Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. So, Kelly, you
Speaker 1: know how I told you that our producer Amy, she
Speaker 1: is from the town where our TV movie was based on,
Speaker 1: the one we did no research on, but she has
Speaker 1: a lot of insights, so I wanted her to come
Speaker 1: on today to kind of give us the real deal
Speaker 1: on how it went down.
Speaker 2: So I will tell you guys a lot of things.
Speaker 2: But when you made this movie, did you know it
Speaker 2: was it's very loosely based, right, but it's that it
Speaker 2: was based on a real.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, absolutely, I knew I was playing someone who
Speaker 3: killed someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: Very mindful of that in my portrayal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then what's so wild is that you came
Speaker 2: back and did it many years later.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but they wanted me to play
Speaker 3: like a mom or or something, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I want to be in You're the cop, right yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And actually it was a it was written as
Speaker 3: a man, a male FBI Asian.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I want to play I want to play
Speaker 4: that person. So anyway, so.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you so and ask me anything. So there
Speaker 2: are a couple of things. One is I won't say
Speaker 2: the real names either, because out of respect, they never
Speaker 2: wanted the real names out there, and yes they are
Speaker 2: out there. What's interesting is, even though I was nine
Speaker 2: or ten when this happened, I could tell you every
Speaker 2: real name, like like it was yesterday, Like the real
Speaker 2: names are burned in my mind. And so basically this
Speaker 2: happened in about nineteen eighty four, I think, So you
Speaker 2: guys didn't do your movie until ten years later. Was
Speaker 2: the movie in ninety four? I think I was nine
Speaker 2: or ten.
Speaker 4: So okay, I actually, weirdly, the first thing that popped
Speaker 4: into my head is were they really Catholic? Like very
Speaker 4: like religious? Was that an aspect of it?
Speaker 2: That was not something that I remember?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: So I don't know where that part came from, either
Speaker 2: from your character or Tory's character. Here's what I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember it happening. So basically I won't say the
Speaker 2: town name, but my growing up so I had two houses.
Speaker 2: My growing up house. My first house. If you walked
Speaker 2: down the lane, turned right at the yield sign and
Speaker 2: probably walked seven more minutes, that was their house. So
Speaker 2: that was that was their house. And I told my
Speaker 2: mom I was doing this, and you could just see
Speaker 2: her like I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then so we live in a very so it's
Speaker 2: a town where I still live. So I split my
Speaker 2: time between this town and LA so I'm still in
Speaker 2: the town. And this was in nineteen eighty four ish.
Speaker 2: I don't have the exact dates. And I was about
Speaker 2: nine or ten, and I can remember a few things.
Speaker 2: I can remember immediately the green Pinto. We were told
Speaker 2: and I don't know if my parents told me, if
Speaker 2: this was on the news. How I have such a
Speaker 2: clear memory. And again, forgive me, because I'm giving my memories,
Speaker 2: and some of it's a little bit like do I
Speaker 2: remember it, or do I remember reading it, or do
Speaker 2: I remember hearing it. It's like blurry. We were to
Speaker 2: look for this green pinto because the green Pinto was
Speaker 2: spotted by the neighbor right night. Somebody was wrongly accused.
Speaker 2: I can remember that too. That stands out in my mind.
Speaker 2: And that poor person, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure in their lives, was that in the movie with
Speaker 5: someone I don't know.
Speaker 2: There have like chills.
Speaker 3: It gives me like there was one Yeah, there was
Speaker 3: one girl who's like the weird girl with black hair.
Speaker 3: She wore black she was she was one of the
Speaker 3: suspects in the movie that we did, Tori.
Speaker 4: But I also really want to know. Was there a
Speaker 4: knife randomly in the car?
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the other thing I remember.
Speaker 1: And the cutting board in cucumber.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so that part was so this is what
Speaker 2: I remember of it that And it wasn't until like
Speaker 2: preparing to talk to you guys that I had this
Speaker 2: like revelation about it. But we remember hearing their a knife.
