My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 44 - Live from the Chicago Podcast Festival

Episode Date: November 24, 2016

Karen and Georgia are live at the Chicago Podcast Festival talking about the Fort Worth Three kidnapping and Chicago’s very own John Wayne Gacy.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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We asked, they said yes. Please welcome to the stage, Georgia Heartstar, Karen Kilgarve, and my favorite murder! What? Come on! Come on! Damn it! You are so drunk. I am.

Are you? No. A little bit. Hi, Chicago. Hi, guys! Uh-oh. Okay, see you later. It's just going to be me, a one-woman show tonight.

Oh, this is crazy. Hi, guys. Um, we're very happy to be here. Here we are. Uh, anyone not know whose voice was who, and it's freaking out right now, because we thought it was the other? I'm the one who says fuck a lot. I'm the one that says, look, you know, here's the thing. I didn't know I did that until you told me. Now I'm going to think about it all the time.

Uh, this is fucking not so exciting. Very exciting. Um, the cool thing is that at some point I'm going to jump into this orchestra pit. It's true. That's what we decided beforehand. We drew straws. We drew straws. Karen was like, I'm going to do the pit jump.

There's no orchestra. Oh, there's no bottom. There's no bottom. Can I do a model walk to show off my dress? I got this dress today at Chicago, Michigan Avenue, Nordstrom. I thought she was going to say, can I do a monologue? Could I do one dramatic and one comedic monologue? Yeah, a short dance. Hold this.

You guys, I just wish Karen wasn't so shy. Pockets are the greatest. People love pockets, right? It's not just me. And I said that I texted you that my outfit was, I was going to cosplay Nancy St. Stacy. Yes, that's right. Did you recognize Nancy St. Stacy? But I was going to wear like 80s heels and I fucking, I just...

Here, take a walk. It'll feel good. It started off sad and it ended great. And then... Should we look, sit and talk? Yeah, because this is weird. Because this is so weird. All right, well, let's not, should we not with the...

Yeah, we shouldn't use these. Yeah, yeah. Except you're gonna. Although... Yeah, no, no, no, you're right. Let's do this when we tell the stories we will. It's just kind of slimming when you have it in front of you. Bisexuals draws the eye upward.

Why didn't we ask for a couch? I need kick pants. What the fuck? Is this a small top stool? I said give her the one that's wobbly. So she'll look so stupid. No, I'm fine. It'll be fine.

I'm fine. Do you want to sit on the ground? Yeah, I'll sit cross-legged on the ground. You could. I don't know what we're gonna... What were other people doing up here? Perching. Like a lady.

Not interested. Let's see, do you have any... We should do some business, right? Like some... That's right. No more shouting out or I'll have to come out there. The corrections corner is that our family is in a thing up here. Corrections corner is our drunk families.

Up in a box somewhere. Mommy? Judging us. You're all my mommy! Clap for the family. They're all my mommy. Do you have things, Karen, you're gonna fuck them. Here's my corrections corner.

It's fine. It'll be funny when I fall. It always is. My corrections corner and this one is one of my favorites of all time. Last week we were talking about... I think we were probably reading a hometown and someone mentioned... I read the name Vincent Lee

and they were saying like, oh, that's a fucked up murder. And I was like, ooh, I gotta look that up. And they were like, I don't know who that is. I know. And done it. So many, so many people wanted to let me know how I did know what it was because I'd actually reported on it myself

on my own podcast. Yeah. Who would have fucking thunked? I mean, I don't remember their names or whatever. I remember the machete. We don't remember killers. We remember spirit, feelings, qualities. Also, I would like to say people that catch up,

people that are behind a little bit. Oh, yeah. I fucking now know that Manitoba is not a city. All right? I know now. You don't have to keep fucking telling me. Stop telling her. She gets it.

It's one of the corrections we get where we're like, yeah, we know. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I've known that for like two weeks. You guys know that we're total bitches, right? Like... Like...

Dad? Like in a peg. Daddy? That was my mom. Love you. She's a very tall woman. Oh, also, Stephen Ray Morris could not be here tonight. Stevie, our audio engineer.

But his sister is here. His sister. Even better. Sister Ray Morris. Stephanie Ray Morris. And she has no... she's never listened to the podcast and doesn't know that he's like Stephen and I... I want us all to like give her... She thinks it's...

Let her know. I believe... I think she... she thinks this is a Christian podcast, right? So this is going to be fun. Yeah. And Elvis, his mom is here. Really? No, but I'll give you that! I want that to happen.

Like an old cat would come walking down. Yeah. Half an ear, bitten off. I just don't know what to do. Want to go to a chair? Should we go to a chair chair? No. I'm going to beat this.

I'm going to beat this stool. Don't even. Don't bring it over. Don't do it. Well, we're... So this is... Oh, so this is my favorite murder podcast in case no one... Didn't anyone know that?

Thank you for screaming so much. That's Karen. And that's Georgia. Yeah. I like that we're doing it now as if we do that at the top of every show. We honestly treat every show like we've never done podcasting before. It's like it surprises us every single week. Oh, we should introduce this.

If someone just fucking stumbled upon this, like they're changing the radio stations and like, what is that? Exactly. It's 1961. These girls are cursing. What? Look at this beat. Do you have any questions or shout outs or anything you need to talk about?

No, I'm petrified right now. Oh, okay. Who wouldn't be? No, this is great. No, I mean... Everything's the best right now. Right. Right now?

Yeah. It was the last one we did. Oh, yeah. Okay. What do you talk about? The last episode we did. I don't know. I don't remember at all.

Was it Vincent Lee? I don't know. Well, here we are. Nice to face a couple of... It's like two people who didn't do their book report who are like, anyway, what I love about books is the paper inside. The problem is you're not going to know all the like three hours of shit that's edited out of the podcast.

Yeah. That's not true. We just let everything go in there. Clearly we let it all go in. Let it go in. Should we talk about murderers? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You guys like... It's pretty... Who's a murderer now? Like, for real? Okay. I mean, that's called pandering.

Now we're pandering. I don't think it's our thing though. I'm sitting on it with my butt. Oh! Are you going to go first? I think I'm first this time. Oh, so I'm going to put my hands in my pockets and put my microphone over here. Did you mind putting your hands in your pocket, Karen?

As I tell you, I swore I was going to belch and it's about to happen. She's going to do some Robert Durst belches for us. Just to... Oh, that was a good one. Did you... Was that really a... Yeah, that was me. That sounded like a fucking horse.

I swear to God. Oh! I thought you were like doing a joke burp sound. From a lady. That was unbelievable. I had a soda pop. If they want to pay us, I'll say which one it is. But I will not...

Shit, girl. Otherwise... We don't do branding. Otherwise, Dr. Pepper. Okay. Okay. Ready? Yes.

Okay. Are you ready? Yeah. Now I'm just... Now that's too much pressure. All right. Okay, so December 23rd, Supernair Christmas in 1974. A great year for collars and cords.

