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And welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia.

Rewind.

Every Wednesday, we recap our old episodes with all new commentary, updates, and insights.

And today we're recapping episode 48, which we

named

an Albert Fish production.

Sorry, that's

a true crime enthusiast.

I know I almost did a spit take.

It's like that's the only, yeah, no one else cares, but true crime enthusiasts.

Horrible and hilarious.

You get that Stephen J.

Cannell typewriter.

He throws the piece of paper in here, but it's Albert Fish.

This episode came out on December 21st, 2016.

And that means it was conceived on March 29th, 2016.

You do the math.

Our podcast,

do they go for nine months or do we like alien egg?

It's human baby.

Podcasts are human baby length of fertilization i disagree i'm a i'm a birther or whatever what do i call it you're a flat i'm a flat fertilizationer yeah anyway let's listen to the intro of episode 48.

what's wrong nothing it just feels like it's been a long time it does oh it has it has been yeah are we recording yes good good because we need to get this figured out it has been i guess we i guess almost two weeks.

Is that right?

Since like apartment recording.

Yeah, because we did our Bellhouse show last week.

Yeah.

That was a fun, that was different.

That was nuts.

That was nuts.

That was a break from reality.

It was super fun.

We love you, Jamie Lee.

Jamie Lee's book's coming out.

That's right.

Thanks for being here.

Ridiculous is coming out.

I think I called it Weddalish.

Wedalicious, you did.

With the absolute confidence.

That's all that matters is when you say stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They should change the title right now.

Well, they might have to.

Right.

Hi, this is My Favorite Murder.

It's a podcast starring Georgia Harsdark and Karen Kilgareth.

Our sound technician is a man named Stephen.

Stephen Ray Morris.

And his mustache.

This is day 403 of Stephen's mustache.

We've been counting.

He's doing it.

He's going to grow it all the way around his mouth,

I think.

That's my personal.

I thought you were going to say his head.

That would be funny if we just tie it in the the back.

Oh, my God.

Why is that not a thing?

Mustache fucking.

Sounds like a nightmare.

Yeah.

You have to do it now, Stephen.

Steven?

You have to.

Only for you, Karen.

Stephen.

Speaking of only for us, Stephen brought us.

Okay, Stephen is like, does everything for us.

Does everything.

He's so fucking sweet and wonderful.

And also thinks about things like much more than we do.

Because we don't know.

Because we didn't know this was going to be a thing.

Right.

So, but he did.

He did.

And he like was prepared for it.

He prints things out for us.

Totally.

He plans, but also he brings us presents.

He brought us this.

This is holiday present.

We have non-denominational holiday presents at our each seat on the couch.

I know.

So we decided we're going to open them on the air with you guys.

I know what this is going to be.

Oh, my God, Stephen.

It sounds amazing.

Oh, my God.

Is this fuck?

He got us serial killer baseball cards.

Holy shit, Stephen.

True crime.

G-Men, mass murderer, serial killers, and gangs.

And they're like baseball card packages.

Ooh, you've got to do it.

Stephen, I'm going to fucking have a seizure right now.

This is really good.

Are these like old?

Yeah, like these are like hard to find.

Yeah, they're from like the 90s.

Oh.

I'm like, I see people post these on the fucking Facebook page.

I'm like, I've had these since the 90s.

And everyone's like, fuck you.

And you've got like five packs of them for both of us.

This is really good.

I'm glad you like them.

Is there gum in there?

I wouldn't eat it if there was.

I'm going to, and then I'll sue you if anything happens.

And this is a secondary.

There's another bigger bigger one.

Because he's a classy man that gives you a small gift with a bigger gift underneath it.

Oh, my God.

Oh my God.

What is it?

It's his memoir of what assholes we are.

What'd you get?

Let's see.

It's the book.

It's a vintage book.

Oh, my God.

This is the book of Vicki Morgan and Alfred Bloomingdale and the affair that shook the highest levels of government and society.

Oh, my God.

It's a British one, right?

It was the woman in Washington, D.C.

D.C.

Dominatrix and there was sex skin.

The cover of that book is fucking, I want that on a shirt.

Wait, this is a culture in in the like 80s this one is by larry uh

honor

it's called cults that killed probing the crime the underworld of occult crime yes stephen these are good know us my i thought for a second i thought this book was about um

somebody that was in the bengals because that is totally the same this was written in 1988 i'm so fucking like at the height of the satanic panic this is so good steven i call it the satanic panic

steven we got you a bottle of single malt

you this old wrapping paper oh my god steven i'm sweating because i'm so happy that's really good i can't wait to i don't think i should open this you give and you give

thank you

should open one open one of the packages good idea i'm doing it let's do it good idea

oh my god also when uh we talked about the plan was that we were going to open these on the air and then steven would you say it would be good for oh a samari oh yeah

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

What'd you get?

What'd you get?

Read a couple.

I got the Hall Mills case, which on September 16th, 1922, a couple walking down a country lane near New Brunswick, New Jersey found two bodies lying under a crab apple tree.

It was Reverend Edward Hall, 41, and Mrs.

Eleanor Mills, 32, a member of his church choir.

He had been, both had been shot.

Her throat had been cut.

Oh, wait, I've heard this story.

This is, we're only picking our murders from these decks.

Oh my god, that's shuffled enough

this weekend.

It's weird they're only from the 90s and before.

Our work has been done.

Okay, mine, I have one, Clifford Olson, who looks like a real fucking piece of work.

Look at him.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Okay.

That's a good dramatic painting.

Let's see here.

So November 1980, a 12-year-old British Columbia girl disappeared.

Her mutilated body was found a month later.

In 81, a 13-year-old girl vanished, followed by a 16-year-old boy a week later.

The boy was found dead, his skull crushed.

In May, a 16-year-old girl disappeared, and then in June, a 13-year-old girl, and then in July, Jesus, I'm doing him for my next number murder.

No spoilers.

No, yeah, all spoilers.

Are you reading till the end?

Fuck, that's good.

Stephen, I'm these are amazing cases.

These are like treasures that I will treasure forever and ever.

And we're going to start trading them.

I've never heard of half of these people.

Jack the stripper.

I'm not kidding.

Jackie Stripper.

uh in 59 8 i'm gonna i'm gonna rephrase this go ahead a sex worker nice was strangled and clad only in her slip was found near their thames thames thing

thames oh

it's one of those ones the only reason it's not it's one of those famous ones that i should i've been to

and i should know

she was found shit happened

look sauni bean remember i did that one

this is the i am honestly like glowing right now.

This is best Christmas ever, Steve.

This is the best Hanukkah ever, Steve.

Richard Cottingham.

Wait a second.

I'm Jewish.

What?

Richard Cottingham is the one I just did on the last episode.

You just did him.

And then he walks through the door.

You got out of jail already.

Oh my God, you did.

I'm going to open all of these.

This painting makes him look way better than he actually looks in real life.

What if we have a whole, okay, what if the next, the mini sound is just us opening these and reading them to each other that's a great idea let's absolutely do that for real because these are amazing cases dude it's happening and also look at how hot this guy is who's that that's his story i don't know he's kind of like mick jaggery but younger tune in to the next minisode yeah so the minisode

yeah holy shit that's exciting oh my gosh

you're fucking angel

what steven what oh i was gonna say they were very controversial at the time because they were like people were obsessed with them and i remember

remember they had those um the playing cards of cold cases that they they would give to inmates.

Oh, yeah, in the in prison, so that they would like be playing with these cards and they'd be like, fuck me, and then like read about the victim and be like, This fucking dude I was in prison with has admitted to this.

And like, there, I think there were not a lot, but a couple cases that got solved because of that.

