My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - MFM Minisode 360

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

This week’s hometowns include the Onion Pie Murder and dad lore from Maine.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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Starting point is 00:02:23 Do you want me to go first? Sure. Mine were under a cat. Okay. This is called drag story hour murderino. Hi there. My name is pickle and I'm a drag queen here in LA. Pickles of this drag queen name. I need to take a look at pickle right now. Oh, pickle. I need to take a look at pickle right now. Oh, pickle. Yes! Dragloria at the city of West Hollywood, Drag Story Hour Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Pickles doing it. Yeah. Pickles killing it. Pickle is at Pickle Drag Queen on Instagram, following boom. Okay. I love the podcast and I always listen to you. And it says, and buried bones. Well, I love the podcast and I always listen to you and it says, Anne Baird-Bones, while I'm
Starting point is 00:03:06 making my costumes. And it says, which then I wear to read to kids, so that's a little sinister, but also very wholesome. It's not like I talk about murder at Story Hour. See? I mean, amen. We have our boundaries. We know what we're doing.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Yeah. I'm actually not sure if you've covered the assassination of Robert Kennedy, then Alejandro let me know that we actually covered it in the second episode of this podcast. Did you really? Called my second best murder. Why did we name it that? I don't know. Because remember we were doing like my first dismurder second best and then we around 18 had to bail because we're like how are we going to do this? Yeah, it's not like we thought we were going to do 400 fucking episodes of this podcast. Toodah!
Starting point is 00:03:47 What if we were still doing it, it's like my 400th. Yeah, just quip, a pun quip. Okay, but that is my hometown. I'm from Italy and when I was a young boy, nine or 10 circa 2005 or so, my god, he's a baby. I was making a cameo in an Elvis Costello music video called Monkey to Man. And it says my fellow cameo in an Elvis Costello music video called Monkey to Man. And it says, my fellow cameo maker was Jenny Lewis.
Starting point is 00:04:08 So that was cool, but I was nine, so I didn't know it was cool. And I just thought she had very chic hair. She does. We filmed the video at the ambassador hotel, not too long before they tore it down. And one of the hotel staff took me to the kitchen where RFK was shot. It was super creepy. And he showed me the corner where the assassin, Sir Hansurhan, jumped out and shot him, and the tiny ex carved into the cement floor where he fell.
Starting point is 00:04:33 Why would that hotel worker do that with a young child? That's a great, well, let it says, I do realize now that maybe I shouldn't have followed a random stranger to the kitchen where the senator got shot 40 years prior, but I spent the rest of the day searching the hotel for ghosts. But they never revealed themselves to me. So no luck there. I am not paranormal gifted. The hotel was demolished within the year. And so now the X is gone, but it is seared into my memory.
Starting point is 00:04:59 But a weird fucking thing to show, a 9 or 10 year old. Or maybe it's a person that was like a murderino type that was like, I think this kid's gonna like this. Yeah, this is making a murderino for sure. Thank you for all the great content. Also for all the work you do, I am super inspired by your spirit and you always make me laugh while I'm so
Starting point is 00:05:18 in giant pink bows and gowns. Best pickle. Pickle. Pickle. Pickle. Yeah, so good. I know I've said this to you before, but drag comedy is kind of my favorite comedy, because as a standup, watching drag queens perform like, you know, drag bingo or whatever,
Starting point is 00:05:36 where it's like they're doing like performance art improv standup and basically crowd work stand up and basically crowd work all together with essentially kind of holding a reality of their own, a new reality. Yeah. And like complete, like evening wear from a fucking like Miss America pageant. Wearing like corset shit that like wigs. Literally I get a stomach ache.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Yeah, I just, it's my favorite. And they are the funniest because they kind of have to be the funniest. So pickle, I love it's my favorite and they are the funniest because they kind of have to be the funniest. So Pickle I love Pickle's name, but I was never more excited than when Peach's Christ started following me on Twitter I couldn't believe it. So if Peach is listening hi Which is stolen from Alaska right It says the onion pie murder historic hometown. Mm-hmm. Whilst procrastinating at work, I started reading up on our local prison in Louis, UK.
