Speaker 1: I'm Carol Fisher, and I'm hosting a podcast called The Girlfriends,
Speaker 1: a show about a group of women who all have
Speaker 1: one thing in common.
Speaker 2: All of us have this scarlet letter of I dated
Speaker 2: a murderer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Back in the nineteen nineties in Las Vegas, a
Speaker 1: few of us dated the same guy, Bob. He was
Speaker 1: amazing on paper, a doctor, a pilot.
Speaker 3: He spoke several languages, he did medical missionary work, and
Speaker 3: he was Jewish, and it was just how much better
Speaker 3: could it get?
Speaker 1: After we took our turns dating Bob, we did what
Speaker 1: girlfriends do. We debriefed, but it quickly became a parent
Speaker 1: that I knew something my friends did not.
Speaker 2: She said, Oh, you obviously don't know about the skeletons
Speaker 2: in his closet, And I go, what skeletons in the closet?
Speaker 1: Bob had a big secret. His first wife, Gail, apparently
Speaker 1: walked out of their apartment in nineteen eighty five and
Speaker 1: was never seen again.
Speaker 2: It's like there was just something always off.
Speaker 1: Before too long, we had formed a club dedicated to
Speaker 1: bitching about Bob eating noodles and figuring out what happened
Speaker 1: to Gail. It was all just gossip. Until the prosecutors
Speaker 1: came knocking and our little club became part of a
Speaker 1: multi state investigation.
Speaker 4: There's nobody, no forensics, no admissions, an extremely difficult, circumstantial
Speaker 4: case based in large parts on things that the defendant
Speaker 4: had said to his girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Nearly thirty years later, I'm going back to talk to
Speaker 1: all those girlfriends to find out everything Bob did and
Speaker 1: how he got away with it.
Speaker 3: He dated the entire Jewish professional community.
Speaker 2: Run Run girlfriend run.
Speaker 3: She told me that he was mad and he tried
Speaker 3: to drown the cat.
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, I'm lucky to be alive, and
Speaker 2: then I kept thinking who else did he hurt.
Speaker 5: I would call him and I would say, I know
Speaker 5: you killed my sister. I will always hound you and
Speaker 5: haunt you.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the girlfriends on the iHeartRadio app,
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