There you go. Bring us back, Karen, to a time... 1974, where the air was filled with lead pollution and everybody had a mustache, even girls. Yeah, you were supposed to beat your children. Yes, you were required. You had to sign a paper when you left the hospital with the baby that said, I promise to hit this child in the face every day. I'm gonna let anyone hit them too.

Yeah. It's fine. Strangers, people on the street. They probably deserve it. So, okay, so three ladies. Renee Wilson, she's 14. Rachel Trelica, who's 17. And Julie Ann Mosley, who's nine.

Go on a shopping trip for Christmas presents. Can't be good. Nope. No, they're fine. Let's talk about Ted Bundy. Anyway, Vlad the Impaler. So these three girls, they go to a upscale mall, the Seminary South Shopping Center. This girl knows it.

I hear someone fucking whispering. In Fort Worth, Texas. Oh. Oh. You been? I just thought I should make a noise like that. Okay, they were supposed to be home by 4 p.m. Guess what, Karen? Didn't show up.

They didn't show up. They didn't show up. So Renee and Rachel, the older girls, were old friends. Renee asked Rachel to come with her shopping. And then Renee's boyfriend was gonna come, but he went to a friend's house. So his little sister, Julie, begs to come. So they bring her boyfriend's little sister along. So it's the three of them.

Rachel parks her car at the top of the fucking car park, Osmobile, and they go shopping. People see them because, and this needs to be our new shirt, she's wearing a shirt that says sweet honesty. What? That's 1974 for you. What the fuck? What stoner put that thing together? Sweet honesty.

And you know it was like crazy cursive. Totally. And then like three loop dilutes. Blitter, like all around. Just on the tits. Yeah. No bra. No bra.

No bra. Didn't have to. Okay. Seventies tits. Like that's a thing. Yeah. For sure. They were real low.

So a ton of people see them at the mall people because people see her shirt, whatever the fuck. And then that evening families get worried as they do, they go out looking for the girl and they find her car where she parked it on the roof of the small area and in the car, the car is locked and inside of the presence. So at some point they went to the car, put the presence in there, locked the car and then what? Right?

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So they're freaking out. The next day a letter comes in the mail and it goes to Rachel's husband's house. Now Rachel, who was 17 and married. What? Yeah. Is that sweet honesty? That's the other one even. Okay.

A 14-year-old is wearing a sweet honesty shirt. Spock. Ugh. Don't let your babies grow up to be sweet honesties. For real. She's married to this dude. All right. This dude, her husband, was dating her older sister beforehand.

Look it happens. Yes. Guilty. They break up, her little sister and her boyfriend get married, and then the sister's living with them at the time. What? No. Like, we all know where this is, like we know.

Wait, are you just talking out an episode of Game of Thrones and saying it happened in Fort Worth? Never seen it. No, this is Dallas. I'm talking to Dallas. Yeah. Right? Okay.

But no. Letter comes in the mail. Why is he checking his fucking mail the day after his wife gets fucking kidnapped? You think he should have avoided that mailbox? I mean, why are you checking it? He loves mail. It's the only thing that made him feel better. Fucking catalogs and postcards.

Fair enough. Well, he goes to his mailbox and he finds a letter from her supposedly from Rachel says, I know I'm going to catch it, which is like the cutest phrase I've ever heard in my life. Like, catch some shit? I know I'm going to catch it. Say it. I know I'm going to catch it, but we just had to get away.

We're going to Houston, see you in about a week. The cars and Sears upper lot. Love, Rachel. Mm-hmm. I write. I know. So, like, he gets that letter. Her name is kind of misspelled.

His name is written. Seriously. That, that, that. Her first name is misspelled. Yeah. A little bit misspelled. Yeah, I look, I've done that so many times where it's like, K, A, what is this? I want to make fun of that, but recently my, my manager emailed me was like, Hey, you're

a, your name spelled wrong and you're real. And I was like, what are you talking about? I looked at it and it said G E O R I G A. Oh. I fucking spelled my own goddamn name wrong. It was like, Georgia. Georgia. It's like, it's been like three years and I didn't notice it.

So fair enough. Once you change it, you're going to get so many jobs. People have been like, I want to hire her for the million dollar thing. Right? I can't find her. Her name spelled wrong. No. There goes a million dollars.

So it does happen. It does. This isn't crazy. It happens. Let's be fair. Okay. So her husband was married to the leader. Family thinks that the, the letter, they were like, that's not her handwriting.

She's spelled her fucking name wrong and in addition to back that up. So they, so the stamp had been stamped, you know, like cleared at the thing that morning. So someone sent that thing the night before or on the 24th of when it showed up, which I'm like, if you're just, if you just kidnap three people randomly, you're not going to bother to let the family know. You kidnap and you get straight to that correspondence. Yeah. Like that's to, that's to throw people off.

Yeah. That's not like a serial killer who's like grabbing three people and doesn't give a shit. Right? No, that's like an anal retentive serial killer. That's like a, leave us alone for a minute. Right? Serial killer. You mean can I have some privacy while I write my letters?

To sit at my secretary's desk and just write out with a feather pen. Like right after I kidnap them though, you know what I mean? It's weird. I get it. All right. Yeah. So people saw them that day because clearly she had a sweet honesty shirt on and like, how are you going to miss that one?

A 14-year-old like that sounds like a stripper name. Nothing. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with strippers. It's just a name. Just a name. It's sweet. And honest. A woman, a woman tells a store clerk that she saw some men hustle the girls into a pickup

truck, but police never located that witness. Another says that the girls had been spotted in a security patrol car. So in 1981, which was, let's do math, which is like so many years later, six years later, seven years later, a man randomly comes around and he's like, hey, I saw a girl. I saw a man forcing them into a van that day. You fucking dick. Where were you? Where were you?

Oh, in 81, I just like popped into my head that these fucking girls were being forced into a van. He had so much stuff on his mind. Christmas. There was tons of littering back then. But the guy in the van told him, he goes, hey, it's a family dispute. Don't worry about it. That's why he never told it until he was, until 81.

Yeah. I mean, like, can you, I can't even, well, because, you know, it was like back then, if your family was fighting about something, you could throw them in a van forcibly at the mall. True. It was done. How many people out here have like seen that and just never told anyone about it as a family dispute?

Okay. Your family's, yeah. Psychopaths. Anything. I will call the police. Just if I see a van. I don't give a fuck. I don't care.

I'll be like, it's clearly a bread truck. I don't care. Call 911. Karen does citizen's arrests all over town. All the time. I won't even believe her now. Her brother says, Rachel's brother says that there's been sightings all over the Fort Worth area.

You know, it's one of those like, they were white slaves, like people keep saying that. Some of the sightings were, what happened? Someone doesn't like that. It doesn't matter. Oh, shit. If someone's mad about something, we said, okay, and they hired a private detective to look for it. He committed suicide in 1970.

When your fucking private detective commits suicide, like, come on. You're like, no, we're the ones that are mourning. Yeah. And he was like, he had a will is to like destroy my records when I die. They destroy the records, commit suicide, then fucking destroyed records. They're like, you know what? We're just going to sweep all this under the rug. We think that's the way we're going to handle all of this.

