My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 39 - Kind of Loco

Episode Date: October 20, 2016

This week on My Favorite Murder, Karen and Georgia have their protective eyewear on to talk about Charles Albright, the Texas Eyeball Killer. Then they tackle the notorious and tall Co-ed Kil...ler, Ed Kemper.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 We at Wondery live, breathe and downright obsess over true crime and now we're launching the ultimate true crime fan experience, Exhibit C. Join now by following Wondery, Exhibit C on Facebook and listen to true crime on Wondery and Amazon Music, Exhibit C. It's truly criminal. Are you ready to make some magic? Do you know magic? Yeah, I know up close magic. I can't do distance magic. Sorry. I live. Welcome to my favorite murder. I'm Karen Kilgarov. I'm Georgia. Hard Stark and together we're Karen Kilgarov and Georgia. Yes, playing along. Yes. Yes. How's it going? Hey, it's good to hear you. We're at a different speed this week. Somebody wrote us on Twitter and said that on the last episode, we seemed hysterical,
Starting point is 00:01:15 which I agree. I think we were slightly hysterical. We were just like we were just like ramped up one notch. Yeah. It was like powering through it like I need to get through this. But it was fun. We had a great time. That's all that matters. Yeah. We enjoyed ourselves. I mean, who wants a droll boring pod, like murder comedy podcast? I mean, yeah, I don't think. I don't think most people. If you've come here for a narrative true crime podcast, then just add Adderall and that's what you fucking have. It's like it's like that. It's similar. Yeah. We're actually on Physician's Grade cocaine. That's this. That's the secret to this podcast. I wonder what that's like. It's pretty great. If you had a chance, never mind. If I could do a drug again.
Starting point is 00:02:04 No, but like, but like, if someone was like, this is this Physician's Grade like government, whatever the fuck, drug, would you do it? Which drug? Like Coke, let's say. Sure. Well, I can't, you mean like if I didn't have any of my, I have all kinds of neurological disorders because I did all that. Don't do drugs kids. It's not worth it. It's totally only because of that. He wouldn't have them. It's a theory. They can't, you know, having epilepsy or seizure disorder. They don't know why exactly unless they look at your brain, like drop on your head, close up. I was dropped on my head. Buck up. I didn't tell you that. I think you probably did. I did. My mom tripped over my high chair when I was six months old. I don't think I knew this. Yeah. And she broke her arm.
Starting point is 00:02:49 We both fell and I hit my head and had to get stitches. I still have a tiny, tiny scar, but I'm totally the serial killer as we have discussed in this podcast because I had that. I'm going to have to kill you before you kill me. Okay. That makes sense. I think that'd be a great way to go. Just do it. Creep up behind me as a favor. Oh, yeah. No, you got it. But no stabbing. Slicing? Please Julienne me to death. I know you love cooking. I love cooking. I'm going to Julienne you. And it lights up day. I'm going to put you in a Cuisinart. I'm going to serve you. Yeah. Yeah, don't do drugs, you guys. Don't do drugs. We did them for you. We can come back and tell you. Yep. It's not what it's cut out to be. It's like how my dad used to say he would
Starting point is 00:03:35 never get cable. We lived way out in the country. So we only have four channels and he wouldn't get cable. He'd go, Hey, we have that in the firehouse. It's no good. Let us try. We'll decide if we like it or not. Decided for you. Yep. It's protected you guys from so much and yet. And yet it didn't work. It didn't work. Oh, sorry. Oh, wait. Go ahead. What was I going to? Yeah, don't do drugs. I know we're going to get some emails from mommy. I'm like, I listen with my 12 year old girl and you're telling her to do drugs. Oh, guess what? Mom, don't listen with your 12 year old. I won't even have it. I will listen with my 12 year old. This is a comedy murder podcast. It is highly inappropriate that anybody would be listening to this. At that point, that's on you,
Starting point is 00:04:19 mommy. Yes. Like don't come at us. Mommy. And then like that night she goes to bed and then it looks in the doorway and there's a glint of silver. Yeah. Who's that? One of you up. Yeah. I'm a late mommy. Hi, I'm angel dust. Good. Like government quality angel dust. Because you wouldn't let us warn your children off of angel dust. Yeah. You stop. You press stop at the point where we're talking about doing drugs and didn't listen to the rest of the podcast or we said, we said, don't do drugs under any circumstances ever do. No, I mean, we did them and look at us now. We're fucking dead. I look like I'm about 62. Yeah. Unsuccessful. But but no. I just had a couple thank yous for from the Twitter page. I love it. Because people send us amazing great
Starting point is 00:05:04 stuff. The best. Can I do some of Instagram then? Sure. Your Twitter and Instagram. Nope. Only me. Only Twitter. You absolutely can. I love it. We just had Courtney sent us pictures of her. She didn't name the person in the picture with her, but it was a picture of the two of them. They had carved pump. Oh, I have it. And I have the name of the other girl because they both posted it and I was like, I'm going to give them both a shout out because one of them is Instagram area and I've overstepped. No, but they tweeted it. Then you retweet it. Yes. But there was no names. Okay. Well, I just have no time. They carved stay sexy. Don't get murdered and you're in a cult. Call your dad into pumpkins, which must have taken hours. Yeah. Yeah. I can't carve a
Starting point is 00:05:47 fucking pumpkin like that. Every time I try to cover pumpkin, it's disappointing. And you cut your hand and you get that loop in it. And halfway through, you're like, what? I don't give a shit. And then you just eat these pumpkin seeds. Triangle for an eye. Fine. You know what? He's a cyclops. You know what? One triangle eye and one tooth. Boom. Done. Can I have another glass of wine, please? And I don't want to eat these fucking disgusting. You know, let's cook them up. No, I'm not in second grade. I'm not falling for pumpkin seeds ever again. Tension hour. But you need the fiber. You know the names? I don't. Okay. But they're sweet baby angels. It was Courtney at coffin bugs. Is her Twitter handle. Okay. Well, then the other girl is
Starting point is 00:06:25 wandering lamb on Instagram. Sweet. It could be the same girl, right? It might very well, but either way, they're friends and I think they're both tagged on the Instagram. Okay, good. If her name is on Twitter coffin bugs and then on Instagram wandering lamb, that girl contains multitudes. Obsessively. God bless her soul. But then David, whose Twitter handle is hello Dabwood, which is kind of like Dagwood with, but with a B as in boy, made an animated GIF of us driving a car. I'm driving. You've got Elvis on your lap. There's a lightning storm in this car. And then when the lightning hits, there's a murderer in the backseat, but it is so charming and well done and like adorable. Beautiful. You showed it to me and you got here because I didn't
Starting point is 00:07:09 know because I don't, because Twitter overwhelms me. And like, it's the best thing I've ever fucking seen. Isn't it the best? And he sent it to us and it said Karen and George about to go missing as fuck. And then I retweeted it and said, as if, which seemed afterwards, I thought that might be too argumentative, but David, we love it so much. I'll put it up on my favorite murder. There's a Facebook page, not the group, but there's a page. I'll put it up there. This is our new thing, right? The Facebook page where we basically control the content. You get to go look at it, interact, do all that stuff, but it's different than the Facebook group. Yeah. Yeah. Which is like interacting all kinds of shits going on there.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Yeah. I think Instagram for me, I think that if you want to see the cool shit that people make for our show, which is a fucking ton of stuff, that Instagram.com slash my favorite murder, or just my favorite murder Instagram, I just am constantly posting stuff on that because of other people's stuff. Yeah, they make so much, but it's very cool. It's just, it's crazy. And fun. And fun. And so I went so talented and I love all those artists that are like, I was listening to you and I started sketching this thing and then it turns into this beautiful. Yeah. And then people are like, I want this as a shirt. And then they go make money. I'm like, go make fucking money. I know. It's so cool. Another murder, you know, is by it. I'm so happy
Starting point is 00:08:27 for them. Just one last one, which was Allison, her Twitter handle is Turbo Alley. And she had been listening to an old episode and reminded everybody, please clean out your lint trap in your drawer. Please. And I, it makes me happy that she tweeted it, but I want to remind people as well. I worry about your homes burning down a lot because that's my personal neuroses. Well, your father was a fireman. An equally neurotic fireman who would yell at us if there was even a hint of lint in the lint trap. So I'm going to say to you. That reminds me. Yes. That there is this thing on Alice, Alyssa. Is that who this she is? It might be the same girl. Alyssa on our Facebook group made something called Karen, Georgia and Karen's rules for how to stay sexy
Starting point is 00:09:17 and not get murdered or not be a murder or murder suspect. Her name is Joanna Groom. I don't know. I think it's her, her website. Oh, okay. There's a couple. This is a running list that I will continue to add to as G and K continue to preach. Number one, if you came here to learn, you're in the wrong place. That's right. Number two, guys, if you ever find something, say something, or you look fucking suspicious, your parents won't get mad at you for being on someone's land if you find a skull. Number three, if you find a body, you should tell someone. That's true. Number four, guys, do not sell your government secrets. And it goes on and on for like, fucking, it's not like, oh my God, it's at like 129 at this point. Jesus Christ. I want to give out
Starting point is 00:09:56 the, the website, but I don't know what it is. Well, it's on the Facebook page, right? It's, I'll put it on the Facebook page. Yeah. Cool. Cool. It's my, it's hilarious. MFM podcast is the Facebook page. Thank you, Joanna, for keeping that list. It's fucking great. I love it. That's hilarious. What do you got? What corner do you have? I have, oh my God, I got recognized corner. Oh, which is always fun. This is separate from San Francisco. Yeah. But the girl messaged me on Instagram that she was her. Oh, and it was like her. She had just gotten engaged and she saw me and she was so excited. I know. Congratulations. That's a good omen. Yeah. Seeing me or getting engaged. Her seeing you the right when she got engaged. Yeah. That's exciting. That maybe she
Starting point is 00:10:38 won't get murdered by her future husband. Well, you never know. You don't ever know. I was walking out of a juice place in Los Feliz and some girl just goes, my favorite murder, which I totally get because like you see someone and you're like, I just have to say the thing that I know you're from immediately because I didn't stop and like say what, you know? Right. And I was like, yeah, like hell with juices over my head and triumph. And I was like, thank you. Because I was the first person I got recognized like in my neighborhood, you know, and she was like a cool hipster girl. Like we all are around here and I love that. Well, I have one April and I were eating in the diner. We always eat at April Richardson. Everyone's favorite adorable from
Starting point is 00:11:15 go Bayside podcast and stand up comedy. And you were eating in a diner as you do in a diner as we do. And a girl walked by outside and then walked in, pulled out her earbuds and just said, I just want to let you know, I love your podcast. I think she may have said I'm listening to her right now. Oh my God. That's always been like a dream of walking by someone whose podcast I'm listening to. Wouldn't that be the weirdest feeling in the world? Yes. But I might be just saying that because that would be a really good part of the story. But I feel like she did. Let's go with it. But anyway, that was kind of exciting. And then she left and April goes, this is like a hard day's night. It's like, it's really not. So it's exactly like that. It's
Starting point is 00:11:58 totally getting chased through the street by one person who politely came into the diner quietly and then immediately left as we sat at a table. Yeah. Eating salad. Fun times. Thanks for your support and love, you guys. It really means a lot to us. This is weird and fun. And we love it. And oh my God, I can't believe it. That was freak out corner. Yeah. There's so many corners. There's like too many corners. I don't think that it equals an actual room. No, no, it's a mansion. It's a mansion of corners. Should we do a fucking t-shirt corner? Sure. Highway. George's t-shirt corner. Now sad music is going to start playing. No, it's just going to be like, what's a good anxious song of like all the anxiety? Flight of the Bumblebee. Yes. Holy shit. And we can get
Starting point is 00:12:48 clearance on it too. Yeah. This is over 100 years old. Should I do this in the background while you do it? Yes. Would you mind? So the t-shirts keep going. The t-shirts are now back on Shopify. Okay. You can get the, all right. That's enough. Yeah. That's too hard. This is good though. Yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't concentrate. All right. The t-shirts are on myfavoritmurdershirts.com now. Okay. They're also, you know, they're everywhere. They're in, they're everywhere and nowhere. But for now, go back to my favorite murder shirts. There's the Murderino shirt and hoodies and mugs and posters and there's all the fucking, you're going to call your dad shirt. Cool shit. I was wrong to talk about the tote bag though, right? Cause Dean's tote bag. Oh, tote bag's back.
