Episode 202 - I Need a Smart Brain

Who needs a femme fatale when reality is this twisted? Join us as we uncover the true stories of women who proved that sometimes, the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets.

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Research links below!

Getty Images - "Sara Maria Aldrete Villareal, the so-called witch of a cult, discusses her role in the murder and death of the U.S. student, Mark Kilroy."
SF Gate -"Woman called priestess of satanic cult says she's changed: Inmate has served 15 years in prison in Mexico for ritual sacrifices of 13"
Deseret News - "'Perfect' Student Sought in Cult Slayings"
Oxygen - "Deadly Narcosatanist Cult Performed Human Sacrifices For Drug Cartels"
Time - "Cult of The Red-Haired Devil"
Unknown Gender History - "Sara Maria Aldrete, Mexican Cult Serial Killer - 1989"

Time - "CRIME: Louise"
Murderpedia - "Louise Peete"
The Spokesman-Review - "'Carbon Copy' Killer to Die"
Palisadian-Post - "The Bizarre Tale of Murder Louise Peete In 1944, Her Crime on Hampden Place Led to the Gas Chamber"
Los Angeles Magazine - "The Life and Lies of L.A. Man Killer Louise Peete"
Deranged LA Crimes - "Aggie and the City of Forgotten Women: Part 1"
Deranged LA Crimes - "Dead Woman Walking: Louise Peete, Part 3"
Deranged LA Crimes - "Dead Woman Walking: Louise Peete, Part 4"

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, why they discovered upon their arrivals unspeakable.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm not doing.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
They did want bother.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's the living. You gotta worry about.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Something.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
If I couldn't keep them there with me whole, at
least I felt that I could keep their skeletons.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hello and welcome to the Bad Taste Crime Podcast. I'm Rachel,
I'm Vicky. Oh my god, Hi everybody. Welcome back. Yay,
welcome back. We're here. We're coming off of I know
this is a couple episodes ago, but we're coming off
of our two hundredth extravaguns. Just some of the first part.
I thought it was great, Yes it was. It was

(00:55):
a lot of fun. Listen to it right now. Yes,
parts one and two will be we'll be at this point.
But we're back to our regular, regularly scheduled programming. Is again,
nothing regular about it as always. How are you today,
I'm doing okay, okay. I'm happy that it's warmer warmer. Yeah,

(01:19):
we've officially, I think I think made it through what
we call what is it called fake spring? Yees? Full spring. Yes,
finally we've just made it through full spring, which is
the thing here in the Midwest where it's like fake
out spring, and then it becomes winter again for another
couple of weeks in the mid spring, actually real spring.

(01:41):
It's so mean. It is super mean because all I
want to do is plant my plants, play my herbs
on my little I just want to tan these little
white hot dogs I call legs. Yeah, I know. My
mom literally told me I was pale the other day
and I was like, thanks, mom. Wow. We went to
get our we went to get our toes done, and
I have this very yellow It was the last time

(02:02):
I recorded, I think the yellow hollow toenail polish. And
she's like, maybe if you weren't so pale, it would
look really good because it's supposed to you look really
damp right now. It just makes you look really pale.
And I was like, damn, I know you're right. I
know you're right. Thanks, because I don't go outside, but
it's still hurts. Even the woman doing my painting my
toes was like, oh you want this color. Wow, No,

(02:22):
don't judge me late. I've been going there long enough
that they are allowed to judge me. But she was.
I was like, well you don't like it? She was
like no, it's great and I'm like, I know, you
don't like it. It's fine, it's fine. She's like, no,
in a couple of weeks, it'd be really really good.
And I was like, thanks too, it's really good on
your vampire complex. Listen, listen, might as well highlight that

(02:43):
I never go outside. Yeah? Really? Oh man, all right,
before we get into it, we're gonna head over to
the newsroom. Yeah, let's head over there and us today
we had fifty wall there. Let me ask you a

(03:10):
question as a mom, I do Okay, imagine for a second,
you're taking an Uber uh huh. You are taking Uber
from the airport home after a long trip. Okay, okay,
with my kids, with your kids, whole family. I'm already stressed. Okay,
you get home, I'm sweating. You unpacked the car, you
unpacked the kids, but then you realize you have a

(03:34):
kid missing. What you think I was just going back
to get my other child, but now the car is gone. No, no, no, no,
you do the kids first. What would you do? I
just wouldn't be in that situation. So one kid under
one arm, one kid under the other arm. I know.

(03:56):
So this is what happened to a mom in Hanada,
Oh my god, she had gone. They had gone to
a Toronto's Raptor game okay with her boyfriend and her kids,
and they had driven they had a flat but they
got a flat tire, so they had to take an
Uber back her. She has a couple of kids, some

(04:18):
with car seats and things, and a five year old
daughter that fell asleep in the back of the car
on the way home. So they talked about a plan.
She was like, she's gonna grab the garage door opener
from the other car so they could she can open
while her boyfriend started getting everybody out of the car

(04:38):
seats and all this stuff, and then she would go
back and because she didn't want to wake her daughter up,
she would go back and carry the five year old
back inside as the other boyfriend took the other kids inside,
like it's this kind of a yees. So they're in
the middle of this process because it is a lot
to get out, and she goes back to the car
to get her five year old and realizes that the

(04:59):
uber car is gone. Oh my god. So she cause
the police and police are like calling okay, so she
calls the police, please get there, Please call Uber and
it's like can you give us the information of this driver,
because this is what's happening right And Uber is like, ooh,

(05:19):
there's a form that you need to fill out. They're terrible.
This kind of thing has happened to Uber before. Yeah,
they've like up, they haven't helped in police investigations. Yeah,
and it's I understand getting the proper channels for request
during an investigation completely, but when it's this kind of
emergency where it's like we need this information right now,
this is actively happening, Wit to be like, well, there's

(05:43):
a form that you need to fill out for us,
and then like put it up the chain of command
and like I should know that she was in the car,
like Uber would be able to check and be like,
obviously she's not making this up. Yeah, oh my god.
So Uber's guidelines say that there's an emergency disclosure request
that has to be submitted through the company's public Safe
Response portal or buy an email. Luckily they did, I

(06:04):
mean to run to police, were like, we got absolutely
no help from Uber, but luckily they were able to
find the driver. The driver to their part, was like
I had no idea because it it sounds like it
was a one of those vans that has like multiple rows,
and the daughter was asleep in the very back. So yeah,
so they were like, oh my god, I'm so sorry,

(06:27):
Like I didn't even realize she was back. She was asleep,
Like I didn't even realize it, which I would be
if I was that person, I would be freaking out right.
And they're like, I hope, like, I hope I'm not
in trouble, like I didn't, yeah exactly, because that's like, oh,
it just sounds like a big misunderstanding, but like so
stressful for everybody involved. So don't damn kid, don't worry.
Don't worry because Uber gave them a ten dollar credit.

