Morbid - Episode 315: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold Part 2
Episode Date: April 27, 2022In part one we learned about the circumstances surrounding Dorothy Arnold’s disappearance. By all means it just seemed like she went out for a day of shopping and then disappeared into thin... air. In part 2 Alaina delivers some theories that have been visited over the past hundred years and we both come to our own conclusion on what the heck happened to Dorothy Arnold. What’s your conclusion? Instagram page for information on the case of Yanira Cedillos As always, thank you to our sponsors: Page 1 Books: First-time subscribers get 15% off with the code MORBID at page1books.com Everlane: Go to everlane.com/MORBID and sign up for 10% off your first order HelloFresh: Go to HelloFresh.com/morbid16 and use code morbid16 for up to 16 free meals AND 3 free gifts! Babbel: Right now, save up to 60% off your subscription when you go to BABBEL.com/MORBID Good RX: For simple, smart savings on your prescriptions, check GoodRx. Go to GoodRX.com/morbid See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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And this is morbid. We're back.
We're back with Part 2. Part 2 of the crazy disappearance of Dorothy Arnold.
And we are going to get into some theories today.
It's going to get wild today.
This case is bizarre.
It is real bizarre.
It's how bizarre.
Like, it's a create and it doesn't really have an ending, which I apologize for.
My hands currently unsolved, even though the police still claim that this case is solved.
The police say it's solved.
That's all they'll say.
They won't tell you what happened, but they just say it's solved.
De-fuck.
Exactly.
You're going to say de-fuck a lot during this one I tell you.
De-fuck.
It's going to happen a lot.
Well, before we do get into your lovely part too today,
I did just want to talk about some current true crime news
that is going on right now.
Over this past weekend, I'm sure you did too.
I got tagged in this story.
Yeah.
And it is gut-runching.
Yeah, and especially because I hadn't heard much about it
and it happened in the beginning of March.
Yeah, yeah.
So, hello, sad.
This 30-year-old mother of three babies, her name is Yenira Sadeos.
She was celebrating her 30th birthday, I believe it was March 3rd.
And she was out of casino with some of her friends and I don't think the night ended how
she had hoped it would.
I think they got in an argument.
And she ended up needing a ride back home.
So she called a friend, but then when the friend got to the area
where she said she was going to be,
Giniara wasn't there.
So then Giniara called the friend, or the friend called her,
and the friend heard this like yelling voice in the background.
And it was a male voice.
Male voice.
And then the phone call got disconnected.
Giniara did call back and say that she was okay
and everything was fine.
But after that night, she went missing.
Now, on her 30th birthday.
On her 30th birthday and again, a mother of three.
Yeah.
Now, luckily there's somebody in custody
who we definitely think did this.
Yeah.
Killed Yannira, unfortunately.
His name is Juan Gastelum, was it?
I think it is.
Yeah.
Juan Gastelum, he's 27 years old and he is an ex-boyfriend.
And she lived with him, apparently, at one point.
She did live with him at one point.
She wasn't currently living with him when this happened,
but they did go back to her apartment
and they do believe that she was killed at one point or another
and he's being charged with rape and murder.
Yeah, rape and murder and they found different evidence
at a couple of locations.
He cleaned his car at a gas station. He cleaned his car at a gas station,
he threw stuff out at a gas station.
And they said that he was actually unknowingly
and unwillingly giving a lot of evidence just by talking,
which is great.
So the police were keeping him talking for a while
and they actually didn't release this for a while
because they were trying to keep him talking
because he is unwillingly giving information,
which is a good thing.
Right.
But now they actually have him because of that.
So that's a good thing.
But what they don't have is unfortunately,
in Yannira's body, we don't know where her body is
and her family is begging people to help.
I'm gonna read this, this is an Instagram
that they've set up just to like provide updates
and just kind of keep people aware of what's going on
It's justice for Yenira and Yenira is spelled Y-A-N-I-R-A
So if you want to follow that Instagram you will get a ton of information and I'm just gonna read one post
It says we are asking everyone in Washington and Oregon to please take initiative to conduct your own searches in your towns
If you wish to help all Moses Lake Lake, Walla Walla, Messa, Tri-Cities,
Weston, Stanford, Echo, and Hermiston, Oregon areas.
If you live near or at these places,
please go ahead and search for us.
Look into anywhere where there's bodies of waters,
wooded areas, and bakements, cliffs, et cetera.
If you see anything suspicious, we ask that you call Moses Lake
Police Department and the phone number is 509-764-3887 or your local police department. We also
ask that you be respectful to the family and if you do see anything, please refrain from taking any
sort of photos or videos. We are not trying to create more pain. Please search within, excuse me,
please search with caution and safety. We thank you for doing this for us and hope to find Yineera ASAP.
Honestly, because I think what the police are doing was they were waiting for some like
dadded a come through from, you know, I think like phone records and other like digital footprint
kind of tracing things.
Yeah.
And that's when they were going to be asking the public
to come help in this like narrowed down search area.
Right.
But there's really no reason not to, you know,
start looking now.
Seriously.
Why not?
It's like eventually it will be narrowed down.
They seem pretty confident that they're going to be able
to at least slightly narrow down
the search area.
Right.
But there's no harm in looking now.
There's no harm.
Like they said, immediately call authorities to be fine something.
Definitely.
And there's also a petition going around to speed up the extradition process.
I guess Juan is trying to delay this process as much as possible, and he's supposed to be
extradited to Washington.
But he was arrested and Oregon for driving
with a suspended license.
So that's how they ended up changing.
Okay.
So if you wanna sign that petition,
you can just go ahead on over to the Instagram
that I mentioned and there's a link tree
with a ton of different links for.
Perfect.
Go fun knees in, all the above.
All the official stuff.
Y'all, let's hope that you nearer's family
get some kind of closure out of this,
but I can't imagine what they're going through
in those poor babies.
I know, I just, I'm gonna send them all
like the biggest huts.
It really hurts my heart, but yeah,
we'll keep watching that.
And if we see anything, you know,
any updates or anything,
we'll try to let you get a guys know as soon as possible,
but keep you posted.
It seems like they're waiting on a few things
to go through right now to get any updates right now.
So hopefully those go through as quick as humanly possible.
Keep her family in your thoughts, please.
But coming right out of that, we are going to go into our part
two of the disappearance of Dorothy Arnold.
This got so wild for me to research.
I love that.
At one point, I was sitting on the couch
and it was like late night, John was watching.
I don't remember.
Oh, John just got into Mara Vistown.
Oh, okay.
And it's like, it was like too depressing for me at first.
Like, there's so much depression and researching what we,
research that sometimes I TV shows just,
I can't just like life.
I've heard it's great and I do wanna watch it.
I'm just not in the mind frame right now to watch it.
So I was like, you go, you watch it.
I'll just hear and research while you watch it.
That's always good when someone is watching a show
that you're not necessarily interested in.
Yeah, because then you can,
because then you can say about to researching
about like a crazy disappearance from the 1900.
Precisely.
And I was, I was like late night,
he's watching that and all of a sudden
I just started like clapping
and I realized that I was like celebrating out loud
and he was like, what, what are you okay?
And I was like,
what's going on over there?
The ship manifest.
And he was like, the ship manifest. Like he was like, what the fuck are you talking about? He was like, are you playing going on over there. The ship manifest. And he was like, the ship manifest.
Like he was like, what the fuck are you talking about?
He was like, are you playing a game over there?
And I told him the whole thing and he was like, wow, okay,
because I now get to it in part two,
you'll hear where this ship manifest comes up.
Okay, but I spent like a good hour and a half searching
through ship manifest records on ancestry.com
to find this one piece of like, I don't know if it's really like
the most important information, but it felt very important to me at the time, and I was
glad I found it.
There's no small parts.
There isn't.
Sometimes you just gotta get that.
Yeah, but this is when I come to it, you're going to see that I did find that a lot of sources
are not giving you correct information about this case.
Oh shit.
And it's little details, but it's stuff that's like, huh.
Right.
It's a weird thing to not have the right information about.
It's also so irritating when you've definitely found a very reputable source with correct information.
Yeah.
