January 12, 2026 • 24 mins
It’s been 10 years of My Favorite Murder! We’re kicking off anniversary week with hometowns related to cases Karen and Georgia have covered, including mothman, cocaine bear, and emus (oh my)!
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello, and welcome to my Favorite Murder the Minisode ten
year anniversary edition.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's right, if you're listening to this on Monday, as
you should be as it comes out.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This week is our ten year anniversary week.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We are going to be like those people who have
their birthday all month long, where we're going to talk
about it every single day. We're going to bring it
up over and over. I mean, we got to ten
years in podcasting.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Dude, that's a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's like we're a fifteen year old dog.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, we're basically that's right, your first oh and oh oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Because of that, Molly had the great idea of doing
hometowns that are stories we've done in the past, so
it's either follow ups or it's your hometown, but we've
covered it, so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Here's what we love, self referential stuff exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, this is my first story. I won't to read.
It's the subject line. It says, Hi Karen, High Georgia,
and hi to Stephen. I want to share a story
about my older sister with you. She's ten years older
than me, and when I was little, I always looked
up to her. I thought she was so beautiful and
so talented. Back in nineteen seventy five, my sister Cindy
was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Cindy is such an eighties name, Cindy.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
When's the last time you've heard I'm Cindy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Not seen a Cindy?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Come back, Cindy, Cindy's.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We need to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In nineteen seventy five, my sister Cindy, of course I
love that sitcom, was eighteen years old, living in Visalia, California.
She had just moved there from San Jose, California. One day,
she was shopping at Kmart. This is nineteen seventy five.
She was in the book aisle, thumbing through a book,
and she had this sudden feeling she was being watched.
She could feel the presence of something evil, dark and cold.
(01:57):
Taking her gaze off the book, she looked up and
eye contact with a man who was staring at her
through the book aisle shelving, only about three to five
feet from her face.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Ah, like on the other side of the aisle, just.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Like every horror movie where the book gets pulled away
in a weird face is sitting there. He was that
close to her. He was staring at her and through
her soul. His cold, steel blue eyes were studying her.
You know how they say the eyes are the window
to the soul. Well, she didn't see or feel the
presence of any soul, only evil. She could feel the
hairs on her arms and next stand up. She carefully
(02:31):
set the book back on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh, I bet it was B. C. Andrews, fucking my
sweet good not reading.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This today, That's okay, and decided to move away from
him to another part of the store. She tried to
look unafraid, but inside she was terrified. Just when she
thought he was gone, he'd appear in the same fashion,
staring at her from opposite side of the aisle through
the shelves, just like a lion's stocking his prey through
the tall grass. She was hoping he would grow tired
(03:03):
of following her and leave. She kept moving around the store,
and he kept repeating the same creepy, predatory behavior. They're
at the popcorn stand, remember the popcorn thing in the
middle of kmart? Yeah, favorite. Some time had passed about
an hour or so, and she didn't see him anymore.
She hurried to the checkout to pay and get the
hell out of there, making sure the coast was clear,
(03:25):
she quickly exited the store. As she crossed the parking lot,
he intercepted her with his truck. No undeterred, she walked
around it and kept walking as fast as she could
to get to her car. She jumped in her car,
locked the doors, and anxiously fled the parking lot. She
gunned it, but he followed in pursuit of her. No
doubt he was trying to follow her home. She kept
(03:45):
thinking to herself, I can't drive home. He'll see where
I live. Her heart was beating out of her chest
as she tried to lose him. At some point she
was pretty sure she'd lost him. She drove to a
boyfriend's aunt's house, jumped out of the car, banged on
their door for them to let her in. The door opened,
she ran inside. She told him to lock the doors
and explained what was happening. A couple hours later, they
(04:06):
went with her to the police station.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She felled out a report and went home. Shortly thereafter,
she received a phone call from the police station asking
her to come back in and do a photo ID.
They wanted her to look through a book of photos
and sketchings to see if any of these men was
the man who was stalking her. Apparently, her description matched
that of a man they were looking for, who they
were calling the Vicealia Ransack.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Forty three years later, in twenty eighteen, my sister received
a phone call from the police department. They were asking
her questions about that terrifying day so long ago. They
told her that they believed that they had found the
man that had stalked her. They asked her if she
would be willing to testify against him if they needed
her to, and they told her to be prepared for that.
She still had no idea who he was. Twenty eighteen
(04:53):
breaking news, They found him. His face was plastered all
over the news and it was him, cold evil man
that had stalked her forty three years ago, and Cindy
had correctly identified him from a photo, a d sketch.
He was the Visalia Ransacker, the night stalker, aka the
Golden State Killer.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So she fucking fingered him then, yeah, way back then. Yeah,
when they were like, we had no idea who he was. Yeah,
but he was.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
A cop, he was a cow, but not in Visalia. Right.
That was in Rose. It's above Sacramento. He was up there.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But the thing too is that if he was a
cop there, he would have gotten her at He could
have been like, oh, yes, brots her address, like I
can find her through.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There, Yep, I'll go question her about the man that
was stalking her. Okay, here we go. This is the
next paragraph. What I keep thinking is that he was
a police officer. Yeah, great, I should have looked down.