Starting point is 00:13:33 So what I really like about this shop, if I store that myfavoritmurdershirts.com is that they have black tote bags. Cool. And the place we were using before didn't have black ones and it just didn't look as cool. Oh, great. So now all of the like quotes and all the designs are on really cool black, like awesome book tote bags, which I love. And that's the Shopify website. Myfavoritmurdershirts.com. Oh, it's its own. Did you want to talk about last week when I had to drop in the correct? What if I did it again? Cause it's now changed again. Do it, please. So I'm listening to my own podcast. Quality control, man. I mean, we can say that or we could call it ego, non-control, whatever it takes. Quality control. I enjoy listening back because when we do it, oftentimes
Starting point is 00:14:19 it's just a blur. And then I go, Oh, we did say that's funny. Or do the thing where you picture someone like that you like listening to the podcast. This is what I sound like. That's when I stop listening. Cause then I'm like, Oh no. You know what I keep doing is what the fuck is wrong with my laugh? Next week, Georgia, control your laugh. It's like goofy and fucking. Don't you dare. The worst thing in the world you could do is change or control your laugh. I learned that in standup comedy, because in comedy, standing in the back, you're always trying to get people to know you're laughing at their joke. But if you try to have like, say a feminine laugh or a cute girl, whatever, just be just in that one arena, let yourself
Starting point is 00:14:59 be authentic. And don't worry about what people think because it's the most natural response that you can have. And you should let it come out. Even if it's a big snorting goose laugh, a letter. Well, can I, in that, in that fucking name, can I tell you, can I admit something to you? Is this going to get sad? Yeah. Okay. I'm a scream sneezer. I didn't fucking know it until this weekend. And past episodes, if you're fucking, if you're new, hi, we've, hi, welcome. We've talked about scream sneezers before. Yeah. And I have a real problem with them. I do too. But apparently it, it overcame you. No, I do it all the time and I never realized it. And when I asked Vince and he was, I'm like, am I a scream, because he knows who's talked about
Starting point is 00:15:46 it. And he was like, no, you're like, and I was the best husband in the world. Such a sweet angel. So I wouldn't call it screaming. It's the same thing when I asked, do I snort? Oh, no, you, you're cute. You know, like, wouldn't, I saw a yes, I fucking snort. Yeah, I scream sneeze. I mean, listen, as long as it's okay that I get mad. Oh, I don't care. Because scream sneezing legitimately scares me. It's terrifying. My mom does it too. Yeah. Like I had a roommate that all of a sudden it would just be like, like, the weirdest thing in the world that you can ever be prepared for. No. All right. Well, maybe I just, maybe, maybe we now know that scream sneezers don't know that
Starting point is 00:16:27 they're scream sneezing. It's true. And also that they can't control it there. We did get a tweet from somebody who was like, some people can't control it. She was clearly very hurt. I'm sorry if you were hurt. I'm a person of very strong opinions. But I also go back on those opinions oftentimes. It's fun to have, it's fun to be very adamant about things that you really don't give a shit about. Honestly, real life. I mean, that's like why we have a podcast. We're trying to make the time go by before we die. Entertainment people. This is what it's about. This is it. Oh, live shows still don't have bell house tickets. Oh, the bell house thing is going to get sold soon. There's people that are going out of their minds. Crazy. Stop emailing the bell
Starting point is 00:17:05 house. The bell house can't do anything. They're making a deal. So we have to wait until the deal is made. It's very businessy. It's not under our control. It's not like we're choosing to make you wait. No. So we appreciate your patience. We also understand your lack of patience. We know the feeling. It's a small venue. So we're not trying to mess with you. Yeah. And like the small venue thing is that we like booked these things before we knew that like people listen to the podcast. We booked this at the beginning of the summer when we thought we were the little podcast that could. Yeah. We were like 300 seats. How are we going to fill that? And now we just fucking sold out the Chicago podcast festival. Yeah. So we don't know what we're doing. And this is the
Starting point is 00:17:45 remnants of that. And there's going to be a bigger if you can't get to the bell house Brooklyn show on December 11th. We will be back. We're going to be back with a bigger. Very soon. Yeah. And we will high maybe high five you. Yes, exactly. And and we will literally do Karen. I don't know a bunch of other stuff. Scream sneeze right in your face. Whatever you need. I think that's it. You want that to be it. No, no, no, no, I'm kidding. You have something. I have nothing. No, I'm nothing. I don't think I have anything either. Oh, you know what I was going to say, which we don't do this that often when it's like an off topic thing. But I just want to say our friends Pat Walsh and Joda Rosa have a podcast called We'll See You in Hell that I listen to
Starting point is 00:18:27 all the time and never plug or give a shout out to you. I don't know why. It's really funny. If you like two dudes that fight about like movies, those are the two most there. If you like people who will argue anything, you know, like either side, those dudes, I can't believe they're friends. I know it's great. It's you watch their friendship kind of deteriorate and build back up every episode. But they're both softies so that they like then feel bad. They're fucking hilarious, both of them. And it's fun because if you can either watch the movie along with them in the beginning, they used to watch the movie and discuss it as it went and then you could watch it along with them. Yeah, it's always like a like a B horror movie, right? Yeah, well, I think they kind of opened
Starting point is 00:19:08 it up. So it's kind of like whatever movies they want now. But but now they just kind of discuss them. But anyway, it's totally worth your time if you are into horror movies, regular movies, or just taking our recommendation. And they're both fucking hilarious, hilarious people, comedy writers, good friends. We like them. Yeah, comedians, good stuff. They've never murdered anyone as far as we know. I just had that realization. I was listening to their podcast over the weekend. I was like, I genuinely like this. I should at least say that. That's really nice of you. I think that we should recommend a friend's podcast every episode. Yeah, it might be good. Or just things that we actually are watching like poll dark. Like what? Remember, so I said to
Starting point is 00:19:48 Georgia, a lot of people have asked us, are we going to talk about Amanda Knox special, which you you wrote about, right? For Elle magazine online. So if you haven't read Georgia's column about it for Elle magazine, look that up because Georgia does her whole summation. I didn't watch it because Georgia told me she didn't like it. And so I was like, well, if she didn't like it, I'm not gonna like it. Yeah, I don't think you needed to. And I know I'm not interested in that case because it's a one off. Did she didn't she pretty girl. There's all kinds of elements that I don't enjoy. Well, you know, what the biggest element is, is that the victim really has nothing to do with the whole story. Yeah, I don't like completely forgot. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:20:31 I don't like her foot, her crime scene photo with her foot sticking out of the blanket got more airtime than her face did. And I just like, I just don't like those stories. Right. You know, and probably feels unsatisfying. Yeah. And I mean, even though it sucks, the Jean Van Ramsey story, at least it's called the Jean Van Ramsey, it's not called the Patsy and John Ramsey story. It's like about her. Yes. But this is about, it's called Amanda Knox. You know, so I don't like that. Yeah. And so Georgia wrote that I texted and said, do you want me to watch it so we can have a discussion about it? And Georgia basically said, I didn't like it. So, and then I'm like, well, if you didn't like it, I'm not going to like it. And immediately you tried to get out of my homework.