And then you find a couple other pretty reputable sources and they have misinformation.
Yeah, and it's easy to happen because it's like you can see when a bunch of sources
have one piece of information, it's very easy to just consider that fact. That's it. And most of
the time you're pretty safe doing that, but I want you to get into like these like official documents
and stuff that's where you find the stuff that you're like, there it is. So this is why I love
researching old cases and like old, just any like historical thing
like this.
Cause it's just the rabbit holes you can go down and like finding those little bits of
like old document are just like it's so satisfying to me.
I love it.
You know, this is, this is what I get excited about guys.
So when we left off in part two, earn part one, we were talking about how George Griscombe
junior there, he had come to New York from Italy, he had put
out a bunch of ads trying to like lure her out of hiding. You
know, nothing was happening. The family ended up getting
two different ransom notes from like two different people who
claimed to be the same like violent organization
and two different parts of the country saying they had her.
Weird.
But they clearly did not.
Yeah, no.
And you know, people were writing saying that they saw her, that they talked to her, they
were getting letters that said, I'm safe, signed Dorothy and all that.
So shitty.
People would have truly always been shit heads. Yeah.
But also, the police commissioner in February of 1911
had said that now seems the only reasonable way
of looking at the case, meaning he was really just saying
she's gone.
Yeah.
And he said, the girl now has been missing for 75 days.
And in all that time, not a single clue has been found
that was worth the name.
I disagree.
We have no evidence that a crime has been committed in the cases now one of the missing,
one of a missing person and nothing more.
And that's what he was ending on.
Okay.
But soon, not only were people saying they saw her or saying someone they knew saw her or was living with her or was
dating with her, you know, what have you. Right. Now people were actually claiming to be her.
What? They wanted that money. So they just started pretending they were actually the missing
woman and trying to pass off, which is like, whoa, that's a, that's a, that's a real con. You're
pulling there. Yeah. They actually ended up dragging the bodies of water around Central Park for her body in
the springtime, even though when she went missing, the reservoir next to Central Park
was actually frozen solid.
So it really, her dad, Francis Arnold, was really convinced that she had been abducted,
murdered, and like thrown in that reservoir.
Okay.
But it actually really couldn't have been so
because on that day, it was frozen solid.
Right.
She wouldn't have seen it.
And that somebody like kind of hole
and like slipped her in there,
and it's like you would have seen that.
Yeah, and you just, they would have been a lot.
But when it melted, they wanted to please her families
who insisted that they look in the water.
Yeah.
Nothing was found, not her body,
nothing that belonged to her either.
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Now, in February as well, when Junior got back to New York to search for her and put those ads out,
before he had any planned interviews, because he did have some
planned interviews that he gave, he was actually literally accosted on board
the ship home from Italy to New York. Now this is where the ship manifests
comes in. Now reporters actually came on to the ship at one of the ports, and
they asked him questions out of the blue, like very unexpected, he didn't
enough time to prepare, and they said, you know, they were asking whether Dorothy had been
in Italy with him or not. He adamantly denied the cheetah ever been there with him. And
his parents were there too on board, because he was in Italy with his parents, and they
were adamant they had not seen her at all either. Then according to a Boston Globe article, the reporter on board said there was
another name in their party that was not there. This was a Mrs. E. F. Glenn. And the reporter said she
was not present and they could never reach her. Huh. And she wouldn't come out. Because she's
in hiding and really she's Dorothy. Isn't that strange? So when I read that, I only read this
in one Boston Globe article,
and it was the reporter that talked to him,
and was like, yeah, she wouldn't come out,
and it was weird, but she was listed in their party
on the manifest.
So she was on the boat somewhere.
Yeah, she was on the manifest in their party.
Like, was writing with them.
So she had to have been there.
And so I searched through the fucking records
because I was like, I'm going to find this because maybe this Boston Globe reporter,
because by the way, lots of these people made up ship back then. So there's all kinds of conflicting
information and newspapers. I was like, maybe they're wrong. So I got to find this out. Well,
I found the fucking manifest for the Berlin, the ship that were on, on that day, which was really cool to find the ship
that they were on that day that they were.
That is cool.
I was like, whoa, this is cool.
So it lists the griscomes who, Jr, by the way,
was listed as being 30 years old.
Also not 42.
Not 42.
And Mr. Griscom, the father, was listed as 56,
and Mrs. Griskem was listed as 50.
So that would make sense that he was 30.
So this whole tale that I initially found
where they say he was 42,
and his parents were elderly, nope.
He was only about five years older than Dorothy,
which makes more sense for why her father
only lists his reason for not liking him for his daughter
as the fact that he lived a life of leisure.
Right.
That makes so much more sense now.
Just a note that so many sources have this wrong if the ship manifests as to be believed,
which it makes sense.
Yeah.
It makes so much more sense.
And honestly, again, this is why I fucking love O'Case's.
I know.
You find that kind of shit of treasure trove.
I just love like the aha moment.
But that was wild to me.
And also, I don't believe he was even an engineer.
I think that's a wrong piece of information
that's floating around.
Well, why?
The way the father talks about him
is always calling him a man of leisure,
a man of too much time, a man who doesn't,
like basically a man who doesn't work.
And just because his family was extraordinarily wealthy
as well.
Oh, so this, this family.
So when this had been like a really good pairing?
Well, that's the thing.
It's like on paper, this makes sense.
And apparently, you know, his family was very wealthy.
He was still living with them at 30, but like whatever.
And he was just kind of living off of them.
And just like, like I said, he was a gentleman of leisure.
Yeah.
But it makes more sense that the only reason
they would not like this match, he never mentions the age
or anything like that.
Huh.
He always says he doesn't do anything.
And that's what pisses him off.
And it makes so much more sense now.
Because he's not 42.
Because he's a worker, like Francis is a worker.
So he wants his daughter to be with a man who's a hard worker
Right, and he's gonna provide not a man who's living off his family money. It makes a lot more sense
It makes so much more sense. Oh shit
But either way this mysterious EF Glenn woman is on the manifest in their party. Okay, so this article was correct
She's right there written down. She is listed as a 54 year old woman.
But still weird that they couldn't find her
and I wanna know who she is.
Just because I'm like, who are you?
And why wouldn't you come out?
Right.
And why couldn't they ever talk to you again?
Because when I first found it, I was like,
oh my God, she's gonna be listed as 25
but I'm gonna lose my gun.
What if it was just like a long tour something?
It probably was. But I'm like, why didn. What if it was just like a monitor something? It probably was.
Yeah.
But I'm like, why didn't you come out?
Maybe it's just weird.
And they never mentioned that she was there with them
in Italy.
That is weird.
Like who's this?
Maybe she's not 54.
Maybe it was Dorothy dressed up like a 54 year old woman.
Maybe she just claimed she was 54.
But then at the same time,
and like why was he doing all this press?
Yeah.
If she was.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Fucking weird.
Because also she looked 25.
She didn't look 54.
So I feel like somebody would be like,
you are not.
And also at that point, her face was everywhere
in her description.
True.
But it's all the more reason why she couldn't come out.
Yeah.
Oh, I have no idea.
I just don't know.
I just thought it was weird.
I was like, who is EF Glenn?
It was fun to find the name on the manifest.
That is cool. You are. But the Raleigh News and Observer did a piece on this whole thing.
Like the whole like him coming back to New York, him like putting out the ads, all this.
And Junior actually talked to a reporter from there and he expressed his love for Dorothy and said,
quote, I'm deeply in love with the young lady
and hope to wed her if she is alive.
Oh.
He gave the interview the day after he arrived in New York
and he had his father with him at the time.
His father, who was who he credited
for actually pushing him to declare his love for Dorothy.
Oh, he said he wanted to, but was hesitant
and his father encouraged him
because maybe it would help her come back
if she had left willingly. True. But later, his father encouraged him because maybe it would help her come back if she had left willingly.
True.
But later, his father was like,
no, I never would have done that.
I never would have told him to declare that.
That's like inappropriate.
Because this was like very inappropriate
for him to say like, I'm going to wed her
when she comes back.
It's like, oh, no, you gotta talk to the dad first.
In fact, then, like this was a very,
this was a very like taboo thing that he did.