Starting point is 00:06:31 It looks like Luz, but then they put Lewis in parentheses. Whilst reading through the notable inmates, including Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, I discovered that Sarah and French, the last inmate to be publicly hung at the prison and also the first and only woman. On Christmas Eve, 1851, Sarah and French served her husband, William French, his favorite meal, onion pie. When William French died days later of a supposed stomach upset, the superintendent didn't believe that it could be natural causes, and on closer inspection it was discovered he died from arsenic poisoning. It was a classic, would you marry me if my husband was out of the way story? Sarah Ann had fallen in love with someone else and wanted her husband out of the picture. Sarah Ann's public execution amassed a huge crowd of
Starting point is 00:07:23 approximately 4,000 people. People used to go to public executions like as a day out with their family. Yeah, with kids and stuff. The fuck? Well, as before the internet, which is mad, considering that is about a quarter of the population today. The prison decided to stop public hangings after this event when they learned that Sarah Ann had been an attendee at the public hanging
Starting point is 00:07:48 of another husband, Poisoner, in nearby Hastings just three years earlier. The prison decided there was no beneficial impact on society by witnessing these hangings and instead could be influencing others to commit the same crimes. As someone who is incredibly intolerant to onions, this story stood out to me.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Did you know that there are old graves that have favorite recipes on them? Yes. If there's someone going around making those recipes? Yes, I love that. Because it's like, if you had a say grandma who made your favorite chocolate chip cookies in her certain way And that's basically like anyone can have these now forever. I love that so good. I love it
Starting point is 00:08:34 What was your grandma's recipe? My grandmother had nine children. Okay, let's just say this My grandmother was an immigrant when she was 17 years old. She had nine kids. She did her best, but she used to make... She made pot roast. And she had a pot roast on the stove in a big pot every single day. So you could go to her house at any time day or night and get a slice of pot roast. I wanted to dream. That was just like her jam.
Starting point is 00:09:04 But then there was a joke that we roast if I wanted to. I was wearing a dream. That was just like her jam. But then there was a joke that we literally, we never stopped doing after she died because she used to serve, if she had Thanksgiving at her house, she would serve iceberg lettuce salad that had a big square of jello with a crepe cocktail in it and thousand island dressing on top of it.
Starting point is 00:09:25 Oh, no, thank you. It is, so it's so funny to me, because it's like, we used to eat it when we were younger, like, I guess, and it's kind of crazy. But then like, the older everybody got, we were like, why are we doing this? This is us hour talking about ourselves. Yeah, for real.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Oh, wait, I didn't even finish this email. I know. As someone who's incredibly intolerant to onions, this story stood out to me. Thanks for the amazing podcast and all you do. Stay sexy and be suspicious of homemade pies. Chloe. That's a good one to hide arsenic in.
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Starting point is 00:12:36 making for the fan cult right now. There's Blossom and here's a really unhappy daughter. Not very happy Blossom either. Okay. I'm not much of a writer, but this has been sitting in my notes out for way too long. I was recently listening to Strobec mini-sodes and heard some about Stephen King. So, I wanted to write in about my dad and his Stephen King related dad lore. Dad lore is a good topic.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Let's do dad lore. Dad lore is a great topic. Okay. Send us your dad lore stories. My Lore is a great topic. Guys, send us your Dad Lore stories. My dad grew up in Maine. He was an original latchkey kid whose dad passed away when he was young. For most of his childhood, he was raising his younger brother and bouncing around the rural parts of Maine.
Starting point is 00:13:16 He spent most of his time in Lisbon Falls, Maine, where he went to school with Stephen King. As with many baby boomer fathers, whenever he meets up with his buddies from high school and has a couple beers, it is common to hear many new shocking stories told in a very nonchalant manner. Recently, they were Stephen King related. He told me over the summer that Stephen King was from a nearby school district, because it was so rural, they busged Stephen King and the other kids into his school. Apparently, they did not have King and the other kids into his school. Apparently, they did not have the budget for a bus so they converted an old alcaps funeral hers.