Starting point is 00:21:12 And then I said, go ahead. No, no, go ahead. I said, just watch a British procedural. So I immediately downloaded season one and two of Poll Dark. If you buy OLE, P-O-L-D-A-R-K. Poll Dark. That's his last name. Ross Poll Dark. If you like bodice rippers combined with a mining, politics of living in a mining town. Oh, that's my, that's my favorite topic. I mean, who wouldn't right there on the coast of England? Yeah. Get in. That's what I majored in. Get in there. Go to college. Someone's going to write and be like, they're in Wales or whatever. I don't fucking know. It was one big green mountain and I loved it. I watched every episode. Oh, I like that. I'm never going to watch it. Perfect. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:21:56 What makes a person a murderer? Are they born to kill or are they made to kill? I'm Candice DeLong. And on my new podcast, Killer Psyche Daily, I share a quick 10 minute rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the criminal masterminds, psychopaths, and cold-blooded killers you hear about in the news. I have decades of experience as a psychiatric nurse, FBI agent, and criminal profiler. On Killer Psyche Daily, I'll give you insight into cases like Ryan Grantham and the newly arrested Stockton serial killer. I'll also bring on expert guests to dive deeper into the details, share what it's like to work with a behavioral assessment unit at Quantico, answer some killer trivia, and even host virtual Q&As where I'll
Starting point is 00:22:46 answer your burning questions. Hey, Prime members, listen to the Amazon Music Exclusive Podcast Killer Psyche Daily in the Amazon Music app. Download the app today. Should we murder time? Let's murder it up. I'm excited about mine. Mine is usually three or four pages. Yeah. This one's six. I'm not going to take up all the time, but there's just so much information. Do you want to jump right in? Yeah, can I go first? Do it. I think I'm first this time. Yeah, yeah. All right. And it's very important whether or not we know who's first. Otherwise, we'll just get so much hate mail. That's not true either. All right. Karen, I mentioned it last week. Are you ready for the Texas eyeball killer? Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Yes, I am. Are you? Are you sure? Yeah, I really am. Okay. I've got my protective eyewear on. Yeah. If people have, I was thinking about how a lot of people have eyeball issues. Yeah, they're gross. Eyeballs are gross and attacking eyeballs are gross. Attacking eyeballs is fucked. Yeah. Like what is wrong with you? Yeah, don't worry. I don't get too into like the gory eyeball details, but there's a couple things. And he's called the fucking Texas eyeball killer. So he did some stuff that we need to really look into. Yes. Okay. Are you ready for it? I think I am. Here we go. So in December 13th, 1990, in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was found. She was a 33-year-old well-known prostitute in the area.
Starting point is 00:24:17 I don't know what well-known means. It's like that everyone hang out with her. What's friends with her? Yeah. A sex worker, I think we're supposed to say. Yeah, sex worker. She was last seen in mid-December on a Dallas street corner trying to pick up clients, and her body was found at 420 in the morning on a Dallas street, just on a street laying face up filling a bra on t-shirt on. I saw the crime scene photo. Bad news. Her shirt was pulled up. I mean, yeah, it's very bad news. She had been shot in the back of the head with a.44 caliber gun. So the medical examiner said that the killer had removed both of her eyes and taken them with him. Oh. Fuck yeah. I wish he hadn't done that.
Starting point is 00:25:03 Yeah, man. Let's see here. They were removed post-mortem with such precision that there was no damage to the upper or lower lip. What? Then it goes on to explain the intricacies of removing an eyeball and all the things which I won't get into. Okay. But it's like complete. It's not like pluck. You don't pluck. No, no. My mom used to work in the ophthalmology department at Kaiser. Oh, God, no. Not to say in any way, say because of that, I know anything about removing it. So you do it all the time then. But I think I've seen that poster of the medical poster would be more than I would have liked to. Right. Like what connects this to that?
Starting point is 00:25:45 Yeah. Well, he did that all without like fucking, the person did that all without fucking any of that out. That's okay. So clearly he has an understanding of medical. It's very Jack the Rippery. Yes. But in 1990. Yeah. She also had blunt force injuries and but the cause of death was a gunshot wound. So then in February, on February 10th, 1991, so just a couple months later, in South Dallas outside the city limits, Susan Peterson, who was also a sex worker, was found dead. The reason I said prostitute is they worked on the street. It was like not a great neighborhood. Just in general for money, no one had money. So they worked on the street. So they weren't, you know, sex workers and that they were all girls. I think that's the whole point.
Starting point is 00:26:31 I know. But I just want everyone to understand the like the what they were doing, which was different than there was nothing high class about it. No, no. You know, they were, yeah, it sucks. So she was found dead, shot three times and twice in the head and once in her boob breast, I think I'm supposed to say. And she also had her eyes removed. And what's weird is that he, the person closed the lids after he did it too. So they, they wasn't, they weren't found to have their eyes missing until they got their autopsies. It's all intentional and it's all tricky and creepy. Like what would you, what do you think your motive would be to take eyes? It's like seriously. Yeah, because it's not gouging out, like don't look at me. Stabby stab. Yeah, it's removal. Like I'll,
Starting point is 00:27:18 as if it's evidence, like taking them. Yeah. Okay. So two months later after Susan Peterson was found, the body of a 27 year old woman was found in the same area. Oh wait, no, this is Susan Peterson. Sorry. She was found in at 745 a.m. And she worked in the same neighborhood as the, this is the first woman and she was last seen walking the streets, looking for clients, found laying face up with only a shirt on, pulled up over her breasts, the same MO. Same exact way to find the woman. Yes. So then a month after the second victim was found on March 18th, 1991, and Shirley Williams, who was a 42 year old woman working as a part-time sex worker in Dallas, was found dead. And she was completely nude. She had facial bruises and a broken nose and had been
Starting point is 00:28:11 shot in the face through the top of the head. Stephen, are you going to vomit? You're kind of like, you're kind of, you're moving in a way that's. Eyeballs freak me out too. Do they? Do you want to go sit in the other room? No, no, I'll be okay. Let me know if you need some air. You look, I kind of saw you weaving in the background, like, oh no. She had superficial injuries around the eyes and face and part of an exacto knife blade was found in one of the wounds. Sorry, eye wound? No, no, no, no. Okay. Okay. Okay. Fucking God. Oh, so she was stabbed hard enough that it broke off? Or broke off? No, I, yeah, I think he stabbed her and it broke off. Yeah. That's not good. Both eyes had been
Starting point is 00:28:53 removed. So then a pair of patrol officers cut to this after the first three women had been found, two cops remembered an incident from a few months prior. There was a woman named Veronica Rodriguez, also a sex worker, and she claimed she had been attacked and she claimed she had been taken into the woods and raped, then ran to a friend's house and he rescued her. So the rescuer was a guy who was a truck driver named Axton Schindler. And he said he was only giving her a ride, didn't know anything about the attack or the injuries, super shady and weird. But the police questioned him and his address was 1035 El Dorado Street. So they wondered if the attacker was the eyeball killer and they decided to re-question Schindler to find out if he had seen
Starting point is 00:29:55 something. He was a weirdo himself. He collected trash and stuff. So they discovered that 1035 El Dorado wasn't actually his address. He'd put a fake address on the license out of paranoia, but the property belonged to someone named Fred Albright, but he was dead. So a couple months go by, they're trying to figure out who this fucking killer is and then a deputy over here is them talking about this whole situation of Schindler and Albright and he remembers a phone call weeks before with a woman who said that she was friends with one of the victims of the eyeball killer. So she had been friends with Mary Lou Pratt, the first victim. And she said that the victim had once dated a man named Charles Albright and the reason that stuck out to her was that he had
Starting point is 00:30:44 a weird obsession with eyes and kept exacto knife blades in his addicts. In his what? Attic? Attic. I always say addict. But you mean the room above your house? Attic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know why I do that. Okay. So I just want to make sure. No, you're addict. That's what I fucking kept it in his addict, his friend who was an addict. Did you hold these for me? Hey, man. He did. Hey, man, I got some real good government coke. So Charles, this fucking addict dude was the son of the guy who owned that home. Okay. So Fred Albright's son and he had inherited that location. So let's talk about Charles Albright. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, and he was adopted from an orphanage by Dell and Fred Albright. His mother was kind of loco. Loco? Can we get that out? Who the
Starting point is 00:31:36 fuck am I? Kind of crazy. Loco? Never said that before. We're just trying to change it up a little. I don't know. His adopted mom was a school teacher and she was super strict and over protected. She over protected. She like made him study a lot and he ended up skipping two grades because he was so fucking smart. And she pampered him like crazy. She kept goats in the backyard so he could drink goats milk, which she said was better for him than cows milk. She occasionally put him in little girls' dresses and gave him a doll to hold. She would change his clothes a couple times a day to keep dirt off of him. So loco. She was loco. She was straight up. Yeah. And she was afraid that he might touch dog feces and get polio. So she took him to the hospital to see the polio
Starting point is 00:32:25 patients locked in huge iron lungs. What? That doesn't keep you from touching. No. And dog feces isn't where you fucking get polio, bro. It's the air. Like it's just the air. You know? That's so awful. I know. But this is the thing my brain always flashes. Can you imagine a parent today taking their child to witness something? Yeah, exactly. Don't touch the stove. Look at all these people who have been have third degree burns. However, I think my aunt, one time my cousin, he was little, lit the fucking kitchen on fire because he was doing that thing with matches where you flick them after you light them. Yes. Lit the whole kitchen on fire. This is in the 70s. So he was not being watched. And it was his fault for playing with matches, not their fault for
Starting point is 00:33:08 not leaving them around or leaving them smoking 24 hours a day. Right. And I think that they took him to the burn ward to be like, this is what fucking happens when you play with matches. And how was he after that? He's fine now. He's kind of, he's kind of mean to me when we were little. Kind of sadistic to me before, after the burn ward visit after. Yeah. So he's still working some stuff out. Yeah. But he's like, fine now. I mean, I think you need to trust your children better that you don't have to traumatize them to get the lesson through their, through their head. I think you should teach them not to fucking play with fire to begin with. I mean, I just remember when I lit the bed on fire, my mom screams were enough to keep me from ever doing
Starting point is 00:33:47 it again. Yeah. That's the secret. Because she looked at me like, what the hell is wrong with you? And I was like, I, I don't know. You have no, you have an excuse for being like, I hate when you do something. You're like, this is something a stupid person would do. Yeah. I have no like, am I a stupid person? My thing was like, can you please just pay attention to me? Like, I just, I'm really fun. Yeah. I think of great stuff. Get off the phone. Get off the mother fucking phone. Hang up that long courted. What was it? Fucking Marygold or was it? Yes, it was Marygold. Shut up. I swear to God. Because that's the entire 70s was Marygold. It really was. It really was. I see her fucking sitting there, twisting the big long court around her very