That's a brilliant idea, isn't it?

Yeah, I do remember though, when these came out, it was like, How dare you was the kind of overall,

it was like so sick with like similar to our podcast.

We are the how dare you podcast of today,

but for different reasons.

And our podcast comes with a stick of shitty gum.

That's right.

Our podcast, listening to it, is the same thing as eating old, powdery, pink,

flaky,

hard to chew of baseball card gum.

Remember when you would just like eat it out of not spite, but just like, I bought this.

Yeah.

It's hard to pack.

Yeah.

Vince buys the wrestling ones a lot, like the old school wrestling ones too.

And yeah, I think he burns the gum.

Burns it?

I don't know.

Smokes it.

What if he just was like addicted to

vintage gum?

The fumes of vintage gum.

That sounds like the new, like what, like what parents get told, like

the junior high kids are into now.

You see old gum in your kids' room on the next 2020.

They're smoking it.

I would just like to say really quick that at that show, we had so many great people.

It was crazy.

And we got to say hi to so many awesome listeners, which was really fun.

It is.

And

Bellhouse that we have to give of.

Yes.

They stayed late to let us

talk to all the people who stuck around.

And they were really cool at like.

Moving the line along.

They didn't have to do that.

They were

great.

The whole staff was amazing.

The whole staff was great.

Thank you, Andrew, for booking us.

This was our little our own booking long ago where we thought this would be fun.

And it really was.

And you were right.

Oh, yeah.

I would just like to say,

thanks to my friend Carrie who came to see me and he literally yelled, hey, over like five people and then walked away because he didn't want to have to wait in line.

Oh, I met him.

He was nice.

Yes.

And same with my friend Cullen, who apparently just sent me a message saying, yeah, I wasn't going to wait around.

And then my friend David Knowles, who you did meet, who I've known since we were 12 years old.

We met in sixth grade.

I went to the freshman winter formal with him.

He waited in line, and he was the second to last person in line.

And when the like third to last person walked away, I go, The fuck are you even?

I'm gonna see you after.

It was like he waited.

He probably thought everyone knew you.

Yes, I was like, These are all children's friends.

We're trying to say hi in an organized way.

It was so nice.

We got, we again got a lot of fucking amazing presents.

I got some of, I just keep getting the best cat toys ever.

Like, that's the whole, that's my scheme for this podcast is to get free cat toys.

We We got a lot of cat toys, and

what was in that other bag?

In a bigger bag, makeup.

Yes.

Oh, that makeup.

I also want to.

So, we need to, if you go to our Instagram, it's my favorite murderer.

I post a lot of like the photos and stuff of what people gave us and shout outs and shit.

One thing we got that I just need to fucking got in the mail and started opening it.

And I was like, can't open this?

I'm going to cry without Karen.

So, this person, this girl named Molly has this website called theurbansmith.com.

And she makes this like incredible jewelry and metalworking and like these gorgeous things.

And she made us these necklaces that are so beautiful and delicate that say stay sexy on them.

Yeah.

They're

beautiful.

Our twins these necklaces.

And then she made me these two little charms that look like if Elvis or Mimi ever let me in my fucking life put a

collar on them without murdering me.

That would you put these on it.

And it's just these little beautiful

monogram things that say Elvis and Mimi that I'm going to wear as an act.

Like, they're so beautiful.

Yeah, they're really nice.

So, the Urban Smith.

I just wanted to give a shout out to whoever gave us the ColourPop lippy sticks.

Yeah.

ColourPop brand.

We got eyeshadow and we got lipstick.

But this lippy sticks, ColourPop lippy sticks in the color poison.

I think they wrote and said, I hope this is a color that you can use because I've talked so much about

lipstick.

It's it's so perfect because it's a really good color, but it also stays on.

It's like a stain.

God bless America.

You know, and we're not, and we don't.

So, yeah, don't worry about it.

Yeah.

And so we always will.

On my favorite murder Facebook page, there were two meetups that I got to look at this morning.

One from Portland, Oregon, one from Austin.

And they were so cute.

And the thing that kills me is how much.

crafting people put in.

They do.

I mean, is that the one that did the serial killer drawings?

That was.

I'm going to have to look which one did the drawing.

That's not going to have it on the piece of paper.

That's all right.

I wrote it on this piece of paper right here.

Portland did the drawings.

Oh, Portland.

They did like coloring books.

Coloring books of serial killers.

Serial killers.

I love it.

And on the Austin meetup, they had all kinds of craps, but my favorite was they had name tags that said, my favorite murder is.

And then they wrote who their favorite murderer is on the bottom.

So one lady is like smiling, but it just says Albert Fish.

I love the idea that he's your favorite.

That's such a great idea because then you could come up to someone and be like, oh my God, I know a lot about that one, too.

And then you have to talk about it.

And then it's not awkward at parties.

That's the whole point.

Dude.

Everyone's doing it.

Dude.

I think that's all of our business.

Oh, live show shit.

There's some drama going on.

We're not going to talk about it.

We're going to say that we have no control over

tickets.

None.

Or shows.

Or scalving.

I mean, we're really excited.

They know that.

There's going to be more shows.

We're not going to your city.

It's because we're saving it.

We're saving the best for last.

That's right.

It's because we don't choose where to go.

That's right.

I'm not going to say the one state I refuse to go to.

I wouldn't.

I'm not going to.

Please don't.

That's great.

You'll know when we've gone to 50.

50?

50.

How many are there?

Are there 52?

No, that's cards in a deck.

It's cards in a murder deck.

Let's get back to the cards.

What do you want to talk about?

I guess, I think I just had an idea.

Let's hear it.

What about merch of baseball hats with just baseball hats?

With With just

a single face of a murderer on it.

Like a drawing or like a fucking sketch?

I think it would have to be a drawing.

Drawing.

Don't nobody steal this.

I swear to fucking God.

If I see this on if I see this on fucking Etsy,

this means we have tonight's Sunday.

We have till Thursday to fucking make this goddamn happen.

Stephen, mute it.

Stephen, Stephen.

Cat, Solan, get on this, please.

Wouldn't you wear just

a great idea?

Because, right?

A black hat and then just Albert Fish's face on it.

What if it was what I'm talking about?

Oh, my God.

What if it was one of those beanies that you pull over your face and it has the eye in the middle?

Those are called balaclava.

You just said, My favorite murderer is, and you just pull it, and it's just like a thing.

Now, two things.

This is intellectual copyright property.

We own this.

Own it.

And we can prove it in a court of law.

Don't you steal the balaclava idea.

What's it called?

Balaclava, the thing that you pull over that bank robbers use.

I didn't know that's what it was called.

Yeah.

We will come to every 50 fucking state and fucking track you down.

Except for the one.

Except for the one that I refuse to go to.

It's Maine.

Just kidding.

It's not.

It's not.

No way, man.

They got fucking lobsters.

Anyone has lobsters.

I actually love Maine and I've wanted to go there since I was a kid because I used to read these books called Meg.

I think it was called Meg of Maine.

We're going.

I think that was what it was called.

I would go to fucking Maine so hard.

Yeah.

Let's just add a weird tour.

Let's have a weird tour.

Called just like...

like we do what we want.

Yeah, Callie, we do what we want.

There's not enough people to fill whatever fucking venue is.

No one's interested.

Nobody cares.

They don't fucking like you.

They're just trying to make a fucking living.

We're going to go to Maine.

We're going to go to Oneida, New York.

We're going to go to Montreal where they don't like anything.

We're going to go to Wayne.

Irvine, California, which is the worst thing that ever happened in my fucking life.

Yep.

Wouldn't it be amazing to go to Irvine and not sell any tickets?

Oh my God, amazing.

