestly, they kind of
liked him. They all kind of liked him
because he helps. But he there's a point in the
book they made to say that he would give help.
And would never ask for anything, but would be very
thankful when somebody gave him something.

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So he was playing the act very well.
So he they let him walk outside in the gardens, and one of the
orderlies at the asylum took pity on Boone and would walk
with him to the forest on the edge of the asylum property at
night. This would be his escape plan

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every every time they would walk.
He would go out and pee at the same spot every time.
So. So one night he pretty much did
his normal going out to pee while the orderly talked to
another coworker. So the coworker didn't want or
the orderly didn't want the coworker to know that he was

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taking Boone out on these walks.So he was basically like please
don't come back Boone, please don't come back, please don't
come back, stay out there until like I the coworker goes away.
So. When the other coworker went
away, Boone hadn't come back. The the orderly went to look for
Boone, and he was gone. He escaped.

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Oh. My God, I don't know why I
thought that like him peeing somewhere he was going to use
the like urine or something. I'm a fashion a sword.
Yeah. I mean, he were like, he peed in
the same spot every time. And I was like, what is he going
to do with that pee? I didn't bring one a weird way.

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Sorry guys. No, that's funny.
I mean, you know. This show is cunning a bear that
I'm going to train with these animal crackers until like.
This guy was cunning, you know, He planned, he planned
everything he did because he wanted to make sure that he
could get out and not be found. They never.

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Know so far that one of his Secret 9 spices and herbs was
little berries and urine. Yeah, so we've got two.
We've got two of the Secret 9 spices and herbs, little berries
and urine. OK, cool.
Maybe we'll get the seven other later.
So they never found them and pretty much wrote it off as he

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was killed in the woods because honestly they didn't want to
take the time to go find him so.Boone got lucky.
A passerby picked him up. The man who picked him up was a
prospector and he was loaded up for a trip out West to get rich
finding gold. This would be his second murder.

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Boone started literally just rummaging through the
prospectors things and wouldn't stop until the prospector
physically restrained him. So then Boone turned around.
And smashed the prospectors faceto death with the Rock.
I told you I don't have any wet wipes in here, but it.
Stoned. He.

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Got out stoned. Yep, not the good kind.
Not in a good way. So he now is rich with goods and
clothes. Boone was set up to head out.
Nobody was looking for him because, honestly, nobody cared.
This was the frontier. Anybody.

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Yeah, He didn't have anybody. This whole this whole episode is
feeling like a justification forBigfoot right now.
Because this dude, I'm assuming.Is like 9 foot tall, you know,
like 280 pounds of muscle and like literally just walks off of
like the sanitarium and they're just like, well, can't see him
anywhere. I guess he's gone in the woods

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and. Trail the bears like popping
through the top of the trees. Yeah, he's wearing clothes that
are like 6 sizes too small and they're just like, yeah, that
milk out West. It's crazy, but it does.
You just see like a like a big old like like trail just being.
Broken through with the trees. Yeah, yeah, his little pathways.

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We need to look up Sasquatch sightings around this time in
that area. Boom.
Squash. Yeah, I'm.
Sure, it was all over Google at the time.
Yeah, they each the asylums. Boom shine.
So you know, this was the frontier.
So he took to a few different caravans who invited him to
travel with them. But he would always keep his

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distance. He would, OK.
Put his fire far out from the normal caravan and he wouldn't
join the wagon circles when theywould stop for a few days.
So while he was traveling he murdered and took all he could
while while he was there. There aren't any numbers to show
how many people he killed and robbed because well, again, this

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is the frontier. And if you disappeared on the
frontier, most people would never ask questions.
It was just the point of the trail.
You had much less than a 5050 chance to make it where you were
going, Boone. Had a failed day of hunting and
was starving, so he came upon a man who had also been out
hunting that day. Boone shot him with his rifle

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from far away. He then made his way over to
start ransacking his things and found well, the hunter also had
no food. Both their hunting trips were
dismal and amounted to nothing. What could he do?
Except this time, Boone was starving.

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He looked at the body of the hunter, thought to himself.
If I don't eat, there will be two corpses lying out here from
some coyote or wild animal to feed on.
So he drew out his right. We've all been there.
We've all been so hungry. So he drew out his knife,
drowned with weariness and hunger, and crawled out to the

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body. He hacked at the corpse's
clothes to take them off. He then stabbed the knife a
little bit deeper, took off someof the skin and muscle.
He then brought over it to the fire and cooked it.
The skin was half raw when he took it out of the floor and he
took his first bite. But that he still had that

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little bear like little Berry jam on his knife too.
And I'm sure he just like spreadit over top like butter on toast
in the morning. The other white meat.
This was his personal Kentucky Fried Chicken.
So he thought that when he took his first bite, a light would

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come down on him and strike him down from heaven.
Because, you know, obviously this is a cannibal thing and
that was horribly looked down onan abomination to God.
He was like, this is not a good thing.
So Yep. But he did it.
Yep, I like to think too real quick that like.
Like the like, First Nations folks that were still like out

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and about and still like having like their strongholds out there
and like, you know, they were just watching this whole time.
Like what is he doing over there?
Why is he Oh God, oh wow. Yeah, I like wanted to feed him,
but like, now I see what he's doing and.
Yeah, we're just gonna, we're just gonna let him go over
there. That's that's fine.

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We're just gonna backtrack around here.
Yeah. There is a funny story about him
being around an Indian nation later that we'll talk about that
the Kentucky cannibal treated the body as his own personal
Kentucky Fried Chicken. The only thing that was missing
was a side of mashed potatoes and a Coke.

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That's just some brains and someblood, baby.
Right. Yeah, Yeah, man.
Wring him out in his little. Coke nuts into his coke.
Maybe he was like the first zombie, except for he wasn't
dead. He was dead.
That's just cannibalism. He was dead.
And just cannibalism, yeah, yeah.
See, like cannibalism is only wrong when you're not a zombie.

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And I've really been thinking about that lately.
Like, how come zombies get to belike, eat humans, but like
humans can't eat humans? I don't get it.
It's unfair. Zombie lives matter.
Yeah, just like, you know, I don't know.
It's a it's it's a weird double standard.
I'm not here for it. Yeah, maybe we should go into
the ethics of it. Maybe later.

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Yeah. Yeah.
So the next day. After he passed out after his
meal, because after he ate it, he literally just fell asleep
because you know, he hadn't eaten all the time.
So when you eat, you know when you have a.
Really big meal. Yeah, you know when you eat and
you eat a bunch, you know you pass out.
So that's what happened to him. It was his tryptophan.

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So the next day he couldn't lookat the mess he had left to the
hunter. So he didn't even look at him
because you know, he ate him andhe went on his way with the
thought of. Well, I should have took and
more to eat along the way. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, like, do you ever order like your home alone?
You've had a long day. You order like 2 extra large New

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York style pizzas with all your favorite toppings on them and
stuff. And then like, if you're like
me, you eat an entire one and atleast a, you know, slice or two
or the other. And then like by the time you're
getting ready to go to bed, you're like, I'm not even going
to put this away. God, I'm so full I can't look at
another slice. So you know, like I understand,
I understand. Pretty much, yeah.
He. Okay, that's I.

