Radio Rental - Episode 109

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

Welcome to Radio Rental, a mysterious video rental shop with an exclusive collection of VHS tapes. On these tapes are TRUE scary stories, narrated by the people who experienced them... On today's tap...es: >> The Luxor >> This group runs into a man working a true graveyard shift... >> Bad Night at the Flamingo >> Picking up a hitchhiker leads to a weird night in Vegas. >> Pager Store >> This storyteller sold a pager to someone who's up to no good. Meanwhile, at the store: Vince gets unlucky. Want more Radio Rental? For early access and ad-free listening, subscribe to Tenderfoot+ at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tenderfoot.tv/plus/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow the show at @radiorental Visit the website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠radiorentalusa.com

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Starting point is 00:01:06 I'm Vince. Welcome to Radio Rental, a video rental store that specializes in horror. True horror. We've got an exclusive collection of the scariest tapes. Full of the most horrifying horror stories you've ever heard, horror had to sneak an extra one in there. All told by real people. Vetted.
Starting point is 00:01:46 We also have a new slot machine in a video poker game. Yeah, found these on the black market... Um, found these at the local marketplace. Anyway, boss wanted me to find a way to increase our cash flow. So now, in addition to scary stories, you could also get lucky. I'm actually pretty good at it. This slap machine, you want to see. Check this out.
Starting point is 00:02:14 A horse. Horse. Horse. Mango. Damn it. Damn. That's okay. I'll get back. I'll get my mojo back. In the meantime, I'm going to put in the tape for you.
Starting point is 00:02:33 This is a 24. before me, my wife and a group of friends were in Vegas for EDC. The Rafe Music Festival. We're there first time in Vegas. We're all super excited. We're staying on the strip. We're staying at the Luxor. If you've never really stayed at the Luxor before, it's pretty spacious.
Starting point is 00:03:05 The brooms are kind of like spread out. So because it was already a busy week, some of us were staying on like the 20th floor, while other of us were like on the eighth floor like we were scattered now the way like the luxur works the elevators only go to like a select number of floors we had to scan in to our elevators that was the only way that people could like move through floors it was like our first night there it's like 3 a.m. we're all exhausted we had like been walking down the strip you know just doing Vegas stuff my friends Like hey like I'm downstairs come get us and I'm like okay I'm gonna go I'm not gonna lie I was pretty tired I'm still aware of my surroundings go downstairs I meet them where the casino is I meet up with my
Starting point is 00:03:57 friends I'm like all right let's go back to my room as we're walking towards the elevators we see that there's like this older gentleman just like standing there I realize I'm like Oh, like he's one of the workers. He's holding a little broom and a little dustpan. But he's just kind of like just standing there. I was like, all right, whatever. So I go, I click on the elevator button. We're just talking.
Starting point is 00:04:25 The old man's just kind of like standing there. My friends get in the elevator. I like signal to the gentleman. I'm like, oh, are you going to get in? And he's like, yeah, yeah. He gets in with us. First weird thing I notice is I go. I put in the key card.
Starting point is 00:04:39 and I press the floor number. Usually people will be like, oh, can you press this number for me? Like, he just stays quiet. So we go, the doors closed, was just having a conversation. And my friend, he looks at me and he's like, man, I am exhausted.
Starting point is 00:04:57 This gets like a little chuckle out of the old man. He's like, oh, you think you're exhausted. I've been here for a long time. And we were like, oh, yeah, like you've been working a couple of shifts, like back to back. And he's like, yeah, you could say something like that. We were like, yeah, man, that sucks.
Starting point is 00:05:17 Are you off tomorrow? And he's like, no, I work tomorrow and the next day and the next day and so on and so on. And we were like, geez, like, sorry, man, sorry to hear that. We don't stop at our floor. We stop at the floor above us. At the time, we don't notice anything weird about it. But like I have explained earlier, like certain elevators only go to the certain floors. So there was no reason for the elevator to stop at that floor above us.