Starting point is 00:13:52 What? Into a school bus. So yes, Stephen King's origin story might be that he had to write a school through the creepy dark backwards of Maine in a hers. Converted, like, they cut the roof off and put seats in or like... I don, like, they cut the roof off and put seats in, or like, I don't know, I think the roof could stay,
Starting point is 00:14:08 but they must have just put, like, a couple rows of seats in. And then they didn't use seat belts back then, so they might just toss the kids in, like, William Ili. They just made them get in the coffin area. Like, please sit and put your hands in your lap and you know, don't screw it. I don't know why I immediately took the roof off the roof. You know, I was, that was pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:14:25 You were like, yeah, that was like you're murdered out car and Bob's big boy on Friday nights. Yeah, exactly. That's my, I'd lower it. I'd tint the windows. There's also a small enough community in that area that my dad and his buddies know who most of the characters and his books are based on.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Oh, apparently all caps, including my own father. Ooh. In true dad lore fashion, it slipped that quote, the body and its screen adaptation stand by me are based off him and his friends. What? When they were in middle school, a boy their age went missing along the tracks in Maine.
Starting point is 00:15:04 There was a reward offered for whoever found the body, so naturally he and his friends, all minimally supervised lachki children, decided that they would try and get that, and it says this, Monday. So they set off to go find the body of the missing boy. I mean, when they began their weekend long hike, they walked out to the train tracks where they were quickly confronted by an older group of guys, one of which was one of his friends older brother,
Starting point is 00:15:32 and more notably, one of the other older guys was Stephen King. Oh, shit, so Stephen King was not, the was not Will Wheaton in that situation. He was like, key for Sutherland. He was the key for Sutherland group, which by the way, key for Sutherland, like, ohaton in that situation. He was like, key for Sutherland. He was the key for Sutherland group, which by the way, key for Sutherland like, oh, in that movie.
Starting point is 00:15:48 No, not for me. Will Wheaton for you? Cory Thelpen too. I love Cory Thelpen. No, fucking River Phoenix. Oh, River Phoenix. I didn't like the, I didn't like him that pretty.
Starting point is 00:15:58 I was like, I don't stand a chance. I don't stand the chance with the gorgeous ones. I'm gonna take the second more like the funny one. You know what I mean? Yes. Confidence. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:08 It's always been there. Yeah. One of the older guys told my dad and friends they were dumb and threatened to beat them up if they went looking for the body. More importantly, they asked, what's your plan when you find this kid's body in the middle of the woods?
Starting point is 00:16:22 My dad and his buddies quickly realized that their plan had a few minor holes. So unlike the book in the movie, that was as far as the script of the woods. My dad and his buddies quickly realized that their plan had a few minor holes. So unlike the book in the movie, that was as far as the script of poorly supervised pre-teens got. They immediately gave up on their body, finding endeavors. I'm sure I will find out more student king related, dad, lore next time his friends come to town,
Starting point is 00:16:39 and I will be sure to write in. Please do. Thank you for all you guys do. I began listening to you when I was in college. I was a D1 athlete and miserable spending all of my time at practice or on a bus going from competition to competition. You guys kept me company during countless bus rides and study halls and now during my work day. I refer you lovingly as my murder friends to my girlfriend who does not like True Crime or podcasts. That's cool. Yeah, I would love to give eight, and it says,
Starting point is 00:17:08 S-O, which I think for the young kids, is shout out, to a fellow Margarina who got me through those tough times, my athletic trainer, Fafa. She truly cares about the physical and mental well-being of all her student athletes, which is kind of rare in the world of college sports. Best C.J. She, her. First of all, C.J. Congratulations on being a D1 athlete because it takes a level of dedication from probably age eight, I would imagine.