Starting point is 00:34:27 manicured fingernail. What are they even talking about? If she was probably talking to her friend, Pat Ronkin in Florida, and they were just talking about the good old days. Ronkin? Ronkin. Oh, damn it. With an N. Addict. But she was Ronkin. She was the best. Oh my gosh. Okay. Sorry anyway. No, this was the best. All right. See you later. Are you leaving? Okay. So she would take him to the polio, to look at the polio patients. And those polio patients were like, fuck you. Don't use me as an example. I didn't touch dog shit. The idea. Yeah, really. I never touched. Don't put that on me. The idea of being in an iron lung where just your head is sticking out is such a goddamn nightmare. For months. Horrible. Oh, those poor babies. Yeah. And then she said to him,
Starting point is 00:35:10 you can spend the rest of your life here. She would tell him. But she was it's from what I read. She was very protective and loving of him in a way because she wanted him to know that she was never going to abandon him and that she loved him. Like it doesn't seem like she was doing it wrong. I know. I don't think she was abusive, but she was attentions were good. Yeah. She was overbearing and didn't really understand how to parent. Yeah. She was letting her neuroses take priority over his well being. And it sounds like she had a lot of neuroses aside from what she did to her kid. But he she doesn't sound like a bad person. She just wasn't she was scared. I think she would have had a little bit of a mental illness. Yeah. Oh, well, however, the next line says,
Starting point is 00:35:51 when he was less than a year old, she put him in a dark room as punishment for chewing on her tape measure. Man, Elvis choose on my tape measure all the time. No, no dark rooms for babies. Absolutely. We agreed that in 2017. You know what's scary when you're a kid, the dark room, you're not scared and you're adult, the dark room. Don't do it. And then when you know it's scary, I just said it was 2017. You know, it's scarier. I didn't even fucking notice. Is it? No, not yet. Let's let's hold this episode till 2017. So we sound normal. This one goes in the vault like Disney style. I keep I keep reading more awful stuff that makes me take back everything I just said. When he wouldn't take a nap, she would tie him to the
Starting point is 00:36:34 bed. She was abusive. When he wouldn't drink his milk, she would spank him. She would make him drink goat's milk. Have you? I've never had goat's milk. No, I haven't. And I'd like to take an aside right now and say that everyone listening, spanking is abuse. Don't fucking spank your kids. Oh, man. Karen? That's why I don't have kids. And then the problem never even comes up. Should I? Shouldn't I? Nope. I should go to the movies by myself. That's what I should do. You know, what's great is being an aunt and getting to go away after. That's right. And then they have to take care of you when you're old. That's what I figured out recently. That's pretty right. Oh, and then she lectured him about the way his father, the father acted greedy with sex.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Oh, no. As a child, she told him that whenever the dad saw her in the bedroom in her bra in underwear, he tried to grab her. She was going to have none of that. And she was going to make sure that Charlie never tried anything like that with his friends, his girlfriends either. Oh, and he he rolled her. She'd chauffeured them every time they went on a date. She would call the girl's parents, let them know that her son would not do anything untoward. Lady. But that was the 50s too. So I don't know, like, so she was on pills. She was on vacuum pills. I think she had an amazing cut, an amazing figure. Like she just didn't need. She wore four girdles and she was super high on speed. She ate a triangle of toast every morning with tomatoes of cottage cheese. Tomato and cottage
Starting point is 00:38:07 cheese. Lady. Tomato and cottage cheese. I mean, okay, so much about life. Yeah. So for some reason, he got his first gun as a teenager and he'd kill small animals with it. But his mom would help him stuff them due to his interest in becoming a taxidermist. This guy had no chance. No, he got super into fucking taxidermy. But his mom was super cheap and weird and like wouldn't spend any money on anything. So instead of spending the money on the glass eyes that one would buy for taxidermied birds and squirrels and shit, she was like, we don't need to do that. So instead they would get two dark buttons. And so people come over and look at their taxidermy and it'd be this, it's like that's that movie Coraline. Coraline. So I wonder who the eyeball killer is right now. Are we going
Starting point is 00:38:53 to go ahead and make a guess? I mean, this is like all arrows pointing to, what's his name, Dan? No, it's Charles Albright. Charles. Chuck. Chuck Danny Albright. Chuck Danny. You never had a goddamn chance. Poor baby. But it seemed like he, so all of these like Wikipedia articles and these other things just make him seem like a crazy, you know, like a gross drifter, like killer. But this other article I read, it was just like, he was a, he was very, very fucking intelligent. But at age 13, he was a, he's a petty theft, whatever, I agree with assault. He graduated from high school at age 15 because he was so fucking smart. And then he went to the North Texas University. He wanted to train as a medical
Starting point is 00:39:39 doctor and a surgeon. He wanted to train as a surgeon. Yeah. Yeah. And at 16, the police caught him with some stolen petty cash. He spent a year in jail at 16. And then he went back to school, he majored in pre-med studies, but was found with stolen items again and is expelled, but not prosecuted. So we had a kid compulsion control problem. What's that called? Compulsion control. I made it up. That's what it's called from now on. I think so. Impulse control. Impulse control. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dig it. So he got kicked out of school. So he did what everyone else would do, which is that he gave himself a fictitious bachelor's and master's degree. He forged himself. Problem solved. I mean, he knows everything anyway. I mean,
Starting point is 00:40:31 it sounds like it. Yeah. He's like, so it turns out I'm an eye doctor. Yep, here you go. Here's my forged shit. But he had like done it by breaking into like the fucking head of the college's office and like using the right typewriter and everything. So it all looked like he was very kind of a master's in forgery. I mean, if you at that point, you can do that, you deserve it. Yeah, you deserve something, you know? Yeah. Thank you. I don't know. Society, man. Yeah, man. College. I think I have a thing against college because I never went and I hate college. Okay, me too. But somehow he married his college girlfriend. I don't know, man. Some women just fucking. Well, come on, danger. Chuck danger. Yeah. You're gonna get near that shit. She's
Starting point is 00:41:15 bored of all these dumb college students at Arkansas State Teachers College. She's like yon a clock. Yes, he's dangerous. He's dangerous. He's not grabby. Yeah. He's not afraid of the dark anymore. He doesn't grab her when she's in her underwear and bra. He loves buttons. Great. He's got a master's and he's got a master's and a bachelor's turns out. They got married if they had a kid and he started teaching high school science. There's a photo of him and like a school photo. Okay, so this guy, he seems like this criminal. He's this normal fucking smart guy with friends that goes to church. That is like everyone likes. No one can believe it. One of those guys. Yeah. He's not like a gross, like his fucking mugshot
Starting point is 00:41:56 is creepy, but he wasn't like he had a life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He says he had a pipe or like ability to captivate people and he so in 1965, he and his wife separated and because he got caught stealing again, and he served less than six months, he loved to steal. He loved. He had a compulsion to steal. Maybe just to see me get away with it. And also like we see you and I were talking before the show started about stealing it. There's something to it too, where you just like when you have that thing of like, I need this. Yeah. Like you rationalize needing something. I used to steal a lot and it was like, it was like, it was like a fuck you. I never stole from like people or.
Starting point is 00:42:42 Did you steal from like CVS? Yeah. Yeah. That's like the teen girls. Yeah. Right of passage. And I was poor and didn't have money and like to have enough for things that like everyone else got to have. And I felt like justified. Yeah. I felt justified and like fuck you everyone. I want this too. I will have three wet and wild lipsticks. Yes. Yeah. Fucking that crazy pink that I then were to raves. Yes. That lip liner that's so long, it'll last you like seven years. Yes. And doesn't be any purse that like maroon one. And the irony there is that wet and wild makeup is so cheap. And yet that's the one that everyone's doing. I know. So funny. But then you're like, well, you paid three cents to make this with fucking slave labor. Yeah. So give me
Starting point is 00:43:24 mine. Give me mine. Don't steal. Don't do drugs. Don't steal. Don't do drugs. We used to do pink. There would be a pink lipstick, but then you took frosty white eyeshadow and put it on your lips while the gloss was still wet. Ew. And so you had the frostiest pink lipstick of all time. Frosty pink lipstick was fucking in. 84, baby. Yes. All right. Anyway. Love it. Sidebar. Sidebar nation. Okay. But so he, so everyone loved him. He, everyone, all the neighbors trusted him. Here's a funny thing. He was asked by local residents to babysit their children. I'm sorry. Well, he was, but his whole act was working. I know. Being a big dealer. I'm sorry. Who the fuck lets grown men babysit their children? Oh, yeah. No, that's my problem. And also this was not
Starting point is 00:44:20 long ago. This wasn't like Albert Fishtime. You're like, yeah, let the old baby system as like recent 81 where like all of that hadn't, they didn't believe the children still. And you're like, my uncle fucking touched me. Like shut the fuck up. How dare you? Yeah. It was all burbling to the surface. Yeah. I think, I think towards the end of the 80s is when they were like, Oh shit, don't leave your kid alone with a grown man. Yeah. Got it. Don't, don't, don't accept help from a grown man who wants to help you with your kids. Yeah. He doesn't, he's not being a nice guy. He's, and also grown men. If you're not a monster, don't try to fucking babysit kids. Yeah. Find another outlet. Yeah. Ride horses or something. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:57 They'll find someone else. Don't you have a fantasy something team that you need to maintain? Watch the dogs. Fine. Even the cats don't offer to watch the children. Just get a bunch of dogs. Yeah. We've solved it. Done. Done. Look at us. Legislation with corner with Karen in Georgia. It's so easy. Let's see. Oh, but then guess what? In 1981, while visiting some friends, he sexually enlisted their nine year old daughter. Oh no. And this is when his whole facade started to crumble. He was prosecuted and pled guilty, but he and received, I'm sorry, what did he receive for this? Fucking what? Probation. But he said that he said he said he pled guilty because he didn't want it to become a big thing. He wanted to kind of keep it a secret so no one knew about
Starting point is 00:45:45 it because he, but he quote, didn't do it, but he still pled guilty to it. Whatever. Okay. At this point, he falls in love with a woman named Dixie. And then he starts, he takes a paper route in the early morning and it turns out it's so he could visit prostitutes without raising his wife's suspicions, his new wife. Yeah. Adult paper routes are suspicious as far. Yeah. Get a fucking telemarketing job, bro. So, so we're back to this woman being like, yeah, my friend who died, Mary Lou Pratt, was friends with Charles and he was into fucking eyeballs and not fucking but it is an eyeballs and stuff. Yeah. And there's proof that he was friends with her way before she came across a fucking sex worker in the early 80s. Mary lived in South Dallas neighborhood while all rights
Starting point is 00:46:34 parents had invested in cheap rental property. And he was living in one of the rental homes and he had a brief fling with one of Mary's friends and had brought them over to the house for parties so they knew each other already. And then when she started to become a sex worker, he became one of her customers. And she said that old man Albright was a good trick, willing to pay a little more than the going rate. But he's claiming from jail now. I just spoiled the whole thing. He's claiming that he didn't even visit prostitutes. I mean, why would he admit that? Yeah. So I think she was his first kind of forehand who into sex work. Yeah. Says he would pick them up, talk to them, take them to get a hamburger and drop them back off.