I'm so sorry to the person that wrote that. He
could have gotten her information from her license plate. He
could have gotten a copy of her police report. Who
knows you love that We just had that whole conversation.
(05:57):
She's like, I'm saying that no good. Even to this day,
as she recalls the story and tells it to me,
she gets chills and goosebumps. So stay sexy, and if
you have a bad feeling about someone, always trust your gut. Sherry,
I bet Sherry and Cindy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I wonder though, too, like getting her address from the
license from her car. Maybe he would have done it
if she hadn't, because like someone's talking you not everyone,
especially back then, would have been like call the police,
file a report, right, So maybe he was like, oh,
this is he did have her address, but he was
like she's too like she's got this all on paper,
(06:34):
so I don't I'm not going to go after her.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, they'll be a track exactly, Yes, totally.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And the bright blue eyes thing is like such a
creepy because not everyone besides you has that, and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's like so specific.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Did she say that?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yes, she said his.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Bright blue eyes. Oh, and he kept looking at her
through the bright bright blue eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I don't, well, we'd have to look at the chronology.
But I thought when he was in Visalia he was
younger because never he was kind of heavy. Yes, and
that's when he was like breaking into people's houses.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nobody still had bright blue eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, but not a cop all.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's all I'm saying. So he's a little bit clear
that that's the Golden State Killer. Did we say Golden Sack?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The vice Sally Rundsacker, basically the night stalker, which is
what they called him. A little bit crazy. I mean
that's like.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, and that's actually funny because that was your first
case that you ever covered on this podcast, right right,
all right, So this one I'm not going to read
it to you the subject line, Hi, I love you
both well. Listening to a new story about the recent
doomsday cult in Kenya where four hundred people died by
mass suicide, my dad casually said, I interviewed a cult once.
(07:43):
Then a few years later I found out they all
died by mass suicide in California. Friends, my pure hearted,
non true crime dad was talking about the Heaven's Gate cult.
Oh wow, Yes, the one obsessed with UFOs and Nikes.
In nineteen ninety four, my dad was working as a
reporter at the local news paper in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
when a small group of people dressed in baggy clothes
(08:04):
and cropped haircuts showed up at his office, hoping to
publicize an upcoming meeting they were holding in town. My
dad interviewed the members of Heaven's Gate. At the time,
they were called the total Overcomers.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I don't either, and published a story about their movement
and their upcoming meetings in Santa Fe and tause. He
didn't think much of it until almost three years later,
when someone sent him an article about the Heaven's Gate
cult mass suicide of thirty nine members in a San
Diego mansion. Next thing he knew, he was getting calls
from national news outlets to give interviews as an expert
(08:37):
on the cult. He did all of these interviews while
holding a baby me who you could hear crying in
the background of his NBC News interview. Oh my god,
while that's crazy, He recalled that when photos came out
of the cult and it's victims, he recognized the four
members that he had interviewed. He said, when he interviewed them,
they didn't seem crazy or woo woo. They seemed very
(09:00):
very friendly and funny and then it says classic cult behavior,
Am I right? And seemed pretty rooted in the real world.
They acknowledged that their movement was not for everyone and
that there would be other opportunities to advance for those
who didn't choose to join them at the time. Thirty
years later, my dad is a renowned journalist, but spends
most of his time reporting on the cult of politics,
(09:22):
Stay sexy and support local journalism. Exoxo, Genevieve. She sent
the article the link along Oh that's cool. It's called
Strangers Come to Tell a Tale, and that was from
episode one oh three where I cover the Heaven's Gate
Cult live in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Wow. Yes, that's just such an interesting thing because having
a parent as a journalist must be really incredible because
that's they spend all their time having unbelievable experiences like that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then like I didn't think anything of that interview.
They were actually really friendly.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And yeah normal.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There were just like some computer nerds that were like, yeah,
we just like to live this way. I thought the
same thing in that documentary. Yeah, that the actual people
and when they spoke and stuff, they just seemed like, yeah,
this is this is what I prefer totally. Here's my
next story. This one's intense because subject line my dad
(10:16):
survived the Sun Valley Mall disaster.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Okay, so it says hi did le Ho murderinos, Let's
get into it. When I heard that Karen was covering
the Sun Valley Mall plane crash in episode four forty seven,
I was beyond ecstatic. The Sun Valley Mall, only ten
minutes away from my hometown, was my dad's favorite place
to do last minute Christmas shopping for my mom every year,
including nineteen eighty five. I must have been in second
(10:41):
grade when my dad was walking with me in that
very mall, and he said, you know what, sweetie, One
time I was here when a plane crashed through the ceiling.
Thanks to a perfect concoction of forgetfulness, bad luck, and ADHD.
I grew up hearing all about the fires he accidentally
started and near death experiences he had while working at
the local refinery. A random plane crash just seemed on brand.
