My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 93 - Live at The Grove in Anaheim

Episode Date: November 2, 2017

In this week’s episode, Karen and Georgia cover the killer Daniel Wozniak and Disneyland deaths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

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Starting point is 00:01:35 We should have done it in the dark. We should do the whole thing in the dark. What's up, Anaheim? That was scary. If it was Friday the 13th still, it would make sense. I know. But it's not. It's just Saturday the 14th. No big deal.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Everything's super chill. How's it going, you guys? Us too. Us too. Us too, for real. Samesies. We're glad to see all your faces and that you're safe and sane. In this crazy world.
Starting point is 00:02:14 The Dodgers. We could be talking about... What'd you say? The Dodgers. What? I don't know. We're right by a baseball thing. You guys, am I right about the Dodgers or am I right?
Starting point is 00:02:29 That was pandering. You're welcome. What if somebody is like, you have to back it up somehow? Yeah. No, they've gone nine for 17 this year. I don't know what that is. We were just standing in the back in the green room and there's a big screen TV with the game on and we were both staring at it trying to figure out if the game was over yet. I was trying to tell Georgia that everything we were watching were automatic
Starting point is 00:02:56 replays. I was like, no, this is replay and this is also replay as well. I don't think so. I think it's still happening. Georgia's like, it looks really live to me. I'm like, it looks really live to me. I'm like, that's how they do it. Why would they replay that? They just use replays all the time.
Starting point is 00:03:11 And then Vince was yelling at the TV, telling it what? Sports! We fucking love sports, don't we, murderinos? Yeah! There's a tiny baby. What's that? A tiny baby with headphones. Take those headphones off.
Starting point is 00:03:27 Hi, baby. Let's teach him some swear words. What you doing? We have terrible stories to tell you. Get ready for the world. Hi, baby. Hi, friend. Hi.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Nope, can't see this far yet. What if we did this for like, we did this for nine full minutes? Hi. Nope, doesn't care. Doesn't give a single shit. Fair enough. We got the rest of you.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Guys, Georgia's kind of a local girl. I hope you know that. I forgot about that and now I'm nervous. My sister wanted me to ask if anyone went to school with me or got high with me who's here tonight. I don't think so. We can't remember. Someone over there.
Starting point is 00:04:20 They're liars. There is the wife of someone that I used to go to raves with here supposedly so that's kind of cool i mean is it though no remember those pants come on you guys we don't have to pretend it's cool just the past uh we saw the apartment georgia grew up in we drove she she was getting knocked out the door. I had to pee.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Hi, what's up? How's your day going? Can we look through your house? Can I cry and walk through your house at the same time? I've got to work through some serious issues in your living room. Do you have time? My therapist told me just to lay down in a fetal
Starting point is 00:05:06 position in the place I grew up in and I'll be better. So do you mind if I come in? Is the carpet still shag carpet from the 70s even though it's 20 years later? Yes. No, fuck. What color? Brown. Yeah. Oh my god. Brown like all the rest of the city.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Dude, right? Irvine. It's the beigest fucking city I've ever seen in my life. No wonder I'm like fucking crazy and like got everything pierced and tattooed and like ran to LA immediately. Fuck beige! Fuck beige! I can't.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Yeah, it was nice. I have to say there's something very soothing about it though because you're just like, oh, we're at that same apartment complex. No, it's a 7-Eleven. Nope, nope, sorry, it's a grammar school. I see. Even my high school was fucking tan and stucco. Yeah, it's really nice.
Starting point is 00:05:56 This is not insulting to you at all. I don't mean Anaheim. We're talking specific, yeah, Anaheim's chill as fuck. You got that big Disneyland thing. Just name shit that's around the city. You have a really good Burger King. It's fast. They're friendly.
Starting point is 00:06:15 It's cheap. Somehow cheaper than the other Burger Kings. There's the good Burger King by the freeway. And then there's that gross Burger King that's out by that field. Don't go there. Ew. We are staying at a hotel close by, and it's one of those hotels where I think the families go to Disneyland for like a week,
Starting point is 00:06:35 so they have to stay in a place that has a kitchen, but it's like a tiny hotel room, and they all fucking are so sick of each other and hate each other. It was... It's like the family fight in over there. It's just... I go, is that lady going out into the hallway to fight with her child?
Starting point is 00:06:52 Because it was like a Doppler effect of like... There was one lady that was just standing there going, Lucy? Lucy? But angrier. Lucy! She did it like 12 times. Yeah, we were sitting in the room like working on our stories and then we would just start laughing because it was like,
Starting point is 00:07:11 in the other room. It's pretty great. You don't deserve Disneyland. And then it just makes you think of all those family vacations. And then the reality of them is everyone fucking hated each other. They hate each other. Yeah. family vacations, the reality of them is everyone fucking hated each other. They hate each other. Well, I'll tell you, my first trip to Disneyland, age five, fifth birthday,
Starting point is 00:07:30 thank you, that's not why we went. It was just a coincidence. They actually played it down. Families are the worst. I love it. Because it was also Mother's Day weekend, So it was our family
Starting point is 00:07:45 and the Mazzoni family and then my Grandma Grace. And one of the first rides we went on was Pirates of the Caribbean. And I can remember this like it was yesterday. I was sitting in front of my dad. The second we went through the restaurant lagoon where everything is chill and you go down that
Starting point is 00:08:03 very small hill to go into the rest of the very chill ride. For something, I didn't like how dark it was. There's also a skeleton talking to you about shit, man. It's not for five-year-olds on their birthday. No. And so I just started screaming. Of course. And I wouldn't stop screaming.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And my dad, I remember my dad being in my ear and he got pointing. There's like a little girl that was sitting next to us in the boat or ahead, or she was in a different, I can't remember, but he just kept pointing at her going, she's not screaming. Look at her. She's not screaming at all. Just shaming you. So when we got out of Pirates of the Caribbean, we got into the line for the Jungle Cruise, but I thought my parents were taking me back onto Pirates of the Caribbean. So I got the fuck out of there, and I failed.
Starting point is 00:08:53 And I was lost for three hours in Disneyland. Shut up! Yeah. Were they like, let her go? Yeah. I walked around by myself until I found a guy dressed like an old-fashioned cop, and then I
Starting point is 00:09:05 said my family is lost and they brought me to a tiny house that was child size and that's when I knew things were bad things were about to start happening I was like oh no here's this is the end of the thing where now adults come into play or here's where you live forever you live here now oh my god girl sorry you have to eat this whole gingerbread house for the rest of your life adults come into play. Or here's where you live forever. You live here now. Oh my God. What a girl. Sorry. You have to eat this whole gingerbread house for the rest of your life.
Starting point is 00:09:30 I just remember my dad coming in the door of the lost child's house like this. Get over here. Like a true monster. So pissed. And apparently while I was gone, my grandmother, all my grandmother would say to my mother is I knew you'd lose her ouch ouch so just fun healthy times at Disneyland
Starting point is 00:09:54 when I was a kid we would every Christmas all the Jews and all the Muslims would go to Disneyland because there was nobody there. It was like awesome. And we were all like, we were all friends and we were high-fiving each other. Like it was like we came together on Christmas. It was so great. That's actually Walt Disney's dream. Yeah. He was very, he was very low key about how much he wanted Jews and Muslims to come together.
Starting point is 00:10:19 It was his real fantasy. We were all like, fuck Christmas. Let's go to Disneyland. Yeah. Yeah. Get some Chinese food together. Right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Dude. Yeah. It was pretty fun. And then the last, I've tried to take Vince twice to Disneyland. He's never been because he's from, you know. And we've walked in and we keep accidentally going on like a day, you know, like a someone's day or a something day. And then it's like so crowded
Starting point is 00:10:47 that I have a panic attack. And so then we just go and get drunk at the Tiki bar. Yes. And it's amazing. Yes. Fuck it. That's what those bars are for. Their seats go up and down.
Starting point is 00:10:57 You're like, what's happening? It's so fun. It's pretty great. Oh, I miss getting drunk at Disneyland. That's pretty great. Oh, I miss getting drunk at Disneyland. You need a minute? I mean, can I just go back real quick to 1997? I was so good at it.