Starting point is 00:17:36 What does that mean? I don't, I'm like a D- what ever it is, because I don't even know that. I think it just means you're competing on a college level, which in and of itself isn't easy to do. Yeah. And I think it's like a're competing on a college level. Oh wow. Which in and of itself isn't easy to do. And I think it's like a certain level of a college level. So it's like not just whatever. I'm not sure. But I've heard my sister and Nora talk about like, oh, she got picked by D1 school or whatever.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Wow. And it is just, yeah, it's constant. Where I'm like, I think about that all the time. It's like that dedication, it's really something. But also then there are the kind of people that are like, when they're a little older, they're like, yeah, I get up and go run in the morning because I know it actually feels really good.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Right. We're on literally still like, I just need to walk to the kitchen. I just need to get to the coffee maker. That's okay, we're all here with you. Look, we can't all be D1 athletes. The subject line of this is Hidden Trasier. Hello. Back in 2018, my partner and I left our modest home in the mountains. We called it the cabin to move in with and care for his dad who suffered
Starting point is 00:18:36 from Lewy-Body dementia. He has since passed. He was kind, caring, intelligent, funny, and talented. He had a cupboard full of board games which moved up to the cabin after we moved out of his house in 2020. Chess Backammon, Pente, I've never heard of that game. P-E-N-T-E, Pente, all the classics. And two sets of Scrabble. One deluxe with a fancy velvet pouch for the letter tiles and one regular. I love Scrabble and used to play
Starting point is 00:19:06 it all the time when I was a cool young 20-something nerd in front of season says and all caps nerd. But I haven't played it in years because my partner's dyslexic and he does not enjoy Scrabble. Yeah, fair enough. So for the last couple of years, Scrabble laid dormant. Fast forward to the spring, to this spring, 2023, when we sold the house. My partner considered leaving one of the Scrabble sets for the new owners because mountain houses deserve board games. He decided at the last minute to take them both
Starting point is 00:19:35 and donate one. After bringing the last load to our new house, he was about to drop off some things to donate when the Deluxe Scrabble Box fell off the top of the tower of donation items onto the floor in the cab of the truck. Tiles spilled everywhere, among the tiles in the fancy pouch,
Starting point is 00:19:54 out fell a Rolex. Oh no! Oh my God! We had found some things hidden in odd places due to his dad's dementia, but the Rolex was by far the most surprising. And to think we almost gave it away twice. I have many fond and funny memories of his dad, and I'm glad we could add another story
Starting point is 00:20:17 to the collection even after he passed. To, oh no, I'm just regretting. To anyone out there caring for a loved one with dementia, hang in there. I know it's hard. Your patients is repeatedly tested, and sometimes it fails. And you second guess every decision you make along the way, not knowing what right answers are.
Starting point is 00:20:36 Those were the most challenging years of my life, but I'm grateful for all the beautiful moments that were sprinkled throughout the heartbreaking and frustrating ones. And even though at some point, you can't really articulate it anymore, your loved one appreciates you. Exo Sarah. Oh my god, that's beautiful. Why don't I read these emails all the way through? It's like you wouldn't have done it if you fucking like fuck this one. Just throw it out entirely. No, that one is like, that was treasure,
Starting point is 00:21:07 but then it's also like a beautiful story and. Perfect. We just, in the last one we had that where there's really something kind of magical to that after a loved one dies discovery. Yeah, it's like a message from beyond. It's so cool. Completely.
Starting point is 00:21:23 And that's like that Christmas that my sister found that little Bell lady Yes, that was on our mantle all our lives, but like never no one ever talked about it or cared about it and right I opened a box and it was like it just shows up The craziest the best that's beautiful. Yeah, everyone check your grandpa's pockets before you Yeah, that's right his clothes the good rum Everyone check your grandpa's pockets before you. Yeah, that's right. His clothes. Good way. Rommage through that stuff. Yeah, you know, see.
