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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to my Favorite Murder the minisode.

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Speaker 2: We read you your stories? Are you ready be care?

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Speaker 2: Should I go first?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 3: This is called Rural Wisconsin, Shenanigan's Alcoholism and a fire,

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Speaker 3: perfect pleasantries, pleasantries. I love MFM and listening to your banter.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being a part of my life for

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Speaker 3: the past eight years. Let's dive in because it's long,

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Speaker 3: but worth it. My family is very Wisconsin, Like very Wisconsin,

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Speaker 3: where beer runs in our veins, our favorite hobby is fishing,

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Speaker 3: and our kids grow.

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Speaker 2: Up next to hunting rifles.

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Speaker 3: I heard the story after a couple of heavily poored

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Speaker 3: margaritas at a family gathering. My grandfather, who I nicknamed

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Speaker 3: Bapa when I was little, began the story by explaining

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Speaker 3: the morning ritual, a shot of yeagermeister.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, what a start.

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Speaker 3: The hard shots were taken at dawn in a forgotten

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Speaker 3: cabin on a rough road before Bapa, his thirteen year

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Speaker 3: old son aka my uncle Gary, my great uncle Bobby, Charlie,

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Speaker 3: and my cousin Parker said off with loaded rifles into

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Speaker 3: the forest. What they were hunting has been lost to history.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, they were doing yeager shots before they go hunt.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, that's serious.

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Speaker 2: Ugh, yeah, I want to start.

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Speaker 1: It's like swallowing your toothpaste spit and then going to

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Speaker 1: kill animals. Yeah, look, no judgments. We so judge a

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Speaker 1: lot of people like it, but.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're here for.

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Speaker 3: It's not for me at this point in telling a story,

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Speaker 3: but Papa needed a margarita refill, so my now adult

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Speaker 3: uncle Gary took over. Uncle Gary explained that the day

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Speaker 3: ended with the adults handing his thirteen year old self

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Speaker 3: a six pack of beer and telling him to entertain

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Speaker 3: himself and his cousin on the porch.

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Speaker 2: Six packs or thirteen year old with an ankle, It's

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Speaker 2: a good way to babysit kids. Yeah, right, like Goby

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Speaker 2: drunk on the porch.

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Speaker 3: With an incredulous laugh, My adult uncle Gary continued to

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Speaker 3: say that they finished the six pack, but the sun

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Speaker 3: hadn't set yet, so he stumbled into the wooden structure

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Speaker 3: to ask.

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Speaker 2: What to do next.

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Speaker 3: Like an old eighties cliche, he was handed another six

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Speaker 3: pack and told to return.

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Speaker 2: When he finished it. Oh shit.

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Speaker 3: It's unclear the amount of the next pack that he drank,

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Speaker 3: but he remembers suddenly being inside the cabin and hearing

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Speaker 3: a dreamy knock on the front door neighbors, My uncle

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Speaker 3: Gary boozily opened the door to find a middle aged

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Speaker 3: man sweating and frantically waving his hands. The man at

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Speaker 3: and on fire, with no thoughts in his brain.

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Speaker 2: My uncle blinked and then.

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Speaker 3: Closed the door on the poor panicked man. The shit

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Speaker 3: faced thirteen year old answers the door, take care, can't.

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Speaker 3: The man continued to knock intently on the door, intill

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Speaker 3: Bobby and Charlie heard that the house across the street

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Speaker 3: was on fire, and, fueled by alcohol, ran into the

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Speaker 3: burning building to check for animals and turn off the

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, check for animals on the weekend where they

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Speaker 1: go to kill animals.

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Speaker 2: Pets are different.

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Speaker 4: No, you know, vicious, vicious? Sure, we don't want an

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Speaker 4: animals to die. Wait, what have you been doing all day?

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Speaker 4: In real time at the margarita bar, My uncle Gary

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Speaker 4: turns to my Bapa, who sheepishly returned to the conversation

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Speaker 4: refill drink in hand. My Bapa sighs, but continues telling

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Speaker 4: the increasingly ridiculous story. My theater inclined Bapa grabbed the

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Speaker 4: neighbor by the shoulders and began to sing the first

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Speaker 4: song that popped into his head at the time, This

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Speaker 4: little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, so

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Speaker 4: show face.

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 3: Imagine a strong tenor voice carrying across the street, staring

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Speaker 3: at a burning house while praising the light. A roaring

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Speaker 2: This is Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't know how he got there or anything else

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Speaker 2: The house was put out, and no one.

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Speaker 1: Got tickets or killed or CPS called on them.

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Speaker 3: Right somehow, all family members involved turn out to be okay,

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Speaker 3: human beings and productive members of society. Hey, hey, I

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Speaker 3: love them all to death and will never trade their

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Speaker 3: recklessness for anything. Wisconsin may be rough and tough, but

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Speaker 3: the beauty of Wisconsin's nature is unparalleled.