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Needed a hand? Yeah, I'm just saying.
I get it. Yeah, well, Boone made it out to
California and he met with the first few cousins that didn't
know his exploits. So family, Most of his family
didn't know about him that routein California.
Big Berry and Medium Berry. And Dingle Berry.

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And Dingle. Berry.
He generally hung around with them and worked a bit and of
course drank and fought a lot. So at this time in the Old West,
it was a normal to have gunfights and lots of killing
His cousins like everyone else got tired of him bumming around
and the constant fighting and shooting like normal like

(32:47):
everybody does. Because he would literally go
into every bar, he would use everybody he could, just like
his parents, just like his wife.Just like his friends, the
people he met, he would use themfor everything they could and
wouldn't work. So his cousins ended up trying
to hatch a plan to get rid of him.

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But turns out they wouldn't evenneed one as after a night of
drinking Boone shot and killed abar patron in cold blood and
perked up the ears of the sheriff.
So there is a difference betweenthe fighting and killing, right?
And the murder that he committedthe fighting and shooting
normally. In that time had were

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grievances. So in that time, if you called
somebody a liar, that was legal precedence to kill somebody.
So all you had to do was say that was a liar.
If you had witnesses that corroborated that story, it was
fine. He had no reason to shoot this
guy, he just killed him. So I will say, I will say too
that like so I guess like you know my.

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Biological dad and stuff like that.
The first dad that I had in my life, cuz I've been lucky enough
to have a couple great dads in my life.
But like the dad that raised sister Rachel and I like he was
coming from the old school, was born in 19 thirty 1933 Gil
senior like that. Straight up, like to the day

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that he died, like you call somebody a liar and it's like,
no, that was grounds to kill someone like and like he carried
that and he was also from like, well, he's from Pikesville,
Kentucky, like he was from like coal land and stuff like that.
His coal miner his whole life itwas.
It was old school. Even back during the old school.

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What we see now and like callingsomebody with liar like that.
Yo, like that was growing up in our house.
Like you do not say that. You don't even hint at that.
You don't joke about that. Like that was.
Yeah. So like what you're saying about
like that was grounds to kill somebody like I believe that
100% because like we saw our dad.

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Like if somebody even hinted at that, that was no, like you are.
You were just as solid as your word and your reputation and
like somebody saying that about you is like that is straight up
character assassination and thathonestly at the time.
When like you needed to rely on your community and your
neighbors and stuff like that, that's also threatening your

(35:15):
livelihood. It wasn't just like A and that's
the thing too, that people don'trealize.
It's not just a respect thing. It's like no, like the local
business won't give you like a loan or like let you borrow
stuff. Like people won't help you out
when you need it and everybody needed a band together and stuff
like that. You couldn't find a job like
saying that to somebody who was like death socially.

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And so, like, yeah, like you defended your honor.
It's like somebody coming up andme like, oh, you need your car
to get to work. I'm going to take your car.
Also, I'm going to burn your house down also, I'm going to
steal your phone. And it's just like, I don't have
anything to repair my life anymore.
Like, it was a it was a very, very big deal, Your reputation.
So this is, this is real. That's all I'm saying.

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Yeah, Yep, very true. Well, I mean, imagine it though.
They didn't have Google to look up people's histories and to
Fact Check them being a liar andnot so.
Yeah, and word didn't like travel, but by a pigeon, right?
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, by a guy on the.
Board. Yeah, Pony Express.
Yeah, that's true. Yep.

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So because of the sheriff chasing down on him, Boone went
to the Pacific Northwest. Oregon was calling.
Yep, trying to get that sweet old gold.
Hell yeah. Boone gathered up some of the
money he had made with his cousins.
And bought himself some suppliesto get on with.
During his travels he got a little lonely.

(36:41):
I mean he could only talk to hishorse so much before the horse
would get bored of him. Give him a small side during one
of his long winded stories. Pokémon.
Yeah, so as he would meet up with people and tell stories of
adventures throughout the West, he met a lot of Rough Riders.
As most called them. Rough Riders were just robbing.

(37:02):
Their advertisements in. Oh, I was thinking of the rough
writers that I saw in advertisements in like men's
bathrooms and gas stations. You know, they'll like they're
they're, I forget what what they're what was the they're
they're calling cards like they cost about 50 cents, $0.75 and
it's like, weird. It's just like this plastic
balloon but. But yeah, those are the only

(37:24):
Rough Riders I know about in gasstations.
Well, DMX had them some Rough Riders too.
Yeah, yeah, The DMX Rough Riders, Yeah, history.
Goes. Way farther back than I thought.
They were pretty much just robbers.
And these days, yeah, yeah, theywould ride the trails and steal
people's things, so obviously Boone would get along with them.

(37:47):
Yeah, they're the horse pirates.Boone would Gale them with
horrible stories about murder. And I honestly don't know if he
had mentioned eating somebody tothem, but they all ended up just
slinking away for the most part.Except for a few.
Except for a few, a lot of them left because they're just like
this. Dude's ridiculous, but he got a

(38:07):
few people to join to create a posse.
Basically he got like 6 people. So.
Six people to travel with. I would say so, yeah, you know,
you have to feed these people. You have to, you know, he's,
he's the leader of these guys. You have to feed him.
You have to give them homes. You have to give them every.
Town is a grocery store. It's not that hard to find food.

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Yeah, pretty much. They taught Boone how to rob
someone with a gun. So he didn't know this, by the
way. So he just pointed at him and he
say, give me your money, okay, Let me try, let me try.
Show me your penis. No giving me up.
Now he's showing you got it. He ran away.
He ran. He's still running.

(38:49):
His pants are. Oh, God damn it.
Boom. I'm sorry.
I'm trying to learn. Like, just.
Boom. You're not trying to rob them
for food. Give me your arm.
As you can imagine, they they picked a few sites that were
easy to rob. Rich travelers coming back from

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the gold rush looking to buy houses.
So I want to, I want to say thistoo about that day.
So you would think, you know, you think nowadays like, oh
cool, I get my pay, I take my money.
I put it in the bank, right. It didn't work that way these
days because you had to take your gold with you from where
you got it. You had, then you had to go to

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where you wanted to buy your house.
So if you say you didn't want tolive in Oregon because there's
nothing there. There's only gold mining towns
that you probably don't want to live in at this time because
they just weren't build up. There's a lot of people like
Boone who would go in and just Rob.
People So you think like movie theater prices are bad.
Can you imagine how bad they arein a in a in a gold town?

