My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - MFM Minisode 17

Episode Date: February 6, 2017

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Starting point is 00:00:44 Begin. Begin and go. Now you go. Welcome to My Favorite Murder. This is My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Hi. We're the opposite. That's the one where we say each other's names.
Starting point is 00:00:55 Right. That's not. We got that from TV. Like, we're introducing each other. So this is your, our minisodes, this is your hometown murders that you email us a lot of and they're the best. I got to say, I like the minisodes better than our, than our regulars. Because they're quick and easy and not like.
Starting point is 00:01:14 It's more fun. There's a lightness to it. Snitty snappy. It's not our problem. It's somebody else's problem. It's the feeling I have. It's facts are wrong. It's problem.
Starting point is 00:01:22 We're just reading. I mean. We're not writing the news. We're just reading it. It's that kind of. I like it. And then we have a double indemnity clause that it's now Steven's fault because Steven shows them.
Starting point is 00:01:33 We get handed this like we are high level superstars where it's like someone just goes here you go. It's like newscaster when they like hold their earpiece and like this just in. Yeah. And like they don't even know what they're reading. Do you know sometimes they do like I on the show I'm working on right now. I have an IFB. That's what that thing is called the thing that goes in your ear.
Starting point is 00:01:54 And it's really exciting because our EP who's in the control room which is where the director and all the monitors are where they watch the show on every single camera is she's sitting in there and talking to me and then what she says to me comes out of my mouth. How do you I would be so confused. I love it so much reading something and talking at the same time of something else at the same time. But you know what it is. You're.
Starting point is 00:02:18 First of all I'm not reading. I'm just riffing. And by the way this is Guy Branham's new show that will be out in March called talk show the game show where Guy Branham is the host. I am one of the judges and we judge people being on the talk show that Guy Branham is hosting. I love it. It's pretty hilarious and very fun.
Starting point is 00:02:37 It's perfect for you. Like judging people. Hell yeah. That's perfect. And also people do my hair and makeup. So I don't my normal lazy like very low key behavior is erased and all of a sudden I kind of look like I'm gonna be honest. I look a lot like Liza Manelli.
Starting point is 00:02:54 That's who I get more than anyone is you do as Manelli you do you and I both should just have the same look at all times. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. We should get some sparkly pants. Kick our legs up in the air. Hello.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Hello. Best fucking person in the world. Just constantly just jazz hands it up all over the best. I'm half of a good person. You're half of a good person. And then together we're the best person in the world. Oh my God. We can leave our bad people behind and only be good people.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Anyhow. Anyhow. Bad people. Well yeah. So. So this is your hometown murders. You guys email us. My favorite murder.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Gmail. And Stephen picks them. And then we read them. So don't blame us. Go ahead. For anything. You want to go first? No.
Starting point is 00:03:38 You go first. Oh. Okay. This is called an Irish countryside murder. Ready. Yes. Ready to put down your. I'm going to stare right into your eyes.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Do you mind? Okay. Hello. I mean it might suck. Do you mind? Do you mind staring at me the whole time? Do you mind listening to. After listening to your guest appearance on the crack podcast.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Yay. I have been steadily binging on your very, on your own very entertaining podcasts. Listening to you. One. Another. Grizzly stories. Often at the time. Misremembering.
Starting point is 00:04:12 Or misquoting. It's just chicks not fucking starting out on a good foot. I mean, it's the truth though. And subsequently correcting. And then she says, reddit is a blessing and curse. Is it not? And something of which we are all guilty of. I got, I got to thinking about my own hometown murder.
Starting point is 00:04:29 I suspected that the details of this murder were conflated and misremembered by yours truly. So I took it. I took just some sleuthing onto the meat. That's basically what our podcast is. Yes. That's right. It's a very small, very small town in the Irish countryside called, oh, here we go.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Killis Chandra. Sure. There's the first thing I got wrong in this. Killis Chandra. Killis Chandra. I bet I'm saying it's so wrong. Think single street, eight to nine pubs, a football pitch, Irish football, not that Nancy paddle thing you have over there.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Careful. And a quote, shit poke country, nowhere kind of place. That sounds perfect. From a young age, I regularly played Irish music in one of the many pubs in town as part of a local tradition. One elderly man who joined us. So I vividly remember as always being grimy and dirty, the kind of grime that repels soap. And to be honest, doesn't actually smell.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Would often play the penny whistle with the group for an hour or two, have a couple pints and then drive his moped home in the small hours. That sounds like the perfect fucking life. That's a good life. But I bet he's a murderer. He was simply known as Johnny about town. Yet my mother informed me his name was Johnny Golden. Quite the name.