(11:04):
It wasn't until later that I grasped the magnitude of
this event. I started scraping the internet for more details
and asking my dad about what happened. And here goes
his tail. It started with this inadvertent annual tradition. After
dedicating way too much time on meticulous Christmas decorating, he
snuck away to the mall to get some gifts. And
where would a desperate dad with five kids in less
(11:26):
than twenty four hours left to shop and no internet
go to get a slam dunk of a present. The
Macy's jewelry counter, of course, aka the epicenter of destruction. Jesus,
my sweet terrified Pops tossed his shopping bags behind the
counter and braced himself for impact. As usual, he narrowly
escaped death when it seemed like he was in the clear,
(11:47):
he walked out and saw the horrors, so he basically
the plane crashed. He jumped over a counter and waited
it out and then walked out. And that's when he
saw walked out. He saw the horrors, screen fire, and injury.
His reaction to this storm of chaos perfectly encapsulates his
truest self as a former Nerdy Boy scout and fire
(12:08):
team member. At work, he felt like he should do something,
and what was that heroic act of bravery you might
be wondering, running back and forth with indecision and good intentions,
likely with his hands resting on his head between short
panic sprints. Finally he knew where he needed to go, Mervin's.
It was here that my dad called my mom, who
surely had seen the news and was filled with worry.
(12:30):
I'm not sure if my dad ever got back to
the Macy's jewelry counter that year. It's possible that relief
was gift enough. This horrifying and surely traumatizing event was
no hindrance to my dad's procrastination. He shopped at the
same mall the same day every year until lockdown started,
and he discovered online shopping. Love you both immeasurably stay
(12:51):
sexy and shop early bitsy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean he was there. He's a witness that was
in it.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, terrifying.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean just to walk out and see how awful
it actually was.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And you're fine, yes, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And also that idea that I think everybody is like, oh,
I would do this, or I here's how I would help.
And it's like you're one of the victims.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Too, totally like and you're in shock.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's happening to you.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, that's why there's like trained professionals to do that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
God.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is from the episode Too sixty eight where I
covered Cocaine Bear.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The episodes called All Stars of.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Seventh Grade came out on April first, twenty twenty one. Hello,
beautiful murder ladies, Stephen and Pets. I've been binging your
show for months now, and I just recently listened to
the episode where you talked about Cocaine Bear. Short recap.
If it's way back in the memory banks, Oh, we remember.
It was the nineteen eighties. Andrews Thornton was a former
narcotics officer who was on the run. He was smuggling
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drugs and weapons, and eventually he jumped out of a
plane and died. Then three months later, a dead black
bear was found in the Chattahoochee National Forest and he
had overdosed on cocaine suppose dropped from Thornton's plant. Okay,
so he now lives in taxidermy glory as the mascot
of Kentucky for Kentucky, who are friends of ours. I
still wear my Cocaine Bear shirt that they sent us.
(14:09):
I still have my y'all shirt and I wear that
love them. Then there's a super rad clothing and good
store based in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky. Andrew Thornton
was from Kentucky and his story is pretty well known.
So several years ago the people at Kentucky for Kentucky
fell down a rabbit hole trying to find out whatever
happened to Cocaine Bear. The full story of how he
became their mascot is on their website, but I've condensed
(14:32):
it for you here. I'll try to make the long
story as short as possible. So, after the bear died,
Rip the animal medical examiner that checked him out and
confirmed that he died from a cocaine overdose, thought to himself, well,
the inside of this bear is all kinds of fucked,
but the outside is fine. So we sent it to
a friend to be stuffed, because I guess you don't
want to waste a perfectly good bear carcass. For several years,
(14:54):
the bear was displayed in the National Parks visitor center
with a plaque that told all about his exciting part
the animal life and death. Then in the nineties, and
approaching wildfire caused the staff at the National Park to evacuate,
and the bear was put in a storage unit with
many of the park's other belongings. Many of those things
Cocaine Bear included somehow disappeared from the storage unit, only
(15:16):
to be sold at a local pawn shop. Oh and,
as it turns out, the owner of the pawn shop
sold the bear to none other than country music legend
Waylon Jennings. Does that ring a Bear's that ring a bear?
Jennings thought the story was hilarious, and he sent the
bear to a Kentucky born friend of his in Las Vegas.
(15:37):
So then for a while Cocaine Bear lived in a
very nice Las Vegas mansion. When that man died, his
possessions were auctioned off, and Cocaine Bear was bought by
a man who ran a traditional Chinese medicine shop. I
guess he thought at Giant tax ermy black bear was
the perfect decore.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Question.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It doesn't make much sense. So when the people at
Kentucky for Kentucky decided that they needed to find out
what happened to Cocaine Bear, they tracked him all the
way down from Georgia to this Chinese medicine shop. The
owner had unfortunately passed away, but the wife still had
Cocaine Bear in her possession. She had absolutely no idea
that this bear had lived such a checkered and well
traveled life, and thankfully for them, she hated the bear
(16:16):
and wanted it gone, so she offered to give it
to them for just cost of shipping.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's amazing, love that that god damn bear's been in
this front room.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, So now he lives at the physical Kentucky for
Kentucky shop in Lexington and people can come and pay
their respects to possibly the coolest bear to ever exist.
Don't do drugs, everyone. There's also a line of Cocaine
Bear shirts, hats, stickers, and even a snow globe that
you can purchase on their website. Stay sexy and don't
do drugs, or you'll end up dead and maybe stuffed
(16:47):
like poor Cocaine bear, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It really is epic, though, a stuffed bear, because there's
such unbelievable creatures. There's a bar in downtown Pedaluma called
Gaels that's had a stuffed bear in the front window.