Just be like, it's just all, you know, every girl who made fun of me in elementary school gets in for free.

Yeah.

And they get a front-end

text and talk to each other.

That'd be, God, this is turning into like an Albert Brooks movie.

We, an Albert Fish movie.

Oh, my God.

An Albert Fish Productions.

That's the best name for a production company.

And it's just a cartoon of him with all those pins inside of him.

Oh, my God.

He's so gross.

All right.

Do we have to do the murder part?

This is so fun.

There are those who say we do have to do it.

Last

time

you went first.

Okay.

You pointed at me and then moved your finger towards your side.

Because I was just kind of ready to go with whatever you said.

I do love that in the live episode

at the venue.

We were like, how to ask the audience, who went first last time?

And a bunch of people are like,

Georgia, like they knew.

I know.

That's so sweet.

It's

because they know we don't know anything.

That was so fun.

And the craziest thing to me is: someone who wasn't there said, at one hour and 15 minutes in, did I hear Guy Branham laugh?

Oh, we got like seven of those.

That's

amazing.

And then you did.

Because there's people who are Guy Branham, who is our friend, and he's also a co-host of Pop Rocket, which is a very popular podcast.

But also, he's a well-known comedian, and he has the most distinctive laugh that makes you want to start laughing.

Yeah, it's amazing.

He's so nice.

Like,

this is how low it is in LA, but he remembered my name when he met after he met me.

And Vince is the same way too, where it's like, he didn't have to remember our name.

Like, that's how low it is where it's like, you remembered my name.

He's so nice.

You're just looking for some decency.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He, he read how to do things with friends and, and then remember them.

Then he wrote that he read that book.

Yeah.

All right.

I just coughed and burped at the same time, but I just want to say,

I want to delay this one more minute.

Class A.

Because I have defiance disorder.

Is that a thing?

Yeah.

I have it too.

I don't know what it is.

It's just that you can't do what people want you to do.

Oh my God, I fucking have that.

Yeah.

It makes sense with both of us.

It does.

I'm learning a lot from you, though.

I have it very bad.

I'm learning that it's okay from you.

It is.

I mean, it's fine because everybody has something.

I once had a fucking soccer coach when I was like in junior high hold his fist up to my face and say, you need to stop fucking being defiant.

And I was like, fuck you.

Did you walk away?

Yeah.

The hell yeah, girl.

That's right.

He's probably fucking.

I was just going to say, that's the show I'm working on right now is Guy Branham's show.

Yeah.

That's the,

I don't have to be secret about it because I'm happy that Guy Branham

gets to have a show and it's going to be on True TV in like probably spring called Talk Show the Game Show.

It's going to be awesome.

That reminds me of from Bojack Horseman of what was it like celebrities.

Do they know anything?

What do they know?

Let's find out.

That's Guy Branham deserves a show so much.

so much that guy is he's a fucking lawyer literally what yes he is a law degree shut the fuck up yeah yeah he's smarter than everybody jesus yeah national fucking treasure and murder time okay

okay we're back i owe jamie lee a huge apology for calling her book which is called wediculous weddic

is it it's wediculous that's the real name.

That's the real name.

I kept calling it, and it still looks like that to me, wedlicious,

right?

They're both, they both work.

Maybe if the book was about wedding cakes,

wedalicious

is like a different person than James.

You know, than the person who would write widiculous.

So.

Yeah, it's a totally different vibe.

And it's bad marketing.

Exactly.

So there's that.

And I apologize.

I do like, though, that you stated, fuck writing a book, which then future you, it's like you could feel it coming.

Oh, someone's going to make me.

Someone's going to make me.

No, I fucking, I don't know why I would say that because that was like my dream my whole life, but it's just so daunting.

I had to be forced to write it for sure.

Yeah.

Even though I wanted to do it.

So.

Yeah.

That's how writing is.

It is.

That's how anything is.

That's how everything is.

Oh, you want that?

Work hard.

No.

No.

Now you ruined it.

How about you hand it to me for once?

Are you listening to to me?

I can't tell.

And I don't want to.

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So remember we were talking about national parks and how everyone gets murdered in them constantly.

It's like, what the fuck?

I have one for you today

that I'd never heard about.

And then I, you know, okay, they looked it up.

Okay, here's the name of the fucking state park.

It's called Starved Rock State Park.

So immediately you're like, oh, shit.

Can I guess where it is?

Yeah.

Wyoming, Illinois.

But, you know, they're probably real close to each other.

Thank you.

They're probably close.

Did you see the meme someone made of?

It's just a, it's a photo of what like Wyoming and it says over the top, and whatever state is next to Wyoming.

It's just what you said.

I can't pretend.

I cannot pretend.

Listen, we're so smart in certain things.

Oh, and so dumb in most things.

And yet defiant as fuck.

So that's why, fuck you.

That's why we're still not starting this

murder TV show.

God damn it.

Okay, Star Rock State Park.

It's a state park.

It's 100 miles outside of Chicago.

The reason it's named this,

okay, so it's a rock fortress on the Illinois River.

A band of, and I'm going to say this wrong and sound like such a fucking asshole,

Illiniwick Indians lived there originally in the 17th.

And then in the 17th century, they were besieged by a bunch of fucking assholes.

They like kind of locked them in.

And so the people who didn't die by trying to escape, the Indians were died from starving.

So fuck.

Yeah, dude.

Okay.

So on March 14th, 1960, these three suburban housewives who are from a little bit outside of this area,

they're in Riverside.

Three suburban housewives go to Starve Rock State Park for a long weekend.

They're all just like, let's get the fuck out of here.

One of the women had like convalesced her husband through a heart attack.

They needed to get the fuck out of town.

They wanted to go and enjoy the area's hiking trails.

It's apparently gorgeous.

They're staying at the Starbrock

Lodge.

Excuse me, like burped.

So this is Lillian Edding, Mildred Lindquest, they're both 50, and Frances Murphy, who's 47.

The young one.

They're wives of business executives.

They're mothers of grown children.

And they're prominent in their town for civic involvement.

And they're friends through the Riverside Presbyterian Church.

So they're good fucking women, you know?

They're like, we deserve, like, this is, this is their, um,

what's it called?

When they, yeah.

Girls' weekend.

Yes.

I just had that feeling

right as you finish that last sentence.

That they're all going to die.

Well, yeah.

It was the, and you know what that feeling feels like to me when I remember what we're doing.

It feels like when the dentist puts the lead blanket over you and you get your x-rays taken.

Yeah.

So then it's just like, oh, yeah.

And you're like, this lead thing isn't going to do anything too.

It's like that lead thing where they're like, this is probably.

Yeah.

But anyway.

Yeah, that's it.

This is the lead blanket of sadness.

They check into the lodge.

They put their luggage in their rooms and then they have lunch at the lodge's like beautiful restaurant.

And then they're like, we're going to go for a hike, like post-lunch hike.

Okay, well, that evening, Lillian's husband is supposed to hear from his wife.

And so he doesn't.

And he calls the staff.

And the staff is like, oh, no, we saw them, but they're not in the room right now.

They'll call call you tomorrow.

The next day he calls again and the staff again says like, oh no, you know, we saw them at lunch and they're here.

They're just probably out.

And then the next day, there's a snow, a crazy fucking snowstorm.

And so this dude, Lillian's husband named George, is like, go into my fucking wife's room and see if she's there.

They check the rooms.

Their luggage is all packed.

Their car is still in the same place.

Like they clearly hadn't been there in two days.

So

George calls law enforcement and volunteers come out and they start a search party.

And at the time, this local newspaper reporter hears about it.

He fucking skedaddles over there and he drives into the park and he comes across some kids near a ravine who are shouting.