Like this was to declare your intentions to wed her
without speaking to her family first.
Was like,
we need a blessing.
That's a no, no, but.
So it sounded like he was trying to get the heat off himself
and was like, my dad told me to do it.
And it's like real nice.
But he further said to him,
the reporters that day, Junior did,
I might add an expression of hope that she is alive and safe and that she will consent to marry me.
And he said he wanted to meet with Dorothy's mother in particular, in Atlantic City. And he said
they had plans to so that he could discuss this with her. And he wanted to tell her everything he
intended with Dorothy from the beginning.
Okay.
And he's telling the report of this.
He said, quote,
I shall conceal nothing from her concerning my acquaintance
with Miss Dorothy.
Uh-huh.
Now his father was also very concerned
that anyone would think that their family's willingness
to bless a marriage between their son and Dorothy,
or their willingness to aid in finding her
was for personal gain.
The parents were very like the father was like,
I don't want anyone thinking.
Yeah.
That I'm just trying to munch off of this family.
Like I got my own stuff for the thing.
So like no one, I'm just trying to help.
He has his own money.
So Papa Griscombe stated to reporters, quote,
I hope to be able to impress the public with the fact
that myself and my wife are not in any way seeking an alliance with the family of Miss Arnold for any personal reason.
Yeah, it was like leave me the fuck alone. Now this all sounds fine, but like I said, oh man, Papa Arnold did not like any of this interview.
He was so fucking annoyed that Junior declared his intentions to marry his daughter. This was a big no-no, and when the intended is missing,
ooh, that's even worse, and it made him look even more unfit
to marry into that family.
Oh shit.
So you were supposed to like talk to the father first,
declare your intention not the other way around.
Right.
Not declare your intention to the entire world
and then talk to the father.
Right.
So her father, Frances Arnold, was quoted later as saying about this interview said,
quote, it is nonsense.
This man is pestered to death and he is likely to make any kind of statement.
His words are likely to be perverted to the girl is lost.
And I'm convinced that Griscoom does not know where she is.
So he's like, I don't think she has any, he has any idea where she is or like did
anything, but he's gross. And I don't want him talking about it
I don't blame him because this poor man is like probably trying to come to terms with the fact that his daughter may have been murdered
Because that was his belief that she was murdered. That was his belief until the end
So he's probably like trying to figure out how to deal with the loss of his daughter and accept the fact that she was murdered
Yeah, and he still has no idea where she is and this this guy is like, well, I want to marry her.
He's probably just like to marry her.
And it's like, well, she's not even around.
We don't even know if she's alive.
Right.
Like, I would be, I think I would be angry
if somebody was talking about me missing daughter.
And it was like, I planned to marry her.
And it's like, well, maybe can we find her for like,
that's cute.
You should have said that before she went missing.
Well, and also, it's just the time.
That the time there were protocols. Yeah. And there were like, and especially in's just the time. That the time there were protocols.
Yeah.
And especially in this kind of society,
in a high society.
I like the whole idea of like going to whoever you're gonna marry
and making sure their family school with it.
Well, just being like, hey, like I plan to do this.
Like when Dura asked me to marry him.
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I said he had to talk to my dad and my grandpa.
I love that.
Yeah. And John came to talk to both my parents and you. I love it. I said he had to talk to my dad and my grandpa. I love that. Yeah.
And John came to talk to both my parents and you.
That's true.
I got all of your permission.
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It was so adorable.
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I was like, what was I like 13?
It's just like, I don't think it's by any means required, but it's like a nice gesture,
I guess.
I don't think it's required, but I think it's respectful.
I think it's, I wouldn't even,
it's just in my personal opinion.
Yeah.
I, one, I think it's nice.
I just think it's like a nice gesture
because it's, to me, the way John was doing it was like,
hey, I just want you guys to like be in on this,
like this exciting thing.
It wasn't so much being like,
can I have your daughter?
Your daughter. Like, it was more like, hey, I It wasn't so much being like, can I have your daughter?
Like it was more like,
hey, I just want to let you guys know
like this is what I plan to do.
Like you want to be in on it.
Yeah.
That's what I mean.
My like, respectful.
And then it's like, but it's like,
I don't think it's like it was back then
where it was literally like,
I have to ask permission to like,
to like have your daughter.
Yeah, I know.
That's like weird and gross.
It's just like, we're not property.
But yeah, and I think it's also just anybody,
it can be anybody.
Like it can be anybody that you're intended to.
Loves and respects, you can go to them
and be like, hey, you wanna be in on this one?
Yeah, exactly.
I think that's a cool way to look at it.
That's what I think.
But back then, it was not just a cool way to look at it.
You literally needed it, it was like,
you need to have a formal thing. Well, and I feel like back then it was not just a cool way to look at it. You literally need it. It was like you need to have a formal thing.
Well, and like I feel like back then a daughter
literally was a possession, which is for sure.
Oh, for sure.
Absolutely.
Like most of these, this was all just little pieces
of chess in the game of the society, games here.
But yeah, so he was not happy.
But he said he didn't think he knew where she was.
He was just annoyed at the whole thing.
I'm sure he was like, okay, just like shut up.
Yeah.
In another article, they said that Francis Arnold
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George Grisham in the face. Yes. He said of this thing, of this interview, quote,
I don't believe Grisham said such a thing. So he didn't even believe that he said he was like,
now I think that reporter's making it. Maybe he didn't even believe that he said, he was like, now I think that reporters may be. Maybe he didn't.
And he said, if he did, I think he did personally.
He thinks so.
I think that John was kind of being like a dick about it
and we're like, I don't think he said that
because then he followed it with,
if he did, it is the height of indiscretion
and almost of impudence.
He then followed it with, can you imagine a man so foolish
as to give out a statement like that
to the newspaper
without consulting the family?
So I think it was him being like, oh, no way did he say that.
Like, you have to be a fucking idiot to say that.
And it's him being like, you're a fucking idiot.
You're not marrying into my family.
Damn.
Yeah.
This is so like Romeo and Juliet.
It's so intense.
Now he added that he didn't, you've ever believed Junior was a serious fiance for her sister
And he said for his sister and he said after seeing letters between the two it appeared she was not as enamored with him as he wanted
Everyone to believe he said there were other men
She was more friendly with and then he followed it with like he didn't even live in New York
Like it was like like long distance is impossible like nail in the coffin. He didn't live in New York. Like it was like, long distance is impossible.
Like, nail in the coffin.
He didn't live in New York, guys.
It's not happening.
Now, this was conflicting with what friends said later.
Some of her girlfriends said she did speak about junior
and her intention to someday marry him a lot.
Okay.
Neighbors of his parents,
so his parents had a vacation home in Maine
and she would go there sometimes
to spend time with him.
Neighbors at that vacation home said they could, they saw them together and they could tell
their affection for each other.
She also sold a bunch of jewelry just to go hang out with him.
Just to go see him.
So, there's a lot of different points of view here and what it seems is the family, the
Arnold family.
It's just trying to downplay it to save their face. That's exactly when they're in reality.
It seems to me like these two were very much in love.
Now he said, John said that he and his father and his mother were not going to be going to Philadelphia
or Atlantic City to meet with him like he was saying to reporters. I'm going to meet with the mother
and he was like, we have no plans to do that. Like that's a lie. So the Boston Globe, which every time I see the Boston Globe, I'm like, hell yeah.
Ran an article that was called, to Philadelphia and an automobile.
Okay.
And another connection to Philadelphia was made here.
So in this article, it is stated that in February, John Arnold, that same brother, and
Keese, the lawyer, the one John Keese is the lawyer who they called like the day after she was
Con missing and he was the one doing the investigation. Yep. So the two of them, remember he's a family friend too
They both met with the chief of the Philadelphia detective bureau. His name was captain Soder
They talked to him and said they had some information
soda. They talked to him and said they had some information. The brother and the attorney had some information that led them to believe that Dorothy was actually in Philadelphia and still alive.
Oh, okay. This information was apparently supplied to them by an old man who was not named in the
article, and I couldn't find his name anywhere. The old man actually lived near the Arnold's in
New York, but did work for hotels in Philly.