Starting point is 00:05:37 A harmless old man living on his own. Not much else to say. Oh, but let's just have one or two of these. Here he is. Steven is showing me a photo of him. Oh, he like your cute grandpa that I bet you anything is a murderer except look at his dirty fucking hand. Oh, well, he was out in the field all day.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Look at his, his hand looks like he's been putting it in a fireplace, like fireplace. His hand looks like he's been burying the teeth that aren't in his head. Look at that pipe. That's this guy's classic. He's like typecast as the Irish pub whistle whistle blower. Okay. Okay. In 2010, after I'd moved away, I heard that Johnny had been murdered in his home.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Oh, we're dicks. Sorry, Johnny. And from the story circulating, he had been stabbed to death. Oh, I feel bad now. Like Steven coming cut all that and his face cut into a Glasgow smile. Fuck says, think Heath Ledger's Joker. And worse, I couldn't believe it. Who would do such a thing to who was an apparently a sweet old lonely man.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Bet you anything is a fucking pedophile. I'm going to just go deeper. I'm just going to, I mean, yeah, it's it. I'm going to keep fucking doubling down. You were so sorry one moment ago. No, I'm going to double fucking down. All right. We'll keep power through it.
Starting point is 00:06:52 There's got to be a reason. Eventually, a young man, 19 year old Brendan McGovern was arrested for the murder. The details thinking after the trial, it turned out that Mr. McGovern approached Mr. Golden at his home to confront him regarding past sexual abuse that he had perpetrated on him six to seven years previously. Damn girl. Fuck, it knew it. The tale has now turned into one of revenge and anger.
Starting point is 00:07:13 It turns out that Mr. Golden accused of, but at this stage, he has no one to speak to the contrary, sexually abused Mr. McGovern while he was a child. But he eventually moved away. They had met again after McGovern started working nearby and Golden started taunting him, leering at him and telling stories about him in an effort to confront Mr. Golden to request him to stop. Mr. McGovern went to Mr. Golden's home to talk. Golden assumed that McGovern was there for sex and produced a condom after which McGovern
Starting point is 00:07:42 flew into a rage and proceeded to beat Golden. Then the glass smile embellishment did not occur. Elvis is ripping your notes to shreds. Okay. Sorry. Elvis. Condom. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Okay. He did not die immediately, but was found the following day at a home by a neighbor and succumbed to his wounds a month later. What do you guys think? A deserved death? A crime of passion? McGovern served 11 months for the crime. Keep up the good work and to repeat other sentiments.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Humor is a coping mechanism we can mostly all relate to. So don't lose it. Ciao for now. Mark. That sounds to me like you called it, but the story and the way it's explained of like, I just went to his house to talk. That sounds like bullshit. Like if you saw your old molester in town, it would make more sense that he would just
Starting point is 00:08:42 be like, I'm going to fucking kill that guy and then go and do what he did. That whole idea of like that there was any kind of like, I was there to be reasonable. It's like, no, you got caught. And so now you're trying to kind of like, you're trying to tell a story of like, oh, I was there to talk and then he did a thing. But even if that wasn't true and he wasn't there to talk, he was there to beat the shit out of him and it just ended up killing him. It's like, well, is that justified that this guy molested him as a child and is out taunting
Starting point is 00:09:09 him about it around town? Yeah, but we don't know if that's true. I know. The one thing I wonder is like, had he told anyone about this beforehand? Like, did he just come up with that case? Or is there a girlfriend who was like, yeah, he told me about the molestation when we were dating? It wouldn't make sense if the old guy was the molester that he would taunt him and tell
Starting point is 00:09:28 stories about him. That doesn't make sense. If he's the molester, he wouldn't say a word. Totally. So that could be like a paranoid or just being in that victim place of like, you can't stand seeing or being around that person. Yeah. Well, I only got 11 months, so I guess it worked.
Starting point is 00:09:44 All right. My first one says Austrian vintage murder hotel. Hey. Hey Karen, I'm Georgia. I'm from a small touristy village in Austria called St. Gilgen. It's Mozart's mother's hometown and where they shot the sound of music, rad. Basically, it's as quiet and unassuming as it gets. There used to be the Excelsior Hotel and in the late 60s, the hotel owner's wife died.