And it turns out this like local camp had been hiking and these like teenage boys found bodies on one of the nearby trails, which is like, dude, you poor kids.

So

what's found and the fucking newspaper guy goes up there, scoop of the fucking century, and it was called the crime of the century for a while.

He finds the mutilated bodies of Lillian, Mildred, and Francis.

They're laying side by side, partially covered with snow.

They're on their backs under the ledge of a small cave, and their lower clothing had been torn away.

And their legs were spread apart, which we know is a fucking sadistic as fuck way to leave someone.

They had all been beaten viciously

on their heads and two were tied together with heavy twine.

They are covered in blood and their legs were blackened with bruises.

Poor fucking things.

So

because this had happened two days earlier and then there was a snowstorm, there were several inches of snow covering the whole area, which means all this fucking evidence they could have had.

was lost.

But they did some digging and they found a ton of blood beneath the snow and they found a frozen tree limb that was streaked with blood and they thought that was the murder weapon.

And then also a trail of blood led from a different area into where the women's body were found so they thought that the bodies had been dragged and positioned under the sledge.

The coroner said the women had

obviously been, quote, molested, but they couldn't.

they couldn't find any evidence of rape because it had been so long and it had been snowing.

Let's see.

And it seems that the time of death was pretty shortly after they had left the lodge after lunch.

Um, and there was no motive for the murders because the women had left all their money and jewelry in their room.

Um, and so maybe the killer got mad when he found out that there was nothing on them.

But the strap to the camera, they brought a camera and binoculars, and the strap to the camera was broken, and there was photos of them like sightseeing on the camera, which you can see online.

Oh, so the strap was broken, but the camera is still there.

Yes.

Okay.

So it wasn't robbery.

No, yeah.

Or maybe it was attempted and the women fought back, something.

So there were no suspects for eight months.

And so the county state attorney, whose name was Harold,

no, Harland Warren, Harland, that's a fucking amazing name.

Uses his own money and purchases a microscopes, a microscope and begins.

like doing this crazy study of all the evidence.

Sorry, I missed what year this was.

Oh, 1960.

Oh, okay.

He buys his own microscope.

And also, everyone's name is something that's old-fashioned.

Okay.

It's like these are all older people in 1960.

So I know they're all like, you know.

From the 30s or whatever.

Exactly.

Okay.

So he buys his own microscope.

He begins studying the evidence.

And he's like, the twine is going to fucking tell me something.

Where is this twine from?

And

he finds that there's two kinds of twine, a 20-ply cord and a 12-ply cord.

And he starts at the first place he can think of which is at the lodge and he brings him to the manager the cord and he's like does this look familiar to you and it turns out the manager is like i think those were from the restaurant and they go back into the fucking area where the food is kept in the fucking pantry and there's the fucking twine same fucking twine so they don't have to go far to find whoever did this they do not So they had originally, Warren had originally thought that the killer either worked at or had access to the lodge, but all the lodge employees had been given polygraph tests and they all passed.

But he calls them back for another round of testing.

And that is when a former dishwasher named Chester Otto Wager was brought in.

Like that name combination.

Because he has a middle name.

Well, yeah, they always name the middle name.

But Chester.

Chester's not a good name.

It's not a good name.

W-E-G-E-R.

Wager.

Chester Wager.

You don't name your child in a name that has the same two letters at the end on both names.

Chester Wager.

Oh, is that a thing?

It's my personal thing.

I see that.

No, I get that.

I've never thought about that.

So he's a former park employee, and he had quit recently, like over the summer, to go paint houses with his father.

But while he was working there, he served meals to the police and reporters while they were like looking up for evidence and shit.

So they give him a lie detector test, and the tester who's like this really, they brought in like a really good tester.

he they said his face turned white after during the testing chester walks away and the tester said that's your man oh

yeah so weger is 21 he's a small man he has a wife and two young children um he had resigned that summer and lodge employees reported seeing scratches on his face but he had passed several lie detector tests already I mean, because ultimately we know that lie detector tests, they're 50-50.

Right.

They're only right half the time.

Yeah.

Now we know this.

And there's a reason they're inadmissible in court is because they're

not.

They're based on your heart rate.

And if you are like a sociopath or something, you won't have a reaction to, you won't be nervous to tell a lie.

You won't care.

And if you truly believe what you thought you saw.

So like if it's a witness who's like, I fucking saw a man in a red jacket.

I know I did.

And if they believe that, they're going to not have been being deceitful, even if it's not true.

They won't have the physical reaction.

Yeah, I think someday that I think someday witness testimony is going to be just like lie detector tests where it's like, this is inadmissible because everyone's a little bit wrong reliable.

Yeah.

We're all a little wrong.

I think that's actually a good thing to remember.

Yeah.

Because I always think I remember things always and I'm positive, positive.

Yeah.

And then, and then I'm wrong.

Well, it's the same thing of like how people say, like, there's three sides to every story, your side, their side, and the truth.

And it's like, you know, the argument that you and I got into sounds this way from me and sounds that way from you and you have to be like well somewhere in the middle is really what happened and you can't you have to know that you don't know yeah the other person's

this is a psychology podcast

it's true though

it's so smart i know like how do we even not about states about feelings

pardon me i just thought it'd be perfect i was gonna make that one quiet but i figured i'm putting my jacket back you're cold

it's so loud.

I know.

You want a blanket?

This is not good for audio, Steven.

Have a blanket.

There's a blanket right there.

I barely move.

I peed on it once.

Please.

Are you cold?

Yes.

Karen, behind you is a thermostat.

Please turn that heat on right there.

The thing that looks like a fire hazard from the 1950s?

Yeah, click that little thing up.

This is worth it.

Kaboom!

Click that up.

No, no, no, to the left.

The little switch.

Yeah, up.

There we go.

See the fire and the wall right there it's i need to move this is an old this is serious

the night my favorite murder got lit on fire all right okay

so they're like it's totally him and then he was like hey um i have i just happen to have this buckskin jacket and i want to admit that it's covered in quote dark stains And it later turned out to be human blood on this jacket.

He was just bringing this up.

Yeah, I don't know if that's totally, you know, how it happened, but somehow they found a buckskin jacket that was covered in dark stains.

That happened to be human blood.

But in 1960, it could not be typed or matched to a specific victim, which is like, come on, you guys, get it to fuckinggether.

They're like, we can't.

It's only 1960.

It's just bloodstains at this point.

We just want to go to the moon.

That's all we care about.

They were going to say movies, which is actually similar.

Our parents failed us.

So

he

does further polygraph tests.

Again, he's fucked and he fails them all.

So the investigators begin checking into similar cases in the area and they come across a reported rape and robbery that had taken place a mile from Starved Rock in 1959, the year before.

A 17-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted and she had been

bound with twine

similarly to the starved rock women.

Okay.

And then I, you know, in all my like weird digging of like old articles and shit, the one place, I found in one place this information.

That the attack had been reported by two teenagers, a boy and a girl.

The boy said they had been robbed while the girl was sexually assaulted.

They told the cops about it and the officers didn't believe their story.

And they sent the couple away with a cursory investigation saying that they thought the story was made up.

That That they were robbed?

That they were robbed and she was fucking sexually assaulted.

They were like, you little lying 17-year-olds, get the fuck out of here.

You know what I mean?

Like, why would you fucking make that up?

Let's get attention.

Yeah.

I mean, that's what that, that's what they used to say, stuff like that back then, right?

Yeah.

So maybe they had should have paid attention to that.

Anyways, so the vict the female victim has brought a stack of mug shots.

She's sorting through them, and when she sees the photo of Chester, she starts to scream,

which is so chilling.