(06:49):
Stop it right now. Yeah, you better give me the car. Yeah,
you better give me your company. Yeah. They say they're
like reviewing this incident internally and these nuts. Yeah, but
like you're getting sued with a capitalized yeah, and they're
seeing like we told this person to contact police and
that when the police called, they said, well, here's the

(07:10):
process for an expedited request, but like I don't know then,
oh my god, Okay, here's the phone number of the
person who drives the car, and here's the right here's
the license plate. Well, And this is the interesting thing
to me is because when you get an Uber, you
get the car's license plate number as you're waiting, so
as a way to verify that the car that you're
getting into is the correct car, right, Because do I

(07:32):
know what a Toyota Corolla is? No? I do not, right, right,
exactly exactly, And I'm like, is that an suv or sedan?
I don't know the difference. And I even I truly
don't what is the I don't know this. Are they
picking me up in a semi? I don't know? Yeah? No, no, no,
So that is a thing, but I don't know that
you can, like after your ride is dempleted, if you

(07:53):
can go back in and see it and shot it.
Which why would they think to do that? Right? Right?
Oh my god, that's so stressful because surely Uber will help, right,
you would think it would be super easy. They'd just
be like, oh, here, we'll call the driver and tell
them to come back, bring that kid back. Yeah. Yeah,
but they were like, oh my god, can you fill
this out in triplicate? They're very much so that happened.

(08:13):
I just Uber. It's very interesting. Yeah, like that side
effect to like ride sharing like I said, it was
not on purpose, Like it wasn't. No, I'm not mad
at the driver, but also that's how easily somebody can
be like, well, not I'm going to take your kid.
But I don't know why you would do that as
an Uber driver because Uber driver Uber has all of
your information. So I was going to say, like, this
kind of roadblock is like whatever, even if they had

(08:34):
to fill out the form, probably taken that wrong. They
would catch you girl. So we're gonna move on to
Netflix and kill. This week, we are talking about bad Influence,
the dark side of kid fluencing. Yes, have you watched
this yet or no? But I think it would probably
be a little tough for me to watch to it
really would be. Yeah. Yeah, so it's I don't do

(08:57):
well like kid stuff. Yeah so mad. Yeah. So it's
a three part series. It's sort of the main thrust
of the story focuses on the child YouTuber Piper Roquel,
who now is a teen and her mamager, her mom,
manager Tiffany Smith. Piper Rachel sort of got on YouTube

(09:21):
and really like took off with these videos, and her
mom began managing her career in filming the videos for
her and then they started recruiting people to come do
videos with them. Yeah kind of, but these are all
I mean, this is not me justifying it, but these
a lot of them were kids who were like going

(09:42):
to LA to like try to make it big and
get into a great opportunity. Yeah. Yeah, And then quickly
like they recruited these people into this group they called
the squad. And if you don't, if you're not familiar
with the world of influencing and kid fluencing, it's a
really weird landscape from like the Internet that we grew

(10:05):
up with, right, and our shit was weird, but like
this is it's a very strange thing because it's very
specific types of videos. There's trends that these kidfluencers follow.
They talk about, Oh, what is the term that they use.
I want to say coupling, but it's not coupling. There's
like a hipper term for it for what for essentially

(10:27):
creating fake couples, fake relationships between the cast members. Shipping,
that's what it is. I was like, I've never heard
that term in my life. That's crazy. It's like a
fan fiction. Yeah, shipping. They call this thing shipping where
they create fake relationships between two kids, and then I'll
be like, in this case started out very innocently and

(10:50):
then there was some kind of I mean behind the scenes,
things were very abusive, very demanding. Because their youtubek influence,
they are not subject to child acting laws, which is
child labor laws, so they're able to get away with
forcing the kids to work long hours not take breaks.

(11:13):
They were doing quote unquote homeschoolings, so like the school
requirement is not there. All of these things that are
and they don't see their money that they were no no, no,
no no. There's also this aspect of them controlling the
individual YouTube channels, which is a revenue stream, but they're
like under the control of the central person. There's also

(11:34):
allegations of sexual abuse with more than one of the squad.
The people in fall so much. Yeah, I mean it's
just and these parents, I genuinely feel like, are trying
to do the right thing for their kid and they
see this person being popular on YouTube and it is
a new landscape, like it is kind of for parents

(11:58):
who are our age, maybe a little older. It's a
little different than like when we were very much so,
so I can understand the intent being there and then
getting in and realizing like a lot of them got
in and they were like, no, this is really fucked up.
There was a civil lawsuit, a multi party lawsuit with

(12:22):
these allegations of child abuse and sexual abuse, and so
I think there were some labor things in there, and
that is I believe still currently working. It's way through
the courts. Okay, but you're talking about somebody who's making like,
at the at their peak, half a million dollars a month.

(12:42):
That's Crammy months. Yeah. Yeah, so it's crazy. Yeah, that's great.
It's it is. It's hard to watch because it is
like very much performative. I mean, these are like forcing
these kids very specific directions to do. You know, it's

(13:02):
really it feels really icky, super icky. It was interesting.
If you're not familiar with this sort of world, I
think you should watch this because I do think people
need to be aware of this. Absolutely. I am happy
to say that here in Illinois we do have better
deals for that's good kid influencers. Yeah, just last year

(13:28):
or the year before, I think it was last year,
they passed the law where if your child provides you
thirty percent of your income, you're required to set aside
like fifteen percent of that specifically, or half of that.
I'm sorry, no, no, no, I'm thinking fifteen is half of thirty,
which it is. But yeah, you have to set aside

(13:50):
a certain amount of that into like a trust for
them if they're under the age of eighteen. Good, so
they are required like if your parents are doing this
or whatever, like they're required to set money aside, right,
have Like we do have labor laws, but like I
don't know how many acting laws and stuff that we
have because we're not like a big acting hub Chicago, maybe,
but she can still most people are going to New

(14:11):
York or LA, right, you know, that's where that's where
the scene is. So anyway, interesting documentary, very interesting. Does
make you feel a little gross. Yeah, I don't anything
where you put responsibility on a child is like immediately no. Yeah,
And this is also why a lot of parents too,
have made the decision to like not share their kids

(14:33):
on social media. Yeah, all, which I totally get I
do too, you know, or like if they do, it's
like a blurred face or back of the head or whatever.
It's very much not monetizing. But that's also like an
identity thing, right, because there was talking this documentary about
like random men on the internet. Yeah, not sending them
gifts and things to this young girl who she started

(14:57):
honestly it was like she was like six or seven
or and now she's a teenager. But like, well there's
certain things, like I know, on TikTok in particular, you
can check and see like what your demographics are, like
who watches your videos, like women, men, ages, And there
are so many of these like child accounts that seem
so innocent, but then they'll be followed by like eighty
percent like middle aged men. And I'm like, no, it

(15:19):
is this sort of back door into like child pornography, right,
and especially in this case, they as she got older
and into more teenage look more post puberty. Look, they
intentionally made it more sexy and made it more alluring.
And you want to stick your butt out and your

(15:41):
boobs out and do because this is the content that
they want playing to. These fucking old men child predators.
Maybe not a maybe it's old women too, who I'm
not goods discriminated, I am, but but I mean the
boys do it too, like you know what I mean.
So it's like like fucking child predators out there, just

(16:02):
like I don't know that's yep, it's so gross. It's
such a situation to involve your child in. Yeah. So
this is on Netflix called Bad Influence, The Dark Side
of Kid Fluencing. It's an interesting watch. Yeah, I would
recommend it, but just like, be careful, be careful because
it's Yeah, it's pretty shocking. It's gonna make you feel skimy.