Starting point is 00:47:25 That sounds like a perfect date. Yeah. Well, sorry. What's what's he paying for there besides hamburgers? I don't know. But I think eventually he started to do it. Okay. So people pop. Let's see. Okay. I'd March 22 91. He's arrested and charged with three counts of murder. Oh, bless you. That's how you do it. That was okay. I get it. I get it. No, I fucking get it. How did the first time either of us have sneezed on this podcast in 38 episodes? Especially a fucking closed room full of cats. I know. And I don't I'm going to be honest. I don't fucking vacuum that couch much. So. All right. Sorry. Go ahead. No, that was an amazing speech. Let's see. So but eventually he was known by several street sex workers. I know.
Starting point is 00:48:17 He was violent towards them. So that was a growing thing. Like when it started out, he was all hamburgers and cute. Yeah. And then it basically he got comfortable. Yeah. And started to be able to do whatever he wanted to do. They said that one said that he beat her with an extension cord or a belt to achieve orgasm. Another told a reporter that he would another told her that he would kill her if she tried to take advantage of him. And he and also he was known to have an abnormal obsession with eyes. And he would remove the eyes from dolls and photographs. Yeah. Like get another M.O. Because if you have this thing in your daily life, it's like if you're the bicycle killer and you're obsessed with bicycles,
Starting point is 00:48:59 like become the skateboard killer instead, you know, change it up so the cops won't find you immediately. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, come on. It's his obsession. All right. Stephen with the Britney Spears movie, he just can't stop thinking about it every moment of every day. Yeah. He's like, oops, I did it again. Yeah. Thought about it. That wasn't that funny, was it? Thank you. Well, it was to me. I appreciate that, Karen. That's why we're partners. I don't fake laugh at you. I know you don't. And I love it. And when you laugh at me, it's always, I've always, it's like, it's like you're screams nosing because I'm like, what? Well, I was surprised. You're shocked. Pleasantly shocked.
Starting point is 00:49:40 Okay. So, all right. So here's, all right. So the reason I found this whole murder is because on crack.com, yeah, my favorite late night fucking read the best website crack.com dude, there was one, one list called five suspicious details of famous crimes. No one can explain. Sorry, I would read that for hours. Yes. Make that list 500 please. I am there there. So the weird thing about this case is that this fucking this dude from the beginning, if you'll remember, what I can't remember, axed on Axton, the driver, the truck driver, they were like, well, what's his connection? He, his driver's license had the address of the killer's father. How does that make any sense? This guy must have been part of it or known. No fucking connection
Starting point is 00:50:32 at all. What? He just happened to live in a rental property that was owned by the killer. So there's no connection. He just, the guy who picked up the, the truck driver who picked up this woman who had been beaten up and gave her right home. I don't believe it. I know, but it's true. Pretty sure. Like he just is clean on the deal, even though he knows the parent of the killer or the attempted killer. He, he happened to live in a rental property that was owned by the Albright's and he happened to use another of their addresses as his fake address. And he just happened to be at the, there at the time to pick up one of his would be victims. I'm sorry. Three happened to bees in one man's life adds up to a whole bunch of year full of shit.
Starting point is 00:51:19 Right. That shit down, man. That was amazing. It's just coming out of my mouth. So the cops interrogating him for hours, thinking there had to be a connection, not a single witness had ever seen him before. And there was no physical evidence that he had even ever been at the crime scenes or knew about Albright's murderous hobby at all in general. This is Schindler you're talking about. Yeah. Okay. He seemed to have no idea what was going on. He helped a woman in need and that's all he fucking knew about. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. But now, okay. So wait, let me, let me. Also weren't you a little suspicious of like, of cross country truck drivers because of so many terrible forensic files?
Starting point is 00:51:56 Yes. Where it's like they have murder barns all across the Midwest. Well, you're going into a small, like if you're, you know, sex worker, you're going to a small enclosed place that they know where things, I mean, no. Yeah. I know. But he's, he's innocent. Yeah. Well, yes. Okay. All right. Well, let's go back to the trial after all, after Charles Albright gets arrested. December 13th, 1991. Like, doesn't this seem like an old-timey crime, like from the 70s? Completely. Aren't you picturing like? You said 1990. I was genuinely shocked. I know. Aren't you thinking of like old fucking Cadillac civils and shit?
Starting point is 00:52:33 Yes. Like, yeah. It's 91, which I guess is a long time ago for a certain, for 12 year olds whose mom's let them listen to this fucking podcast. Hi. So the evidence was that eight hairs that match Shirley Williams, one of the victims was found in Albright's vacuum cleaner. Okay. That's not good. That's just a, that's kind of cool, right? Like, but who had the job of going through the vacuum? Like, did that really happen? Or did they just like push some fucking? I mean, we cannot know, but that's a, that's like a forensic job. That's what you're signing up for. Yeah, dude. There's people who are listening who might know the answer to that.
Starting point is 00:53:09 That's true. Maybe they've done it before. Yeah, that's right. Email us. They got a pair of tweezers, some old Revlon's CVS that they shoplifted, and they're just going through that dust bag and they're like killed by molecule. It's only because their boss doesn't like them, but they had got that job. That's the shit job. They mouthed off at lunch. Yeah. Man, that's the shit job. They drank too much at the fucking company picnic and called somebody a fat bastard. Oh really? Well, you'll be picking through the vacuum cleaner bag this week, Dunhill. Damn it. Shit. I did it again. Oh, I always, okay. We can just, that could be forever. Whole forever. All right. And then
Starting point is 00:53:46 three pubic hairs from a blanket at Shirley Williams murder scene were matched to Albright. They also found hair, he found hair on a yellow raincoat that matched his hair that was near one of the bodies. Can I, should I mention at this moment that about hair? Yes. Well, that's what I was totally thinking too, is I think in like the first episode, I had read the news story that they have proven that that's not a thing anymore. Conclusive, right? Yeah. Which I just find kind of hard to, I find maybe not as, not as conclusive as they originally thought. Right. That hair evidence and fiber evidence. Like if you find a purple fiber and the fucking on the body of a dead person and the person that
Starting point is 00:54:30 you think is the suspect because of connections also has a purple carpet, like you can't just convict them on the purple carpet, but if there's other connection. Right. If it's one piece of many that are all fitting together, but then that's all, that all speaks to like, when you're looking for patterns, will you see those patterns? And the other fucking, the other part of that is, do you have a good prosecuting attorney and do you have a shitty defense attorney? Right. You know what I mean? Yes. Man. Yeah. So then three hairs from the head of Susan Peterson were found on a blanket in Albright's truck. So all three of them had hair that were connected to him. That's impossible. That's when you're like, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:09 So December 18th, 91, the jury found him guilty, received a sentence of five years to life, but only for the murder of Shirley Williams. It's the only one he got convicted on. Five years. Five to life. Who are we? Where are we? What's happening? I mean, why naturally isn't that 15 to life? I don't know. Five. Five. How old was he? Do you know? Like, was he older? He was in his fifties. Okay. No. Not old enough that like, and the other thing is, everyone's like, he's going to be in there for 15 years. And it's like, my dad is fucking 71. That's not that old anymore. Right. And also he killed people. He murdered people. He murdered innocent people who didn't deserve to die. No. He got, well, he got fucking probing on a fucking molestation,
Starting point is 00:55:52 probing, do people call it that? I don't know. That's low. I bet you anything. I bet you that's police lingo. Proby. For probation. Yes. I'm going to fucking, doesn't it sound like it should be? Yes, for sure. Proby. Proby. We're definitely calling it that from Noah. Cops email us. So he's at the Clemens unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Amarillo. And he's a motherfucking piece of shit, but he's saying from prison that he's like, he will not admit to any of it. He's blaming fucking Schindler and saying it's him. Oh, interesting. Yeah. And I love, but there's just no, there's no evidence. Everything about like the woman who Rodriguez who said he, she attacked him, another woman who knew him, everyone saw a photo line up and picked
Starting point is 00:56:45 him. Like it's fucking him. And he grew up obsessed with eyes. Yeah. And he has, he was trained as a, he was in like medical student surgeon. Like what's more of a coincidence that this dude used to live in this guy's house and put another one of his addresses down or, and that he'd killed it or killed them or that this fucking eyeball obsessed fucking overbearing pet of mother overbearing crazy mom who'd dress him up in women's clothes, not to say that there's anything wrong with boys dressing up in women's clothes. As long as they're doing it themselves. Exactly. You get to do it. Yeah. It's all about choice. Yes. As many things are. Yes. But, but also he's a proven, repeated, and seemingly remorseless criminal. And he is, what do they call that? It's getting worse as the
Starting point is 00:57:37 years go by. Each crime gets a little worse than he becomes a, he's a child molester. He seems like he feels like he's entitled. Yes. Like I did when I used to shoplift. But I'm better now. Well, but I would never fucking shoplift now. Your, your, um, your crimes never escalated. Yeah. The thought of shoplifting now horrifies me. The thought that I did that when I was, I'm not like, Hey, it's a job. It's, I'm so embarrassed about that time. Right. Because now you know the, the, uh, I was going to say side effects. I have a moral compass. Yes. Exactly. And it actually affects other people. Yeah. We're talking about a person who's probably a sociopath. And who, or more, but the, but the idea, I mean, I have to say, and I hate to sound this way,