Yeah, you know what we're going to do? We're going to be of the 80s. Okay. So these fucking chicks are never found. So wait, sorry. Now we're in the 80s? Uh... With that forehead?

No. 79, that happened. I just, I said the 80s as like a thing. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It just seemed, I'm not questioning you.

I guess you are. It's our first fight. Here in Chicago. It's the place to do it. Okay. So they were never found. Spoiler alert. I'm sorry.

That sucks. It blows. But there's two suspects that I find very interesting. So Mike D. Bardellin, Ben. Read that. Read that. Hold on. Let me get my readers.

Mike D. Bardell Eben. Eben. What did I say? It really is what it says. So that wasn't just you kind of having fun. That was a copy and paste. No, no, no. That was a copy and paste.

So this dude gets arrested for passing counterfeit bills, and then the cops found evidence of sex crimes, including him taking photos of him raping and murdering humans. Oh. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, you didn't know? That's what the whole fucking podcast is about. Someone's like, wait, what?

I thought you were going to talk out the story of the Wizard of Oz. No. That's all this bad. The FBI profilers think that when the face is seen in the photo, he kills them. When the face isn't seen, he allows them to live. It's like, come on, you fucking dick. Okay. So here's the tie-in, is that he's a convicted kidnapper, rapist, counterfeiter, and suspected

serial killer was the habit of passing counterfeit bills in shopping malls. He was operating around Texas around that time and was known to impersonate security guards and other positions of authority. Remember that chick was like, I saw security guard driving them in his van, right? Because like, what girl back then isn't going to like go with, oh my God, my belt chicken, go with the security guard. Do it into the microphone next time. We accept you.

My mom is here. Oh, that's right. Sorry. This is what you raised. Yeah, I mean, okay, so the guy comes over and he's like, she's like, yeah, that's awesome. That's good podcasting right there. That's the kind of shit you can't see when you're listening. Thank you.

She's like the David Blaine of paper. Okay, so like, back then, guys, like I saw you shoplifting, I'm a security guard, and you're like, no, I didn't. He's like, come with me. You know, and he makes them all come with him. You go. It's like he has a blue shirt on with a belt, and then you're like, oh, I guess you're in charge.

Yeah. I guess I have to fucking do whatever you say. There's no stranger danger. There's don't fucking talk back to authority. That's right. That's what that was back then. Yes. So you just get in the car.

Yeah. Goodbye. Sweet honesty. Sweet honesty. She didn't understand. It's actually, you should sweet kick him in the dick, that's what her shirt said. You guys, pepper spray first, and fucking apologize later, right? These days, Georgia's favorite thing to say is, should I pepper spray that guy?

It makes me laugh so hard. I can't remember where we were, but you were just like, do I need to pepper spray this guy? It's like, please don't. Not right now. Why not? Just spray it around like room freshener in your mouth, beyond, what is that, a binoc. Let's do this.

So he's known to impersonate security guards, not serial killers, and other business authorities. He lived within a half mile of Rachel, one of the girls who disappeared, at the time of the disappearance. And then I fucked up, he earned the respect of the FBI profilers because he never gave himself away in unguarded moments nor bragged about his exploits. So the fucking FBI was like, good on him, that he never told anyone? Well, it was like a healthy respect for the enemy, because usually they brag. I don't respect them for not getting it out of this dude.

If their fucking killer is smarter, should I not talk shit about the FBI? It's a sensitive time. Do it, someone yell. You fucking do it. Listen, love those guys. I'm just saying this dude was a serial killer. We're going to do a show at the FBI at Quantico next month. The murder of our government.

You guys. Okay. The other dude, who I think is just the fucking dude, Lloyd Welch, he's a drifter and a hitch hiker. Lord? Lloyd. Oh. Sorry.

That would be cool though. He's like a lord. Lord Welch. But in Texas, Lord of the Bad Manners, because he, the Bad Manners, that's what gets cut out usually. Okay. He's recently been charged around that, oh, recently around now, he's been charged with the murder of the lion sisters.

There's two girls. You're shaking your head. I can see it. Catherine, who is 10, and Sheila, who is 12, disappears from a Maryland mall in 1975. Okay. It's the exact same. MO. MO.

At the time of his arrest. No. At the time of his arrest, he's serving a lengthy prison sentence in Delaware for child sexual abuse. So he's a real fun guy. Yeah. Like a prize. Yeah.

Mom is proud. Good stuff. So in December 2014, here's another fucking asshole, Welch's cousin tells detectives that he had helped Welch so that they never found the lion sisters. They were like, these girls got kidnapped from a mall, never found them. In 2014, Welch's cousin is like, well, one time I helped him with two heavy duffel bags in 1975. Dude.

It gets worse. They met at a property in Virginia. He said he helped to remove two army-style duffel bags from Welch's vehicle. Each bag weighed about 60 or 70 pounds and smelled like death. What the fuck? It was probably camping equipment. It gets... Musty.

You know how when your cousins ask you to help you burn or bury something and you're like, I'm just not asking questions? I mean, look, we're all cousins. We have to be at Thanksgiving together. Just be chill. It would be so awkward if I'm like, what's in these and you're like, I don't want to tell you. Come on.

Don't unzip that. It's my murder duffel. He tells in 2014, and then, oh, and he said, further, the bags were covered in red stains. That's probably Kool-Aid. Was he blind and deaf? And then in 2014, he came to... Yeah. And all snapped back.

Yeah. Miraculously. And, okay, so Lloyd Welch happens to be... He happens to work at the time. He was like a drifter, but he worked for a traveling carnival company. Guess where they set up all the time in the 70s? Inside a duffel bag. No.

Wait. In malls. And he was in Austin, Texas until around 75. These carnivals set up in malls from the mid-70s to 97. I'm just trying to picture a mall carnival, and it's like bumming me out so bad. You know, your parents always were like, they were always like, those rides are going to kill you. They also didn't say those ride people are going to kill you.

Yeah. Right. Basically, everything over there is going to kill you. Yeah. And your mom, like your parents told you to worry about, and you were like, you're being annoying. No, they'll kill you. You're dead on.

Yeah. Dead on. It's so annoying when your parents are right. Yeah. So in July 2015, Welch is indicted, charged with the girl's murder. His uncle is a person of interest. Yeah. The duffel bag guy?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So here's another thing. So he's in malls, baby-to-blah. His longtime girlfriend at the time, dated for over 10 years, we're always on the road together, et cetera, et cetera.

She was a security guard at a mall. Oh, like for the real deal? Yeah. Borrowed her outfit. What's up? Stole those kids. You know it. Get dance moves.

Oh, and then in 2001, a former senior security guard and Fort Worth police officer gives a chilling account. He says that he witnessed girls climb into a pickup truck of a young mall security guard and that they appeared to go with him willingly. Goodbye. Thank you. I mean, that's just fucked. Yeah.

Never found. Never found in the other two girls that were murdered. That was never prosecuted. Yeah. But do we know that the husband and sister weren't involved? The brother thinks that the sister was involved. I'd like to bring all of Texas up on charges for this story. No one's innocent in this.