(16:22):
It's gonna make you feel skivy. This is that part
of the show where you say content may not be
appropriate for all listeners. Uh, this week, there will definitely
be discussions of murder. I've got some bit. I think
I might have some suicide talk. There is a lot
in my I had to give my full disclosure. We

(16:45):
like adjusted our recording schedule. So this was actually something
that I had researched a couple of weeks ago because
this was this was the one that we were yea, hey, yeah,
I'm like you did the same thing too, So I
had to look at my notes to refresh my I'm
really too, and this one has is all over the
place as far as content, so just a general content,

(17:07):
mine too, got some guts yeahs, but what are what
are we talking about today? Rachel? Wow, I thought I'd
cast a wide net, but also something near and dear
to my heart, which is evil women. Yeah. I think
you when you messaged me for as you said, deranged
women range just in time for others, say, being an

(17:32):
evil and dastardly woman myself. Yeah, happy Mother's Day. Yeah,
unless there's plenty of female criminals out there to choose
up there, they're normally way more creative. Yeah, completely completely
who run the world's girls? Yeah, I think something in

(17:56):
our like cultural psyche is eternally fascinated with women who kill.
It's like such a thing because it's like, well, ladies
don't don't do it. They're too dainty to demure, demure,
too mindful. It is a thing, though, and I and
a lot of it stems from just like the physicality
of it to you, where it's like there's no possible

(18:19):
way they could drag a body. They couldn't even pick
up a cup of cupr. I've seen so many I've
seen so many cases where it's like the woman clearly
did it, it was and the police will get stuck
on that, like, well how did she drag the body?
And I'm like she sports like she just did it
in heels too, right, don't be damn it love it?

(18:43):
Yeah that yeah, I know it pisses me off, but
it very much goes against our cultural norms to be
like wait, women can be like violent, like horrible, and
I do think that most of the time when you
see like a woman killer, it tends to be linked
more with like crimes of passion, then with like they're
not going to go out and like shoot someplace up

(19:05):
you know it ten like oh, my husband did something terrible,
so I'm gonna kill him, or my children annoy me
some I'm going to drown them. Yeah, it's like more
emotionally involved. That's the stereotype. Oh, the stereotype. Yes, yes,
I mean in general, that's what we tend to expect
to see. I will say too a large majority of

(19:28):
maybe not as much modern day, but especially like eighteen hundreds,
nineteen early nineteen hundreds, Yes, was much more subtle, Like
it wasn't women like you said, we're not running out
like shooting someplace up, right, but it was a little
bit more subtle, quiet, like not as obvious right all

(19:49):
the time? Right, that makes sense? Yeah, de mirror, Well
my pick today, Sara Maria is neither mindful, nor demure,
and certainly not cutesy. What's her name, Sarah Maria? Sarah Maria,
apologies for my very white voice. She was a villainous

(20:11):
cult leader, referred to as the godmother inside the cult,
along with her lover, the creator and co head of
the co head of the cult, Adolpho de Jesus constanzo
Ohesus in the name. Yeah, but he's also got Adolpho.
I mean, we're just gonna skim past that part. She

(20:32):
didn't start out that way, okay. In fact, Sarah was
described as having had a fairly normal upbringing for the
most part. Born Sarah Maria Alderette Villarreal on September sixth,
nineteen sixty four, in Matamoros, So sorry in advance tom
tom Alipas, Mexico, which is near the border of the US. Okay,

(20:57):
No spooky or culty activity was it reported in her childhood,
unless you count cheerleading, which I do. I'm a cheerleader.
I know you guys probably would have been pals. Standing
six foot one, I was. She was a tall girl too,
That's how tall I am. Yes, six to one girls
make for really good bases. Yeah, very much. Launch and

(21:20):
into the street people, and I dropped the people I
didn't like totally freaked me out. I mean, right on
tour sure number one. Yeah, tall and pretty. Sarah did
well at everything she tried. She was athletic again, cheerfully
cheering for the soccer team. She had plans to eventually
pursue a physical education degree to pass on her love

(21:43):
of athletics to the younger generation. Okay, but Sarah had
a secret. To us, it might not sound so strange,
so I'm sure we had similar interests. But Sarah was
a bit of a freaky gal. She became obsessed with
studying the occult, which she would do in between. She
basically just described my high school experience. Right, I'm like, oh,

(22:07):
it's like doing this a sports girl by day, a
cult by night. Very much so. But the problem came
in now, because you know, obviously you can read weird
stuff and not be a fucking murderer. You know, you
can have that interest and not be evil, right, But
I think the problem became with who she was hanging

(22:29):
out with, and she started getting involved with this family.
Members of this family, the Hernandez family, who may not
have matched her squeaky clean exterior. They were all gang related,
they were all cartel related, and were involved in crimes

(22:50):
from petty theft to shipping drugs across the border all
the way to murder and far from this scaring her,
she was like, hmmm, oh, but it's kind of lexy. Look,
it's an exciting lifestyle. Scared. Yeah. Knowing this family and

(23:13):
their criminal activities fascinated Sarah. But that wasn't the only
thing that caught her eye. No, it was the well
manicured mullet of Adolpho Dehito Steven Stanzo, who the Hernana's
brothers introduced her to. He was tall, dark and handsome,
and the two quickly fell in love. I am hard
anti mullet. Yeah, I hate it is an unacceptable hairstyle,

(23:37):
and I refuse to believe anybody that's like, we should
bring the bullet back. Absolutely not. It is the worst
hairstyle on the face of planet Earth. I disagree. I
hate a mullet. That's one of those where I understand
why people feel it's gross. I think it's gross. Nope,
I do know. It literally looks bad on every single
person that tries it. It's horrible. Is the anti mullet

(23:59):
pie will never I will never support a mullet. If
you do a mullet, which I'm pretty sure you have,
I politely said nothing, you did, I said nothing. If
you asked me how your hair was, I probably said, yeah, scream,
it's hair. It's sure, it's it's hair, and it's there.
It's hair, and it's it's gross though, it's hair. Asked

(24:20):
me what my second least favorite is? What is it?

