My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti
Episode Date: January 15, 2025It's time to Rewind with Karen & Georgia! This week, K & G recap Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti. Georgia covered the Durham Family Murders and Karen told the amazin...g survival story of Terry Jo Duperrault. Listen for all-new commentary, possible case updates and much more! Whether you've listened a thousand times or you're new to the show, join the conversation as we look back on our old episodes and discuss the life lessons we’ve learned along the way. Head to social media to share your favorite moments from this episode!  Instagram: instagram.com/myfavoritemurder  Facebook: facebook.com/myfavoritemurder TikTok: tiktok.com/@my_favorite_murder Now with updated sources and photos: https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/episodes/rewind-with-karen-georgia-episode-28-i-28-his-liver-with-some-fava-beans-and-a-nice-chianti My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories, and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. The Exactly Right podcast network provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics, including true crime, comedy, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3UFCn1g. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, I'm Bridger Weinegger, and each week I invite my favorite people from comedy to
join me on my podcast, I Said No Gifts.
It's not just the title of the show, it's also my only request. And yet every guest disobeys.
Listen as unwanted presents, offerings, and trinkets are laid at my feet and the conversation turns to
whatever bizarre item is forced on me. Tension runs high, but I am a professional and I keep things civil
despite having every reason to rip my guests to shreds. Listen to I Said No Gifts wherever you get
your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello and welcome to Rewind with Karen in Georgia.
This is our new Wednesday episode where we recap our old shows with new commentary, updates
and insights. You are welcome.
Okay, so today we're recapping episode 28, which we named I 28 His Liver with some fava
beans and a nice county.
Come on.
That has stood the test of time.
I agree.
I love that one.
So join us as we take you back to August 4th, 2016,
because now we can all be day one listeners.
Huzzah, let's listen to intro of episode 28.
Karen, hi.
Hi.
Hi. You pointed at me to talk first, didn't I?
I wanted you to do the...
I did it last time, trying to make a start.
Oh, hey, this...
Oh, fuck, I gotta turn my phone off.
Sorry.
Oh, hey, this is...
Hello?
Who's this?
What's up?
Show business?
It's a telemarketer.
Do you mind if I take this?
Can I take...
Can I talk about some products with this person?
Yeah, I give them all my social security number and everything over the podcast.
Just record it all.
Welcome to My Favorite Murder.
This is basically what the podcast is.
Yes, it's going to be this for another two and three quarters hours.
Yep.
Enjoy.
Yeah, there you go.
Or goodbye.
Forever.
Can I start out real quick, just by plugging, just for the skippers who skipped to the stories,
don't miss this.
Don't miss this.
We have new motherfucking shirts.
Yes, and they're good.
They're good, right?
I'm really, there's something,
well, to me, when you sent me that picture,
there's something very visceral
about the original logo as a shirt.
Like it makes me feel official.
It's so official and I can't wait to see someone.
I'm still waiting to run into someone in the wild,
like someone I don't know wearing one of our old shirts.
Well, that just happened to me.
Shut up.
Walking into your apartment and Steven has our shirt on.
Yeah, yeah.
I was dressed appropriately.
He was, we appreciate it.
We don't let anyone in our house,
unless they're wearing mine or Vince's podcast shirt.
That's smart.
As a couple, that's a good decision.
We're real dicks.
Is it obnoxious to wear your own podcast sweatshirt?
T-shirt, yes.
Hoodie, no.
No?
It's like when you're working on a movie
and you get the show, the movie logo hat.
That's right.
And once it wraps, you can wear it.
Should we also get director's chairs?
Do you think?
Definitely.
Should we get baseball jackets?
Baseball jackets, directors.
You can get, I was looking to try to get mugs and stuff.
You can get like, we can get like serving trays
with the logo on it.
Oh good.
You can get so much weird shit.
You know, Dave Anthony from the Doll Up says
that the thing they sell the most are posters.
Yeah, we could do that.
Posters and we can do shot glasses too,
which I feel like, I mean, there's gotta be a lot
of college kids listening, right?
I would hope.
What are they doing with their time?
I mean, studying?
Please.
Look at us, we didn't go to college.
I mean, we didn't graduate and look at us now.
I mean, I tried, but it sucked.
I gave it a shot. It was weird and uncomfortable. Oh, I hated it. I really didn't go to college. I mean we didn't graduate and look at me. I mean I tried but it's I gave it a shot
It was weird and uncomfortable. Oh, I hated it. I really didn't like it
It was triggering for me because I hated high school so much. Mm-hmm, but it just felt like high school
Mine felt like the opposite of high school because I went to a tiny high school and then I tried to go to Sac State
Which was like going to oh my gosh huge a
Whole other city as a school.
And I just felt lost and empty and alone.
Yeah, community college felt like,
oh God, it felt like I was going backwards in time
because my school was kind of nice.
And then suddenly it was like this terrible old school
that was sad.
Did it have those desks where the chair
and the desk are connected?
I can't, there's something so depressing about those desks.
Cause you can't move in or out and your butt hurts
and it's just no.
And it's like your, it's like a little clamp on you.
Yeah. It's a school clamp.
It's a little prison cell.
So look at us now.
Yeah, look at us free, sticking our legs wherever we want,
up, sideways.
Anywhere, in our director's chairs.
So quit school everybody, that's the one message
we have for the children this week.
Please quit school.
Did you know Burke Ramsey is gonna be on Dr. Phil
in September?
I know, and I've been waiting to freak out.
With me? For you, yeah.
Cause I've been seeing that and I'm like whatever, whatever. Even Vince was like, did you see that? And I'm like, yeah, whatever. But I've been waiting to freak out. With me? For you, yeah. Because I've been seeing that and I'm like, whatever,
whatever, even Vince was like, did you see that?
And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
But I've been waiting to talk to you about it.
I love that the day it was announced, I think,
I must have had six or seven people tweet at me
and the My Favorite Murder Twitter,
we had like 25 people.
Instagram too, we have an Instagram account and people will be like commenting on a shirt post
So like did you see this?
So here's what I think is gonna happen one of two things either
It's gonna be the most boring basic thing
He thinks an intruder did it or he's totally gonna just go ballistic and say it was his mom
I guess I'm guessing it's not the latter, but how cool would that be? It'd be amazing
I did see one picture in one of the articles that got sent, and they're walking in an orchard.
The walk and talk?
Which is probably a bad sign.
Yeah.
Because that means they're two besties.
No, they always do the walk and talk though.
Oh yeah?
The walk and talk, whenever there's like an interview, that's just a thing.
Okay.
A walk and talk.
Okay.
But you think an orchard is a bad sign. I mean, it just looked too peaceful and chummy to me.
You're not gonna be like,
and then she hit her over the head in an orchard.
You're not gonna say that in an orchard.
Yeah, I don't, who knows?
But here's what I will say,
and I'm not gonna name any names.
I've got an inside source.
I'm gonna find out from my inside source
if it's already been taped,
if it's a taping live in a studio.
Like if the clips we've already seen are just a pre-tape
that they're letting out footage of or whatever.
Because what if we went to the live taping of that?
No, stop it.
Oh my God, I didn't even think that's what you meant.
Wait, what?
Would you wanna do that?