Starting point is 00:58:20 I don't hate to sound this way. I am this way. The idea that he removed eyes, that he, that there was an additional thing to his straight up murders that, that you would, that it's very common of the serial killers to kill sex workers in, in their mind, have this pseudo kind of righteous, uh, almost religious thing about, as if they're cleaning up the streets or something like that. This extra detail of taking eyes and closing eyelids is so morbidly fascinating to me. You know, what's really weird about it too, if you think about it, is that these women were killed pretty brutally. They were beat up. They were stripped of their clothes. They were raped. They were shot. Yet he carefully, systematically removed it. He didn't gouge their eyes out and
Starting point is 00:59:04 fucking, you know, take them and run away. He very, you had to do that probably slowly and carefully and with the right tools. Yeah. So it wasn't a fit of crazy rage that he just went into. Also, and nobody wants to think about this, but if you just for one second think about how insanely hideous it would be to remove someone's eyes. Yeah. And I mean, what did he do with them? Where did he put them? They never found them. They never found anything. Not his eyes. Not their eyes. What if there's like a rental space somewhere? There's got to be so much shit. There's just six jars of eyes staring out at you. I always wonder, wasn't there like a, the reality show where they bid on blind lots where they would buy
Starting point is 00:59:48 a rental space? Storage unit? Storage wars. What if you fucking, there's an episode of storage wars, they throw open a door. Eyeballs. Just fucking six eyeballs staring out. I'll pay a thousand. Can I start the bid at a thousand, please? That was good. That's a eyeball killer, man. That's good. I didn't even really know much about that. Thank you, cracked. I knew nothing except for when you mentioned it and immediately assumed it was like the torso killer in Ohio, like 30 style old fashioned murderer. Yeah. Cause it feels like old timey. And the other thing is that about this guy that is suspicious is that he was this child muster, this criminal, this like fucking great, you know, and yet he, he had this charming
Starting point is 01:00:34 normal life. It wasn't like he was living, you know, off the grid and as a like drifter. No, he had the mask on tight. He maintained, man. Yeah. And you know, there's all these comments of people, the normal comments of, I can't believe it, not him. No way. It's amazing. He was such a nice guy, you know, and then this family is like, he molested our daughter. Yeah. Shocked. Crazy. Yeah. That's some fucked up shit, man. He was a scream sneeze of a human being. This is what he was. Oh my God. I just scared Mimi so bad. I just screamed, laughed. I'm sorry, Mimi. Oh my gosh. She's lost her mind. She'll be alright. Mimi seems fragile. She's very. She's like, please. She was found on a dumpster. All right.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Well, should I do mine? No. I mean, I'm going to blaze through this because here's the thing. Did I take too long? No, no, no, no. I loved it. It was so good. Should I do mine? That's what this podcast is. I didn't mean it. First of all, mine is a heavy hitter and I feel like a lot of people know this one. I definitely, a lot of people have written to us and requested that we do this guy. And rain all over your parade. No, no, no. Take your fucking time, man. It's Edmund Kemper, the co-ed killer. Yeah. It's the man who was six foot nine, Steven, six foot nine. That in and of itself is scary and intimidating. So intimidating. Sorry to all you super tall guys out there, but it is. And when you see video of Edmund Kemper walking with cops, I see a big guy too,
Starting point is 01:02:08 like not just like a tall skinny or is he big? I mean, he's not humongous. Yeah. He is proportionate, but when he walks through doorways, he has to duck. It's he's that tall. Six nine is out of control. And to imagine that on top of that, he's a psychotic, paranoid, schizophrenic, psychopathic killer. It's so upsetting. Do you think he went crazy because people kept asking him if he plays basketball? I was wondering about telling people how fucking sick of that. They're so sick of it. And also it's like people expect them to be good. And then when they're not, they're like, I don't fucking play basketball. I don't even like basketball. I'm not into, I love golf. Did you play basketball, man? Dude, you must love basketball. Oh, fuck you.
Starting point is 01:02:50 All right. So just to briefly also, I don't like doing these ones because I don't like to talk about the serial killer themselves like they're a star. I fucking hate that. Like knowing their whole life when really it's like, fuck you. This one woman that you murdered's life is way more important than your whole life. Right. Well, and also you rendered your own life like a shitty of shitty factoid list because of the actions that you acted out in that life. So you made them obvious in this fucking example of what serial killers are like. Yeah. But it's not impressive to me. It's not. And also when you see this person interviewed, to me, all I think is what a waste because he was really smart. He was a big giant that was also a genius. No one ever knew he was a genius because
Starting point is 01:03:34 he had a terrible mother, which is kind of sometimes a theme on the show. Another abusive, like obsessive, controlling dominant mother who was impossible to please and yes, all dominant mothers. I mean, so let's see, it just basically goes like this. He was born in Burbank, California. What? Are you fucking serious? That's where I live. That's crazy. He, his parents had a bad marriage. They divorced when Ed was nine and his mother moved him to Helena, Montana. And there he, all he wanted was a father. And instead, this one article said he had a string, a subsequent string of stepfathers. But then when I looked into it, it seemed like his mother only got remarried one other time. She probably just dated. She probably dated. And also,
Starting point is 01:04:32 I think the evil mother kind of recurring theme is a thing that people very easily can kind of fill in the blank. She got married all the time. She was an old bitchy slut. I mean, it's like, to me, that's what kept coming out was like, well, what if she was, what if he was a six foot nine monster that she had to control and didn't know what to do? It comes me out that they blame it on like the mom who stayed and raised him and but not the daddy fucking single mom later date. Yeah. But I mean, who knows? Who knows the details? I just feel like there's, there's always this a little bit of that where it's like, okay, she was mean and domineering. But now she married a bunch of people like, yeah, whatever. And the and marrying a bunch of people was like, oh, you're a
Starting point is 01:05:14 fucking shitty mom and a slut. Well, maybe just maybe love. Let's just put it out there. Maybe not. Maybe not. So but he in his like early teens, he starts to display his anti social personality traits. So him and his sister, this made me laugh when I was watching this a really good British series that you can find on YouTube, like any killer you want, there will be this British series that comes up and they just give you tons of information and really good facts. I have no idea what the title is. No idea. I can I'll tell you next week, it'll be like a fun surprise. Yeah, it's like surprise crime and evidence, British accent. And it's also not on BBC. It's not on anything I would recognize. It's almost like an independent, all the people in
Starting point is 01:06:03 England right now are like giving me all kinds of two fingers up in the air. Yeah. For not knowing this. Yeah. So but if you look up Evan Kemper, it's the first documentary series on him on YouTube. It's called Crimes and stuff and crimes and crumpets and British accents. Yeah. So how many sister would play a game called gas chamber where his sister would throw pellets into his room and then close the door and he would pretend he was dying of asphyxiation. Oh, that sounds normal. That's it made me laugh so hard because I was and then it was like a bunch of stuff of like then he would make his sister's dolls have sex. I was like, yeah, standard fare. I did that. Everybody did that. I stole my brother's G.I.J.s and they would totally bone Barbie.
Starting point is 01:06:50 Yes, that's what dolls are for. Yeah. It's all like get them in that dream house. Yeah. And get to fuck it. And then you just smash them together and they're boning. You have no idea what or why. Smash. You just know that it's exciting that they're in the same bed and they're on a little plastic bed together. Sex is like that now. Smash. So but here's where it all was very different than most of our childhoods. He told his sister in grammar school that he had a crush on his teacher and when he said he wanted to kiss his teacher, his sister said, why don't you? And he said, because I'd have to kill her first. So the sister's like, I may go get a glass of juice and like slowly crab walks out of the room. Okay. And I'll be right back. So just let me
Starting point is 01:07:37 have your getting on the ground and crab walking instead of just like backing out of the room. No, she had to go out sideways with all her eyes looking at him. So breaking down. His mother, when he was a little bit older, made him live in the basement because she was afraid that he would molest his sisters. So yeah, it was it was dark and bad. That's weird. It also was believed that that mother suffered from borderline personality disorder, which explains the rages and the abuse. Oh, honey. So that's, you know, fairs fair. We're going to say all this stuff about her. But then also everyone sucks all around. I mean, here's the thing. Untreated mental illness affects people terribly and in a ripple effect. Totally. That
Starting point is 01:08:19 isn't just the person who isn't taking their medicine or the person who can't afford their medicine. Also see my therapy sessions every week of me going through. Yeah. Shit. Yes. It's mental health is very important. So important. And my mother was a psychiatric nurse. And in the 80s, when Proposition 13 closed down all the mental hospitals. Oh, that's the worst thing that ever happened. Rant and rave every night about how terrible the future is going to be for people who needed help and wouldn't be able to get it. Also see the fucking insane amount of homeless people we have in this country. Right. Because we can't, they don't have easy access to fucking mental health services and they need help. And yeah. And basically the state has gone to that.