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Starting point is 00:22:49 or wherever you get your podcasts, you can listen to Christmas Susannica exclusively on Wondering Plus. My last one is kind of long also. Wild and dangerous school-sponsored quote, trip. It says three-minute read. Hello, trip. That says three minute read. Hello, all. I've been a fan for years and I keep thinking I need to write in
Starting point is 00:23:10 and finally have the guts to do so. So this is a long story, but I'm summing it up for you. So let's waste no more time and get to it. You wasted so much time already. When I was 16, I took a trip with my high school to Eastern Europe. There were 20 high schoolers and three chaperones and we went for 18 days. Hell yeah. Long time. And you can drink over there because the drinking. That's right. The chaperones didn't supervise whatsoever and it felt more like spring break
Starting point is 00:23:40 Daytona most days. It says, but with 15 and 16 year olds drinking German beer. Yes. Anyway, that sets the stage. Half way through the trip, we took an overnight train from Poland to the Czech Republic. They divided the students into groups of four, and we each got a cabin on the very old Soviet era train with bunk beds and a window that was permanently open. Wow. Oh, and a door that didn't lock. It was me, my best friend, and two boys from our high school football team in my cab. Did I mention this was an overnight train
Starting point is 00:24:12 and there was no food or water? We didn't know until I asked about water and the chaperone who was the high school German teacher, told me the conductor was selling beer for one year, and that was our only option until morning when we got to Prague. Well, then, if that's the only option, I'll have 17. That's exactly it.
Starting point is 00:24:32 So naturally, me and my best friend trekked to the front of the train, straddled an open bar, and it said, you could see the tracks below. What? And a man who spoke zero English sold us warm bottles of beer from a milk crate. That's right.
Starting point is 00:24:45 They drink warm beer. It's in Europe. Yeah. I mean, not always, but yeah, for the most part, that's their thing. Well, we were on our flight to Paris. Vince got a beer and it was warm and he asked for a cup of ice. And the stewardess said, don't do that when you get to Paris. Like, you'll be offended.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Exactly. And then it says, this was 2 a.m. mind you. Needless to say, in my cap, we stayed up all night drinking because we were unsupervised American 16-year-olds in the middle of the Czech Republic on a train. What did they expect? Here's where shit gets wild. At around 3 a.m., the train comes to a complete stop.
Starting point is 00:25:20 There's no intercom. The train is very old, did I mention that. So we all just gather around the open window wondering what's going on. To our horror, we are in the middle of the forest. Picture fog, moonlight, and then insert lots of loud yelling in a foreign language. Our shopper runs are asleep and we can't ask anyone's happening, so we just watch an utter confusion as the train just idles. A few minutes later, we see flashlights and a man and a jumpsuit jump off the train, screaming and running away through the woods until he disappears. A few minutes later, the train restarts and we are all freaking out with no literal clue what's happening.
Starting point is 00:26:00 We all sober up real quick. Fast forward to morning, we arrive in Prague. No one from my bunk has slept in our shop-arones meet us outside the train so we can all head to breakfast as a group. When we asked the head shop-arone if she knows what happened last night, she simply laughs and says, and escaped convict boarded our train.
Starting point is 00:26:18 And when they found him, he jumped from the train and escaped. Jesus Christ. And just keeps going on about her breakfast. Through more chatter amongst the shop-runs, we learn that this escaped prisoner was in our train car, probably just a few doors down. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:26:35 No door locks. No door locks, a big open window. They're drunk out their asses. Exactly. I can just sum up the rest of the trip by saying, this is about how wild and unsafe every day on this quote study abroad trip was. My mom still doesn't know how insane this trip was and it's been 15 years. Anyway, stay sexy and maybe don't send your 16 year old daughter to Eastern Europe for an educational trip.
Starting point is 00:27:00 And it's I'm Catherine. Catherine. That is, I think it's time to tell your mom the story. If it's been 15 years, she's not going to be mad anymore. Just wait until like after a holiday dinner, right? Some kind when she might have a couple on board. And then she's like, look, I finally got to tell you about this trip. And maybe she'll have some stories to tell you. And then you can write in another email about your mom's story and put it in the subject line Hey guys Catherine here. Hey, it's Catherine. You told me to do this, but you've definitely forgotten
Starting point is 00:27:33 Okay, so this is my third one. I'm not gonna redo the subject line. This is so not so. Okay And it just starts My dad would be what most would imagine as an all-American freedom-loven, flannel-wearing, beer-drinking dad. On top of that, he also has some of the best dad lore around. Wait, we must have, we asked for dad lore. We must have, okay, we must have already done it. I mean, because they mentioned it in there in the one you read. I think dad lore is a thing, and we just asked for it.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Dad lore, okay. So on top of that, he also had some of the best Dad Law around. This man had survived stage four leukemia. Whoa. He was nearly a hot air balloon pilot. Nearly. An active member of the Bigfoot hunting league of America. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Oh my God, I love this man. But I'm about to tell you my personal favorite story. So my dad started his own stone manufacturing company from the ground up and has become extremely successful through hard work and determination. In his success, he got to travel to many other countries. One of these trips was to Italy to visit some mines and get to know some foreign partners.
