My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 31: Namaste Sexy

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

It's time to Rewind with Karen & Georgia! This week, K & G recap Episode 31: Namaste Sexy. Karen dived deep into the world of Lululemon with the Yoga Store Murder and then Georgia told the tale of Ten...t Girl and the Doe Network. Listen for all-new commentary, 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-31-namaste-sexy 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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Starting point is 00:00:58 Rules in app. My favorite word is hello. Hello and welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia. Because you see every Wednesday we take the time to recap our old episodes for you, but we add all new commentary, we add updates, and we add insights. And today we're recapping episode 31, which we named Namaste Sexy. Such a good name. So good. So now join us as we take you back to August 25th, 2016 and as we take you back to August 25th, 2016. And now you can be a day one listener just like we are. So let's listen to the intro of episode 31.
Starting point is 00:01:50 BOOM! Well, it doesn't matter if you're ready, Steven. That's what you'd be ready, like the real us is just berating Steven. Steven includes seven seconds, just me reaming him before the episode starts. It's like a, I don't know what's it called, when you're a hostage and you're like trying to send
Starting point is 00:02:13 a message to the outside world. Oh yeah. And it's all Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome. Yeah, that's right. Steven has really bad Stockholm syndrome. Evil. We are.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Starting now. Karen. Welcome to my favorite murder. Karen. Karen. I'm just going to yell your name. Karen. Georgia. Karen.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Georgia, we started the podcast. How do you feel so far? Fuck, I can't stop. I'm great. How are you? I don't know if you've ever asked me how I was like that. How are you? How are you really?
Starting point is 00:02:39 How are you? Let's have a moment of silence. Um, I don't know if you've ever asked me how I was like that. How are you? How are you really? How are you? Um, let's have a moment of vulnerability. I feel a lot of anxiety about, um, gosh, I'm so many things. Um, you know, that weird Wednesday feeling we're recording this on Wednesday. Yeah. Will we get it up in time? Job stuff. I drink too much coffee all day. Oh, you did. Am I drinking too much Diet Coke to the point where I'm killing myself?
Starting point is 00:03:13 How many do you drink? Diet Coke? Yeah. Oh, it's only like 23 a day. I like that every episode now you have to admit, like you have to confess something you do that's like, because you told us you smoked cigarettes last time I mean I very rarely it's not like I wouldn't call that it's not a thing It's just that's like my secret sneak away once in a while. I think you're in denial. I know
Starting point is 00:03:35 What's your big reveal? Oh? What's a good one? That's a good one. It's a fun one. I have adult acne. Okay. That sucks. I can relate to that. Yeah, I don't like that. That's about it. That's all you're willing to give? No.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I mean, my life is a fucking hope. I have nothing that I hide. I feel like that's, I think people can, it helps you to lock in to our humanity. Yeah. When we're just sitting here going, you know. Gross, disgusting, horrible humanity. Check out this hideousness. And they have a, it may get a podcast.
Starting point is 00:04:12 Gross, it better be a podcast. I'm gonna look at it. We're getting a lot of, it's very enjoyable and of course feeding the ego. A lot of people are doing like fan art, pictures, things of us, which the thing I enjoy the most is they always give me a huge nose. I don't think I have a huge nose. You don't have a huge nose. I think I have a pretty buttony nose. You have a cute little button nose.
Starting point is 00:04:41 I mean, thank you. I just wanted you to say that. I've noticed, yeah, I have a large little button nose. I mean, thank you. I just wanted you to say that. I've noticed, yeah, I have a large jaw in them, which I actually have an undersized jaw, hence my invisible eye. That's right. But thank you. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:04:55 But thank you. We're the most ungrateful assholes of all time. We have a couple notes. Can you draw us better, please? Draw me. I know it's a lot notes. Can you draw us better? Draw me. I know it's a lot smaller. If you want to make it onto Instagram dot com slash my favorite
Starting point is 00:05:09 murder, you got to draw us true to life. There are some really good ones of us, really awesome drawings. We're like you look at it and go, oh my God, this looks like we have a comic book. Yeah. Which is super cool.
Starting point is 00:05:23 So thank you so much. You're fucking backpedaling so hard right now. I know, I'm embarrassed. Don't be, go to the Instagram and you'll see a bunch of, like we post that shit all the time. We post all of them. We post everything that we see and find that you guys send us.
Starting point is 00:05:35 I love it. And we love it all. A lot of people made us new logos that say the Fuck Word Murder Mystery Show, which we really love and appreciate. That was so great. Thank appreciate. That was thank you. That was good times. Yeah. And also, I just wanted to mention on the Twitter page,
Starting point is 00:05:51 we got a quote, a million shout outs from Sweden. These guys who have a podcast called the Power Meeting podcast sent us a tweet that said a million shout outs from Sweden, which I didn't know until I read it that that's all I've ever wanted in my life. That's so sweet. It was a million shout outs from Sweden. Also Australia loves us. Fuck yeah Australia.
Starting point is 00:06:11 They were number five in Australia. That's amazing. That's a big place, right? They must not be about accuracy down there because I feel like everything I've ever said about Australia on this podcast has been deeply wrong. Well, we did an Australian murder once. So maybe that's why. Oh, that's right. They like love us for doing that.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Because there's some good ones there. There are some amazing ones. Yours was, it was the son who washed his clothes before he did anything. Yeah, he murdered. He went on a paper route, murdered his fucking family, blamed his dad, washed his clothes. Or was that New Zealand? Fuck. No, I think it was Australia. Watch the numbers plummet.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Oh my God. Why did I even bring this up? I don't know. I brought it up. Oh, okay. This is all your fault. Oh, also we got a tweet from GlitterPizza91, God bless your heart, that said,
Starting point is 00:07:01 why not at the end of every murder, why don't you ring a gong? Which I read out of context, just read as a random tweet and it made me laugh very hard. Then I understood, I saw a bunch of other tweets that said, what's that noise? What's that creepy, spooky noise that we keep hearing? And it was, we got, Steven set us up with these awesome mic stands. Yeah. They look like what you see like real radio people using.
Starting point is 00:07:27 So we don't have to like touch our mics and make noise anymore. But what we did was we touched the mic stands and we were making the springs. Because I can't sit still. Right? Is that super loud? That's it. It's perfect. Okay.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Yeah, that's the sound. Listen, I have ADD I think. Right. At least that's what my psychiatrist tells me. Okay. I can't fucking sit still. I want to moveD, I think. Right. At least that's what my psychiatrist tells me. Okay. I can't fucking sit still. I want to move around. I know.