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But I I did want to ask here too.
So this was. And this is.
Totally off track, but it's a little bit related, I got to
ask. So the Knights Templar, like the
notorious, like Knights Templar,there's you know, go watch
Indiana Jones, you'll you'll learn the history.
One of the ways that they made so much money and it became so
powerful, right as like an empire was he would have these

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like pilgrimages, right? So like you would have like all
of the the Catholic kingdoms andstuff like Christians from all
over the world. And what they would do was you
would give folks in the Knights Templar all of your money,
right? Or like a large portion of your
money Knights Templar, literallya bunch of like Knights that

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were basically Christian mercenaries would hold on to
that money and they would send abank slip more or less to
whatever town you were going to.So when you got to that town,
you could withdraw your money from the Knights Templar's bank.
So they were kind of the first international like, banking
establishment, right? You could just, you would have a

(40:55):
receipt with a piece of paper and then be documented in your
name and yadda yadda yadda. But that made it safer for you
to travel through like long, long, long stretches of like,
you know, different countries and trains and all the shit like
that and like get there and likesomebody tried to rob you.
You're like, dude, I only have 5bucks and then they would look
at the receipt and you're like shit.
I can't even take this money outbecause I don't meet these

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descriptions and so on and so forth.
So, like, was there anything like that in the Wild West?
Like, did they have anything setup where it was just like, I
don't know where the Masons doing some shit like this, like,
you know, where it's like, that's an easy way to make
money, just transport money for folks.
People will pay you anything. Yeah, in the Frontier, they
didn't have this yet. The one thing that I think

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about. In this is that you really
didn't want to have to pay people to guard you at this time
because you didn't. First off, these most of these
people didn't have money, so they're going out there to find
money and then on their way back, you don't know.
You don't want to tell people what you have.
You know you don't want to tell,hey, I've got so much gold in

(41:58):
there, I need protection becausemost likely those people were
Rough Riders and they were goingto rob you anyways.
So you really just kind of had to get lucky or move in the
right spot or and you also didn't want to have too many
people in your party because that means you split it however
many ways for people who are mining.
So this became easy pickings forBoone and his men.

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So after a while, of course the sheriff's in the area, they
started hearing about them and Boone decided that's probably
time to move on so we don't get arrested.
So in October. 1859, they headedto the Utah territories.
A huge silver deposit had been found in the territory, and

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Boone figured this would bring similar California Gold Rush
money here. So at this time, huge veins of
silver were found there. So he's like, well, I have all
these people chasing me here. They know where we stay up.
They know where we sit. So let's go somewhere else.
Nobody knows us over there. Yeah.

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Well, it's here that we will go through and kind of Fast forward
through a bit of travel because they just traveled for a while
getting there. But they got through a few
skirmishes and then got almost caught by Native Americans, a
tribe called the Diggers. Their actual name was the
Pollute Tribe, but they were called the Diggers because they

(43:24):
would dig into the grounds supposedly, and in their houses
were built into the built into the side of Adobe.
And so it's made it easier for them to to live.
That also, funny enough, keeps it cool in the summer, hot in
the winter, which is really cool.
They're very smart with that. So they were chased by them and

(43:44):
they narrowly escaped. They lost a few few men though,
this roundabout trip trying to escape.
They lost a lot of supplies. We know where this has gone.
They came into Soda Springs on the eve of winter, which is a
small town, and they found it empty.

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They moved on and found a hunting cabin to try and hunker
down and escape the storms. So at this time in winter it was
actually a really bad set of storms and this year it was
really bad compared to years before of course.
So Boone being a fearless man and a harsh man.
As we already found out through his other adventures earlier, he

(44:31):
didn't quite wait for the full storm to break, but they ate all
their horses and then tore through their supplies.
Who knew that they could not survive, So he decided I'm going
to leave, leaving the rest of his guys behind, so the other
part of his party. I'm going to call Carter.

(44:52):
I'm going to, I'm going to call time out on that just because
like. If that is true, this is the
first time he's done something selfless.
This does not see him in his character.
Like, I feel like he might have saw them and been like, fuck
y'all, There's a bunch of Italian immigrants coming in
this way and like, I've never had Italian before, so like, he

(45:15):
was going to, like, have some really red Rigatoni.
Like over, like, yeah, He was like, eyeing up the local
plumbers. Like yeah.
So like this seems a little I'm,I'm gonna.
I'm gonna call a card on this author.
Like seems too selfless. Like this dude did not just

(45:38):
magically be. Like, I'll leave.
That's the only way you'll survive.
Like I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
No, the reason he left was because that's the only way I'm
going to survive. So here we go.
The other part of his party found out his plan and they
tried to follow him, but all were lost except for one person.

(46:03):
That one person he only the the author only mentions and it was
only inscribed that he his name was Burton.
So that was the only we nobody knows if that was his surname or
if it was his first name. Yeah, yeah, that's how he wrote
all those movies. I read Sweeney Todd so he
followed him through the storm and they headed out to the next

(46:25):
town which was called Fort Hall.So it's really badly snowing.
They could barely see like probably 5 feet in front of them
as they both Ford. F1 fifties.
Yeah, I don't even know how manyFord F1.
Cheeseburgers. Yeah, yeah, 20,000
cheeseburgers. That's a lot of cheeseburgers.
So as they traveled, they both wore down, of course.

(46:48):
But Boone being his normal self,he was very steadfast and he
could go on forever. Burton, however, fell down and
couldn't get back up again. Sadly, they didn't have that at
the time, but we're about to geta food alert.

(47:12):
Yep, they were starving and he just couldn't make it.
So Boone was like, well, screw him, I'm going to keep going.
Why are you putting seasoning onme?
What? What is this?
Sage? What is Rosemary?
But I don't. What are you?
Why are you starting to fight? That is a big fire.
That is bigger than what we needtonight.
I'm like, oh, I'm on the menu. So with all the mozzarella snow

(47:35):
falling on them, they found the Fort was empty with no supplies.
The only thing they had was collected firewood, because all
of these places in the winter would people would just leave
because nobody could deal with the winter there.
They wouldn't have enough food, It was too cold.
They would go somewhere a littlewarmer.

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Burton was still laying in the snow and basically looking up,
welcoming death and feeling likehe was already dead.
So he basically thought he was going to die because, and Boone
had just left him. He felt a warm hand on his back.
Boone, his great best friend, came back to help him.

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So got. You in my belly.
Burton found he literally fell down about 100 yards from Fort
Hall. He was so close and couldn't
make it, so Boone took him to the house that he had set up the
fire. He already had a fire set up and
Burton fell asleep, thanking hisfriend for saving him from sure
death. Oh no, this is about to be a

(48:43):
Bugs Bunny cartoon with with Elmer Fudd.
He's about to wake up to a nightmare.
Ooh. Yeah.
He awoke to Boone standing over top of him and the fire roaring
behind him like something out ofa cinema movie out of a movie.
He couldn't move and he could hear him chomping.

(49:06):
Literally, he could hear him licking his lips.
And he could see Boone with his long Bowie knife, and he watched
as Boone sawed off his leg. God damn.
God. So he likes dark meat before
white meat. Yeah, holy shit.

(49:28):
Wow. Give.
Him a leg up. I just like to picture a bunch
of like a bunch of fucking like Cliff Bars and protein bars and
shit fall out of his bag as he'sgetting his knife.
He's like, oh, you you had some food.
Oh wait, why are you why are youignoring those?
And he's like, I'm just looking for my salt and pepper real
quick. I just we stopped at a Burger
King or let me just, yeah, let me just put that right there.

(49:49):
Just like what? That's not a blanket.
That's not going to keep me warm.
I'm just going to put ooh, I think I got some sweet baby
raise over heel. Let me just get them.
It's going to. Get that processed, sliced.
His cheese out. Oh yeah, on his head, like they
did with the kids on that trend.So while he slept.
While Burton slept, he didn't realize or even know that Boone

(50:12):
put a tourniquet on his leg to stop the flow of blood and keep
Burton alive while he fed on hisbody.
Damn, he wanted to keep him alive.
Yep. This is definitely.
Trash. Yeah, the blood would keep
flowing. It wouldn't go bad faster.
Oh, that's like that song, Timothy by the Boys.