Our whole lives and we used to just walk by
it so we could look at the bear.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It was like malting or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I mean, yeah, I was really old. I'm sure if
you went up and tried to brush it it would
be a negative experience. But it was just in a bar.
Nobody in their carried it just like that, kind of like, look,
somebody did.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
This a fucking bear.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a bear?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This is my last story. I'm not going to read
you the subject line it says, I was in the
middle of my daily ritual, deleting the mountain of marketing
emails I subscribed to in Moments of financial Optimism. Ten
percent off feels worth it until it doesn't. Then I
almost missed it something familiar and unexpectedly magical. It was
from Bill a Bear A quick backstory. I was just
(17:44):
there with my one year old for his birthday. We
got the one dollar birthday bear, which somehow became twenty
five dollars in tiny clothes and denim pants I wish
came in my size. The email featured the one the
only Mothman. Oh yes, really a mothman bear, glowing eyes
and little wings, the softest harbinger of doom you've ever seen,
(18:07):
and not in a Halloween promo, just calmly existing in
the general catalog as if he's always been there. Limit
to per guest, of course. And I couldn't stop smiling
because somehow, without really noticing it happen. True crime, folklore,
and women's voices in these stories have worked their way
into the culture so deeply that now even build a
(18:28):
Bear is on. Oh my god, I love that this
isn't just about a cryptid and plashform. It's about what
you've helped build. A space where curiosity, empathy, and humor
can coexist with darkness, where storytelling becomes a kind of activism,
where people who were once dismissed as weird, morbid, or
too sensitive are now part of a smarter sharper cultural conversation.
(18:51):
I'm totally crying. Oh my god, And occasionally that conversation
shows up in your inbox disguised as spam. Thank you
for what you do, truly stay sexy and keep telling
stories that matter MC. Oh my god. Okay, I have
to say, and I've said this to you before, but
a lot of times I don't read the emails all
the way through so that they're fun when I read
(19:11):
them to you. So I did not know that I
was about to compliment us in this.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, but it's really set because it's our ten ye
anniversary and that was like a perfect kind of like
thing Kelly I wouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's a lovely complent. Yeah, it's very sweet. That's do
you think where the reason there's Mothman plus adult Bear? No,
that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I wish we could take credit over Mothman, but.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I wish we could take credit for the Mothman statue
with this big cakes. Have you seen that thing?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We talked about it so good. Let's end on a
positive note. Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is based on me covering the Great Emu War.
Yes episode four seventy seven called the Greatest Depression, released
on April twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. Okay, Hi, Day
one listener, third time writer. So when I say I
grew up on an emu, I don't mean like I
remember growing up on an EMU farm. I mean I
was a newborn surrounded by six foot tall prehistoric birds.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Here's the backstory.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My parents got married in nineteen ninety three, and as
a wedding gift, my grandparents, who were already deep in
the EMU game, like hundreds of birds deep, what gifted
my parents a pair of EMUs?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I mean congratulations?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I guess, give what you want, as that's a gift
giving strategy.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Do you think that they didn't have like the online registry,
so they couldn't have known that it wasn't on their registry.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What could they want for their wedding? I guess what
would we want? EMUs?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of course, four months later I was born, So technically
my parents started their marriage and their family.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
With me and two EMUs. A power trio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Really at the time was were supposed to be the
next big thing. Their meat was considered a delicacy, their
oil was trendy, and people were investing like this was
emu bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I don't in the nineties. Yeah, in America, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So let's see, is there are you?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And the could be Australia.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Also, anyone who's from Australia, we say it Emu here. Okay,
I know it's EMU in Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Ew. I got so many you would give me the
ick so bad if you just kept saying that.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's Emo Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My dad was once offered thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars
for the pair before they were even a year old. Wow,
But he held out because at the time, earlings were
going for twenty grand. What which in today's when he's
probably like fucking fifty something.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I didn't either, spoiler, he made zero dollars. When the
Emu's hit their first birthday that Emu bubble burst.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
My parents ended up just giving them away. Oh, it's
like beatie babies alive.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, that's terrible, it's all, it's so valuable. Nothing naturally.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I asked about their personalities because Georgia mentioned that Emu's
could be loving and kind. I don't remember that, and
I wanted to believe I spent my babyhood with gentle giants.
My dad said, eh, most are pretty docile, but then
casually added though a lot of them can get really aggressive.
He told me once he had to give medication to
one of my grandparents' emos and it straight up sliced
his arm open with its talent emergency room stitches the
(22:16):
whole thing. So yeah, kind of a toss up. Then
I asked my mom if she was ever scared of them.
She texted back and I, quote, I wasn't scared of them,
but I didn't fuck with them end quote, which honestly
is probably the most honest way anyone has ever described
coexisting with EMUs.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Some people get china sets or blenders for their wedding.
My parents got angry war birds and a baby. Cindy Sidney,
c Y n die I fancy, oh European Cindy.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Cindy. Where are all these Cindy's coming from? Are you
a Sydney?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Send us to your email. It doesn't matter what it is.
Send us your story.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Hey, Cindy, You've lived a life, We know it. We
want to hear any kind of story you've got.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
To tell us.