Yeah,

so they get an arrest warrant for him on the rape because they can't prove the murders yet.

So they get him off the streets.

And then they have him in custody.

They start questioning him about the rape, and then they press him about the murders.

And they

keep him in

the interrogation room for hours.

At 2 a.m., he finally

asks to see his family.

And

then he

confesses.

But before that, he's like, Really quick, though, again, I have a buckskin jacket.

I just wanted you guys to know

it's the blood from the buck that was fucking killed for this jacket.

I'm just gonna bring this up real quick because I want it's pretty cool jacket.

Yeah, like I just want you guys to like admire my jacket.

Okay, anyway, I'll go back to my confession.

Um,

so he confesses, he says

that

he got scared.

He tried to grab the women's pocketbooks, and they fought him, and he hit them.

And the pocket book turned out to be the camera that was around her neck.

He thought it was like a pocketbook.

So he gives them that

interesting detail.

Then

he says,

they were like, why did you drag the women into this ledge, into this like cave?

And he says, it's because

he had spotted a small airplane flying low over the park and he was afraid it was a state police plane.

So he moved the bodies so that they could not be seen and he had said it was a red and white plane.

So a few days later,

the cops and the detectives go to the airplane base and look at the logbooks and there's a fucking plane flying over that fucking park at the exact moment that was red and white.

Whoa.

So that's some shit that only he could have known.

Yes.

Right.

And he told on himself.

He confessed.

Yeah.

He confessed.

He confessed.

Okay.

Okay, but then right after his first meeting with his court-appointed attorney, he changes the story and says that he was innocent of all charges, that the investigators had coerced him into confessing, and that they fucking held a gun to his head and made him sign every single one of

the papers.

I mean, I can see that too.

I mean, back then.

He said, I know he was so scared that he signed the papers away, saying they had fed him the information about the airplane, and he wasn't even in the park at the time of the killings.

He later said, the police at the park saw me every day, and I passed every test they gave me.

But the months went by and they wanted a conviction, so they beat me into signing it.

I wasn't even, I wasn't ever at the park when it happened.

I was done wrong.

Except for when you raped that girl that time?

Just yeah, okay, but yeah, yes.

However, okay.

So he's brought to trial in 1961.

They seek the death penalty.

A year later,

the jury finds him guilty.

For one of the murders they only tried him for, which is weird.

Maybe they thought they couldn't get get him on all three?

Well, it's all the same evidence, you know what I mean?

And then they ended up like not bringing him up on charges for the rape, too.

So like this poor girl who was like, you first thought I was fucking lying, and now you're not even going to fucking try him for this shit.

Wow.

Poor fucking girl.

But if he goes down for those, at least something on the other ones, then he's in jail forever.

Maybe

they had to convince him.

Okay, but here's the problem with that.

Uh-oh.

So he's sentenced to a term of life in prison.

And then the jurors get dismissed and the reporters ask them if they knew that a life sentence in Illinois meant that Wager would be eligible for parole in a few years.

And it turns out that

the normal life sentence for murder in Illinois was 10 years at the time.

What?

Yeah.

I don't know if it still is.

It might still be.

No.

The jurors were like, wait, what the fuck?

They were like, we would have fucking sent him away.

Wait, that's like saying everyone that's going to jail is 70 or something.

That doesn't make any sense.

A life sentence is

the hardest quotes that have ever been quoted.

Life sentence is such bullshit.

It makes you feel and think a certain thing.

It's not fucking true.

Seven fucking years.

It's like

you're eligible for parole immediately and you just keep fucking.

It's just not a thing.

A life sentence is not a thing?

A life sentence is not a thing.

You are full of shit.

I am not.

Life sentence is like, is a, is a, um.

Wait, can I just remind you that lawyers listen to this?

Okay.

All right.

I just.

Would you want me to text Guy right now?

Text guy.

Okay.

The idea of a life sentence.

Wait, this is my favorite.

We're going to keep it.

We're going outside the podcast.

It's like

we're doing an outside line.

A life sentence.

I want to call a friend.

A lawyer.

I'm doing it.

A life sentence means life sentence, but in actuality, in a majority of states, it really just is,

it's a sentence, but it's not an actual,

what's the word?

It's not going to give you 50 to 75 years, like, like it would take up a person's life.

Exactly.

You're not actually going to be in prison for your life.

All right.

Both of you on your phones now.

I just want to fucking point out.

I mean, no, I'm just texting.

I'm texting the outside.

Can I ask you a question?

We're just going to see if guys even available.

Stephen, what did you find?

I found that it was much more complicated than i thought it was what is it i thought life imprisonment was life and no the first thing was on a message board it just said that's a really good question what is life imprisonment in illinois and oh you didn't get an answer yeah i didn't get an answer read the whole thing right now

it just says that okay well we know that it changes state to state right yes but i also but this is illinois specific right so so i mean the jurors were upset like do you know that life imprisonment um

a life sentence in Illinois means that he'd be eligible for parole in a few years?

So that's the thing.

You get life in prison and then you're fucking eligible for parole.

And in this case, in Illinois, get parole after 10 years.

Oh, okay.

So that's right.

Well, I mean, is that what you're about to tell me?

He got parole.

No.

Oh.

No.

No, no, no, no.

Blah, body, blah.

So they said they would have given the electric chair.

Oh, shit.

Blah blah blah.

So,

okay, let's see.

The whole prosecution was based on his confession, which predated Miranda warnings that are required today.

Wow.

I didn't realize Miranda warnings were that recent.

Yeah.

Okay.

They're based on a guy named Miranda.

Like how John Wayne's real name is Priscilla.

Is it?

No, it isn't.

Yeah.

Or Miriam.

That's my middle name.

It's a girl named.

What?

Really?

It's Jewish.

Okay.

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Okay.

So then at point,

so he, from the moment he was in prison, is saying he's fucking innocent.

And

that some woman had a deathbed confession that was never like corroborated.

Corroborated?

Corroborated.

He's maintained his innocence.

He's 77 and he is the third longest held inmate in a state prison, having served a life sentence since 1961.

He's been requesting parole since 1972.

It's 14 times that he's been up for parole.

Wow.

Yeah.

And he's always saying, and if he said that he did it, he probably would have been paroled because part of getting paroled is accepting responsibility for your crime.

Yeah.

And he fucking refuses to do it.

DNA tests were requested, but so there was fucking hair found in the victim's fists and the bloodstains on the coat.

They were requested testing in 2004, but the items had not been properly preserved and thus no longer had held evidentiary value, which seems like bullshit, right?

Like, you can fucking find it in there somewhere.

Well, but it sounds like what they're saying is, like, instead of putting it in a Ziploc bag, they put it in one of those sandwich bags that folds over at the top, where it's like, those don't work for sandwiches.

Why are they going to work for evidence?

Well, I, you know, I looked this case up on Facebook to see if anyone was like talking about it as their hometown murder.

And one guy whose name I fucking can't remember was like,

this is my hometown murder.

And these items, the jacket and the fucking branch that had been used to kill them were brought to schools to show children no yeah and so and like the buckskin jacket comes back yeah like the the guy was like the guy worked for the innocent project innocence project and he was like the reason these fucking things couldn't be tested is because one of the fucking investigators had like one of the pieces of evidence on his wall as like a trophy and these got brought like his the guy was like my mom remembers these being brought into school and you could like touch them and fucking learn about the murder get as many little kid fingerprints on there as you possibly can.

It's pretty smart if that's a fucking tactic.

Yeah, because this was back when.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No one knew.

So it was so recent.

He, well,

as

less than a month ago, he was up for parole again.

Jesus, how old is this motherfucker?

77.

He was up for parole again and he got denied.

