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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Uh hello there, my friend, on this very uh spoogy
spooky season.
I don't know what day it is.
It's like I'm not even gonnasay, let's not date this
episode.
It's just spooky season, guys.
And yeah, and I called Owen, heanswered, We're on a podcast,

(00:20):
we're doing it live, folks.
I tell stories whenever youlisten to this.
Okay, guys.
That's just how we roll.
So, nonetheless, um I I startedoff pitching this episode to
Owen because I had read anarticle, or I was beginning to
read an article that was uhserial killer's last meals.
Uh, as I was diving into thisarticle and looking into more of

(00:42):
them because I was kind oflooking for a list situation.
It seemed that more often thannot, a lot of death row inmates
weren't serial killers.
Really?
For some reason or other.
You would assume that they wouldalmost, you know, that would be
where serial killers would go,but they must uh pick blue
states to commit their crimes.
And I guess I don't know.

(01:02):
Ones that don't have the deathpenalty.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05):
Right.

unknown (01:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07):
I mean that's all about wacky political humor.
Oh, I know.
I know.
Thanks.
Thanks for recognizing the factof how clever I actually am.
Uh you know, one thing they sayabout smart people is they
always recognize how smart theyare.
Let's see.
So, you know, let's go ahead andgo with uh Aileen Wornos.
I forget how to say that.

(01:28):
Darn it, I watched a videoearlier, but you'll know her
from uh a movie, I believe,called Monster.
And it's uh she's the mostfamous female serial killer, I
feel.
Uh, she murdered at least sevenpeople between 1989 and 1990.
That's seven people in like ayear.
Uh she posed as a hitchhikingprostitute, Owen.

(01:49):
So don't pick those guys up,people.
Damn.
I was looking for a new hobby.
Damn it.
This is also doubling as apublic service announcement.
No, no hitchhiking hookers,people out there in Podcast
Land.
Yeah, it's dangerous.
Um, it's smelly too.
Okay.

(02:10):
Sorry.
Oh.
I'm glad we got a good laugh outof that.
Um R I P7 guys who picked uphitchhiking hitchhiking
prostitutes.
I can't even get that out.
Anyway, nonetheless.
So this was in Florida andGeorgia that this occurred.

(02:32):
Um, she was arrested in '91.

unknown (02:34):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (02:34):
Obviously sentenced to death.
Uh, I don't know.
What do you think her uh lastmeal was, Owen?
Do you have any clues?
Um, what is this serial killingprostitute would be eating?

SPEAKER_02 (02:46):
Guessing not uh rabbit cone fever, zoto, and
duck.
Rust duck.

SPEAKER_01 (02:52):
Spot on.
Well enlightened me.
Um she actually turned down herlast meal.

SPEAKER_02 (02:57):
So I did see that.
Okay, I can I didn't exactlyremember if that was happening,
but I see.
That seems more like a right.

SPEAKER_01 (03:05):
Well, yeah.
We were just talking about thattoo.
Remember, like I don't know.
Oh, was it she had a cup ofcoffee?
Didn't she just have a cup ofcoffee?
Uh well she we hit her canteen,you know, or whatever she got
off commissary from the prison,and I believe they say she had a
hamburger, which would have beenlike the normal shit everybody
else was eating.
Uh so she did eat, but shedidn't like do anything special.
She refused like the specialtreatment before she was put

(03:28):
down, you know.
So I don't know.
But yeah, snacks from thecanteen and a cup of coffee, top
it off, guys.
You know, that's what serialkillers do.
All right, they turn down mealssometimes, okay?
Do you have one that you wantedto get into there, Owen?

SPEAKER_02 (03:42):
Yeah, and this one, um, I didn't have much on on the
crime really, crimes thatStephen Woods uh committed, but
basically he killed two people,luring them in, you know, under
the guise of selling them drugs,and he was you know, planning to
murder them because I knew aboutprevious murder, two previous
murders he'd committed.

SPEAKER_01 (04:02):
Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 (04:03):
And so yeah, he was um put to death by lethal
injection in 2002, and hisrequests, which were met, which
I just seems like a hell of anappetite for knowing at the end
of the road.
But uh Stephen Woods requestedtwo pounds of bacon, a large

(04:25):
four-meat pizza, four friedchicken breast, uh chicken bread
steak, two hamburgers with baconon French toast, garlic bread
with marinam, mountain dew,Pepsi root beer, sweet tea, and
two pints of ice cream.