He said, on that day in December that she went missing.
He said he swore he saw Dorothy between 4 and 4.30 pm on Park Avenue near 78th Street,
right around the corner from their house.
He said, he saw her and described exactly what she was wearing down to the letter,
and said he watched her as she down to the letter, and said he
watched her as she walked down the curb holding two packages.
He said she was quickly stopped out of nowhere by an automobile pulling up to the curb.
A woman in the back of the automobile spoke to Dorothy through the window, and after a
quick conversation, which he couldn't hear the subject of, Dorothy got into the automobile seemingly of her own free will and the car drove off.
Now what is interesting about this is that the woman in the car was being driven by a driver.
This driver was a man that this old man witnessed new in Philly.
So that's why he said that's why he even took note of this in the first place,
because you may not have ever noticed this
exchange happened because why would he?
picturing this in my head is so spooky isn't it?
but he knew this driver so well in fact that they tipped their hats to each other before this whole thing took place
so he was sure that this woman was a philly woman and that this was Dorothy getting into the back of the car with her
because remember he knows the driver so he's, I could even get in touch with him.
So did they ever get in touch with him?
Well, the old man witnessed said,
I'll try to locate this driver in Philly,
but he said, I have to be paid for my time to do this.
Now, everybody who got involved in this case
wanted to be paid something.
Well, because this family's were just exactly.
The captain, captain Soder, they said he was not
super convinced about the story,
but said he would leave no stone unturned looking for her in Philly at all the hotels,
the rooming houses everywhere. Now, so that's going on. The family is denying that this
ever happened, but Captain Soder is like it happened.
How would they know? Many times during this, the family denies something happens and other
people are like, no, it happened. One is just like, how do you, like, you don't know what happened, so how do you know it
didn't happen?
Exactly.
So then that same Philly detective captain said he got a call the next day from someone
who attended Brin Mar with Dorothy.
This person said they'd seen her at North 18th Street and Mount Vernon in Philly.
So now we have some real Philly sightings here.
It's sad because one of the last lines in this article was probably a regrettable one
for the reporter who wrote it.
It said, quote, the next 24 hours it is believed to will bring forth some tangible fact that
will lead to a solution of the mystery that is baffled police and an army of private detectives
for 52 days.
Wolf, spoiler alert, it didn't.
No, now, so that happened.
They weren't able to find anything to confirm that,
but this person claimed they saw her in Philadelphia.
Okay.
So now, same month, in February,
it became known that Dorothy Arnold,
this just came out,
because things are now coming out
about all of her movements.
It became known that Dorothy Arnold, this just came out because things are now coming out of all of her movements.
It became known that Dorothy Arnold had taken a secret photograph with George Griscombe
Jr.
One that he had failed to mention initially.
So the Boston Globe reported that shortly before Griscombe sailed away to Italy and before
Dorothy went missing, the two of them made an appointment together at William P. S. Earl
Photography in the city.
They sat together for a professional photo, and then apparently Dorothy had sent a copy
of that photo to Griscombe while he was in Italy.
Oh, also I love that you had to make an appointment to take a selfie.
Isn't that a door of the iconic?
I love that.
So now this is fueling the allotment or runaway rumors.
People believe she had alope or left to start a new life away from this whole society.
But who did she allope with?
Well that's what people don't understand.
They like was it another man?
Was she planning to allope with George Griscombe Jr. and something happened?
So people were spotting her everywhere.
And most of them were obviously hoaxes, but the idea that she possibly alooped with, again, either Griscom or some mystery man was further
cemented, because even more shadiness came out of this, because Edward Hart, who
was the clerk of the Marriage License Bureau, stated to investigators in
February that back at Thanksgiving of 1910 before she went missing.
Like a month before.
A month before.
Pinkerton detectives had come in and done a thorough search of the marriage license records
to see if Dorothy had filed for one.
A month before she went missing.
Yes.
So they were searching even before she went missing to see if she was trying to her
lope, which means they were worried she was going to a lope even before this.
So this family, who is claiming they'd no way could she have done that, they were worried
about it before she even went missing.
Okay.
So worried about it that they had sent Pinkerton detectives to go search.
Girl, she left on her own foolishness.
That's what I'm saying. She left on her own volition. That's what I'm saying.
She left on her own volition.
You can't tell me otherwise.
So then the family denied that.
Of course they didn't.
And Edward Shady, of course.
But Edward Hart came out and in the New York Times was like,
nope, they definitely remember.
The article said he stated that, quote,
the search was so thorough that it would have been impossible
for any man of intelligence to have forgotten that incident.
Wow.
He was like, fuck you.
He was so much hate.
It disrupted my whole day.
And I remember.
He said it took like a week because he was like,
there's so many marriage, of course.
And it's not like they're like digital at that point.
And he said, you know what?
And when they came in, he said he asked them dates
to search to narrow it down. And they said, you know, and when they came in, he said he asked them dates to search to narrow it down
And they said they were searching any time within that year for a marriage license
But they said particularly very recently. Okay, so they thought that she could have been married anytime that
That previous year, but they were like let's look really recently, but like actually in the past year
Wow, so the family was worried that for the past year she could have been married.
Dude, he also said they did the same search in December for her as well and turn nothing up.
So they did it twice.
And that was again December.
No, this was after.
After.
But they did it twice.
So they were really worried that she eloped.
Yeah.
Then, well excuse me.
No.
You know who's excuse?
No.
No. I will not. I'd meant to say like no worries. You were like, excuse me? No.
No.
I will not.
I meant to say like no worries, but like I just just like,
no.
No.
And I was like, not excusing.
OK.
You were like, well, all right.
So if they were looking for marriage licenses before,
because they thought that she had aloved,
had she gone missing at another time?
She did not go missing, but as we're
going to talk about, she went to Washington.
She would visit friends from Brinmar a lot.
And it kinda came out that a couple of those were probably to see George.
Yeah.
So I think when she would do that, they were worried that she had aloved during those
times.
So it looks like they were trying to keep up on that.
She dipped.
She wanted to be away from me.
Exactly.
And I looked up as many records as I could possibly look at,
I was like going hard onto this until like 2.30 AM.
And I could not find any kind of record
that she did alope, but she could have, who knows?
I don't know, I couldn't find,
I couldn't look through every record of every state.
She could have gone to another state.
Well, the other thing is she's like a smart gal.
Maybe she just ran away with a man's
and like didn't marry him, but like they considered themselves
maybe exactly.
Well, then it was reported, it was also reported
that after they went forward with the search in Philadelphia
to try to see if maybe that like story
of that old guy was panning out.
A week later, the district attorney,
Charles S. witness, witness
Whitman told Francis Arnold that he was like, you know what, I'm offering my complete services
to you to find Dorothy. And he said, I'll give your family full access to anything you need
to find her. Like, you just wanted to let them know like, we're here for you. We're going
to help you. Apparently, Francis Arnold responded, please don't.
We're not looking for Dorothy any longer.
He even thought he had misunderstood.
He was like, maybe he's misunderstanding
when I'm offering him.
So he repeated the author.
He was like, you know, like, I meant,
I'm telling you that we'll just offer you
like anything you need.
And he was like, nope, we're not looking for her in the district.
Attorney was asked about this later and he said, it is true that I offered Mr. Arnold
a week ago last Saturday all the facilities of my office to assist him in locating his
missing daughter. He said, I particularly assured him that even that if there was the
slightest suspicion that any crime had been committed, I was ready to trail the thing to the bitter end, regardless of time and expense.
I talked to Mr. Arnold on the phone and never thought that I would receive the thanks of
a father for the offer to assist him.
Instead, he exclaimed to me, over the wire, please don't, please don't, Mr. Whitman, please
don't.
We are not looking for Dorothy anymore now.
And then he said he just hung up.
That I'm sorry, that's bizarre.
What the fuck is that?
Like why did you stop looking for her?
And let's do something.
What does that have to do with something?
This, I don't know what this family is about,
but that's weird.
And also that's more than like,
we've just accepted that she's dead,
because again, that's what he believed.
But I just feel like if there were like a chance
to even solidify that information,
he would have wanted to use the resources available.