I think we wouldn't be wrong. But also, it's so, wait, somebody had, the girlfriend was a real security guard so they could have been borrowing badges and shit and stuff to make it look real. Or maybe she was complicit. Maybe she was complicit and fucking was like, get in my car, girls. And they got in her car. You know? Yeah.

So don't go to the mall. Don't talk to security guards. Don't. Don't wear your sweet honesty shirt. No sweet honesty anymore. Stop it. Don't do it. I have to say those cold cases drive me crazy.

I know. I love them. I know. That's your favorite. There's just no. We should set up like a red phone on stage in case somebody finds out and they can call us immediately. It comes through.

Ring through. Lord Welch. Oh, my God. Oh, God. You guys. I mean, like the balloons drop and confetti comes down. We all dance and dance. Well, good one.

That was a good one. Thank you. Clap for George's. Thank you. Where are you going? What? Oh. I thought you were leaving.

I was just giving you your time in the spotlight. Oh, no. Stool. Sorry. I'm sorry to say that about your stool. That shit. Stand and deliver. I'm going to stand and stare.

Stand and deliver. Well, I did a very pandery thing and I picked a Chicago murderer. You think you're better than me? What's that? I said, you think you're better than me? That's right. But also because there were so many choices. A lot of people love, they love to talk about how like a Pacific Northwest, oh, yeah, so

many murders in San Francisco. Hello Chicago. You guys want to kill everybody. Chicago just doesn't brag about it. That's right. They're just low-key. Yeah. Like, yeah, well.

They're just like, yeah, let's go have a beer. I don't need to talk about that. How are you doing? More importantly, we don't need to talk about the torso murders. How are you doing? I've all killed it. No, that's not here. No, that's Cleveland.

Anyway. So there was a lot, it is lippy. There was a lot of choices to choose from. And there was a lot of favorites, but I actually had to go with, this is my original, the reason I got into reading serial killer books and watching true crime shows, fucking John Wayne Gates. Yeah. And I know this because she accidentally told me in the hotel room.

It slipped out in the hotel room. What was the context of that? You were talking about how the hotel concierge was like, you had to print out your notes. Oh, yeah. And she was like, if you like John Wayne Gates, you'll love this tour. And then I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah. That's all I said.

I think there was nothing else revealed. So I don't know the deets. Yeah. But I'm about to hear them. You're about to hear them. And you may have heard me say this before, but the first thing I ever saw about John Wayne Gates because if you know, he buried the bodies of teenage boys that he murdered inside his house.

And when the police arrested him finally, and he was able to draw a diagram of his house and he knew where every single boy was in the house. And there were 27 of them. I bet the FBI didn't respect him after that. They were like, oh, look at braggie, bragger scene over there, take it easy. So I saw, when I was like probably 12, I opened a book, the perfect age for true crime, opened a book, and they had drawn, based on the diagram that John Wayne Gates, he had drawn, they had been, because he, they just used like long rectangles to show where the bodies were.

And some artists had basically drawn body shapes like it almost looked like a chalk outline, but like body shapes in a house diagram. So that's, I like was, oh, childhood, and, you know, Joni loves Chachi and fucking this and that. And I looked down at this thing and I'm like, why are those boys floating in those boxes? And then I read underneath it and it's like, you know, 27 bodies were buried inside this house. And I was just like, okay, now I know that.

And now I must know more. And I won't stop. Adding that to Charlotte's web and all the shit you already knew. Some pig. So let's talk about fucking good old John. Also the middle name Wayne is very common in serial killer world, which I think is kind of great that he got in there. I don't know, but he, they named him John Wayne Gasey because his mom loved John Wayne,

the actor. Red flag, right? Not a good sign that she loved film. So John Wayne Gasey was born on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, 1942 at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Anyone? Edgewater? Anyone else?

You guys work there? Were you also born there with him? He was the second of three children, he had an older sister and a younger sister. And his father was a machinist who had been in World War I and he was a very bad alcoholic. So the story was that his dad would come home from work and he would go down into the basement and drink brandy, which sounds classy. But they would have, they would, the mom would make dinner and then I will all sit at the dinner table and wait for him to come upstairs and see how he felt.

Well, I bet when he came up he was real happy and everyone was like, we can finally talk about brandy. Brandy. Well, no, instead, normally he would come up drunk and very angry and he would beat them with a strap for dinner. So I'm good tonight on strap. I'm so full of strap from last night, dad. You can give it to her now if you want.

She's real hungry for a strap. And part of what they say, they think what fueled his rage is that John was basically a mama's boy and he liked that, you know, the father was into fishing and hunting and man, man, man. And John liked to cook and he liked to be in the kitchen with his mom. He liked planting flowers in the garden, things that in like the late forties apparently brought deep shame upon you and your ancestors and were unacceptable and made you drink brandy and beat children.

So it's like the norm back then though, you know, yeah, I think it is. It's like everybody has to fit into their box and if you don't, I'm going to punch you in the face even though you're eight. All right. And then I wrote down there, toxic masculinity ruins the party again. Can't wait to see that meme. Then when, um, when John was nine, he was molested by a family friend. And then when he was 11, he was hit in the head with a baseball bat, what, with a swing,

with a swing, exactly like Richard Ramirez with a swing. I know it sounds like he got to nine. He was so fucking close to like not getting molested, like you're so close and then some fucking shitty neighbor like dad's family work friend comes along so close to getting and then a fucking swing. Yeah. Were they in that swing? Would I not have a medal back then?

I think probably were made out of like seven pounds of metal like this will really center this swing nicely. And it's lead, so if you lick it, you're going to die. So but he also had a bad heart, so he was prone to fainting spells, which didn't help with the whole also gardening and cooking thing, like he's just like taking five every once in a while type of stuff. And the so he just felt like he's all fucked up. Then to add to the household tension, John had a secret fetish for women's underwear.

So he would steal his mother's silk panties and put them hold on in a bag in the and in a brown bag in the back of the closet. And he would that that was his like panty stash, mommy's panty stash. That's it. He just stashed them. He's well. I mean, who am I to say that he masturbated all over them? That's what I was looking for.

That's hearsay. Yes. Because I am I have a fetish for panties. I buy a bunch of them and I wear them as underwear. Not the same. You know, Victoria's whatever. You buy a bunch of them and then stick them in a brown bag and tuck them into the back ear.

No, I don't I don't do that. And then I kill people. Yeah. So he he told one of his friends that he he had them. He showed them to a friend of his and then said he wanted he wished he could know what he looked like as a woman. Oh, never trust anyone. So then his sister found that brown bag in the closet and she told the mom and the mom

was like, oh, Johnny's always had a fetish for panties. So she was quite progressive, actually, just very nice to hear. But not helpful in any way. So OK, so when he so he had a hard time in school, he wasn't popular. He fainted a lot. He was always thinking about those underwear. And then when he was night, he never graduated from high school, he went to four different high schools around the greater metropolitan area.