Starting point is 00:11:17 I'm just saying, as a blackout drunk, you wouldn't have known until I fell down onto your shoes that I was a blackout drunk. Because I just fucking, I didn drunk because I just fucking I didn't slur and I didn't try to tell you a fucking secret the whole time I just I handled my shit you know what I mean I made it I made it work for everybody
Starting point is 00:11:34 it was like I cared about others also being drunk you described me I slur and I tell secrets to everyone that's all I do I slur and then you go I don't know I'm It's all I do. I've been talking to you for once. And then you go, I'm sorry, I'm not that drunk.
Starting point is 00:11:51 Stop it. Stop it. Come here. Also, when you're drunk, time takes so much fucking longer. That's the problem. Most problem I have with being sober is just waiting for drunk people to get around to it. Or just like, let's pick up the pace. We don't have forever.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Tell your secret now. Georgia, we have two rugs in Anaheim. Oh my god. We each have our own rug. Holy shit. Don't touch mine. Karen, plunge. Get off. Stop it. My grandma made this one and Karen's grandma made that one.
Starting point is 00:12:29 And they come with us on tour. It's pretty special, you guys. There's a sesame seed on yours. Oh, I'll get it. Oh my God, what was the thing you... You walked into the bathroom and dropped food on the bathroom floor and then Georgia goes, five second rule, if it drops on the bathroom floor, you have to eat it.
Starting point is 00:12:51 What if that was, and then I did it? Yeah, that's the new rule. You know what it was? So someone voodoo, someone brought us donuts. Oh, um. Zombie donuts. Zombie donuts. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Thank you. Thank you for, is that you? Thank you. Oh no, a real zombie? You guys get out of here at your own pace. It's not a rush because they're very slow. That was amazing, thank you. I ate two and a half donuts.
Starting point is 00:13:14 And then there was the one. Why do people keep bringing us donuts? I don't know. I just, I'm going to turn into fucking Violet Beauregard pretty soon. It's not good. Someone yesterday at the San Diego show brought us this gorgeous coffin box. It was so beautiful.
Starting point is 00:13:31 It's the most gorgeous coffin. I know, it's weird. And inside were these little truffles that she had handmade of those peanut butter balls. Peanut butter balls. With the Rice Krispies inside of them. Classic grandma Christmas dessert that you eat 70 of,
Starting point is 00:13:44 and then you're like, what happened to me? And each one had a little frosting hatchet on it. Like a dude. It was so cute. Like a dude. I was like, is this hatchet killing the brown head of the peanut butter?
Starting point is 00:14:00 But like, what is this violence? And Georgia's like, it's just a hatchet. You're overthinking the hatchet. You don't need a reason to put a hatchet on a peanut butter but like what is this violence and you're just like it's just a hatchet yeah you're overthinking the hatchet you don't need a reason to put a hatchet on a peanut butter ball i feel like at this point of this podcast how are you surprised that there's a hatchet on like we've had what's the storyline of this hatchet yeah and then we were gonna eat them all in the hotel for sure. For sure. Well, they were in my bag. So I was like being very, you know, people bring us lovely, lovely presents. And then we try to divide them up
Starting point is 00:14:31 just so we can carry, everyone has to carry their own shit. And I was like, oh, the coffin's in my bag. Looks like I'm going to be eating 50 peanut butter balls tonight. Oh, well, I guess that's fate. And then as we're standing to walk out of the theater, the bag just rips.
Starting point is 00:14:47 I wasn't even moving. It was like God himself came down and was like, don't do that. Come on. We couldn't save them. We couldn't. We tried. But we got a picture of it.
Starting point is 00:15:00 That's all that matters. The baby is laughing. Oh my God. Nope. That was a fart. Yeah, you're laughing. He's all that matters. The baby is laughing. Oh, my God. No, that was a fart. Yeah, you're laughing. He loves peanut butter balls. Get up here.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Is he laughing at us? That means we're pretty. When babies laugh, they think you're pretty. I'm serious. You don't know that? You didn't know that rule? I'm so sad. Why am I so desperate?
Starting point is 00:15:26 Oh, shit. Peanut butter. Do we have actual information? Oh, this is my favorite murder the fucker. Oh, yeah. Do you like... That's the information. We might need to move that up to the top. No.
Starting point is 00:15:43 I like when we say something terrible and then we introduce it. That's Karen Kilgariff, by the way. Oh, yes. Thank you. This is Georgia Hartstark, by the way. Thank you. Local girl extraordinaire. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:15:57 What did you call me, extraordinaire? Local girl extraordinaire. Oh, thank you. I called you dirty slut extraordinaire. Oh, my God. Thank you. Don't use that word. Don't use that word. Don't use that word.
Starting point is 00:16:11 There's got to be something. I know something. What? His name is Steven. Oh, that's right. He was. Look at him. Steven!
Starting point is 00:16:29 Local boy! Local boy, Steven Ray Morris. Where are you from? I'm from Anaheim. Oh my god! That's where we are right now! We're here. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:16:44 The last time I was here, I saw Michelle Branch. Oh my God. So we're here. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. Yay. I'm here. Oh my God. The last time I was here, I saw Michelle Branch, so. Oh my God. Da na na na na na na na na na na na. Walking like a, like a, her. That one? Thinking away downtown and a kick a good and a buh buh buh. Steven's crying in the back row. No.
Starting point is 00:17:01 This is my story. I have to ask, has any, did anyone go to high school, do drugs with Steven? No? No. Let's stop asking the audience questions. They can't answer. Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. I went for two years and then I moved away.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Say hi to all your friends. Oh, you know who is here? Steven's dad. Oh, my God. Hi, Dad. Somewhere. Hi. Are you proud of your son? Are you know who is here? Stephen's dad. Oh my god! Hi dad. Somewhere. Hi. Are you proud of your son? Are you proud of your son?
Starting point is 00:17:30 Are you happy? No, he disappoints me. Look what you did to him. Alright, go away. Go away. That guy. That guy. What a guy. He makes it happen. What? I can't hear you. Really a guy. He makes it happen. What? I can't hear you.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Really? What? He makes it happen. Is this a professional show is when the other person keeps going, what? What? Sorry, what was your joke?
Starting point is 00:17:57 I want to laugh too. Listen, these shoes, I can wear them for an hour and 20 minutes, so we better get this show fucking going. Yeah, how about you do just a quick walk? Yeah. Oh, my. It gets weirder every time because I'm so uncomfortable doing it. Why don't you go, Karen?
Starting point is 00:18:19 Oh. Thank you. Why I don't like high heels. Look at those sleeves. Thank you. I... Why I... I don't like high heels. Look at those sleeves. Thank you. Thanks so much. Oh, that side really liked my high heels. It's kind of upsetting.
Starting point is 00:18:34 Let's play the game of how high do our Spanx go tonight? Oh, okay. Whoever goes the highest wins. They should make Spanx that color coordinate with your skin tone and hair color and you just fucking pull that thing all the way up.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Just get in like a sleeping bag but really tight and just be like, how do you like me now? They got fake eyelashes on them so you look like a person. Then you just start stabbing strangers. That's the only thing people would use that for. Like a person. Then you just start stabbing strangers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:05 That's the only thing people would use that for. Yeah. I think we just got into the topic of the podcast, which is murder. Because that doesn't... That's right. That's a little too close. Are we there? Are you saying you want to sit down?
Starting point is 00:19:15 Sure. Let's do it. Let's do it. Oh. Why, look at you. Oh. That's a nice wide seat. Thank God.
Starting point is 00:19:28 With some spinning action on the chair. Hey. Hello. That's going to be distracting. Just all the way around. Bye. Bye, Karen. Hey.
Starting point is 00:19:37 That's good action. That's good English. Can you go all the way around on yours? Can you? Hey. Can you go all the way around on yours can you hey can you go all the way around on yours never me you
Starting point is 00:19:48 what if everyone had this chair it would be the best show ever it would not be distracting it would not everyone would have the best time looks like we're this is the perfect height to read each other's palms. You're like, wash your hands. Wash your hands.
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Starting point is 00:21:34 Right? And you probably know it. This is the murders of Sam Hare and Julie Kubiishi. Oh, yeah. That's fucked up shit. that's fucked up shit. This is fucked up shit. Mostly because it involves community theater. You know there's a problem.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Okay, 26 year old Sam Hare and his family were very close. He had recently returned from serving in Afghanistan in the Army. His family was thrilled to have him home. He started a new life for himself. He enrolled in Orange Coast College. And, right, an amazing, amazing learning facility out on the coast. My sister went there. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:22:22 For a bit, yeah. What were the, do you know their mascot? Orange County? I don't know. Oranges. Just the shape of the county on a shirt? Go Fighting Counties. I don't know if they even had a sports program, did they?