So to me, that says, I know what happened.
I know what happened.
And I think concrete, I know what happened.
The more I go into this, the more I'm like,
I think you know that she packed up and left
and you don't know how to spin this.
Do you think that maybe she wrote to them at some point
or sent word to them that she was okay?
I do wonder.
I wonder if they have some kind of concrete evidence
that said she didn't want to be around anymore.
But, and it would have been incredibly embarrassing
for the family about what it'd been.
Oh, yeah.
Even though, like, I'm sure they consider this a stain on the legacy anyways. But that would have been on the legacy. Oh yeah. Even though like I'm sure they consider
their sustain on the legacy anyways.
But that would have been worse
that you're that she lost high society woman
that was supposed to be marrying an upstanding gentleman
carrying on the family name.
The way that he's a gentleman, like okay, Calhawk Lee.
Somebody asked about my love for Calhawk Lee.
I will not tell you.
It just is what it is.
No, I just love Calhocle.
I just like, I wouldn't have watched Titanic
for the first time.
I loved Leo.
Obviously, I was a Leonardo DiCaprio girl.
But like, a Leonardo DiCaprio girl in the right
that it's literally written inside of her childhood closet,
which then we glitter my closet.
In glitter paint.
Yeah.
No, I was like a full, I loved Leo when I was here.
So like, don't get me wrong.
It'll be okay.
Yeah, it's for sure.
But like, I, Kel.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
He's a dick.
Like, I don't want that.
But like, I kind of get it a little bit.
Okay.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Alrighty.
Alrighty.
Billy Zane, you know?
Billy Zane.
Uh. Yeah, I was gonna say, like, let's Billy Zane and not Calhawkely.
But like Billy Zane has Calhawkely.
That's the only thing.
So Billy Zane in old dress.
Yeah, okay, there you go.
All right, I like that.
Yeah, because when he gets in the lifeboat,
it like, pretend, he like holds a kid to get in the lifeboat.
That's where I jump off.
Yeah, we jump off.
That's where I jump off. Oh, we jump off. That's where I jump off.
I'm, I'm, oh, and doesn't, I have not watched Titanic
and literally I think a decade.
I can't.
I can't.
But doesn't he like slap rose to?
Yeah.
Yeah, so I think so.
If I, yeah, so I'm like, I don't,
I don't want like his thing.
No, no, he just like, you like what he looks like.
He looks all right.
And in the beginning, I think he like his like attitude. The little swagger there. No, no. He just like, you like what he looks like. He looks all right. And in the beginning, I think he like his attitude.
The little swagger there.
That's all.
But then I jump off real quick.
Yeah.
Oh, bad choice of words.
I know.
You know what?
I'm going to get out of this really quick.
Oh my God, dude.
The first time I watched the Titanic,
the amount of boogers that came out of my face,
I don't know if I can watch it.
No, I can't.
It might like really bump me.
Because it's hard in my head.
All I can see is that old couple hugging on the bed. Yeah. And no. And just can't. It might like really bump me, because it's hard in my head. All I can see is that old couple hugging on the bed.
Yeah, in the storage.
I just can't.
That's the thing, like watching it as a child.
I was like, oh, so scary, both.
Yeah.
Now I'm like, oh, being away from Drew forever?
Yeah.
No.
No.
That's what makes me cry.
Yeah, that's the thing.
So yeah, that's maybe that's why I haven't watched it
in forever.
Even more bookies.
But you know what, it's just like,
it's just a look thing with Calhawkely in the beginning.
I'm really all of this.
And the Swagger.
And the Swagger.
Swagger.
But we know one of the corner has Swagger like Calhawkely.
There you go.
There you go.
I cracked my stuff.
Oh man, I also love them in Cal.
So I like that name too.
It's a cute name.
Yeah.
But anyway, anyway, we've digressed.
That's kind of fun. They miss a digression every once in a while because we haven't done it in a while.
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So, by March, the Burlington Free Press actually had a headline that said,
Arnold's our entire ignorance.
So that was cool.
And also not grammatically correct.
Wait, what?
Arnold's our in-entire ignorance.
Oh, so like they don't, they don't be knowing.
But it's like that doesn't sound right.
It does not tumble out of my mouth and feel good.
No, because I was like, sorry, what, you said that. It really doesn't sound right. That does not tumble out of my mouth and feel good. No, because I was like, sorry, what, you said that.
It really doesn't.
No, they spoke with a very close family friend,
whose name was Clarence Ashley.
And he told the paper that any rumors
that the Arnold's new where Dorothy was
or new she may run away were false.
Because at this point, since you and I were just talking
about it, so was the rest of the people.
They were like, this is seeming weird
And I think this family knows what happened. Of course. They did from the jump exactly
So he said when asked if they had any theories about where she was he stated
Quote they are convinced she is dead. They have held various theories, but that is the end of their reasoning
Here's what that says to me. That's in March. Dead to them. Exactly.
Dead to them. They consider her dead. Nailed it. Nailed it.
Nailed it.
Oop. This is when the reporter pointed out that several other reporters were really
concerned after speaking with the family about this situation because they all believe
that they were not behaving as they quote, family and mourning. Yeah. And lots of reporters were like they're weird about
it. Right. And like it's weird that they're just stating she's dead but saying
they don't know anything. Right. And Clarence Ashley's response to that was
quote that may appear so to the public. It is one thing to realize death when the
corpse is seen and another when the real end is in doubt. Yeah. Which he is not
wrong. That is absolutely correct.
Now, he stated that suicide was considered, but no means could be found,
because she didn't have a revolver, he said. Okay.
And she had not come in possession of poison that they could find record of.
They searched the Bronx woods and found nothing.
They said that she actually liked to go into the Bronx woods with a book often and would sit for hours and just read in the woods.
Oh cool. She seemed cool.
Imagine doing that. I wish you could do that now.
I know. She just seemed cool.
She did.
Like good for her, but she would just read in the woods.
Reading at leisure.
So that's the other thing about them pointing out that she bought chocolates and a novel and being...
And it's so funny because I found several articles that were like, these are womanly things that they buy
when they go on a long trip.
And I was like, mm, okay.
I don't know if we can like totally throw a blanket on that.
You know, it's funny.
I was just in Burlington and I bought so much chocolate.
Exactly.
And you were going on a trip.
And a lot of books.
There you go.
So maybe they were read about you, maybe.
But when it comes to Dorothy, she read all the time.
Yeah, she was always picking up novels and shit.
And she just wanted some fucking chocolate, I feel like.
Hell yeah. Who knows?
Truffles are delicious.
Now, he said he believed that she was abducted and killed.
He stated that the Clarence Ashley, their family friend,
who was also the dean of one of the colleges in the area.
Okay, and like has connection to this family.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Apparently he had known Dorothy since she was little.
He had a daughter that they were friends.
Like, there was a very close connection here.
He also went really detailed with this,
like theory he had of her being abducted and killed,
which is like a little strange to me.
Yeah.
He said, quote, I am inclined to believe
that the girl was abducted and killed
by an overdose of chloroform,
or held and killed later.
I have a feeling that sometime later,
one of the lonely long island woods will give up the body
of Dorothy Arnold's.
It could lie there under scurvered
and an adequate search has been impossible.
Oh.
What, sir?
Why do you just find chloroform and
overdoce of chloroform?
That was very fucking specific.
Yeah.
Like what?
And of course, reporters were like,
yeah, but remember she would have had to
been abducted in like broad daylight
on Fifth Avenue or near it at least.
And he said, quote,
we New Yorkers never notice anything
much and it would have been very easy for three or four persons
to hustle a girl into a waiting automobile or carriage,
especially if it were done under the guise of friendly joking.
The hand over the mouth, the little struggle,
would be taken only as part of a friendly prank.
What's up?
And I tried to chloroform me as a joke.
I can assure you that I wouldn't be like,
OMG, friendly little prong.
Also, clearance.
Who are your friends?
Like the hand over the mouth, the friendly struggle,
the throwing into a carriage.
I'm like, who the fuck are you hanging out with?
Do you know what this is giving me though?
Gilmore, girls.
It's giving me Logan and his pals.
It literally is.
