My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - MFM Minisode 321

Episode Date: March 6, 2023

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down with just a face full of pancake for this thing I usually try to plan something after these because I'm like what's I'm not going to waste this face of fucking makeup you know it never happens I never put makeup on so if I'm going to do it I'm going to use it especially to go all the way to the state of putting on eyebrows that's a real like you better get outside that is the difference between my week my weekend makeup and my weekday makeup is eyebrows yeah hey you want to go first sure all right I'm not going to read you the subject line of this just starts hi my name is Emily and I'm a younger sister and then in asterix it goes hi Emily my sister Jessica and I are four years apart and growing

up was exactly as you'd expect in true little sister fashion if I ever had the chance to hang out with be talked to or even be looked at by my older sister I would do whatever it took in true older sister fashion she knew this and would take advantage on this particular day she had no say in the matter and we were forced to spend time together her mom was out running errands which left our dad to entertain us this resulted in him giving his seven year old and three year old daughters a bucket a shovel and instructions to go shovel up our dog Penny's business in the backyard so they're like babies the same dog that always got to be Jessica's pet when we played house which left me with the cat Garpy who never

wanted to play house and would always scratch me as I pulled him out from under the bed but I had no choice if I wanted to play house I had to have a pet Jessica's rules anyways we're in the backyard my sister begins forming a plan on how she can make this experience worse for me and better for her no more than 10 minutes later my dad looks out the kitchen window to find my sister standing on top of the little tykes picnic table pointing to a pile in the yard with her shovel as my dad watches he sees little angel me running over to the pile that was pointed out picking it up bare handed placing it in my sister's shovel and and then she tosses it over the fence behind her as soon as it's gone she points to another spot I skip

over to pick up Penny's poop set it in her and again she tosses it over the fence kick off to this mini so yeah there's a lot to unpack here my sister while as evil as she is you have to give her credit it takes a special kind of seven year old mind to come up with that me pure adorable innocent loyal no notes our father starting to make sense where my older sister got this evil side from as he did nothing to stop this and let it carry on until the backyard was spotless when he tells the story now he says that he was just truly impressed and couldn't bring himself to stop what he was saying I have so many other stories like this one as we were growing up but I'm happy to report that we are now

best friends and have gone to see y'all live both times you were in Dallas and I could bet real money that she's crying over this being read by y'all right now hey Jess I did it I sent in the email stay sexy and stay strong younger siblings you'll eventually wear those older siblings down and will become friends Emily that is so true that's hilarious and terrible at the same time truly disgusting okay this one's called do you want fries with that murder hello MFM family on my 16th birthday I accepted a job at the local McDonald's a pretty normal right of passage for teens in the area I like that they phrase it I accepted a job they put in their bid and I accepted the offer one day the police came into the

store not unusual we were often walkie-talkie by the police to delay customers who they were coming to arrest one of the few thrills of the job but this time they asked to speak with me my little heart thumping and my head racing trying to think about what I might have done we headed to the office the conversation was pretty eventful as I was still a minor and they needed to arrange an interview and my parents were present the police came to my house and sat down with me and my mom they pulled pictures out of a file that showed me on cct at the front counter of McDonald's serving customers in the blurry photo two girls stood leaning on the counter talking to me a few minutes after we'd open the store

at 6 a.m. the police asked me if I could remember anything about that day months had passed since that morning and being a teenager on the early shift let's be honest I was probably hung over I had nothing to offer them I don't know what they were writing down but they proceeded to write notes on the zero information I could give them my mother shouted at them for not using a mat and scratching the table a moment I've always treasured the police started to elaborate on why they were here the girls in the photo who were friends of my friends had committed a grisly murder just two hours before they came in for their mick breakfast murder sure does work up an appetite they acted normal nothing to trigger the murder

you know in me no dots of blood or shaking hands just two hungry teenage girls the body of a local teenager was found on a country road in his car one morning he was a happy go lucky type of character and had a passion for DJing the story goes one of the girls performed sexual acts for him in exchange for money earlier in the day they had bought alcohol and gone on a daytime vendor before meeting up with him again later that night the police found text between the girls encouraging each other to start the attack with the knives they'd taken from their home good they directed him to a remote area then swiftly took turns to stab him they ran home to shower off brad to their housemates and shown photos they'd

taken then headed into town for some much needed McMuffins the girls were rounded up pretty quickly after all the bragging but not before a good breakfast served by yours truly love Jasmine classic hometown that we always ask for pretty dark yeah pretty dark Jill Evans has it all a big house fast car and a great career as a decorated police sergeant in Wales but when it comes to love she can never seem to get things right and after multiple failed engagements Jill starting to think it's never going to happen for her that is until she connects online with a charming handsome successful man named Dean Jenkins from the outside there may be some red flags but Jill doesn't care he is the one and just

