My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - MFM Minisode 39

Episode Date: September 25, 2017

On this week’s My Favorite Murder minisode, Karen and Georgia read your hometown stories including a high school detective story, another helpful granny, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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flew blimps in World War II in San Francisco on August 16, 1942. 27 year old Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody and 30 or 30 or year old in sign Charles Ellis Adams were to fly flight 101 to patrol the California coast for Japanese submarines. My grandfather who was 20 years old at the time was supposed to fly with them that morning. But for some unknown reason he was called off the blimp. An hour and a half after takeoff Lieutenant Cody radioed squadron headquarters reporting an oil slick on the water. That was the last contact ever received from flight 101. Three hours later the blimp was seen eight miles off the coast over Daily City which is right next door to San Francisco. The blimp crashed in the middle of the street empty. The blimp was empty. My grandfather said the

ignition switch was still on. The radio was still on and working. Nobody had touched the fuel valves and they were set up just the way I'd left them. We still had another six hours of fuel. There were tons of theories from UFOs to being kidnapped by Japanese to them having a fight and tumbling out but they were never found. That must have been quite a spooky sight though an empty blimp just drifting over the city. In 1992 on season five episode 24 my grandfather appeared on Unsolved Mysteries to tell his story. It was amazingly cool. They get flown to the shooting. They got flown to the shooting and put up in a hotel. My grandmother said that Robert Stack was very handsome. I showed the episode to my fifth grade class and I remember a girl saying if he

would have gotten on the blimp you would have never been born. It blew my mind. Fifth grader on a side note one night my mom and I got drunk on whiskey and read a bunch of letters that my grandfather and grandmother had written to each other when they were barely out of their teens and my grandfather was in the war. They were incredibly touching and adorable. They were married for 57 years. My grandfather passed away in 2001 and my grandmother in 2005. Thank you guys so much for the great podcast and I can't wait to see you guys someday in Atlanta. We have a great MFM group here, Christian. I've seen that episode on Unsolved Mysteries. I definitely remember it from childhood. Because they reenact the theory of them fighting their way out and

falling into the ocean. I don't remember that. Which is so unlike they say that it's unlikely or whatever but it's like I totally remember that specific green eye. Because they would have found the bodies and it was right off the coast probably. Maybe. Sharks maybe. I believe UFO is before tumbling out of the cockpit. I mean the UFO idea is fascinating. But yeah even the Japanese thing is interesting. I think it was Kristen and I just want to declare it wasn't the person's name was Kristen. Oh okay. Okay. Thank you Kristen. Thank you. Kristen. Kristen. Cheers to your grandparents. I know. And them being born. Yeah. Okay. Okay. This the headline is or the subject line is my hometown story is essentially the plot of the

movie never been kissed but with fake British royalty and a sex offender. Okay. Hello humans and animal friends. MFM is bomb and I love you all. I'm coming to the live minute Minneapolis show in October and I'm losing my fucking mind with excitement. My hometown story does not include murder but it does include a pile of human garbage who briefly attended my high school. Awesome. I grew up in a small town called Stillwater 30 minutes outside of Minneapolis. If you like beautiful scenery creepy antiques and old fashioned candy stores we should you should visit one year in Minnesota. Yes. Yes. All of those. All of it. In 2006 when I was a freshman in high school an upperclassman started bringing an exciting new my space friend to school with him.

This friend spoke in a British accent and introduced himself as Caspian James Crichton Stewart the fourth. Made up. That's like only a high school or a high schooler would be like yeah that's definitely your name. More names. Yeah. More names and I actually hadn't finished. It's Caspian James Crichton Stewart the fourth comma fifth Duke of Cleveland. So that's he's fucking gilding the lily there. Jesus. He said he was doing his senior year in the States and was considering attending our high school. People were interested in him because he claimed that he was the 27th in line to the British throne and told stories about hanging out with Prince William and Prince Harry even though he was pretty douchey from the start

and demanded that people call him your grace. No. Everyone was warm friendly and welcomed him into the school until things got capital W. E. I. R. D. weird. Oh my God. In parentheses. The school newspaper began looking began doing a story on him and he gave information that didn't quite add up. Nerds. I love the nerds at the school newspaper. It's so good. Who the fuck is this guy? So they couldn't find anything about his lineage in the books on British nobility and the Wikipedia page about him was poorly written. Jocker. The page listed someone named Joshua Gardner as a contributor and when the reporter started googling his name they found photos of the Duke on a sex offender registry. No. He was a fully adult pervert posing as a Royal British exchange student