It's so funny because someone got so bad
that we mentioned Go-Mor girl so much,
but it is.
It's very life and death brigade.
It is.
It's very much.
This whole thing is very good, my girls.
I can relate anything back to Go-Mor girl.
That's a specialty that you raised me with.
Oh, hell yeah.
It's a skill that I have honed over decades.
Where you lead.
I will fall.
I will fall.
Yeah, anywhere. Anywhere. I will tell you anywhere.
That you tell me to.
This is, it's very life and death's regated.
It is.
It is.
Something they would do.
Yeah, so I guess Clarence might be on to something.
Maybe he was part, maybe he was an omniparatus with them.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Go watch Go War Girls, you got it.
So yeah, he did say that the motive could have just been
ransom, which makes sense, because it's a very...
Yeah, it could have been, but then like,
they didn't ever send ransom.
Well, a lot of ransoms came,
but they thought they were hoaxes.
So maybe there was a real one in there.
That slipped by.
Or he said, maybe it was just possession
of the girl herself, which I was like, whoa,
Claire. That's bleak. And then he went on to call her a very handsome woman.
And it all got very strange. And I was like, I'm going to dip out of this article a bit.
So that was weird. But also in March, reports surface that Dorothy's mother sent letters
to the chief detectives in Oklahoma.
Where the fuck does Oklahoma come into the whole thing?
I'm saying this went everywhere. So she sent letters to the chief of detectives in Oklahoma,
saying that she believed her daughter was in Oklahoma and was hiding out there.
Okay.
Yeah.
So this was because there had been all this talk about this couple in Oklahoma that came out.
Now two detectives were in Oklahoma investigating this already, but it was all very hush-hush. Nobody was talking about it.
Then immediately following all of this, an article in the Dispatch Republican, a Kansas paper,
reported that friends of a man and his new wife in Muscogee Muscogee
We're gonna we found it online
Muscogee Muscogee. Hey, we got it right Muscogee. It's in Oklahoma
And I want to say it right so Muscogee Oklahoma
They were friends so these are people that are friends of this man and his new wife and Muscogee Oklahoma
They were convinced that the wife who was going by the name Virginia,
they believe she was Dorothy.
Okay.
That you get this gets crazy.
Now a reporter spoke to the couple
and said that they wouldn't deny that she was Dorothy,
but they also wouldn't say she wasn't.
Cannot continue.
Or she wouldn't deny that she wasn't.
They wouldn't say she was, basically.
I don't know why I said it that way.
They wouldn't say she wasn't. They wouldn't say she was. Could. I don't know why I said it that way. They wouldn't say she wasn't, they wouldn't say she was.
Could not confirm nor did I.
I said that really stupidly. And they said the man was very nervous, like sweating bullets
during this interview. Really?
At one point he said her maiden name was Arnold and then backtracked.
Now he was sweating and at one point according the article, was wiping sweat from his forehead, and then said, I wish this was all over.
Oh, yeah, that makes me sad.
Now, let me quickly bring up this newspaper article, because this newspaper article where they talk about it, shows you how like like it's just a weird situation. So I'm going to read
just part of this. It says, at one point in the interview, the husband, while much confused,
said about his wife's made name that it was Arnold, he immediately corrected himself
adding or whatever her name was. Then to his wife, he said, what was your name before
we were married? How long have you been married, y'all? She said, never mind what my name was.
She said, I am Mrs. Deloge now.
In a servant of the cove that was near the couple during the several days before this,
said the young woman said to her, I'm Dorothy Arnold at one point.
Now, initials on their trunk that, like their luggage,
add to the suspicion.
When they first arrived, the name on one end of the trunk had been scratched away,
but a letter, a capital letter A could be seen.
What?
Since then, the initials JWD have been crudely painted over the original letters.
On the bottom of the trunk are the words New York City.
Okay, solved it. Isn't that wild? Yeah, that's... Come on. Isn't that insane? I was like...
It was blowing my mind. Now, friends said he was telling them that they were
secretly married for 18 months, and she was saying less than a year, but the
friends were like, no, it couldn't be more than three months that they've been married.
Remember, this was March.
And she went missing in December.
It literally lines up perfectly.
Everyone said she arrived the first of February in Oklahoma.
Dorothy was gone in December.
The real reason friends contacted police was because one of the friends was watching a
quote picture show, that's what it said in the article, with this man, the husband.
And he said that suddenly in the middle of the show,
he turned to his friend and said,
you don't think my wife is Dorothy Arnold, do you?
Friend, like what?
Friend, wait, do you think this man knew who I was?
I don't know.
She really was?
I don't know.
Or do you think that he was like, fuck now I'm got a pic.
Oh shit.
Friends also said they joked with her about how much she resembled Dorothy in the pictures
in the paper because she did.
She looked just like her.
Did you have the picture?
I don't have a picture but just from them describing it like the blue gray eyes, the brown
hair, same height, same weight, same everything.
And she would randomly say, well, I am Dorothy Arnold.
What? And they thought it was a joke. But apparently this woman, like we said, had the luggage
from New York. She had tons of, she had fine clothing with her and fine jewels when she arrived.
And they were apparently like, they were quoted as being penniless because they didn't, but they
like had really nice shit. But she wouldn't have anything, any money, because she didn't, but they like had really nice shit, but she wouldn't have anything, any money,
because she didn't bring anything with her.
Do you think that she would have wanted to be penniless?
Because we did see that she did enjoy being
like a woman's society to some degree,
but I don't know if it was like,
or do you think it was all a facade
or maybe they didn't have any money?
I don't know.
And that's the thing.
But isn't that a weird one?
And what's weird is there's several articles about this?
They went hard at it and then it was just let go just went away. Just let go. And then like that might be Dorothy Arnold guys like
What the fuck that's really bizarre now?
So weird now of course we already talked briefly about the rumors that she had alope or left our own accord
But because of the time period people started wondering if she had alopeed or left her own accord, but because of the time period,
people started wondering if she had found herself pregnant.
Okay.
And it had undergone a secret procedure
that was possibly botched.
Okay.
If this happened a lot, now are you ready
for it to get weirder?
Yes.
April 2014.
I was like, probably not.
Not 2014, 1914 1914 okay little little different
This is when headlines read
Port of missing women is found private hospital maternity home in Pittsburgh is
Rated by police when physician confesses crime says Dorothy Arnold died there famous mystery of missing ares may be solved in coming
there. Famous mystery of missing ares may be solved in coming investigation. The victims were cremated. Bodies of Miss Arnold and others who did not recover were
burned. What? Now yes. So Dr. Cece Meredith and associates, like yet a few
associates in this whole thing, were arrested for running in a legal super
janky abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, where several women had died horrifically.
It was called the House of Mystery, and several women went missing for real there.
And it was like a hellish operation that they were running.
One of the associates, Dr. Lutz, confessed that one of these women was Dorothy Arnold.
He confessed that physicians in the area acted as, quote, feeders, and they would send
women to these unskilled fucks to basically experiment on them in the name of offering
abortions.
And when shit went awry, they would throw them in the furnace and cremate them.
What the fuck?
Now according to one article, it says, quote, Lutz says he was told there was a certain
party that came to me from New York and was traced as far as my office
It was Dorothy Arnold. When asked about what had become of her, Meredith had said to have motion to the skyward with both hands
Also, it said quote, ashes in the basement of this facility and earth in a stone-walled pit
Will be was examined for traces of bone dust and
quick lime and they found it.
Okay.
Now, after this came out, of course, the family said it was ridiculous and untrue.
Because they didn't want her to be associated with an abortion.
No, that would have been...
It's just getting more and more scandalous as far as their concern.
But then the family attorney Keith there, John Keith, said that he had been called and visited Pittsburgh
two months after Dorothy went missing because it was reported to them that a woman in a
sanitarium there was claiming to be Dorothy.
Okay.
Now, this janky clinic was in Pittsburgh as well.
Keith went there to talk to her and she ended up not being Dorothy, but he did mention that
he saw Dr. Meredith there.