(50:34):
Have you ever heard that song before?
It's you'll have to hear it. It's from like the 60s, I
believe, And it got banned on the radio because it was about
cannibalism. It was literally about these
people that get stuck in a mine.And there was Let me think it
was me, Tim. And oh crap, I forgot the other

(50:56):
guy's name. Think it was like Joe?
Yeah, it was Joe. They get stuck in a mine.
Long story short, they were starving, they thought they'd
never get out and they ended up eating Tim.
The main part of the song is Timothy.
Timothy, Where on earth did you go?
Yeah. And they were like, later on
they're like, oh, this wasn't about a person.

(51:16):
It was about a donkey. It was indeed about a person
everybody knows. It was just so I'd play on the
radio. It's like the boys BYOUS.
And that is the song we will useto promote this episode.
It's my ringtone. Because my God.
Well, it's because my. Husband's name is Tim.
Just. So everybody understands, yes.

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He's still alive. He's still alive after this
episode, so Burton could smell the roasting meat and his
stomach grumbled. Oh no, I want to say.
Oh no. Something that struck me weird
was that Boone actually was chatting with Burton after he
cut off his leg and ate some of it as a friend.

(52:01):
He was actually treating him better.
You know, I guess he's treating his meal better than he's
treating him as a friend. Better damn than than he was
before he ate him, you know? He's gonna feed him some of
them, isn't he? And this is super disgusting,
but Oh no, Actually gave Burton a plate of meat of his no leg.

(52:28):
That's like feed it like. Feed a That's like when you feed
a pigeon like a chicken nugget, you know?
But it's home chicken. It's it's it's himself.
That's oh God. I would like.
I would eat it, but I would vomit because I would be so

(52:48):
hungry. I would actually just be like,
I'm not going to eat because I'mactually going to die.
I would rather die right now. Yeah, I mean, he was in Burton
was in Delirium, though. Like, he was so close to death.
He the pain. He hadn't eaten.
I mean, obviously, think about it, like, yeah, he turned into
his lead, but he literally sawedthrough his leg and bone to get

(53:10):
there. He's not giving him bourbon.
There's no bourbon there to helphim, you know, He's just pretty
much fading in and out. So Boone, honestly, because he
was treating him like a friend. And, you know, he wanted to keep
Burton's spirits high, so he started doing his own version of
a comedy show to keep the air light.

(53:30):
So he told a few jokes, like, why didn't the cannibal eat the
guy with no feet? Because he was lactose
intolerant. Luckily, I'm I'm not.
Oh my God damn. And what did the cannibal choose
as his last meal? Five guys.

(53:52):
But sadly, I only have one guy to.
Eat. Oh my God, Five guys burgers and
thighs. Well, throughout this whole
ordeal, Boone would keep going back and forth to get Wood, You
know, because he had to go outside and get wood, Burton
figuring that if he didn't do something, he was going to be

(54:13):
dead. So safe, safe.
Assumption. He slowly.
Dragged himself over and found that there was a gun on the
table, you know, the one gun that they had because they had
like, getting rid of most all the supplies since they were
trying to survive. So he gets to this table and you

(54:35):
know, like there's a story that he, he passed out before he got
it, went back and then Boone puthim right back by the fire,
figuring he just crawled somewhere.
So then Burton basically was like, I got it.
I got to get to the gun. So he gets there, gets to the
gun. He looks in the chamber.
He found one bullet in it. Oh my God.

(54:59):
Because he figured that he wouldprobably not be able to kill
Boone with one shot, he put the gun up to his head.
Damn. Pulled the trigger.
Damn, I would too. Mama.
He Boone found him lying there dead and Boone got pissed

(55:26):
because now the meat would spoilinstead of him being able to
slowly cut him up alive and eat him, just like you said earlier.
God damn it. Was snowing.
It was snowing. But he literally, it would still
would have done it. It still would have been.
Badly on the snow. Oh yeah, and it could get

(55:48):
frostbite. But it would It would be smart
to put it outside because it might get freezer.
Burn might get freezer burn. Hey.
We've all had those. We've all had those healthy
choice meals that got freezer burned that we were just like,
damn it and had to throw them away, you know, just like, boom.
It might attract the bears and then the bears could come in and

(56:09):
then he could. I don't know how he'd kill the
bear. I.
Guess he know how much he sucks at hunting so.
I don't know. He's learning pretty fast with
all these. This episode's really a PSA
about teaching your kids how to hunt.
You know? It's very important for them to
learn how to scavenge, how them to forge and like for them to
hunt. That's honestly what this

(56:29):
episode's about. Chicken cults have already got
it down. Yeah, chicken cults got it down.
Shout out Gavin. Shout out Gavin.
So Boone, seeing this, decided that he couldn't stay here.
So he took a few parts of the body with him and I can just
imagine him with an arm stickingout the back of his top and just

(56:54):
a little hand waving as he said goodbye to all the people he
saw. Finger licking good.
I'm imagining like a rabbit foot, except for like not a
rabbit foot on a keychain. It's just a.
Hand or a foot? And then like you said, Joey,
it's waving. Just waving in the air.
He pushes it down. It slaps him in the face.

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He was now on his way to Salt Lake City, so he barely
survived. Throughout the trip to Salt
Lake, as we talked about earlier, he walked up to an
encampment of this Shoshone Indians, the Native Americans.
At this point, what's crazy about this is that going into a

(57:40):
little history of this. There was a lot of tension and a
war originally between the Shoshone and the Mormons, and
I'm sorry if I'm actually sayingthat name wrong.
I apologize. This is just how I saw it
translated on Google. The more Mans, the more.

(58:01):
Mons. They're more Mons.
Yeah, monsters. The war was over, but still,
honestly, they had a lot of tension.
So just imagine this. White guy walking up in the
middle of an encampment of Shoshone who had just had a war
with a bunch of Mormons. All this tension, they didn't

(58:24):
have any trade going on at the time.
They didn't have it like they had scheduled trade, but not
normal trade. So they weren't having people
coming up all the time. Boone pretty much.
Boone pretty much just walked into the encampment and sat at
the fire, and the sushone prettymuch just watched him and

(58:48):
decided not to try and mess withthem because he.
Seemed like a madman. Yeah.
This guy's got balls literally attached to his keychain.
He has human balls attached to his keychain it.
Was like the pickup trucks. So they just let him stay there

(59:09):
and they honestly tried to help him the best that they could.
So if you. Can't beat them.
Join them. Really well, yeah.
So pretty much they they were based like some of the white
folks are going to come up from Salt Lake City that we have our
like scheduled trades, you know.So they said okay, we'll just
pawn him off on him when he comes.