And then he never graduated. And when he was 19, he just left town. He moved to Las Vegas without telling his family what you're supposed to do when you live in the Midwest. That's right. No, I mean, like, get out of your small town. I don't mean not you guys. They just all come rushing over.

Yeah. Don't worry, they'll fall into the orchestra pit or totally say, so here's the thing. So he gets a job in Las Vegas. And like I was thinking about this, like the first job you get out of high school, it's usually based on the thing you kind of like the most or the thing that you're into. So like I worked at a yogurt shop because I love eating so much. I worked at a bakery. Did you?

Yeah. And well, John became a janitor at a mortuary because it was his passion that did. And he actually later admitted to the police that when he worked there one night, he that's right. He got into a coffin with the body of a dead boy and fondled it. It gets so much worse. There's 47 pages right now. A lot of this is my poetry.

I'm going to read later. All right, his parents actually hire a private investigator to find him and they find him in Vegas. My parents wouldn't do that. I know. Right? And be like, well, good luck. I mean, if you've got to be in Vegas fondling dead bodies, then live your dreams.

He came back to Chicago and he went to business college and it turned out he's a born salesman because he is a psychopath, right? We're learning as we talk on this podcast all about terminology and what it actually means as opposed to what I think it means and say it means to a whole shitload of people. And then people, we didn't know, we're learning that people believe us when we say shit. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah.

I've got like psychosis, I've mixed up psychosis and psychopath, so I had the thing where I told people that 25% of the population were sociopaths and then in corrections corner, she said that it was only one quarter. Yes. Yeah. I fixed it. Okay. I didn't fucking question.

Everything's fine. You know anyone can do a podcast, right? Yeah. Anyone gets a podcast. It's true. But for this, I looked it up because clearly we know that these major players are usually psychopaths and their thing is that they're very ambitious. It's like they just want to get ahead.

They're very, very charming, which apparently John Wayne Gacy was very charming and like had the gift of gab. He's really, he's very, you know, like he just made people feel very comfortable and then he had an insatiable sexual appetite. So he was kind of always doing things so that he could, this all sounds so like time-consuming, you know, like it makes me want to take a nap. Yeah. He had to, he had to like take vitamins and just really like make sure you got enough

water and stuff. You know what's great is taking a nap with a cat. Like I don't know. You don't need to be super sexual or talky or fucking cool. Just relax. You just go to sleep. Yeah. Well, not John.

As far as I know. I mean good for him kind of. What if he was like a crazy cat lady? Oh my God, I have like 12 cats. I love it. He worked at the Nunn-Bush shoe company here in Chicago. Anyone? No.

Oh, Karen. Did they shut it down? Stephen, can we edit that out? Stephen, can we turn that part up where no one supported me? He was very good at it and he ended up getting transferred to Springfield, Illinois. Oh, big time. Right? Are you representing from Springfield?

No. Well, then what the fuck are you doing? Right? I was fucking right. And he joined a group called the JC's. You can cheer for it. Now I just don't believe that you're actually behind it. The John Gacy's?

The J... They're all John Gacy's? No. The JC's. That's JG's. Fuck. I mean... Mom, this is your fault.

Jesus. The JC's from What I Can Gather, which there is almost no information. I think they might be the Illuminati because it just is a website, a weird blue website that's like, we're a non-profit organization to help the city and it's like, but why? And based on who? And like, there's no answers. Just young people in jackets that are like, the JC's. So he was in the JC's and he made a lot of like, contacts and like, you know, I guess

made friends or whatever. Very active in that point. You hear about John Wayne Gacy that he was like, you know, he lived this crazy double life because he was all successful and, you know, was in parades and shit. Well, I think it was like, it was based in the JC's. That's how it started. And he was... So in February 1964, he meets a shy bookkeeper and a year later, he marries her.

And she has a very wealthy family, it turns out. It's an incredibly beneficial marriage to him. I want to say a shy bookkeeper as to what bookkeepers are usually like, which is fucking mad. I can draw. Yeah. A lot of theater students become bookkeepers. And then...

So she's wealthy. Yeah. And so he's like, that's so weird. I'm in love with you. What a great coincidence. So later that year, so they get married in, oh, no, sorry, they meet in February of 1964. They get married soon after. And then later that year, oh, this is mathematically impossible.

Shit. Later, it's... I have later that same year while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to their first child, but I'm pretty sure no, unless... He could have knocked her up before... Oh, girl. John, you dog. Basically, she gets pregnant with their first child.

She's in the hospital giving birth. You know, back then, I was like, men didn't have to be in the delivery room. They weren't... You know, they were just smoking cigarettes. Women didn't even have to be there. They just like knocked you the fuck out. That's right. You're like, bye.

Baby. Let me know when the baby comes. Well, he actually visited a bar around the corner of the phone as co-workers who ended up fucking that night, while his wife was giving birth, wakes up in the apartment the next day, gets dressed, goes to the hospital, and holds his newborn son. Yeah. So this is the beginning of his double life. And then in 1966, his father-in-law says, if you move to Waterloo, Iowa, I will...

I will kill you from the audience. She's just scared because she was thinking about something that happened earlier. There was a spider. There was a spider on her seat. Yeah. There was a spider. The father-in-law says, if you move to Waterloo, Iowa, you can have three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.

Oh, my God. Am I right? With the fucking Waterloo Chicken? I would do that. So he goes there to manage... he's 24 at this point. Holy shit. And the funniest thing is when you watch these... I mean, there's a million, what do you call it, documentaries about him.

He always looks 53. Yeah. Like from fucking jump, when there's pictures of him as a boy, you're like, is that the oldest boy in America? He's just... At the Kentucky Fried Chickens, they say he's like a good manager and he does very well in the job. But he makes his employees call him the Colonel.

Oh. What a fucking nerd. Can you believe? If I was standing there with my dumb apron on, like working Kentucky Fried Chicken, he's like, I'm your new manager, but you got to call me the Colonel. I'd be like, see you fucking later, Colonel, I don't work here anymore. But you know, he thinks it's like fun and like, you can call me this, but every time you don't, he's like, call me this.

I said, call me Colonel. And she comes home from a hard day of work and she's like, my 24-year-old fucking boss, I'm 53, I'm just fit. Okay, so I'm going to call him the fucking Colonel. He also loves boys. Yeah, so he quickly becomes a well-liked member of the community, that's what he does, what he's good at. He joins the JCs in Waterloo.

They're everywhere. Now you're going to see them everywhere. It eventually turns into Scientology. And they said he became the most valuable member of the JCs because he got put in charge, he was the chairman of the membership drive. And what he would do to get people to join the JCs would have them meet in a motel room and show stag movies and bring prostitutes and have orgies. That sounds amazing.

And then people would be like, sure, I'll join the fucking JCs. Let's do this. Yeah, what did it take to become the most valuable member back then? Just like some money for prostitutes. Oh, fucking sex workers, sorry, back then I think they were prostitutes. So... Historical. So...

Oh, then his sister in one of these dog marriages talks about, she finds out when they go visit them one time that him and his wife swap partners. Like they're... What is that called? Swingers. They're swingers, like Vince Vaughn and his friends. We don't even know what that means. And we're like kind of proud of it.