Starting point is 00:28:44 He luckily was traveling with a good friend of ours from Italy called Adagio. Adagio was going to be my dad's guide and help him around since my all-American dad wasn't about to learn foreign customs. Of course not why would you. You should have seen when he went to Vietnam and China, LOL. Adagio knew all the great places and hidden gems to eat and drink whina. My dad isn't all that fancy of a guy and could care less about whine.
Starting point is 00:29:11 My childhood was filled with campfire hot dogs and apple pies being fine cuisine. It is fine cuisine. I honestly think it was more for Adagio, though he grew up with a very Italian mother so he was excited to try all of the meats and cheeses. They went to a late-night wine tasting in a hidden back alley restaurant that was accessible
Starting point is 00:29:31 through many hidden doors. And while they were eating, my dad said, a guy kept looking at him and drawing on a note pad. This guy was at a table behind a dogio, so a dogio didn't see him at first. My dad being the wonderful but suspicious guy that he is was a bit put off by this and asked Adagio if the guy was into him or if this was just an Italian thing. Adagio laughed and turned around to say hello to the guy since he assumed he might have known him or could strike up a friendly conversation to get to know what he was doing. Though when Adagio turned around, he paused and nearly choked on his wine.
Starting point is 00:30:06 He turned swiftly back around and looked at my dad with his jaw to the floor, astonished, asking if my dad had no clue who that guy was. My dad had absolutely no clue and was even more confused now. My poor dad, who mined you, usually goes to bed at 8 and was just trying to enjoy his meat and cheeses. Adagio then whispers, That's Dolce. From Dolce and Gabana. Holy shit!
Starting point is 00:30:33 My dad must have looked very interesting in his flannel shirt from tractor supply, his blue jeans, cowboy boots, and leather belt, LOL. So American. I'm sure this is quite a sight to see in Italy. My dad was confused why everyone was making such a big deal about this. He likes to say he inspired Dolce's flannel line, which I think he actually did. My dad is a wonderful man who has literally been through everything, seen everything, done everything, and inspired everyone around him. His efforts in finding a cure for leukemia and going through numerous painful experimental treatments saved so many lives. And I know his influence and sacrifice has touched so many.
Starting point is 00:31:13 If you guys read this on the podcast, I'll be sure to let him know. Scott would love to hear it. Scott! Scott! Like I straight up for a scum. Like this is just like he goes and influences Dolce. Thank you. Thank you. You fucking saves people's lives. He's a fucking legend. Oh my God. Thank you so much, ladies.
Starting point is 00:31:34 You've got me through high school, childbirth and college. Whoa, hopefully not at all. And I couldn't thank you enough. Stay sexy and wear flannels in Italy. Izzy from Burton, Ohio. Wow. Yes. Such sexy and wear flannels in Italy. Is he from Burton, Ohio? Wow. Yes. Such good dad lore. Such good dad lore. Send us your dad lore. Or your mom lore. Yes, I think part of dad lore is the fact that you're telling your dad stories that he's now telling you because he's in his, you know, older in life.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Right. Where it is a comprehensive thing where you can say, because that's what life is. Life is getting fucking leukemia. Life is building your own business and fucking working your ass off and whatever. And like, it is all those things and then it is being your authentic self because you've already been through so much shit, you know, who cares? Like, you should have seen me when I was trying to bring shoes to Italy. Both Adrian and I were freaking out. We're like, we can't wear bad shoes in Italy. And I love that Scott was like, fuck you. I'm wearing my car hearts and you'll be inspired by it.
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