(59:30):
He eventually got picked up by atrader named John W Powell.
And John was like, hey, I'll take you by wagon to Salt Lake
City. So, you know, John was like,
okay, it's fine, you know, I'll take him, you know, whatever.
And they gave him, the Native Americans gave him some extra,
like pelts and things like that just to take him because they're

(59:51):
like, this guy's crazy. We want to get them off their
hands. So they just, if you say if you
get into some history, look intothe history of the Mormons and
how they got to Salt Lake City. In the 1800s, how the city was
run and looked, it's very, very interesting.
Last podcast on the Left did a great series about Mormonism and

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its beginnings. Very great.
The author also goes into detailin Salt Lake City, but we won't
go into that here because that'sa whole whole nother story.
So during this time, just like normal, Boone got into a bar
fight and then instead of putting him in jail.
They put him in the basement of one of the elders in the Mormon

(01:00:34):
church. What do you mean you don't?
Serve liquor. Well, it was crazy at this time
because they had two sides of Salt Lake City, right?
So like they had the Mormon Church side and it was run very,
very well. Like it was run, you know, there
was no liquor, there was no things that could run based like
a Mormon church and the other side of it.

(01:00:57):
No coffee, no caffeine. And the other side of it was
where the miners stayed. It's where the people, the
undesirable stayed basically. And they had to decide they had
to have that because they wantedto keep the Mormon side in
quotations pure, but they still needed the other side of it,
People that are working, people that are bringing other people

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to the area that are help building the city.
So they needed those sides, but they didn't.
You know that they needed to keep those people there, but
keep them separated so they wouldn't get into trouble.
So like. High class and low class.
Pretty much, Yep. So the elders decided they
wanted to get rid of a few the troublemakers in Salt Lake City.

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He was going to be there. Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oh my God. Yep, it's.
Jason. Working from the grassy Knoll.
You working from the grassy. Boone approached the square.
The elders promised him pay and reverence.
So, like, they're like, hey, we're going to give you money,

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we're going to say thank you so much, you know you're going to
be looked on as good. But Boone didn't want that, and
he said he would do it for a dollar.
He didn't even care. So he just wanted to kill
people. Oh, what's the?
Equal to. It's like 1020 in dollars.
I think it's 20. It said it was $23 for a dollar.

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23 cheeseburgers. 23 cheeseburgers.
So his targets were He's like. I ain't even trying to get paid.
I'm just hungry, bro. Put me out there.
Just give me a cheeseburger. That's actually what he said.
Yeah, he said he was. He just that they gave him food.
He was fine. So his targets were people who
pissed off the elders of the church pretty much, or people

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who. Actually threatened their
sanctity of the community. So Boone was basically handed a
menu and. We'll work for food.
Literally. They work for food.
We'll kill for food. Yeah, Boone pretty much murdered
them right out in the open. He shot a guy in the back of his

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head while he was drunk after hecame out of the bar and the
other target heard about the murder of his friend.
And he's tried to want to run away, but Boone shot him in the
back. He didn't see that coming
either. He didn't see that coming
either, so Boone strolled back to the Mormon elders, thinking

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he would be a hero, but he was cast out as a criminal, and they
just set him outside of town with money in his pocket.
The church lied. Right.
No, No churches ever lie. Oh there.
God. So that's.
So weird. It's very weird that, you know,

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they didn't want, they didn't want him to, they didn't want
him to, to destroy their image, you know?
And that happened to all the. Time have any more, man?
Yeah. So he found out he found his way
with a bunch of Danites. The Dannites were pretty much
the army of the Mormons, so theywere also in a war with some

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other, with some youths. So the Native American tribe,
the youths who originally were pretty much Utah, they they
were. Living to an episode on the
Skinwalkers. Yes, it does.
He fought alongside them, murdering and killing them, so

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that's what he did for a while. But.
Like Boom, So he's a mercenary. He was a mercenary, but he got
tired of this and his heart started getting called to
robbing, drinking and just beinga lazy asshole.
I know the feeling, that's. Fun.
He needed some me time. He needed some me time.

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Some me time, yeah. So.
Boone and one other man set off to get back to his calling.
Stuff doesn't mention the name of the other guy that came with
them, but so they came upon three men who had just finished
mining and found huge amounts ofgold in the hills.

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So came upon Boone to relieve them of this gold and also
relieve them of their lives. Boone and his friend gunned them
down with ease. Very easy for them.
The the reason why it was easy. I just want to say this to the
reason why it was easy. Is because most the the three
guys they had been in, you know,shootouts before, they hid

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behind their mules and they hid behind their horses thinking
that Boone wouldn't kill the horses because the horses are
worth money. Horses can be resold.
Plus they could use the horses to take the stuff that they
stole from them. Boone didn't care about that, so
they shot them. They shot through them.

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They basically shot the horses, shot the donkeys and then killed
the guys. So it was, that's why it was so
easy as just because Boone didn't care.
This is kind of a backfiring on him because all the gold and all
the stuff that they stole, they didn't have any horses or pack
mules to take it. So it was so stupid, so.

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They basically took all the goldand they just they went about a
mile away and still near the road but a mile away from where
it happened and they buried it. They the gold they took had
stolen was $30,000 at that point.
And today's money it's about $725,000.
So it's 3, three quarter millionon like one day's you know one

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day's robbery pretty good. So after they had bury it.
They made their way to the next town to rest a bit.
With some golden hand. They went into that town.
But just after they got into that town, the bodies of the
three men they'd just killed arrived.
So basically the people they killed, bodies were already in

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town, and shortly after the bodies were examined, a rider
hurriedly rode into town, a person who had recognized the
killers. And shouted that the murder was
Boone Helm because he had a hugename.
At this point the sheriff put out a wanted poster and a bounty

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of $700.00. But Boone smartly had already
made his way out of town when the miners bodies came in.
So Boone chased down the other two miners that left the town.
So they had five miners basically.
So I just want to put this inspective to there's five

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miners, 3 branched off to one place.
Two miners branched off into another another road and so the
three miners had all the gold. The other two miners didn't and
they went to the they went to the town.
So Boone wanted to grab the other miners that he's he knew
were from there because he had watched him.
So he he tracked them down and he robbed them.

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So Boone tracked him down and robbed the other two miners, but
this time for some reason. Boone let them live.
Probably because he wanted to make a name for himself even
bigger than what he already had.True.
Yeah. And they just walked away.
Like the miners just he told them to put down their stuff,
walk away and don't look back. And so they did so.

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Movies, you're always watching and they're like, don't kill me
and he's like, you go tell them.Yeah.
That I. So and so said.
You go. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, he he did want a name.
You know, he did and he didn't. You know, a lot of people say
that they want a name, but then when the name comes back to bite
them in the ass, they're like, shit.
I wish I didn't have that. So.

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So Boone and his partner in crime decided it was time to put
more miles in between them and the robberies and murder they
went up to. Canada, Victoria, Canada.
Far away from the troubles and aplace, of course, that would
serve Boone alcohol on a tab. The last place in the world that
would. So Boone lost all of his money

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at a card table and then said hewouldn't pay when the bartender
called the called up tabs at theend of the night telling the
bartender, Don't you know that I'm a desperate character?
That's all, he said. Yeah, you could just refer to

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yourself as a character. Yeah, right.
Such a. Weird little conception.
Yeah, he's like an MPC. So Boone.
Boone was arrested by a sheriff named Blake.
Blake had recognized Boone from a murder in a nearby town, and a
warrant was out for his arrest. Blake knew he could hold Boone

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for only three days without charge.
So he had held him and sent out word to other towns to see if he
could get a charge. This guy, Blake had pretty much.
He knew the guy. He did want him to get away.
And at this time you he had no charges into that town.
So he couldn't figure out, like he couldn't get anybody to

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basically say this is a murder and he didn't have any witnesses
to say that he had done something.
So sending out the charges to get other people to send stuff
to him so that he could hold them and then ship them to that
town to get a trial, which is how it kind of went.
He didn't get a charge from any other town, damn, until three

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days after he had released Spoon.
So within a. Week within a week, Well.
Sadly, Boone's partner in crime died in police custody as they
were trying to get a confession out of him.
So they pretty much just murdered him for a confession.
They didn't even care about thatguy.