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We love that and thank you for being with us
for ten years and going down this little memory lane.
It's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
We are just thrilled.
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Stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis, do you
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Goodbye,
Hello, and welcome to my Favorite Murder the Minisode ten
year anniversary edition.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's right, if you're listening to this on Monday, as
you should be as it comes out.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This week is our ten year anniversary week.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We are going to be like those people who have
their birthday all month long, where we're going to talk
about it every single day. We're going to bring it
up over and over. I mean, we got to ten
years in podcasting.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Dude, that's a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's like we're a fifteen year old dog.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, we're basically that's right, your first oh and oh oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Because of that, Molly had the great idea of doing
hometowns that are stories we've done in the past, so
it's either follow ups or it's your hometown, but we've
covered it, so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Here's what we love, self referential stuff exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, this is my first story. I won't to read.
It's the subject line. It says, Hi Karen, High Georgia,
and hi to Stephen. I want to share a story
about my older sister with you. She's ten years older
than me, and when I was little, I always looked
up to her. I thought she was so beautiful and
so talented. Back in nineteen seventy five, my sister Cindy
was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Cindy is such an eighties name, Cindy.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
When's the last time you've heard I'm Cindy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Not seen a Cindy?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Come back, Cindy, Cindy's.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We need to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In nineteen seventy five, my sister Cindy, of course I
love that sitcom, was eighteen years old, living in Visalia, California.
She had just moved there from San Jose, California. One day,
she was shopping at Kmart. This is nineteen seventy five.
She was in the book aisle, thumbing through a book,
and she had this sudden feeling she was being watched.
She could feel the presence of something evil, dark and cold.
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Taking her gaze off the book, she looked up and
eye contact with a man who was staring at her
through the book aisle shelving, only about three to five
feet from her face.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Ah, like on the other side of the aisle, just.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Like every horror movie where the book gets pulled away
in a weird face is sitting there. He was that
close to her. He was staring at her and through
her soul. His cold, steel blue eyes were studying her.
You know how they say the eyes are the window
to the soul. Well, she didn't see or feel the
presence of any soul, only evil. She could feel the
hairs on her arms and next stand up. She carefully
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set the book back on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh, I bet it was B. C. Andrews, fucking my
sweet good not reading.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This today, That's okay, and decided to move away from
him to another part of the store. She tried to
look unafraid, but inside she was terrified. Just when she
thought he was gone, he'd appear in the same fashion,
staring at her from opposite side of the aisle through
the shelves, just like a lion's stocking his prey through
the tall grass. She was hoping he would grow tired
(03:03):
of following her and leave. She kept moving around the store,
and he kept repeating the same creepy, predatory behavior. They're
at the popcorn stand, remember the popcorn thing in the
middle of kmart? Yeah, favorite. Some time had passed about
an hour or so, and she didn't see him anymore.
She hurried to the checkout to pay and get the
hell out of there, making sure the coast was clear,
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she quickly exited the store. As she crossed the parking lot,
he intercepted her with his truck. No undeterred, she walked
around it and kept walking as fast as she could
to get to her car. She jumped in her car,
locked the doors, and anxiously fled the parking lot. She
gunned it, but he followed in pursuit of her. No
doubt he was trying to follow her home. She kept
(03:45):
thinking to herself, I can't drive home. He'll see where
I live. Her heart was beating out of her chest
as she tried to lose him. At some point she
was pretty sure she'd lost him. She drove to a
boyfriend's aunt's house, jumped out of the car, banged on
their door for them to let her in. The door opened,
she ran inside. She told him to lock the doors
and explained what was happening. A couple hours later, they
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went with her to the police station.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She felled out a report and went home. Shortly thereafter,
she received a phone call from the police station asking
her to come back in and do a photo ID.
They wanted her to look through a book of photos
and sketchings to see if any of these men was
the man who was stalking her. Apparently, her description matched
that of a man they were looking for, who they
were calling the Vicealia Ransack.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Forty three years later, in twenty eighteen, my sister received
a phone call from the police department. They were asking
her questions about that terrifying day so long ago. They
told her that they believed that they had found the
man that had stalked her. They asked her if she
would be willing to testify against him if they needed
her to, and they told her to be prepared for that.
She still had no idea who he was. Twenty eighteen
(04:53):
breaking news, They found him. His face was plastered all
over the news and it was him, cold evil man
that had stalked her forty three years ago, and Cindy
had correctly identified him from a photo, a d sketch.
He was the Visalia Ransacker, the night stalker, aka the
Golden State Killer.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So she fucking fingered him then, yeah, way back then. Yeah,
when they were like, we had no idea who he was. Yeah,
but he was.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
A cop, he was a cow, but not in Visalia. Right.
That was in Rose. It's above Sacramento. He was up there.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But the thing too is that if he was a
cop there, he would have gotten her at He could
have been like, oh, yes, brots her address, like I
can find her through.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There, Yep, I'll go question her about the man that
was stalking her. Okay, here we go. This is the
next paragraph. What I keep thinking is that he was
a police officer. Yeah, great, I should have looked down.
I'm so sorry to the person that wrote that. He
could have gotten her information from her license plate. He
could have gotten a copy of her police report. Who
knows you love that We just had that whole conversation.