Starting point is 00:22:36 I'm wrong. Whatever. All right, okay. Go on. What about... Is it just the beiges? The Fighting Beige? Okay. What about, is it just the beiges? The fighting beige? Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:47 He also moved into the Camden Martinique apartment complex in Costa Mesa. And it was totally from the, you know, 2020s and the murder shows that I've watched. It was one of those apartment complexes where it's just a bunch of young people fucking hanging out by the pool, drinking Miller Lite.
Starting point is 00:23:03 Someone just realized that they live in that apartment building. Oh, really? I heard her go, oh shit, or something. So they're just having a really public and loud response to that. The fucking Martinique! I left my bike there! Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Okay. So Sam makes plans to visit his parents for the weekend and when he doesn't show up his dad steve immediately knows something's wrong um because the family's super close and he's a super responsible person that doesn't just flake out on things so he calls sam's phone over and over and sam's phone seems to be off which which Steve knew that there was a problem with that because he never ever turned his phone off. So finally, around nine o'clock at night, he decides to drive over to Costa Mesa to check on his son.
Starting point is 00:23:57 So when he gets to the apartment, he lets him, he had a key to the apartment as well. He lets himself in. It's silent. He's calling Sam's name. There's no one there. He's walking around the house and checking every room. And he finally goes into Sam's bedroom and he finds the dead body of a woman who's kneeling on the floor, leaning over the bed with blood all around her upper body. And he immediately calls the police. And Sam is not there.
Starting point is 00:24:26 And so the police question him and ask him what's going on. And he was like, there's no way my son has anything to do with this. This is not who he is or what he does. And they eventually find out. When they go in to investigate and look at the body, her pants have been cut from the waistband down through the butt, through the seat, so that her butt was exposed. And on the back of her shirt, someone wrote, all yours, fuck you. There were no signs of a struggle in the apartment. It was just that, a body, and that horrible scene.
Starting point is 00:25:01 They found her purse there, and they make the ID. She's 23-year-old Julie Kibuishi. She had been Sam's tutor in anthropology. That's how they met and they'd become really good friends. And they were not romantically involved. They were just close friends. So Detective Jose Morales and Lieutenant Ed Everett with the Costa Mesa police are looking at the scene. And they're worried that what's happening is that Sam from his military background has PTSD. And he snapped and killed Julie. And now he's on the run. That's what they're putting together.
Starting point is 00:25:37 And of course, Steve Hare was assuring them that he did not. And he was really happy. And he was doing really well. them this he did he did not and he was really happy and he was doing really well um but that's when they just when they find out that sam's passport is missing they are like he's on the run right so uh as they're processing um his apartment as a crime scene they come upon a wedding invitation and it's from sam's neighbors 32 year old daniel wozniak and his fiancee, Michelle Buffett, sorry, Rachel Buffett. So they go to interview them. And Dan and Rachel tell the police what every other interview eventually tells them, which is that Sam was kind. He was caring. He was really energetic. Everyone
Starting point is 00:26:17 liked him. He made friends really quickly. And he was like a popular guy in the apartment complex. and he was like a popular guy in the apartment complex. So two days later, the autopsy comes back on Julie's body, and there's a couple surprises. She had not been sexually assaulted, which made them believe this probably was a stage scene in some way, that along with the fact that there didn't seem to be a struggle. There was nothing knocked over.
Starting point is 00:26:47 It wasn't like that. On top of that, they had only seen one bullet wound in her head. So they assumed she was just shot once in the head. But the autopsy came back, she had actually been shot twice in the head. And they just couldn't see the second wound. Because they were so close to each other. So meanwhile, Sam's dad, Steve, is doing his own detective work because they shared a bank account that they had set up before Sam went to Afghanistan so that his checks from the army could just get direct deposited or whatever. I don't know if they were direct deposited, but
Starting point is 00:27:22 you know, some way conveniently put into the bank. Does Army have direct deposit? I'm not sure. And those are the kind of things I add in just because I think it sounds right. And then later on, people are like, excuse me, the Army stands against direct deposit. And then I'm like, sorry, we'll make an announcement on the next show. So let us know. Yeah. Please. But only through a handwritten letter. Or direct deposit. Or direct deposit. Right into our brains. That's fine too. So it turned out that Sam had saved $62,000 while he was overseas. And Steve is monitoring the bank account and he sees that someone starts to use the ATM card in Long
Starting point is 00:28:08 Beach and taking cash out of the bank and also ordering pizza. Yeah. You know what you do with an ATM card. So he brings all that information, the record and all that to the police and when they check the security
Starting point is 00:28:24 camera footage at the bank where the activity took place, the picture of the guy using the ATM card is not Sam. Um, cause they think Sam's on the run and he's just trying to like go to a different city and get money, but it's not him. It's a teenager, a teenager with a, wearing a hoodie and big sunglasses. Um, so they, uh, they trace the pizza order to this house in Long Beach. And then they stake out the house when they know that a second pizza order... Is someone screaming?
Starting point is 00:28:55 Don't ask. Is it barfing? I mean, we've had that four times, then screaming. You're allowed to barf in the aisles and then crawl out? It's happened before. But no screaming. Just don't scream. Listen. Okay, so they go and they
Starting point is 00:29:09 stake out this house in Long Beach and because they heard that another pizza order was coming. So then the pizza guy's walking up and the cops pull him into a van, grab his outfit. Yoink. Yeah. Oh my god, it's like fucking naked gun situation. Yeah. It's a little nuts, but they're like,ink. Yeah. Oh my God. It's like fucking naked gun situation.
Starting point is 00:29:29 It's a little nuts, but they're like, we're going in undercover pizza style. And they put on his gross shirt and, uh, walk up to deliver the pizza. And when, um, the door opens, the SWAT team just fucking goes into this house. And it turns out, um, 16 year old Wesley Freilich, uh, and his friends are there, um, playing video games and wanting to eat pizza and I'm sure smoking a ton of weed. Um, so, uh, immediately he spills it to the police cause it was like his mom was in her room. Oh my God. He was in so much trouble, you guys. But it turned out, he says, a guy had hired him to go extract money from the ATM every day.
Starting point is 00:30:15 And the guy told him he was a bail bondsman and the account belonged to a criminal that he had just arrested and he was just getting his money back from the bond. But he needed, right? He needed Wesley to take it out. Since he was a minor, he couldn't be charged for that. And the police are like, who the fuck is this guy?
Starting point is 00:30:38 And Wesley says, oh, it's someone my mom met at community theater, Daniel Wozniak. The guy who had invited Sam to his wedding. So, on May 26th, the police pick up Daniel at his bachelor party. Oh, shit!
Starting point is 00:30:58 They bused right in. They waited on purpose for that. And then they waited while they were in the bachelor party. They're like, we're about to totally fucking arrest you. Can I get two of those? Or what if they came in and, listen, they came in in cop outfits.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It writes itself. You're all under arrest for being too sexy. Do you know that happened to me once? What? You got arrested for being too sexy? Yep. I didn't want to tell you because I had my record expunged.
Starting point is 00:31:30 No. On my 35th birthday at work, my friends, my friends who I worked with hired a stripper. And so in our morning meeting at the Ellen DeGeneres show, we're sitting in her office. Really sexy setting. The sexiest of settings. We're in the office and an insanely hot guy
Starting point is 00:31:56 wearing a police uniform that's open, the button is open down to there. It's a telltale sign. And he comes in and he's like, he had this insane accent. He was just like, does somebody have a Lexus?
Starting point is 00:32:10 And I was like, what'd that guy say? And they're like, it's hers. It's her Lexus. Oh my God. I was like, what? And he was,
Starting point is 00:32:16 it was like, he was dressed like a cop but he was kind of pretending to be a meter maid. Like it didn't make, he didn't think the story through of what the trick was and then he came in and just started freaking me and it was 11 a.m everybody so inappropriate it went on and
Starting point is 00:32:36 on i was like i can't fight this i want to fight it i can't i just have to kind of relax into it and basically he at one point near the end he picked me up which I'm like don't do this to yourself he picked me up and then he laid me down on the couch and then began to simulate that he was going to go down on me and I was like this is my job like we can't do this here and so I just leaned down and I grabbed his head and I go, that's enough. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.