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Yeah, he just didn't even care about that guy, Which is kind of
funny that he he just apparentlyhad no name, so it didn't
matter. Boone was the guy that mattered
to them. Boone walked out of town with
his gun, a horse, and he had a new friend named Dirty Harris.
God damn. Is that I honestly, I think a

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Linus from Charlie Brown? I don't know, like these are
just names. I just think a Linus from
Charlie Brown, the dust cloud following him wherever he goes.
Yeah. Somebody's like, yeah, we'll
call him Linus Dirty Linus. Dirty dinus.
Wait, Linus was the one with theblanket?
I thought Linus was The Dirty. Yeah, he's The Dirty one is.

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He dirty one with the blanket. You always had the little dust
cloud. So of course Blake was freaking
pissed as he just watched Boone walk away out of town.
Nothing he could do. So the two the pair made their
way into another town and happened upon one of the miners
they had robbed. Well, that that Boone had

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robbed. He ran into one of the miners.
It's so crazy. The two that he had left live
that he shouldn't have left lived.
The miner told the authorities that Boone was still alive and
around. So this time they had a bunch of
British authorities that were inthe area and he went to them
because it was there was a part British territory up there in

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Canada. Obviously this time was run by
the British. So the British tracked Boone
down and when they found him, Boone was alone and there was no
trace of dirty Harris. Oh my God.
So they said. They when prodded about where

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Dirty Harris was, Boone responded with they had not
parted ways and Dirty Harris wasstill with them.
And he said, why do you suppose I'm full enough to starve to
death when I can help it? I ate him up, of course.

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I hate mouth. Noise.
That's how he got the name. But anybody?
Who does Mouth Noises jail? I didn't, so I'm good.
But he ate him with some Lima beans.
He did Lima beans, so Boone was finally caught and the British
transferred him to the American authorities where he had the
warrants, so they're headed backto the US territories.

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He was taken to Port Townsend jail and was only there for a
few weeks before he had tunneledout of the prison using a knife.
He had taken and a trowel he stole from the garden.
Wow, this guy is awesome at escaping jails.
Yeah. Is it so?
Is. A troll?

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What kind of troll is it? Like a small hand shovel.
It's it's a it's a small shovel and you could also use him for
for like, what is it called putting cement?
A cement trout. Yeah, he's on his way.
So he pretty much took what he could.
And he moved on from the prison knife to a Bowie knife.
Then he stole a gun and a horse.So this is throughout his time

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moving through it. So he even stole a suit, which
was really weird. He just had some guns, too.
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, his funeral, maybe. So he made his way from Oregon
all the way to California. Boone was on the run and was
literally hiding behind haystacks to keep warm.

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Here you could just hide from the cold behind a haystack.
I didn't know that was not. Find me here.
The cold. You never find me here.
The IT blocked. The wind boom in the haystack.
I dare you. Yeah, the the haystack will
block the wind, so he wasn't toobad.
I would just get wind and straw in my eyes.

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Yeah, I mean, think about this. In those days, there's not
really much else out there that he could do without going into a
house and murdering people. I guess, yeah.
I would wear the suit. Like, crawl in it to like, stay
warm, conserve. Your body?
Yeah, I would get inside. I would look like cousin it.
Straight I would treat. I would treat my dinner a lot

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like Luke Skywalker did in Star Wars and just cut them open and
get inside them to stay warm. True, that would have been a.
It's your thoughts to thought. Everyone.
Yeah, which is his friend. He could have killed everybody
and done that. Yeah, I said.
He was bigger than everyone. Like, it would be like wearing a
shrunken sweater. Well, he just has to find the.
Legs that match, the arms that match, You know, he had options

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at this point. He could sew a few together.
He would have been cool, yeah, or warm, I guess.
So it was here that he was foundby a rancher.
The rancher didn't turn him in or even try and get the bounty.
He sheltered Boone because he saw something of Boone in
himself. It's just very weird.

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Have eaten. Also, is that foreshadowing?
He's like, I see myself in you, and Boone is like, you know what
I do too? It might be.
We'll see. Boone slowly got comfortable
with the man and eventually toldhim about eating some of his
traveling companions. Here or there?

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Yep. And you wanna know what the
rancher? Do I liked you?
The rancher just met the news with the shallow nod.
Damn but. You had to survive, son.
Yep. Boone had found himself a real
friend, one of his true friends,and they seemed to have a real

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bromance. Honestly, they they really did.
Because even though Boone wasn'thelping, he wouldn't offer to do
anything. He would literally sleep the
drank and eat. Whatever was given to him, the
rancher offered him nothing but kindness.

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He's probably lonely. He was, yeah.
And he didn't have a family at this.
The rancher didn't have a family.
So he just was like, OK, I met this guy.
He understands what it's like tobe on the road.
He's eaten people. I've probably done the same
thing. Little quirky, they could have
had themselves. Used to be so much different.

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More like Scruff. Used to just be meat grinder.
Well, in the middle of the night, after a bountiful meal
that they shared together, Boonewalked into the room and
unloaded his revolver into the face of his friend.

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He took everything and then moved on.
Damn, I have a good life. Why?
Do you? Do that.
Didn't even care. He got on his way.
He. Did scene from Last of Us where
it's just like you know the guyscoming in and but then they all
like hook up and it's like a really beautiful relationship
like little did you know that was actually based on Boone

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helm. I feel like, yeah, I feel like
he just goes places and then he gets bored with what's going on
because everything's too easy for him and he likes things more
dramaful and he likes the. The chase.
I'm a heartbreaker and a heart taker.

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How dare you drag cinematic gaysthrough the mud like that.
Those gays were not cannibals. They had a good life together,
that was, yeah. That was cute.
Shout out Last of Us video game and the show.
Pedro so hot. Representation is so hot.

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Our little Drama king got on hisway back to his old Kingdom.
It was time for him to return back to Oregon.
He came upon the town of Florence, and I just want to
say, most of the towns that he visited had turned from a
bustling frontier town to walledtowns that were more like the
East Coast cities he knew when he was young.

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So. Because he had been away for
maybe a couple years, these towns pretty much went from
lawless backwoods places to places that had walls, places
that had a jail, places that hadfood, normal places.
You know, it was, it was nice for him to see.
Completely unrelated to having to deal with Boone at some
point. Yeah, literally.

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So In Florence, Boone's reputation had preceded him.
And before he could be picked upby the law, just like in Utah,
the Richmond and Florence grabbed him up.
It was time for a little hired gun work.
Pew Pew. So anyways, I came in blaston.

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Came in Blaston the the Richmondin town had a bone to pick with
the troublesome minor named Dutch Fred.
Dutch Fred. That should be the Dutch sound
of. Him.
No. Nobody knows why they called him
Dutch Fred. He literally wasn't Dutch so.
He's fucking finish. Yeah, yeah, he's finish.