Speaker 2: She had a knife in the car to cut vegetables,
Speaker 2: and I thought, at ten years old, even I remember
Speaker 2: being like, well, that is just so strange, right, why
Speaker 2: would who's cutting vegetables. It wasn't until days ago when
Speaker 2: I was sort of just talking to my mom about
Speaker 2: it to refresh my memory, that is how it was
Speaker 2: not premeditated. So basically because they had this reason. And
Speaker 2: again this is just us talking. I'm not privy to
Speaker 2: all the details of the case. This is just my memory.
Speaker 2: So I remember hearing she had the knife in the
Speaker 2: car to cut vegetables. Now being who I am, Now,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, now I get it. It wasn't premeditated
Speaker 2: because the knife was in the car. Had they not
Speaker 2: had this vegetable thing true or not, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: M hm, then it would have been she would have
Speaker 2: actually taken the knife from her home, and that would
Speaker 2: be premeditated.
Speaker 1: Meaning she so she did think I feel like from
Speaker 1: watching the movie correcty, so it was your character. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't like she planned to kill her.
Speaker 2: No, she didn't see That's what we that hence the
Speaker 2: knife in the car for the vegetables. Now, people have
Speaker 2: many arguments on that. You could argue that the vegetable
Speaker 2: story was hullabaloo. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: She brought the knife in the car with vegetables to say, like, hey,
Speaker 1: if someone says something right, or because it appears that
Speaker 1: she just snapped and did it.
Speaker 2: That was how we always heard it. So my parents
Speaker 2: were I have another memory. My parents definitely went to
Speaker 2: the funeral for Tory's character. Again I won't say the names,
Speaker 2: but and I can remember this. I remember sitting on
Speaker 2: our yellow couch like at ten years old with my
Speaker 2: dad that night. It almost makes me want to like
Speaker 2: it's the memories of my parents, And I remember my
Speaker 2: dad saying, I've never been to anything that sad in
Speaker 2: my entire life, and so as a kid, I remember
Speaker 2: being like, not totally knowing what was happening, but that
Speaker 2: my parents were so distraught, and my dad saying, and
Speaker 2: then I have this memory, and again I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's accurate, but I can remember my dad saying,
Speaker 2: they played the song at the funeral memory, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was the barber Streis say memories
Speaker 2: like the corner you know, or the one like there's
Speaker 2: another memory. There's two songs that are similar. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: the one that's like from Cats, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know which one it is. But anytime I
Speaker 2: hear that song, I turn it, I get like, I
Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't want to hear that song
Speaker 2: and I and it's both because I at the time
Speaker 2: I didn't know which my dad was talking about. I
Speaker 2: can remember that. I can remember the neighbors, like there
Speaker 2: was two different neighbors involved, and my mom like, this
Speaker 2: was so close to my growing up house we had
Speaker 2: moved and the sority part is real too, So yeah,
Speaker 2: so it was a different name. And so that was
Speaker 2: at this this high school, and I end up going
Speaker 2: to the high school right now to this high school,
Speaker 2: the other public high school, and we had the same sorority.
Speaker 2: I won't say the name again, but it was like
Speaker 2: the Malories or whatever, like we were in this sorority,
Speaker 2: and so that part was real. I don't know I
Speaker 2: would be I would bet these don't exist anymore, but
Speaker 2: they existed. I went to school high school six years
Speaker 2: later and they still existed then.
Speaker 3: So when within respect to the knife, I remember when
Speaker 3: we were filming, actually, I think I remember reading the
Speaker 3: script thinking, what, like, no way, Like she wouldn't have
Speaker 3: she wouldn't be cutting cucumbers in the car.
Speaker 4: That's just crazy.
Speaker 3: So I remember kind of setting that aside as we
Speaker 3: filmed and being like, oh, I guess this is what
Speaker 3: we're doing.
Speaker 4: But that seemed really crazy to me.
Speaker 3: And I love how we planted, like it's planted earlier
Speaker 3: in the movie that the sister really likes to eat vegetables, right.
Speaker 4: It's really weird.
Speaker 3: It's like one of those really strange things that stand out.