Oh, this guy. And he asked
him about Dorothy. He was like, have you seen this woman? And he said he got very uncomfortable and
very nervous about it, like noticeably. So I feel like everybody is just so nervous, but they
can't find any concrete shit. It's just been talking. So in part one, we briefly mentioned that Dorothy had gone on a trip to Washington at some point
and she had gone so far as having her male forwarded
the week she was there and we were like, that's weird.
That trip was in November 1910,
only like a month before she went missing.
And it was actually the day before Thanksgiving
and she had spent Thanksgiving there in Washington.
Now if you remember, the Pinkerton detective
said also gone at that time to find out if she had aloved.
Oh, shit.
So do you think that she didn't tell her family
that she wasn't going to be there?
They claimed that she was, that she, this was all,
that she told them about it.
They let her go, that this was all permitted.
Okay.
But I don't know about any of this.
Now, she was visiting her friend from Brinmar,
and her name is Theodosia Bates,
which Hamilton anyone.
Theodosia.
Deodosia.
Well, there.
Theodosia remembers Dorothy,
complaining that she wasn't feeling well
and told her she believed she could be getting her period soon.
Could she have been pregnant?
Maybe.
Now, also on that visit,
she was literally staying in bed and had a big Manila envelope delivered to the door at one point.
And it was delivered on Thanksgiving when the mail is closed. Right. So she would have had to have
somebody bring it to her. Like she would have to set that up. No one knows who, including Theodosha,
she could not figure out who was bringing that mail.
She was clearly upset after receiving this bulky envelope and ended up leaving on Friday when she
was supposed to stay until Monday. And she said that Theodosia, quote, I always intended on leaving
today. But that wasn't true. Weird. Which is weird. What do you think was in the envelope? Well,
so this lent itself to the rumors, of course, that she was possibly pregnant.
Yes.
And also the rumors that she had possibly ended her own life because of the constant
redacted rejection she might have been getting from these stories, because they thought
that could have been a manuscript that came back to her.
Okay.
But you think it was that important to be delivered on Thanksgiving, though?
Well, that's the thing.
I don't know.
None of this thing, and who delivered it?
Right.
Why did she set up there to deliver that?
Because it wasn't the regular mail.
Right.
I was so weird.
Now, the suicide rumors came about,
and her family even considered them a possibility,
at one point.
At first, everyone was pushing the rumors off,
because aside from her writing troubles,
she was seemingly a happy, healthy, and vibrant young woman.
People who spoke to her that day, she was seemingly a happy, healthy, and vibrant young woman.
People who spoke to her that day that she went missing said she was sweet, happy, completely
carefree, nothing out of the ordinary.
But she was feeling a deep sting of rejection from not only publishing outlets, but her own
family all the time.
Right.
Yeah.
And likely some friends as well about the thing that she is most passionate about.
She also was not allowed to get her own place
to try to hone these skills,
and was being forbidden from seeing the man
she supposedly loved.
So she had a lot going on.
Thanks a lot.
So some people speculated that maybe the pressures
of society life were not something she wanted,
but something she felt like she had a pretend to want.
And that she can really wear on someone after a while,
mixed with the rejection, the love life issues, that's a lot.
It is.
Her family did consider this a viable theory, but still clung to the idea later that she
was abducted and killed.
Okay.
Because they just, nobody could say that she seemed depressed or that she seemed off
for when they spoke to her that day, they were like, I could, I, it would shock me if
she was in the state of mind
that she was about to enter life.
Right. And why wouldn't we have found her if she did that?
Well, that's the other thing. Where is she?
Right. That, that's why that doesn't make sense to me.
Now, April 1916 brought even darker and more strange leads
because things went quiet for a while
and then it popped right back into the headlines.
A convicted felon in prison in Rhode Island suddenly confessed saying he had been paid to help bury a girl in a
cellar in West Point and that girl was Dorothy Arnold. The prisoner's name was Edward
Glen Norris and he was in for extortion. He was confessing because he recently found
Jesus so he wanted to clear a shit out. He is so over the top, he is such a trip,
and I think he was lying through his teeth.
Okay.
He said a guy named Little Louie,
a gangster named DePonce,
and a rich young fellow who ladies loved,
had joined him and joined them
in doing this deed for some cash.
He told reporters that this chick named Flow or Duchy.
I mean, listen, remember the Bondi-of-the-bakely case
with all the like whizzled kid fucking duffy snuffing
and all makes sense.
Flow or duchy told him little Louie had a job for him one day.
Okay.
So he goes through this whole thing where Louie was like,
you know what a bullet is for?
And he was like, yeah, I know what a bullet is for Louie.
And he's like, you better put one in your neck
if shit goes wrong. And he was like, of course, Louie a bullet is for Louis. And he's like, you better put one in your neck if shit goes wrong.
And he was like, of course, Louis, I'll do that.
Yes, Louis.
Then he says something that sounds to me like it's straight out of like a parody, like
a comedy.
He says, quote, to the reporter, he says, that sounds funny to you people, but it's serious
business with us crooks.
We're paid to kill and we'll get ourselves in the next sometime. Sometimes so it might as well be done by our own bullets as by other gangsters and bulls.
Life is short for all of us. I'm going to suddenly disappear after I leave this place. Sometimes some dark night when nobody is looking, they'll get me as a rat and a stool pigeon. Sure. I mean, yeah, all right. Yeah, all right, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. So of this whole thing,
he says, it happened on the day Dorothy went missing and he said himself in this random rich guy
rode to new new Rochelle went up to this fancy home and he said it had a huge porch columns,
etc. It was like this beautiful home. Sure. And a man with gray hair and a mustache,
answered the door and said to call him Doc.
Okay.
He said they went into the home and saw a girl on the couch.
She was unconscious, seeming to have been drugged.
She was wearing exactly what Dorothy was wearing.
She had brown hair.
And he said that they told him she was Dorothy Arnold's because he said, quote, I never
go into such jobs until I know who I'm up against.
All right.
Fair.
They brought her into the car and drove her to another home in New Jersey, where she was
placed on a couch, still out of it.
And they left the rich guy with her, and Doc.
Now, they were told she was having surgery.
The next day, little Louie told him she was dead, and part of their job was to go back and bury her.
Okay.
So he said they buried her in the cellar of the home, and they had to dig up the concrete and put more down to cover the hole.
Police followed up on this because they had to.
Of course.
And the warden told them where.
They went to a couple of homes, cellars, they found nothing.
They dug up cellars.
So that was just like weird bullshit, but weird.
Yeah. Now one more time, April 8th, 1921, the case made headlines again. A detective from the
Bureau of Missing Persons, Captain John Ayers, was speaking at a conference in New York. And during
this speech, he said that the Bureau and the Arnold family know exactly what happened to Dorothy Arnold and have for a while.
He wouldn't answer any questions about it, and that was it.
That's not fair.
The next day when reporters swarmed him to ask about it, he said he was misquoted and didn't know anything about it.
What?
What?
No.
So, Francis Arnold died in 1922, and in his will he wrote, quote,
I have made no provisions in this will for my beloved daughter, Dorothy H.C. Arnold,
as I am satisfied that she is not alive.
He maintained until the end that he believed she was kidnapped and murdered.
Okay.
Mary Arnold died December 29, 1928, and believed Dorothy was alive somewhere until the end.
Oh, OK.
So the mom and dad did not agree.
After everything, the family, the rest of the surviving
family and the family attorney, John Keith,
believed she had killed herself and said so publicly.
So all of them have a different view.
So what's interesting to me is that the father was satisfied
with that.
Yeah.
The fact that she was dead.
It's really interesting to me that the mom didn't believe
she was dead and thought she was alive somewhere
and had spoken to people in Oklahoma
where that whole weird thing actively investigated it.
And for me, it's kind of like the mom has more of a bond
just naturally with the child,
especially a daughter, I think.
So I think it's weird to me that she was like, no, she's not dead. I feel like she knew. I think. Yeah. So I think it's weird to me that like she was like,
no, she's not like that.
I feel like she knew.
I think she knew, yeah.
Like she knew in her heart of hearts that she was summer.
And I think the dad was just happy to, not happy,
but I think he was fine with just writing it off.
Yeah.
I think just being like, this is what I'm comfortable believing.
And if she did leave, then she's as good as dead to me.