I'm gonna find out from my inside source. I didn't even know that's what you meant
I thought you were like find out what he was saying, but that's I don't know don't you want to be there?
Because here's the thing. I do trust in dr. Phil
is
I just got the picture in my head
Did you ever see the dr. Phil that was on the Muppet, the Sesame Street where they did a Dr. Phil
and the Muppet looked exactly like him?
No, I love it.
That just flashed in my head
and I kind of went away for a second, sorry.
I do trust that Dr. Phil doesn't give a fuck.
So he will like confront like a lunatic.
Like it's not like, I'm going back on what I just said
about the chummy. Right.
Yes.
Because now that I think about it, Dr. Phil just all be like, why do you still live with
your boyfriend who's a pedophile?
You know what I mean?
He doesn't care.
Wait, Burke Ramsey lives with a boyfriend who's a pedophile?
No, no, no.
So yeah, he definitely asks the hard questions and kind of fucking needles them until they
like, they get nervous and then the real shit comes out.
So I think he's better than like a Barbara Walters
because she's super soft on people.
I agree, I can't wait, I'm totally gonna watch it,
but I'm like everything in life,
keeping my expectations low.
If we somehow get tickets to be in the studio audience,
I will lose.
Should we wear matching outfits?
Should we?
And should they be our t-shirts?
Oh my God, yes.
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes, please.
Should we dress like super weird, not twin sisters
and freak people out?
Get our hair cut.
Yes.
Everything.
Should I get a tiny bob?
That was my 90s hair forever.
I want to say we should dress like pageant girls, but that seems in bad taste to say right now.
It does seem like that.
So I'm not saying it.
The huge Tierra Trophy.
They would kick us out.
We would get arrested for bad taste.
That's like an intense drag queen move,
is to dress up as Jambanera.
Totally.
Then here's part two, which a lot of people know,
because a lot of people also tweeted us this information,
is that Ingmar
Guadnique, who is the guy that was accused of murdering Chandra, Chandra Lee is going
to get released from prison after six years because the prosecutors are dropping all charges
because based on recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week. What?
I am, I'm never speechless, but I'm speechless about this. That's insane.
Because the, whatever they found, whatever this investigation is, the idea that it got
to the point where it gets him out of jail entirely, has to be something incredibly definitive.
But didn't he also kill to,
isn't he suspected of or did kill?
Yeah, rock and roll.
Isn't he suspected of or killed to other people?
Now look, I'm not celebrating his release
because he did attack women in that park.
That's the reason he was arrested.
But he attacked women with the intent, I believe,
to rape them, if not raping them.
But there, I think, so basically he was the perfect person
to arrest for her murder.
It's just that moral dilemma of like,
is setting him free just going to fuck up the world even more? I mean, he's,
I know you can't hold someone for something they weren't charged for, but I hate it. I
want to know what the evidence is so I can know if I agree or not, but they're not telling
us.
You're right. It's not exciting he's getting out of jail because obviously he can't handle
himself around women, parks or screwdrivers sexual predator
Yeah, he's no good, and I'm sure jail helped him with that
But what I yeah, I'm just stoked that they found something they were still looking
Yeah, and they found something so definitive that means we're gonna find out about it within the next month
It can't just be a witness because it's been what 10 years and witness eyewitness testimony
stocks it can't be.
Witnesses don't get people out of jail I don't think.
It can't just also it can't just be DNA because finding a hair on the body doesn't mean anything
you know unless it's can be linked.
What did they find?
What did they find?
What?
Because she wasn't she wasn't she's, isn't she,
wasn't she skeletal remains when they found her?
I can't remember.
People talk to me about these cases
that we talk about on here
and I have almost no memory of talking about them.
I have to re-listen to episodes.
I found like, I should do this murder.
And then like, did I really do that?
I've thought of that so many times.
There was one that I wanted to ask you if I've done,
cause I totally forgot.
And they mean the world to us listeners.
What a wonderful.
The most important things.
We love it.
I mean, I forget my own name.
I almost did one of yours.
I was looking it up today and I was like, I can't find it.
Which one?
It was a, maybe your first, no, not your first,
because your first was Martha Moxley, right?
No, my first was Jean Benet.
Oh, okay.
It was an early one that was a little more obscure.
And right, I saw it and I went, that's so good.
And I'm like, the reason you think that is
because Georgia already did it.
What if you just did it and then did it better?
And then said, up your game, girl.
Yeah.
That's right. Get it together. It then said, up your game girl. Yeah. That's right.
Together.
It's a contest within a podcast.
I started listening, like I wanna say
just for research purposes and just for like quality control
but started, I listened to episode one from the beginning
but it's really just because I'm fucking full of myself
and wanted to hear how funny we are.
And I was laughing out, I was here.
This is like describes me in a nutshell.
I was shopping for vintage clothing,
listening to my own podcasts and laughing out loud.
Do you think you were laughing really loud
and didn't know it because you had earbuds in?
I was, no, because I'm really aware of that,
but I was laughing out loud accidentally,
like I couldn't help.
Like what is, oh God, I'm such a dick.
No, I think it's very brave of you to admit this.
I re-listen to episodes a lot,
because it's a really, it's fun to do,
it's, I don't know, it's fun to do.
It is. It is.
And it's like, oh shit,
I think you and I text each other on a regular basis.
Oh, that was good.
That was actually good.
Sometimes we leave this apartment and I'm like,
we shouldn't do this anymore.
Yeah.
Wait, what?
Wait, sorry, what?
Please, don't let this out true.
Any more housekeeping?
That is it for me.
It's funny that we're talking about John Bonet-Ramsey again.
Did you watch the recent documentary on Netflix?
It's timeless. I haven't because there's so many other like true crime documentaries out
right now. I feel like my list has gotten insanely long.
Yeah. This is the cold case who killed John Bonet-Ramsey, of course, by Joe Berlinger,
who's this like incredible documentary filmmaker.
Yes.
The thing that didn't give me any like new insights except for I really don't
think the family was involved. I really do at this point and I feel bad that I ever did.
I think it was an intruder.
I feel bad about all of it. Like this is a story that is so I was talking to somebody
this morning where I was just like the idea that there's so many risky people in this child's life and the fact that
there are so many potential people is so horrible.
Just so horrible.
And they, you know, like child pageants, we don't even have to get into it.
But God.
Yeah.
But you're going to feel bad for, especially Patsy Ramsey, when you watch this.
It's like, it's fucked up.
It's just so fucked up.
And I do think that the Boulder police have a lot to fucking answer to based on this documentary.
Yeah. And also, it's just very strange. It's like a cold case. It feels like there should be a way to get in there
and do something about how this cold case that just everybody wants answers to. Well, there is and it's DNA. And again, the Boulder Police Department has some shit to
fucking answer for.
Really?
Yeah.
Now I have to move this one up to the top of my list you're saying?
I would. It's only three episodes.
Okay.
It's good. And it's fucked up. Burke isn't in it because he has not publicly spoken since
this interview with Dr. Phil, which you can totally understand
why he wouldn't want to. But another one of John Ramsey's sons is in it.
Looking back on this rewind, it's a really good like, I think people over the years of
being a true crime fan and a listener of it, I really, the thing that stands out the most
to me is media literacy and how it used to just be
we kind of accepted whole cloth anything we were shown.