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And that's about what Boone was about to do to him.
So Boone had a small purse of gold and some whiskey.
That's all he needed. That's all he needed.
He tried to bait Dutch Fred intoa gun battle.
But he and Fred were disarmed and set on their way, literally

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at the Tavern. They knew not many people at the
Tavern like Dutch Fred, and theyalso didn't like Boone.
But they were nice. They were good people.
And so instead of letting them kill each other or kill somebody
else, they literally took both of their weapons and said come
back and get them tomorrow and so.
Not. At the.
Same, you know, no different times and so.

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Honestly, it was very, very weird to see because, like, they
talked about Boone feeling that.They thought Boone felt like he
was, you know, like beaten. He was disarmed, you know, which
is like a horrible thing. Walked away.
And so he came back the next day, He grabbed his gun,

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emasculated, and he saw Fred there.
Hey, Fred with his gun. After he almost walked to the
door, turned around, boom. Boom.
The first shot missed and the next hit, Dutch Fred.
Boom. Dutch Fred was dead.

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Dutch Fred was dead in the head.He was dead in the head.
So dead. Fred.
Yep, he came back to the Richmond, he said, and demanded
help. But.
They called the sheriff on him again.
Yep. All these people that are

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hiring, they're like hiring him to kill people and then being
like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, we didn't actually want
you to kill them. And he's like.
That's literally what you paid me money for.
Yeah, but you like, look, the job.
Description. Says.
Right here, kill them. It says kill them.
It literally says we don't care,kill them.
It's like, yeah. That's all it says here.

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I just it literally just says kill them, you know?
Dead or alive, it's dead or dying.
Yeah. Well, I mean, you have to think
about it though. Like these people, these people
think that he's, you know, it's kind of up to them.
The the killer, how they're going to kill him if they can
get away with it. And because Boom chooses to kill

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these people in the wide open. You know as a bounty a buffet
hunter. He's as he chooses to kill these
people in the wide open, he getsmade to be that he's a murderer,
which is the big deal. That's what they think.
He gets set up. Yeah.
So sheriff's chasing after him. He made his way back to Canada.

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But he was captured by bounty hunters not that long after
that. They locked him in a Portland
jail in isolation for six months.
But to actually put him away or execute him, he had to be taken
away to the place where he the crime was committed, obviously.

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So he was on his way back to Florence.
Exactly which place? So he was on his way back to
Florence. There he could surely have many
witnesses that could say that was him.
He did this and finally execute him.
But no one would testify againsthim, and it's not the reason you

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think. It was because the floors were
just rewaxed and rewashed and they didn't want another goddamn
horse coming up in there. Literally so.
It was almost like someone had come around and made sure no
witness would tell the tale. Dude had some people on his
side. It was just that Boone sent a

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letter while he was in jail to his Big Brother to try and help
him, describing how he was innocent in the affair.
His big brother's nickname and name was Old Texts.
They're not even from Texas. No, he wasn't well.
He lived in Texas. This guy lived in Texas.

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Yeah, it was part of his. He had moved down there.
He's kind of like new techs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why they call them old techs, though.
It's almost like New Mexico, butlike, you know.
Yeah, that's New Mexico. Old Mexico.
So his brother, old techs tracked down every witness and
questioned them, then Strong armed them into not testifying.

(01:25:31):
Quote UN quote question them yes.
Yeah, you. Guys keep dying after I'm asking
them questions. All I'm saying is, where's the
bodies? Right.
You know where they're at. Where's the bodies?
I guess you didn't see shit. Where he couldn't convince a
witness to back down, he hired afew bigger guns to go in and

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help them cooperate. Damn.
Damn. OK.
So he was released. Oh my God again, how many times
is this now? #3 and about how old is he now?
Yeah, he should be in his. Late 20s half.
I think he's in. His late 20s.

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So this is over like almost a 510 year span.
Yeah. Yeah, it's not that long.
Jesus, I wonder how many people he did kill.
I know you said in the beginning, but.
There, there's there's no, there's no count to how many
people he killed. And just like in the Frontier,
you really. I really can't know honestly how
many people died or how many people were killed. 15% of the

(01:26:37):
dysentery cases were actually due to the.
No. Plus the people that were killed
in his name. Mmhmm.
Yep. Geez, slaughterfest.
His brother, relatively a good guy because his brother honestly
thought that he might be innocent.
So he when he came in there, he he listened to the, he did

(01:26:59):
actually listen to the people tell their stories about what
they thought. And then he went to the he read
the letter that Boone had sent him.
But then he went to the place and then he said, you know what,
just like you would with a family would normally do they
want to believe the best, He said.
You know what, I can see where some of these witnesses could
have mistook what happened and in this.

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I got you back. Yeah, and in the frontier days.
Obviously, easily could get, youknow, people could misremember.
So old text exactly old text tried to get Boone to change his
ways. First off, he tried to get him
to join the Confederacy and fight with them.

(01:27:42):
Bro, we got this really cool movement.
We got this really cool group. You'll fit right in, all right?
You know what I've always said? I've always said this.
Nobody wants to tell you this, but I'll tell you to your face,
you would look good in Gray. That's all I'm saying.
That's all I'm saying. Like you would look great,
fabulous, incredible in Gray. What do you think?

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Well, Boone said no, so obviously because he didn't
like, it's too easy. So his brother said, OK, well,
you don't want to join the Confederacy.
How about you come home to Texaswith me and you can join the
family business? Family business was like cattle
ranching, the normal in Texas atthis time.

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So Boone didn't want to do that either, of course.
So while he traveled with his brother, news of his arrest had
spread, right? So every other place that had a
warrant out for Boone's arrest. Heard that he was arrested,
thinking that he was headed to jail and execution.

(01:28:51):
All the other bounties and warrants were rescinded.
Ooh, so he was a free man. Now, they they didn't know that
he'd been found innocent. Yeah, so he could walk along
with his brother to Texas and never be heard from again.
Oh. No.

(01:29:12):
All right. So he straight up has the
opportunity for a completely clean slate.
Let's see what he does. Yeah, his his plate is clean
right now. Literally, Yep.
He's about to go to the buffet again, though, so he decided
that he didn't want to do any ofall this stuff.

(01:29:34):
So he left his brother. He basically said, all right,
I'll see you. Bye.
Left his brother and went back to his murderous ways.
He murdered throughout this timeby himself 6 people and robbed
another six people in the few months after he left his
brother. So he's up to like what?

(01:29:54):
Like between like 25? Yeah, like he's up to like in
the 20s at this point at. Least through the book.
Yeah, yeah, he's. Been.
Recorded. He's pretty high up there, and
honestly, it could be more. He could have murdered some of
the people, the other six peoplehe robbed.
This is just what's recorded. Yeah, So he was now on his way

(01:30:15):
to Montana. He wanted to find a home for
himself. He's getting, you know, he's
getting in the settle down time,so he wanted to find acceptance.
To Montana soon. Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Anybody. Frank Zappa?
No. All right, let's just keep

(01:30:35):
going. Well, just like Dweezil Zappa,
he wanted to find acceptance that he never had when he was
young. In Montana, a gang called The
Innocence. Yes, that's their name.
Yes, ran the roads and they tooktolls.
So this is a gang, a Montana gang.