(05:57):
She's like, I'm saying that no good. Even to this day,
as she recalls the story and tells it to me,
she gets chills and goosebumps. So stay sexy, and if
you have a bad feeling about someone, always trust your gut. Sherry,
I bet Sherry and Cindy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I wonder though, too, like getting her address from the
license from her car. Maybe he would have done it
if she hadn't, because like someone's talking you not everyone,
especially back then, would have been like call the police,
file a report, right, So maybe he was like, oh,
this is he did have her address, but he was
like she's too like she's got this all on paper,
(06:34):
so I don't I'm not going to go after her.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, they'll be a track exactly, Yes, totally.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And the bright blue eyes thing is like such a
creepy because not everyone besides you has that, and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's like so specific.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Did she say that?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yes, she said his.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Bright blue eyes. Oh, and he kept looking at her
through the bright bright blue eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I don't, well, we'd have to look at the chronology.
But I thought when he was in Visalia he was
younger because never he was kind of heavy. Yes, and
that's when he was like breaking into people's houses.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nobody still had bright blue eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, but not a cop all.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's all I'm saying. So he's a little bit clear
that that's the Golden State Killer. Did we say Golden Sack?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The vice Sally Rundsacker, basically the night stalker, which is
what they called him. A little bit crazy. I mean
that's like.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, and that's actually funny because that was your first
case that you ever covered on this podcast, right right,
all right, So this one I'm not going to read
it to you the subject line, Hi, I love you
both well. Listening to a new story about the recent
doomsday cult in Kenya where four hundred people died by
mass suicide, my dad casually said, I interviewed a cult once.
(07:43):
Then a few years later I found out they all
died by mass suicide in California. Friends, my pure hearted,
non true crime dad was talking about the Heaven's Gate cult.
Oh wow, Yes, the one obsessed with UFOs and Nikes.
In nineteen ninety four, my dad was working as a
reporter at the local news paper in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
when a small group of people dressed in baggy clothes
(08:04):
and cropped haircuts showed up at his office, hoping to
publicize an upcoming meeting they were holding in town. My
dad interviewed the members of Heaven's Gate. At the time,
they were called the total Overcomers.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I don't either, and published a story about their movement
and their upcoming meetings in Santa Fe and tause. He
didn't think much of it until almost three years later,
when someone sent him an article about the Heaven's Gate
cult mass suicide of thirty nine members in a San
Diego mansion. Next thing he knew, he was getting calls
from national news outlets to give interviews as an expert
(08:37):
on the cult. He did all of these interviews while
holding a baby me who you could hear crying in
the background of his NBC News interview. Oh my god,
while that's crazy, He recalled that when photos came out
of the cult and it's victims, he recognized the four
members that he had interviewed. He said, when he interviewed them,
they didn't seem crazy or woo woo. They seemed very
(09:00):
very friendly and funny and then it says classic cult behavior,
Am I right? And seemed pretty rooted in the real world.
They acknowledged that their movement was not for everyone and
that there would be other opportunities to advance for those
who didn't choose to join them at the time. Thirty
years later, my dad is a renowned journalist, but spends
most of his time reporting on the cult of politics,
(09:22):
Stay sexy and support local journalism. Exoxo, Genevieve. She sent
the article the link along Oh that's cool. It's called
Strangers Come to Tell a Tale, and that was from
episode one oh three where I cover the Heaven's Gate
Cult live in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Wow. Yes, that's just such an interesting thing because having
a parent as a journalist must be really incredible because
that's they spend all their time having unbelievable experiences like that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then like I didn't think anything of that interview.
They were actually really friendly.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And yeah normal.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There were just like some computer nerds that were like, yeah,
we just like to live this way. I thought the
same thing in that documentary. Yeah, that the actual people
and when they spoke and stuff, they just seemed like, yeah,
this is this is what I prefer totally. Here's my
next story. This one's intense because subject line my dad
(10:16):
survived the Sun Valley Mall disaster.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Okay, so it says hi did le Ho murderinos, Let's
get into it. When I heard that Karen was covering
the Sun Valley Mall plane crash in episode four forty seven,
I was beyond ecstatic. The Sun Valley Mall, only ten
minutes away from my hometown, was my dad's favorite place
to do last minute Christmas shopping for my mom every year,
including nineteen eighty five. I must have been in second
(10:41):
grade when my dad was walking with me in that
very mall, and he said, you know what, sweetie, One
time I was here when a plane crashed through the ceiling.
Thanks to a perfect concoction of forgetfulness, bad luck, and ADHD.
I grew up hearing all about the fires he accidentally
started and near death experiences he had while working at
the local refinery. A random plane crash just seemed on brand.
(11:04):
It wasn't until later that I grasped the magnitude of
this event. I started scraping the internet for more details
and asking my dad about what happened. And here goes
his tail. It started with this inadvertent annual tradition. After
dedicating way too much time on meticulous Christmas decorating, he
snuck away to the mall to get some gifts. And
where would a desperate dad with five kids in less
(11:26):
than twenty four hours left to shop and no internet
go to get a slam dunk of a present. The
Macy's jewelry counter, of course, aka the epicenter of destruction. Jesus,
my sweet terrified Pops tossed his shopping bags behind the
counter and braced himself for impact. As usual, he narrowly
escaped death when it seemed like he was in the clear,
(11:47):
he walked out and saw the horrors, so he basically
the plane crashed. He jumped over a counter and waited
it out and then walked out. And that's when he
saw walked out. He saw the horrors, screen fire, and injury.