Starting point is 00:33:11 So, for your best friend's next birthday, I highly recommend hiring a secret stripper. Okay. Oh, shit. Why were we talking about that? Oh back to the murder jesus okay because we're monsters yeah um i will take any fucking random noun and be like oh wait can i tell you one thing okay so they bring Daniel into the station to question him and um they show him the picture
Starting point is 00:33:52 of Wesley in front of the ATM machine and he goes pale and so he goes all right I'll tell you everything so he says that he and Sam had this idea that they were going to take the money out of his checking account or his account, which it could have been savings, out of his bank account. Bank. They were going to take all that 62 grand, I believe it was, out of the account. And then Sam was going to claim fraud. And then, oh, it was the baby. I get it. We're not mad at you, baby. Then they were going to claim fraud. And then the bank would have to return the money.
Starting point is 00:34:33 So he's saying that the dude who's supposedly on the run is in on it. Yes, exactly. Basically, they had this plan together that they were going to steal this money and ultimately make like 120 000 or whatever um but then he said that sam called him the night of the 22nd and said i did something bad and then told him that he murdered julie jesus and so the police were like okay they're kind of trying to put it together and see if it syncs up with you know the evidence that they have. And at one point they ask Daniel for DNA. And he kind of like, his face changes a little bit. And then he's like, well, I was in the apartment.
Starting point is 00:35:11 And then they're like, oh, do tell. And he says, quote, yes, I saw the goddamn body. Is that what you want to hear? Community theater. Oh. I don't think in the real world ever anyone has ever asked someone a question or told somebody something and yelled is that what you want to hear like you just are saying it you don't give a shit if they want to hear it or not if you're trying to tell them that has like a cagney accent to it yeah that's it. See? Hey! Yeah. Yeah. It's fakey fakers.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Yeah. Is that, okay. Yes, I saw the goddamn body. Is that what you want to hear? Coppers? Lime. No, no. Coppers.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Lime! Then he says, I saw the two gunshots to the head. And the police are like, Arr! Donuts, you're under arrest because there's no way anybody in the world, they're experienced. Um, police who were on the scene didn't know it was two gunshots until the autopsy came back. So they're like, he was there. He knows what happened. Um, so when they tell him that he just blurts out I'm crazy and I did it I killed them both so here's what the truth of all of it was and this is just I mean so he's broke
Starting point is 00:36:39 of course he hasn't paid his rent in months and he didn't have a job of any kind except for taking roles in community theater. That's not a job. It's not. Officer. It's a passion. Sure. It's definitely an art. It's an art form for some. But that don't pay. So he basically was going further and further into debt. And they said he was from a relatively well-to-do family. So it could have been that thing where he's so spoiled that he's like, it'll work out. He kept it'll work outing it. That's based on my own experience.
Starting point is 00:37:27 Or you're just kind of like, something will come and catch me on the way uh-oh uh but the other thing was he had he had proposed to his girlfriend so they had a wedding and a honeymoon coming up he had zero dollars and at some point he found out from Sam that Sam had 62 grand and then he was like, well, I want that money. And so he fucking makes this plan where he lures Sam, uh, his light, uh, fuck Daniel Wozniak's light opera company had played at, I respect it. I do. There's opera singers are the most talented people on the planet. Light opera, not as good. No, I'm just kidding. I'm. Opera singers are the most talented people on the planet. Light opera? Not as good. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Starting point is 00:38:09 They had done a show in the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. Right? Such good light opera there, right? And he asked Sam if he would come and help him move some boxes that were up in the attic.
Starting point is 00:38:30 They go up into the attic, that's the attic they go up into the attic that's right they go up into the attic he leans down and Daniel shoots Sam in the back and Sam felt it and said he didn't realize what had happened he said something hit me it felt like an electric shock and then daniel shot him again and killed him um hours later at the hunger artists theater company he played the lead in the musical nine what the fuck yeah he went from that to a lead just right on stage he took all that fucking being a sociopath and he brought it to the people. Oh my God. Hours later. What the fuck?
Starting point is 00:39:10 And he was in that play with his fiance. Wow. Oh, Stephen, sorry. We have pictures of this. Do you have pictures of that? Yes. That's them in that play. What a douche.
Starting point is 00:39:20 What? I don't know Nine that well. Is that the one with that song? Nine. You're asking someone who can't sing or sit through a musical. But what's the answer? Yes. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:34 Was his, okay, go on, sorry. What? Nothing. Was his girl, was his fiance in on it? What, that's... I think, that's why I said never mind. That's what everybody wants to know. You're telling the story. Yeah, I get it. It's cool.
Starting point is 00:39:46 It's fun to jump ahead. But here, because this is the most horrible part. After he was in that play, then he went back the next day to the attic where he had left the body and dismembered it. And then left Sam's body parts in Long Beach Park. Yeah. So, then, shortly after midnight the next night, he texts Julie Kibuishi with
Starting point is 00:40:14 Sam Hare's phone and says, I'm having problems with my family. I need to see you now. Please come over now. He lures Julie to Sam's apartment, murders her there and stages it to look like Sam snapped and murdered her and then
Starting point is 00:40:30 ran and then got this boy to start taking money out of the bank account like $800 at a time what the fuck what a fucking bad plan all around obviously but insane.
Starting point is 00:40:47 Jesus. So after his interrogation, he asked if he can use the phone to call his fiance. Okay. And the thing that I learned in this, I believe it was an ID channel show. I think it was called The Perfect Crime. show. I think it was called The Perfect Crime. And they taught me that when you make a phone call, not to your lawyer, but to anybody else in the police station, they can record it. I mean, yeah. I've never been arrested and I would expect that to be a thing. Well, poor Daniel didn't know. So he was like, hey, you can't tell Tim, you can't,
Starting point is 00:41:24 that backpack Tim has, you can't give it to the police. And she's like, I'm going to give it to the police. And he's like, well, if you do, I'm doomed. And then she did. And inside the backpack was the murder weapon and Sam Hare's bloody clothes. Yeah. His trial lasted five days. yeah his trial lasted five days um he was convicted by a jury uh in december a first degree murder for killing both uh sam hair and julie kibishi and he was given the death penalty
Starting point is 00:41:54 and he is now in san quentin wow the fucking death penalty yeah I mean that was rough it's awful yeah let's think about it for a minute no eyes on me all right well I cheated you know when just let me get that right off the... What if you just start reading your own poetry? You're like, look... Here's the thing that I want to get to first is that I'm pretty sure there wasn't paper in the printer when they printed this backstage because I'm missing
Starting point is 00:42:35 a paper, Vince. You're missing a paper? Steven, can you get us page number three stat? In the meantime... We just got a very official wave. Yeah. Ooh, the backstage is all abuzz right now. Someone's getting fired.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Steven, it's you. We're going to have a staff meeting at the end of this show. Pacing back and forth. Yeah. But I can start. Well, you know what? Really quick, can I ask you a couple of questions about Anaheim? No,
Starting point is 00:43:06 I mean, Irvine. No. Okay. Should we just sit in silence? No, I can start. Okay.
Starting point is 00:43:12 So, you know, however, when we're all in a true crime, but we all have these weird, like, um, sidebar things that we're into that have the same thing to do with true crime,
Starting point is 00:43:21 but like our adjacent, like you and I, our first like friend conversation was about a car accident yeah and I was like tell me everything because I'm fascinated by horrible things happening in case they happen to me I'll be ready yeah um so one of those things for me is this and so I found out we were in Anaheim I was like oh good I can finally share this weird passion okay with everyone not passion fascination Because when I worked at it, I just used to read this all the time.
Starting point is 00:43:47 And when Snopes came along, I was like, thank God. Because this is the deaths that have happened at Disneyland. Yeah! Really? Yes. I was so scared. Yes.
Starting point is 00:44:00 Fucking tear those walls down. Tell us everything those motherfuckers are doing. Oh, thank you. We want to know. I come get pulled off stage by Mickey and Minnie. These huge mice are coming for us. Under the, yeah, I was really, as I came under, I was like, wait a second.