Starting point is 00:05:48 But at the time, I didn't really think much of it. Looking back at it is when I realized like, damn, that was weird. We don't get off. The gentleman doesn't get off either. Like, he's still in there. We all looked at each other and we're like, what the hell? Like, this isn't our floor. Like, that's weird.
Starting point is 00:06:04 So we get back in. I put the key card again. I put the correct floor number. It goes down one floor. We get off. I know for a fact, this gentleman gets off behind us, because I could see him from my peripherals get off. I'm walking in front of my two friends.
Starting point is 00:06:25 I just turned back to talk shit to them, and that's when I realized there's no one behind them. He's not there. There is no way that he could have jumped back into the elevator. And there was also nowhere else to go. When you get off the elevators, the only thing in that lobby are other elevators.
Starting point is 00:06:49 There's no like maintenance room. There's no like little storage area. It's just crystal glass that you can see down and then the four elevators. And if he would have gotten on another elevator, like we would have heard it. The key cards, they make a noise when you put it on the pad. So we would have heard it. I felt him get off and I saw him through my peripherals and my friends who were walking in front of him felt him get off. And we heard the elevator door close.
Starting point is 00:07:20 I'm frozen and my friends could tell that there's something wrong just by looking at me and they're like, what, what is it? And I just point behind them and they turn around and they realize the gentleman's not there anymore. And they look at each other They look at me And they're like Yo, where do you go? Go go go go Go. You guys saw him get off right
Starting point is 00:07:45 And they're like we felt him get like behind us Guys like let's just go back to my room Like please let's just go back We go back My wife's there like two other friends of ours are there And we explain to them like what just happened And they're like man are you guys like messing with us And I was like no I promise you like
Starting point is 00:08:05 like this just happened. I think we just saw a ghost. It was really creepy the way he was talking. And like just the fact that my friend said like, man, I'm like really tired. And he kind of like was scoffing at us of like you think you're tired. Like buddy, I've been like on an eternity shift right now. Everyone just kept asking us to see if like our stories would stay the same. They're like, man, are you sure that you saw him get off the elevator?
Starting point is 00:08:35 Or like, are you sure that someone was in there with you? And we're like, yes. Like we were describing it. It was like an older gentleman. He had glasses on, white hair, like his balding in the front. We all described them the same way. I'm like, there's no way we all just shared like a fake memory. My friend started doing research on the Luxor.
Starting point is 00:08:58 If you haven't, go and look at the history of the Luxor. It is definitely one of the most haunted places in Vegas on the strip. There's just like this really weird energy there. I believe there's like a female spirit that likes to mess around with, especially when it's like gentlemen in the rooms by themselves, they'll feel like a female presence. Or sometimes when they're sleeping, like something will like cuddle up on them. People also talk about because like when they're staying like in like the higher floors, like they'll look down and they'll have like that feeling of like, bro, you should just jump. A lot of people say that it draws like a certain. negative energy that you can feel at times there.
Starting point is 00:09:45 Because I don't know, it's something like really creepy about that hotel. If it would have just been me by myself, there would have been like room for doubt. I would have been like, you know what? Like I was tired. Like we had been drinking. Like I would have found any excuse. But it's the fact that I shared that experience with two other people. And they saw the same thing I saw and they felt the same thing.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I felt heard the same thing. I heard, it adds more to it. I'm 100% sure there's no other explanation. Unless this guy was the fastest man alive and just like maneuvered his way into the elevator. That ghost ride was one for the books for sure. Oh, freaky. Old dude's been probably cleaning that hotel since the early days. Vegas has some dark energy, man.