Starting point is 00:10:08 Her husband kept her mummified body in a room in the hotel. Turns out that he wasn't that good at mummification since the corpse was eventually discovered because of the smell. No one could prove that the husband had murdered her and apparently there were rumors that he got away with the mummifying thing because he claimed it was part of his religion or something. According to my grandparents, the whole thing was very mysterious and strange stuff like the hotel's secretary committing suicide by jumping off a cliff happened around the time
Starting point is 00:10:37 of the wife's death. Since the husband was never convicted, the hotel stayed open until he decided to move slash travel to Australia or New Zealand. The hotel was turned into apartments, which are still lived in today. No. A bar and a pizzeria. I go to the bar, maybe get pizza, but I've never fucking lived in those apartments. Would you spend the night in those apartments after drinking or not drinking?
Starting point is 00:11:03 After drinking and pizza. Would you have to have both? Yes. Because then I would just be drunk. And full and you'd kind of be out. Like either one is just not good alone. What if I told you that while you passed out drunk, say you blacked out, which you're partying in no way I'm accusing you of that, but you're partying in Austria.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Those people drink a fucking lot. You pass out and I tell you you can pass out, but there will be a ghost there that does stuff to you. Like ghosts can't do stuff to you. That's what I'm saying. Why would I say yes? Wait, I've got it. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:11:41 I just thought I'd make up a fun quiz. We're only halfway through. Oh shit. At some point the old owner returned to the bedside astrologer ghost sex quiz. How to have a more fun blackout. Do you want to attract a hot ghost? Not sure what that accent was. It'll do stuff to you.
Starting point is 00:12:05 It'll do stuff at you. At some point the old hotel owner returned to the village and he currently lives a couple hundred meters away from me. Away from me. I got all this information from my grandparents, so I can't guarantee that it's a hundred percent correct. It's a hundred percent. We relate to that.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Yeah. I tried to research it, but all I found were some vintage luggage labels from the hotel and postcards, which I attached along with a picture of the hotel I took today. Stephen's hand out into us. The hand. Ooh. This is gorgeous. We'll post these on our Instagram.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Except I'm saying we'll post them on our Instagram and I always say that and I never do it. Stephen. Post these on our Instagram. Stephen. Do it. Why won't you do anything? Damn it.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Damn it. That's very cool. Ooh. Get her right by that lake. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:12:54 I want that framed. Or we should have a shirt of that. Um. Hotel. Ooh. You can see the cliffs where the secretary killed herself in the background of most of the pictures. And then they shot at the hotel a few years ago, a few years before the death, it's called
Starting point is 00:13:05 The Shining. It's called 006 AM Wolfgang Gen Z. And then important. That's my nickname. In parentheses, it says, it's not porn I checked. The title translates to 006 By Wolf Gang Z. Oh. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Yeah. I get it. I know that phrase. No. Still. The Wolfgang Z. The Wolfgang Z is the name of the lake. I mean. 006 by Wolfgang Z. Not porn though.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Assured. All those words make a zero sex sense to me. Oh, it says, it's a James Bond reference since six and sex is the same word in German. Aha. I don't still got it. So it's double, it's like 007, but it's 006 by Wolfgang C. No. Oh.
Starting point is 00:13:58 C as an S-E-A. No, S-E. I don't get it. I don't either. All right. I'm not sure what the most disturbing fact about this whole thing is anymore. He said that. That's what he said.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Or she said, I love your podcast and I'm sorry for making you read a bunch of weird Austrian names. Eva. Thanks, Eva. That's cute. Oh, that's crazy. Like I love that because several horrifying things happen, but then it was like, and we continue on with our day.
Starting point is 00:14:26 And people are like, yeah, I'll live there. Yeah. It's beautiful. I mean, that one picture. Live show at the pub there? Yes or no? Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:14:37 Yes. No. The live show at the pub, at the pub, they offer you several glasses filled with a delicious liqueur. Pizza. Oh. Pizza liqueur. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:50 It's kind of tomato-y, but it's got basil floating on the top. But you know that if you drink it, even though it's the most delicious thing you ever had, you're going to pass out and get touched by a guest. Will you still do it? No. Ghosts, I said. No. Oh, ghosts?
Starting point is 00:15:03 Ghosts? Yes. Ghosts. No. I don't want to get... Well, I know I got molested by ghosts in the morning. Yes. Well, I have like...
Starting point is 00:15:11 Oh, you're asking me. Yeah. No. No. I don't give a shit. I also don't want to pass out because I don't have a hang... I don't know what's worse, getting molested by a ghost. Ghosts.