His reaction to this storm of chaos perfectly encapsulates his
truest self as a former Nerdy Boy scout and fire
(12:08):
team member. At work, he felt like he should do something,
and what was that heroic act of bravery you might
be wondering, running back and forth with indecision and good intentions,
likely with his hands resting on his head between short
panic sprints. Finally he knew where he needed to go, Mervin's.
It was here that my dad called my mom, who
surely had seen the news and was filled with worry.
(12:30):
I'm not sure if my dad ever got back to
the Macy's jewelry counter that year. It's possible that relief
was gift enough. This horrifying and surely traumatizing event was
no hindrance to my dad's procrastination. He shopped at the
same mall the same day every year until lockdown started,
and he discovered online shopping. Love you both immeasurably stay
(12:51):
sexy and shop early bitsy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean he was there. He's a witness that was
in it.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, terrifying.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean just to walk out and see how awful
it actually was.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And you're fine, yes, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And also that idea that I think everybody is like, oh,
I would do this, or I here's how I would help.
And it's like you're one of the victims.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Too, totally like and you're in shock.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's happening to you.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, that's why there's like trained professionals to do that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
God.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is from the episode Too sixty eight where I
covered Cocaine Bear.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The episodes called All Stars of.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Seventh Grade came out on April first, twenty twenty one. Hello,
beautiful murder ladies, Stephen and Pets. I've been binging your
show for months now, and I just recently listened to
the episode where you talked about Cocaine Bear. Short recap.
If it's way back in the memory banks, Oh, we remember.
It was the nineteen eighties. Andrews Thornton was a former
narcotics officer who was on the run. He was smuggling
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drugs and weapons, and eventually he jumped out of a
plane and died. Then three months later, a dead black
bear was found in the Chattahoochee National Forest and he
had overdosed on cocaine suppose dropped from Thornton's plant. Okay,
so he now lives in taxidermy glory as the mascot
of Kentucky for Kentucky, who are friends of ours. I
still wear my Cocaine Bear shirt that they sent us.
(14:09):
I still have my y'all shirt and I wear that
love them. Then there's a super rad clothing and good
store based in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky. Andrew Thornton
was from Kentucky and his story is pretty well known.
So several years ago the people at Kentucky for Kentucky
fell down a rabbit hole trying to find out whatever
happened to Cocaine Bear. The full story of how he
became their mascot is on their website, but I've condensed
(14:32):
it for you here. I'll try to make the long
story as short as possible. So, after the bear died,
Rip the animal medical examiner that checked him out and
confirmed that he died from a cocaine overdose, thought to himself, well,
the inside of this bear is all kinds of fucked,
but the outside is fine. So we sent it to
a friend to be stuffed, because I guess you don't
want to waste a perfectly good bear carcass. For several years,
(14:54):
the bear was displayed in the National Parks visitor center
with a plaque that told all about his exciting part
the animal life and death. Then in the nineties, and
approaching wildfire caused the staff at the National Park to evacuate,
and the bear was put in a storage unit with
many of the park's other belongings. Many of those things
Cocaine Bear included somehow disappeared from the storage unit, only
(15:16):
to be sold at a local pawn shop. Oh and,
as it turns out, the owner of the pawn shop
sold the bear to none other than country music legend
Waylon Jennings. Does that ring a Bear's that ring a bear?
Jennings thought the story was hilarious, and he sent the
bear to a Kentucky born friend of his in Las Vegas.
(15:37):
So then for a while Cocaine Bear lived in a
very nice Las Vegas mansion. When that man died, his
possessions were auctioned off, and Cocaine Bear was bought by
a man who ran a traditional Chinese medicine shop. I
guess he thought at Giant tax ermy black bear was
the perfect decore.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Question.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It doesn't make much sense. So when the people at
Kentucky for Kentucky decided that they needed to find out
what happened to Cocaine Bear, they tracked him all the
way down from Georgia to this Chinese medicine shop. The
owner had unfortunately passed away, but the wife still had
Cocaine Bear in her possession. She had absolutely no idea
that this bear had lived such a checkered and well
traveled life, and thankfully for them, she hated the bear
(16:16):
and wanted it gone, so she offered to give it
to them for just cost of shipping.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's amazing, love that that god damn bear's been in
this front room.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, So now he lives at the physical Kentucky for
Kentucky shop in Lexington and people can come and pay
their respects to possibly the coolest bear to ever exist.
Don't do drugs, everyone. There's also a line of Cocaine
Bear shirts, hats, stickers, and even a snow globe that
you can purchase on their website. Stay sexy and don't
do drugs, or you'll end up dead and maybe stuffed
(16:47):
like poor Cocaine bear, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It really is epic, though, a stuffed bear, because there's
such unbelievable creatures. There's a bar in downtown Pedaluma called
Gaels that's had a stuffed bear in the front window.