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Speaker 2: Bring a gun into it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, stay saxy and don't give your thirteen year

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Speaker 1: See, I mean it is true that, like, if you're

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Speaker 1: going away for a hunting weekend and that's what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're in nature, there's a safety to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're just kind of out and about but intense. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is a bit of a left turn because

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Speaker 1: this is more serious. The subject line of this email

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Speaker 1: is sorority stalker, and it says Hi, Karen and Georgia

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Speaker 1: and pets. I spent my freshman at sophomore years of

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Speaker 1: college at a state university in upstate New York, though

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Speaker 1: my whole life I was already living in upstate New York.

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Speaker 1: Apparently living two hours north of NYC does not count

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Speaker 1: as upstate. I would have thought it that it would,

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Speaker 2: That's how I grow anyway.

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Speaker 1: Greek life was a huge part of the culture there,

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Speaker 1: sorority or knew someone who was. Being such a small

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Speaker 1: school word started to travel fast. My sophomore year that

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Speaker 1: there was an anonymous stalker on campus who was terrorizing

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Speaker 1: one group of sorority girls. In particular, about a dozen

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Speaker 1: girls in the Sigma Kappa sorority had been receiving ominous

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Speaker 1: warnings and threatening text messages from an unknown number, saying

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Speaker 1: things like it's not safe out there tonight Kappa's and

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Speaker 1: I'm not the threat, but harm is coming. At one point,

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Speaker 1: he even texted one of the girls saying I'm in

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Speaker 1: the house.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At the time, no one could figure out who this

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Speaker 1: but it was pretty apparent that the anonymous texter somehow

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Speaker 1: Sigma Kappa had planned a wedding with their brother frat, which,

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Speaker 1: one of the girls got a message from the anonymous

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Speaker 1: number saying I'm excited for the wedding. Hope you don't

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Speaker 1: wear anything that can stain. Please don't cancel again. I

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Speaker 1: want to have fun this time. Creepy, so creepy. Later

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Speaker 1: he went on to say that he wanted to cause

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Speaker 1: Needless to say, everyone on campus was pretty freaked out

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Speaker 1: by this point. Parties were canceled, Vague emails from the

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Speaker 1: university administration were sent to students to alert them to

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Speaker 1: a possible threat, and the university police got involved. They

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Speaker 1: registered to a fake number generator online. Some students tried

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Speaker 1: calling it, and eventually one person got through, but whoever

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Speaker 1: someone they knew or not. From what a news article says,

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Speaker 1: the conversation was pretty bizarre, with the anonymous creep saying

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Speaker 1: that he knew he was unstable, his parents were divorced,

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Speaker 1: and then he was also on xanax. I remember some

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Speaker 1: of my roommate sorority sisters trying to add the number

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Speaker 1: on Snapchat to see if the person had their snap

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Speaker 1: location on. I don't remember if that worked, but my

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Speaker 1: guess was it didn't because the harassment stayed anonymous, and

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Speaker 1: it also got worse. Pretty soon after the text started.

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Speaker 1: Some of the girls started receiving random phone calls from

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Speaker 1: around five dozen men who are trying to solicit them

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Speaker 1: for sex. No turns out the anonymous texter had posted

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Speaker 1: their phone numbers to a website advertising for sex workers.

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Speaker 1: After a while, the harassment started to narrow down to

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Speaker 1: one sorority girl in particular, she received an anonymous package

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Speaker 1: in the mail containing a book entitled I'm Waked You,

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Speaker 1: and she even started to receive drugs like cocaine and

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Speaker 1: meth in the mail, which the anonymous stalker notified the

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Speaker 2: Holy shit.

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Speaker 1: The crazy part is at that time I was working

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Speaker 1: in the university mail room, and I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 1: I vaguely remember the other student workers around that time

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Speaker 1: talking about the police coming in to confiscate someone's package

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Speaker 1: because it had drugs in it, but I had just

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Speaker 1: assumed some dumbass had mailed themselves weed or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Our boss, who was not a student, had a habit

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Speaker 1: of smelling suspicious packages and then calling the police if

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Speaker 2: She was lame as hell.

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Speaker 1: Long story short, the FBI got involved and tracked the

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Speaker 1: creep to Long Island. He ended up being one of

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Speaker 1: the girls controlling ex boyfriends who just could not get

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Speaker 1: over the breakup and obviously had some serious mental health issues.

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Speaker 1: When they arrested him, they also found an AR fifteen

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Speaker 1: semi automatic rifle, which he owned legally.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 1: It actually was really terrifying to think about what this

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Speaker 1: in time. And all I can say is I'm glad

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Speaker 1: I transferred shortly after that, not only because that school

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Speaker 1: was the target of a crazy stalker, potential murderer, but

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, it was also absolutely chock full

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Speaker 1: of asbestos too. Holy shit, stay sexy and don't terrorize

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Speaker 1: an entire group of people just because you can't handle rejection.

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Speaker 2: Abby, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: And then Abby left a note. The story got picked

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Speaker 1: up by page six.