SPEAKER_01 (04:41):
How large was this man?
Like, that's what I want toknow.
Maybe he's a fat death rowinmate somehow.
I mean, I think you'd want todie after eating all of that.
Yeah.
Think about the mess that theywould have to clean up.

SPEAKER_02 (04:56):
Yeah, okay.
That's thanks.
That's lovely.
All right.

SPEAKER_01 (05:02):
Yeah.
Well, Steven Woods, no relationto James Woods.
That's it.
Okay.
So Thomas Grasso, doublemurderer, this guy.
Um, this, you know, we're we'rein Halloween guys.
Halloween season, spooky season.
Um, so you know, we're not quiteto the Christmas, although I do
see some of the stuff of hisstores people.
Um, but on the lighter note,Thomas Grosso strangled an

(05:24):
87-year-old woman with herChristmas tree lights uh on
Christmas Eve of uh 1990.
Then he uh murdered an81-year-old man and stole a
social security check.
I believe you brought this up tome earlier.
That was a heck of a thing.
Grosso's final meal, my friend,was let's see, that's a list
here.
Two dozen steamed clams, a dozensteamed mussels, a half dozen of

(05:48):
barbecue spare ribs, a doublecheeseburger from Burger King.
Gross, guys, gross.
Half a pumpkin pie.
Yeah, that's like the worst fastfood, by the way.
Jack of the box, Burger King.
Half a pumpkin pie with whippedcream and strawberries, two
strawberry milkshakes, and a16-ounce can of spaghettios.
Alright, guys.
Served room temperature.
Mind you.

(06:08):
Oh my god.
You you picked out the final.
I didn't, yeah, I didn't seethat.
That's uh I see it.

SPEAKER_02 (06:14):
Not that not that warm spaghettios are doing
anyone any favors.
And uh that's a fair amount offood, not as much as Stephen
Woods, but it should be pointedout that Gasso in Italian means
fat.

SPEAKER_01 (06:26):
Okay, fair enough.
Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_02 (06:29):
And it's a very eating Burger King, like one
king and fur, not a health nut,but I guess it doesn't really
matter if you're checking outafter dinner.

SPEAKER_01 (06:43):
Way to pick up on the last name there, Ellen.
Uh no relation, Grasso is a verygood restaurant, uh located in
the PDX and hopping over intoVancouver and all that.
It's great.
Great.
They make their stuff.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (06:55):
I've been myself.

SPEAKER_01 (06:56):
Yeah.
Anyway, nonetheless, guys, uh,on to our next uh Ruth Snyder,
another female guy, made atleast seven attempts to kill her
emotionally and uh uh physicallyabusive husband.
She eventually did do this uhMarch 20th, 1927.
This is one of our older ones.
She met a man she was having anaffair with, then uh strangled

(07:20):
her husband and stuffed his nosewith chloroform soaked rags.
Ugh.
Uh these this this couple herestaged his death as a part of a
burglary.
But she was later caught andsentenced to death.
So this woman, before she wasput to death, uh, which was by
electric chair people.
So now you know.
Her last meal was chickenparmesan with Alfredo pasta, ice
cream, two milkshakes, and then12 packs of grape soda.

SPEAKER_02 (07:43):
12 packs.

SPEAKER_01 (07:44):
Yeah, that's amazing.
You know, a lot of people likeice cream here, Owen.
Everybody's like, I'm gonna havesome ice cream here.
Seems like it, yeah.
Yeah, popular amongst those uhkillers guys.
Feels like ice cream.

SPEAKER_02 (07:55):
All right.
You got anything else?
Yeah, speaking of which, uhTimothy McVay, all he had for
his uh final meal was uh twopints of mint chocolate ice
cream.
Really?
Damn.
Mm-hmm.
That's what's in this is aninteresting one.
Uh Ricky Ray Hector had killed aman in a restaurant, and after
being on the run for three days,he agreed to turn himself in,

(08:16):
but rather than um than beingarrested, he shot.
He would be arresting an officerand then shot himself in the
head, resulting in a lobotomy.
And despite his mental state, uhPresident Clinton, or he was on
he was uh governor of Arkansas,so this happened on the '92 uh
campaign.
He he oversaw this uh you know,I mean, he was he was mentally

(08:41):
ill, but I don't think he wasbefore he shot himself in the
head after killing two people.