Starting point is 00:44:18 What if they all have good childhood memories of Disneyland and they're mad at me? Look who's here, everybody. Yay! Yeah! Thank you. That's Vince. Say hi to Vince. That's him. Do you know what he just said to me? What? Something dirty? No. He said,
Starting point is 00:44:33 you gotta check that shit. Like backstage is my fault. I'm sorry. He's keeping you real. He's keeping your feet on the ground. I'm busy with a podcast. Oh, and, never mind. Let's be friends. Let's keeping you real. He's keeping your feet on the ground. I'm busy with a podcast. Oh, and... Never mind.
Starting point is 00:44:47 I'm just not going to... Let's be friends. Let's all be friends. It's the same verse. It's just two of the first pages. You know what? This is... We are a classy podcast.
Starting point is 00:44:58 You know what's hilarious? This is our actual job. Oh, my God. You guys. It's how we're paid for a living. Can you deal? It's very... We appreciate that.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Thank you. This is about as thorough as we need to be on this podcast. It's your fault that this is our job. You're enabling us. All right. And thank you for that. I'm so excited because this is like, I fucking love this shit. And I'm accompanying it with some vintage Disneyland photos, which is my other one.
Starting point is 00:45:23 Nice. And after that, we all get on a bus to Disneyland. They're corn dogs, you guys. Okay. So, you know. So nine guests have been killed on Disneyland attractions since the park opened in 1955. All the deaths, except for two,
Starting point is 00:45:45 were the result of guests who apparently ignored safety instructions and or defeated rides' safety... Like, it's like they defeated them. Like, they were superheroes
Starting point is 00:45:53 and they're like, you know, like, maybe get better fucking safety mechanisms. I mean, that sounds like some Disney lawyer bullshit right there. That definitely sounds like...
Starting point is 00:46:02 Apparently, this child defeated the safety mechanism. Very strong upper body and a will to die. What are you talking about? That's exactly it. It's called, what do they call it?
Starting point is 00:46:14 Spin? Sure. All right. Wagging the dog? You know. You know. Okay, so here's the first one. May 1964,
Starting point is 00:46:24 Mark Maples, he's a 15-year-old Long Beach resident. But wait. He's killed, I told you, when he tried to stand up on the Matterhorn bobsleds. Don't do that. See, this is why 15-year-olds shouldn't be allowed out of the house.
Starting point is 00:46:41 Because they fucking do shit, boys especially, and it's really stupid. I mean, I love him. You should run for Congress. I'm sorry. I don't want to. Okay. It sucks. Maples unbuckled a seatbelt and attempted to stand up as the bobsled
Starting point is 00:46:57 neared the peak of the mountain. You know, he was like the joker of the class, probably. What year was it? 1964. Oh, yeah. They just didn't get how bad it was, probably. Nothing had happened yet. So they're like, I'm free at Disneyland. Yeah. He lost his balance, probably because he was standing up on a bobsled.
Starting point is 00:47:16 On a fucking roller coaster. Thrown from the sled to the track below. Fractured his skull and ribs. Caused internal injuries. He died three days later. So we're off to the track below, fractured his skull and ribs, caused internal injuries. He died three days later. So we're off to the races. They're all going to die, you guys. Just so you know.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Yeah, and none of them are going to be like, night, night. It's not going to be nice. Sleeping Beauty has nothing to do with this story. I went like this, as if I didn't have the rest of the page to read. And we're done with that. I'm just thrown by Vince's shaming me.
Starting point is 00:47:48 Oh, he'll hear about it later. And I will too. What if I took my ring off and threw it in the ring? Yes! No, I love you. Now that's a show! Okay, June 1966. Thomas Guy Cleveland, a 19-year-old Northridge resident,
Starting point is 00:48:02 is killed when he's attempted... Okay, so this dude attempts to sneak in to Disneyland along the monorail track. Oh, no. I know. It was grad night. The worst. Yeah. I still think about grad night
Starting point is 00:48:17 and it hurts my feet. I hated grad night so much and I hated everyone in that park. I was so mad that I had to stay there and stay awake. Is it a lock-in kind of thing? It's a fucking, like, you just, they act like you want to stay awake all night.
Starting point is 00:48:39 That dumb, oh God, I'm so mad. This is really triggering for Karen, and I'm going to need you guys to be respectful. Grad night damage. Post-traumatic grad night damage. It's like anything where the first three hours, you're like, oh, my God, this is going to be amazing. And then the second the fourth hour hits,
Starting point is 00:48:59 you're like, let's stop this now. It sucks. It's not working out. Everyone thought they were going to fall in love. No one's falling in love. We all hate each other. Let's stop this now. It sucks. It's not working out. Like, everyone thought they were going to fall in love. No one's falling in love. We all hate each other. Let's go home. And then someone climbs over the monorail track.
Starting point is 00:49:13 And actually, when I was, like, a senior in high school, everyone had the Disneyland pass. You know, it was like $20 back then. It was a long time ago. Really? How old were you? 18. Oh.
Starting point is 00:49:24 17. So people would, you'd do this thing where you get a stamp, and then when you get into the park, you'd come back out, and you'd lick the stamp, and put it on someone else's, on the back of someone else's hand, and how you snuck in back then, right? And then some kids would just fucking scale the fence, because this is before Disneyland was like, no, it was still like that. Okay, anyways. All right, grad night. 16 foot high outer fence and climbed onto the monorail track, intending to jump or climb down once inside the park, which is like, it's like a monorail. It's like, it's a monorail. It's up high.
Starting point is 00:49:58 Yeah. So. That's all you need to know about a monorail. That's what I meant. Yeah. Yeah. He ignored security guards shouting warnings of approaching monorail train, failed to leave clear of the track.
Starting point is 00:50:11 He finally climbed down onto a fiberglass canopy beneath the track, but the clearance wasn't enough. The oncoming train struck and killed him. Oh, it's horrible. You guys were excited a minute ago. Let's let them process. They need to process it. Yeah. Okay. I've been. They need to process it. Yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:50:25 I've been reading this since I was 26. So since the internet started and I was like, Disney deaths was the first thing I ever... Disney deaths. Wait, can I do an addendum to that story? Always. My favorite story of somebody bumming out at Disneyland is my sister's friend Christine Tomasini was at Disneyland with her family
Starting point is 00:50:43 and they were all standing kind of at something that near a monorail um track or no sorry those the ones that are the open things that go the people mover where you're kind of like looking down right so she they were kind of near a people mover and she was just kind of looking around at the crowd and there was a girl that had really big curly hair that she kind of like noticed like whoa that girl's hair is really big and then all of a sudden in one second the girl's hair went flat.
Starting point is 00:51:07 And she was like, what? And she couldn't, and then she realized someone from the people barfed onto that girl's head. Just the image of like, I look just like Buddy Holly.
Starting point is 00:51:21 It sounds like, it's the idea of a hair, like a hair product commercial For a hair straightener Like go from frizzy to flat But it's like Barf And I think she said
Starting point is 00:51:32 This could totally be me lying Because it would be better for the story But I feel like she said Then the girl barfed Which would make perfect sense Right? That's never happened No I would barf
Starting point is 00:51:43 If someone barfed on me Yeah It's your duty Listen make it interesting For everyone around you It makes perfect sense, right? That's never happened. No, I would barf if someone barfed on me. Yeah. It's your duty. Listen, make it interesting for everyone around you, okay? It's called embellishment. Try it. I'll ask Christine.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Okay. Would you? Yes. I'll text her now. August 1967, Ricky Lee Yama, he's a 17-year-old Hawthorne resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his people mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. And, like, these were... Oh, are we putting...
Starting point is 00:52:13 Okay, here's the people mover. Look at... See that on his shit. Oh, yeah. Isn't it cute? Look at how you can just step over the thing and get the fuck off of it. So do you think he was thinking, like,
Starting point is 00:52:24 I'm going to see what's in that cave? No, I think he was just like goofing around with his friends and he was going to go to like his friend's car in the back, you know, kind of, you know, goofing around like 17 and 15 year olds do. He slipped as he was jumping from car to car, crushed to death beneath the wheels of the oncoming car. I know.