Starting point is 00:10:50 I would know. Okay, we're back. Let's play another tape. I was in between jobs. I travel a lot for work. I would spend six months working straight and then come home for a few months waiting for a project. I was a telecommunications climber for T-Mobile, so I used to climb cell phone towers and just travel all over the country. When I'd come back home, I'd usually try to find fun stuff to do, like whether, you know, with friends or by myself. My childhood friends, we always had a, like a snowboarding trip in 2020. we decided to go to Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding,
Starting point is 00:11:45 and we had an Airbnb. I was driving from Phoenix to Lake Tahoe, and usually I do it by myself. I was in North Phoenix, just getting out of town, kind of going towards Wickenberg, and there was a dude standing on the side of the road, and he was hitchhiking, and I was kind of like, uh, he's like, you know, he looks clean.
Starting point is 00:12:03 He might need help, so I just pulled over and asked him what he was up to, and he was like, oh, nothing, just hitchhiking, and trying to make it to Loughlin. So I was like, well, I can, driving there. I'll be driving past there, at least close. And he was like, okay. He's a really, his name's Kenny. So he started driving, and we were just talking, and turns out that he was a professional hitchhiker.
Starting point is 00:12:22 He's been hitchhiking for the last 20 years, like all over the world. I actually just talked to him. He got back to the U.S. from Peru. So I asked him, I was like, well, you know, like, it's going to be a big house. He seemed like a cool dude. Instead of going to Loughlin, do you want to come to Lake Tahoe and, you know, kick it in the snow? and he's like, yeah, sure, let's do it. We end up going to Lake Tahoe. There was a bunch of weather, like crazy weather.
Starting point is 00:12:49 We ended up getting stuck there for an extra week because there was just, you know, 20 feet of snow and everybody on the mountain couldn't leave. So we just kind of hung out there. And basically we were there for two weeks. And on the drive back, he wanted me to drop him off basically in Laughlin again because that was where his plan was just kind of gamble and get some more cash
Starting point is 00:13:08 before he headed to New York to fly out to Ireland to do some sort of yoga retreat or something like that. He's kind of a hippie. When we were on our way back, though, he had these rewards. I was so tired. I've been driving for like 12 hours maybe and dealing with the snow and everything else like that. It was just really exhausting.
Starting point is 00:13:26 So I asked him, I was like, man, I was like, I can't drive anymore. We're going to have to stop somewhere. He's like, well, let's stop in Vegas at the Flamingo. I have this like rewards thing where we can get a free room and a little bit of money to spend on food. and you know if we gamble a little bit that's kind of what it is but I was like okay so we ended up going with Flamingo I thought it was funny we ended up skipping all the lines because he was part of that rewards membership or whatever and they gave him
Starting point is 00:13:53 a hundred fifty dollars worth of food that we had to spend that night and then they gave us a room in this older part of the Flamingo which I didn't know at the time hadn't been remodeled yet most of it has but there's I guess there's one floor that hasn't yet we got food you know and I was super tired and So we both were. We walk up the stairs, and it's like on the fourth floor, down this really kind of old hallway. Like you could tell it was like old carpet,
Starting point is 00:14:20 and the paint looked like crap. Like it was all kind of falling off in some spots. So we were like, well, at least it's a free bed, you know, it's whatever. They put us in this corner room. I didn't realize it, but it was a room where the windows was from the floor all the way to the ceiling. It just seemed like it was like an older, non-updated room. I think it was probably around 12, 30, 1 o'clock.