presumably so he could pray on young teens. Oh my God. So fucking gross and stupid. Luckily the student reporters were bad asses and cracked the case right before he had a chance to abuse anyone at our high school. S. S. D. G. M. By. L. Those motherfuckers what's the equivalent of the purple heart of the metal for high schoolers. The purple the metal of honor. The high school metal of honor would probably be like a like a six pack of beer. Right. And like maybe a pack of what's the acne medication that they sell on TV. Oh some pro pro actor. Thank you Stephen. Thank you Stephen the millennial. Thank you Stephen. A pack of proactive and a six pack of beer. I mean that's incredible. It's the best story of all time. Thank you for the internet. Wow. Also anyone who demands

that you call him your grace. Yeah. When he is trying to fucking fly by as 27th in the line to the throne of the British. Yeah 27. Good luck becoming. Yeah. You're so American. I wouldn't call fucking Prince William your grace. You wouldn't. You're supposed to. Okay I would. No I would. You're right. I would. I'm being a badass. Not if he came to your school. Right. If I went to go meet him. But it was like hey what's up. You know. He would be like what's up. Yeah. There's no way he'd be like stop you. Let me stop you right there. Right. If I met him on his grounds I would call him whatever you're supposed to call him. You would call him whatever the person that whispered in your ear before you actually walked up to him. Right. They tell you

what to say. Sure. Kurtzy call him John. Then I'd be like I only high five though. You'd be like please don't high five. Please. We had a terrible problem about that earlier. Okay. This one this one's sweet in a fucked up way. But I love it. Stephen on point stories that you've provided me with this week. All right. This one's called you've got a fan in prison. It's my dad. Oh really. Sweet. It's about us. What do you mean. Oh. Are they talking to us when they say that. Yeah. You've got a fan in prison. Karen in Georgia. Sometimes that's about other people. It's my dad. Okay. Hey fam. That's us. Just wanted to share a sweet note of thanks that let you know one of the many ways you have both impacted me. My dad is currently in South Dakota state penitentiary

awaiting sentencing and a transfer to a federal pen in November. It's not murder rather a second a second drug offense and then in parentheses addictions are a real bummer. Yeah. But earlier this summer we spent some time trying to get to know each other better. I'm 35. He'll be sentenced on my 36th birthday. Cool. And he hasn't been a part of my life really since I was 15 or 16. Again drugs are a bummer. So I told him. So I told him I spent a lot of time listening to your podcast and he wrote down the name. He figured out how to download and listen. And when we spoke when I spoke to him for the first time today in a few months relieved he wasn't dead in a ditch just in prison. And the first thing he said was kiddo I listen to my favorite murder. Those are

some righteous badass ladies. No. Yeah. He enjoys the foul language back and forth banter and the way you empower women especially me. He's getting a tablet soon and then wrote prison is crazy now and will be able to listen more. Anyway thanks for doing what you do. It means so much to so many of us. If you're ever in Richmond, Virginia I'd love to say thank you in person. I thought that said in prison. There's a beautiful historic theater here called The Bird and I can totally picture y'all at the second act after the old timey Oregon player performs. Yes. X O Kelsey. Kelsey. That is so first of all it's so touching. Yeah. When your dad makes the effort to look into your dumb interest like it is so touching and it's such a good sign of a good dad that really cares

about you. That's the only thing. That's the way you show people you care about them. Right. He's trying again. He's taking interest in them. It's incredible too that thought of like how happy she was to be able to talk to her dad again in a couple months knowing he's safe in prison. Yeah. And not years and probably years of thinking he was dead in a ditch and that's the next time she was going to hear about him. It's so awful. But I love that he thinks we're righteous badass. I mean and also just that he's I don't know but he's in whatever journey he's on he's staying connected to a person that means a lot to him which is his own daughter and she's letting him. Beautiful. It's really lovely. It's two people you and I who have connections with our dads.

It's nice to hear stuff like that. Yes. It's beautiful. Yeah. And it's cool. I have to say it kind of I kind of think it's cool. It kind of gives us so much credibility. I mean thank you Kelsey. Thanks Kelsey. That was a lovely thing to share. I hope he hears this and we say you got this dude. Come on. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep on keeping on. Looking for a better cooking routine with meal planning shopping and prepping handled. Hello Fresh has you covered. Hello Fresh makes home cooking easy and affordable so you can stay on track and on budget in the new year. Hello Fresh meals are convenient seasonal and delicious. Stay cozy all winter long with classic comfort foods available weekly. Why stop with just dinner.