It's like, well, then that's what it is.
Well, then that's what it is.
Yes, it must be true if it's being printed or it's being said by news people.
Yeah, it's on a major network.
And as people get smarter, which I do believe they are, and it's like all the Internet,
you know, the things that advance our kind of awareness and literacy, it's just like to believe that we know anything simply because one group
of people put something together and tried to convince us for ratings is a thing that
I'm glad is changing.
Yeah, you got to check your sources even if the source is like, you know, a major fucking
news outlet because like where did they get that information from? And especially these days, like, who, you know, I don't know.
Trust no man.
Trust no sources.
Right, exactly.
And then we also talk about the Chandra Levy case
and the fact that her, which you covered before
in an earlier episode, and that her alleged killer has
been released from jail based on new evidence.
Oh, you covered it in episode 16 of MFM and Rewind.
So listen to that if you want to.
Yeah.
And we also talked about listening to our own show.
First of all, we called them old episodes
and we're on episode 28.
So we're just like, hey, did you like that idea
of listening to what we were doing
to get a sense of like like what are we doing? Yeah
Yeah, I feel fine about the fact that I listen to it
I haven't done it in a while there were times or like every couple weeks
I would listen to the beginning just to be like fact-check
Like make sure that are we are we doing the right thing?
You know, right listen to my story if it was a story that was really like one of them that I was nervous about getting right,
I'd listen and just like reassure myself that it sounded not stupid.
Right.
But more and more I'm not able to listen to my own fucking voice anymore.
Oh, no, like when I walk by and there's like an engineer trying to edit what we just did,
I'll like run away when I can hear my voice.
It's for others. It's not for me.
It's kind of like when we stop looking at our own
Facebook page, where it's just like, oh, this isn't, we're not supposed to be on this end
of the process. We did the other part.
Yeah. Put the mirror away. Move on with your life. Do your best.
Please, please move on with your life. Okay, so now we're going to get into George's story.
This is the Durham family murders.
Are you first this week? Are you first? Are you first? I think you did, what's your face last week?
And I think you went first? I also don't care who goes first. I honestly at this moment
have absolutely no idea what happened last week. Okay, you did little baby Karen
didn't you?
Mary Bell? Yeah. Is that last week? I don't know. I honestly don't know.
What's that? No, last week was hometown murder.
Fuck! Oh my god, what is wrong with us?
Is there a gas leak in my apartment? We can't be that stuck up if we can't remember exactly what we did.
I don't think it's us being stuck up.
I think we have terrible memories.
I think there's a gas leak in my apartment.
Probably.
I definitely have a terrible memory anyway.
Good issue.
So do you want me to go first?
Do you want to go first?
You go first.
Okay.
I'm excited about this one because it's fucked up.
And I also really like finding ones that you don't know.
And I found one that I didn't know purposely. Where'd you find it? Reddit? Um, I might have found like a link on the Facebook page,
as you do, and then just went crazy. Oh, okay. Because someone posted a link that has all these
Reddit links on it. There is a post with a bunch of Reddit links that I was looking through today
and loved it. It was so great. Well, I did what I always do. And I go into the hometown, I go into
our email and look up and like type to find if anyone has ever
emailed us about it just so I can add that information in and no one has ever emailed
us about this. Oh, that's smart. So who knows where I found it. Okay, this is the Durham
family murders. Durham family. Durham. Okay. All right, I'm gonna start with the murders. So on February 3rd, 1972,
it's a stormy, snowy night in Boone, North Carolina.
And the bodies of Bryce Durham, 51,
his wife, Virginia, 44,
and their son, Bobby Joe, who was 18,
were found crowded side by side,
leaning across and into a filled bathtub
with their heads under the water submerged.
There's a fucking photo.
No.
The autopsy established that the rope burns
were evident on the necks of all three
of the family members.
The father and son were alive
when their heads were forced under water.
Wow, this really just kicked it off, didn't it?
I don't know why I started with the fuck that part, but here we go.
Well, no, no, it's, I mean, look, you got to hook them in.
Because the rest of the story I find amazing, and you'll see why.
So Virginia had been strangled to death before being plunged head first into the tub, but
for some reason they still put her in there, or whoever it was.
The bodies of Bryce and Virginia also exhibited blunt force trauma.
Bryce had a skull fracture and Virginia's nose had been bloodied before her death.
None of the corpses bore defensive wounds.
Then I wrote, who done it?
Okay, Angela, it's very,
just typing away in your typewriter.
Who done it?
Who could it be? Bryce, the father, owned a away in your typewriter. Who done it? Who could it be?
So Bryce, the father, owned a local successful car
dealership, and Bobby Joe was a college student nearby.
The Durham's, all three of them, came home together
from the car dealership.
And it was a crazy stormy night.
It was super snowy.
It was getting worse and worse.
And a neighbor noted, saw that
they came home around 9 p.m. So cut to 10 p.m. I wrote. In case I forget. Yeah. Allegedly the son,
okay, so there's another kid. There's a daughter, Ginny Durham Hall. She was 19 and she lived with
her husband Troy Hall a little ways away in a trailer.
So allegedly the son-in-law Troy arrived home at the trailer
where he met Ginny and he claimed he spent the entire day
at the library from like 5 p.m. till he got home.
He says he came home to watch the Winter Olympics
and they turned the TV on at 10 o'clock
and then the TV was on the fritz.
So they put on music instead, they say.
Then around 10, 15, he answers a call at their home.
He says that the call was from Virginia,
his mother-in-law, and that she was whispering
that three men were assaulting
the family and then the line abruptly went dead.
He claimed he tried to call back the home
but it was busy, but it is busy.
So he asked his wife, would your mom play a trick on us?
And they kind of thought it was a prank,
which is a real fucking funny prank.
So worried they decided to check in on the family,
didn't call the cops.
Their car wouldn't start,
even though he had only been in it
like 15 to 20 minutes before.
And they asked the neighbor Cecil Smart to drive them.
Cecil Small is what I meant.
Cecil Small.
Small, who's now deceased, was a private investigator and he drove the couple out to the house. Side note, Cecile was also supposedly at
the scene of the Kennedy assassination. What? According to him, he was passing by
the end of the motorcade and he saw a Hispanic man in the crowd with a poorly
concealed scoped rifle.
He was driven off course by the motorcade and came to an unfamiliar area,
so he pulled over in front of the school book depository
to ask for directions.
And a passerby was heading in the very same direction
that he intended to travel,
and thus offered the calm, neatly dressed stranger arrive.
And this man, Cecil, avowed to his dying day,
was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Cecil's a liar.
Cecil's a-
So you're telling me, Cecil, small,
that you not only saw the shooter of President Kennedy,
a different person, but then you also met Lee Harvey Oswald.
But you can also prove that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't do it.
Didn't do it.
Yeah.
And now that I'm thinking about it.
And you're blaming a Hispanic man.
Okay, I just put this together
and I wasn't gonna add this in
because I think it's in poor taste,
but Troy says that,
Virginia says that three- Black men. Black men were attacking her in her home.
I'm sorry, but there's a certain, from like 1969 and before, that's all anyone ever said.
Yeah. I think from the eighties. Yeah, it's now.
You blame it on... People do that all the time.