SPEAKER_00 (08:45):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (08:46):
But what he wound up with for his final meal was
steak, fried chicken, and cherryKool-Aid.
And he was served uh served uhsome pecan pie, but he left it
telling the guards that he wassaving it for later.

SPEAKER_01 (08:58):
Oh my god.
Damn.
Yeah, that's a weird uh I don'tknow.
You know what I'm saying?
Because he's probably adifferent person after the
lobotomy.

SPEAKER_02 (09:08):
I mean you can't even barely one would they think
so?

SPEAKER_01 (09:11):
Like I mean, I well, I know, I know that sounds like
stating the obvious, but like, Idon't know, man.
I don't know.
That's some weird shit, guys.
Hey, you know, this is umdifferent because me and Owen
don't usually talk about darkthings.
I think that let's see, trulydark things.
The only episode that I couldthink of off top about an

(09:32):
individual was uh lobster boy.
Oh, right.
Right, where I was like, andgranted, people like Ukasa from
Africa, you know, that they'reway worse.
But like, if you can classify aperson as worse when they're
already a shit bag.
But like, you know, GradyStyles, was that his name right?
That's what a what a name.

(09:52):
Is that right?
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Yeah, yeah, that's lobster boy.
I can't believe I rememberedthat.
But you you you'd think he'd belike Ferris Bueller's friend
when you hear that name.
Grady Styles.
Right?

SPEAKER_02 (10:06):
Instead he's Lobster Boy.
Ferris Bueller's friend.
That would be an odd turn inFerris Bueller's too, and it's
him and lobster boy.
No, like Ferris Bueller andLobster Boy.

SPEAKER_01 (10:21):
Like call your contacts in Hollywood, kill it.
Yeah, yeah.
Somebody get on this.
I don't know.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, and I understand,but I'm not saying Grady Styles
as Lobster Boy.
I'm just saying the name.
Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 (10:36):
No, I gotcha.
Well, this is taking a tangentas usual.

SPEAKER_01 (10:40):
Yeah.
Well, it can't take a dark turnbecause we're already there, my
friend.
Yeah.
Yeah, so way to go.
Another guy on this list.
Uh, this one uh people may haveheard of.
John Wayne Gacy, also known asthe killer clown.
Wah wah wah wah wah.
Anyway, he was assault, uh hewas uh convicted of assaulting
and murdering at least 33 boysand young men.

(11:03):
Alright, this guy's like one ofthe biggest shit bags ever, I'm
pretty sure.
So, you know, everybody knowsthe tale of him.
He was kind of like he was aconstruction uh site, he he ran,
he was a contractor, but he alsowas like active in the
community, bro, and he did a lotof shit like that.
That's what always like kind ofgot me about that guy is he's
very active in the community,like volunteered, all these

(11:25):
things donated money.
Uh he liked to be a clown in hisoff time for children's uh uh
birthday parties, etc.
Like for the hell of it.
That was like what he enjoyed.
And um was killing young boysand having his way with them,
unfortunately.
So he he got caught, but he'sone of the scariest people
because you gotta think aboutlike where he was in the

(11:47):
community and he was very activeand in it, you know, and he was
placed in a position of powerthat possibly might have
protected him a handful of timesbecause people were like, No,
you know what I'm saying?
It couldn't be that guy.
Look at all the stuff he does.
But anyway, this fantastic manonce also was uh owner of a KFC
3, I think, before.

(12:09):
So right before they put himdown.
I like to use that word for somereason when it put him down.

SPEAKER_02 (12:14):
He's a spring of spaniel or something.

SPEAKER_01 (12:16):
Yeah, but yeah, nonetheless, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Before he was executed by lethalinjection, he had a dozen deep
fried shrimp, a bucket of KFC,original recipe chicken, fries,
and a pound of strawberries.
John Wayne Gacy, an R.I.P.
I don't say rest in peace.
I don't know what you'd say.
Yeah, rest in peace.