Starting point is 00:52:42 Okay. June, 1973, Bogden Deloriate. Yep. Yeah. An 18-year-old Brooklyn resident drowned while trying to swim across
Starting point is 00:52:52 the rivers of America. You know the, I think it's Tom Sawyer's Island now or something? Yeah. I haven't been there in a while,
Starting point is 00:53:00 so it could be like, it's not, it could be like a modern day thing. I don't know. It's just a Del Taco del taco now oh we filled up those rivers with ground beef you're going to love it queso is the new thing we filled up with queso it's an integration okay well anyways he drowned um see this show right when you start having fun we were supposed to warn the newbies Okay, well, anyways, he drowned. See? The show.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Right when you started having fun. We were supposed to warn the newbies, but you've been warned, clearly, for the past 45 minutes. Yeah, they know. They're failing it. So he and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island
Starting point is 00:53:37 past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the settlers' cabin. They hid, and they're like, we're going to stay late. They were going to spend the night in Disneyland. You know how you want to do at the zoo all the time? Me? Is that just me?
Starting point is 00:53:51 Oh my god, I want to stay at the zoo. It has closing time so bad. Because I bet there's so much fun at night. Well, the nocturnal animals would be, but I think everyone else is asleep, aren't they? I know, it's so cute though. Okay. Remember that book where there's the teens would be but I think everyone else is asleep aren't they? I know it's so cute though. Okay. I would like remember that
Starting point is 00:54:08 book where there's like the teens that they're like homeless teens that hide in the mall and then they come out at night. I think it's the I think that's called what's it called? Well nope it was going to be real funny. Was it? Yeah. How? It's the zombie
Starting point is 00:54:23 movie. Donovan Ed! Thank you. See it would Yeah. How? It's the zombie movie. Donovan Ed! Thank you. See, it would not have been great if I fucking knew things. Say it more. Say more things.
Starting point is 00:54:37 100% is over, by the way. I am 100% Say it more. Say more things. Say more things out of your mouth. No,
Starting point is 00:54:44 I'm not sure. I think I was done. No, I'm not sure. I think I was done. No, I mean, it's just a child's book. I won't be able to remember the name of it. Who gives a shit? I've already told 95 stories. They decided. Okay, then they were like, let's not do this.
Starting point is 00:54:58 This is a stupid idea. Let's swim back. That's a better idea. So, because the younger brother didn't know how to swim, I know, Bogdan tried to carry him across as he swam. He and Bogdan goes down about halfway across the river, and his brother remained afloat by dog paddling, excuse me, Jesus, Until, that was a burp. Until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogdan was nowhere to be found. They found it the next morning, his body.
Starting point is 00:55:32 He's dead. I know. There's another one. It's coming. I ended with, don't worry, I ended with two kind of funny ones, so it'll be fine. Not deaths.
Starting point is 00:55:42 No, they're not deaths. They're like two funny things that happen. You don't owe them anything. Just fucking tell your story. Deliver it. Okay, the day before I was born, June 7th, 1980, Gerardo Gonzalez,
Starting point is 00:55:57 a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the people mover in an incident just like the one that Ricky Lee Gate had gone through 13 years earlier. Gerardo, in the early morning hours of grad night, cancel grad nights. It's just too dangerous for all of us. Never let that baby go to grad night.
Starting point is 00:56:14 Never. So he's again climbing from car to car as the people mover goes into the super speed tunnel, which is, that sounds like a mistake. Yeah, they were like, someone died on the people mover. I think we need to put super speed tunnel, which is, that sounds like a mistake. Yeah, they were like, oh, someone died on the people mover. I think we need to put super speed in it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:30 That's probably what would be better. Right. Yeah. And adjacent to the, okay, the former America Sings building. I don't know what that's in there. It's by the America's Rivers thing. Right. Yeah. He stumbles and falls into the track. Oncoming train of cars crush him beneath its wheels
Starting point is 00:56:45 June 4th 1983 Philip Strogham an 18 year old Albuquerque New Mexico resident also drowned in the rivers of America in yet another say it with me grad night incident third grad night incident
Starting point is 00:57:02 I'm fucking writing to the oh I almost said president. We don't have one of those right now. We're on our own. Oh, you know what? I'll write to The Rock. That's what I'll do. That's what I'll do.
Starting point is 00:57:20 He'll fucking take care of grad night. Wouldn't that be amazing if the next grad night, The Rock came in and just started fucking beating the shit out of everybody it's like Santa he went around like Santa Claus but grad night beating people up it's nothing like Christmas never mind
Starting point is 00:57:37 I love it it's Christmas for me I just love the idea that that's your new cause is ending grad night for everybody. You know. And any other fun activities for seniors. We're shutting that shit down. They can't handle it.
Starting point is 00:57:51 They have to keep standing up all the time. Oh, I need to be out here where I'm not supposed to be, says the 17-year-old boy. Fucking stop it. Yeah. Agreed. So he and a friend, and they've been drinking quite heavily and they snuck onto cast members only area along the river and the cast members killed them
Starting point is 00:58:12 sorry that was highly inappropriate and i apologize to everybody i'm really sorry that was wrong but I just pictured Tigger killing them. Have you seen the video where, like, I think it's Pluto loses his shit because his kid keeps fucking yanking on his tail and he just turns around and starts chasing the kid?
Starting point is 00:58:38 The kid's, like, clearly a class bully until Pluto turns around and turns on him and the kid just loses his shit. It's funny because the kid's clearly a brat before and I in no way want children to be harmed. Don't be upset, baby. Don't be upset, baby.
Starting point is 00:58:54 Anyway, okay, so they untie an inflatable rubber maintenance rotor. Nope. Untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat. Thank you. Yeah, you got it. Deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. They're shockingly not trained in this, and they're unable to adequately control the boat,
Starting point is 00:59:12 and they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island. Phillip's thrown into the water. His friend goes back to shore to seek help, and Phillip drowns long before his body was located an hour later. Well, that would make sense. Yeah. They locate his body and then they let him drown
Starting point is 00:59:36 after that. Yeah, I didn't... This is Snopes writing. You know, journalists. Get it together, Snopes. Journalists. January it together, Snopes. Journalists. January 3rd, 1984, Dolly Reagan Young.
Starting point is 00:59:52 Pardon. What? Pardon. Yes. Sorry. You are loving this. I mean. Is this vodka in here?
Starting point is 00:59:59 Yes. I've gone off the wagon. She's a 48-year-old Fremont resident, California. She's killed on the Matterhorn. Stop clapping. I didn't pause for clapping. She's killed on the Matterhorn again. So here's the thing.
Starting point is 01:00:16 Similar to the first Matterhorn. What? You just said she's killed on the Matterhorn again. I meant like, again, like the guy. Like this guy you've got. Yep, we know, but it's still funny. Oh, I get it. I don't need to explain it.
Starting point is 01:00:32 You can just laugh. Okay. She Jon Snowed that shit, came back, and then the Matterhorn killed her again. Okay. About two-thirds the way down the mountain, Dolly's thrown from her seat into the path of an oncoming bobsled. She comes pinned beneath its wheels. So they examine her sled, because here's the thing.
Starting point is 01:00:55 No one was in the seat with her. You know how usually it's like two people per seat? So she was alone in the seat, so they were like, well, we don't know if she unfastened the seatbelt or if it malfunctioned. So it probably wasn't. That probably her fault is there you know what i mean yeah where it's like how many 48 year old women do we know that are on the bobsledder like yes nobody that's why you don't let 17 year old boys on not 48 year old women 48 year old men are like i've finally got to be me yeah Yeah. Fucking leave the Matterhorn halfway through.
Starting point is 01:01:26 No. I'm going to make my kids laugh. Hey! No! Bro, dude, bro, dude. Yeah. No. Isn't this funny? I'm going to high-five that, what's the monster that's there? Yeti. Thanks, guys. Alright. December 20th.
Starting point is 01:01:41 High-five that monster. You know that Yeti that's in there? Sure. All right. December 24th, 1998. In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured. Okay, this is the one I have nightmares about.
Starting point is 01:01:58 Okay. A rope that's used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it's docked at the rivers of America, you know, the one that goes around. It was an inelastic hemp rope designed to break easily. It was improperly replaced for financial reasons by an elastic nylon rope, which stretched toward the cleat
Starting point is 01:02:18 from the ship's wooden hull. Oh, fuck, I hate this. The cleat sails through the air and strikes the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship. Luan Phi Dawson, who's 33, of Duval, Washington, and his
Starting point is 01:02:33 wife, Lu Thi Viong, 43. And Dawson declared brain dead two days later and dies when his life support system is disconnected. Can you fucking... I have nightmares about that.