Our whole lives and we used to just walk by
it so we could look at the bear.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It was like malting or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I mean, yeah, I was really old. I'm sure if
you went up and tried to brush it it would
be a negative experience. But it was just in a bar.
Nobody in their carried it just like that, kind of like, look,
somebody did.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
This a fucking bear.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a bear?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This is my last story. I'm not going to read
you the subject line it says, I was in the
middle of my daily ritual, deleting the mountain of marketing
emails I subscribed to in Moments of financial Optimism. Ten
percent off feels worth it until it doesn't. Then I
almost missed it something familiar and unexpectedly magical. It was
from Bill a Bear A quick backstory. I was just
(17:44):
there with my one year old for his birthday. We
got the one dollar birthday bear, which somehow became twenty
five dollars in tiny clothes and denim pants I wish
came in my size. The email featured the one the
only Mothman. Oh yes, really a mothman bear, glowing eyes
and little wings, the softest harbinger of doom you've ever seen,
(18:07):
and not in a Halloween promo, just calmly existing in
the general catalog as if he's always been there. Limit
to per guest, of course. And I couldn't stop smiling
because somehow, without really noticing it happen. True crime, folklore,
and women's voices in these stories have worked their way
into the culture so deeply that now even build a
(18:28):
Bear is on. Oh my god, I love that this
isn't just about a cryptid and plashform. It's about what
you've helped build. A space where curiosity, empathy, and humor
can coexist with darkness, where storytelling becomes a kind of activism,
where people who were once dismissed as weird, morbid, or
too sensitive are now part of a smarter sharper cultural conversation.
(18:51):
I'm totally crying. Oh my god, And occasionally that conversation
shows up in your inbox disguised as spam. Thank you
for what you do, truly stay sexy and keep telling
stories that matter MC. Oh my god. Okay, I have
to say, and I've said this to you before, but
a lot of times I don't read the emails all
the way through so that they're fun when I read
(19:11):
them to you. So I did not know that I
was about to compliment us in this.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, but it's really set because it's our ten ye
anniversary and that was like a perfect kind of like
thing Kelly I wouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's a lovely complent. Yeah, it's very sweet. That's do
you think where the reason there's Mothman plus adult Bear? No,
that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I wish we could take credit over Mothman, but.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I wish we could take credit for the Mothman statue
with this big cakes. Have you seen that thing?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
We talked about it so good. Let's end on a
positive note. Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is based on me covering the Great Emu War.
Yes episode four seventy seven called the Greatest Depression, released
on April twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. Okay, Hi, Day
one listener, third time writer. So when I say I
grew up on an emu, I don't mean like I
remember growing up on an EMU farm. I mean I
was a newborn surrounded by six foot tall prehistoric birds.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Here's the backstory.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My parents got married in nineteen ninety three, and as
a wedding gift, my grandparents, who were already deep in
the EMU game, like hundreds of birds deep, what gifted
my parents a pair of EMUs?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I mean congratulations?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I guess, give what you want, as that's a gift
giving strategy.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Do you think that they didn't have like the online registry,
so they couldn't have known that it wasn't on their registry.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What could they want for their wedding? I guess what
would we want? EMUs?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of course, four months later I was born, So technically
my parents started their marriage and their family.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
With me and two EMUs. A power trio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Really at the time was were supposed to be the
next big thing. Their meat was considered a delicacy, their
oil was trendy, and people were investing like this was
emu bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I don't in the nineties. Yeah, in America, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So let's see, is there are you?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And the could be Australia.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Also, anyone who's from Australia, we say it Emu here. Okay,
I know it's EMU in Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Ew. I got so many you would give me the
ick so bad if you just kept saying that.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's Emo Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My dad was once offered thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars
for the pair before they were even a year old. Wow,
But he held out because at the time, earlings were
going for twenty grand. What which in today's when he's
probably like fucking fifty something.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I didn't either, spoiler, he made zero dollars. When the
Emu's hit their first birthday that Emu bubble burst.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
My parents ended up just giving them away. Oh, it's
like beatie babies alive.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, that's terrible, it's all, it's so valuable. Nothing naturally.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I asked about their personalities because Georgia mentioned that Emu's
could be loving and kind. I don't remember that, and
I wanted to believe I spent my babyhood with gentle giants.
My dad said, eh, most are pretty docile, but then
casually added though a lot of them can get really aggressive.
He told me once he had to give medication to
one of my grandparents' emos and it straight up sliced
his arm open with its talent emergency room stitches the
(22:16):
whole thing. So yeah, kind of a toss up. Then
I asked my mom if she was ever scared of them.
She texted back and I, quote, I wasn't scared of them,
but I didn't fuck with them end quote, which honestly
is probably the most honest way anyone has ever described
coexisting with EMUs.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Some people get china sets or blenders for their wedding.
My parents got angry war birds and a baby. Cindy Sidney,
c Y n die I fancy, oh European Cindy.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Cindy. Where are all these Cindy's coming from? Are you
a Sydney?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
To tell us.
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We love that and thank you for being with us
for ten years and going down this little memory lane.
It's very exciting.
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We are just thrilled.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We are ten years old.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis, do you
want to cookie?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squaloacci.
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Goodbye,
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