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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder. The minis so

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Speaker 1: reach you the stories that you've sent us in email,

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Speaker 1: the weird shit we've asked you for, and the weird

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Speaker 2: That's right, and you're going to go first this time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll go first. Okay, this one's fucked up and

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Speaker 3: it's long, but there's a follow up. Great, And it

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Speaker 3: says my family Murder with music notes. So I think

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Speaker 3: it's like our theme song, but my family Murder.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, but it's fad Okay, don't sing that song.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 3: Hello everyone, all animals included. I've wanted to write this

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Speaker 3: since the beginning of the podcast, and I finally think

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Speaker 3: it's time. This will be a bit long, but there

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Speaker 3: are some twists and turns, and I promise it's worth it.

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Speaker 3: My mother was one of seven children. Five of them

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Speaker 3: have since passed, all in very horrible ways, but the

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Speaker 3: most unfortunate is my aunt that was murdered. My mother

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Speaker 3: and my aunt were less than a year apart and

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Speaker 3: understandably very close. They were like twins, sharing their clothes

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Speaker 3: graduated high school, she worked at a local Wendy's saving

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Speaker 3: up for a trip with friends to Daytona Beach, Florida.

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Speaker 3: Before she left, she received a special occasion dress for

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Speaker 4: Equals he's never done this before, and he's shitting a brick.

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Speaker 3: Right When they offered to give him all of the

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Speaker 3: Instead, he demanded they all undress and lock them out

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Speaker 3: My grandparents had to deal with reporters knocking on their

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Speaker 3: Recently, my grandmother passed, so it's just my mom and

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Speaker 3: Since having this email in my draft for literal months,

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Speaker 3: Needless to say, I was raised with a healthy fear

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Speaker 3: Blair and then Allison found this. It's an update from

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Speaker 3: the Project Cold Case website. On January twenty fifth, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office made the following announcement. Basically,

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Speaker 3: Mansfield advised that he was in fact the suspect in

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Speaker 3: the police sketch completed following the induction. He went on

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Speaker 3: as well as to her murder. Shortly thereafter. Billy Mansill

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the end of it. That's the update.

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Speaker 4: So that essentially they caught a serial killer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and when she wrote in, they hadn't fucking solved

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Speaker 4: I don't think in ten years of doing this true

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Speaker 4: I'll go in for her.

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Speaker 2: What an unbelievable move. That was brave and so brave. God.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well, then here's an old story, kind of

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Speaker 2: There too, I guess, Oh my god, what is it?

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Speaker 2: Hometown story.

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Speaker 4: We were students at Sarah Lawrence at the same time

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: Happy to write.

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Speaker 4: Into you two. As the unknowing fourth and fifth members

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Speaker 4: I all went to Sarah Lawrence College, recently known for

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Speaker 4: the insane Larry Ray sex cult situation. We all listened

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Speaker 4: to your episode on Larry Ray, and to be honest,

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Speaker 4: it was a rough Listen. We're og Murderino's, but we

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Speaker 4: our noses. That's crazy, Yeah, they didn't know. Okay, here's

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Speaker 4: the thing. It wasn't until listening to your episode and

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Speaker 4: subsequently watching the new documentary on the story, that we

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Speaker 2: So they were freshmen. Wow.

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Speaker 4: We actually even knew Asramarcus, the journalist who broke the

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Speaker 4: story that ultimately led to Rai's indictment, he was a

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Speaker 4: didn't know about that batship mess because college was great.

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Speaker 4: We got a pretty solid education, and my two best

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Speaker 4: We are sitting on my couch right now, eating cookies,

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Speaker 4: watching the documentary on Larry Ray, freaking out that we

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Speaker 4: absolute horror show while we wrote research papers. How did

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Speaker 4: It's hard to call your dad when you're in a cult.

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Speaker 4: If your dad or your friend's dad is leading the cult,

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Speaker 4: truer words we're never said anyway, big SSDGM love from

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Speaker 4: your Sarah Lawrence College murderinos XOXO, Ryan, Zoe and Hannah,

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Speaker 4: and then parentheses that says, use our names.

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Speaker 3: We will be so excited that bleep their names is.

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Speaker 4: They had like a parallel flight in door life where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: Cares pretty fucking bad grammar school catlinter.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Somehow, by some miracle, I had a passenger who tried

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Speaker 4: I need to say on behalf of the woman who

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Speaker 2: The guy that went smumped pot.