Starting point is 00:07:48 But it's, you know, I'm going to sacrifice that for the podcast. Well, we really appreciate it. Thank you. I'm going to speak for everybody. Thank you, Eva Button. And myself. Eva Button knows. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:07:57 And two eyes made out of coal. We also had our, we just ended our last t-shirt sales and we, we are giving half the money to endthebacklog.org. Nice. How much is that? Do I say? Because what if it's like that's not what if they're like, Well, it was just a one month sale, right? We're sending two grand to endthebacklog.org. That's a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:08:17 That's great, right? That's good. It's two more than they fucking had before. I got so freaked out when I posted like, hey, we're going to get 50% to end the backlog because I expected people. This is the opposite of what happened. But I expected people to be like, only 50%. You're being so you're being so greedy. And then all these people are like, that's so incredible. Like, oh, okay, like, I've just been being hard on myself. to be in this position where you can actually put something out, have people buy it and then actually give money. That's like a neat cool thing. But also we've never done it before. So everything feels wrong and bad and weird. Is there anything else that you love right now? Anything going on in the news? We know JonBenet's brother is getting, Oh, did you watch? You and I both looked at each other at the exact same moment.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Watching that trailer? That JonBenet docu-series trailer. We have to watch it together. I insist you watch it. Can I tell you something? What? A magazine wants us to do a recap every night of it. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:09:16 I know. The trailer gave me freaking chills. Okay. We watched the trailer at work today. I love the people I work with because they're super into shit like this too. And when it got to the part trailer spoiler, when it got to the part where they have reconstructed the Ramsey's house, the room by room recreated down to the detail of shit that was like leaning against the walls. Life changing. These people are going, these investigators, these very qualified people. From all walks of criminal.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Forensicness. Yeah. Criminality. Criminality. They're going to be able to walk through and talk about and restage things that happened. Do you think they'll come to a conclusion? It's clearly in the trailer, you can tell that they're like, yeah, this is not an outside job, motherfuckers.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I mean, that's what they're leading you to believe. That's true, but, and then like, oh, when they played the, when she hung up the phone and you can hear her in the background, I still don't hear it, do you? Have you listened to that? You mean when they say like, they reduced all the sound. Yeah, and they hear her in the background. I still don't hear it. Do you? Have you listened to that? You mean when they say like they reduced all the sound. And they hear her say, I'm not talking to you. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I still don't hear it. Do you? No, but I feel like that's almost like one of those ghost investigation things where they're like, do you hear it? And then they put the subtitles and you're like, I guess I hear it. If you want me to hear it, I'll hear it. I'll hear whatever you want. My thing was because everybody at my job, everybody pointed out like the thing that freaked them out or that they liked the most. And mine was that when Patsy Ramsey said, I love that child. She did it with her eyes closed. That was the creepiest part is both of them being both of them speaking was so fucking
Starting point is 00:11:00 eerie. Yeah. And to camera like basically clearly some said, you have to go out there and tell these people you didn't kill your daughter and you have to make a statement. And when Patsy Ramsey said, I didn't kill my daughter. And then she closes her eyes and goes, I love that child. And then they stay closed. Like to me that I just love those like, that means something. I don't know what it means.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Also saying that child means something. Because it's like, she's not saying my daughter, Jean-Béné. Yeah. It's like that child. Yeah. I love that child. She can't take ownership of the thing. Remember, did you ever watch the show Lie To Me with Tim Roth,
Starting point is 00:11:35 where it was all about the person that read micro expressions and it was like a whole company? No. Oh, I know someone who worked on it that I dated, so I didn't watch it. Ooh. Oh yeah, because you're mad. No, he was very nice. Oh. I don't who worked on it that I dated, so I didn't watch it. Oh, yeah, because you're mad. No, he was very nice. Oh, I don't want to step on his stuff.
Starting point is 00:11:48 I just love that show because that's kind of stuff of like being able to interpret what people are really doing underneath how they mask it. When they point it out and they're like, would they like pause it and be like, this thing right here and then I think, oh, I love that. Yeah, yeah. You should watch that show. It's pretty good. I don't know if it's on anything, but... Okay, but. Okay. Well. Did you catch up on the night of? We've only got one episode left.
Starting point is 00:12:10 I gotta say. You're out. Everyone telling me about stuff about it and talking to other people about it has made me want to watch it less. You're so fucking punk rock, Georgia. I swear to God. You're just like. Are you being mean right now? No. I mean it in that way of like, you're just like, you know what? I don't have to like it if you like it.
Starting point is 00:12:29 It's a good way to be. I respect it. But I think that's what it is where you're like, does everybody like it? Then everybody can fuck off. Well, what everyone's telling me about it, thank you. That actually means a lot to me. But what everyone's telling me about it is like, I don't care about the prison stuff. I want the trial stuff. And from what someone said to me, someone was like, and I'm not going to take responsibility,
Starting point is 00:12:50 but I don't remember who said it, was like, listen, I watched Orange is the New Black. I don't need to know what's going on in prison. Like, it was like, so did I. Totally the same. It's totally the same. I just like, I want to know the way that they find out how the investigation goes, how the trial goes, stuff in prison I don't care about. Right. You know what I feel the same way because I find, and this is going to blow your mind,
Starting point is 00:13:15 I find prison to be really depressing. So I don't want to know. What's wrong with you? I fear going there. Who hurt you as a child? I don't. A prisoner. It was a warden. I know. What's wrong with you? I fear going there. Who hurt you as a child? I don't know. A prisoner? It was a warden.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Yeah, I know it's living hell and there are many, many people in this country that are there. Yeah. And that's awful to me. Especially people are there that like, it was really hard for me to watch them get taken in to get out and what's it called when you get processed in. Yeah. Because it's like, no one gives a shit about you.
Starting point is 00:13:45 And like- You immediately are just trash. Yeah. It's horrible. The way, you know, when you wait in line at a post office and you get to the next teller and you can tell they've had a hard day and they fucking hate everything. So you can smile and be like, hi, and be nice.
Starting point is 00:13:57 And so they'll give you a better experience and be happier. Yeah. Like, you can't do that in prison. What am I supposed to do? I didn't learn to be polite for nothing. I know. It's like, I mean, I didn't learn to be polite for nothing. It's like, I mean, and it is like we talk a lot. We talk a big game about like, send them away for it. Because we talk about these specific stories where people cut off 15 year
Starting point is 00:14:14 old girls arms and leave them to die. And these horrible cases. And of course you want Larry Singleton to disappear from the planet, but the reality of a human being in a prison is a nightmare. And so I'm not saying I'm not a hypocrite or that I can't rectify those two things, but it's yeah, watching it. What I love in that show is that they're laying in, it's just really good writing. And I really like to watch good writing. It makes me feel smart.
Starting point is 00:14:47 And again, I'll say it for the millionth time, Riz Ahmed, I don't- Someone made a, I want his DNA inside me. A couple people made it. Someone made a Valentine last week, I said. Your serial killer Valentine. Yeah, I said I want his DNA inside me, meaning I want to have his baby
Starting point is 00:15:04 because he's so cute that I want like that. But it just didn't sound like that. No, it's literally the most not cute kind of disgusting thing, but that's not what you meant. Okay. You know what I don't like about? I don't like innocent people in prison. People like Larry Singleton deserve to be in prison. Good. Have a fucking horrible time. But innocent people, oh my God, that terrifies me. It's horrible and it happens and we all know what happens and it's incredibly stressful. I mean, I think I'm a little bit of a little bit of a Can I do that? Yeah, it's your life. Jump in, jump out. I don't know. Yeah. Can they please bring the family back on ABC? That's all I asked.
