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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite Murder the minisode. That's right,

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Speaker 1: we read you any story you send us.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: It has to be an email form though, that's the rule.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Do you want me to go first?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 3: Okay, this one is really quite something. The subject line

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Speaker 3: is the call is coming from inside the house to

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Speaker 3: the MFM crew and the hairy beasts in parentheses K

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Speaker 3: nine feline and facial. And then it says, missus Stephen,

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Speaker 3: that bring you joy. And then it says, okay, the

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Speaker 3: calls will be referring to thankfully did not come from

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Speaker 3: inside my house. But you'll understand after reading my story

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Speaker 3: why I cannot watch the movie when a stranger calls

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Speaker 3: without a team of backup quantities of black Box wine

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Speaker 3: to drink and res my feet on. That's so hilarious

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Speaker 3: because I think they just mean box wine, but then

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Speaker 3: they're like referencing black Box from a plane, so it's

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Speaker 3: kind of like the really important wine. Oh, I get

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Speaker 3: it black Box wine or something else. I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: if that's what I'm assuming. Okay, it says I grew

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Speaker 3: up in a small town called Hopewell Junction in the

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Speaker 3: Hudson Valley, of New York. When I was in high school,

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Speaker 3: my stay home mom went back to work and I

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Speaker 3: would come home to an empty house For about an hour.

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Speaker 3: I would usually hang out in our raised ranches downstairs

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Speaker 3: family room, watching General Hospital and talking to my friends

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Speaker 3: on the phone.

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Speaker 2: That's all we did after school.

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Speaker 3: The only phone downstairs, oddly, was in our laundry room,

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Speaker 3: you know, the yellow one attached.

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Speaker 2: The wall with the curly court ours was yellow too.

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Speaker 3: One afternoon after school, I was expecting a call from

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Speaker 3: a boy who would be my boyfriend on and off

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Speaker 3: for the next year. The phone rang and I ran

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Speaker 3: to get it, then, of course, waited a few beats

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Speaker 3: before picking it up. Should this boy think I was

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Speaker 3: too anxious, which of course I was. I answered Hello,

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Speaker 3: and I was greeted with Hello, I said again, trying

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Speaker 3: to sound flirty yet slightly above being bothered. No answer,

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Speaker 3: just silence. I hung up, deflated. The phone rang again

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Speaker 3: before I could sit down. I picked it right up

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Speaker 3: and said, slightly annoyed Hello. A man's voice, deep and monotone.

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Speaker 3: This part's dirty. So if you are a mother with

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Speaker 3: children in the backseat of your car, turn the radio

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Speaker 3: down now. The man says, he whispers, do you want

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Speaker 3: to fuck?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: I said, thinking of nothing else to say, and hoping

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Speaker 2: I hung up. I was stuck to the spot, terrified.

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Speaker 3: This didn't sound like a prank call from one of

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Speaker 3: my schoolmates, although my parents later would say that it

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Speaker 3: was Stevie from down the street, who.

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Speaker 2: Was an asshole and a pervert. They said.

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Speaker 3: I jumped up onto the washing machine and I sat

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Speaker 3: looking out the ground level window into the backyard. I

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Speaker 3: was there when my mom came home half an hour later.

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Speaker 3: I was too afraid to move. This was before the

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Speaker 3: days of screening and voicemail. A ringing phone could mean

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Speaker 3: a best friend or a boyfriend car. There were more

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Speaker 3: calls over the next three days, always when I was

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Speaker 3: home alone, asking over and over again that same dirty question,

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Speaker 3: until the third day, when as I was about to

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Speaker 3: I think I might want to hurt you. Needless to say,

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Speaker 3: I spent the next two afternoons with a friend at

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Speaker 3: her house. My parents had a camping trip coming up,

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Speaker 3: I would be left home alone for a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: I had been so excited about it, but not a

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Speaker 3: fucking chance that was happening. Now. I was sent down

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Speaker 3: the street to say with my grandparents, and I could

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Speaker 3: not have been happier for me until recently the story ended.

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Speaker 3: There no more calls. Eventually I returned to General hospital

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Speaker 3: and phone gossip in the afternoons. But a few months ago,

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Speaker 3: more than thirty years later, my mom and I were

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Speaker 3: sharing a bottle of or three of wine and talking

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Speaker 3: about how hard it was to be the mom of

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Speaker 3: a teenage daughter. My mom said, I can't even tell

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Speaker 3: you how scared I was when you were in high

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Speaker 3: school and had that horrible caller.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: She proceeded to tell.

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Speaker 3: room's windows screen had been cut, and that it looked

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Speaker 3: like someone had tried to pry the window open with

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: My parents called the police, who proceeded to watch our

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Speaker 3: mom also took some extra vacation time off, which I

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Speaker 3: now remember. We watched General Hospital together.