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Man?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Bun? Wow? We disagree. I don't like. I don't like
long hair. Truthfully, on men, I love it. I don't. Wow,
I barely like long hair on me. To be honest
with you, I just am not a big hair person.
But yeah, the good you hear that if you have
long hair, cut it off. Yeah, cut it off, and

(24:45):
we're in business or can't listen to our podcast anymore.
You have to go home lying hair for me? Thank
you please? Uh. So you know Sarah's kind of going
down this like kind of dark p and uh. I
feel like with a lot of these cases, with these
young girls, it's like a boy can either like make

(25:05):
you or break you. If they're going to be really good,
maybe she would have stayed on the straight and narrow
and if they're being really bad, maybe she goes really bad.
Adolpho was really bad. WHOA didn't see that coming? Really bad? Yeah.
So he had this like crazy childhood, super disorganized, moving
from place to place, mother, had a lot of boyfriends.

(25:28):
He experienced a lot of abuse, and from a young
age he started to be interested in like Santa Ria.
And I was waiting for that to come up, because
that's very like Santa Ria in Mexico is like absolutely
fucking yeaheah. People are like, it's very taboo. It's very

(25:48):
frowned upon, especially in a place where religion in general
is pretty conservative. Absolutely concern such like a dichotomy. Yeah,
it's interesting that there's this like evil little under ground
between all these like pretty little churches. It's like yeah, yeah,
but it's also taken like when you're in it, it's

(26:09):
taken very seriously. It's like everyone kind of believes in it,
it seems because like I feel like in like English,
like white society, a lot of people are like, oh,
I don't believe in like witchcraft and ghosts and stuff,
But in that sort of society it's like, oh no,
I believe in it. I'm just not messing with it. Yeah,
very understanding because some of the stuff is gross. But

(26:32):
they took it seriously enough that cartels will hire like
magic people, spells and stuff for them. They worship certain
deities who were supposed to protect them and their sort
of criminal enterprises. And as Adolpho grew up that he
was like, that's the job for me. He's like, I
was there at the job fair that day. That's gonna

(26:54):
be my job. I mean, I kind of love that
because even if there even if they're not like a
full believe in that, it's like, just in case, as
an insurance policy to the thing, just have our magic
man burn a couple of baileies. That's a case, just
to be sure. So he actually was able to run

(27:16):
with a couple of his friends slash followers, cronies, a
very profitable business, Uh, making magic for these cartels. How interesting, right,
And that's still a thing. He found a need and
he filled it, which I love. And you know what
you do what you love, you don't work a day
in your And it also loved killing animals. Oh god, Okay,

(27:40):
trigger warning. This this is I mean, there's so much
this is a crazy case. Case is crazy. He would sacrifice,
like a lot of like Santa Ria and who do
I'm not trying to generalize, but a lot of those
kinds of religions heavily involve animal sacrifice, right, so he
would sacrifice goats, chicken, and then the cartels with their

(28:02):
pull would pull in like exotic animals. There was a
really sad thing where like he would he sacrificed like
a lion cub that they like shipped Africa or whatever.
Is that crazy? His clients were like hit men and rich,
like drug dealers and cartel, and certain members of the cartel,

(28:24):
as we discussed, were probably religious and we're like, okay, yeah,
they're doing that over there. I'm gonna just kind of
keep doing what I'm doing. But some of these like rich,
crazy people were like, oh, that's like sexy and fun
and I ate it more of a performance, which fed
into Adolpho's burgeoning ego. Does anybody else have a boner?

(28:44):
Just me and the lion cub? Okay, okay. So some
of these like evil, creepy occult parties would even attract
corrupt politicians and policemen. Yes, absolutely, and that's how he
got involved with the This is a big cartel, the

(29:05):
Gulf cartel. Okay, so he was just like doing super
good lucrative finances, wow, killing animals wowot a bang about.
All of his spells were said to work. All of
these cartels reported massive success. So he was like they
were like, hey, use my magic man for his magic
and you will get money and drugs. Hooray. So he

(29:27):
was like hell, yeah, okay, yeah, the trouble started. So
animal sacrifice yes. And then a lot of these spells
use like bones, so he's like, okay, no problem, I'll
raid these bones, right, and if you don't have fresh
wait did you say I'll raid these graveyards? Yeah, okay,

(29:47):
like do some graine digging, okay, like ship what is
her name? That cooking lady? If you don't have store,
But if you don't have organic fresh crone bones, store
bot is fine. Are you talking about Martha Stewart?

Speaker 3 (29:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Are you talking about the barefoot can Tessa? Oh? Okay,
her gay husband, the barefoot can Tessa? Yes, love her queen.
If you don't have if you can't get your own bones,
just go to the store. I guess like loser, poor
Oh my god, I can't even say her name, but
I can see her, Yeah, I can see her. Yeah.
My next guess was Julia Child Drumm. They're all kind

(30:21):
of in the it's not real drummed and she's she's
the country. Yes, she's got a lot of good recipes though,
yes she does. Pauladine no know, Hey, I'm gonna literally no,
because it's keep going. I'll google, I'll google it. You
keep going, okay, okay. But so of course he's like, hey,
let me get all these bones and then he's like,
you know what this just doesn't have like hmm, this

(30:43):
potion's missing something. It's missing a certain freshness in a garten. Ah, yes,
a garten. Yeah, I love her. That's her. She's so funny.
Now we can move on. So funny? Can I move on? Emotionally? Though,
So they were like, okay, these bones are like fine,
but it's kind of like stale. I think that we
should move on to live human sacrifices. Oh shit, Okay,

(31:09):
So you would think that his girlfriend, Sarah, normal like
young pretty cheerleader, would be like if you can forget her?
Actually no, I know, I know, because it kind of
real weird and culty real. They so was she dating
him as all of this as his business is like
building up with the mobsters and stuff. Okay, yep, okay,

(31:30):
so and she was like, hell, yeah, okay, so I
love that. I love it. I'm in all the way.
And she's like, not only am I in, but I'm
gonna be like you'll be like the priest and I'll
be the priestess. It's a love story. Maybe just say yes, okay,
that's what she wants. She's like, hell, yeah, we're gonna
do that. And when he was like, let's move on
to human sacrifices, she's like, okay, sounds sexy. Yeah, I

(31:55):
mean it's I could see from her point of view,
the jump from an animal to human sacrifices, especially when
you're like talking about exotic animals and stuff, is not
that far of all. It's really not I'm not saying
it's great, but it's not that big of a well,
I totally I understand what point. And it's all of
this like very exotic, ye, very like especially if she

(32:17):
if she is bought into like all of this being real,
and she absolutely, yeah, yeah, that's not that big of
an ask right at that point, I'll do it. Yeah,
She's just like you say less done. Yeah, I would
have done it for a free. Obviously, the cartel is
able to round up victims fairly easily. They were like,
oh cool, we'll just uh well, just kill people. This