And one of the only living jurors left, Nancy Porter, who's 92, said that

she now finds the confession implausible because she thought that Wager, who was unarmed, who was only five foot eight, could have been overpowered by the three women, which I think is such bullshit.

That's not how fucking crimes work.

Like, you intimidate these three,

you know, quiet women who go along with what you're telling them to do and intimidate them.

Like, it doesn't matter how big you are.

No, no, no, no.

That's like acting like every crime situation is the same.

And this person is a criminal.

He could have lured them to a spot, cracked one of them on the head, scared the shit out of the other two.

Like, Like, who's the one who's not going to be able to do that?

He tied two of them together, so you're overpowering two of them.

The other woman's not going to leave.

I mean, it's not like they're going to fucking ninja him, like, you know, overpower him.

And that's the same thing with the Richard Speck case, where he went into, they couldn't understand how he, right?

There was so many women in this room, and he

kept them all in that room and then took them out one by one and murdered them.

And it's like, because it's a psychological thing.

He scared the shit out of them.

He scared them and he kept saying, probably, if you go along with what I'm trying to do, I'll let you go i'll let you go and so that you know especially back then when you got to be polite to everyone

you go along with it hoping

you just want this situation to end yeah i mean that yeah that's crazy yeah okay so silver lining um

so

the crime lab is now one of the finest in the state um because of the shoddy work from the star rock case and someone said the state crime lab was less equipped than a high school chemistry lab at the time and this is from Steve Stout, who wrote a book called The Star of Rock Murders.

This crime is more important than most because it changed the system of criminal investigation in Illinois.

And then I went on Reddit, and there was a guy who said,

there was a guy named a woman named Bedpan 3.

I know.

I don't know what's going on with her.

You know she's a woman.

Because she says my, well, maybe not.

She says my husband, and I fucking assumed.

Oh, right, right.

I mean, not trying to.

Come on, everybody.

She says there's a huge

pan one and a bedpan two already taken.

The other two, no.

This is the third best bedpan.

Yep.

This is a huge number.

There's a huge number of people from this town in my surrounding area that think he's he was a scapegoat.

Her ex's husband's grandfather was a judge during the time, though not during this trial, and told me that there was no way in hell he did the crime.

The bodies, from what I remember reading, had animal/slash dog bites that were just left unexplained.

Theories include that a business owner who was from another nearby town who had a very, had very large, well-trained dogs, was a possibility because he inexplicably immigrated back to his home country right after the murders, leaving his entire family behind.

Another theory is that the women's wealthy Chicago businessmen's husbands paid someone to have them killed in the park for various nefarious reasons.

The only real consensus is that pretty much no one at the time or years later believed it was Wager.

I don't think it's the husband having them killed because the way they're mutilated and left with their legs open.

And if he, if Weger was a rapist and was the rapist that raped that girl, it would be more in line with a person who

is a rapist, has issues.

Yeah, and basically is escalating.

I don't disagree with the fact that it sounds like if I didn't know any of the suspects, I would think it was at least two people.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah, but

who knows?

You crack somebody over the head with a stick when you're in you're with your two friends.

Yeah.

Somebody gets cracked over the head and then you're like, and suddenly there's like some wild man that's like, sit down and I have to tie you up.

And I mean,

it's over.

He probably did it.

But

yeah, he probably did it.

But

it is interesting, that whole thing of like, you can't really base it on what the polygraph says.

And you can't.

And you do have to be suspect.

Now, what we know these days of how police interrogations used to go, we've all seen LA Confidential.

It's a pity that DNA can't figure this one out.

Yeah.

That's amazing.

That's such a good story.

Yeah.

Starve Rock Murders.

And also such a creepy name.

Starve Rock Murders?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're back.

This is one of your stories that I think about all the time.

Do you?

Yes, because it was so kind of like the pictures in my mind of where they were when all this was happening.

So disturbing.

Do you have updates?

Yeah.

And just three innocent women, you know, going on a little fucking girls trip together to nature.

Like, yeah, which just, I think this one, a lot of people, because the thing is, a lot of people don't think that the person who was convicted, Chester Wager, did it.

And in fact, in 2020, after 60 years in prison, Chester Wager was granted parole and released from prison.

Wow.

Yeah.

So his lawyers continued to push for new proceedings because they want to prove his innocence of the murders because he's still claiming he was innocent and that the confession was coerced.

So then just this last May, May 2025, a mini trial was set and it introduced new evidence that was not available decades ago.

And some of that evidence is really fascinating: a woman came forward and said that her grandfather on his deathbed, so we have a deathbed confession, another one, that he was in the mob and he had people killed before.

And that he said that he had one regret to his granddaughter.

He said that he knew that Chester Uyghur was innocent.

And

she claims that her grandfather went on to confide in her, that it was registered hits.

referring to the murders and asked her to help prove, like on his deathbed, help prove this man's innocence,

which is wild.

It's not enough.

It didn't sway

the court that much because that's just kind of, you know, it kind of

one guy's story.

Yeah.

And like, why would he tell his teenage daughter that and not utter, you know, and not bring the police in or something like that?

So that's just like a little interesting

bit.

But who would have contracted to have those women murdered?

So the women's husbands were like wealthy businessmen.

So to me, that's like a bigger difference than if they were just like working class people.

It's like you could see a little bit of something nefarious going on, perhaps.

Yes.

A message being sent and the husbands also like had connections in, you know, with politicians and stuff like that.

So who knows?

It doesn't seem like a mafia hit type of murder, though.

You know, yeah.

Like they don't do it like that.

They don't not bring a fucking weapon to the place where they're going to kill people, you know?

Yeah.

And I don't know.

It just feels like a bad movie that the mafia would have to go out into like a park and

out in nature like that.

I don't think so.

I don't either.

And like, also, they probably wouldn't have noticed someone was following them.

Why wouldn't they just kill one of the husbands?

Or, you know, it's just, yeah.

Right.

Isn't that the thing with the mob?

They don't hit family members.

Yeah.

It doesn't sound very mob-like to kill three innocent wives of, yeah.

They don't do women children.

I really, I thought we had a code of conduct here.

Yeah.

It sounds like a brutal kind of opportunity, like crime of opportunity.

So that doesn't mean that this guy did it, but that's what it sounds like.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's hard.

It feels like deathbed confessions have more weight than just normal

regular life confessions, which is like, what if they have dementia?

What if they are

fucking?

What if

fucking morphine you're on when you're like on your deathbed?

I cannot wait.

I can't wait.

It's going to be so.

They're going to be like,

we can't give her enough.

She just asks for more.

She keeps hitting that button.

Bottomless pit.

Oh, and there's also an HBO documentary about the Starved Rocked murders called The Murders at Starved Rock that came out in, I think, 2021.

And it tells the whole story.

I highly recommend it.

All right.

Well, this is one story that you were like on in the beginning when it first started.

Like this was like one of your like, I think that you like knew something was up.

And so this is you.

And we've talked about it already, but you are going to cover the story about Sherry Papini.

This is when I wanted to be a breaking newscaster.

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So mine this week

is...

worrisome because it's the case that I brought up the week before last, and I didn't really know anything about it, but I just wanted to cite it to you.

And it was the Sherry Papini case.

Yes.

So

it's an amazing thing because I went into such a black hole on the internet today that I had that thing happen where I was reading.

It was light outside when I was reading.

And the next thing I knew, it was pitch black in my house.

Yeah, because you didn't get up to turning the lights on.

Exactly.

And I hadn't really looked around so that when I looked up, it was like I was sitting in a pitch black room.

It was kind of scary.

That's a really depression, honestly.

It's like one of my depression triggers.

Yes.

That's where you jump, where you let just the light fade away.