Speaker 3: But I think they had to figure out.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, they could catch this vegetable thing happening. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that felt weird back then. It was like huh, even
Speaker 2: at ten years old, I'm like, what, And I remember
Speaker 2: we still talked about it as teenagers. And I can
Speaker 2: remember also, and again some of it's from my memories
Speaker 2: when your character was released, And I will remember playing
Speaker 2: as day one of my friends at the yogurt shop
Speaker 2: saying she came into the yogurt shop. Now did she
Speaker 2: really come into the yogurt shop? I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I can remember this friend, we'll call her Christy, saying
Speaker 2: so and so came into the yogurt shop. She's out,
Speaker 2: like it was like, huh, could it have been someone
Speaker 2: that looked like her? Of course, Well, I don't know
Speaker 2: why you would go back to the town.
Speaker 4: I know, is that kind of the last sighting? Like,
Speaker 4: is the last? Is that the last thing you know
Speaker 4: about after she's been released.
Speaker 2: What we always heard was she changed her name and
Speaker 2: went off and her life. And I think people do
Speaker 2: sometimes publicly say that the hurt that person's new name,
Speaker 2: and sometimes people say the name of the family and
Speaker 2: they moved away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would imagine it's all kind of blurry.
Speaker 2: But man, do I remember that we were all looking
Speaker 2: for that car, that green Pinto, And again I know
Speaker 2: it was a Pinto. And my memory is that it
Speaker 2: was green, and I remember there's a Pinto, mom, and
Speaker 2: like my mom being like that, you know, like being
Speaker 2: very terrified, like there's a Pinto and first of all,
Speaker 2: Pinto's like yeah, so they don't even make those anymore,
Speaker 2: and it's like so it burned in my brain. I
Speaker 2: don't even know, like Tori, if you'd know what a Pinto.
Speaker 5: Was, beans, I like print to beans. I do.
Speaker 3: My friend has an old Pinto actually, so I totally
Speaker 3: know what it is. But in the movie, in the movie,
Speaker 3: it's a Nova.
Speaker 5: Ava's the Chevy Nova.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the car was very significant.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So like that's what's so interesting is I'm trying
Speaker 2: to because I remember the movie right because I was
Speaker 2: in college at that point and Tory you were like
Speaker 2: huge on nine O two one oho, so it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: Tory Spelling's got this big movie. I don't remember if
Speaker 2: I put two and two together immediately, like this is
Speaker 2: the thing that happened in my town, or if that
Speaker 2: came later. I know I figured it out later when
Speaker 2: because I've told Toy before and I've heard sometimes it
Speaker 2: comes up like there was a just Investigates one of
Speaker 2: those TV things about it and there was a you know,
Speaker 2: my favorite murder. They've talked about it on that podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's so upsetting to so many people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like yeah, and I don't, I don't know. Like so
Speaker 2: when you guys did the movie and then it was
Speaker 2: this huge, massive hit movie What Tory Do?
Speaker 4: Was it on an NBC.
Speaker 1: It was on NBC and Monday Night football at the
Speaker 1: time was on E we see your CBS, EBCC, EBC,
Speaker 1: and our movie was the first TV movie that took
Speaker 1: the top spot like away ratings wise from football. It's
Speaker 1: like two girls in a high school movie.
Speaker 2: The highest rated movie of the year.
Speaker 1: And it started the whole revolution of you know, casting
Speaker 1: like iconic like TV actresses in making TV movies because
Speaker 1: they draw the viewers away from football.
Speaker 2: Yes, when you did the second one, then I was older, right,
Speaker 2: so because that was maybe eight years ago, was second? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was second one.
Speaker 4: That was pretty recent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay that I definitely remember being like, oh, while
Speaker 2: they're making another movie about it. So that time it
Speaker 2: was very clear to me, like this is based on
Speaker 2: what happened. And again it's loosely based because I don't
Speaker 2: I don't know that anyone involved, No necessarily wanted it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like one of those where they were involved in.
Speaker 3: It, right, right, And when there's a court case, everything
Speaker 3: becomes like aired out in the public and when their articles.
Speaker 4: Actually the movie's based on an article.