(32:37):
escalated until Constanzo eventually decided that they needed they were
going to do a certain ritual, and he was like,
I need a smart brain. It's like that scene in
Young Frankenstein. Okay, he's a smart brain. So he's like,
I need somebody who's smart. Okay, So we need to

(32:58):
look for like a student, and that is how they that.
This is how they connected with American student Mark Kilroy. Okay.
So he was on vacation in Mexico and he was
a pre med student okay, so he was like super
super smart. So he was just like having a great time,

(33:19):
like out at the bar, like I'm on vacation. And
they were like, you know what's really fun. Look at
my like super hot girlfriend Sarah, and she was like, hey,
what's up, little love bombing? Yes, okay, fishing. Yeah, that
very very spooky. So they took him back. Oh he

(33:41):
was on spring break. I'm sorry, Yeah, he was on
spring break. And they were like, yeah, come back to
the ranch. We'll just like, you know, have some fiidas,
smoke a little dope, it'll be like so fun and normal.
But then he got murdered. They killed him and used
his brain in their ritual. He had like a big,
like giant cauldron, like very Hollywood and yeah, so he

(34:06):
was like, okay, I need that brain. Let's PLoP it
into the cauldron. Okay, sounds great. What eventually ended up
happening is that was kind of where it broke down
because until then they were staying sort of in the
territory of Mexico and picking off Mexican people. They had
killed quite a few people by this time, like around

(34:26):
twenty Okay. The problem was when they went for this
American student who was on spring break and expected to
be back. I mean he's in medical school, you know,
so they're like, come back, learn about stethoscopes. So then
Texas police started kind of putting the pressure on the
cartel because that's where he was from. The Mark Hillroy

(34:49):
was from Texas, so they started sort of like turning
up the heat, being like you need to tell us
who did this because we need that kid back, and
they're like, yeah, you're not getting in bad, yeah, get
in back, like San's brain. But other than that, you're
not kidding. That's a wild Yeah, that's wild, super wild.
Mexican police were able to pick up some of Constanzo's followers,

(35:13):
which included this was a thing I kind of forgot,
Sarah Maria. Remember how she was friends with all of
those bad boys, the Hernandez family. She was able to
connect them initially to the cartel because they they were like, oh,
this is this like weird guy Adolpho. We meet him,
and she was like, oh, these are my horrible friends.

(35:34):
The Hernandez brothers. Did you guys know you do the
same kind of activities. So that was kind of how
they all lumped together. Okay, So when the police finally
raided the area and they were like picking people up
like from their like evil little cult, which included some
of the Hernandez brothers, that's how they were able to
lead back to her because everyone was so afraid of her. Yeah,
because she was like this evil, dark priestess that they

(35:58):
nobody said anything. But finally they're Hernando, Hernando's Brother's really yeah,
yeah it's it's Sarah. Yeah, yeah she did that. Oh god, Okay, Okay,
so they raided the farm I'll link there's like a
documentary about this that's super super interesting, but it's gross.
It's so gross. These poor agents, like I feel like

(36:21):
they really didn't know what they were in for because
they were looking for one guy and they heard that
this was like an organization that like killed people, but
they're used to dealing with the cartel. Yeah, like, oh okay,
for sure. So they go to this farm and they're
standing in this field and they're talking to one of
the brothers there being like, okay, show us where because
he is said at this point like Mark is dead.
And they're like, well, we need his body. Show us

(36:41):
where his body is. And they're just standing in like
a cowfield and he's like, h right here, like oh,
buried under okay, okay, okay, that's fine. So they start
like digging him up and they're like this is not
this is not Mark, this is somebody else. And he's like,
oh yeah, that's somebody else. Oh fuck okay, Like where
are all of the other victims And he's like we're
standing on them right now, oh like everywhere in this

(37:04):
general area, gestures towards the whole ground. Just just stick
your shirt on the dirt and start digging. Oh, there's
like a ton of people. Oh no, because they had
no idea. And then when they went into the barn,
it is just this like horrific scene. You know, we
were talking about how like super Hollywood, Adolpho and Sarah

(37:26):
thought they were so like evil, so it was like
a hot topic exploded, but with real blood and guts.
They went to the giant cauldron in the middle of
the room and they found various items such as a
dead black cat okay, and Mark's brain. So they were like, oh,

(37:49):
so they found the brain, They did find the they
did find the brain, Okay, they found I guess small winds.
They were able to dig up fifteen mutilated corpses, many
of whom had been like tortured, they'd had body parts removed.
So this whole like insane cult was going on and

(38:10):
they had no idea, no idea. It turned out that
kill Ray, the student, was he had figured out what
was going on and had tried to escape, and that's when,
like they were, they killed him. He was killed but
one machete chop to the back of the neck. Yeah, yeah,

(38:34):
super scary. So they were not able to apprehend Adolpho
and Sarah at that time, because they got the hell
out of Dodge. Sure, so they went to have this
like big standoff. Okay, Adolpho ran to dare we say
a Mexican standards? I mean, I hate to. It was

(38:54):
right there, It was right there, It was right there.
I loved that. So yep, you're right Mexicosia. Because they
went to like an apartment of a like an acquaintance,
and we're like, yeah, we'll hide here and we'll be normal.
And when the officers approached, they didn't actually know that

(39:16):
they were there. They just knew that this was a
possible link. So they will ask these people if they
know where they are, and Castanza's like, they're coming for me,
machine gun immediately and started just like mowing down the cops.
Oh so okay, right, so then they had to bring
in Swat and like that. So then it turned into
like this whole thing. So he died in the shootout
as well as one of his followers, and then they

(39:40):
swarmed and arrested everybody else, which included Sarah. Okay, so
there were like fourteen cult members. There are two who
were still considered like at large, but the leaders of
the organization are all dead or in jail. A total
of fourteen cult members were charged with a ton of
different charges. Drug yeah, obstructing justice, the gamut, shooting people,

(40:04):
a little bit of this, a little bit of this. Yeah.
Sarah Alderette was convicted of multiple murders. I think they
ended up sticking her with quite a few of them
because she was like the high priestess. It's kind of
unclear how much actual like chopping she did. It sounds

(40:24):
like she very much like was going along with it.
I think she was like planning. The request for the
human brain came directly from her. She was like, I
need that smart brain, and I don't. I mean, yeah,
I see what you're saying. You know, she's more the brain.
You knew the brains behind that operation than actual caring.