Starting point is 00:15:50 Is that all you want this Christmas? That's all I want for Hanukkah Christmas. All right. I think that's it, right? That's got to be it. Do you think you need to do anything? I got nothing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Are we now 45 minutes in? Basically. I'm first this week, right? Okay, go. I think I am. Mine is short too, so take your time. Okay, we are back from the intro. Karen, remember when podcasts used to just be audio and you could wear whatever you want,
Starting point is 00:16:17 you could sit however you want. Just do you. Like, I think that's really where that saying came from, is podcasts in 2016. It was a beautiful, glorious time of just being you. Do you think we would have started a podcast if we had known that video would have been, was like... I certainly, I can give you my answer before you finish the sentence.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Fuck no. Are you kidding? A middle-aged TV writer being like, yeah, let me get in there and make some clips and make some content for, what is it, Gen Alpha? No thanks. Yeah, I mean, the one positive thing I can think of about it all is that I'm learning a lot of new makeup
Starting point is 00:16:55 tips and tricks, which I didn't think I would do so later, like late in life. I thought I'd have gotten them all down, you know? But now you're what? What are you getting? What do you- Now my face is falling and so I have to like do different things to it.
Starting point is 00:17:08 I meant, what tricks have you learned? That how to stop your face looking like it's fucking falling. What's the trick? I don't know, bronzer? I think it's bronzer. And then it's also like some kind of weird eye shadow thing. Yep.
Starting point is 00:17:23 You know? Just layering layers and layers of makeup. That'll do it. Yeah, like make shadows if they don't exist essentially. Yeah. No, it's been a nightmare. Like I, not a nightmare. It's great, unlucky, but like I've gotten all my filler
Starting point is 00:17:38 dissolved because like you can see the bumps on the video. Like I can totally see everything that's wrong now. I mean, I feel like we've never been strangers to our own flaws and foibles. And then, yeah, it's just a new way of... It's a fun thing, and it's like where podcasting's going. Yeah, you have to know. It's just kind of like the option that you need to give people. Totally.
Starting point is 00:18:04 But it definitely is distracting. And it distracts the mind as we perform. You know us though, we change along with the times. Like we are with it. That's what we like to do. Right now this show is not on video. So I'm wearing just a towel on my head just for, just got out of the bathtub.
Starting point is 00:18:26 I'm literally wearing a shirt that says bullshit on it really big. And this is what we're doing. That's it. All right. Well, I like how in that, we just did a new intro, because there wasn't that much going on in this intro. Some of our old intros are just chock full of insanity, but this mostly is like that we are so stoked to only be audio. Yeah. Then me loving the night of and you not so much.
Starting point is 00:18:59 No, that was a long running discussion or topic of discussion in this podcast. I think it was like a first, cause I remember and tell me if I'm wrong, when we first talked about the night of we had both watched it, like unplanned, right? So then it was like, did you see it was that feeling? Yeah, and then I lost interest, but you know, Rizomed kept doing it for you.
Starting point is 00:19:23 That was such a good show. It was. All good show. It was Alright, well, should we get into your story and also like the reason this episode is called namaste sexy Absolutely. Okay. Let's hear Karen's story from this episode 31 about the lulu lemon murderer Or as I'd like to say back then not on purpose lulamon Here we go. Mine is, I wish I had four months to research this because the first time I heard of this murder, I thought, oh, who cares? Not about the people, but that's not my style. Like, as we've said a million times, but like Silence of the Lambs
Starting point is 00:20:13 is my ideal murder, everything situation. You've got a weird serial killer that's got an MO and a whole plan and a creepiness. Yeah. And then like has always been this crazy way. It's not like he's... It's not a one-off, it's not a crime of passion. It's not whatever. I find that extreme criminal mind thing fascinating. So when I first heard about this crime,
Starting point is 00:20:40 I was like, oh, that's not my thing at all. But it kept coming back, I would see it every once that's not, that's not my thing at all. Um, and then, but it kept coming back. Like you, I would see it every once in a while looking for other stuff. And then I finally started looking into it and it is so fascinating. All right. So it's the Lululemon murder. Oh yes. In Bethesda, Maryland. That is fascinating. I didn't know that. I know that. It's definitely not one that I would have looked into. Okay. I'm excited. Me too. Thanks. Thank you. So I first heard of it. I think it was like a year ago or something I was doing Tignitaro's Tignitaro has a comedy festival every year called the Benson Ball
Starting point is 00:21:21 in DC, which is where she's from. And so whoever was driving us to the theater that night, we drove down the street and we passed a Lululemon. I don't think it was the one we were driving by because Bethesda, I believe, is north of Washington, DC. But he brought it up and told the story. Love him. And he basically just said, Oh, did you hear about that really terrible crime that happened at Lululemon? It was really bad, and it was basically one of the employees killed another one. And so I was just like, you know what? I know now we're talking yoga pants, we're talking karma passion,
Starting point is 00:21:57 I'm not interested in any of this. For anyone listening who doesn't know, Lululemon is a fucking high end kind of when I see girls wearing yoga pants with lululemon I'm like, Oh, you spent a lot of money on yoga pants and didn't buy my Rite Aid. Yeah, you're better than me. Crazy expensive. Like, they're almost it's it's like Louis Vuitton of yoga pants, which is a hilarious paradox of this is yoga. Yeah. And they have like the the like the logo out so you can see them. Oh, hell yeah. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:22:27 Instead of hiding your shame, they put it out there. Right, so when I first Googled this, a couple of Huffington Post articles came up and one that I really liked is by a girl named, believe it or not, Elizabeth Licrish. And great, that's a great stage name. Oh my God, she wins. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:44 Amazing. She's all red stage name. Oh my God, she wins. Yeah. Amazing. She's all red and her skin is twisted. No, no, cancel it. Steven, mark it. Delete that, delete that. Steven, mark that concept. Oh, okay. So she wrote an article called
Starting point is 00:22:58 Lulu Lemon's Cult Culture, Get Fit or Die Trying. So this girl started working at Lululemon. That's how you pronounce it, right? Lululemon? Yeah. I don't give a fucking shit. That sounds right. It's how it's spelled and that's what I assumed.
Starting point is 00:23:13 And then I just- Lulamon. Lulamon? I think it's Lulamon. Lou, but there's an extra, Lulamon would be, there's too many loos. All right. So I think it's Lululemon. Let's call it. Let's not's too many Lus. All right. So I think it's Lululemon. Let's call it.
Starting point is 00:23:26 Let's not give a shit. Okay. All right, so. I think you're right. I think you're right. It has, this girl worked there. And so she's talking about what a creepy, like, culture this business has.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Which is very funny, because like when I worked at The Gap in the 90s, and I only worked there for a year, I really hated it. But it is this thing where they want you as a person that's getting paid shit and mostly working part time so they don't have to give you full time benefits and all that stuff. But they still want you to really dig into this. Yeah. This the culture, the retail culture of like, and if you sell this, you'll get this and we have to get our numbers up here. Meanwhile, Don Fischer, the owner at the time was making like billions of dollars.