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Speaker 2: It was nice.

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Speaker 1: My god, my mom would have told me. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love that she didn't tell her.

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Speaker 3: My mom totally would have told me, and she'd be like,

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Speaker 3: and so if something happens, here's the plan. Thankfully, my

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Speaker 3: gentleman caller either moved on to someone else or died,

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Speaker 3: perhaps rightfully vicious and untimely death. Love your voices, your views,

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Speaker 3: and your vibe. Stay sexy, and don't answer the phone

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Speaker 3: until your mom gets home, Leanne, Who was it? Also

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Speaker 3: like the parents keeping the huge just shoe drop from

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Speaker 1: And being like so chill about it. They even went

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Speaker 1: on their vacation. Yeah, but they sent her to the grandparents. Like,

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Speaker 1: pretending to be chill for your child's sake is like

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Speaker 1: such a gift.

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Speaker 3: Well, and also that's back in the time when it

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Speaker 3: was like Peeping Tom was supposed to be funny and

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Speaker 3: that a prank caller was just it's just some boy

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Speaker 3: in your class, Like no one treating any of that

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Speaker 1: And the fact that he only called when she was

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Speaker 1: home alone means she was probably being watched. Yeah too,

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Speaker 1: so it probably was a neighbor. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that's not a good thing.

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Speaker 2: No, it isn't so scary.

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Speaker 1: Oh, oh my god, how terrifying. Okay, this one is

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Speaker 1: called thank you re placent A donation. Oh hey, team,

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Speaker 1: I normally listened to your podcast in the car, but

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Speaker 1: as I was listening to the latest Minisoda yesterday, I

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Speaker 1: got home with only a few minutes left on the show,

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Speaker 1: so I paused. This morning home from work with a cold,

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Speaker 1: I picked up the episode again and Georgia began talking

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Speaker 1: about placented donations to train cadaver dogs. Remember the minisoda

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Speaker 1: I did a few weeks back. I'm so glad I

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Speaker 1: wasn't on my way to work because I immediately burst into

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Speaker 1: tea in my kitchen. Almost a year to the day

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Speaker 1: before I started listening to your podcast, a close friend

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Speaker 1: had gone missing. Her home a clear crime scene. It

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Speaker 1: took hours for the police to find her buried in

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Speaker 1: the backyard. Those hours of waiting are dreadful. Your brain

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Speaker 1: can't comprehend what's happening, so you feel some sense of

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Speaker 1: hope that it's not real, but you're also so sick

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Speaker 1: with worry that you know you couldn't be in the situation.

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Speaker 1: If there wasn't a chance that the worst had happened.

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Speaker 1: In the end, the absolute worst had happened. My friend

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Speaker 1: was killed in a violent crime that had nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with her. It is terrible for this to happen

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Speaker 1: to anyone, but Emily was truly filled with light. She

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Speaker 1: maybe you want to be as good as she saw you.

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Speaker 1: I have lived through that panic of searching for a

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Speaker 1: missing loved one twice now, and to know that I,

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Speaker 1: at twelve weeks pregnant, can soon help other families in

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Speaker 1: that situation gives me greater relief and joy than I

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Speaker 1: can describe. Thank you to Lauren for a message that

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Speaker 1: felt timed just for me, and to the MFM team

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Speaker 1: for the platform on which to share it. SSDGM Elisa, Wow,

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Speaker 1: I know it's like you think you're just writing a

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Speaker 1: story about a placenta and then you're actually making people

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Speaker 1: cry in their kitchen.

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Speaker 3: Well, and also like we're just passing the word that

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Speaker 3: this is a thing you can do a way to help.

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Speaker 1: And then she's like it gets to the right person.

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Speaker 2: God, amazing.

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Speaker 3: We're going to go to a trash dad world now.

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Speaker 3: So it's a bit of a turn, right, Let's go

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Speaker 3: This is howdi ho Murdery knows. Your recent call for

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Speaker 3: accidental kidnapping stories reminded me of the time I framed

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Speaker 3: my trash dad for kidnapping. Here's the story. It's the

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Speaker 3: late eighties and I'm around two years old, doing my

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Speaker 3: best to make my mom's life miserable. She was apparently

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Speaker 3: complaining about the excellent work I was doing in this

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Speaker 3: that I was a perfect angel, so my mom must

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Speaker 3: not know how to handle me. Knowing a trash dad

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Speaker 3: statement when she heard one, my mom replied that my

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Speaker 2: Then genius.

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Speaker 3: As my dad tells the story, the grocery shopping went

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Speaker 3: fine until we went to leave and I noticed one

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Speaker 3: My dad figured why not and put in a quarter.