Starting point is 00:14:48 We both are like, okay, we can fall asleep now. So I hear him fall asleep first, and he started snoring. So I was just like, okay, you know, I'm going to try and fall asleep too. So I started falling asleep, and I don't know how long it took maybe 30 minutes. The next thing I know, it felt like someone grabbed the back of my head and shoved it down into the pillow because I was sleeping on my stomach. It was like scary because I thought this dude that I thought was really cool Kenny was playing some joke on me and I was just like I was super mad about it because I thought he was like
Starting point is 00:15:23 trying to suffocate me it was terrifying it literally felt like like someone was above me trying to kill me like like holding my and I'm 220 pounds and I'm a really good shape and I truly feel like if someone was trying to hold my head down I'd be able to kind of like get out of that move at least a little bit there was There was nothing. Like it almost felt like my body was frozen and my head was just being shoved straight down into the pillow. And it was to the point too where I started like kind of gagging a little bit like I couldn't
Starting point is 00:15:59 breathe and it was right around the time when I started really panicking and after about two or three seconds on my head being held down to the pillow, it like felt like it just went away and I got up. I started yelling at Kenny because I was convinced that it was him. I looked at him. He was totally asleep, turned over, wrapped up in the blankets, snoring, totally out. I sat there and I watched him for a second. Is this guy messing with me?
Starting point is 00:16:34 Is he actually trying to hurt me or what's going on? I was like, what in the world? And it just freaked me out because I've never had anybody do that to me before or anything. I'm kind of sitting there in my bed and I'm listening to him snore and I'm kind of thinking to myself like, what in the world was that? right around this time I looked at the clock and it was like 255 almost 3 o'clock in the morning and trying to go back to bed I started noticing that the temperature in the room got really hot I got up and I messed with the AC unit and it was all the way pinned down and but it was still like
Starting point is 00:17:11 hot like I was sweating and so I lay back in bed and I'm sitting there and where the whole window was there was just like this shadowy tall figure in the corner of the room and it was scary. I was terrified. I was frozen. I was just stuck in bed. It looked like a man that was probably 6 foot 6, 6 foot 7, like a really tall guy. Broad shoulders and almost looked like it was like wearing like some sort of trench coat or suit. I'm sitting there with the covers kind of pull up to my chin like what in the world is that? But at the same time I'm still sweating because the room got really hot. So I just sat there and I stared at it and then as I'm staring at it, I was just waiting for it to go away and either I put my head down or I blinked or whatever and it was just gone.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I was just kind of like, okay, I'm just going to sit here. And right around that time, I remember looking at the clock too, because I'm like, okay, how long have I been sitting here for is right around like 315, 320? The closet lights turned on. And they started flickering and then he turned off. What was weird though is that when I first walked into the room, there's no switch to even turn on the closet lights. And then the bathroom fan turned on, which is another weird thing because there was no switch to turn the fan on
Starting point is 00:18:46 because I took a shower and I knew that that wasn't working, but it turned on. And then the air conditioner flipped on a different way and then it got really cold. So it went from being really hot to like super cold. And so I'm under the covers watching these lights flicker. Right around the time that
Starting point is 00:19:06 these lights stopped flickering, the figure in the corner just kind of disappeared. Kenny this whole time is snoring, so I know that he's not even picking up on any of this stuff. After I kind of felt like it was gone, I got up and I went over to flip on the lights just to try and see what the heck's going on in this creepy room.
Starting point is 00:19:29 It was only the light for the bathroom and only the main living room light that would even turn on. For the rest of the night, I basically just kind of stood there up until about 4 o'clock. That's when they, because the air kept getting hot and cold and hot and cold. And then finally it just got cold and it went away. And then it was like this creepy figure, it didn't show back up.
Starting point is 00:19:49 The lights flickered maybe once or twice more between, you know, me waiting from 315, 320 until 4. And then it all just like went away. I was so tired. I ended up just falling asleep. So the next morning I wake up, Kenny is still sleeping. I get up, immediately get dressed. I didn't even want to take a shirt. shower, going to the bathroom or anything. I was basically put on my shoes just ready to leave.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Right around the time that I was kind of like, okay, Kenny, let's get out of here, let's get on the road. He was waking up and that's when I started walking around the room looking at stuff, like, okay, what's the deal with the fan? You know, trying to rationalize basically what was going on the night before, which was like, okay, why are the lights flickering? Was there like a weird shadow over here in the corner that I, you know, didn't notice before? And what was really weird is over in that corner there was a weird stain on the wall. Just like a bunch of weird splatters all over the wall. I don't know what it was.