Starting point is 00:15:19 We're having a hangover. I never intended to have the word molested be folded into this quiz. I know. It just happened. I know it's what I'm saying. I mean, molested as in like child molestation, I mean molested as in the old-fashioned getting touched. We're adults.
Starting point is 00:15:33 Strong. You know what I mean? Molested is butt-fucked with. In the same way. Wait. Hold on. I'm like... We are talking about a light grazing of the breasts out of our nightgown with women
Starting point is 00:15:48 who are fully self-possessed. Fine. There. To get at them, man. Fun. Someone's got it. No. Why did I introduce this at all?
Starting point is 00:15:57 I liked it. I liked the idea of it. Well, it's going to happen now. Okay. Okay. Let's do one more. I'll do one more. You do one more.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Okay. More will happen. Be-boo-bop. Okay. Here we go. Do you want hometown-ish murder or hometown murder? Ish. Ish.
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Starting point is 00:17:29 Are they born to kill or are they made to kill? I'm Candice DeLong, and on my new podcast Killer Psyche Daily, I share a quick 10-minute rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the criminal masterminds, psychopaths, and cold-blooded killers you hear about in the news. I have decades of experience as a psychiatric nurse, FBI agent, and criminal profiler. On Killer Psyche Daily, I'll give you insight into cases like Ryan Grantham and the newly arrested Stockton Serial Killer. I'll also bring on expert guests to dive deeper into the details, share what it's like to
Starting point is 00:18:07 work with a behavioral assessment unit at Quantico, answer some killer trivia, and even host virtual Q&As where I'll answer your burning questions. Today, Prime members, listen to the Amazon Music Exclusive Podcast, Killer Psyche Daily, in the Amazon Music app. Download the app today. Here's hometown-ish murder by Alex. Right. He just starts.
Starting point is 00:18:36 He gets right in. Okay. So, I live in Lawrence, Kansas, but I recently started working in Topeka. I don't know how much you know about Topeka's reputation, uh, zero. Oh, my God, I've heard so much about what a slut Topeka is. I don't know anything about Topeka, period, but it's, sorry, Topeka, but as far, I'm sure you're beautiful. As far as state capital goes, its reputation is, I hate using the term, but sketchy to
Starting point is 00:18:58 say the least. Oh. I work for a rental car company next to our branches in abandoned building, which is not uncommon for Topeka. When I first started working in Topeka, customers would occasionally call them to confirm which are the two rental car branches in Topeka that our reservation was for. I would go over the address and the general location of the branch, and inevitably the customer would confirm by saying, oh, you're the branch by the CCs, a common pizza chain.
Starting point is 00:19:21 I see commercial, bless you, bless you, bless you, are you a three or two? I'm a two. Are you a three? I'm a three. A three-sneezer. The angels bless you on three. That's what my family is. Oh, you just don't say anything?
Starting point is 00:19:36 And then tell the third, you say something? No, no, it's, it's, um, I can't remember the saying, but it's the third time the angels bless you. It rhymes. Oh. Sorry. Go ahead. You don't want to know the Yiddish words for those things.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Uh, CCs, a common pizza chain. This would confuse me because there was no CCs next to our branch, but it kept happening again and again. It happened so much that I just started saying yes, because people seem to know something I didn't. I like that. One day I went across the street to Pizza Hut for lunch, and this is not an ad for pizza places.
Starting point is 00:20:06 I was talking to this girl behind the counter and told her I worked for the rental branch across the street. And she said she knew the branch because she used to work at the CCs next door. It was sad how excited I was to get to the bottom of the missing CCs. The girl behind the counter said that both she and the manager used to work for the CCs. That used to be next door to the rental branch. I inquired if it was a Pizza Hut that shut down the CCs and she looked at me stunned and puzzled and said, no, the owner was a murder.
Starting point is 00:20:30 I was caught off guard by such a fate for pizza shop, uh, by such a fate for a pizza shop owner. So I asked her to fill me in. Apparently the CCs owner was a 50 year old man named Harold Sasco, who was living with a 19 year old girl. And then they wrote in quotes, Topeka Sarah Gonzalez, Micaelyn, Micaelyn, Micaelyn, Micaelyn. One night Sarah put sleeping medication to Harold's beer he drank. And after he fell asleep, she attempted to chop his head off with a hunting knife.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Man, just go with the pills. Uh, what was happening in that household? A couple more pills, like someone's not going to wake up from their fucking head being chopped off. Oh, yeah. Make him OD. Put a bag over his head. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:21:15 Put a bag over his head. Well, I mean, I hope he's a piece of shit. Otherwise, I feel bad saying that. Okay. Yeah. Then she mansons. We're making a lot of mid email mistakes, I would say on this one. We are or they are leaving us room to fucking say shit.