Starting point is 00:24:08 So it's, it's so I can see where that was in the nineties. It's now, you know, 20 years later and they have refined this concept. So it's like branding and marketing and you know, lifestyle choices and it's all that. I bet it's a kind of thing where they don't call you an employee. They call you like a team member or whatever the fuck. The thigh master. So this girl, yeah, this girl worked there and talked about that she said, Lululemon wants you to know it's elevating the world from
Starting point is 00:24:39 mediocrity to greatness and creating components for people to live long, healthy and fun lives. But if you dig deeper, you find about. Yeah, you can't do that and fucking pants you about a target. No, no, no, no, no. No, you have to get really superficial to to rise above media. But if you dig deeper, you'll find you'll learn about Landmark Forum. No, they don't. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Which is the ultra secretive, eerily cultish educational series, which Lululemon employees are strongly encouraged to attend. Shut up. Yes. Now, I have a friend who did Landmark Forum and is like, I believe in it. I think it's great. And I said, yeah, but isn't it a crazy pyramid scheme where you basically have to bring people in and you spend thousands of dollars? And he goes, yeah, but I just didn't do pyramid scheme where you basically have to bring people in and you spend thousands of dollars and he goes, yeah,
Starting point is 00:25:26 but I just didn't do that. Like I got what I wanted and I left and I'm like, well, you're, you're a strong willed person, but I think it's one of those things that like, it's like est or anything that just, it makes money off of people kind of going, this is the answer to my life. And then trying to get everyone they know into it. So, so they encourage their employees to, to go to the Landmark Forum, which is bizarre to me. So bizarre.
Starting point is 00:25:52 And before you're in line for Landmark, you're bombarded with Brian Tracy motivational CDs and a book club that culminates with Atlas Shrugged. Oh shit. So it's not, it's so culty. It's like, get that money and get yours and empowerment, but in this weird culty way, which also it's like, this is your job. This is your retail job. Yeah. Um, yeah. So, uh, they, uh, she said it, it, all of it made what walking into work feel like, feel like she was time traveling to Salem
Starting point is 00:26:28 because with the Lululemon Creed and Catechism comes a collective mentality that thrives on scapegoats and leaves you feeling worthless if you subsist on anything but spring water and kale. Once another employee sneered at me from across the floor and said the soda I happened to be enjoying would rot me from across the floor and said, the soda I happened to be enjoying would rot me from the inside out. Eventually we were all issued reusable acrylic cups and forbidden to drink anything but water. Oh my God, stop it.
Starting point is 00:26:54 So this is, I'm just trying to paint a little bit of a picture and I really encourage if you're slightly interested in this to look up these articles because it's pretty fascinating how many directions that goes in of... Yeah, that sounds like a fun read. Yeah. Well, and just the intensity of a retail job. It bums me out so much to think that what people expect from you when they're not willing to give you any respect at all or...
Starting point is 00:27:23 Right. When you worked there, everything about you is inventoried and measured in terms of authenticity and integrity, which sounds reasonable until you realize your yoga mats on a sweaty, slippery slope, that missing your extra... I'm still reading the article. Missing your extracurricular kickboxing class, taking too long to pee during your break, or failing failing to throw a kitchen party and then she says in parentheses, don't ask. What? In the fitting room means you're deficient in character and devoid of morals. What's a kitchen party? I'm going to ask. We have to find out. But it's like, I think it's in secret in-house language.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Yeah. Those girls happen to just be older, sportier versions of seriously cut throat sorority sisters. So that's one person's take about what it felt like to to work there. So what's kind of to go along with that, that this company's had a lot of controversy since they started. It's a Canadian company they opened in. I think well in 2002 to mark the opening of their second store in Vancouver, they offered a free outfit to anyone who would stand naked on the street for 30 seconds. Are you fucking, how about, how about for
Starting point is 00:28:36 people who can't afford them and are homeless, you fucking assholes. But like also, so it's a store that's mostly women's clothing. And you're basically trying to get ladies to stand around naked. So you give them their hundred and forty dollar yoga pants. Like, so you're asking them to exploit themselves. Yeah. Oh, my God. That same owner, I can't find his name right now. He in an interview with the National Post Business magazine, which sounds very
Starting point is 00:29:04 Canadian to me, but I'm not sure. He said he purposely named it Lulu Lemon with lots of L's because quote, it's funny to watch Japanese people try to smile. He also once blogs that breast cancer quote, came into prominence in the 1990s due to all the cigarette smoking power women who were on the pill and taking on the stress previously left to men in their world. I am going to Lulu murder you, you piece of shit. That guy's name, I'm trying to, oh, that guy's name is Chip Wilson. And of course, later on, everybody heard about the, they in, I think it was 2011, oh no sorry, 2013, they had to recall their line of Luan yoga pants because they were see-through.
Starting point is 00:29:53 I remember that. They were see-through. I've seen girls with G-strings from behind in yoga before. And then that same CEO, when he was interviewed on Bloomberg TV about it, he asked, he was asked what the nature of the pants recall was. He said, quite frankly, some women's bodies just don't work for it. It's more about the rubbing through the thighs, how much pressure there is over a period of time.
Starting point is 00:30:19 You fucking dick. So he's basically saying if you're not emaciated, you can't wear our yoga pants. And if you do, it's your fault. Yeah. Yeah. So he's a superstar. After he said that, of course, he was asked to step down from being the CEO because it's, you know, at the time it was 2013. So I'm sorry, sir, that it's not 1945 anymore. You can take that shit elsewhere. Yeah. five anymore. You can take that shit elsewhere. Yeah. Um, in 2007, they had a line of clothing called Vita C S E A, which the company said was made from seaweed fiber. Um, and according to the tags, they said it released marine amino acids, minerals and vitamins into the
Starting point is 00:30:58 skin upon contact with moisture, did it stink, did it stink, reducing stress and providing anti-inflammatory antibacterial hydrating and detoxifying benefits. Bullshit. So the New York Times, that's exactly right. The New York Times commissioned a laboratory test of a shirt made from VitaC. And there was no significant difference in mineral levels between the VitaC fabric and a plain cotton t-shirt. In other words, the labs found no evidence
Starting point is 00:31:25 of seaweed in the Lululemon clothing at all. To do that. We're not done. In 2008, a mother and daughter found a hidden message in the shopping bag underneath a layer of inspirational quotes such as friends are more important than money. Oh yeah, right. money. There was a second note that said, quote, some brief or quick fix instance. Whoa, start over. Some brief or quick fix incidences when our minds are clear to be creative are when drunk or stoned or just after an orgasm.