Starting point is 01:09:01 Yeah. All right. Nope. Let's I want to keep talking about that. My mother would, you know what, that would be like her dream if I want to talk about this all the time. Honestly. So when he was 15, his mother sent him to live with his father in LA who and his father had a new wife and stepson. And so he lasted a month there. And then his father sent him to live with his grandparents who were the father's parents on a 17 acre farm in North Fork, California, which sounds nice. It actually is. It butts up right against the Sierra's right near Yosemite. I was going to say how awful is to send your kid away to someone, but that sounds fucking like a nice vacation. Pretty nice. And also like if you have a kid that's troubled, put them to work,
Starting point is 01:09:45 send them to a farm, get them out there, right? Teach them some fucking responsibility. Well, turned out that the grandmother was also domineering. Oops. And the grandfather had early stages of dementia. Oh my God. So there was already some drama happening. Well, this guy had no chance. I mean, yeah. He had his own 22. So he shot rabbits and gophers. And even though his grandmother told him not to birds, rabbits and gophers are fine, but birds are off limits. Well, because gophers and rabbit rabbits. Yeah, they eat the if it's a working farm, they eat the vegetables. Bunnies. Birds do too, though, but they're beautiful. Anyway, so that summer he was sent back to Helena to stay with his mother. But then he came back after two weeks. So it was basically
Starting point is 01:10:32 nobody wanted the giant scary guy around. And he was only 15. Can you believe it? I know. It's like so unfair, though. It's like I feel really bad for him. It's lots of rejection and lots of criticism. And like he already clearly had something going on mentally. And then everyone was just like this is the point where maybe you can intervene, but it didn't happen. Right. Quite the opposite. Right. It said that Ed's grandmother feared him enough that she took her 45 with her anytime she left the house so that Ed wouldn't be near it. Oh, no. The 22 is fine. Yeah. I'm taking that 45. Yeah. So basically one day he decides he's going to shoot his grandmother on the back of the head. And when police asked him why he said, I wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma.
Starting point is 01:11:22 So he's he's flipped over into a next level. He doesn't understand the finality of that at all by saying if you say that you don't understand. Well, yeah, he's like I'm testing out to see what it's going to feel like as opposed to being able to walk through that. I wanted her to die. This will feel really bad. Yeah. And everyone's going to feel bad. So he shot her on the back of the head. He was pretending like he was leaving the house took picked up the his 22 walked out. She saw the weird look in his eye. And then you know that he stood outside. I give this is according to him. He stood outside watching her from the porch and then shot her through the screen door actually washed. Oh, at the back. What's that? Oh my god. So then he waited for his grandfather
Starting point is 01:12:06 to get home from the store and then shot him because he didn't he didn't he knew his grandfather would be upset and angry. So he didn't want to have to deal with that. So he just killed the grandfather. You do not have a fucking right right mind man. No, because then the next thing he did was call his mom. This isn't a murderous. This is someone who doesn't have access to reality. Yeah, I think this is like the beginnings of being a psychopath or like having some kind of a break like a dissociative episode. Let's make sure that terminology or professional sex like psychologist right. So so he calls his mother and she says call the sheriff. So he calls the sheriff tells them what he did sits on the front porch and waits for the cops to come. And that's when
Starting point is 01:12:56 they got that quote of I wanted to see what it'd be like to kill grandma. He also after he shot his grandma stabbed her several times with a knife. Whoa. Yeah, so he wanted to kill her. That's different. Feel that. Wow. Just shot the grandpa though. So then the police were shocked and he was committed to a Tescadero state hospitals a mental is kind of a famous mental hospital up Northern California. He was diagnosed with a paranoid schizophrenia, but he was tested with a near genius IQ. Yeah. And in the mental hospital, he learned how to mask his insanity. So he basically got along blended in. He did he did really well with structure. And when people were in charge of him, but not mean and judgmental of him, he worked it worked
Starting point is 01:13:46 very well for him. Yeah. So he learned he became a runner for one of the doctors like an assistant to one of the doctors. And that actually enabled him he like the doctor trusted him that much, but that enabled him to read the doctor's files. So he memorized the answers to psychological tests that he saw in the files. And so he basically learned what to say to sound like a normal person. That's smart. He learned it out of reading it off of test. So he would read all the psychological tests see what the correct answers were and basically that way. Yeah. So after four years, those doctors at a Tescadero deemed Ed normal enough to reenter society four years after killing both his grandparents. And it was never even got tried. What's that? Never went to trial for these
Starting point is 01:14:37 murders. No, no, straight to the mental hospital. It's crazy. So in 1969, the California Youth Authority released him back into the care of his mother, Clarnel. Can you imagine being like, oh, well, my kid's back home. Yeah, I guess the murderer is home. Yeah. Even though the doctor said he can't go live with his mother, that's where they sent him. So now he was in the hospital for four years. So it was between 1965 and 1969 when the Cultural Revolution took place. And it took place in basically the eye of the storm was San Francisco Bay Area. And that's they lived right outside it. So sex, drugs and rebellion were the order of the day. Clearly, I was just typing what the narrator was saying on this, because I would never say anything like that. They were the
Starting point is 01:15:26 older of the day. They were the old sex drugs. So Ed wanted to Ed's reaction to that was he wanted to become a cop. He didn't like any of it. He wasn't down with the hippies because he liked the order. He liked order and he liked and he wanted to be in charge. So maybe he was trying. The problem was he's too big to be a shot up. There's actually regulation against that size of person. Do you know what makes me feel safe? A fucking six foot nine cop? Yes, true. But then also six foot nine cop couldn't basically do whatever he wants at all times. Maybe that's part of it. I mean, any fit into the car and any cop could do it every once all the time. The pants would be too short. He would be a laughing stock. So instead, he became a construction worker. And
Starting point is 01:16:10 he hung out. He lived in Santa Cruz and he hung out at a bar called the jury room where cops and lawyers went and often hung out. Can we go there right now? He basically like hung among them and they all kind of knew him as big Ed. So after a while from being a construction worker, I think he also worked for Caltrans, which is basically the guy on the side of the road. He saved up, moved out of his mother's house, mother's house in Santa Cruz and moved to Alameda, which was 90 minutes away. They have a good flea market there in Alameda. Oh, I'm gonna go. So when he was living by himself, he felt angry, awkward and lonely. I don't know if those things had anything to do with each other, but he that's how he felt in the world. So he started picking
Starting point is 01:17:03 up female hitchhikers, practicing how to get them into his car, practicing what to say to them to get them into his car, practicing what to talk to them about once they were in his car. He picked up over 150 hitchhikers as practice. Holy shit. And then he decided he was gonna fix the passenger side door so it couldn't be opened from the inside. I can't believe there were that many hitchhikers to pick up. 1969. Yeah. Yeah. That's all anyone was doing. That's back when it was like celebrated. Jesus. So he practiced for long enough. So in the spring of 1972, he finally decided he was gonna go to the next level. He picked up Marianne Pesci and Anita Luceza, who were students at Fresno State and they were hitchhiking to Stanford to see friends after a weekend in Berkeley,
Starting point is 01:17:53 but they never made it. And this was a time, of course, when police never looked into missing persons cases, especially that of young women because of the amount of runaways and transience there were. So they they're, according to cops, girls ran away all the time. And they would always show up later because they were with their boyfriend or they were with their friends. So there it was almost like these fucking hippie kids like I don't want to hear about. Yeah, we're not gonna waste our time. Yeah, that was the mentality. So so Ed drove these two girls to an isolated spot. He made Anita get into the trunk and then he put a bag over Marianne's head to suffocate her. She fought back. She bit a hole into the bag. And then he became he never thought that anybody would
Starting point is 01:18:40 fight back. He became enraged and he stabbed her repeatedly. Then he got out and went into the trunk and slit Anita's throat. But because the fighting like that wasn't the kill that he fantasized about. So he took their body at your need to brace yourself for this part. I'm scared. He took their bodies back to his apartment and rape their corpses. And then he dismembered them and he put their body parts into plastic bags and left those bags all around the Bay Area. Can you imagine that that's the first time you really like you killed you killed someone by shooting them before. But the first time you stabbing right and it was your grandparents. Yes. Yeah. But like raping a corpse. I mean dismemberment. That's not an easy thing to fucking do. No, it's hideous. But you know he
Starting point is 01:19:31 was fantasizing and they talked in this this documentary about that how much serial killers fantasize about what they're going to do. My God. So then he had fantasized about it all happening in the car. But since that got fucked up, this was like this weird plan B improv that he was doing that then became his MO. Wow. So two months later, hikers found Marianne's head in the mountains. And that was the only evidence ever found of the two. Shut the fuck up. The only thing they ever found. So in September of that year, so this that was spring. So like five months later, he picks up 15 year old hitchhiker Aiko Koo. Honey, don't do it. She was 15. She was, I think they said she was half Korean and half like Romanian or something. She was a dancer.