He tells his sister when they're visiting. I was like, yeah, we're gonna go to this party tonight, but we might go home with other people. I was like, okay. You know you're both gross, right? You know I know about the underwear in the bag, right? Yeah. And then he's voted the JCs man of the year. So...

Call me Colonel. So then when he's in Waterloo, he ends up... His wife goes out of town. He invites the 15-year-old son of a fellow JC and a state senator over to the house to watch a stag film and get drunk and he molests this boy. No shit. And then he told him, you can't tell on me because I have ties to the mafia in Chicago. Here's 50 bucks, keep your mouth shut.

And it works for a little while. It works for long enough so that he molests the second boy. And then finally one boy breaks and then the other one does and he gets arrested and he gets sent to prison for 10 years. The prison psychiatrist recommends that he not be released ever as he was a sexual sadist and could never be rehabilitated. But he was so well-behaved that he served 18 months. Fucking fuck, man.

His wife divorces him. She's like, the swinging thing was one thing, but what the fuck? So he goes back to Chicago. While he's in jail, his father dies, has a heart attack and dies and he's convinced it's because of what he did, which is probably true. So he goes and moves in. His mother helps him buy a house and they move in together and he's like trying to, you know, make good on all of his bad behavior.

So they buy a house at 8213 West Somerdale Avenue in the Norwood Wood Park. Anyone live there at that house? But for real though, you can't cheer if you don't actually live there. And we're all going there right now. And then in June of 1971, he starts his infamous contracting company business, I should say, called PDM, which stands for Painting, Decorating, and Maintenance. What does it really stand for? Pedophile.

Penis. Karen. It stands for penis, but he put DM after just to throw people off. And here's the thing, he basically only hires teenage boys to work for him. Red flag. And when, I mean really, when anybody asks him about it, he's like, they're more reliable than grown men. Teenage boys in the 70s, okay.

There's like literal movies made about teenage boys in the 70s. Being unreliable. Being unreliable. So okay, so in January of 1972, when he is 29, 61, he picks up, he's single now, so he doesn't have to, no one's checking on him, I don't think his mother's really paying attention. So one night he goes to the Greyhound bus station, and he picks up a teenage runaway named Tim McCoy. And he takes him back to his house where they party, they have sex.

They believe that part was consensual, but then Gacy grabs a kitchen knife and stabs him to death. So this is his first kill. And he's also the first body that's buried in the crawl space. And because he was a runaway, no one ever knew the boy was missing, so the cops were never alerted. So then the next line is, then he remarries a woman named Carol, it's very easy for him to date for some reason.

It's so funny how much more these people have their shit together than you and I. You mean me. You're married. No, I mean us. No, I heard what you were saying. I'm married by the string of my teeth, what did they say? I mean... It was a friend of his sisters from high school.

And the sister again in a documentary is like, I mean, I didn't really see them together, but you know, they seem happy, so, and it's just like, oh, all right. So basically he's just using her as body armor and then just like going about his day. So in 1975 is when he starts dressing up infamously as Pogo the Clown. Now everybody's seen the pictures, but if you haven't, if you're from Norway or whatever, is anyone...they don't do that. He dressed up as a clown, but he did the makeup and there's like a rule in clown makeup where everything has to be rounded, everything's circular and rounded and like fun because

you're staring into the face of children. And Pogo the Clown. And you know, they say like round shit. They love round shit. Donuts and cookies and fucking clown eyes. But John Wayne Gacy's clown makeup is pointy, pointy, pointy. It's the scariest thing. It's truly like a clown nightmare.

Illuminati, illuminati, right? Fucking death trap. Light swastika on the forehead. So bad. Okay, so in 1976, after three years of marriage, his wife leaves him. Just because. You know, she just didn't feel like it anymore. I'm just not feeling it.

So there's the story and this guy, Tony Antonucci tells the story in one of the documentaries. He was 16 at the time. He was working at the contracting company. John Wayne Gacy invites him over because this was the thing. It would be like, come to my house and let's smoke a joint and we'll have a couple drinks and we'll hang out. And then when the teenage boys would get there, he would be...so this guy was a high school wrestler.

So John Wayne Gacy's like, oh, come on, Mr. Wrestler, show me your wrestling moves. And the guy's like, okay. That's such a thing. Yes. It's a real... All of that. It's a real thing. Yeah.

Because then you're high and then you're like, well, I'm not going to say no to my boss who wants me to wrestle with him. Yeah. And then suddenly you're... You can, though. Just know that. You guys. You can literally just put the joint down and be like, I'll see you tomorrow.

You don't need to drink with older people. I don't know. Like anyone. My parents are older than me and I drink with them. It's fine. Something about, you know, something is...there's something deep there. There's something in there. It's just...

No, we're going to dig around it now. There's something in there. You don't need to drink with older people. The age range... The age range spray everyone. So basically, he challenges them to a wrestling match and while they're wrestling, he throws a handcuff on one of Tony's wrists and he tries to get the other wrist handcuff and he's fighting him and fighting him.

Oh, no. He gets in, so Gacy leaves the room and then Tony, what had happened is he fought him so much that the handcuff was only clicked to like the first thing. So he was able to pull his hand out of the handcuff, but then when Gacy walked back in the room, he kept his hand back and his back so it still looked like he was handcuffed. And so when Gacy came over to him, he fucking took him down. He did like a wrestling move, took him down to the ground and Gacy goes, oh, you passed the test.

So then Tony's like, oh, okay. And then he just kept working for him. I wanted that to end better. I mean, he was alive to tell the story, so that's good. But it was that thing where he was like, you know, it's your boss and you just, you want... It was a good job. They were probably making, you know, a good amount of money for high school boys. And it's such a weird story that there's no way to explain it to someone and sound like

now you'd be like, this thing happened and that would be a classic assault. But then it was just like, hey, he's just goofing around. You know, we got high in that thing where your boss wrestles you and handcuffs you. Didn't you work at the Gap? That happened to you once at the Gap, right? Yes. It happens all the time. It's normal.

All right. So basically, this is his... It turns out that this becomes Gacy's MO. It's either the handcuff trick or the magic rope trick. The magic rope trick was, he would say, oh, I'm going to show you this magic rope trick. And it was all around the fact that he was Pogo the Clown. So he'd like, like, I'm a clown. I have these tricks.

I'm going to show you the tricks. Oh, no. So it's such a nightmare. You're like kind of high, like, okay. Yeah. Like even just the clown stuff, I'd be like, I'm sorry, I just had an emergency call. I have to leave. Like...

They didn't have phones back then, right? That's right. They couldn't... They just had to sit there in their down vest being like, cool, man. The fucking rope trick, the magic rope trick is they stand there and he goes, so this is what I do. And then he would just throw a rope around their neck and fucking strangle them to death. That was the magic rope trick.

So it was quick and bad. So the problem was that he hired these boys and a lot of them are written off as runaways when they would disappear. And oftentimes it would come to him. So they'd be like, oh, he worked for you. Have you seen him lately? And Tony Antonucci tells in one of those stories, he said he was supposed to meet this boy, John Zick.