Yeah. So I'm kind of putting those things together now. So they get to the home almost an hour after the panicked call, but they
couldn't get up the hill to the home because of the snow. So they left to Ginny in the
car and they said, stay here, we're going to run up there. And supposedly they thought
three men were in the house, maybe not anymore attacking and they left her in the car at
the bottom of the hill. That makes no sense.
No.
Right?
No.
Also, I don't like three men.
That's rare that that's the actual situation.
Right.
But how would three people, two of whom were like able-bodied men able to be overpowered
without any defensive loans?
It couldn't have been one person unless, you know, some people just
comply when there's a gun in their face. Yes, a lot of people do. Yeah, even though it's the smart thing to do. Right.
All right, so they get up the hill, they get to the house,
they enter the home through a broken garage door where they found the place
ransacked and the water was still running in the tub that was full of the family.
They got, they skedaddled I said
which I spelled right which is weird and jumped into the car intending to drive off still not having called the police. The car was stuck so they made it to a neighbor's and they finally
called the police. So police suggested the ransacked house seemed like a stage robbery
which I'm wondering like you hear that all the time they, I want to know if they're ever wrong about that.
That it really was ransacked in sincerity.
I feel like there can't be that much, that huge of a difference between a ransacked because
it's being burglarized.
I think when people burglarize, this is just me talking off the top of my head.
Yeah, I want to know your opinion.
Okay. First of all, I want wanna officially change my old opinion too.
I don't know why I said 1969 and below
when racism is such a humongous problem in this country.
It came.
I don't know.
But I'll go ahead to again freely give my opinion.
When people burglarize a house,
they're looking for valuables
and they know where people hide valuables.
Good burglars wanna get in and get out.
They don't wanna wreck people's houses.
They don't go through every single drawer
because they know that people hide,
I mean, there have been studies about it
where it's like people hide their stuff in a sock drawer.
People hide their stuff in a freezer.
People hide their safes behind pictures.
So now everyone knows where you hide your stuff.
That's right.
They come to your house.
My safe is behind my picture.
So cutting open a couch or you know,
there's like when things are overly ruined,
I think is when cops are like.
Like furniture thrown.
Yes.
That doesn't need to be,
because there's photos of the house that's ransacked
and it's like there's a there's an ottoman like
Thrown onto the couch. Yeah, that there's no there's no reason I've done that
Right and also you're just taking extra time as the burglar that could be time where the cops could be on their way
Why would you stand around throwing shit? Well, here's the fucked up thing about this that that proves they're probably right is that
There was an envelope full of cash sitting like out on
one of the dining room chairs and in the photo of the crime scene you can see it. They had brought
it home because they couldn't make it to the bank after. So it was just sitting there? So it was just
sitting there it wasn't taken. So there's no need to put the ottoman on the couch? No, it was a fake,
I believe it was a fake ransacking,
but I'm just wondering, you hear that all the time.
Oh yeah.
I wish we could look at photos.
I wish like how the 911 call we wanted to do
where like we listened to two that are real
and one that isn't.
Ooh, that's one I'd be willing to do.
Yeah, that's one that wouldn't give you nightmares.
That one I would love to do,
because who, I mean, who really knows?
But it would be to understand how detectives
and investigators have a sense of things
would be fascinating to me.
Can any detectives out there please send us
crime scene photos?
And don't tell us.
Just sneak them out of the evidence locker
where the cocaine is, sneak them out,
mail them to George's secret PO at Fox.
Add a little coke in there if you want.
It's not a big deal.
I won't be mad.
People do it all the time.
I'm kidding, don't do coke.
We all think it's bad.
Yeah, so okay.
I'm speaking for Stephen.
Stephen wants the coke.
Stephen hates coke.
So they say it seemed like a stage robbery,
there was an envelope full of cash, and nothing
much of value had been taken.
And shortly after the car that the Durham's had at the house, which was from the car dealership,
was found in an embankment and it seemed like it had been placed there rather than crashed.
And in the back was like a pillowcase full of like some silver, you know, some fucking silver.
Nothing that-
Like utensils?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So-
Something a Rube robber might take.
Right.
A fool.
So, I mean, clearly my- clearly the son-in-law- okay, here's the fucking twist.
Okay.
Forty years later, it's still unsolved.
What?
Despite all that evidence that clearly points
at the son-in-law.
But what, do they have like motive that the son-in-law?
The son-in-law has never been a suspect.
Oh.
And he's a lawyer now.
So, all right.
Oh.
Here's what I think happened.
I think, and Ginny was the sole inheritor,
inherited a quarter of a million dollars in the 70s money.
That's 25 million in today's dollars.
Wow, Karen. Oh my gosh.
If it's numbers, I'm definitely lying.
I love those conversions when they're like, this is how much it is in today's money.
I know. I just read one today that was like 100,000 in the 70s.
Shit, now I don't remember what it was.
I believed you.
I believed you in the way that when I have to ask you
about Roman numerals,
like you could say anything to me and I would believe you.
That I knew.
That was, that I knew.
Okay, so.
I'll always tell you when I'm lying.
I appreciate that.
Okay, so I just think like he hired some hit man.
If a phone call happened,
it was the people at the scene saying it's done
and Ginny didn't know about it.
And so he said that phone call
was actually this thing instead.
Or the phone call never happened and she was in on it.
Do you think the neighbor was in on it?
That it was Mr. Lucky at the assassination?
It sounds, I don't know enough about him,
but based on those two little details,
it's the blaming someone else,
which I don't know, it was the CIA that killed Kennedy, right?
I mean.
And yeah, his getting involved in it and being a private detective, which I feel like you
know more about how to commit a crime well.
Sure.
And otherwise.
Yeah, you see it all the time.
Yeah.
I'll say this, what's suspicious to me that just dawned on me, why would that woman call
her son-in-law instead of the cops when there are three men in her house.
That's a good point.
And in addition to that,
the family didn't like the son-in-law.
They were trying to get her to leave him.
Because she was only 19, you said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they were like against this marriage.
Why would she call them?
And there's so many instances in this whole crime
that it's like, why weren't the cops called?
Wow, yeah.
Starting with the mother, which probably never happened,
so that's why the cops were never called.
And then multiple times with the son-in-law
and the daughter, weren't called.
Right.
So, yeah.
Crazy.
And then, da, da, da, da, da, okay.
There's still, they're still looking into it.
There's a $40,000 reward offered.
And someone said, investigator said,
in my opinion, Mrs. Durham never made that phone call.
When somebody, when some people come into your house
to kill you, they're not gonna let you make a phone call.
Right? Of course.
I speculate, yeah, maybe the call happened,
but from a hitman that they hired.
And okay, I also want to give a shout out to Jodi.com.
No, wait, it's called I did it for Jodi, J-O-D-I-E.com.
That is a really cool like a true crime blog that had a lot of good information.
Is that name in reference to Mark David Chapman?
Possibly. Who tried to kill Reagan for Jodi Foster? Maybe. Wait, no, I'm sorry. Is there a name in reference to Mark David Chapman?
Possibly.
Who tried to kill Reagan for Jodie Foster?
Maybe.
Wait, no, I'm sorry.
Jodie Arias?
I've never seen you, what did I, you do?
I could have, I think I got the name wrong.