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And I do want to say if you needto read the book and then the
book's title will be in the shownotes.
But the book goes into detail about what happened with the
leader of the gang and who the leader of the gang was.
I'll mention the leader of the gang, but not his whole back
story. And it was actually.
Very give you a hint, you get the best of both worlds.

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So they had over 100 murderers already attributed to them by
the sheriffs in the area, the gang.
So they they're innocent, but they're the innocents.
Yeah, yeah. The sheriffs obviously didn't
have enough manpower to keep them in check.
Boone going along Montana was found by the innocents and after

(01:31:45):
introducing themselves. One of them found out they knew
him, so his name was feared by alot of the law abiding citizens.
Well, they took Boone to a safe house basically to find out what
to do with them. So they they took him to a bar
to meet the leader of the innocence and find out what to

(01:32:08):
do with them while they're on the way to this bar, the
sheriff. Weirdly enough, joined the ride
and he talked and listened to Boone tell stories of his past.
So I want to say, this is crazy.And Boone felt safe with the
sheriff being there because he'slike, OK, well, if if these
Innocence people just murder me,they at least know who did it.

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So he's, you know, weirdly siding with the sheriff on this.
But like, at this point he was just kind of weird.
So they get to the bar. They basically, they just give
loads and loads of alcohol to Boone and he's like living it,
loving it, talking, yelling, telling all these stories to all
the Patriots element. Yeah, the sheriff's just sitting

(01:32:51):
there too at the bar, listening to kind of laugh and realizing
it. Boone passes out, falls asleep.
The next day he gets woken up with the sheriff giving him
coffee and breakfast. I.
Thought you were going to say we'll have?
It was at this time. No, not yet, as at this time,

(01:33:13):
Boone realized that his drinkingnight at the bar was the
interview and that the sheriff was the leader of the innocence.
Oh wait. What?
The sheriff was the leader. The sheriff of the town was the
leader of the gang that had beenrobbing people.

(01:33:35):
Oh shit. He was.
Oh, shit. Crazy, the Sheriff Discount
says. A plot twist like this is like a
A twist twist. There's already A twist
happening. This is like sun kissed dead.
Twist. It's crazy.
In the mist. This is the Sheriff.
Tangiest BBQ sauce I've ever had.
The sheriff had a crazy story, so it's a long story in the

(01:34:00):
book. I'll sum it up real quick.
The sheriff is actually a good person.
He kept having bad stuff happen to him when he did good things,
and so one of them he was protecting.
So he killed a wife abuser. And in those days he got
ostracized from the town becausein those days they believed it
was between a man and his wife. Any intermarital problems you

(01:34:24):
should not interfere in. And because he did, he got
kicked out of the town. He ended up moving somewhere.
Like there's a couple stories about him doing similar things
about helping people and then getting kicked out of a town
because he interfered or he justgot looked on in the got the
wrong light shined on him. So he ended up going to Montana,

(01:34:44):
becoming the sheriff through helping people in that town, and
eventually he basically got. You know, just was like, well
you know what? I can become the leader of this
gang and we can steal a bunch ofmoney.
So he kind of just like his little villain turn, you know,
not a in in a bad way, but he had his little villain turn.

(01:35:06):
Yeah, just like Boone. So we'll Needless to say, the
miners being robbed all the timeby the innocents decided to form
their own gang to protect themselves.
They called themselves the Vigilantes.
OKI just had an idea. Did they call themselves The
Innocence? Because they knew that the mayor

(01:35:27):
was never going to let them get in trouble and they would always
be coming up as innocent. Well, no, they really didn't.
They didn't say why they had a name.
They could be it. I mean, the the sheriff was not
known as the leader. None of the leaders were known.
If I ever started a gang, it would literally be like would be

(01:35:48):
like. Innocence like this, like we're
never going to get caught like. Yeah.
Probably, yeah. If I ever started a gang, it
would be like, your honor, my plaintiff is innocent.
And like that would be the name of my gang is literally your
honor, my plaintiff is innocent.And so then anytime.

(01:36:10):
Yeah, so like anytime the judge is like and apparently you're a
member of. Your honor my plaintiff is
innocent or like you know just like whatever you need of like
there's so there is power and words people.
And I'm just saying like think about it before you name
yourself the killer Killington'slike really just step back
picture yourself in court where do you want to be you know to be

(01:36:33):
like I want my name to be like you're acquitted.
So every time the judge this is like and is this true.
You're acquitted. And bec, thank you, thank you so
much. And everybody just closed their
shit up and leaves. It's like, what are the cops
going to do? Can't do anything.
You're acquitted. It's perfect.
It's perfect. The perfect crime, The irony.
Yeah, one thing I did forget to say, too, is all you know, kind

(01:36:57):
of addition to the story is thatmost of the members of the
Innocence didn't know the leaderships.
So like, there was kind of like a leadership level.
So like if you were like a a middle, you know, middle
leadership guy, you knew the guyabove you, but you didn't know
the guy above him. So they pretty much, you know,
quarantined off each each level so that nobody knew that the

(01:37:19):
sheriff was actually the leader because he could just be hung
super quick. So because they started forming
the vigilantes and the minors, they had a lot of money.
So slowly members of the innocence started going missing.
And one by one, the vigilantes started arresting and killing

(01:37:40):
members of the Innocence. Damn.
The vigilantes eventually found out and arrested the sheriff and
other higher members of the innocence.
Damn. They found their old friend
Boone and arrested him as well. They put him in jail.

(01:38:01):
And held pretty much a sham trial for them all, not just
and. He got.
Away again. Well, Boone blamed it all on one
of the others leaders named 3 Fingered Jack, which I guess he
just had three fingers on one hand, I'm not sure.
Could not. Jack.
Maybe he only jacked off with three fingers either.

(01:38:24):
Or yeah, yeah, yeah, he could have.
Well, that just mean meant 3 Fingered.
Jack was first to be hung. Once he was hung and kicking,
Boone said. Kick away, old fella.
It's my turn next. I'll be in hell with you in a
minute. Oh, Boone, our old buddy was

(01:38:47):
next. Right before he was hung.
Shouted to the crowd every man for his principles.
Hurrah for Jeff Davis. Let her rip.
Long lived Dale Earnhardt. Yeah, yeah.
He was. He was a Southern roll.
Tide Roll Tide. But a Confederacy boy.
So he was a terrible person. So never.

(01:39:09):
Mind don't as. Tide as the nooses around his
neck instead of being hung, he leapt from the box and basically
killed himself instead of being hung.
Damn. You'll never catch.
Me. Yep.
So that's the end of the Boone story.
I do want to say that the sheriff was the one who was hung

(01:39:32):
next from the scaffold that he had helped build not too long
before that poor little sheriff.And so came the end of Levi
Boonhelm, A murderous alcoholic cannibal who did not ever want
to conform to the norms that started being built around him.

(01:39:52):
He was a true frontier man and lived by those times.
He did what he had to do to survive and that kind of life in
it. He had maybe live maybe 25 to 50
years earlier. He could have fit in a bit
better, especially in the frontier days.
He betrayed everyone who believed in him, starting at his

(01:40:14):
father and ending with the people who gave him a chance and
a gang full of people just like him.
Boone wasn't just a cannibal as far as eating people, he was a
cannibal of society. He was a true life
representation of frontier life.And to be honest, I'd like not
to be in a line with him at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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