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Speaker 4: No, she is a victim of a tiny bacteria.

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Speaker 2: I just want to defend that person.

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Speaker 3: No, I think you're right, she needs to write it.

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Speaker 3: Also, I betually got sick from eating fucking airplane food,

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Speaker 3: The job is more than a job. It truly is

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Speaker 3: Passengers Sundays in Paris and spending time in airports. I

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Speaker 3: You've kept me sane through all the turbulence my job

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Speaker 3: with my not real name, say Susan, because let's be real,

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Speaker 2: They don't.

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Speaker 3: The comments that you'd get from Tatiana would be so

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Speaker 2: You just don't even need it that close.

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Speaker 3: Well, Susan, Susan, I'm fucking Susan.

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Speaker 4: That's all you need to know is I'm Susan and

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Speaker 4: I'm wearing panty host. I'm the one wearing panty host today.

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Speaker 4: Well I love that, Susan. You did a great job.

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Speaker 4: Thank you kindly. Okay, it says Glitchen the Matrix and

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Speaker 4: I wanted to tell you about this crazy thing that

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: This causes sinkholes to appear all over the territory that

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Speaker 4: Yes, But it's like a swimming hole that's this beautiful

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Speaker 4: Uh huh, with some cave systems sometimes attached.

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Speaker 4: Why I really don't know, but he's very.

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Speaker 3: Passionate about it. What a rad job. Yeah, Like, if

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Speaker 4: Podcasting, for example, Podcasting works great if you're brave, like

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Speaker 4: One day he received a call to go explore sinoe

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Speaker 4: I know, so much content to be eaten up. As

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Speaker 4: One of them decided to show his partner a sinkhole

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Speaker 2: To this day.

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Speaker 4: My uncle is convinced that my cousin sent them to

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Speaker 4: What are the chances? Thank you for bringing absolute joy

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Speaker 2: Zoe.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Zoe, that is so sweet.

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Speaker 4: I mean the idea that you'd be having a heart

445
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 4: attack in the middle of the jungle and it's like.

446
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,880
Speaker 3: Oh, we're here too, like a literally ambula.

447
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 2: Oh so good.

448
00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 3: That's that's incredible. Yeah, Okay, my last one's called. He

449
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 3: wasn't my brother when I married him. WHOA, hey there,

450
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:49,439
Speaker 3: it's me.

451
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 2: Oh hi, Hey, what's going on?

452
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 3: I'm scrubbing the bathroom while listening to MINNIESO four eighteen

453
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,679
Speaker 3: when I heard you ask for family wedding drama and

454
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,879
Speaker 3: immediately how to drop this, grab brush and grab my laptop.

455
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, my first marriage is the stuff of legends

456
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 3: among my friends. I'm in my early twenties and marrying

457
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 3: my high school sweetheart, a young dumb love. Wedding plans

458
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 3: had been made and the invitations had gone out when

459
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 3: my fiance and I discovered that my mom, the church

460
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 3: choir director, was having an affair with his dad, a

461
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 3: member of the church choir. Ooh well fuck literally, As

462
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 3: you can imagine, what ensued was an epic fight between

463
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,199
Speaker 3: the parents, all of whom started insisting they wouldn't go

464
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 3: to our wedding if so and so was there. So

465
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 3: it's both sets of parents. One is cheating and one

466
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 3: is being cheated on.

467
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 2: Both the entire family. Everybody's involved.

468
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 3: It's fucked up. Great. I decided the solution was to

469
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 3: call off the wedding entirely and just get married quietly

470
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 3: by ourselves. Yeah, now my family is no You sounded

471
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,959
Speaker 3: so sad for someone who had a huge wedding that

472
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 3: you didn't want. Well, the work I know this, Oh,

473
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 3: the work put into it.

474
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 4: Even if they just started thinking about it, it's so

475
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 4: much worse. And then also, this is the kind of

476
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,719
Speaker 4: thing where it's like when people make selfish decisions like that,

477
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 4: where it's like and the ripple effect is, now your

478
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,160
Speaker 4: daughter isn't going to or sun whoever it is, isn't

479
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 4: going to have their wedding totally because you had to kind.

480
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 3: Of like, Hey, things are so sexy up here in

481
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 3: the choir loft, Like the way he sings about Jesus,

482
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 3: it just turns me on.

483
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 2: His big crucifix is the hottest thing I've ever seen.