Starting point is 00:20:50 And then that's when I noticed under the closet, because I walked over there, and this is all while Kenny's getting up and we're kind of getting our bags together, that's when I noticed that there's the light in the closet. And I was like, oh, there's a light in here. Okay, so there's a little bit of sense. But then the cord was chopped.
Starting point is 00:21:05 And I was like, what the heck? Like, how that? Okay, that makes no sense. And then I went into the bathroom again, and that's when I started playing with the light, trying to see if I could get the fan to flip on, was never able to get the fan to flip on. That's kind of when I told Kenny, I was like,
Starting point is 00:21:20 what do you remember from last night? When we got into the room, you went to bed and then what? And he was like, nothing, I just went to bed. And that's when I told him, like, dude, something held my head down last night. And he was just kind of looking at me, like, what the heck? Like, I was just speechless. I was like, was like, was that you? Like, were you playing a joke on me?
Starting point is 00:21:41 like what because I was very upfront about it and he was like no dude he's like what why would you even ask me that and I was like well I just had a really weird experience in this hotel room and I explained everything that happened and you was just kind of quiet for a while I don't know if you thought I was crazy or I was making it up and then later on because we hung out for another day or two before he flew out to to New York he asked me he was like you were weird with me after that he's like what what was with that I'm like dude I thought you were holding my head down I was like honestly, I was very angry. I was convinced. I tried to rationalize it, but I was convinced that you woke up, you're playing some weird joke. I mean, you're holding my head down, but when I got up, you were still
Starting point is 00:22:21 sleeping. No, dude, he's like, I did not do that. He just said, he's like, I can't explain it. He's like, I was sleeping, and I was like, I kind of realized that too. And when I woke up and he was still snoring, but I just had to kind of clear the air, at least for my sake. I haven't been to Vegas since. I lived in hotel rooms for a long time. Like that's just part of the job. I had to start living back in hotel rooms again in 2024 when I moved to Wyoming to work out there at a few of the coal mines that they hired me
Starting point is 00:22:58 to go out there and work on stuff. And they put me up at a hotel and that was the first time that I lived long term in a hotel or even stayed in a hotel since that happened. I had a hard time dealing with hotel rooms for a while. Because I was always waking up, think, like, and it was always right as soon as it felt like I was, like, starting to fall asleep. I would start, I'd just, like, wake up and just start looking around, like, what's going on.
Starting point is 00:23:23 And it even, like, changed the way that I, like, have the curtains drawn and stuff in hotel rooms because I don't want to be able to see out or their light shining in. It just freaked me out. I've never had someone hold my face down into a pillow like that before. I didn't even think that was, like, a thing when you, you know, see old-time, old-time gangster movies where someone's, like, holding someone's face down. That's what it reminds me of, though, is someone, like, someone, like, legitimately holding a pillow down and trying to suffocate you. One thing, though, that really, like, still lingers, too, is just, like, how strong the hand felt.
Starting point is 00:23:59 And that was one thing that kind of made me rationalize it, too, with Kenny is... Kenny is, like, a little dude. He's got, like, little hands. Like, it literally felt like these hands, like, wrapped around my head. Wrapped around my head and pushed my face down into the pillow, then just held it there. And then it was just, like, gone. Like, not even, like, letting go or letting me up.
Starting point is 00:24:20 It was just, like, this, like, strong hand just disappeared. Man, this guy just picked up a total effing stranger off the side of the road and then slept in the same hotel room with him because he had points. That's very trusting. I mean, yeah, something weird happened in the room, but, I mean, was it an entity? Or was it Kenny? I just can't rule out Kenny. He seems like a weirdo just like me.