Starting point is 00:32:00 What does that mean? Okay. So they're promoting being drunk or stoned or orgasm. Or having an orgasm or having an orgasm so that you can be creative. How did they say that? This is inside a yoga pants bag. So they had this, it turned out that they had printed this up. Initially, people saw it and were like, what the fuck are you doing here? Well, the other quotes were the athletes high is the most long lasting as it can last up to six hours. And there's a little difference between addicts and fanatic athletes. Both are continually
Starting point is 00:32:28 searching for a way to remain in a creative state. So it was all this weird. They were very pro drugs and sex. And then a couple people got the bags and were like, what's wrong with you guys? This is a yoga pants store. So they took the bags and just sewed over them with friendship is more important than money, but all you have to do is wash the bag a couple of times and then the other label came out. Okay. But those are worth some money anyway. It's pretty hilarious. And also creepy. Like you're getting these weird messages anyway.
Starting point is 00:33:00 And they just, the answer back when that happened was not an apology. They were basically like, we're about speaking our mind. We're about living in this, having new ideas and new experiences. And they basically were like, yeah, we do what we want. We're trying to inspire people. So, yeah. I have, yeah. Go on. Just how you're saying? How? Yeah. But also good for them, but don't shop there. They can do that. It's fine. You can do that. Here's the thing. Yoga is a practice that's about connecting to yourself
Starting point is 00:33:39 and connecting, having a body mind connection so that you are more in yourself and calmer, more normal. It's not about spending money. It's not about being better than your sorority sister. But to get a mantra for Transcendental Meditation is bucking three grand. Like how do they? Well, no, that's based on how much money you make. But I mean, I'm not defending it because it costs money. But what I'm saying is this is a store that's creating that culture of you will spend money always and you will spend money on bullshit because we're going to lie straight to your face and say that our clothes are made of detoxifying seaweed.
Starting point is 00:34:16 That's crazy. So anyway, that's just a little background. So the worst thing that happened to them, of course, was in 2011, on the morning of March 12, an employee entered their store, the Bethesda, Maryland store. And she actually went in, she heard something inside, I think it said. And so she went and got a guy off the street and said, you have to go in there and check. I'm supposed to open this store and there's weird noises. And the guy walked in to like a bloody scene. And it turned out that Brittany Norwood and Jana Murray were lying in the store. Jana was dead and Brittany was tied up, hand bound
Starting point is 00:35:02 hands and feet. Jenna had a rope around her neck and hammer, knife, wounds to her head. Holy shit. And she'd been repeatedly struck with a metal stand. Later on, the medical examiner found out she had 330 distinct wounds on her body. Oh my God. 330. How long would that take to hit someone 330 times? And how much rage and how personal.
Starting point is 00:35:28 That's like 10 minutes of hitting. It's insane overkill. Yeah. So when they when the cop touched Brittany, she flinched. And then she tells the story that the night before they closed the shop and then she'd gone to, I'm saying Jana, but I think it's Jaina. Did I say Jaina? I think it's Jaina. So she'd gone to Jaina and said, I need to go back in. I forgot something. And when they went back in, two masked attackers came like stormed into the store, whoops, stormed the store with guns and attacked them and Britney said, raped them and tied them up and killed Jaina
Starting point is 00:36:10 and left her for dead. Had she been hit at all or hurt at all? Yeah, she had injuries too. Okay. And her pants were slit at the crotch. It all looked very bad. So, Looked.
Starting point is 00:36:23 It all looked very bad. Okay. So, sorry, I have to scroll down on my dumb thing. So, uh, of course panic set off, cause this is apparently a super high end area, uh, like it, cause that's how those stores are always in like really. So people are freaking out. Like there's no violent crime in that area at all. Um, immediately the cops are, uh, set up a manhunt. So, people are freaking out. There's no violent crime in that area at all. Immediately the cops set up a manhunt.
Starting point is 00:36:49 There's a $150,000 reward for anyone with information leading to an arrest. It's big and huge. And they start talking to people around the neighborhood and they talk to these employees at the Apple store, which was right next door. And these employees say that, yes, they heard two women arguing and yelling and some weird thumping and fighting noises the night before, but they never called 911. Nicole Zajac How do you... Nicole Zajac They didn't get asked that question in court, which of course, because it's like,
Starting point is 00:37:21 ultimately it's not about them and what they did or didn't do. Nicole Zajac Yeah. Nicole Zajac Aside from, I'm sure they struggle with it, because it's like ultimately it's not about them and what they did or didn't do. Yeah. Aside from, I'm sure they struggle with it because it's hideous. Definitely. But yeah, they didn't. And then somebody included in one of these articles that I read, it was this really awesome thing about how when you have a phone or a computer or something that distracts you,
Starting point is 00:37:41 you are like some percentage I won't make up, and I'll just be honest that I don't know it, but like a very high percentage, less likely to get involved with anything happening around you. Wow. So they're in an Apple store. So it's probably like weird noise, weird noise, can go back to playing Yahtzee with friends or whatever on your phone. I don't know if I would like, how would you get involved?
Starting point is 00:38:04 It just so depends on the situation. If you can't expect people to be being, you know, getting murdered. No, if you hear a fight, you're not like, I'm going to go make sure no one's getting murdered. No, not at all. And especially in that area. Yeah. No, it's a weird thing.
Starting point is 00:38:18 I'm sure they had never had any experience like that. No. And that's not they probably were like, Oh, no, those girls are fighting the end. That's totally not. It's just unfortunate because even just a call to say, maybe you should just go check. I think it's that thing of like, people aren't willing to just risk being wrong, which is, which is sad. Or not being able to read a situation correctly. I mean, the way a couple of these articles talked about it,
Starting point is 00:38:44 there was like extended thumping and fight sounds. And no, yeah, you should have checked that out. At one per at one point, they heard a woman scream, Oh, please, God help me. What the fuck? Okay, no, you should have fucking gone over there. I guess I buried the lead on that one. I should have brought that up earlier.
Starting point is 00:38:58 Oh my God. All right. So yeah, go on. Yeah. So even if you're not sure, yeah, roll the dice. Okay, so. Yeah. Go on. Yeah. So even if you're not sure, roll the dice. Okay. So from that, they realize that these employees only heard two women the entire time. They don't hear anything about men's voices. They don't hear anything else. So they're suspicious. Also, there's this really
Starting point is 00:39:20 awesome statistic I found that I know the exact number for according to the Bureau of the Justice of Statistics. No, no. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, only 15% of homicides are committed by someone who doesn't know the victim. 15% 15% That's crazy. So in some ways relax. Right. It's very, very small.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Except don't because your fucking family's going to murder you. It's going to be your husband with that milkshake. I wonder if that's the reason why we're so fascinated with stranger murders. What? The cord? Yeah. Okay. Oh, I think you're, are you hitting it with her?
Starting point is 00:40:00 You're like, okay. I wonder if that's why we're so fascinated about stranger murders is because they're so rare. Yes. And so they sound like there are a lot more of them, but in actuality, it's not. Yeah. Everyone talks about the ones that happen because they're so crazy and weird. So it seems like they're more likely.
Starting point is 00:40:15 That's really interesting. Yeah. So the cops know this. I mean, the cops, they say that all the time on like 2020 or whatever, where it's like, you always look to the husband, the wife, the friends, the people that they know. So one of the big breaks in the case was that they looked in Jana's car and- Jana's the murder victim? She's the victim. So they process her car and they find Britney's DNA in the car.
