My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 93 - Live at The Grove in Anaheim
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Yeah, that's right.
That was scary.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
There's got to be something.
I know something.
What?
His name is Steven.
Oh, that's right.
He was.
Look at him.
Steven!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Sure.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Oh.
Why, look at you.
Oh.
That's a nice wide seat.
Thank God.
With some spinning action on the chair.
Hey.
Hello.
That's going to be distracting.
Just all the way around.
Bye.
Bye, Karen.
Hey.
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
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.
Why don't you wash your hands?
You need lotion.
Your cuticles are horrifying.
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All right.
I'm going to go first tonight.
Okay.
And this story is super fucked, as they always are.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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
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?
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Yeah.
Is that, okay.
Yes, I saw the goddamn body.
Is that what you want to hear?
Coppers?
Lime.
No, no.
Coppers.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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,
I mean,
Irvine.
No.
Okay.
Should we just sit in silence?
No,
I can start.
Okay.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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...
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?
Spin?
Sure.
All right.
Wagging the dog?
You know.
You know.
Okay, so here's the first one.
May 1964,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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...
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,
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.
Okay.
June, 1973, Bogden Deloriate.
Yep.
Yeah.
An 18-year-old
Brooklyn resident
drowned while trying
to swim across
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,
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.
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
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?
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
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
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.
100% is over,
by the way.
I am 100%
Say it more.
Say more things.
Say more things
out of your mouth.
No,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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,
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
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.
Pardon.
What?
Pardon.
Yes.
Sorry.
You are loving this.
I mean.
Is this vodka in here?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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?
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.
Tell me your name again.
Catherine.
Oh, you have one of those.
Catherine?
Catherine.
Yes.
Hi, Catherine.
Where are you from?
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?
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.