six months in Jill finds out she is pregnant and they make plans to spend the rest of their lives together but the night after Halloween Jill receives a shocking text will change everything and what she reads threatens to take away her dreams of happiness her career and maybe even her freedom wondering novels new podcast stolen hearts tells the intricate love story of Jill and Dean and how opposites really do attract follow stolen hearts on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast and hey prime members you can binge the entire series at free on Amazon music download the Amazon music app today goodbye I'm not going to read the subject line of this one it just starts hi Karen in Georgia I just finished

listening to Karen's story of Felix Carval racing at the Olympics and I thought you might enjoy hearing how my great grandfather kind of randomly won an Olympic gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in San Maritz Switzerland there are two American teams entered in the five-man bobsled race however there's a small problem of the five-man teams only having two men each a driver and a breakman and not enough teammates to fill out the middle so the US team placed ads in newspapers inviting Americans living in Europe to try out for the team my great-godfather Joffrey was studying in Germany at the time with his wife and their two daughters my grandmother and her sister he responded to the ad and without being given

a physical and having zero bobsled experience he was invited to join the team when he got to San Maritz the hotel where the American team was staying was full so he ended up bunking with the Canadian hockey team the American team wasn't planning on practicing over the next few days so Joffrey ended up practicing with the Polish bobsled team who was down a member due to illness the race was held on the last day of the Olympics and my great-grandfather was assigned to American bobsled number two which was nicknamed Satan Satan and my grandfather ended up coming in first place beating out the other Americans bobsled by point five seconds with the Germans coming in third apparently there were no podiums

for the victors and no music played when the flags were raised and if Olympic official found Joffrey in the crowd and handed him a box and just said here's your medal the wife of one of the Canadian hockey players suggested that my great-grandfather take home the American flag from the closing ceremonies as a souvenir which he did so that's the story of how my great-grandfather bunked with the Canadians trained with the Poles one with the Americans and never touched a bobsled again stay sexy and live with the confidence of a straight white man trying out for the Olympics board he has zero experience in Marina that's a good one classic grandpa or godfather it feels like it's only recently they started making

rules for things like that it was before it was kind of like first come first serve olympics yeah this one's called the classic badass grandpa story hello Karen Georgia and the menagerie of murdering out associates both human and pet for years I've been trying to get myself to focus long enough to write a hometown should it be about my great-grandma who was a radium girl or about another great-grandma that was a victim of Charles Cullen allegedly after finally pushing through the pandemic brain fog I decided on a good old-fashioned light-hearted badass grandpa story my grandpa on my dad's side passed away when I was three so I only really ever got to know him through family folklore and Google searches I've always

loved hearing stories about him but this one is hands down my favorite for some context my grandpa Augie Leo was a professional football player in the 1940s it says think leather helmets and daily concussions and well known in the area especially in the New Jersey town that they lived in Clifton after retiring from football he became a sports writer with his own column at the local Herald newspaper if he wasn't covering a game he had a pretty regular schedule in the office one day he decided to leave the office to have lunch at home and unexpectedly found someone robbing their house luckily my grandma and dad weren't home needless to say he was pissed the man robbing the house tried to climb out of a

window in their tiny leviton style 1950s ranch which my grandpa promptly pulled him right back through as a kid I was told quote grandpa dragged him to the other side of the house to call the police as an adult I understand that as grandpa beat the shit out of him while dragging him to the phone to call the police once the cops were called my grandpa proceeded to bring the man outside and sit on him on the front lawn until the cops got there you may be asking did this man try to press assault charges against my grandpa and my answer would be yes yes he did did I mention he had been released from jail earlier that day and says the robber not my grandpa obviously the cops took him right back to jail any who thanks

for reading this much longer than anticipated email binging every episode of FM has kept me sane especially through the pandemic during 14 plus hour car rides from Nashville to New Jersey and back and during work you even taught me that important historical events that schools won't teach I'm looking at you Tulsa race massacre thank you a million times for being so authentic and open and giving us murderinos permission to feel a little less weird about our fascination and love of true crime SSD GM Jamie wait so the her grandfather did that it was the late 40s did I get the year wrong I think he is the 50s I think because in the 40s he was a football player so okay or 60s so this is when he was