484
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 3: Okay, now, my family is nosy, and there was absolutely

485
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 3: no way to pull this off without answering some awkward questions.

486
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 3: So since my mom started the shit show, I figured

487
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 3: I'd let her deal with it. That's right, that's right.

488
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 3: What was her solution to the dilemma? Tell my entire

489
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 3: family that my fiance got cold feet and called off

490
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 3: the wedding. Oh, mom, narcissist, toxic narcissist.

491
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fucked up.

492
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 3: I'm not vindictive by nature, says the next line. Oh

493
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 3: but that right there, some class a bullshit. What followed

494
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 3: was a carefully worded letter by yours truly to my

495
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: entire family, explaining the truth.

496
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Speaker 2: I e.

497
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 3: My mom was busy banging my future father in law

498
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 3: high road no satisfying.

499
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 4: Hell yes, I mean because also it's like nothing had

500
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Speaker 4: to happen. No.

501
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: No, you could have just like made this quiet and chill.

502
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 4: And not tell anybody anything, but still handled it to said,

503
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 4: you're like he left her at the altar.

504
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: That's dark, fucked up.

505
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 3: My mom got the last laught in the end. A

506
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 3: year later, our parents divorced and she married my father

507
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 3: in law. You guessed it. This means my husband was

508
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 3: now my step brother. My aforementioned asshole friends found this

509
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 3: so funny they made me a T shirt to commemorate

510
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 3: the event, which says, quote, he wasn't my brother when

511
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 3: I married him.

512
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Speaker 2: Oh shit.

513
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Speaker 3: On a side note, my sister appairently felt left out

514
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 3: and ended up marrying my husband's cousin. Honestly, you can't

515
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 3: make this shit up. I guess the message is stay

516
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 3: sexy and don't marry your brother.

517
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Speaker 2: M M.

518
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Speaker 3: How small of a town do you live or how

519
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 3: big of a family do you have? It just sounds

520
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 3: like a backwards Hallmark movie.

521
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It's time for that.

522
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be your I'll be siblings for Christmas.

523
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 4: Yes, get some weird incest vibe going in there. Give

524
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 4: people something to talk about hall Mark Channel.

525
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:25,160
Speaker 2: All right.

526
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Speaker 4: Speaking of which, the subject line of this email is

527
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Speaker 4: Badass Granny and Mountains of Treasure Cocaine. Hello, ladies, MFM

528
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 4: team and pets. I just listened to your minisode featuring

529
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 4: a beach treasure story and realized I've been sitting on

530
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 4: one that hits so many of your favorite elements. A

531
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 4: bad ass grandmother with an epic grandma name, treasure found,

532
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 4: trasure found on the beach. Sorry hate when I do that,

533
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 4: and a pet hero. I've done my best to include

534
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Speaker 4: all the names for your enjoyment. So here we got

535
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 4: back in the early nineties, my grandmother hester.

536
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 3: Lee, stop it, bring it. I've never heard that name before.

537
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 2: A witch.

538
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 4: Well, I've heard of hester Prynne. Yeah, but hester Lee

539
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 4: is like.

540
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 2: A how are you feeling today?

541
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 4: Oh?

542
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: A little kind of Hesterley today.

543
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 4: So my grandmother hester really used to spend her winters

544
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 4: in Florida. Like so many New Englanders tired of scraping

545
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 4: ice off their windshields. Granny was a huge animal lover,

546
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 4: and since transporting her full menagerie commercially was a nightmare,

547
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 4: she'd load up her RV and drive south with a

548
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 4: large Doberman, two chihuahuas, an African gray parrot, a canary,

549
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 4: and a bit of fish named Machiavelli.

550
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 3: That sounds amazing with the smell was just I mean,

551
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 3: and the noise because you know, she smoked, probably too

552
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: like You're not a way so cigars. While in Florida,

553
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 3: she walked the Doberman named Raven. Every morning between five

554
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 3: and six am. She'd stroll five miles along the beach,

555
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 3: collecting little treasures along the way to place in a

556
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: bowl on her coffee table Grandma's in Florida. They can't

557
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 3: help it. Her favorites were skate egg cases, also known

558
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: as mermaid purses, but one morning she found something very different.

559
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: On this particular day, Granny left even earlier than usual.

560
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,479
Speaker 3: About halfway through her walk, she came across a wooden

561
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 3: pallette roughly four by four feet, loaded with what looked like.