Was it Hinkley?
I'm thinking of John Hinkley.
I never even noticed.
That tried to kill Reagan.
Mark David Chapman is the one that killed John Lennon.
Yep.
And then you just threw Jodie Arias in there for fun.
Facts, you guys, we're strong on facts.
So yeah.
We're passionate about a lot of different names.
I did it for Jodie.com.
Good little true crime blog. That's very cool. I had a lot of different names. I did it for Jodi.com. Good little true crime blog.
That's very cool.
I had a lot of cool information.
And I fucking went all over the place with this.
I was so fascinated by it.
I just can't believe.
Yeah.
They did it.
There's just nothing.
But they didn't even, he was never even a suspect.
That's weird.
It was a small town?
Small town, only unsolved murder. Wow. Yeah. Is he still
like, you said he became a lawyer? He's a lawyer. He's still, they're divorced. She
won't now, she now won't cooperate with the cops anymore. She's like, I gave him all the
information I could. Huh? Yeah. Wow. Was that anticlimactic? Do I ask that every time?
I think you do.
I really do.
Well, it's always when there's no resolution.
I mean, it's always just,
it makes me wanna ask 95 questions.
Which are the ones I love.
I love when there's like, I love them, good mystery.
You know what I was thinking about
is that other one that you had that was from Japan
or whatever. Yes.
Where they killed the family.
Totally.
I think about that one all the time.
Who the fuck was it?
What and why? It's enough information
that it should have been able to be solved.
That drives me crazy.
Well, the frustrating thing too is that it's not like
when you're on this side of it and you don't know,
you have it in your head that it's gonna be
some fascinating reveal.
Yeah.
And it's always like, oh, that guy.
That's why, yeah.
I mean, that's why I like cult cases
because you can imagine that it's more, it's deeper
than just the stupidity of some, they're killing someone.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay, we're back.
I had a lot of questions back then.
Do you have any answers now?
I do.
I have actual updates and this case, I would call it solved, but there's still a mystery.
So it's kind of like, you know, kind of comforting.
So 50 years after the murders in 2022, officials identified the perpetrators of this crime
because the case was reopened in 2019 after a man came forward saying that his
father once admitted to killing three people in the North Carolina mountains
during a thunderstorm. And so the father's name was Billy Sunday Burt and
he was the only suspect still alive and he gave up the names of his accomplices
which were Bobby Jean Gaddis, Charles
David Reed, and someone named Billy Wayne Davis, which is actually the name of a
comedian, friend of ours. So that's kind of fucking crazy, right?
That's truly wild. I mean he's not involved.
He's truly not involved, really not his style.
Not at all.
Actually is a part of our origin story.
Totally.
He was there when we first met and first started talking about
fuck their shit.
Yeah, he's married to Aaron Dewey Lennox.
And so all of these people were members of the so-called Dixie
Mafia, which we've talked about before.
Yeah.
And so the Dixie Mafia, according to NBC News,
is a Georgia-based loosely organized network believed
to have engaged in dozens of violent
crimes across the Southeast in the 1960s and the 1970s. So it's the mafia, it's the South.
The thing is Davis confirms that the killing was a contract killing. But the problem is
we don't know who the person who ordered it was and why. So that's kind of a big deal.
That's very important. Yeah. And we speculate so much in the story that I'm kind of uncomfortable with it.
We do it in a way that we did in the beginning where we didn't think about who we were throwing accusations at.
Right.
Like the daughter, the son-in-law. Like we never said alleged until much later.
Of course not.
Yeah. It's true.
We were just sitting there like laying on a couch
in your apartment thinking like we were just
hypothesizing.
Totally.
Exactly.
Just like what if, what if.
And that kind of sensitivity, it just took us.
That's a perspective I just wasn't considering at all.
And I feel the same way about the Jomine Ramsey case
where it's just like, how fun
is it just to be like, what if it's this, what if it's that, what if it's that? But
we're doing it in public and what if more than likely it's not and you're just causing
more pain and wounds.
So right. And it goes hand in hand with like, we're not the kind of people that would assume
a bunch of people would want to listen to us do what we're doing. And that was like, that's just our, you know, that's our learning curve that makes
this show a little painful and a little like, we don't want to look back and be
like, oh, that means we're bad people.
Because there is a real naivete, if not straight up ignorance. Right. And as we say, we were always like working from the place where it was, which
was, you know, people claiming on newspapers that fucking Burk Ramsey did it. You know,
it's like that was the culture.
We're the national inquirer generation where that little murdered girl's face was on that
newspaper in the grocery store.
When you were 15 years old, you were staring at her every single day.
Yeah, you're desensitized, too.
Completely.
Completely.
Yeah.
And so the son-in-law, Troy, passed away in 2019.
It remains unclear if he had any involvement whatsoever.
And yeah, that's it.
So I don't know if we'll ever know who ordered that hit.
Wow.
I know. I wonder if there's like Dixie Mafia
There's a file cabinet somewhere. Oh, you gotta hope that's just like some weird reveal where
Yeah at some point. Hey was your grandpa in the Dixie Mafia
Will you tell us about it at my favorite murder at gmail that has to be a hometown?
Right for real.
Any kind of Dixie mafia, anything that you might know.
Yeah.
For a second, I thought you were asking me if my grandpa was.
I'm like, my grandpa was from Galway, Ireland.
Yeah, right.
Almost as likely as my grandpa being.
All right, so let's listen to Karen's story.
This one, this is an epic, classic MFM.
It has classic merch,
but we're gonna tell you about two.
Classic merch that I wear around the office every day.
I mean, it's still like one of the,
I think it's like up there with Mary Vincent story
of like, you know, core memories of stories.
In my heart for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, so this is Karen's story
about the survival of Terry Joe Duperalt.
All right. Well, you want to hear mine? Absolutely. Well, mine
is pretty interesting. I remembered that I read this book called,
let me see. The Bible?
God, I love it.
And I'm here to tell you about it too.
It's called,
Alone Orphaned on the Sea.
Which is what I wanted to call my book, but forget it.
Oh, sorry, Orphaned on the Ocean.
I can call mine Orphaned on the Sea now.
So I got really into for a little while
before I ever saw the show I Survived,
which I cannot get on the Lifetime on my Apple TV.
I can't get it on my laptop.
Oh my gosh.
It will not let me access, even for money,
it won't let me watch old episodes of I Survived.
And I think that's wrong,
and someone needs to do something about it.
We need, listen, is it Lifetime?
Well, it's like lifetime.com.
They only have them on their website, I think.
You're missing out on a great opportunity for a shout out,
and instead Karen's just disappointed.
I'm just mad, but I love all your movies.
Anyhow, so I read that I was super in,
I got into these stories of survival for a little while
in the, I would say mid-90s.
Maybe I was having a hard time myself, I can't remember.
And I remember reading this book and being fascinated by it.
And the thing that drew me to the book initially
is on the cover of the book, there's a picture
and it's just the open ocean and then a tiny,
in the middle, a tiny white raft
and a little girl sitting in it.
No, is it a photograph?
It's a photograph of the person I'm about to tell you about
and how she was found.
Losing my mind, losing my mind.
Can I look at the photo?
Should I wait?