Starting point is 00:40:52 And then they ask Britney, have you ever been in Jane's car? And she said no. That man, I love when they fucking trap someone like that. Or if you had just said yes, you would not have been a suspect. But they never do because they were in the car, so they're trying to cover. They think that lie is going to get them out. And yeah, that's the greatest. I love that.
Starting point is 00:41:12 So also they realized they had had all the tests processed and Brittany had said that they were both raped by these masked men. But when the tests came back, there was no sign of rape. On either of them? There was no evidence of it. Yeah. All of the normal things that they find were not there. No penetration? On either of them.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Okay. And also her wounds were few and superficial. Right. Yeah. If you're going to hit someone 300 something times and the other person just gets a little... Yeah, that's crazy amounts. And also because then there's some crime of passion taking place. There is an intended victim here. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:42:00 And also then they realize that for the angles, they start studying the angles of the, of the wounds clearly self-inflicted and she tied herself up. It was all, they start looking back on it stage. Now there were in the blood, there were two shoe prints. Jane's shoe prints were not in the blood. Britney's shoe prints were in the blood and a size 14 men's shoe, one set of men's shoes were in the blood. So not two, like she said. So she grabbed some shoes off the fucking shelf.
Starting point is 00:42:30 That's exactly right. Son of a bitch. And walked around through as if a man was walking through. What an idiot that she didn't grab both the fucking, oh, cause it's like the display pair. Right. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:42:42 So. It's like brilliant and so stupid at the same time. Well, it's that thing of like, you are, you can't cover a murder. You can't, you just can't. You're not as smart as you think you are. You can't. And also cops have seen it a million times. Like they know what they're looking at and what looks weird and what doesn't. So ultimately they basically get her to start talking.
Starting point is 00:43:05 So, ultimately, they basically get her to start talking. And it turns out, six days after the crime actually happened, it was the same night of Jane's memorial, they arrest Brittany Norwood for first degree murder. So basically they figure out that that day, Brittany had been caught shoplifting a pair of yoga pants by Jaina. And that's what caused, that was the inciting incident. Obviously much more was going on for her to get stabbed over 300 times. And they said she used five different weapons all found within the store. Oh my God. Yeah. And there was a blood trail that showed how Jaina tried to escape through the back door.
Starting point is 00:43:58 Um, and she had 107 defensive wounds. Oh my God. Uh, so the, and they said that that was the most that medical examiner had ever seen on a victim. She had 107 defensive wounds. Oh my God. And they said that that was the most that medical examiner had ever seen on a victim. Wow. So this was a crazy and horrible and extended period of time where this murder happened. Now here's the creepiest part to me is Brittany goes, clearly just goes fucking berserk snaps. She gets caught. Now she's in that she's out of this system. She has she's the worst of the worst. If you're bad for drinking Diet Coke on the floor. Imagine we're getting caught shoplifting would be like in that culture at that store. Also, I don't think it was probably very easy because Brittany was black and I don't know what the percentages were of people who were black that worked at Blue Lemon, but I bet that was an element in it.
Starting point is 00:44:55 I'm sure that there was something that brought to the table. There was other articles that talked about how she had stalked her boyfriend. I think she was definitely maybe a borderline personality. She had definitely had some issues, whatever. But this girl viciously and insanely murders her coworker and then lays down in blood for hours and hours until she gets discovered. Crazy. In the same room as a dead body. I mean, that's the creepy level of that.
Starting point is 00:45:29 Oh, and also she went and moved because when she called Jaina back to let her back into the store, Jaina was double parked. So she had to go get into her car and she went and parked it down like a couple blocks away. And that's how she got, they got that DNA of hers in there. So essentially she had 10 hours to stage and plan this, this crime and, and figure it all out. Um, so anyway, she was convicted in an hour. Um, They tried to say that she was insane and they were like, no, sorry, this was insanely premeditated. I mean, that's bad phrasing. This was very premeditated and obviously
Starting point is 00:46:15 she tried to cover it up. So she knew it was a yes. Yes, exactly.... I guess... Oh, so she was... She got a life sentence and with no possibility of parole. Uh, so it turned out that the Lululemon murder was much more fascinating than I could ever imagine it to be. Yeah. I thought she just like went in there and shot her. Like, I didn't even know any of the details. No, it was grzzly as hell.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Yeah. And just that the element, like the pressurey sales sorority sister element of it is fascinating to me. Somebody, there's a guy that wrote a book, his name's David Morse and it's called the, this is gonna be wrong. I wanna say it's called the yoga pants murder,
Starting point is 00:47:03 but that's not gonna be right. The yoga store murder. There we go. So close. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that.
Starting point is 00:47:12 I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that.
Starting point is 00:47:20 I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able pick the jury. I guess that doesn't really make sense, but they were basically trying to introduce these photos and like the defense fought it because they're so awful. Her skull was cracked. Her spine was severed. Oh, I don't want to see that. I mean, it's terrible. I mean, you, you know, she was stabbed over 300 times. It's saying it's horrifying. Yeah. So there you go. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste, Karen.
Starting point is 00:47:51 Namaste, everybody. Should we end on an om? Well, om. Well, fuck. All right. That's a gruesome and sad one. Horrible. We're back. Karen, do you have any updates? No case updates. Basically it's all status quo. Although we got to the bottom of kitchen parties. So that was the thing that we talked about.
Starting point is 00:48:20 It was a Lululemon kind of like Alley Rally style, let's all get together, you know, like some sort of retail bullshit cult thing that they make up to make it seem interesting and then you get people to whatever. What it was. They don't have to work that day, but like they still have to come to the fucking. No, no, this was a different,
Starting point is 00:48:39 this was almost like a little bit of a manipulation of the customers. So essentially there are these islands near the fitting rooms, and the employees were expected to just kind of hang out there and then stage casual conversations, like you're in the kitchen, quote unquote, and basically talking about yoga pants or like,
Starting point is 00:49:01 oh, you need that, I can actually recommend you this great jacket or whatever. Leave me alone. I mean, as someone who's done that job before at Funky Diva back in 1999, I know how it goes. And I hated every minute of doing it. And I hate every minute of it being done to me. Yes. The retail PTSD of being forced to engage, when people don't like it and are rude to you actively right really sucks it's like if you're the greeter at the Gap this day I wonder if they still do greeters I don't think they do yeah I don't think so but I bet you better fucking get said hi to though like if you're a secret shopper for them oh yeah like you have to eyes up yeah don't have
Starting point is 00:49:44 to stand there like we used to have to eyes up. Yeah. Hi. You don't have to stand there like we used to have to literally stand there and be like socks are on sale today and blah blah blah. Like that whole thing where you're like having this hip interaction with the person you're about to buy jeans from. It's just like who cares? No one needs help finding anything unless it's like a movie and they're like on a mission to get this one thing.