Starting point is 00:21:29 That's their problem. Blame, blame, blame. Blaming. Uh, he drank it. She cut his head with a hunting knife. Then she Manson style wrote all over the walls, stole his dog, gun and Nissan Altima and fled. She was caught illegally camping in the Florida Everglades. That's how she got caught.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Oh, ma'am, you can't be here with that tent and pop your pop tent, ma'am. She was caught illegally camping, but they brought her back to Kansas, tried convicted and sentenced her to 50 years. I feel like you guys do a lot of adults murdering kids stories, so I felt like a reverse situation was needed. The story, the story was so long. I love the podcast sit, listen to it when things are slow at the branch. If you like that Topeka murder story, I have a bunch more.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I heard you guys on the crack podcast and thought you guys were awesome. Keep up the good work. Keep up the awesome podcast, Alex. Thanks Alex. Thank you 19. Oh man. What was going on in that house that she was like, what was going on? Fucking lots.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Also, if you, she clearly didn't steal that much money. If she just went to the Everglades and illegally camp, she was pissed about something. I mean, yeah, how much is, I don't want to talk shit about managers of CCs, but he can't be fucking rolling in it in the dough, rolling in the dough because it's too big. Yes. Uh, also how many, I've never heard the name CCs that many times in a row. No. I mean, it was just like over and over again the whole time.
Starting point is 00:22:54 It really was. Uh, yeah. A lot of questions, but also then, yeah, I actually do want to hear more Topeka stories because it's like that. It's Kansas. It's the center. Did I ever tell you about my, my pen pal? No.
Starting point is 00:23:08 When I was like, it's like 11 years old. All of a sudden I had a pen pal. You said that too. But I, I just started getting letters from a girl named Donna who lived, I'm pretty sure in Kansas. Catfishing. And I can't write. I kept, it was like letters of like, hi, how are you?
Starting point is 00:23:27 I'm your pen pal, whatever. And then I wrote back and I'm like, hi, good. How are you? But I was like, how did you get my name? Like how does this happening? And then she wrote back of like, I signed up for the pen pal thing. And I was like, I just never signed up for a pen pal thing. And we must have, she, we gave each other our school pictures.
Starting point is 00:23:43 She told me about her class. Right. We told each other about our schools and like who's popular and who's cool and exactly and like how we felt and stuff. But every time I'd be like, yeah, but again, and just real quick, like how did you get my name? And we never, every time I asked her, she assumed that I knew like, I think she thought I was asking how it worked instead of like, it was an agreement that like, oh, I got your
Starting point is 00:24:12 name. I got, I picked your name. Yeah. Or like, I guess they have a system where, and then I'm like, no, I didn't, but I didn't, I liked her. And like, I thought it was really interesting that I was getting this little girl's picture and like, she was telling me about her life. And of course I was immediately like, listen to my life.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Yeah. I was in. Yes. Of course. It was so great when like you could just talk and maybe like writing a thing and they couldn't respond. That's great. And you're just like, let me go.
Starting point is 00:24:37 You had the floor. Yeah. That's like these hometown murders. That's why people love them. That's right. Because they're just like, let me, you guys shut the fuck up for a minute, but we don't. We fucking comment in between, but that's what you get. That's right.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Okay. We get our say, you know, I was just thinking of Donna, if you're out there in Kansas somewhere and you used to write me letters, yeah, hi, hi, I don't know, we were really good grown man. Let's be honest. Don is like, you're welcome. Sweetie. It's just some fucking weirdo in jail.
Starting point is 00:25:06 You still have your picture on the wall. I tricked. I just kept telling her that it was, it was one of them. Pempal registries. It's the most like passive pervert of all time. That's just like, he's super into writing letters. Michelle's the most popular girl in school and I hate her. I just hate her.
Starting point is 00:25:24 And that's me. 11 year old me. Me too. I like Garfield. Do you like Garfield? It's a lot of that like statement question, however I prefer Heathcliff. I like this guy's voice that I'm doing. You know what?
Starting point is 00:25:41 Maybe he just wanted a young friend. Maybe he wasn't a creep. It was just innocent. Maybe he just like shot a guy during a robbery. Like wasn't even like a, he wasn't even like a pervert or anything. He was just like, Hey, does anybody want to do letters? And he's like, well, little girls, of course, will write me a letter. That's nice.