Starting point is 00:25:04 A guy I know. Anyway, noted that hitchhiking is alive and well. I'm always trying to find ways to make new friends, so maybe I'll give these thumbs a try. This storyteller could have been pretty unlucky, but you know who's going to be lucky? Here we go. Horse.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Horse. Horse. Horse. Oh Italian flag Damn Well let's Let's take another ad break
Starting point is 00:25:39 So I haven't gotten a win yet Which is fine Big deal, whatever I'm not upset about it Such is life Vince Such as life It might not be my lucky day But it is yours
Starting point is 00:26:05 I have a third tape for you That's right Yeah you guys just go ahead play it yourself. Until next time, friend, this one is dark. Back in 1998, I was the manager of an independent cell phone and pager store in Flint, Michigan. I grew up in Flint. You know, at the time it was known as the murder capital of the country. So sad stories were pretty common. Knowing people that had violent things happen with them was not that rare. And so from my perspective, I felt like I was, I don't know, if jaded or, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:07 it took a bit to rattle me. Also, because I worked at a patron cell phone store, there were a lot of strange characters. This was an era where, you know, the people who had cell phones without a contract and pagers month to month were drug dealers and other people like that. I had been followed home before
Starting point is 00:27:29 by people who had been shopping at the store. I'd had people run in and steal things from the store, so it certainly was a slightly dangerous, but not super scary place to work. I was pretty used to it at that point. A young woman came in to get both a pager and a cell phone. And she seemed about the same age I was. At the time, that was a really time-consuming transaction,
Starting point is 00:27:53 which sounds a little silly. But, you know, I had to call, like, the home office and get the number. And there was all these steps you had to take. And then you also had to manually program the pager and the cell phone. Right off, something felt a little off about her. I couldn't even quite place what it was. was, she seemed a little strange, and I frankly just thought she was high.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Like, I thought, well, she's messed up on something. I don't know. So I had her filled the paperwork. She picked out her phone or page, or I don't really remember all the details of that part. But I had to input all of her data into our, you know, fancy, like, Windows 98 operating system by hand. So she was kind of kept talking while I was doing that. And I remember being a little bit distracted, like, okay. But again, you know, sometimes people are kind of yammer when they're high.
Starting point is 00:28:40 From that point, she started to explain to me why she needed this. Because cell phones at the time were a little bit unusual. They were kind of new to have a cell phone that you took unless you had money and you could be on a contract. She was explaining to me that she had to drive back and forth from Flint, Michigan, to Ann Arbor, which is a good hour drive. And I thought, oh, that's actually, that's a long drive because I'd commuted to school. And I understood that. Then she said the reason she was doing that was because her husband was in the hospital. I thought, oh, that's so sad.
Starting point is 00:29:13 What a tragedy to be, like, this young woman who also's husband is ill. And my first thought was like, what could it be? Does he have cancer? Does there's something going on? Then she said it was because he had shot himself while cleaning his gun. And that was when my sympathy turned to alarm. The second she said that, I don't know why, but you know that feeling you have where the hair goes up on the back of your neck? something in my brain just screams she's lying.
Starting point is 00:29:47 But I didn't know exactly about what. I thought, oh my God, did she shoot him? Because I don't know, in Flint, that sort of a thing, I guess, that you'd think the worst. So I immediately wondered, like, did she shoot him? Or, like, I felt like she was lying about some aspect of it, but I didn't understand what. And I honestly felt a little bit of panic when she was talking. I wasn't sure how to respond. And I was young, too.
Starting point is 00:30:10 So I probably didn't handle it very elegantly. But I remember telling her that I was, you know, sorry to hear that. And the thing that I thought was really strange in the moment was that she didn't seem super upset about her husband. She seemed more stressed about the drive. It did stick out to me that it was a little weird that she didn't seem more worried about her husband in that situation. But, again, I don't understand the context of what she was going through. So I just kind of accepted it for what it was. I do remember her being in the store for a weirdly long amount of time as I was.