And John Zick never showed up for the job they were supposed to go do together. And then Gacy came up and goes, he called me and he said that he went to Cabo San Lucas. Yep. Yeah. Because that's where you go when you're a teenager. When you're a teenager by yourself. By yourself. I'm just going to...

I'm going to quick seize. I need to go down to the Mexican Riviera for a while. Real quick? Yeah. I'm going to go. I just need to take it easy. Goodbye. Oh, man.

So at this point, and also around this time, Gacy also put red lights in his car and would, when he would see a target, he would pull them over and say that he was an undercover cop and that he had to bring them in. He would handcuff them and then he would have them. Never pull your car over when you're getting followed by a cop. Tell them I said that. And when the cop comes to your window, you should pepper spray him in the eye. Yes.

Which is also the thing the hillside sprinklers did. They posed as cops and pulled women over and would be like, you have a bunch of tickets to get into our car. Yeah. Which is why you actually... I mean, I'm not fucking bullshitting now. You do want to pull over in a well-populated area. Yes.

You don't want to... If someone cop is stopping you on a fucking deserted road, you're fucking getting off on the next stop and parking in a McDonald's parking lot. You know what you're doing? You're high-speed chasing it. To evolve. Tell them your mother sent you, Karen and Georgia. So around this time, at this point, he's been getting away with murder for six years.

At the end of 1977, he'd killed 19 boys. And by 1978, he was committing a murder every two to three weeks. Holy shit. Your town. I can't even vacuum every two to three weeks. I mean, you just... It's so much dog hair on all my clothes at all the time. Totally.

Me too. The only reason we don't have it is because we packed these. I bought this here. All right. So his last victim, this was in December 1978, and it was 15-year-old Robert Peast, and he worked part-time at a drug store in Des Plaines. Des Plaines. De Plaines.

Does Plaines? It doesn't matter. So his mom, this Robert Peast's mom is in the parking lot to pick him up when his shift is over, but he goes, hold on a second. I met this guy who has a better job for me, and it's a really good-paying job, I'll be right back. And he never comes back. They go out into the parking lot after 15 minutes, and he's nowhere to be seen.

But here's the thing. And this is where, if you've ever seen, there's a movie where Brian Denne, he plays John Wayne Gacy, and you have to see it, it's so crazy, because he was crazy drunk and on pills. So by this point, he's been doing it and getting away with it for so long. He's like sloppy as hell. He thinks no one's ever going to catch him, and he's just really sloppy. So the people in this drug store knew who John Wayne Gacy was. The guy who always offers kids jobs.

Probably. Exactly. Pogo the Clown's here again. It's that guy who wears a sweet honesty t-shirt all the time. I brought it back around. It's called to bring it back around. So anyway, they file a missing persons report. He is not a runaway.

They can't blame it on any of that shit. This boy was an Eagle Scout, a loving family. So the cops, they trace it back to Gacy. The cops go to his house to question him at 3.30 in the morning when they finally trace it back. And he's super pissy. He's like really bitchy to the cops. I would be.

Oh, no. I'm sorry. They go to his house like at night, normal time. And he's really bitchy. He's like, I will come down to the station. I'll come down to talk to you. He shows up at 3.30 in the morning at the police station covered in mud. So they're like, could you take a seat in here, please?

We just have a couple of questions to ask you. What the fuck? Can they finally do a background check and see that he was convicted for sodomy in Iowa and they're finally like, I think we've got this, the guy. So yeah, but can I just say that sodomy is a bullshit charge that they, because they didn't give him the, you guys, never mind. It's just a thing where they like didn't want to charge him with child molestation or give him a real fucking charge.

They gave him 18 months because they gave him sodomy instead, which like anyone could get sodomy. That's not what I mean. That's right. And if you're not comfortable with that, maybe it's your problem. They detain him at the police station. I mean, I don't know what to say. They detain him at the police station.

They go and search Gacy's home and they find a trap door that leads down to the crawl space. And then a cop crawls down into the crawl space and they're like, there sure is a lot of lime down here and they just come back up. They didn't find anything. They came. Yeah. Yeah. So one said no, no, there's more in this paper.

I swear to God. So what they do find is a bunch of jewelry that does not belong to him and one of the things that they found was a class ring with the initials JC inside it and they traced that ring back to John Zick. His last name is spelled so insanely, it's C-Z-Y-S-Z-K or something like that. I just wrote it Z-I-C-K because I couldn't deal. But they basically see, they trace the ring, they get John's name, they go to the Zick home and they say, the mother tells them he's been missing since January 20th, 1977.

And they're like, ding, ding, ding, here we go. This is our guy. So then they start, they stake him out and they have to get a search warrant for his house. So while they're waiting, they put the surveillance team on his house. And Gacy is doing things like leading them on long, medium speed chases till dawn. Or like... He doesn't even know anyone's following him. No, no, no, he does.

He's doing it on purpose. Or he's buying them dinner, they're out there trying to order food or whatever and then he just picks up the tab. He's fucking around, he can't ever get caught. But they get a second search warrant and that's when, oh no, sorry, he invited them in for a fish dinner. And while the two cops were inside, one of them said, could I use your restroom? And when the cop goes into the restroom, they said it was around Christmas time so the heater

was on and the cop walked into the bathroom, I keep saying restroom, but it's a home. He goes into the bathroom and smells death and he's like, what? Did you hear that? What? I just heard a ghost. Like the heating vent came on. That's when we found out Karen was great out of her mind. Totally insane.

The heater vent came on, the air came out and it was the smell of death and he knew that they had to search this house, basically. So essentially bleep bleep bleep, sorry, how they finally got him was he had driven to a gas station and dropped off a bag of pot to somebody so they got him on this really dumb charge but they were able to hold him at the police station. They got the second warrant, they go into the house, they go into the crawl space and after 15 minutes, because they just didn't take enough time the first time, after 15 minutes, we have three bodies down here and then it's on like Donkey Kong and eventually

they find in that crawl space, the 27 bodies of young men and boys, I feel so bad for those cops that had to do all that shit up. Even just the old footage is so upsetting looking. I can see that. Yeah, you have to look at it. Is his mom just playing solitaire the whole time or something? No, she died at some point. She's like, what's that, Johnny?

I didn't hear you come in. No, I don't want to do the handcuff trick again. I don't want to. You know, you did that to me and I fell for it. So there's 27 bodies in the house and then he admits that there are also six he dumped in the river and that's when he was covered in mud at the police station. He had just dumped Robert Peast's body. He basically dumped it and went straight to the police station.

He stands trial in February of 1980. He never shows an ounce of remorse. They put the victim's family members and friends on the stand so everybody sees all of these boys and all their family and all the people that were affected and in three hours the jury finds him guilty on all counts. He's sentenced to death and after 14 years of appeals he's put to death on May 10, 1994. His last words were, kiss my ass. He's a good guy and his last meal was Kentucky fried chicken, that's right.