Starting point is 00:25:58 And like, I had a bad childhood and it'd be so fun to like go back to, that's definitely what happened. This is total insanity. Yeah. All right. Hey, I love it. You go ahead and rewind. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Love, Donna. Hey, let's go down to Texas. Can we please? Sure. My favorite El Paso, Texas murder.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Yay. Hi, gals. I just started listening. I apologize if you've already covered this murder, but nobody outside of El Paso pays much attention to anything that happens there besides the war as murderers. Have you heard of this? This is yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Yes. All the women. Yes. Yeah. I'm so excited that someone is giving us this information. That one is like, we need two episodes to cover that. I mean, I wonder if this is the same thing. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Let's find out. Just read the letter, Karen. So in late 1994, 1995, when I was about 20 years old, they started finding dismembered female body parts, painted different colors and scattered throughout the desert outside of town and serial killer panic ensued, particularly among young women with overactive imaginations like me. Not overactive. My friend, you've got a very large seed to start that.
Starting point is 00:27:13 It's just actually reality, painted body parts. Are you fucking kidding me? Just leave the body parts. I don't have to fucking paint them. I mean, don't leave body. Go ahead. They finally found a head and in a desperate bid to identify the victims, they wrapped the neck in a towel and showed the head on the news.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Oh, wow. Wow. You'll remember that. You'll never forget that in your whole fucking life. This is the first time I've ever needed to take a break. Oh God, are you okay? Oh. Matt?
Starting point is 00:27:45 No. Hi. I bet what year was it? I bet they weren't like, this next thing is disturbing. They were just like, here's the head. Does anyone know this? Not a photo of the head, but live video of the head. I was lucky enough to be tuned in.
Starting point is 00:27:59 They warned us what they were going to do. Okay, good. But they didn't even finish the sentence. This is going to be disturbing. So get your kids out of the room before they cut to the waxy looking head. It was so gross, y'all. I feel like they would have put like sparklers on there, like just like not even trying to fucking not scare people.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Yeah. Well, yeah. They're getting into that like, you know, they know what people tune in for, but that's fucked. Yeah. That's legit fuck. It was horrifying, but it worked. The woman had identified, was identified within an hour.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Her name was Susie Han Bradley. Can you imagine knowing that person? And her neighbor happened to be watching and recognized her. That's horrible. Turns out Susie's husband, James Patrick Bradley, had really limited mobility and had to rely on a cane and a wheelchair. The marriage had been abusive, possibly mutually, so depending on who you believe. And one night things went too far and he shot her.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Given his mobility issues, he had, he had to dismember his wife to dispose of the body. He was an artist by hobby. So it's unclear as to whether he decided to paint the body parts to suggest a serial killer or if he was just, you know, inspired to paint the parts because artists are weird and not to be trusted. As an avid reader of the weekly world news, me too, rest in peace. He's saying that about the weekly world news. You can imagine my delight when this local story made the cut, so to speak.
Starting point is 00:29:27 We are, we as a city were simultaneously relieved and deeply disappointed to learn that there was in fact no serial killer on the loose. A couple of years later, of course, they would arrest the railroad killer on the El Paso Juarez border, but that was cold comfort. Best Kate. Wow. I saw it was going to be about those tons and tons of women that are found in that killing field in, but it's on the Mexico side of the border.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Right? No, I don't know. Yeah. That's the one I'm talking about. Yeah. You're right. You're right. I was thinking of the one where they're all buried and the, um, that they did on, um,
Starting point is 00:30:04 yeah. Here we go. Killing fields. No. Fuck man. Okay. Um, that's fucked up. That's super fucked up.
Starting point is 00:30:13 Dead body parts is, yeah, that's, that's pretty intense. I wonder why he did that part of it. Uh, drugs. Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. I think that might be my first guess. Sure.
Starting point is 00:30:28 That seems crazy. Yeah. And weird. And it's like, it's also like, it's also pointing back to you. If they find you and realize you're an artist and have paint and stuff, then you're even making it worse. So he must have been a little crazy. You wanted to get caught.
Starting point is 00:30:41 Yeah. Yeah. That's a horrible thing. And he had snapped. Yes. Well, thanks for sending in your hometown murderers. You guys keep doing it. Um, my favorite murder at gmail.com and we'll keep reading two of them for them once a week.
Starting point is 00:30:57 So maybe we'll get to yours. We certainly will. Yeah. In about 2027. Yes. Stay sexy. Don't get murdered. Bye.
Starting point is 00:31:06 Bye. Elvis, you want a cookie? A cookie? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much.

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