(40:44):
And if you watch like as an ooky spooky girl myself,
if you watch like like rituals that are like you know,
Santaia and who knew and stuff, the woman priestess is
the one who does the sacrificing almost always gotcha. So
I'm like, obviously you were doing something like if you're
gonna kill like chickens and pigs, you're gonna just like
we said earlier, like, why would you not take the

(41:05):
next step if, especially if that's exactly what you're asking
for any people's for my cauldron? Yeah, like come on. Yeah.
So she was convicted of multiple murders and ordered to
serve a prison sentence of sixty years. Okay, if she
is ever if anything ever like happens and she's released

(41:26):
from prison, because this is in Mexico, right, she will
immediately be uh persecuted by America. Yeah, for mark kills,
extra extradited. Yes, yeah, yeah, I couldn't think of the
word exactly. Yep. So interesting sitting in prison. I'm not
sure if she's making like the equivalent of like toilet

(41:47):
hooch but like toilet potions, you know, or she's given
it up completely as her downfall. That's the thing, is like,
is she because the cartel? Oh yeah, cartel protect her
right and not a lot is like known about her
in prison? I'm like, hmm, that's very mysterious. Yeah, but

(42:10):
that is evil and nasty. Sarah Maria, the dark priestess
of this evil Mexican cults. Wild Yeah all right, so

(42:35):
I am going to take it back, take it back
to the eighteen hundred ooh love it. And this is
the one. Do you remember you had said the name
of this town a while ago, and I was like,
I actually just did a thing from there. Is it Racing, Wisconsin? No,
it was Bienville, Louisiana. Oh yeah, yeah, So we're gonna

(42:55):
be talking about Louise Pete. She was born in Bienville, Louisiana,
in September eighteen eighty to a wealthy family. Her father
was a prominent and wealthy newspaper publisher, and Pete was
raised as this sort of like classic Southern bell Okay,
like very you know what I mean, yea, you know, yes,

(43:18):
But it seems as though being brought up in this
very proper and well mannered household bred a sort of
like rejection of that life too, rebelling against your parents,
rebelling to the max we all do it. Because she
started to get in trouble, like really early on in
her childhood. So she attended the best private schools in

(43:41):
the area, and by the age of fifteen was expelled
for stealing and promiscuous behavior girl. In nineteen oh three,
at the age of twenty three, Pete married a man
named Henry Bossy, who worked as a traveling sales men. Oh.

(44:01):
I bet her parents didn't like that. No, they probably
hated it. But this gave her the opportunity to sort
of travel along with him, like travel around and see
other things. Give me. But apparently she was not super
satisfied in her marriage because she started sleeping with a
local oilman. Unfortunately, they were discovered by Bosley at some point,

(44:25):
and after this discovery he ended up shooting himself getting suicide.
Oh my Godah. So with her first husband dad, she
had to make some money, so she decided to sell
most of Bossly's stuff, like sold off all his belongings,

(44:47):
and then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, Okay, where she started.
She worked in sex work until she could save enough
money to travel to Boston. Along with getting paid for
her services, Pete would steal money and high worth belongings
from her wealthy clientele. So she was like, oh, for sure,

(45:08):
she is the whole this whole story. She's fucking hustling.
I kind of love her, yes, yeah. According to the
Palis Sadan post quote, she specialized there as a hooker
who made house calls oh convenient, at the homes of
wealthy clients. She stole the wife's jewelry and sold most
of the pieces to supplement supplement her income. When she

(45:30):
was eventually discovered, she high tailed it out of town
to Waco, Texas. Oh my gosh, she leaves Boston, she
goes to Waco. She's like, bye, yeah, yeah, because now
she has a reputation, yep, getting the hell out of duche.
Upon arriving, Pete wasted no time finding her next mark,
and another oil man named Joe Apple. She's got a

(45:51):
appel a pel Appel had a reputation all of his own,
oh dear, and was known for quote, the diamonds that
studded his belt buckle and even the buttons of his clothing.
Oh my god. He was like, we're in Texas, mister Texas.
The higher they had closer got exactly. Their little love

(46:13):
affair wouldn't last long, however, because just a week after
he and Pete met, he was discovered shot to death.
Oh no, with people, did that happen? How? How I happened?
I wondered? With people knowing they were in this sort
of beginnings of this love affair. Pete was immediately arrested,

(46:36):
but she managed to convince the Grand jury that Appel
had been shot in self defense defense when he had
attempted to rape her. So she was like, she's like,
what else was I supposed to steal? This man was
coming after me, but like, fair enough girl, And this
is again, this is the early nineteen hundreds, so that
would have been a completely coming from a woman reasonable explanation. Right.

(47:02):
Following this close brush with the law, Pete relocated to Dallas,
where she met and married a hotel clerk named Harry
Farote Okay. In nineteen thirteen, Pete once again saw her
opportunity and ended up stealing twenty thousand dollars worth of
jewels from this safe at Saint George Hotel, where her

(47:24):
now husband was working. She married us just a hustler,
and she's like, it's to bring your wife to work
day and then she stole much shit. She's like, baby
poke around to office. Yeah. So, during the investigation of
this theft, police cleared for Rote of any involvement and
highly suspected Pete of the theft, but didn't have any

(47:44):
evidence to connect her to the crime and were unable
to make an arrest. She was like, nuh, She's like,
I didn't though, look at me. I'm totally trustworthy. It's
so cute. Some claim that for it was embarrassed about
being accused of the theft. Others say that he had
just like finally had it with Pete being a little promiscuous.

(48:05):
But whatever the reasoning was, He's like, you give me
my wallet back and get out. He shot himself. Oh yeah, now,
I will say some have also attributed his death to Pete.
I was gonna say, a lot of menery yactors seemed
to shoot themselves. Yeah, he was well, and some of
these were actual suicides. Huh. But she was never charged,

(48:26):
She was never convicted in his case. There wasn't anything
connecting her to that death from their investigation, so it
is attributed as a suicide. Yeah. After yet another relationship
ending in death, weirdly enough, Pete moved once again, this
time to Denver, Colorado. Okay. There she met and married
Richard Pete. Oh there you go, yep, who worked as

(48:49):
a salesman, and the two had a daughter named Francis
Ann in nineteen sixteen. But the relationship was less than ideal.
Oh dear, and the couple were fighting constantly and the
two of them decided to separate finally in nineteen twenty. Okay,
so Pete leaves Denver. She takes her daughter with her,

(49:11):
and she goes to like start a new life again.
Anytime she needs to sarve, she just goes to a
new city. Right, Yeah, I was gonna say, he just
packs up her spirit of her yes, which is just
like gives me so much anxiety of like I don't
know how you need to do it's all the time. No,
I could never you know me neither. So she leaves.