I'm gonna wait. I have the picture on my phone my mind. Can I look at the phone? Should I wait? I'm gonna wait.
I have the picture on my phone for you.
Everyone go look at the Durham family murder bathtub scene
and then it's not gruesome except they're all dead.
Oh my God, this little girl.
Alone, or from down the ocean.
All right, so this is the story of Terry Jo Depereaux
and she was from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
When this happened to her, she was 11 years old.
And her father, Arthur, was an optometrist,
also from Green Bay, obviously.
She wasn't from a different area.
And Arthur had always dreamed of taking a year off
and sailing around like the Bahamas, basically sailing
the world with his family. He had been in World War II and he had been in the tropics.
And so he thought that would be amazing, especially it was coming up on winter in Green Bay. Yeah, fuck that. Yeah, right. And so he'd always wanted to basically live on a boat
for like a year.
And so his idea was,
he's gonna take the family down to the Bahamas.
They're gonna rent a sailboat and try it out for a week,
see if the kids actually like it
or if he's just full of beans
and then see where their adventure will take them. Okay, so they they
fly down to Florida, and they charter a two master sailboat
called the Bluebell. And they hire Captain Julian Harvey, who
is a former Air Force fighter pilot, and an experienced
sailor, and they have him captain the ship.
And...
Isn't that seem weird to like be like my whole family
and some guy.
Yeah, well, the guy brought his wife, Mary.
Okay.
So I think they were kind of acting as like the casual crew.
It was a swinger situation.
It was super key party.
So, because this was also in, oh, this was 1961. Okay.
So they sailed out of Florida on November 8th, 1961 and they sailed east toward the
island of Bimini. Bimini, Bimini, boo. And then they went on to Sandy Point on the great Abaco Island.
And the family spent a week there snorkeling and collecting shells on pink and white beaches.
They just had a gorgeous vacation.
And it's such a good time that Dr. Duperreau told the village commissioner, because they had to fill out paperwork to go back to America,
that he planned to return before Christmas.
So they were super into the sailboating family dream.
Cool.
So then they left and they set sail for home.
And that night around 9 p.m. Terry Jo headed downstairs
to her sleeping quarters in the back of the boat. Her brother and little sister had stayed upstairs in the cockpit with the parents. And around 11 she woke up because she heard her brother yelling daddy help. And then she heard stomping sounds and then it went quiet. And she laid in her bunk shaking and confused
and not sure what was going on.
And she's 11?
She's 11 years old.
Oh my gosh, okay.
So finally she sneaks up to the main cabin
and she sees her mother and brother
lying in a big pool of blood.
Holy shit.
So she said the second she saw them,
she knew they were dead.
So she went past them and snuck up to the cockpit hatch
and she stuck her head out
and she saw more blood on the deck
and she saw a knife on the ground.
So she crawls out of the hatch
cause she's trying to find her dad
and Captain Harvey runs at her
and growls get back down there and pushes her down the stairs.
So she closes her eyes,
runs past her brother and mom and goes back to her bunk and gets into her,
get goes back to her cabin and gets back in the bunk. And she lays there.
She doesn't know what to do. She's obviously probably in shock, freaking out.
Then she hears sloshing and she looks down
and the floor of her sleeping quarters
is covered in oily water.
And she realizes the ship is sinking.
Oh my God.
So she's afraid to move, but she looks up
and then suddenly the captain standing in the doorway
staring at her and he's carrying her brother's rifle and
he stares at her for a little bit then he just turns and walks away. So she lays
in bed, frozen stiff, doesn't know what to do but pretty soon the water is up to
her mattress. So she knew she had to get out of there. So she wades through waist deep water out of her cabin,
out through or out of her quarters, out through the main cabin. She goes back up on deck and she
looks over the side and she sees that the life raft is already in the water. And Captain Harvey
walks up to her and hands her the rope that connects, connecting the life raft and says, hold onto this, I'll be back in a second.
And she's in such shock and fear, she drops the rope.
And so as he's walking away,
he looks and sees that the rope is going
and the dinghy's starting to float away.
So he dives in after it and,
he dives in after it and she watched him swim after the boat and disappear into the night.
Oh my god, I have so many questions. Go on.
I stole that last line directly from the Reader's Digest article that I was reading about this
story. I read several articles about it, but Reader's Digest was the main one. And I just
want to thank them for being an American classic.
I miss that. I used to read this when I was a kid. That's all I read.
When you went to the bathroom at your aunt's house.
I didn't want to say it.
It's all about reader's digest.
Cover to cover.
So, okay.
So it's an 11 year old girl standing on a sinking boat.
Fuck.
Who's witnessed her family murdered,
part of her family murdered.
What does she do?
Does she cry?
Does she cower?
No, she remembers that there is a small cork life raft
in the cockpit.
So she runs and grabs it.
And as she does, as she grabs ahold of it,
and they don't describe this that much,
but she basically runs forward to the front of the boat, grabs the life raft,
by the time she gets there, the boat is sinking under her feet. So she has just enough time
to jump onto it as the boat goes under the water. So she basically went down with the
ship and then jumped onto this little cork life raft. So now she's alone at sea in a tiny raft.
It's three feet long.
I mean, you saw it in that picture.
She doesn't fit into it.
She couldn't lay down in it.
It's half her, it's probably like, can hold her legs.
So she has a blouse and pants on.
She's freezing cold.
It's pitch black. There's no moon out
she can't see so she keeps getting hit with huge waves and
The salt waters getting in her eyes and stinging her eyes
She can't open her eyes and she's afraid the captain Harvey is nearby. Oh my god, so
That's then it starts raining. So her first night out in the water bad news
Okay, anytime you're lost you're out at sea.
I wouldn't be looking for good news.
Although I wonder if that not salt water
that it was raining down was helpful in some way,
like she could drink it or something.
Oh, maybe, you mean hydration wise?
Yeah.
For a second I thought you meant,
I wonder if she was in a fresh water.
Oh, shit.
Was she in a fish tank?
Was she, did she go to Lake Havasu?
Okay, so she wakes up the next morning,
the sun comes out, she's not cold anymore,
now of course she's boiling hot.
Oh, I've seen Joe versus Volcano,
I know what it's like to be straight.
Okay, yeah, you know what it's like to be on a raft,
but his raft was nice.
It was pretty sweet.
It was huge, and he had that great suitcase.
Her raft was slowly disintegrating.
No. Yes.
Sweet baby angel.
So she has to hang her legs over the side
to float like the plastic rubbery part
that has the air in it
is the part that's not disintegrating.
So she has to sit on the edge
and then hang her legs over the side.
Then parrotfish come and start
biting her legs. What are parrotfish? They sound like
dicks. Um, I don't know. It sounds like a they start burning
her legs. I bet they're the ones that you see in tropical fish
tanks. Yeah. They think they're all big, but they're fancy
colors in their teeth. Like in shark food. So that that's her first day at sucks.
The next day.
That's her first day at sucks.
Exactly.
That's the best description I've ever heard.
The next day she wakes up,
her tongue is swelling in her mouth
because of all the salt that she's taking in
and no hydration.
And then she sees a plane and she's waving.
She takes her shirt off and waves and waves and waves.
This white shirt over her head.
It dips down toward her a little bit and then flies away
and never comes back.