Speaker 2: So it's that Rolling Stone article. Maybe there was a
Speaker 2: big Rolling Stone article about it, and some people that's
Speaker 2: very controversial article because I think some people were like,
Speaker 2: the article is accurate, and some people felt like it
Speaker 2: was not conveyed the way they were stereotypically conveyed. I
Speaker 2: do not think is who they were in any way, right,
Speaker 2: That's just my memory of it.
Speaker 4: Okay, they weren't like super Italian Catholic.
Speaker 2: I can't remember that part or like that. Your character
Speaker 2: was sort of this type of person and Tory's character
Speaker 2: was this type of person. I'm not sure that they were. Actually,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: Did you like my wardrobe in the movie?
Speaker 5: It was hot? The color palette was like yummy.
Speaker 2: Did you have reservations Kelly about playing Yeah, that person
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I did, absolutely, And that is why I portrayed her
Speaker 3: with such a delicate brush, like I really wanted her
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 4: I wanted you to have compassion for her.
Speaker 3: I wanted you to like feel like it came from
Speaker 3: somewhere very fragile and awful within her was a crime
Speaker 3: of passion, and that she didn't mean to do it,
Speaker 3: and that.
Speaker 4: She felt horrible regret afterwards.
Speaker 3: I mean that was all like I was all in
Speaker 3: on that because I didn't tray her as any kind
Speaker 3: of stereotypic killer like whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Wow, that must have been hard because you guys were young,
Speaker 2: like you were teenagers, right, I was, Oh, my god, Toy,
Speaker 2: do you remember like, and I know you guys probably
Speaker 2: talked about this before, but do you remember like going,
Speaker 2: where did this story come from? Who am I playing?
Speaker 5: I was just really excited.
Speaker 1: It was the first TV movie I was offered, like
Speaker 1: I didn't have to audition for.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, it was the.
Speaker 1: Whin And I was like reading through it and then
Speaker 1: I read it in one night and I.
Speaker 5: Was like, Oh, it's really good.
Speaker 1: I don't know if at that moment I knew it
Speaker 1: was based on a true story, true events.
Speaker 2: Seems so impossible to believe it's true, Like it seems
Speaker 2: very lifetime movie of the week, like you know, made.
Speaker 3: Up from the headlines, you know, especially the knife in
Speaker 3: the Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just sight because all I played up
Speaker 1: until then was like Donna Martin, the good girl, and
Speaker 1: here I was playing a bad girl.
Speaker 5: So that was like, oh, that's a challenge for me.
Speaker 5: So I was excited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure some of that is actually.
Speaker 5: True.
Speaker 4: I think that's crazy that you grew up in.
Speaker 2: That and it's a very small town, like a very
Speaker 2: small town. I'm still in the small town, Like this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen, and it was such a bizarre story, and
Speaker 2: then that it took so long, and I remember like
Speaker 2: people were definitely like looking for that car and trying
Speaker 2: to figure this out, and then she was not. This
Speaker 2: is so I don't know why this is my memory,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to be crassing it. Like I
Speaker 2: remember being like, she's going to Juvie. Do you guys
Speaker 2: remember when we were teenagers, like everyone would talk about Juvie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't like you're like juvenile Hall, It wasn't
Speaker 2: like you went like I don't think she was tried
Speaker 2: in as an adult, Like none of that wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like she was not whatever wherever you go for
Speaker 2: very long maybe seven eight ninety years, not very long
Speaker 2: in years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was seven.
Speaker 5: Where is she now?
Speaker 2: Nobody knows, Like nobody really knows.
Speaker 4: She's changed her name and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was amazing, crazy movie to be
Speaker 3: a part of, for sure, and I like, I watched
Speaker 3: it last night and I found it intriguing even.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very intriguing story. You really kind of
Speaker 2: do a deep dive into it, like you can really
Speaker 2: kind of get what happened, what really happened. And I
Speaker 2: don't know that anybody really knows. Everything is so sad.
Speaker 4: Did they tear the house down that where it happened.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been forty years, so I'm sure, yes
Speaker 2: it's been because it was eighty it was eighty four
Speaker 2: when it happened, and we're in twenty. I was ten,
Speaker 2: I'm fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's your assignment.
Speaker 4: You have to let us know.