(49:32):
She goes to Los Angeles. Okay. While looking for rental
properties to live in, Pete meets a man named Jacob Denton. Now,
according to Los Angeles Magazine quote, Denton was a widower,
both having lost both his wife and child in the
recent influenza pademic. Louise quickly sized him up as a

(49:54):
man who would be susceptible to her southern charm. She
wooed him for several weeks, but he refused to marry her.
Oh that cad Yeah, and it seems like the loss
of his wife and child, like it wasn't like that
long before she arrived there, maybe a couple months and
he was like, baby, I'm not ready yeah, he's still

(50:15):
like mourning. Understandable, So he was like, I'm not gonna
She's like, ew, you're not over that. Yeah, And to
be fair, the reality of the relationship between them is
pretty unclear. Some people said she was like this living girlfriend.
Some people said she was a housekeeper. Okay, most people
said she was a tenant of his. Like it. It

(50:37):
was kind of hard to like really gauge, and I'm
sure she was trying to blur the lines. Oh yeah,
just she could like, oh yeah, oh, I'm a tenant,
but I'm also your future ride, right right, no matter
what the case is. What we do know is that
Denton had decided to rent his mansion, a fourteen room
Tudor revival. He rented it to Pete for seventy five

(50:59):
dollars in month while he was he was going to
be out of town, so he just wanted somebody to
occupy take care of the property, and she was. He
was giving it to her at a really good price.
I'll take that. Yeah. We also know that Pete moved
into the mansion on May twenty sixth, nineteen twenty, which
was just a couple of days before Denton was scheduled

(51:19):
to be out of town. Okay, so there was a
little overlap there, but he was just getting ready to leave. Yeah.
Pete does later claim that the two were romantically involved,
but like, again, this is like kind of an unclear
and frankly, she was sleeping with a lot of people
all the time. Yep. So it's possible, and it's possible,
not like I don't. We don't really, It's hard to

(51:40):
tell that because the fact that he was like, I'm
not going to marry you was like, yeah, but he's
a man, so he's probably like, but I will still
have sex with you. Yeah. Sure he was not to generalize,
but I will general I'm sure he wasn't kicking her
out of bit. Yeah. Another fact that we know to
be true is that just over a week after Pete
moved in Denton, disap here where could he have gone?

(52:02):
During this time, Pete had a caretaker dump loads of
dirt into the basement, saying she was planning to raise mushrooms,
which I also find interesting, Yeah, because I'm like, so
you would just like dump a load of dirt to
grow mushrooms in your basement? Maybe it was more normal dirt,
Like that's very cottage core it is very cottage core.

(52:23):
I'm like, do people just do that? I don't know,
maybe they do make like but I've seen him in
like containers, but not just like a bed in your basement,
Like I'm just gonna fill up my basement with dirt.
I guess how you get the good porta bills? Yeah,
and again from Los Angeles magazine quote. When people came by,
Louise said that Jacob had had a violent argument with

(52:44):
a Spanish looking woman who chopped off his arm with
a sword. Oh who who would buy a story like that?
Apparently everyone? Oh good. If pressed, Louise would say that
Denton had survived the horrific imputation, but was so embarrassed
by his missing limb that he'd gone into hiding. Oh
my god. If pressed further, Louise said that not only

(53:07):
had Denton lost an arm, he'd also lost a leg.
She laid everyone's concerns by telling them that he would
come out of hiding once he learned how to use
his artificial limbs. So she was like, here's the thing
that's so supid. He had all his limbs chopped off,
and he's very embarrassed about it. What a dumb story.
This is why you haven't seen him. But it's coming

(53:28):
from a nineteen hundreds woman saying that also she's growing
mushrooms now, just like shine up into it. Yeah, which
is I mean, it's again like it's a very creative like, yeah,
I don't know where you would come up with this
to be like he's embarrassed about it. She's probably doing
mushrooms and she's like, yeah, I don't know. This crazy

(53:49):
lady came in his arm and legs. It's a wild
to me that she's like he's embarrassed about not having
arms and legs some other stuff maybe maybe. So all
of this trauma did not appear to have an effort
on Pete whatsoever, because she was clearly living it up
outside of the home. Right. She began by forging Denton's

(54:12):
signature to gain access to a safe deposit box and
withdraw money from his bank account. Officials at the bank
noticed that the signatures look different than normal, and they
questioned her about this because obviously he was like wealthy
so they knew him at the bank. Well, he has
to learn how to write with his left hand now
because he has one arm. Yes, yes, she regaled them

(54:36):
with this tale of the amputations and now he's she
has to help him with his signature because he can't
do it himself. Yeah yeah, okay, you know what, I
love her and I want her to have this man.
I mean, at least she's committing to the bit, like
she killed all these guys. But you know what, I
support women's rights, but I also support women's wrongs. Yeah,

(54:56):
I'm kind of on her side. Crazy. She even started
calling herself missus Denton, oh dear, and she was like
throwing lavish parties at the mansion or Denton also had
other actual like rental properties, and so Pete started going there.
She managed to convince convince the tenants of these properties
to be making payments to her, which of course she pocketed. Right.

(55:19):
She's like, I'm here on his behalf because he can't walk.
Yeah yeah, still so wild. Yeah. So when Denton failed
to return to public life after a while, I mean
it was like a long while that people were just
going like this, you have to be done to physical therapy.
By now, friends and business associates started getting suspicious. Finally,

(55:41):
Denton's attorney contacted police and asked them to go search
his mansion. Pete had left on a trip to Denver.
She was going to visit her strange husband, and you know,
they had a daughter together, so like she was going
out there to do the family thing when she left
the turn and he calls police and he's like, this

(56:02):
is your moment because they're ever attorney. Yeah yeah, I mean,
because I'm sure she would have just been like, let's
just and dak in my mushroom. Yeah right right. And
Denton had an older daughter. He had like a younger
child that died, but he had an older daughter that
was also at the mansion that would let police in
because she was like, this woman's kind of fucking weird. Wow.

(56:24):
So police saved herself from being mulched. So they go over.
They search this now empty house. They find the dirt
in the basement and they start digging, and they eventually
find Denton's body fully intact, although it appeared that he
had been shot in the hud. Oh my god, no mushrooms,

(56:45):
no damn it, liar. Although I guess it would have
been good fertilizer. I wonder if that was the idea.
I was almost like waiting for the corpse mushrooms. Yeah,
probably not long enough for mushrooms to grow. But yeah,
because I mean it was a while, but like so yeah,
So he was found shot in the head. The body
was found bound with various cords and wrapped in a quilt.