Starting point is 01:02:48 And now you all will too. Well, also, here's what I have nightmares about. It's 1998, you said? And Disney is using cheaper rope because they have to scrimp and save at Disneyland? Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. Well, at this point,
Starting point is 01:03:06 the accident results in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributed to any negligence on the part of the guest that they're telling us about. And prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures because they were just like,
Starting point is 01:03:22 there you go. And then at one point they were like, no wait, they're like airplanes and all the you know these things that we need to regulate like airplanes yeah i don't there were other things and i can't remember what they're trains like trains trains airplanes what else is there automobiles right it's the natural progression you know what let's not rely on the company that was started by an anti-Semitic to police themselves. I mean, it seems like if he's going to buy cheap rope, he's not going to give that much of a shit about anybody else. The victim's survivors brought in a lawsuit and settled for $25 million. Could have been more. They could have spent that money on hemp rope. brought on a lawsuit and settled for, they settled for $25 million. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:06 Could have been more. You know, they could have spent that money on hemp rope instead of fucking nylon rope. You cheap bastards. On June 25th, 2000, a 23-year-old woman from Spain exited the Indiana Jones ride. I don't know why I'm pointing at you. Because you know I love that shit.
Starting point is 01:04:20 That big boulder comes at you, you're like, what? So she exits the Indiana Jones ride, and I put this in there even though it's not really listed. She's complaining of a severe headache. She's hospitalized a day later, and later that day, she's hospitalized, and later that day it was discovered that she had a brain hemorrhage and said it was because of the jostling of the ride. She died on September 1st, 2000 of cerebral aneurysms and the victim's medical costs
Starting point is 01:04:47 were estimated at more than $1.3 million. Wow. On September 5th, 2003, a 22-year-old man, Marcelo Torres of Gardenia, California, died and several other guests were injured when a locomotive separated from its train along the tunnel section of Big Thunder Mountain.
Starting point is 01:05:06 No. And here's the, yeah. I got barfed on that ride. I didn't want to tell you guys. Why not? I don't know. It's gross. We love hearing all that shit.
Starting point is 01:05:16 Yeah. Someone in the, we were going around. It was my ex and I and it was like our first ride there and it was so fun. And like we were going around a corner and someone in the front barfed and all of us. Yeah. And then we had to stay on the ride for the rest of the time. And everyone on the ride was just like, oh my God. Yeah, because Disneyland's like, it will cost too much money to end the ride now.
Starting point is 01:05:39 Yeah. We have to, for efficiency's sake and financial gain. He and I broke up pretty quick later no relationship can withstand being barfed out like that you can't look at each other again there's a comic and I wish I could remember her name because she's so funny she's a New York comic and she tells this fucking amazing story of being
Starting point is 01:05:58 at a New York County fair when she was like 8 years old and it was in the late 60s and or whenever before Judy Garland died and Judy Garland was there with Liza Minnelli and her other daughter sorry me and and they went on to one of those rides that that spinning thing that then turns and starts spinning like that and so this this guy, I wish I could remember her name, she basically got in line with the
Starting point is 01:06:27 Garland Minnellis just so she could get on the ride faster. She looked like she blended in. And they got onto the ride and then as it started, Judy Garland started barfing. And they all got splashed with Judy Garland's barf on that ride.
Starting point is 01:06:43 It's kind of special. I mean, it's collector's item for sure. Okay. Yeah. Anyways. This is the new podcast, Barf Stories. Sorry. Locomoto separated from its train along a tunnel section of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. He bled to death after suffering blunt force trauma.
Starting point is 01:07:09 And the cause of the accident was determined to be improper maintenance. So this is the other, not his fault one. Investigation reports and discovery by the victim's attorney confirmed that the fatal injuries occurred when the first passenger car collided with the underside of the local motive. I mean, it's from here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So those are the ones that have happened so far.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Let's hope they're the only ones that ever happen. Don't take your seatbelt off ever. What is happening? I don't know. It sounds like there's a giant pounding on the outside of the building. It's Walt Disney. Is it him? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:43 Fuck, we're sorry. Reanimated. We're sorry, you cheap bastard. Alright, so there's the two that aren't murders. Death, so we all feel better. August 6, 1970. And my dad told me this when I was a kid and it made me so happy.
Starting point is 01:08:00 750, quote, and this is how it's written, hippies and quote, radical yippies, they used to call them. Worse than hippies. Yeah. Infiltrated the park and took over the wilderness fort, which I think is now the Tom Sawyer situation. They raised the Viet Cong flag. Whoa.
Starting point is 01:08:19 And passed reefers out to passersby. Shit, girl. They were like, they took it over. What's wrong? Nothing. Is he shaming me still backstage? No, you paranoid lunatic. My head turned to the side. I know! I got scared. Listen.
Starting point is 01:08:37 That's nonsense. Listen to me. A platoon of Anaheim officers in full right gear poured into the park from the backstage areas to get them the fuck out of there. 750. Yeah, that's a shit ton. Yeah. And then so much pot in Disneyland.
Starting point is 01:08:54 Yeah. Like, what is that? It smells like a skunk. Mommy! What's happening? Alright, and finally, on New Year's Day of 2013, a rider in the front row of the thing called California Screamin'. Oh, yeah. That's a big roller coaster.
Starting point is 01:09:10 Front row of the roller coaster. Here he goes. He's hit in the face by a seagull. No injuries were reported. Oh. Oh, he didn't die? Yay! Yay!
Starting point is 01:09:29 I was like, that's the saddest one of all to go out by seagull I know seagull to the face poor seagull is like what the fuck I'm just trying to go down this roller coaster I'm just trying to fly over this park oh my god that's awesome
Starting point is 01:09:44 that's Disneyland X. That is Disneyland X. Thank you. Well. Yeah, is it time to do a hometown murder? It's time to do a hometown murder. I think there's an open mic somewhere. Hold on, let's be reasonable.
Starting point is 01:10:01 Somebody didn't stand up with a piece of paper in their hand, point at themselves, and then go to the bathroom when they got picked. That's fucking... There she is! Oh, there she is! Hi! I told you! Sorry, I'm shaming you. Hi, what's your name?
Starting point is 01:10:16 Catherine. Hi, Catherine. Nice to meet you. Turn the lights down so she doesn't have a panic attack. There's a lot of people. Come on, right here. You can bring the house lights down, sir. Or ma'am. But probably not.
Starting point is 01:10:28 Tell me your name again. Catherine. Oh, you have one of those. Catherine? Catherine. Yes. Hi, Catherine. Where are you from?
Starting point is 01:10:34 Originally from Montana, but I live in Costa Mesa now. Yeah. I live like a mile from Camden Martinique. Oh, really? I've been there several times. Is it pretty great? No, but that story really freaked me out. Yeah. It is crazy, right?
Starting point is 01:10:46 Yeah. But you can't read. Yeah, we need you to. Well, I didn't know how many drinks I would have before this. So I typed it up just in case. Okay. But can you do it off the top of your head? I think so.
Starting point is 01:10:57 And then I'll check your work. Okay, great. Can I just say that this is why I stopped drinking before the show, so I didn't have to, I don't know what I'm saying. I get it. I respect your control. I don't have a great hometown murder, but my best friends are my cousins,
Starting point is 01:11:14 and they have an amazing hometown murder, and they told me if I had the opportunity to get up on stage, I had to tell their story. We love a J.S. Holt. I can't. I can't secondhand. That's cool. You can do it like seventh hand.