Starting point is 00:50:03 No one needs help finding anything. Can I help you find anything today? No. In this day and age doesn't the average customer really know their rights in the way of like they're gonna find you and let you know the kind of help they need? Like no one's shy anymore about this. And that's, I'm gonna say it again but that's my big complaint about Sephora. I just want to go and touch all the eyeshadows and look at all the samples. I don't want someone to help me. Because oftentimes they're like, oh, you need that? Well, then come over here.
Starting point is 00:50:31 And I'm like, no, I'm over here. I want to be in this area. Yeah. Like, I don't want to be sped through this. Yeah. No, totally. That's a long Zen journey that you want to take when you're there.
Starting point is 00:50:45 That's right. Hot bath of a Sephora. Anyway, also the old founder, or I guess the original founder who's no longer involved in the business of Lululemon, is a man named Chip Wilson who has just been spouting pretty nasty rhetoric for years. And so much so that the company had to come forward and say that his views don't represent the company's values and that they are committed to creating an inclusive environment in that company. So hopefully that's true and hopefully that actual work is getting done.
Starting point is 00:51:19 And also, you know, the information I was looking for that could have been really cool to, like, unveil right now is that they also change their internal practices and they don't make everything feel like this weird club that you're trying to get into while you have a retail job. Yeah. Which was one of the things we talked about of, like, what the pressures and what this job must have felt like to result in this horrifying murder. But still, there's no way to get that information unless we had a secret employee, which we don't. It'd be so cool. We should have done that.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Although they no longer ask their employees to pursue shoplifters, which is insane that they ever did that. Never do that. No. Never do that. Okay, now it's time for George's story about Tent Girl and the Doe Network. Ready for mine?
Starting point is 00:52:13 Yeah. Okay. Mine is about the Tent Girl and the Doe Network. What? Doe as in deer? No, D-O-E as in like Jane Doe. Oh, oh, oh. Like Doe, a dead body. A female dead body. Oh my God, I had to.
Starting point is 00:52:33 You did it. Did it. Did it. All right. So on May 17th, 1968, a well digger named Wilbur Riddle was killing time between jobs, picking up glass insulators on a dirt road. It was just outside Lexington, Kentucky. So he's scavenging. He comes across a large green tarpaulin, and that was commonly used by carnival workers to store the big, like big top tents in. And inside he finds the nude decomposing body of a young woman. She appeared to be in her teens
Starting point is 00:53:11 and she had been dead for months. Ugh. They couldn't figure out her exact cause of death, but it was thought that she'd been knocked out with a blow to the head and then tied up inside the bag to slowly suffocate. And the way they knew this is that her nails were worn down and broken. Oh no. And then tied up inside the bag to slowly suffocate. And the way they knew this is that her nails were worn down and broken.
Starting point is 00:53:28 Oh no. As if she'd been trying to escape. Nightmare. Yes. She couldn't be identified and became known as the tent girl. Sorry, is 68 you said? Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:53:42 It became a local legend and her grave had a headstone that had that they had put the sketch of the with the police had sketched what she might have looked like. And it said tent girl found May 17 1968 on highway US Highway 25 North died about April like all these weird statistics about her unidentified. So it was a place where local teens would visit to cause trouble and to scare each other. And like on Halloween you had night, you had to go touch the gravestone and run away and stuff. And so a couple of decades later,
Starting point is 00:54:16 there's a teenager who moves into town named Todd Matthews. And he hears about the story of tent girl by a girl he's got a crush on. Nine months later, he and this girl get married. And it turns out her name is Lori Riddle. Her father was Wilbur Riddle who found tent girl. So Todd Matthews becomes obsessed with the case. And for decades, he's determined to find out the true identity of tent girl. Todd's two siblings had died at birth and it really stuck with him. And so he says that he felt like tent girl had become his sibling until he could find her real family, which
Starting point is 00:54:59 is so fucking sweet. I might cry. So when the internet's created, he saves up enough money for, he like works low income jobs, saves up enough money to buy a computer, and then he trolls chat rooms and search engines and missing personal listings, searching for details that match tent girl. And he creates a website devoted to finding her identity.
Starting point is 00:55:24 And this is before any of like a web sleuthing shit is going on. Like in his mind, he's just going to email as many people as possible until he finds out who this missing person is. So cuts of the night, January, 1998. And Todd has been online for hours looking at random stuff when he comes across a classified ad from a woman who's searching for her missing 24 year old sister, Barbara Ann Hackman Taylor. Todd sees the three words Lexington, 1967 missing and he knows it's her immediately. So in December 1967, 24 year old Barbara Ann Hackman was a mother and a waitress.
Starting point is 00:56:08 She had married young and then mysteriously disappeared. They thought it was a teenager originally when they found the body, but she's actually 24, which is just another reason why cops wouldn't have taken someone amateur to find this person because you're looking for a teenager. You're not going to find someone with totally different statistics. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:31 They won't fall into that category for you. Right. So Matthew's arranges to have tent girl's body exhumed. And in April 1998, DNA tests prove that Barbara Ann Hackman is tent girl. Wow. I know. The family chooses to have Barbara's remains kept in the original spot with the original headstone.
Starting point is 00:56:49 They just added a little stone underneath with her real name, nickname, date of birth, presumed date of death, and the inscription, loving mother, grandmother, and sister. Oh. I know. She was a grandmother at 24? No, I think she had her daughter and now she's a grandmother. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:57:08 So he died before tent girl was identified, but Barbara's husband, George Earl Taylor, never filed a missing persons report. And he told Barbara's family that she had left him for another man. Yeah. All right. So you know how she was fucking found in a tarpaulin? And he told Barbara's family that she had left him for another man. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right. So you know how she was fucking found in a tarpaulin. Am I saying that right?
Starting point is 00:57:30 That was commonly used by carnival workers to store big tents. Guess what George's job was. He was an accountant. Was he an accountant? Did he work at REI? Carnival worker! Yes. He was a carnival worker.
Starting point is 00:57:50 He died of cancer in October 1987, and I hope he rots in hell. Good. Glad. Fuck yourself. Isn't that crazy? There's nothing besides fingerprints that could have made it more of a, Wow. Isn't that crazy? There's nothing besides fingerprints that could have made it more of a, here's who done it.
Starting point is 00:58:11 Yeah. I mean, did they... Karen, don't question this. I won't. Keep that to myself. Did they tie it back to the carnival he was working at? No, I just meant at the time when they found her, did they take that tarp you'll in or whatever it's called
Starting point is 00:58:26 Evidence and then go interview some carnival workers see what local carnival is in town And then it could that be the third season of true detective this story of like the car knees those are my questions I was just excited that they had put that together, but gosh. I wish they had done that before he died of cancer Yeah, yeah, that's a good point, but I mean, you know, well shit. Okay. Can I do a different story? No. I'm kidding. All right. So, so the ending of this is pretty amazing that Todd Matthews goes on to help create the dough network, which I'm obsessed with. It's an online database containing thousands of profiles for unidentified does Jane and John does and baby does and amateur sleuths try to connect unidentified does Jane and John does and baby does and amateur sleuths try to connect unidentified bodies with missing people amazing like people who are like nurses and fucking
Starting point is 00:59:13 janitors and all these crazy people who like are doing this for free in their free time just sit there and try to find matching characteristics to get these people found and get them identified. So is it like web sleuthing where anyone can do it and just enter the information? They started regulating it because I think that a lot of police were getting annoyed with all the calls they were getting. I think it's this person.