Starting point is 01:20:25 She's on a way to dance class. So she was really small. Honey, don't fucking hitchhike to dance class. Ridiculous. You ride your goddamn bike. And you're tiny and you're 15. Like all of these things are so much. No, no. He picks her up. He drives her to an isolated location. But when he tells her he's this is a kidnapping, she loses her shit and it becomes hysterical. So to calm her down, he says that he was going to kill himself and take her with him. But now he's changed his mind. And then he gets out to get something in the trunk and the door shuts and locks behind him. Girl. So now she's in inside his locked car and he's locked out. Yes. But he convinces her to open the door. But this is, this is, this is him practicing on those 150
Starting point is 01:21:16 girls. This is a person who's figured out with his genius IQ how to get what he wants. How to manipulate people. Yep. And how to tell them exactly what they specifically want to hear and need to hear. God damn it. It's so, so, so anyway, he suffocates her until she's unconscious. He puts tape over her mouth and then holds her nose closed. So he is like up close into this killing, you know, horribly. Then he raped her and strangled her with her own scarf. And they put her dead body in the trunk and then went to a bar for a couple of beers. Who did? He did. Oh, yeah. Okay. He said they and I wasn't sure. No, no. Sorry then. Then he takes the body back to his apartment and it's the same thing. Dismembers and scattering her remains all
Starting point is 01:22:12 over the bay area. So because a serial killer is a person who's killed three or more people on three or more occasions with the cooling off period in between crimes, this kill officially makes him a serial killer. So the next day he had a state mandated meeting with his psychiatrist and her head was in his trunk. Holy fuck. During that meeting. And he made such an impression on the psychiatrist that they decided he didn't need to see a psychiatrist anymore. The day after he murdered this girl. He had to be good at what he did. So to make matters worse at the same time, there was another serial killer named Herbert Mullen that was operating in the Santa Cruz area at the exact same time. And this was the guy that was killing people because he thought it was keeping
Starting point is 01:23:05 that big earthquake from happening. Did you ever hear of this guy? No. I think he deserves his own episode. He killed hitchhikers, he killed, he shot an old man in his yard, he killed a mother and a child. Yeah, and he was complete. He had no idea what was going on. You gotta do that one, please. Yeah. So that guy got arrested in 1973 and the police thought, oh great, this is all over now. He should have just stopped killing then and he wouldn't have ever gotten caught. I know, but he couldn't do it. Four months after his third murder, he was now broke, so he moved in back in with his mother. Yeah, come on back home. Yeah, that's gonna work out good. So this is January 8th of 1972. He and his mother argue all day. He goes out, buys a gun,
Starting point is 01:23:56 and then he picks a hitchhiker, Cindy Shaw. And according to him, this is the way he tells the story, that he drives her to a remote location, shows her the gun, then gets out of the car to open the trunk, and he leaves the gun in the car with her. And instead of grabbing it, she follows him back to the trunk and says, my, what a big trunk do you want me to get in it? Which to me, it's his version of the story. Yeah, right. Because he is talked and talked, like they have hours and hours of his confession. My, what a big trunk. My, what a big trunk you have grandma. So she gets into the trunk and he shoots her once in the head, or he does what he did before, which is weird, strangles her. She's in the trunk. She's got a bullet in her head.
Starting point is 01:24:44 He brings the body back to his mother's house. Mother's house has sex with the court. Dismembers her body in his mother's bathtub and buries her head in his mother's backyard, throws the rest of the body into the ocean. But she's discovered 24 hours later. So most of her body parts wash back up on shore. So a month later, he has another fight with his mother, and then he goes out for a drive. And this time he picks up two UC Santa Cruz students, Rosalind, Thorpe, and Alice Lou. And all of the students, all the female students, because he was now called the co-ed killer. And so all the students at UC Santa Cruz were, all the female students were warned, do not hitchhike, do not take rides from strangers. But his car, it was his mother's car,
Starting point is 01:25:35 so it had a UC Santa Cruz parking sticker on it. His mother worked at UC Santa Cruz. So they thought it was safe. Yeah, but it's not like that a person who goes to your school couldn't be a killer too, you know? Yeah, but they're all thinking it's like, I mean, it's like a psycho killer. Well, it is, but yeah. He shot them, it's the exact same thing, shot them, raped their bodies, dismembered them, scattered their remains. Then he decides he's going to buy a 44. He needs a new gun. So a routine police background check brings up his name, and the police, when they look him up, it's just an index card that says double murder. So they put, his records were sealed because he was a teenager. So they put a hold on the gun
Starting point is 01:26:20 purchase. Oh, what a great idea to put a hold on purchases for people who have mental illnesses. Oh, no, sorry. I'm sorry. They couldn't put a hold on it. He'd already bought it. Oh, never mind. They go to confiscate it. So they show up at his house. But it's big ed. They know big ed. There's no problem. It's big ed. He goes to the jury room. He hangs out with us. Yeah. He's a good friend of ours. And they assure him it's just a formality. Thank you, a formality. But Ed got paranoid because he was like, they're on to me. And so he ran. So he, sorry, this is the big one. So he's paranoid. He'm sure the cops are on him. So on April 21, 1973, he decides he's going to kill his mother. So that's a solution to everything.
Starting point is 01:27:11 Right. It's that's going to be his big finale. So his mother's sleeping and he goes into her bedroom with a claw hammer, beats her to death with a hammer, decapitates her, has sex with her corpse, not to vote the courts in the garbage disposal. I mean, like symbolic as fuck. Yes. Yes. And he talked about it. And like I saw like, probably 10 seconds of him talking about it. It's just, it's not, it's not anybody worth listening to. It's just like a person who thinks it's great when they're telling you. It's not just like normal, but thinks it's great. Thinks it's cool. Thinks it's like, that's, that's pretty ironic, isn't it? You know, like it's this kind of, there's like a swagger to it. So, so then he decides that it's going to
Starting point is 01:28:00 look like he did it. So a way to make it not look like that is he calls up his mother's best friend, Sally Hallett, invites her over to a surprise dinner, quote unquote. And when she gets there, he chokes her to death. Oh yeah. And so when the cops find both their bodies, he's in his mind, they're going to think it's a break in and it has nothing to do with that. That's his thinking. And then he goes on the run. So he jumps in his car, he drives east and he, they were still looking for the co-ed killer. They had no way we're looking for him. They had no idea. He drives for three days. He hears no news on the radio about himself or using his name or anything. And by the time he gets to Pueblo, Colorado, he calls the Santa Cruz police and
Starting point is 01:28:45 confesses because he's so mad that they're not talking about him and like, and that he was wrong. And so the, the Santa Cruz police have to drive out to Pueblo, Colorado to pick him up. And they said when he, oh, the Pueblo police said when they went out, like the Santa Cruz police had the Pueblo cops go pick him up. When they went and picked him up to arrest him, he put his hands on top of the phone booth. That's how big he was. Oh my God. Yeah. I just can't get it. I can't deal with it. How horrifying it is. He's just a humongous monster. Vince is like six, four, and he's very fucking tall. Yeah. And he's five inches taller. Yeah. That's insane. It's very tall. So on the whole drive back, the Santa Cruz police have to listen to his confession. Holy
Starting point is 01:29:35 shit. And he talked, they said, there's one cop. It was like his, one of his first cases ever. He said, he talked until I couldn't listen to it anymore. It was so upsetting. And he just wanted to talk about all of it. He gave every detail of every single thing. So basically, he tries to plead insanity. The jury declares him sane and guilty of all eight murders. He's eight counts of murder. He asks when he gets, goes to jail, he asks for a lobotomy. No way. And the authorities say, no, it's too dangerous. But he's basically trying to suggest like cut off the connections between this idea and like the action or like get this out of my head. I rarely think a lobotomy would have helped him. I mean, it would have just rendered him
Starting point is 01:30:17 like a vegetable, basically. Yeah. He would have just been a bigger pain to deal with. Like to, he wouldn't have been able to do anything for himself. Yeah. Probably. He was once quoted in an interview. What do you think now when you see a pretty girl walking down the street and he answered one side of me says, wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder how her head would look on a stick. Holy fuck. Yeah. And that's actually in Brad Easton Ellis's book, American Psycho, Patrick Bateman paraphrases this quote when he's asked about women, but he attributes it to Ed Game, but it's actually an Ed Kemper quote. And also in Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris wrote that Buffalo
Starting point is 01:31:01 Bill started his career as a serial killer by impulsively killing his grandparents as a teenager, which was based on Ed Kemper. Neat. Coward killer. It's a weird that it's like such close by stuff, you know? Yeah. Like close to us. The Santa Cruz is like, not far. Oh, it's so scary. Yeah. Gross. It's funny that we both did serial killers this time. I know. We're getting deep now. Well, I mean, yeah. We have to say one thing that made us happy this past week. But it's Monday, so it's been that long. I mean, I'm going to have to say Poldark. When Poldark, Ross Poldark takes off his shirt to swim in the ocean to clean off the mine dust. It's like the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. That sounds cool.
Starting point is 01:31:53 Well, I think mine was we went last night, we went to the New Beverly Theater, which is like really it's owned now by Quentin Tarantino, but it's this really cool art house theater that's been around forever. Quentin Tarantino bought it to like save it, which I love him for. And they were playing the 1950s version of Dracula. And we went with Joe DeRosa's parents who we were talking about from the podcast and like met them and they were the sweetest people ever. And it was like just such a nice, nice thing that someone wants you to meet their parents as an adult, which like doesn't really happen anymore. Yes. And it was a cool movie. And they're fun to hang out with. Right. Yeah, they were the best. And they and then New Beverly has frozen junior mints like
Starting point is 01:32:38 as a thing you can buy. Like because they know that that people like them. I didn't know that. And frozen junior mints are like a family favorite. Yeah, they have them frozen junior mints and frozen snicker bars there you can get because they're just like, yeah. And they have fucking white castle burgers you can get there too. Are you serious? They're frozen and they've heat them up. But also the New Beverly is the best popcorn of all movie theater. Best popcorn. And it's so cheap there. Like they have the movie theater candy prices from the 80s. Is that true? Yes. We bought so much shit and they were like, they were like $50 and this much and I handed them 50 and they were like, no, 15. And I almost lost my mind. So I ended up giving the guy a $5 tip because
Starting point is 01:33:18 I was like, take it all. And normal theaters, you're like, yeah, this is going to cost me $85. Fortune. Yeah. That's the best. That's yeah. Go if you live in LA, you should absolutely support the New Beverly. And they have just the best. They'll have double features of like the coolest movies. Yeah, April and I went there to see because she's obsessed with Elvis. And we went to see Elvis's concert film that I don't remember the name of. And it was so fun. And everyone there was super into it. It's like, it's a it feels like an event when you go there. You know what? It's better than is going to a fucking the cemetery movie screening where you have to sit outdoors in the freezing cold on the freezing cold like grass and watch a movie on the, I don't
Starting point is 01:33:59 need to do that. Go to fucking go to the Beverly then go down the street to El Coyote. Get great fucking margaritas. Yeah. Life is good. Good times. Yeah. That was mine. Thank you for listening. If you go to Farrell audio to listen to a bunch of other cool podcasts that they have and go let's go right review and subscribe and all this stuff. And thanks for listening and stay sexy. And don't get murdered. And bye. Bye Elvis. Did he leave us? Elvis. There he is. Wanna cookie? Yeah. Good boy. Cookie. Cookie. Good boy. Yeah.

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