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Speaker 2: It was so bad. That is, before it got like

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Speaker 2: really kind of personal.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was just going to be one of

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Speaker 3: the girl, other girls in the sorority, maybe just extending

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Speaker 3: threatening texts, just like.

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Speaker 2: Being an asshole to somebody. Yeah, but that is fucking scary.

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Speaker 1: It's also like to do it to an entire sorority

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Speaker 1: is so ted bundy coated.

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Speaker 2: If I may use that language.

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Speaker 3: It's like if I'm against one woman, I'm against all women.

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Speaker 2: Yeah kind of a thing. Yeah, it fucked up, so

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Speaker 2: fucked up.

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Speaker 3: This one's called trash mom question mark. Hi, all can't

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Speaker 3: think of anything witty, so I'll just jump in. Back

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Speaker 3: when I was seven or eight, so ninety four or

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Speaker 3: ninety five, I had been out all day with my

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Speaker 3: mom and on the way home, we stopped at the

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Speaker 3: Safeway to grab me a lunchible and snacks. I had

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Speaker 3: a field drip the next day and we had to

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Speaker 3: bring our own bag lunch fuck y.

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Speaker 2: Allunchibles.

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Speaker 1: Lunchibles were banned at my sister's school because there's not

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Speaker 1: one ounce of protein or vitamins or anything in them.

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Speaker 1: her brother, he had recently moved home after serving as

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Speaker 1: a marine. At first, we were both dating other people,

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Speaker 1: but there was something between us. Our paths kept crossing,

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Speaker 1: and eventually we started seeing each other. There was something

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Speaker 1: about this guy. He was kind, generous and funny as hell.

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Speaker 1: One day we were lying around swapping childhood stories, and

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Speaker 1: he started telling me about this accident he had.

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Speaker 2: When he was a kid.

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Speaker 1: He and his sisters were playing carnival and were cutting

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Speaker 1: up tickets. They had left a pair of those huge

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Speaker 1: steel scissors on his bed. Later, he was jumping from

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Speaker 1: bed to bed and he fell. And then then this

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Speaker 1: is written as him talking. They punctured my lung and

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Speaker 1: nicked my heart, He said, casually, wait what, He lifted

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Speaker 1: his shirt and showed me the two scars. After the accident,

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Speaker 1: he somehow managed to walk into the kitchen, looked at

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Speaker 1: his mom and said, hey, mom before collapsing. His mom

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Speaker 1: threw him and his sisters into the station wagon and

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Speaker 1: hauled asked to the hospital. He arrived near death and

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Speaker 1: spent six months in the ICU.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: We were dating for a little over a year before

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Speaker 1: I brought him back home to Connecticut to meet my family.

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Speaker 1: I told my siblings the story of the scissors, and

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Speaker 1: my brother exclaimed, you're dating an urban legend. We've been

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Speaker 1: together twenty five years, have two amazing daughters, and were

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Speaker 1: celebrating our twentieth wedding anniversary this month, says I love

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Speaker 1: you Billy Brown. Wow, that's why she wrote it in

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Speaker 1: It's their twentieth anniversary. I love you Billy Brown, and

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you survived your injuries forty something years ago.

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Speaker 1: Stay sexy and don't let your kids play with scissors, LB,

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Speaker 1: And it says ps, I grew up going to Action

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Speaker 1: Park every summer and definitely have a.

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Speaker 2: Few more near death experiences to share. Stay tuned. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, that's lby so cute. Oh, I love you

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Speaker 2: Billy Brown. I love you Billy. That's the cutest thing

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Speaker 2: of all time.

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Speaker 3: Tell us your urban legend town stories. But also I

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Speaker 3: think it's really important. My favorite murder at Gmail tell

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Speaker 3: us your the one thing that you did as a kid,

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Speaker 3: but they would say it's the first time something is

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Speaker 3: wrong with you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And also it should probably be something you still

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Speaker 1: feel bad about to this day, which is the proof

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Speaker 1: that you're not a serial killer.

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Speaker 2: Feel bad about, are embarrassed about? I like embarrassed and

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Speaker 2: we're like, wow, who was that? Or hey, tell us

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Speaker 2: the story about your kid and what they do too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: My favorite murder at Gmail.

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Speaker 1: Nark and your children here on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: It could be anonymous. That's true? Was that it? That's it?

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Speaker 2: I think that was fast. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we've got all kinds of categories for

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Speaker 1: you to write in and tell us your personal stories.

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Speaker 2: Yes, please do. We appreciate it so much.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you just love Billy Brown and

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Speaker 1: you want to write in about it.

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Speaker 2: We'd love to hear about that too. Sure, why not

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Speaker 2: say sexy and don't get murdered?

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Speaker 3: Goodbye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 1: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 2: Our senior producers are Alle Hundra Keck and Molly Smith.

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Speaker 2: Our editor is Aristotle las Veda. This episode was mixed

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Speaker 2: by Leoni Squillacci.

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Speaker 1: Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: And follow the show on Instagram at my Favorite Murder.

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Speaker 2: Ye bye bye