Starting point is 00:59:40 I think it's that person. So for each town or each city, there's like a main person that, and it has to go through like a crazy vetting process now. So I feel like I think this missing person is this unidentified body. They have to like, it has to be checked out by like a bunch of people who have been certified
Starting point is 00:59:57 by the doughnut work to do that. But yeah, you can kind of just like look for, it's almost like that game where you, what was the memory one where you turn over a face and you turn it back over and you have to remember where the face is. Yeah, it's called memory. Thank you. So he also co-founded NamUs.
Starting point is 01:00:14 I think it's supposed to be NamUs, but there's no E. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. And another thing they do is they hire people who draw portraits and stuff just for free. Like we'll take a dead body and sketch out what the face would look like or take a missing person and sketch out what their face would look like now. Oh. And they all do it for free. Wow.
Starting point is 01:00:40 It's pretty amazing. Next place where we give money for the t-shirts? I don't know. We can discuss it. We can. All right. So as of 2007, I couldn't find any more recent statistics. There's approximately 40,000 unidentified human remains stowed in back rooms of morgues, buried before they're identified and buried in unmarked graves across the country.
Starting point is 01:01:00 What's that number? 40,000. Shit. And that's 2007. The National Crime Information Center records nearly 40,000. Shit. And that's 2007. The National Crime Information Center records nearly 90,000 missing people at any given time. So 40,000 of those unmarked, unidentified people, you know, their websites list 70 successful identity resolutions that the site has assisted with.
Starting point is 01:01:23 Oh, that's nice. 36 had occurred within the first five years, and Tent Girl was the first case to be identified by use of the internet. Wow. Isn't that incredible? Todd Matthews, he just like was an obsessive compulsive with this case, and because of that, so many families have been able to find out
Starting point is 01:01:43 what happened to their loved ones. And I'm so fascinated with those stories of like, she left home one day and we thought we'd hear from her again and we didn't and we don't know if she's alive or not. She might have just fucking moved on and hated her dad and you know. Right. But then they find they're like, you know, by the side of the road, this person with this crazy tattoo is found and why can't we identify this person? And so they put all this stuff in the thing.
Starting point is 01:02:08 That's very cool. Yeah. Tent girl. There's a photo of her. It looks a lot like the drawing. Sad, right? Well, yeah, but it's like the tragedy that something good came out of. It's very cool. And also it's nice that idea that like, yeah, that's if you have, it's just so nice for the families. Like that idea of just not knowing is so torturous. Yeah. And I've kind of been wanting to do, I've been thinking a lot lately about like, how can I volunteer my time in some way that we're, this true crime thing we're doing and I'm like, you know, do I work for, do I go out volunteer for women's shelter or something like that? And this is
Starting point is 01:02:51 like, I feel like that's what these people are doing is they're like, for no, they're not making any money. They have jobs, they don't need them. They just want to help find their it's just they're really into these crazy puzzles and piecing these things together and they do it. Right. And if you do it. Right. And if you have that specific ability of like you can draw, you know, what they... Yeah. A picture of what they last looked like or whatever.
Starting point is 01:03:10 It's like everybody pitching in what their specific talent is. Yeah. Yeah, that's very cool. I like that. So maybe I'll do something like that. And I can't draw, but I can look at tattoos and remember if they were found on dead bodies or not. Do it. I'm really good at that.
Starting point is 01:03:26 Remembering. No. Yeah. Nice. So that was a short one, but I thought it was important. No, that was cool. I liked that it's good information. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:37 That's a good one. Totally. Well, I guess that's it. Yeah. Thank you for listening. Thank you so much. Can you guys, if you rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes, that helps us a lot and we appreciate it.
Starting point is 01:03:49 And gosh, it's nice having you guys listen in this podcast. Also, Elvis is sitting right in front of Steven's face because Steven gave him a cookie last time. I like that you just said, gosh, gosh, it's nice. You listen, everybody. Gee whiz, gee whiz. Gee willikers, everybody, thank you. Thanks.
Starting point is 01:04:08 And you know what? Stay sexy. And don't get moided. Elvis, you want a cookie? Want a cookie? Whoa. Bye. We're back, Georgia. Are there updates for this case? Yes, there are updates. This is one of those cases I love that there is this tragic story
Starting point is 01:04:33 and something beautiful comes out of it because people, because of humans and humanity and caring about causes that have nothing to do with you and just personalizing them. So I love this story. And I love Todd Matthews. And unfortunately, he passed away earlier this year. He was only 53. And his contributions to the cyber detective community live on through the Doe Network and name us. And there's a article you can check out if you want on vice called the pioneering cyber detective who cracked a 30 year old cold case by Sammy Carmela that I recommend and together the Doe Network and NamUs have resolved over 65,000 missing unidentified and unclaimed person's cases. Amazing. Just incredible. So get involved in that if you're good at sleuthing. I'm not. Yeah. If you're a person that's interested in true crime, that is an incredible way to actually
Starting point is 01:05:28 do something constructive with this interest and interact and help people out. Well yeah, when I had a boring desk job and didn't do anything, I wish I had known about this. Instead I was just blogging. So that doesn't feel as good as helping find missing people. You were helping other funky divas in your area. That's all that's my fucking goal in life and my creed, my creed, my motto. And here's your other motto is Namaste, sexy, which was the title of this episode.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Yeah, so no more number puns. Thank God. Yeah, that's right. And so we're naming this episode today based on something we said in the episode. Would it be trailer spoiler, which Karen jokes she's going to spoil the trailer of the new Jean-Bernier Ramsey documentary series. Don't spoil, you can't even fucking spoil a trailer these days. That's right. And then Georgia said, gosh, it's nice.
Starting point is 01:06:17 That's so funny. Gosh, it's nice. Because we were thanking listeners for listening to the show. And she said, gosh, it's nice having you guys listen. Was that sarcastic? No, I hear my gosh is definitely something that has, you know, regularly come out of my mouth. Is that your grandma? Who says that? I don't know. I think it's like quaint and old timey and I like it like that. Yeah, it is. It's nice. I don't care about taking God's name in vain. So why would I, gosh, it's nice. I guess, you know what, it's like a humbled thing. I don't care about taking God's name in vain, so why would I? Gosh, it's nice.
Starting point is 01:06:45 Gosh, it's nice. I guess you know what? It's a humbled thing. I'm just humbled. Gosh. Golly. Golly gee. Golly gee.
Starting point is 01:06:54 Well gosh guys, thanks so much for listening. Gosh, I'd pick that title for the show title because I love it, it's nice. It's nice and so are you guys and we appreciate you still, gosh. If I was listening right now I'd turn this off. Uh, stay sexy. And don't get murdered.
Starting point is 01:07:13 Goodbye. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie?

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