like a husband father yeah yeah that's hilarious yeah someone's breaking your house you're like that's fine I'm just going to beat the shit out of you yeah must be nice must be nice this email just starts hey oh it was Christmas Eve probably around 1978 my dad had called home to tell my mom that he was stopping by the office Christmas party then heading to confession like all good Catholics on Christmas Eve right Karen he would be home in plenty of time to head out with my mom and sisters to my aunt's Christmas party that night my mom waited and waited for him to come home knowing how my Irish dad could linger at parties as my mom was starting to really worry that something happened to him the police

called her worry turned to fury pretty immediately as it turned out my dad had really enjoyed the office party and was pulled over by the police and arrested for drunk driving on his way to confession my very Italian mother told him to have a nice night in jail and hung up on him furious she loaded my sisters into the car and headed to my aunt's house when my mom and sisters walked in the door at the party everyone started asking about my dad my mom somewhat rightfully told everyone that he was in jail and for all she cared he could rot there and then in parentheses it says yes she felt list despite how deeply she loved him after about an hour my mom and aunts realized that all of the uncles were missing from the

party they weren't in the house they weren't drinking out back they were simply gone it took some time to figure it out but oh boy if everyone thought my mom couldn't get madder they were wrong without telling each other the uncles had one by one slipped out of the party and gone to bail out my dad they were all surprised to see each other at the jail with my dad successfully bailed out and knowing that they would all be in deep trouble if they returned to the party especially my dad instead they went to a bar oh my god and continue drinking these are my kind of people god bless wives of the 70s and 80s when my mom retells the story to this day she clenches her teeth and says oh I was so mad at him so mad my

dad died when he was 37 tragically and unexpectedly on the job that's so young I know my mom was a 32 year old pregnant widow with a three year old and a nine year old how she got through it all I'll never fully understand I'm so grateful to my entire extended family that keeps my dad alive through the many many stories they tell my dad's untimely death has pushed me to take chances and do my best to make him proud it doesn't hurt to know he's always got my back stay sexy and don't get drunk on your way to confession Katie oh that is hilarious I love that I love they all didn't know that the other was going and it's so cute okay this one's called three little kids or not and it says you know what it's been

a long time coming let's dive in my name is Aisha I was born and raised in Dubai but my hometown is India this story takes place in India it's not my story but my uncle's he was in fifth grade living his best school life I'm really bad with dates so I'm not even going to try to remember the year but it was a long time ago back when parents let kids get kidnapped eat grass and drink pee I don't know one day my uncle and his and four of his friends got back from school around 4pm and decided to stay out and play around 11pm they wanted to play hide and seek which look listen I don't trust myself to play hide and seek in broad daylight I don't know why on earth you play in pitch darkness anyway

keep in mind he is in India and if you know India at all green is our motto the entire land is covered with trees and forests as my uncle continued to search for his friends and trees and bushes he heard little kids giggling behind him he whips his head around giving himself a whiplash to find all three of his friends laughing hiding behind a tree they started to run and my uncle ran after them those three friends stopped running in front of a giant very deep pit looking back at my uncle briefly these idiots jumped into the pit my uncle puzzled and confused told them don't be ridiculous you can't get back out and I'm not helping the three friends laughed and asked my uncle to join them irritated my

uncle just said find yourself a way out I'm walking home that being said he left and it says best friends forever he reached home opened the front door and stopped in his tracks he saw in the living room all three of his friends calmly sleeping on the floor it says dun dun dun my uncle calmly walked up to them and woke them up to ask what I would assume is how did you get in before me and have zero mind stains on you turns out his friends were here since after they left school as they decided on a sleepover the prior day as far as the conclusion would go I don't know but my family and I are Muslims in our religious in our religion we believe in an entity called gins it's JINNS I guess they stand somewhere

between angels and devils I'm not an expert it said that gins can take the form of people my uncle believes that it was an evil gin trying to trap him inside that God forsaken pit or he was just delusional playing that late at night stay sexy and grow the f out of hide and seek damn it best wishes question mark Aisha so basically the kind of thing a jinn would do would be like come over here it's a great idea to jump into this pit and then you're down there and like oh where did my friends go totally I feel like every religion or every you know ethnicity has some sort of like evil spirit like that that tries to trick you yeah creepy there's a movie also that came out last year called the jinn DJ

JINN and it actually got 86% on rotten tomatoes oh wow it's a horror movie about just that very thing oh shit that's crazy I'd never heard of it a mute boy becomes trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster I mean come on learn about it that batch was a real story time we went on on some real distant branches on that one we really did went this way went that way up and down it's all relevant here at the minisode please that's right send in any story you feel like telling us absolutely and stay sexy and don't get murdered goodbye Elvis do you want a cookie this has been an exactly right production our senior producer is Hannah Kyle Crichton our producer is Alejandra Keck this episode was engineered and mixed by

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