Starting point is 00:30:45 was, you know, waiting for their number to be sent back to me from the home office so that I could program all of her things. And I remember offering to let her leave because it made me a little uncomfortable. And she opted to stay. And she was definitely making small talk. Her voice was kind of lilting. And I remember that part that she seemed, like I said, a little out of it. Finally, when the transaction was over, she left. And I felt genuine relief when she left.
Starting point is 00:31:11 And then I felt sort of foolish because I'm like, you know, we deal with, like, strange people. day long. You know, this isn't exactly a place frequented by, you know, the most reputable folks in town. So I didn't think that much about it. A couple weeks later, I was listening to the radio because it was the 90s. The DJ said something like, Breaking News Alert, Melissa Such and Such has been arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada for murder. And I remember literally whipping around and looking at the radio as if they were talking to me and thinking, that's her name. Like, I can't believe this. I was like, I could have misheard. I kind of discounted it. A couple weeks later, because time moves much lower back then. I was opening the bills, and you had to do it manually, so you'd slice open the bill, and you'd pull out the little
Starting point is 00:32:11 receipt and check or cash, whatever it was, and then I had to input it into our system. I opened it, and there was no money. It was just the bill returned with a note. And, and it said, Melissa is in jail in Las Vegas Nirvana on a charge of open murder. Please said nothing else regarding this. Thank you. I just stared at it. I was like, oh my gosh, that's her. I mean, I heard it correctly on the radio, and I'm at her face-to-face, and this all happened within a couple of weeks.
Starting point is 00:32:47 And I just remember being stunned, and my assumption at the time was that somehow I was right. She had lied, and that maybe she had killed her husband. and maybe he had died and, you know, that was it. But, you know, there was no way to check. I don't know who I would have called other than, you know, the police and been nosy and just tried to ask questions. I kept that little piece of paper because it was so strange, and I'm a little bit of a paper hoarder.
Starting point is 00:33:12 So I kept that and kind of stuck it in a folder and didn't think about it again. I mean, obviously I told people friends at the time. And then years passed, and I moved several times, and obviously I've got like stacks of papers at this point. in my life, and I happened to open a folder, and that fell out years later. And I was like, oh my gosh, I completely forgot about this. What a crazy thing to have happened that this woman that I'd waited on probably killed her husband. By then, you know, you could Google up everything.
Starting point is 00:33:46 So I just did a little research, got online, and figured out that it turns out that indeed she had been, I guess, lying. but it's hard to say about what still. What I found online was that she had actually driven to Las Vegas pretty shortly after I had sold her her cell phone and pager with her child in tow. I do not recall her mentioning a child at all, which seemed very strange.
Starting point is 00:34:19 What had happened is she took her child with her, drove across the country. No one had heard from her in a week and the first people had found of her was that she was banging on the door of her hotel neighbor's room asking for help because her son, her toddler, had died.
Starting point is 00:34:39 And it turns out that she had actually killed her toddler and attempted to kill herself. She was then arrested and put in jail. She must have had some regrets or something if she ran to the next room. That's what she was in jail for. she's never been arrested for what had happened with her husband and I have no idea if she had anything to do with it
Starting point is 00:35:07 in fact when I did research it not that long ago again to try to find out more of what happened it turns out that her former husband actually died at the age of 66 in 2025 and he had at least according to the tributes to him had actually been a bodybuilder before he had somehow had an accident with this gun. A couple people alluded to a terrible tragedy in his life that he survived. And I have to assume the tragedy was the horrible murder of his son.
Starting point is 00:35:43 She is not mentioned in his tributes and or obituary at all. That's the story of how I sold a cell phone in a page or to a murderer. Radio Rental is created by Payne Lindsay and brought to you by Tenderfoot TV. is Meredith Stedman. Lead producers are Eric Kintana and Stephen Perez. Executive producers are Payne Lindsay and Donald Albright. This episode is hosted by Tony Cavalera. Writing by Meredith Stedman.
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