Yeah.

I jumped up and turned a lamp on.

I had dogs.

It wasn't too bad.

I feel like if anyone had come, like, looked through the window and seen what you were looking, like, reading about, they'd be like, what the fuck?

I'm not killing this girl.

Yeah.

She's crazy.

She's going to kill me.

Yeah.

But here's the because the reason that it was, you know, hours and hours of reading in all these different websites is because this case goes has so many levels and it is crazy.

Like, when I first started talking to you about it, I just wanted to kind of be like, it's that crazy case, and it's got some twists and turns.

But because I didn't really know specifics, I kind of was like, just gave up.

Well, I love that I really don't know.

I know that everyone's talking about it.

You mentioned it to me.

I love that you're filling me in on every, like, I have nothing.

I just want to fucking hear this.

I'm excited.

All right.

So, I'll give you the, I'll give you the overview.

Okay.

But essentially, what we're talking about here,

in one way, and this is what people are being so careful about it, because

there's no proof that it's anything but a woman who has been victimized.

And what I really like about that is that there are people who are being so fastidious as to make sure that no one is accusing a victim of a crime of doing anything.

That being said,

there is insane amounts of evidence that something is wrong with this case.

It's really suspicious.

It's very suspicious, and it's not, um,

it's just interesting.

So, I we will talk about facts, and I'll just try to be very clear about what facts are as opposed to hearsay or anything.

And just try to remind you every seven minutes that we're talking about a victim and that this isn't, you know, in nowhere are we trying to like give an opinion about this.

I just find this case to be incredibly fascinating.

Okay.

So, here's what we know.

It's a woman named Sherry Papini, who is a 34-year-old married mother of two who lives in Reading, California, disappeared while she was jogging on November 2nd.

And she reappeared three weeks later on the side of Highway 5 before dawn on Thanksgiving Day, 150 miles away from where she was taken.

She was beaten, she was bloody, and her hands were chained behind her back.

Fuck.

Yeah.

She told police that she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic women in a van who tortured and starved her.

No.

Okay, go on.

So after she was found, her husband Keith gave interviews to both Good Morning America and 2020.

Wait, okay.

Already questions.

She said that the entirety of her captive, her being captured was by two Hispanic women.

Yes.

The entirety of it.

Yep.

Let's just go with the facts.

On those interviews, Keith hit her husband, said his wife's captors, two Latina women, kept their faces covered, spoke Spanish the majority of the time.

They beat her, they broke her nose, they cut her hair, they starved her.

He claimed that Sherry had lost 15% of her body weight and that the captors quote unquote branded her, which led to speculation that the kidnapping was part of a sex trafficking operation.

So after she was found, a woman saw saw her again at 4 a.m.

on the side of the road, called 911, she gets taken to the hospital.

And her injuries include bruises, a broken nose, burns, and starvation.

But she was discharged several hours later.

She tells police that she was held captive

and she describes the two Latinas as one being old, one being young.

One had curly hair, one had straight hair, one had thin eyebrows, one had thick eyebrows.

Once she was released from the hospital, she and her family left Redding, the town that she lives in,

for an undisclosed location to avoid media attention.

And Sherry herself has not been seen by the media since her disappearance.

Shut up on Thanksgiving.

Yes, since, like, she's basically not been seen by the media at all.

So they've seen the pictures of her, which are from her wedding day, which are seven years prior.

So she hasn't given any interviews or hasn't been seen?

No, just her husband.

Wow.

So her husband went on a 2020 and Good Morning America, and he told the whole story for her.

And which makes sense for a victim who is traumatized and needs to be away from everything.

Makes perfect sense.

But did he need to do that?

Well, true.

Like if that's the case and she doesn't want to be and needs to be away from it.

Well, they and that's what they told people is basically

she got got out of the hospital and then they left town and told everybody that they are doing it to avoid the media.

And then he

relatively soon after goes on both two, you know, major national television shows.

Okay.

Do you want to?

Okay.

So I'm going to hold my comments.

All right.

Yeah.

Like just

accrue it and listen because it's interesting.

Like remember

there are actually websites that normally dive right into cases like this, the kind of Nancy Grace-style cases, who will not entertain anything except for that Sherry Papini is a victim and anybody saying anything different, that's the like you can't talk about that, which is a stance.

I mean, it's just like a way to do it.

But of course, Reddit is not like that because Reddit entertains anything at all times, and you can say what you want.

And

so there's Reddit is the place I found a lot of this information.

The Shasta County Sheriff actually recently came out to say he believes Sherry Papini's story.

But he said that in direct conflict with an earlier statement where the sheriff's office communications officer said they weren't ruling anything out.

So no one knows if he said that to fix what somebody that was just basically answering the phone and talking to the Huffington Post said

or what.

But there hasn't been much movement.

The

Shasta County,

none of the police up there have been warning people.

They haven't put out

any kind of APB about these two Latina women.

There haven't been warnings to other women about being careful or this is what you need to look for.

That says a lot.

Yeah.

Okay.

So basically, it won't go over like this is the way

the timeline problems, essentially.

Okay.

So the day that she went jogging, like the day that her husband, Keith, realized that she was missing, he was at work and he came home from work and she wasn't there and the kids weren't there.

And instead of calling her, he said he, because sometimes, I think the reason is, I was confused by this, but basically that sometimes reception is bad up there, which makes sense because it's like way up north of Sacramento.

Yeah.

That he pinged her phone instead with Find My iPhone.

Okay.

So then he realizes where the phone is and it's a mile away from their house, where kind of near where their mailbox is, which is if you've grown up in the country, it's that thing where like your house is way up here on some weird long dusty road and your mailboxes are in a long line with a bunch of other people's mailboxes down the road.

You go to your mailbox when you're driving up your driveway.

Exactly right.

A mile seems seems far to me, but I don't know.

Okay.

And also, this is like I was looking at a map of Reading, and there's nothing.

I mean, yeah, also the group that neighborhoods put mailboxes together.

It has nothing to do with where your house is, kind of, right?

Exactly.

Yeah, because neighborhoods don't exist there.

It's like all these houses just kind of like they're probably ranch-style houses spread out.

Fuck that, man.

So I want neighbors to hear me scream.

Scary at night.

Yep.

So he says he called his mother, and he,

I can't remember, but basically, it's just this weird thing of why wouldn't you just call her phone?

Yeah.

And like, okay.

So

he basically pings her phone, finds it,

and it's at the corner of Sunrise Drive and Old Oregon Trail.

And when he gets there, he immediately takes a picture of it.

It's sitting on her phone?

Of her phone.

It's sitting.

It's sitting with.

You're just going to keep saying that.

I know.

No, no, no, you can't.

But I'm just saying there's a lot of that.

There's headphones sitting on top of the phone.

On top of them.

Very neatly, it says.

And he takes a picture of it.

So the police

said that it looked staged.

They commented on that early, that said it looked staged.

But he didn't touch the phone.

He liked, whatever.

And a lot of people on these threads were talking about if your significant other was missing in a way that you really felt was real you would grab that phone and start looking at what are the last calls targets anything

all right um

so then he files a missing persons report and in all in every way he talks about her instead of saying kidnapped or missing he keeps using the word taken

liam neeson style

um okay so then They put up five days after she goes missing, they put up sherrypapini.com and it's a website.

Five days

i'm sorry go ahead um it's just a website about the whole case please help us find her she's missing with her picture and everything else all the information what she's wearing and the whole thing and ten days after that

this letter goes up on that website and it's from an anonymous donor and it says that it says like i'm an anonymous donor i'm offering an undisclosed reward for sherry's immediate release um my middle man is cameron gamble who's a

international negotiator

who also happens to live in Reading.