(12:37):
There we are.
Thank you, brother Lynch.
Come on.
Agent double low deuce fauxblock.
Yeah.
Thank you, Lynch.
Thank you.
I can't believe you didn't cometelling us how long you're
doing.
I know I did, but hey, that'swhat that's what we're here for.
It is.
Surprise, surprise, kinda high.
Um, any of the what hit me withanother one, I won't keep them
coming.

SPEAKER_02 (12:58):
Um, what was I having trouble pulling this up
too?
Like Colt sent me an article onit, and then I thought it's
easier to get it on a computerand I was looking, but there's
one guy who drank like threetwo-liter.
I can't remember the name, buthe drank like, yeah, it was like
a massive amount of soda.
Like, it was a fair amount offood, but um, I may have found I

(13:21):
may have found this.

SPEAKER_01 (13:22):
I may have found this for you and sorry, I was
looking around.
I almost okay, so here we are.
It was it Lawrence RussellBrewer, possibly.
I think so.
Okay, this shit bag.
This shit bag here guys.
Uh, he was arrested fortorturing and killing a
49-year-old handicapped blackmale in Jasper County.
Yeah, he is a big whitesupremacist piece of shit.
For some reason, they stillallowed him to eat before they

(13:43):
killed him.
And uh his last meal was twochicken fried steaks, a gravy, a
triple meat, bacon cheeseburger,a cheese omelet, fried okra,
which is disgusting, guys.
Okra, no offense, South, not afan.
I don't know.
What about you, Owen?

SPEAKER_02 (13:58):
No, I I have uh tried it a couple times.

SPEAKER_01 (14:01):
Yeah, but not a fan, guys.
Okay, keep it south, keep itsouth of my area.
Uh a pound of barbecued meat, soit's very uh it's any meat,
apparently.
Half a loaf of white bread,three fajitas, a meat lover's
pizza, three root beers, thetwo-liter variety, I believe you
said, or liter or whatever, andthen peanut butter, fudge, and
ice cream.
So he went to town too on thislast uh last two raw.

(14:27):
But yeah, you know, here'sanother thing.
It's not like it's like a aneating contest.
So I wonder if like these peoplefinish these things.
I mean God forbid, and Iwouldn't do anything to do, like
end up on death row, but like,you know, uh, if I ended up in
that position of ordering somesort of last meal, I would just
order like as much as they wouldlet me, I suppose, and eat it,

(14:52):
roll around in it, and justkinda whatever.
Who cares, right, guys?

SPEAKER_02 (14:57):
So yeah, I would uh be going out of my way to
request stuff that they'd have along time, you know, have
trouble getting.
So, like, oh no, we gotta waitthe eight months for the French
butter to get here.

SPEAKER_01 (15:11):
Like handmade, yeah.
Damn it.
Oh my god.
I don't know.
You know, I don't know what kindof insight this shows on these
people.
Not a whole lot um to eat likemost people.
So I guess everywhere you look,Owen, there could be a serial
killer or a killer, murderer ofsorts, you know, and they might

(15:35):
just be thinking aboutstrawberries while they're doing
it.

SPEAKER_02 (15:37):
Or um well, you know, Ted Bundy, another
accomplished shit bag.
He he also refused his lastmeal.
Oh, he did?

SPEAKER_00 (15:48):
Huh, didn't know that.

SPEAKER_02 (15:49):
Yeah, very interesting.
Ted Bundy fact.

SPEAKER_01 (15:51):
I'd say that's like one of the more well-known
serial killers.
But yeah, he's was doing all hisbusiness right out this way
where I'm at, where I stay.
Um, lots of serial killers fromthis area out here.
Didn't see Yeah, aliens,squatches, serial killers.
Yeah.
Fur trees, you got it all.
Yeah, fur trees, salmon, yeah.

(16:13):
Fucking hey, guys.
Bridges.
There's bridges everywhere.
Moth.
There's some moth.
Oh, a moth?
Moth.
Moth.
Oh, moth.
That's like a moth.
I think they got mothseverywhere.
I don't even know.
Yeah.
Well, well, now that you guysknow this information, maybe I

(16:35):
hope it like interested you alittle bit.
Uh we don't condone serialkilling in any way, shape, or
form.

SPEAKER_02 (16:43):
Well, maybe if it's cinnamon toast trench, I still
do love that.

SPEAKER_00 (16:48):
Yum, yum.
Indeed.
And on that note, my friend.
Much love, everybody.
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