562
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 4: Shrink wrapped bricks. As she got closer, she realized she'd found,

563
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 4: in her words, a metric fuck ton of cocaine.

564
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

565
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 4: She knew drug drops were common in the area, neutrally

566
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 4: buoyant packages with GPS trackers tossed offshore later retrieved by

567
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 4: other nefarious parties, but this one clearly hadn't been picked up.

568
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 4: And she also knew enough to recognize that whoever lost

569
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 4: that much cocaine was not going to be happy.

570
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, you walk the fuck away?

571
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, always cautious, especially as a woman who traveled solo.

572
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 4: Granny had one of those early brick style cell phones

573
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 4: tucked into her fanny pack. She called nine one one.

574
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 4: The dispatcher asked a lot of questions, and it quickly

575
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 4: became clear it wasn't safe for a petit woman in

576
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 4: her mid sixties to sit alone on the beach next

577
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 4: to a mountain of cartel grade drugs. They asked if

578
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 4: anyone was with her. She said, well, I've got my dog.

579
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: When they learned Raven was a Doberman, they immediately changed

580
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 4: their tune and asked her to stay put and guard

581
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 4: the drugs. My god, no, what she tried to explain

582
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 4: that Raven was in fact a total softie ye who

583
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 4: just looked intimidating, but they insisted. So there she stood,

584
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 4: scanning the beach, nervously, expecting armed drug dealers to emerge

585
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 4: at any moment.

586
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 3: Damn, Like, can she go sit up in the tree

587
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 3: line and like not be dying?

588
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, just let her do a couple of lines and

589
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 4: then to walk down the beach.

590
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 2: Please give her walk away.

591
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 4: Thankfully, within ten minutes, a helicopter hovered above, and police

592
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 4: officers swarmed in from every beach entrance and down the shore.

593
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 4: On ATV's she gave her statement and was even contacted

594
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 4: later by the local newspaper for an interview, but she declined,

595
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 4: worried that the cartel or whoever owned the mystery mountain

596
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 4: of cocaine might track her down for retribute.

597
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 3: Did she get it if no one claims it.

598
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,479
Speaker 4: Right after thirty days? Yes, come back and you can

599
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 4: adopt this palette of coke. Every time she told this

600
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 4: story to her grandkids, we were horrified.

601
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 3: Do you know how much that cocaine was worth?

602
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 4: We gave her endless grief for handing over what we

603
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: called our potential tuition fund to the police. I mean,

604
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 4: who would have suspected a snowbird granny as a drug boss?

605
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 4: But in all seriousness, she was a total badass who

606
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 4: never took shit from anyone. Even in her late eighties,

607
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 4: she walked with a cane topped with a silver donkey head,

608
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 4: telling us you never know when you'll need to hit

609
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 4: someone over the head with democracy. Oh love you, Hester Lesterle,

610
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 4: you are our hero. Thanks for all you do. Stay sexy,

611
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 4: and may you one day stumble upon your own mountain

612
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: of treasure cocaine.

613
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: K Okay, that was so great, that's a TV show.

614
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 3: Betty White then has to get rid of all the coke,

615
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: like she actually has to sell it all.

616
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, every week she finds drugs and then has to

617
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 4: sell them all by the end of the week, right

618
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 4: with her dog.

619
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 3: And if she doesn't just to do all the drugs.

620
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 4: If she can't sell them all, they got to get

621
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: gone somehow, right, So she goes down party to her

622
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 4: friend Mod's house.

623
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: What's the other one's name? What the other golden girls?

624
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 3: Oh? Mod Rose, there's a rose, there's a blanch.

625
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 2: Those are the only ones I know.

626
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 4: Sophia, Sophia and Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy, Dorothy, thank you very

627
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 4: much for being here with us on this minisode.

628
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: We love to read your emails. Yeah that was a journey, yeah, right.

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Speaker 4: Into My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com. If you

630
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 4: have a story that sounds like any of these but.

631
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: Different, yeah, anything really at this point.

632
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just love communication.

633
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 3: We do stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis.

634
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 3: This has been an exactly right production. Our senior producer

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Speaker 3: is Molly Smith and our associate producer is Tessa Hughes.

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Speaker 3: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo. This episode was mixed by

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Speaker 3: Leona Squalacci.

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Speaker 3: Follow the show on Instagram at My Favorite Murder.

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