That's cool. I mean, no, it's awful. I don't know. I don't kind of like it. And then they destroyed that house which when I first saw the footage of that they pulled the whole fucking thing down and then I was like, that's a bit dramatic and then I was like, what am I talking about? What real estate agent could sell that fucking house?

I like that killing 27 people isn't dramatic but them tearing the house down. Tearing the house down. I was like, stop it, you guys. You're being nuts. You're being what? Sword. Dramatic. Yes.

And that's Sean Wayne Gacy, good job, Chicago. Yay. Thank you. Yeah, we might need, we might have time for one hometown murder. Is there a way to turn the lights on for one second? You have to jump over the orchestra pit, though, if you're going to say it, if you're going to do it. It's someone's birthday.

Yeah, hold on a second because it's someone's birthday. There's two people's birthday. Karen, look, there's Elvis's face. You have to stand up. The pointing doesn't work. Karen, look. What's happening? It's Elvis's face.

What the fuck? Holy shit. I thought it was empty up there. It's not. Oh my god, hi. I think I was hoping that I couldn't stand it. That's exciting. Nope.

That's not. Hi. Nope. Okay. Does anyone have a hometown that's really good, though? If someone's pointing at you and they're, okay, how do we ‑‑ we should have thought this through. Can she walk over and around really quick?

Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we hate you. There's someone standing over there. Someone must be in charge. Who's in charge that could help us? We're not. Does someone work here?

Uh‑oh. Just kidding. Can we just have one person run up here really quick? Oh, no. Is the answer no? We'll do a dance in the meantime. Do you stand up? Whoever has it, will you stand up?

Yeah. Is it you? Yeah. Okay. What's your name? I think I'm going to throw this to you. Wow. Jesus.

Careful. You took your shoes off? Yeah. Careful. Careful. Okay. Throw it to her. Oh.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. All right. We're having a hometown. Put it together in your mind right now. It needs to be a story. It has to be beginning, middle, and end.

Uh‑oh. Are you all right? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm going to let her sit on my stool. See how she does. Yeah. Housekeeping, doing housekeeping, housekeeping, Stephen's actually at home watching my cats right now.

It's pretty, pretty sweet. They really like, they really like him. I'm going to keep talking. Here she comes. What's her name? Ashley. Hi. Hi.

Remember you. Me too. How's it going? Good. Good. That's Georgia. Nice to meet you. Yeah?

Just sit right here. Oh, we're happy to be here. Sit here. Sit on it. Yeah. Let's just see how you do. It really is wobbly. It's fucked up, right?

Yeah. It's really wobbly. You sat on this for an hour? Yes. And it's slippery too. And like this weird food song. Yeah. That's impressive.

Um, okay. Tell ‑‑ what's your hometown? Where are you from? Um, so I am from about an hour outside of the city, DeKalb, Illinois. Anybody in IU? Whoa. Yeah. So there's a big college out there.

I know him. Oh, I know. Yes. Don't talk about him. That's another really good one. Um, Tony Cowan, if you ever get a chance to look at that up, that's a really good one. Oh, I thought you were talking about like someone you went to school with. Yeah.

I did too. Talk about Tony right now. He's a murderer, I bet. So I'm not going to take full credit because this is actually my boyfriend's hometown murder. He's a local in the area. We'll take it. And he told this story to me on one of our first dates and I was really fascinated by

it. That's a keeper. You are. So lucky. Like, are you taking notes? Are you? You know. So he lived in a really small town, actually outside of DeKalb, a small farming town.

And he worked at a gas station when he was in high school. And there was a guy who would come to the gas station every day. And every day he would buy a pack of cigarettes and a 30 rack of beer. And he was approximately 300 pounds. So you know, live in the dream. Yes. Yeah. Um, the town kind of noticed that he went missing.

And they filed a missing persons report about a couple weeks after he went missing. He was a cook at this restaurant slash motel that was, um, it's on highway 47 if anybody knows that. It's bad news. Bad news. It's like in the middle of nowhere. Motel on a highway? No way.

Yeah. So it was called the Bohemia. And the owner of the restaurant, um, was a guy, he, uh, he owned the restaurant. He hired this guy as a cook and he also, the guy also lived in the motel. So, um, uh, after a couple weeks, police are searching for this guy. Somebody calls in a tip and says, Hey, I actually was helping my friend the other day. He owns the Bohemia restaurant. He had some extra money laying around.

So he decided he wanted to bury it in the cornfields. So he asked me if I'd come out and help dig some holes for him. Which is totally logical. This guy's like, you know, I was thinking about it. Yeah. So, um. Well, so, um, so he calls, so he tells the police where they buried it or they buried the money and, uh, the police go out there, dig up the holes and, uh, spoiler was not

money. No. No. Uh, in the hole, they found two garbage bags. One was the head of this man, the cook, the 300 pound cook and the other bag was his torso. Oh. So, um, they did an autopsy.

They found out, um, I mean, it's, it's sad, obviously he was murdered, but he was kind of on the verge of death. He actually, they ruled that it was a heart attack because his heart stopped. Um. Because his head was removed. Probably. But, but actually that came up where they weren't almost going to press charges because it's technically, that's all they had was the torso and the head.

Uh. Um. What's the carbs everybody? Yeah. He also has cirrhosis of the liver and emphysema. Oh. Don't smile. I was going to say eczema, but my friend corrected me in the car and she's like, no, you wouldn't

die from that. I mean, he probably had that too. Yeah. So, um, they ended up pressing or indicting the owner of this restaurant, the Bohemia, and come to find out, um, he was murdered in the kitchen where he was a cook. Um, I hate the reason why he was murdered. It was over a bad drug deal, which I'm just going to go on now. But the, but what happened after it, it's just like amazing.

So, um, the thing was is like, is he wanted, I guess he didn't come up with this plan right away because obviously he couldn't move the 300 pound man, decided to cut him up, um, didn't know what to do with him at first. The whole, digging a hole in the cornfield didn't come to him. So he decided to store the body parts in the motel room fridges, the refrigerators. And they were able to collect evidence because there was his DNA in the fridge. The little ones? I mean, I don't know how big they were, probably.

It probably had like peanuts and candy, you know. Yeah. And then the dead body parts and bags. Oh. It's weird. Yeah. So, so the guy was actually sentenced to 90 years in prison. He is still alive.

And I'm so sorry. I forgot his name. I don't know. Oh, you're, then you're fired. Okay. I'll leave. I'll leave. That's amazing.

But one thing I will point out is his head and his torso were recovered, but his limbs, his arms and legs were never found. So I don't know what time your flight leaves tomorrow, but if you guys want to go on a little excavation. Yeah. I'd like to find some legs and arms. Yeah. It would be great.

Limb City. Yay. Thank you, Ashley. That was awesome. Well done. So good. Thank you. Yes.

That's how it's done. Yes. You all know how to do it. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys so much for being here. You're all sweet baby angels.

It makes, it means the world to us. This is crazy. We've never done a crowd this big. Yeah. It really does. It's really amazing. Yeah. And you know what?

You guys stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.