(57:07):
I mean, at this point it was pretty obvious that
Pete it was the culprit. So they started trying to
track her down to bring her in and arrest her.
Like bye, yeah, pretty much. So they of course found
her in Denver, where she had actually decided to just
start living and said, very good. She's like, I'm not
going back there. Yeah, And she was living there with

(57:28):
her a strange husband and her their daughter. Okay, And
so when they found out, they all the entire family
went back to La She was arrested and brought in
for questioning about Denton's murder. She continued to maintain her
innocence and tell police the stories about the Spanish looking
woman who cut off all of his arms and legs.
Pete also tried to allege at one point that the

(57:50):
body they found was not in fact Denton's body, but
it was actually a body double that Denton had killed.
Oh my god, this girl needs to with the books down.
She's reading too many pulp novels, yeah right, like way
too many. She even tried to get the public on
her side by telling this woman loved the press. She was, yeah,

(58:11):
she loved the press, so she would tell her reporters quote,
I am being crucified upon a cross, but I can say,
as did christ Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do. God, she is so funny woman. She's
a diva. I know she has a diva. She's totally
a diva. But the police were not fooled at all. Actually,

(58:34):
she's tried to spend these tall tales and they were
like girl, mo no. And she was indicted for first
degree murder. Denton's cause of death was confirmed by an autopsy,
and further investigation of the property found the murder weapon,
a gun, in a closet where Pete kept all of
her belongings, just like with her stuff, like the designated
section of her stuff. Pete's trial was an extremely high

(58:58):
profile affairror which I bet she yeah, And it was
covered extensively by the newspapers and tabloids. This is very
high yellow journalism times, so like they ate the shit up.
Oh my god. Following a short trial, Pete was convicted
of first degree murdered murder and sentenced to life in
prison on February eighth, nineteen twenty one. Now, interestingly enough,

(59:20):
just before she had been named a suspect in Denton's murder,
Richard Pete had begun divorce proceedings. So they were like
a strange but they weren't divorced, right, Okay, So he
had started divorce proceedings, but all of this sort of
like stalled out during the trial and convictions, as it
seemed like he was doing this husband standing by his

(59:41):
wife type of and being very supportive type of thing. Yeah.
Once the trial was finished, Pete was sent to San
Quentin to serve out her sentence, and the divorce moved
forward and was made official. Okay, Richard Pete got custody
of their daughter for obvious reasons. Yeah. Well, but there
was clearly something else going on because by August nineteen

(01:00:05):
twenty four, he had committed suicide by shooting himself in
the hut. Okay, there is talk of like from prison
Pete like rating him. I don't no, no, no, I don't
think she put no. This is one that I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
where she was like I've never loved you blah blah
blah blah, and he was like in distress. Like this one,

(01:00:26):
I'm almost positive was a suicide. She probably yeah, there's
something that happened between the yeah and yeah, this is
what I mean. Like some of them are actual suicides
and some of them are I think lean more murdery understandable. Yeah.
While serving her time, Pete was considered a model prisoner,

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no doubt, relying on her Southern upbringing like let me
put on the Southern bell now. Thanks to this, After
serving eighteen years of her sentence, Pete was paroled in
nineteen thirty nine for good behavior. What Yeah, no, even then,
you didn't realize that like a convicted fella and got

(01:01:08):
out into the public with no plans. So Pete was
released into the care of a woman named Margaret Logan okay,
who gave Pete employment as a housekeeper. Okay, So they
were like, we're not just going to let you go,
especially because she was convicted of first scream murder. Right,
this is almost like a halfway house situation, but before
they really had those that makes sense. So upon her release,

(01:01:32):
Pete made a statement to the press saying, quote, I
still insist I am innocent. I don't believe it was
Jake Denton's body at all that was found buried in
the cellar of his home. If it was his, I
don't know how it got there or who was responsible.
I believe someday Denton will let the world know he
is still alive. End quote. So she's like, this is
like all this situation, like he's just in Hawaii. Yes.

(01:01:56):
From nineteen thirty nine to nineteen forty my stomach just
grumbled so loud. I heard it, but I wasn't gonna
call it out. You probably could hear the house over
It's oh my god, it's getting closest next. From nineteen
thirty nine to nineteen forty four, Pete remained in the
care of Logan, working and living a relatively quiet life cool.

(01:02:18):
During this time, Pete got married again to a banker
named Lee Borden. Why, I'm sorry, Lee Bordon Judson, Okay,
but didn't tell him that she was a convicted murderer.
Oh this old thing. Yeah, I'm pretty sure at that
time she was using a different name, Proabso, oh, I'm
sure she was. Then Margaret Logan goes missing weird once

(01:02:40):
the house was empty Pete went back to her old tricks,
living in the house, spending Logan's money forging checks to
get more out the forgery. The forgeries were finally discovered
six months after her disappearance, and the bank immediately notified
the police. Police then went over to the Logan residents
to search the house, where they discovered Logan's decomposed body

(01:03:04):
buried in a shallow grave under an avocado tree in
the backyard. Oh, out of jail. I don't know what
to say. It's like, what did you say? What's gonna happen? Right?
Pete once again proclaimed her innocence. She was like what, yeah,
and she denied knowing anything about it. Could you even
accuse me of that? But almost immediately the evidence against

(01:03:26):
her was stacking up. Yeah. Yeah, this is from duraned
La crimes quote. In this case, the most damning piece
of evidence was a nickel plated thirty two caliber revolver,
rusty and covered with congealed blood. The weapon was found
in a dresser drawer in the dead woman's home. The
revolver was engraved with the initials E. B. L and
had once belonged to Emily B. Latham, Louis's officer. All right,

(01:03:50):
Latham was Latham had employed Louise as a nurse and companion. Unfortunately,
Latham wasn't available to be questioned. She was dead. The
cops are understandably concerned. Louise's employers had a way of
expiring under suspicious circumstances that way, However, it was later
determined that Latham had died of natural causes. Okay, so

(01:04:11):
that one was just a fluke. Well yeah, yeah. Now,
upon further examination of the body, it was determined that
Logan's cause of death was a gunshot wound followed by
being beaten with the butt of a gun. Wow, just
to be sure. Upon further questioning, Pete claimed Judson, her
husband at the time, was actually the one to have
murdered Oh Logan during a homicidal frenzy. Oh my god. Yeah.

(01:04:38):
She was like, I did help him bury the body,
but I'm not the one that pulled the trigger, right,
like very Robert Durst defense, I may have dismembered it.
She's like this owl came in. I'm right. Yeah. So
she was like, I didn't pull the trigger, but I
did help him bury the body. Wow. Still illegal, yeah, right, Still,
that's something you're supposed to do. Both Pete and Judson

(01:04:59):
were arrested good and once again charged with first degree murder. However,
in January nineteen forty five, the murder charges against Judson
were dropped due to lack of evidence. The day after
his release, Judson committed suicide get out of here by
jumping from the ninth floor of an office building. Oh

(01:05:20):
my god. Pete's second murder trial began in April nineteen
forty five. Prosecutors presented a case that said she had
murdered Margaret Logan to gain control of her finances, an
argument the jury found pretty persuasive, because in May nineteen
forty five, Pete was found guilty and sentenced to death.
She did appeal her conviction several times. Uh huh, didn't

(01:05:43):
get anywhere. Nope. She was constantly proclaiming her in incence.
But like too much death around you, woman, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Finally, on April eleventh, nineteen forty seven, Louise Pete was
executed by guest chamber at San Quentin, becoming the second
woman to be executed in the state of California. Wow,
number two, that's a good one. So that is the
story of the dastardly woman Louise p I love her.

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I think it was as if the way that people
washed over with terror. We are all wearing some form
or another