Speaker 2: If I will, I'll find out more. And now most
Speaker 2: people that live here now don't totally remember, because you
Speaker 2: really would have had to grown up here, not like
Speaker 2: that people just moved to the town. But there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I mean some of the neighbors are
Speaker 2: still the same neighbors we had, like down around the corner.
Speaker 2: I know one woman has been there. They had a
Speaker 2: snake when we were growing up, so we'd go to
Speaker 2: their house and look at their snake. And she still
Speaker 2: lives there. She lived there then and.
Speaker 3: Lives the Wow, that is crazy that a bunch of.
Speaker 2: The neighbors still live there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have an idea, Kelly, what if we since
Speaker 1: we've in our history done so many TV movies, what
Speaker 1: if we went back and found out like the real
Speaker 1: events and what happened with each of them, the true story?
Speaker 1: Did a podcast from there?
Speaker 4: Ooh, I would be so good.
Speaker 1: Like true crime. But we were the actresses in the movie.
Speaker 4: That's very medatory.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, I like that. Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 2: You have to know more. I mean it's weird because
Speaker 2: I'm so conflicted, right because if you told me about
Speaker 2: this in another town, I'd be like, yes, I know,
Speaker 2: there's sensativity in our town about it. So but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I want to. I mean it definitely made
Speaker 2: me kind of like, go, I need to remember this
Speaker 2: and see more.
Speaker 4: Well, because it is interesting.
Speaker 3: It's like all these years later, how do people remember it? What?
Speaker 4: What have they done differently in their lives or what
Speaker 4: did they do differently with their children?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was so tragic. It was so tragic. I
Speaker 2: can remember that and I still I can just remember
Speaker 2: my parents like that being the first time where you're
Speaker 2: just like, my parents are so sad.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and you never forget that.
Speaker 3: I remember, like, I think I've seen my dad cry
Speaker 3: twice in my life and I remember both times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's a bit like I'm sure this
Speaker 2: traumatized everybody, and you just feel so terrible for their
Speaker 2: family and the neighbors, the neighbors because there was the
Speaker 2: neighbor that drove Tory's character back, and then there was
Speaker 2: the neighbor whose house. I mean, it's just like devastated.
Speaker 2: That is well, it's so interesting that you guys went
Speaker 2: starred in this movie that became so big and yeah,
Speaker 2: people can go back.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to end it because it's so terrible,
Speaker 2: but great to see Kelly.
Speaker 4: A nice nice Thank you for all these details.
Speaker 3: I'm fascinated by them, and Toy we can discuss further
Speaker 3: when you come over for our power meeting at the Barn.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, we're going to have a power pig
Speaker 1: meeting and discuss. We have many things to discuss because
Speaker 1: we have a lot of ideas here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it all. I love it. Kelly, You're
Speaker 2: the coolest, by the way. It's so it's so fun
Speaker 2: to have you on.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you. It's my absolute pleasure.
Speaker 5: I mean, she's the real deal.
Speaker 3: To be perfectly frank the podcast decide, I was just
Speaker 3: happy to sit down with Tory and like really, like,
Speaker 3: it's just.
Speaker 2: I love it because you guys have been friends since
Speaker 2: How old are we when needed Troop Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: I was eleven, so long time ago.
Speaker 2: When you met. That was when you met for the
Speaker 2: first week.
Speaker 4: Then I think, I don't think we had nothing, and.
Speaker 1: Then our lives just keep coming back around. And then
Speaker 1: we ended up living in the same community and that's
Speaker 1: how we would see each other and keep up. And
Speaker 1: we both had pigs, and so when we rebonded over that,
Speaker 1: it's just our lives keep coming full circle. So we're
Speaker 1: meant to be any each other's lives.
Speaker 4: You're meant to be in each other's lives. That's that's
Speaker 4: the that's the takeaway.
Speaker 2: Well, and Kelly, you've had such an amazing career as well,
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 3: Nice to see you well, thank you for thank you
Speaker 3: for having me on and this was an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 3: And Torri please text me I am around.
Speaker 1: We'll text you, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Great to see you, Kelly, Bye
Speaker 1: Guys, bye, Thank you,