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Goodbye. Hey I'm Mike Corey the host of Wunderers podcast against the odds in our next season three masked men hijack a school bus full of children in the sleepy farm town of Chowchilla California. They bury the children and their bus driver deep underground planning to hold them for ransom. Local police and the FBI marshal a search effort but the trail quickly runs dry as the air supply for the trapped children dwindles a pair of unlikely heroes emerges follow against the odds wherever you get your podcast you can listen ad free on the amazon music or Wunderer app. This subject line is my granny helped me solve a kidnapping but dear Karen Georgia Stephen and all the fur babies I gotta say it to fucking I hear fur babies

am I allowed to say I hate fur babies. Oh yeah and you don't yeah use fur babies as I mean I get people like it. It's like women who call mothers who call themselves mama like this mama is super fierce. I hate that you know it's like that's what that's what like the millennials millennial mothers on who are in on YouTube on YouTube and like on Instagram call themselves mama mama like this a fierce mama right here or mama bear they call themselves like sorry Jesus Christ I mean fur babies and mama we all have our things uh okay so this is I don't that's right I don't have a hometown murder but I do have this weird ass tale to tell so about eight years ago I moved to the USA to work as an au pair in Florida for a single dad

and his 11 month old twins their mom had died giving birth and he had struggled without family support around he was such a lovely guy he worked super long hours but he was always excited to come home to his kids and used to joke that he'd hired a Scottish au pair because his wife had also been from Scotland and he hoped maybe the babies would have their accents flags flags flags so any flags let's list the flags I honestly loved working for him so much so that I decided to extend my one-year visa and return to the UK before Christmas to break the news to my parents and to catch up with my friends however almost as soon as I was on Scottish soil I got the flu the proper I feeling I'm at death's door flu and I went straight to bed my granny couldn't wait

for me to be well to visit and called around a few days later with urnbrew which is a Scottish soda known to cure hangovers and a pile of old lady magazines you know the kind that have all those trashy true crime cheating husbands ghost stories in them yes I start to leaf through one now stumble across a picture of my twins the article is about a woman who whose estranged husband had taken their two month old babies out for the day and never brought them what in the fucking shit are the goddamn chances she knew they were likely in the USA but had no clue where I became so hysterical crying that my mom came in to investigate but blamed my being delirious with the flu and tried to convince me that of course I hadn't been living with

and working for a kid now oh shit mom however come on after showing her photographs of the now 21 month olds I eventually convinced her to phone the police it took several weeks but the man that I'd been working for was arrested for breaching a protection order and the children were returned to their mother in the UK looking back there are a few things that stick out like the lack of family around and the fact that the kids never went to the doctor and that one time we drove to New York instead of flying but otherwise I swear he seemed super super normal oh my god it's SDGM Meg Meg Meg that's I want to see I wish we had gotten her on stage to tell that because I want to talk to her so bad that she is I mean that's a hometown right there dude she's right in the center do

you guys have something like that doesn't have to be a murder it doesn't have to be a murder but a fun reveal yeah that's things like that where you think things are one way and then boom how a year it's not even like a month that she was living there and then left it's like and then what are the chances that grandma like she got sick so that she could get these magazines from her grandma who wanted to make her who was excited like these that's this is the lord in action I tell you about Jesus Christ your personal savior don't listen to me I listen now I believe you I mean I guess the kids wouldn't have been kidnapped to begin with if Jesus Christ he wasn't in Scotland okay he was out of the country everyone knows he's only in America but we only

but he only we should cut all of that I mean but don't he can I just say one thing I finished my last uh New Zealand candy bar thank god I left mine in my rental car what no but they have them there for me have them there for me you got so no no crazy no they have nothing I had a pistachio no no a hazelnut one that is the best thing I've ever tasted it was crazy I was like please thank god these are gone now I can't keep eating this chocolate but it I'm kind of glad I haven't had mine for the past couple days because it was in my car I didn't bring it out it's probably all melted I left it in the rental car I haven't gotten it in two days because I was gonna give some to my family when I see them this weekend but if I hadn't done all that I would have eaten them all

for sure here's me I think I have more than you too yeah I hope to god you do because I just have the ones like basically you were like putting things in a bag and so it's just whatever there's like three white chocolate ones and you don't need that no no no there was no there was a such a nice variety but like I'm not interested in being exotic with candy give me some quality chocolate sure give me one of the koalas with the caramel inside got it someone tweeted us and said put those in the freezer the car gets really hard and chewy it's like a frozen twix come on stop it why are we talking about this I don't know what was your that was me I just it was just to say oh the UK basically that the I was thinking of the grandma and the magazines and then the candy

but then it went to the right the chapter is closed and our Australian candy I don't think that the austral that New Zealand is in the UK by the way when I just said no you knew that it was you were talking about the hometown right yeah yeah um those were good those were great yeah good job Steven thanks Steven uh thank you guys for writing those in and please send yours to my favorite murderer at Gmail the fucking the catchier the the subject line the more likely maybe that Steven will read it yes well it's just easier yeah it's easier to know what you're about to get yeah uh the never been kissed thing was the perfect yeah like it's just like this but that yes come on great make it easy thank you uh thank you guys for listening and we'll talk to you later stay sexy don't get murdered

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