Wait, wait, no, ugh.
Yeah?
That was how she was gonna get saved.
Nope.
So that afternoon, she spots some shapes swimming
in the water about 30 yards away.
And she's scared to death
because she thinks they're sharks.
And they're foe. When they come closer, it's a pod of porpoises that swim with her for hours and hours.
Now we all cry at the beauty of nature.
Are you, this is 100% for sure.
Yes, this is from her, this is her book, Alone Orphan of the Ocean.
What did they, what did they?
Because.
I know, but like how did it happen?
Oh my God.
Have you ever seen those specials
where they have children that have like brain damage
or some kind of disease get into water with a dolphin?
They do studies and their brain function improves
when they're around dolphins.
Dolphins have like like weird fucking children ESP
and they know when something's in the water
and needs their help.
And they're beautiful creatures
and you have to stop killing them.
Okay.
So.
Oh my God.
That was amazing.
I thought you were really crying for a second.
What if I was accusing you personally of calling them?
Yeah, Georgia.
Please with all your tuna. All right. Okay, so that night. You're really crying for a second. What if I was accusing you personally of calling them? Yeah, Georgia.
Please, with all your tuna.
All right.
Okay, so that night, the sea is totally still.
Now I'm gonna admit to a half lie in this
because I remember this from the book,
but I read this book almost 20 years ago.
Okay, so who knows what bullshit I've layered on top of this,
but I'm pretty sure I remember this.
Yeah. That the sea this one night was still So who knows what bullshit I've layered on top of this, but I'm pretty sure I remember this.
That the sea, this one night was still,
so she could see the stars like down to the horizon.
And there was bioluminescent algae in the water.
So it was all like,
she basically said she wasn't that scared
until the very end,
because these cool things kept happening.
And that was one of them that she saw like
that the whole ocean was glowing green.
And then she could see every single star.
This reminds me of James and the giant peach.
Yeah.
Remember when they were in the ocean and the peach.
I fucking love that book.
I read that one was my favorite book in the whole world.
Except for the copy I had because it was from like 1979
because it was when I was a child.
There was an illustration of James at the beginning
that is the saddest picture of any child ever.
I tweeted it one time.
Oh my God.
It's so sad.
When his parents got killed by a fucking rhino
that escaped from the zoo.
Yeah, hardcore.
Maybe that's why I always thought
my parents were gonna die.
Yes.
Because that was my favorite book.
Yes, because Rob Dahl liked to plant those
pretty early and often.
Just be prepared to be an orphan just in case.
Which I appreciate to a degree.
He should have said be prepared to be an orphan of the sea.
Cause that could also happen.
Tie it in, go ahead.
So I had to bring it back.
That night when she fell asleep,
she dreamed of she saw her father peacefully drinking a glass of red wine
and telling her, come on, we're leaving.
So when she woke up on the third day, she was really sore.
Her skin was burnt through her clothes.
All her joints ached.
She had been bouncing on the edge of that raft
because almost all the bottom was now gone.
And she started hallucinating.
She would see tiny islands with one palm tree on them
and then start paddling, paddling, paddling.
And then when she'd get to them, they would disappear.
Oh my God.
On the fourth- Sounds like a far-sighted comic.
I know.
On the fourth day, she didn't wake up in the morning.
She was losing consciousness.
She was close to death. And when she finally did wake up in the morning. She was losing consciousness. She was close to death.
And when she finally did wake up,
she woke up because she felt a shadow over her.
And when she opened her eyes,
she said she saw a huge whale hanging in the air above her.
Wow.
But what it actually was,
was a Greek freighter that miraculously,
someone had spotted her on this Greek freighter.
And that's the person, one of the people, one of the sailors on this ship took that
picture that I showed you.
Holy shit.
The second they saw her.
So that was her still lost at sea basically.
Oh, and she didn't even know yet.
So she for her, the experience for her was a whale was hanging over her and then she was being lifted in the air and then she was in big strong arms and then she was asleep.
And the next thing she knew she woke up and she was at the hospital in Florida.
Big strong arms.
Big strong arms.
And a whale.
And Greek arms so they'd have that real good hair.
Yeah.
Real good wrist.
Shiny.
Maybe a pipe. Probably smells like a pipe. Shiny. Maybe a pipe.
Probably smells like a pipe.
He smells like a pipe.
He'd smell like a pipe.
He'd definitely have a big beard.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Okay, this is just our fantasy.
Yes, this is a different podcast.
All right.
So she got helicoptered to the hospital in Miami.
She was treated for dehydration and severe sunburn.
In a week she recovered with no serious injuries.
Holy shit.
But not so for Captain Julian Harvey.
Oh, hell no.
I was gonna call him doctor.
So Captain Harvey was rescued the next day
by a lookout on an oil tanker that was headed for Puerto Rico.
And when they found him, he had the dead body
of Terry Joe's seven-year-old sister Renee
in the life raft.
What? Why?
He told the Coast Guard that he had found her in the water
and tried to revive her.
And so basically, but she, the autopsy showed
that she drowned.
So the story he told the Coast Guard was that the blue bell was damaged
in a squall in the middle of the night and his wife and the duperos were injured when
the masts and rigging collapsed. He said gas lines in the engine room ruptured and the
ship caught fire as it slowly sank. He said he'd managed to launch the dinghy and raft
and dive overboard, but the tangled rigging
had trapped everyone else on board.
The police were totally suspicious,
but there was nothing to prove otherwise.
And then three days later, Terry Joe shows up, survived.
And when Harvey finds out that she survived,
he killed himself in his hotel room.
Holy shit.
So, turns out they do some investigating
and Harvey had serious financial problems
and he had just taken out a life insurance policy
on his wife, Mary.
Those fucking life insurance policies.
They need to, there needs to be more steps
before you can just take out a life insurance policy
on your wife.
Yeah. Or wife. Yeah.
Or husband.
Yeah.
Or children.
The police theorized that he had killed his wife for the insurance money but was caught
in the act by Arthur Devereux, prompting him, prompting Harvey to murder him and the rest
of his family.
Yeah.
Um, it was found, later found that Mary had been Harvey's sixth wife.
What?
And not the first to die while married to him.
Come on.
He had miraculously survived a car accident
that had claimed another wife of his and her mother,
both his yacht Torbatros, which is a terrible fucking name,
and his powerboat Valiant
had both sunk under suspicious circumstances.
They had all yielded large insurance settlements.
Turns out Captain Harvey was kind of a serial killer.
Oh my God.
Terry Jo was raised in Wisconsin by her aunt.
She never talked about the ordeal.
Her family told everyone not to bring it up in front of her.
So she lived with this for years and years and years.
Does that say mentally healthy to you?
It is not mentally healthy.
Yeah, you guys.
It's the worst thing you could do.
Talk about your trauma.
You have to talk about it.
Talk about it to someone who is trained professionally.
Someone cool and who's trained,
you have to talk about things like,
yeah, I mean, come on.
I think people, I think these days people know that,
but this was the 60s, it was Wisconsin.
Press it way down deep.
I mean, that's what a lot of families do.
My family is very much like, don't bring it up.
We don't wanna bother anybody.
So she finally went to therapy as an adult.
And 50 years later, she wrote a book with a survival psychologist named Richard Logan
called Alone, Orphaned on the Ocean.