Exactly.
That's exactly what I think it was.
Yeah.
I think it's so crazy too that if she did leave,
she was bombarded all the time with like newspaper shit
of her.
And it's still never come.
Everywhere and she, nothing ever.
It is interesting.
I don't know, I feel like the strongest theory
that you presented was definitely the Oklahoma couple.
That was wild to me.
And just the fact that that woman was like,
maybe I am Dorothy Armies.
But then again, it's like how many people
over the years have been like,
maybe I am de-exactly.
So, but I mean, the, like the, the luggage and the time free.
I also wonder that like botched operation
or botched abortion, unfortunately is a viable theory
especially at that time.
Yeah, it is.
So it's like that's scary, but I do think she, I think she dipped.
Yeah, and she might have dipped with the wrong people and maybe she was dead.
Maybe she was killed at some point or maybe something bad happened.
But I think initially I don't think it was an abduction.
But then again, I say that and I say that was such confidence, but then I'm like, nothing
about that day says that she planned to dip.
Yeah, but I think that was done with care.
That's true, but I don't know.
Because if she planned to dip, obviously she would be meticulous and making it seem like
she wasn't going to do it.
You would think she would have gotten rid of some of that communication with like griscom
and stuff and like, I don't know, taking some of her jewelry with her to pawn
or something like that.
Like, how about this though?
Maybe she didn't get rid of the communication with Griscom because she knew that she was
going off to marry another man.
So she kept that as like a red herring?
Exactly.
Yeah, that's absolutely the thing.
I mean, damn, she's a smart middle mastermind.
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And it would make sense that maybe she could absolutely
have gone and lived off with another person.
Yeah, who knows?
And she had already lived like a fancy life and I think she probably knew that she could go back to it if she wanted to.
Yeah. So she tried out being penniless for a minute and still like to wear her clothes that she had in her trunk with her nayscare.
It's just wild. It is.
The fact that you just like don't know. You don't know. It's crazy.
But they do know, but they don't.
Somebody knows.
A lot of people know.
Well, then that whole thing about the driver too,
is super weird.
And so they were never able to track the driver.
They were never able to like track that whole thing down
or verify it.
Weird.
And it's like, what the fuck?
And a lot of people wanted money out of this.
So it's like, you can't trust any.
I know.
All the motos are fake.
Super dirty.
And it's like on every level,
this is just corrupted on every level.
Just the, I mean, for me, I just think
the Oklahoma one is the strongest.
And just the fact that he was like,
wasn't your last name, Arnold?
And she was like, never mind what my name was.
This is what it is like.
Yeah, like now I am this.
Right.
And it's like, maybe she just started a new identity.
I don't think she wanted that name.
Maybe not.
Based on, and like, I do wonder if maybe part of her,
like getting rejected as a writer kind of thing.
Like she was like, she was thinking maybe she got rejected
because of her name.
Yeah, so maybe she was like, I'm just gonna start a new.
Yeah.
And maybe there's a book written by Dorothy Arnold
under a totally different alias.
Wouldn't that be fucking wild?
That'd be insane.
Oh man.
Damn, I don't know.
I just, for some reason, this, I just,
I don't think she was killed.
I don't feel that way.
I, that one never was the strongest.
I'm me too.
I'm not saying it's not possible.
It's possible, of course.
But it definitely, to me, the bit,
I mean, none of the pieces add up for anything perfectly.
No.
But it just feels like she dipped.
Yeah.
I really think so.
But I'd love to know what the fuck happened.
It's funny, though, because you love to know.
I think you kind of changed your opinion a little bit.
Absolutely.
Because in the beginning, you were like,
no, I don't think she would have done that to her family.
Yeah.
Because I do think she cared about her family,
but I think she was just done with them.
That's the thing.
Well, it's like the more you read about it
because in the beginning,
and it's like when you read like the periphery sources,
it does feel like, and I do believe
that she had some kind of like sense of duty
to her family to like try to maintain
that society girl image.
But I think the more I read about her
and the more things that came out in like little snippets
here and there, I was like, I don't know.
I think she wanted to.
I think she made her heart really wanted to please them and really wanted to be that girl
that they wanted her to be.
But I just don't think she wanted to be that.
Hey, I mean, even Lure like Ilmer didn't tell anybody she was going to star's hollow.
Oh, yeah, she dipped. She didn't tell anybody she was going to star's hollow. A little bit. Yeah, she dipped.
She didn't want to be that girl.
She didn't, that they wanted her to be literally.
Yeah.
It's exactly that, it is.
But you know, all the police will say is that they said the case was solved and it's no
longer a missing person case.
And that's the other thing that's like if she was killed and they were like, yeah, she was killed.
It'll be labeled homicide.
Exactly.
Yeah, so I think they might have found her
and I think the family was like,
you better not fucking say that you found her
because we don't need people knowing that our family
doesn't want to be our family.
Or they found some kind of evidence to know for sure
that she dipped.
Right, and not necessarily like found her,
but like just something that said
this is exactly what happened.
Even if she like they have a letter or something from her
that's like this is what I did.
See the other thing that makes me feel like they found her
is that he made it a point to be like,
I am not leaving anything in my will to her
because I think she's dead.
Yeah.
Like he made it up.
That's a point.
A dead to me kind of thing. Right. It's absolutely could be it. Yeah think she's dead. Yeah. Like he made it up. That's a point.
A dead to me kind of thing.
Right.
It's absolutely could be it.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
What about the mother's will?
She also put a provision in there, but nothing is left to her.
Huh.
So that's...
And that's interesting that the mother wouldn't leave anything to her, even though she believed
she was alive somewhere.
I know.
Because I, I mean, I don't have children, obviously, but if I did and I one went missing
and I didn't have any concrete evidence
that they were killed, I would leave them something.
Yeah.
Or at least some kind of provision that says,
like, if she's found, she gets C&D.
She gets C&D.
Yeah.
He works at it.
I don't know.
But I did find one last little like,
just this has no bearing on the case whatsoever,
but I just found this interesting piece of information
While I was searching for that like through that ship manifest and shit
Yeah, I was just trying to like find shit out about George Griscombe because I was like can I find any like shady thing?
I couldn't there's really no shady things about him that I could find
But I did find his father's death certificate and his dad died at age 75 by a cerebral hemorrhage in Rhode Island,
which I was like, oh, rough. But his mother's name, so so junior's grandmother's name, is
Mercy Brown. Oh, shit. And he died in Rhode Island. Mercy Brown, if you guys remember, we did that
like New England vampire episode. Yeah. She's like, you know, one of those cases where they thought
she was a vampire, so they like removed organs after she died.
She died at like 19, she didn't have kids
that I could find any record of.
But it was just a really strange, when I saw that name,
I know it's like Mercy was a very like,
I think that was like a pretty common name
that Brown is like a super-com last name.
But to see Mercy Brown from Rhode Island,
I was like, whoa, that's weird.
That was just a weird connection. I was like, whoa.
And I had to quickly look back just to make sure
that she was 19 and she didn't have kids.
Because I was like, that would be wild.
That would have been insane if those two cases.
I would have exploded.
I think everyone would have.
Yeah, I would have just gone through the actual wall.
But I tell you, nothing is more fun
than looking through old records.
Oh, really?
I can't stop.
You came up with some good shit, dude.
And that is the case that unfortunately we don't have real answers for.
We pretty much do, I feel.
I feel it.
But the police seem like they do.
And I feel like everyone knows, but no one knows.
Nobody knows.
I know.
And I also tried to find out if John Griske and Junior got married.
And I couldn't find any marriage certificates for him
I'm sure he did not in New York
Junior and so that is the crazy
case of the disappearance of Dorothy Arnold it is indeed that was a crazy wild
Guise cried. Yeah, I know I was gonna say Goulish ride, but it really wasn't it like felt Goulish at times wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, You want to. But what I will say is that we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird.
I kind of want you to keep it so weird
that like you just disappear one day
and nobody knows where you went,
but actually you're just having a great time somewhere.
Start a great life where your husband
is like, what's your main name again?
Yeah, keep it that weird motherfucker.
You make everyone sweat around you, do it.
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