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Speaker 3: I ecstatically rode that little mechanical horse until the time

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Speaker 3: really are kind of like us. It's a little kid,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it felt like you were on the

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Speaker 3: My dad complied with my demands a couple of times

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Speaker 3: reaching out in desperation to anyone and everyone in that

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Speaker 3: dad hurried towards his truck before anyone could call the police. No,

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Speaker 3: which is also what a real kidnapper would do. So

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Speaker 3: not helping yourself look less sas there, dad. Unfortunately, these

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Speaker 3: were the days before power locks or seat belts were standard,

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Speaker 3: let alone car seats, and I was clever enough to

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know how long this Scooby dooe skit of chasing

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Speaker 2: So this is a two year old with no car seat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just get in and like stand on the seat

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Speaker 3: like you did on the ride.

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Speaker 1: Here, and then unlocking it and running into a busy

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Speaker 1: my god.

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Speaker 3: I had to have parking lot danger explained to me

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Speaker 1: I love the mom be like, oh really, yeah, then

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Speaker 2: Why don't you take her? Yeah, and enjoy yourself as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I had a kidnapper one as well. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: A few weeks ago you asked for kidnapping stories, so

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Speaker 2: No jokes.

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Speaker 3: If you're gonna be drunk, no joke, no jokes. No

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Speaker 3: you're not funny. No nothing is funny. No, they're not

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Speaker 1: Then the officer picked up the phone. Within seconds, armed

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Speaker 2: What birthday was it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Meanwhile, our group was frantically calling everyone we knew,

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Speaker 2: Anna, Marie, you joke?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what if that was an international incident? Also? I

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Speaker 2: love the way they lock in.

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Speaker 3: The person that's kidnapped, and the kidnapper is just over

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Speaker 2: No one puts that together.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, yeah, like both of you get over here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this story is pretty epic. I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: read you the subject line. It starts Dear Karen and Georgia.

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Speaker 3: it says in true murderingo fashion. Who. However, it was

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Speaker 3: you looked. Well. One day, on my way to class,

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Speaker 3: I was cutting up with my best friend Abina, per

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Speaker 3: No needless to say, I was a wreck at the

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Speaker 3: all together with super glue. Cheers to you, fabulous ladies

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Speaker 3: and all the ways you've brought joy to my life

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Speaker 3: and countless others. I can honestly say that I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: and don't use a rolling book bag, Jennifer, And then

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Speaker 3: Of her as a fourteen year old with a broken tooth.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, she a little baby. She looks pretty stoked.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what's going on. She's like, hah, it's

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if you're like running into him and

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Speaker 1: She didn't talk to me?

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Speaker 3: She hasn't she being nice to me? I must know

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Speaker 1: Okay, this one my last one. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: read you this up jacked. Hello everyone. When I was

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Speaker 1: they would have child proved that door, like when they

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Speaker 1: No, they weren't there. They were working overnight.

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Speaker 1: And so she asked, were you scared being down there

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Speaker 1: The lady that was down there with me kept telling

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Speaker 1: mom couldn't believe it, and she said she grilled me

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Speaker 2: A little baby in the basement.

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Speaker 1: Dying, dying. I just thank god that we got that

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Speaker 1: You make my work day fly by. Okay, Okay, that

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Speaker 2: Right, that's right, you can't go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: So she's just like, everything's gonna be okay, Stay calm.

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Speaker 2: Stay calm.

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Speaker 3: We'll just have this dog bark for fifty more minutes

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Speaker 1: Don't panic because then your blood will fucking pump out

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Speaker 1: faster like this ghosts Grandma ghost.

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Speaker 3: Grandma ghost, but it was like a lady, so she

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I also bet like the mom just needed

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Speaker 1: They're just like no stranger ghosts whoever used.

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Speaker 3: I'm a renter, but I'm gonna make you feel better.

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Speaker 1: So as your ghost stories, your story based falling down

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Speaker 1: stairs stories.

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Speaker 3: You're being a little kid and your brother puts your

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Speaker 3: life in danger because he's lazy and a teenage boy.

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Speaker 1: My favorite murder at Gmail, and thank you guys for listening.

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Speaker 2: Stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want to cookie?

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Speaker 2: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 1: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and Our associate producer

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Speaker 1: is Tessa Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.

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Speaker 1: This episode was mixed by Leona Scuolacci.

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Speaker 3: Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Follow the show on Instagram at My Favorite Murder.

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Speaker 3: Listen to My Favorite Murder on the iHeartRadio app, Apple

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Speaker 1: Your podcasts, or watch us on YouTube. Search for My

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Speaker 1: Favorite Murder and then like and subscribe. Goodbye,