Oh my god.
And she actually took sodium amytal, which I believe is truth serum.
Oh, truth serum.
So that she could remember everything.
So she went all the way back.
So fucking cool.
Yeah. Holy shit. That's our girl, Terry all the way back. It's so fucking cool. Yeah.
Holy shit.
That's our girl, Terry Jo Depereaux.
I wanna read that.
And she has an I Survived.
Of course she does, really?
Yeah.
I wanna see that.
But I didn't pick this one because I saw it on I Survived.
Cause the I Survived doesn't, for me,
doesn't tell you enough.
They take all the good ones.
They really, I mean, they do.
That is so, I have never heard that before. That's a good one, right all the good ones. They really, I mean, they do. That is so,
I have never heard that before. That's a good one, right? Very good one. 11
years old. I think you won. Is this a game? I think you won. It can't be a
game. Please. Well, also if it's a game, the p- when you know, when you have a
big Captain Harvey is a serial killer reveal, I mean. Yeah, but also a girl surviving in a boat.
That's pretty fucking sweet.
It's pretty goddamn cinematic.
Can I add that none of the hands of the family
in the bathtub were tied behind their back?
Where were they tied?
They weren't tied.
Or like, so maybe they weren't conscious
from being strangled.
Yes, they would have to be.
Cause there was no defense rooms.
There was no defense room, there's no fighting,
but their hands are free.
Yeah, but yeah, yes.
That doesn't make sense.
No. Okay.
I'm not trying to one up you.
No, no, no.
I just remembered that part.
Please, please.
But also you said the wife was strangled,
but the other two had rope burns around their neck,
like they were hung.
No, I think they were all strangled.
Okay.
By, oh, there was like a,
like some kind of rope that would,
like that they got at the house.
So, it's not like they brought these weapons with them,
whoever killed them.
Right, right.
And this might be a good time to say,
considering the fact that that guy's a lawyer, that everything
that we accuse him of is alleged.
Alleged, hearsay.
And not proven.
Speculation.
Gossip.
Yeah.
Podcasting.
Fuck, you're right.
Shit.
Guys, please don't tell on us.
And that was the end of the podcast that they did.
Ended not how they thought it would.
Y'all ladies think you're smart?
You think you're funny and smart? Guess that how he sounds he's from North Carolina
right sure that yeah I don't know where that accent no I buy it well that's some
fucked up shit yeah well go to our Instagram account Instagram.com slash my
favorite murder go to Twitter my fave murder at Twitter.
Facebook page.
Fucking hang out with us.
Hang out. Oh, but the one thing I will say is now we're getting lots of recommendations.
If it's on net, let's stop pretending Netflix has a bunch of choices.
Netflix has like, let's say 20 British shows.
Yeah. We've seen them all. Netflix has like, let's say 20 British shows.
We've seen them all.
If it's on Netflix or HBO.
The challenge to you is to find a British procedural.
I haven't seen, good luck.
And the person who suggested DCI Banks,
I laugh in your face.
Just kidding.
I don't even think that's what they're suggesting.
But I mean, I've honestly seen them all.
Someone said I've seen them all,
including Midsummer Mysteries,
which really is like total grandma TV.
I've tried to watch that one too.
But it's very grandma-y.
You love that shit, man.
I do.
Sorry, that was just, I had to tag that on.
No, I get it.
I appreciate it.
It's kind of, it's sweet.
The intentions are sweet. Of course, but also
Enough. Well, just give me something new. Yeah, that's all for sure. Yeah
Well, you guys thanks for listening you guys oh
Haven't even asked you yet. Yeah, but you're jumping your line. Do you want a cookie?
There he goes.
Ah.
OK, we're back.
I still think you won this week.
I mean.
I mean, well, I think this story is so extraordinary.
And there's nothing better, I think, than a
survival story unless it's a survival story of a little girl.
Yeah. Yeah. Who by all accounts should not have survived that.
No.
It's a fucking miracle.
It's a miracle and like in the beginning, it's not just like, oh, she was on a cruise
ship and the cruise ship went down.
Yeah.
What she experienced before she then became stranded at sea
Totally.
was so horrifying and like traumatic.
From a movie, just wild.
Yeah, what an incredible, incredible survival story.
Do you have any updates?
I do have a few.
Terry Jo has a different last name.
Her three children and her grandchildren live near her. She spent 14 years as a water
management specialist in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Wow.
And she says, quote, I went on to protect the water that had protected me as a little
girl. Water is life and it is soothing for me to be on the beach. I find I can think
clearly, relax, and feel closer
to my lost family."
That's so beautiful and pure because she could have been deathly afraid for the rest of her
life of water and the ocean.
And that would make perfect sense.
But to embrace it as the thing that saved her, not the thing that tormented her for
all those days she was out there is such an interesting, I think we should all take a little something from that.
She seems very, yes, she seems like the kind of person that having gone through a
thing that a lot of us would be like I don't know if I could actually get
through that, especially at that age. She didn't just get through it, but she
especially in that book, if you haven't read her book, you absolutely should. But it's like the philosophical part of her is just like, well, here's what we're all
going to learn from this.
Yeah.
And here's what it means to me.
I get to make up what it means to me.
Yeah.
You know, not the circumstances.
Right?
Yeah.
Let's all do that.
It's very cool.
So when this came out, my dear friend Kat Solin, who's an incredible artist, came up with a rad design.
It's a little girl on a raft. It's like a little cartoon drawing, but it's like, it invokes so many emotions, the drawing.
It's such beautiful art.
It really is.
It's truly my favorite.
Yeah, Kat's so good at that. So we're going to sell it for one week only.
We're going to bring it back.
You can pre-order a limited edition zip hoodie or mug, and you can get that at exactlyrightstore.com.
So run over there and get that.
It's taken from the real picture that was taken from the deck of the freighter of her
rescuers.
So like it's beautiful art, but then it's also like the art is based on a true story.
It's just like the coolest, coolest.
And we're gonna close this pre-order at midnight
on January 21st.
So don't wait, go get it.
If you like that art, you can finally get it again
for the first time in years.
Yay.
So this episode, as we were talking about,
originally titled, I 28 His Liver
with some fava beans and a nice cante.
So if we were gonna rename it today,
what are some ideas of what we should pick?
Okay, if we were to name it now based on something
we said during the episode, how about my safe
is behind my picture when you were talking about
Warren Berglers nowhere to hide stuff in the home
and you just fucking told everyone basically.
My safe is behind my picture, is a good,
I could see that on our iTunes, you know?
That's right, although I don't have a safe.
And then I also said, now we all cry
after telling you about how the dolphins swam with her.
The dolphins swam with her.
They stayed with her.
Incredible, and they probably chased
those fucking parrotfish away.
Yeah, that's right.
Dicks.
And those asshole sharks. Oh my God, I think now we all cry. fucking parrot fish away. Yeah, that's right. And those asshole sharks
Oh my god, I think now we all cry now. We all cry. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one
All right. Thanks for looking back at the past with us and we like doing it
Yeah, that was a another one another rewind. We did it. We'll do it again. Why not stay sexy and don't get murdered
Good. Hey Elvis do you want a cookie? Why not? Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Goodbye.
Elvis, do you want a cookie?