Starting point is 01:11:23 I don't give a shit. Yeah. So my cousins, in 1995, my cousins were 13 and 10, and they lived in Ahwatukee, Arizona, which is right outside of Phoenix. Shit. And their mom worked as a maid for a family called the Bach family, and they were really wealthy, and they had a huge house,
Starting point is 01:11:44 and she just worked there every day as a maid. I think that's low. Go. Okay. Sorry. I'm not used to holding a microphone. Come on, take a class. So they became really close to the family and Mr. Bach, the dad, asked them to move into the house and be like a full-time housekeeper. But the mom had some weird feelings about him and about the family, so it never happened. But that was kind of always happening. They were always asking them to move in. Julia, my cousin, who was 13, became really good friends with the son, Jeremy. They went to the middle school together. He was a year older than her. And they would walk home from school every day to Jeremy's house
Starting point is 01:12:26 and hang out there while her mom was cleaning. And then she would just go home with her mom at the end of the day. And she said Jeremy was kind of a weird guy. He would always tell, like, dirty jokes around her and just do, like, weird 14-year-old kind of things. But she said he was kind of hot. He looked like a young Matt Dillon. Oh, my fucking God.
Starting point is 01:12:48 Give Karen a minute. Picture. Do one dumb joke, and I'll tell you what I would have acted like around this person. Okay. Just do a bad joke. Karen, your hair, my God. Sorry.
Starting point is 01:13:11 So she was willing to overlook some of the weird things. Hell yes. Because he was cute. Another weird thing about the family is that they had guns stashed all over the house. They said they would find them under the couch and in the kitchen cabinets and all over the place. So it was kind of a red flag and and their mom said one day when she was cleaning the house there was red spots on the walls that she cleaned off and she said they were definitely not spaghetti stains so she wasn't sure what they were well then
Starting point is 01:13:38 bleach them right off then lots of red flags but they were close to the family so they still you know worked for them and hung out at the house. Then one day, the 14-year-old Jeremy was arrested for the murder of his friend Brad Hanson, and Brad had been missing for two months at that point. Jeremy was originally questioned when Brad went missing, and he had told investigators that they had skipped school the day that Brad went missing and they had hung out at their house and were playing with a gun and it
Starting point is 01:14:13 went off in Brad's hands and that he panicked and rode away on his bicycle. So police for two months were investigating it as a missing persons case or like a runaway case. Didn't think anything weird had happened. But then two months later, right before the arrest happened, some trash collector, is that the right term? Trash collectors? Garbage men? Yeah. Garbage men?
Starting point is 01:14:37 Trash collectors. Sanitation workers. That's the one. Garbage person doesn't sound right. No. Sanitation worker. Sanitation worker. Sanitation worker came by the Bach House on their weekly pickup,
Starting point is 01:14:53 and they noticed that the trash can outside the Bach House was covered in blood, and it raised some red flags for him. I mean, one would hope. And he called the cops who came and investigated and they determined that blood belonged to Brad Hanson. So they interrogated Jeremy a second time to find out what happened. And he told them that he had lied the first time and that what actually happened was that they had skipped school and were playing with a gun in the house and that it had gone off in his hands and he had accidentally shot Brad in the chest and killed him
Starting point is 01:15:25 and that Brad had bled out and then after he had died he put Brad's body into a trash bin which he put on the curb and the trash the sanitation workers took away the next day and never to be heard from again but the cops did not believe his story because they said that it would have taken Brad nearly an hour to die after the shot. And so he, Jeremy never went for help. So it was pretty obvious that it was intentional shooting. So they had a few theories. They thought that maybe it was intentional
Starting point is 01:16:02 and that the boys had been arguing about a girl that they both had dated. That was possible. There was also some speculation at the time that Jeremy's father had helped him dispose of the body. It was kind of an ongoing thing. And then my cousin did tell me that there was a rumor that went around the junior high that the police dogs had picked up Brad's scent and followed it to the backyard of Jeremy's house. And they believe that maybe he was fed to their German shepherds. That's junior high bullshit. That's totally a junior high rumor.
Starting point is 01:16:34 Come on. So that's just all speculation. But Julia and Chrissy's mom did definitely clean up the crime scene. It did happen in the kitchen. Unknowingly. Yeah, she had no idea. So she said she was in there when the cops did the luminol test, and they had her point out where all the blood spots were that she had cleaned up.
Starting point is 01:16:55 And she said when they turned that black light on that the whole kitchen lit up. Oh, my God. There was blood everywhere. So, unfortunately, Brad's body was never recovered. They think that it was probably taken to the landfill but by the time they had all this information it was two months later so there's no way they could ever have found him so eventually Jeremy is put on trial for second degree murder and some funny things happened to my cousin during this time while Jeremy was on trial his parents
Starting point is 01:17:23 were pretty wealthy and they got him out on bail. And at that time, he called my cousin and asked her out for a date. Oh my God. And her mother allowed her to go. Mom! And they went bowling.
Starting point is 01:17:42 Oh my God. I love bowling. He had great jokes. And when I asked my cousin about this, um, this week to make sure I had all the facts right, just in case I got up here. Um, I was like, what the hell was your mother thinking? Like, that's insane. And she's like, what the fuck I know? Like, I realize that now it was totally messed up. Um, so,. So he was brought up on trial for second degree murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to 22 years in prison. And at the time that he was sentenced, he was only 15 years old. So he was the youngest.
Starting point is 01:18:17 I don't know if he still is. But back then, he was definitely the youngest person in Arizona history to ever be convicted as an adult. in Arizona history to ever be convicted as an adult. And so there was a lot of media that happened around it, of media frenzy that happened around this trial. And one of the things that happened to my cousin was that she was driving with her mom. I don't know if it was past the courthouse or past the box house, but there's reporters outside.
Starting point is 01:18:40 And they flagged down the car and knocked on the windows and they're yelling inside, like, can we ask you some questions? And my cousin at the time had a really short pixie haircut, so she kind of looked like a boy. And they're like, Jeremy, Jeremy, can we get some information from you? Can we ask you a question?
Starting point is 01:18:55 They thought she was him. Oh, God, high school sucks. And her mom got deeply offended by this, and she rolled down her windows. She's like, that's my daughter, you assholes. Oh, my God. That's amazing. And so he went to prison for 22 years.
Starting point is 01:19:14 He was sentenced in, I think, January of 98. And once he got to prison. I'll check. Yep, youinging it. I think you are. Yeah. Um, once he got to prison, my cousin thought this was all over and, um, she never had to think about it again, but then she started receiving love letters from prison. This just gets better and better. And Jeremy was asking her if she'd marry him, and she said it really creeped her out because he would always call her my baby. And she said the best part about it all was that he said at one point he asked her if she had been hassled by anybody in school for being his friend and he said um give me their names because I'll totally kick their asses and she's like with a gun yeah
Starting point is 01:20:11 she's like I don't think the weight of all this trial stuff is like really gotten to him yet because he's not going to get out of prison for 22 years yeah middle will be a distant memory. Everyone else will be, oh my God, that's crazy. So, so she, she said it's like a total distant memory. Like it's not something that she really ever thinks about, but, um, I looked it up this week because I was coming here to the show and I realized that 22 years of a sentence means he's going to be out in two years. And so I asked Julia if she felt worried if he would get out, if he's held a candle for her for all these years or what. And she's not worried at all.
Starting point is 01:20:51 But I'm like, got to lock your doors. Yeah, but her mom let her go on a date with a murderer. It's probably the last date he had before prison. Just got to follow all the murderino rules and not get murdered. How does he look, though? Just kidding. You did amazing.
Starting point is 01:21:09 That was so good. Off the paper. Great job. So good. So good. Do you want your paper back? Here, give it back. You can put it in a scrapbook.
Starting point is 01:21:21 That away. Thank you. That was so awesome. That was great. Oh, my God, you guys. You guys, thank you so away. Thank you. That was so awesome. That was great. Oh my God, you guys. You guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Anaheim,
Starting point is 01:21:33 thank you for making our first Orange County show so great. I was a little nervous. I'm not going to lie. I peeled off all of this nail polish because I was nervous. Not my middle finger.
Starting point is 01:21:43 So thank you for making my hometown first show fucking awesome. Yes. middle finger. So thank you for making my hometown first show fucking awesome. That's a good feeling. Right? It feels good. It feels great. I feel like this crowd is kind of one of the best we've ever had.
Starting point is 01:21:56 Just like honestly. So it makes me happy when people like comedy. It's so much more fun. They're not mad at you no thank you guys again also just we joke about it but like because you guys listen in tell your friends
Starting point is 01:22:15 to listen and support us so much we get to do this for a living and it is so fucking fun and we really really appreciate it so much so insane we love it it it so much so we love it love it so exciting yeah so stay sexy Thank you.

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