The fuck?

Right.

So this is, I think this is the part.

Now, separate from people saying, please protect a victim who has been victimized.

Yeah, absolutely.

But this is the part where everyone's like, this thing stinks to high heaven.

Because

when you go on, there's a really great article that was on the Daily Beast called

like Things You Should Know About the Shady private investigator involved in the Sherry Pahini case.

And it's amazing because it's all about him and how, like,

it's really, there's lots of great information.

There's videos that he has on his website, camerongamble.com.

Is he a crape?

He's a guy that's trying, like, he has

his organization, it's supposedly a non-profit

organization called Project Taken.

And it's about, dude, it's about warning women

or like telling women what to do in case someone tries to kidnap them.

What the fuck?

So all of these things are like, just, they just are very suspect.

It's just all very, a little bit like a movie and a little bit

too, I don't think so.

Too coincidental.

Very coincidental.

And also, in the best case scenario, what this person did in this anonymous donor that put this letter up on their website was basically trying to circumvent law enforcement and say, if you have her,

I will give you money, just bring her back.

There are no questions asked.

Exactly.

No, no, you can't.

They don't use that phrase, but it's basically saying, we don't have to deal with the police.

Like, if you can have the money, just bring her back.

Which pisses the police off so much because if that's actually the case, then other women are in danger and you have nothing to do with it.

You've just eliminated all the suspects because you're being a fucking asshole.

Well, it just, it doesn't work that way.

It doesn't.

And it's like somebody making up a new way to do it and then going like, I'm anonymous.

I'm anonymous.

The amount of money is anonymous.

Please use my middleman.

Yeah.

None of those things, I think, really line up.

And then it goes against law enforcement.

Okay.

So

after she's found and the family asks for privacy, several family members grant a Daily Mail interview, which is the British newspaper, I believe.

And someone also sells a picture of her kids on Thanksgiving to the Daily Mail.

And then, of course, her husband does both interviews.

Do they know who sold it?

Or is it like anonymous?

They say family members.

There's no one specifically named.

In his 2020 interview, her husband Keith says

her signature long blonde hair had been chopped off.

But she was described as having long hair by the 911 caller.

And a lot of people bring up, like, who has signature long blonde hair, signature as to, as compared to what?

Like, dude.

dude it's not she's not like

you know gwyneth paltrow or whatever it's she's a mom and even if it is it's like why didn't the caller describe her as having that and he said the exact this guy seems to pick up phrases that sound um

coerce or not coerced uh like rehearse rehearsed thank you but also just weird like it's that thing where people get a weird feeling and that's the thing that like i what we're now talking about that are in direct contention with each other is the weird feeling you have when you think someone's lying versus a victim trying to tell their story.

And I'm not, everything I've heard doesn't

it's it that makes the husband sound suspicious, not her, right?

It sounds like this fucking happened to her.

Well, yeah,

I don't think like nothing makes me think that this, that she isn't actually

a legitimate victim.

So basically, when she he gives these interviews, there's experts that are uh experts in like whatever, reaction or whatever,

facial reaction recognition or whatever that say his crying is completely fake.

Like he does these things where he bursts out into tears,

but he he

makes the noises and his eyes get a little bit red, but there's no actual streaming tears.

That whole fucking study is fascinating to me.

I love that shit.

Yeah.

Like micro expressions and stuff like that, like the way they know people are lying.

Amazing.

It's pretty interesting.

But I also also think that that's interesting because that happens on TV shows a lot where people are supposed to be crying like in acting, but it's a really hard thing to do to fake cry.

It's really hard, even if you mean it and want to do it.

So like you can, but we're all used to it where it's like people like, I just really, you know, you make the noise, you can do the voice and everything, but to get the stuff to come out of your eyes is really hard to do.

Yeah, but you can still see it.

Like I have a really hard time crying and there's moments where I'm like, it's okay to do this thing, but you're trying so hard not to, but you can hear it in the voice.

Well, the key, the key of real crying, and I learned this in an acting class one time, tell me, is trying not to cry because that's the real thing people do.

No one ever wants to really cry.

Fuck.

So sitting and I don't know this man and who knows what's really happening.

None of us know.

Again, I'm just going to keep saying it.

None of us know what's really happening.

But

most of the time, if you're being interviewed and you're talking about something that happened to a person, and also he had already gotten his wife back home.

Yeah.

So

she hadn't died.

And yes, she had been a victim of something terrible.

But he was acting like he was sobbing, but he wasn't actually sobbing, which is just not a natural thing for people to do.

Especially a man, I'm sorry to say.

They have less permission to have emotion.

You do a thing where you're like, sorry, give me one second.

And you rein it back in.

And then you continue to talk.

And it's like, just give me a moment.

And you think that they're going to cut it out or something.

We've all seen all of these shows a million times.

All of these shows.

You know what it's, it's they talk and then their lip moves in a weird way and then the eyes go and the water is there.

Yeah, and their band breaks

embarrassed about it.

And it's a very hard thing to fade.

They're trying to get a point across and they can't.

And guess what?

Again, all of this theory.

Bear.

Okay.

So

in his

interview for 2020, he calls people who would doubt Sherry's story subhuman.

Okay.

He doesn't call her attackers anything.

What?

Yeah.

That's amazing.

But it's, he also said when he was on Good Morning of America, he said, I understand people want the story, pictures, proof that this was not some sort of hoax, plan to get money or fabricate a race war.

I do not see a purpose in addressing each preposterous lie.

You brought up race war.

Initially, he did.

No, no, no.

This is him.

And that's the thing that everybody was saying of just like, of all those other things, yes, yes, yes.

We get it.

You don't have to address everybody.

You're right.

What?

Wait, why are we talking about a race war?

What the fuck?

On good morning, fucking America.

They should have vetted the shit out of him.

So, okay.

Now we're going back to this idea, which is a real fucking thing that happens in this country, sex trafficking.

It's horrifying.

It really happens.

Totally.

It's still kind of mysterious.

Nobody really knows what it looks like, what it means.

It's very like...

nobody knows who it happens to, and it happens to people that don't, that it's not why, it's not visible, yeah, aren't visible.

It's not, yeah, so we're all like, it never happens because it happens to people who are

victims to begin with.

Yes, that's right, runaway kids.

Yeah, but the thing that that's true is it usually happens to younger women.

This woman is 30.

Sorry, I said it.

Well, people to 30.

People who won't miss the victims or won't be believed when they said that there's a victim or that there's it's a runaway you know people who are um

at risk at risk yeah and under

something something

so but the other thing is um

she she one of her injuries was that was reported is that she was burned um

as if she it liked you know because as if she was branded for this sex trafficking but real sex trafficking is the branding is just a word that they use for they tattoo them.

Right.

They don't brand them like cattle.

Because they want them to, they want to sell these women.

They don't want to ruin their

brains.

You know what I mean?

Well, A, they don't want to ruin their bodies.

They don't want to cut their long, beautiful blonde hair.

That's a fucking selling point.

Exactly.

They don't want to beat them up and break their nose.

Those are all selling points.

Right.

But also, the idea that someone wouldn't actually know the insider information, that tattoos are how you brand, not with a branding.

Like quote branding.

It's like branding as a quote.

Yes.

What the fuck?

So, so, so we're just adding up polls.

We're just mentioning things or the reason people are suspicious.

Got it.

So

the other, now we turn to her social media.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

She had a wedding blog on which she claimed that she had never lived with a man, but she actually had been married and was divorced in 2007.

Shit.

So people are citing this as just kind of times before.

This isn't, she's been described as a super mom, as the best person in the world, as sweet, you know, all-American.

There's this picture that's been painted of her by him in these interviews.

And so people are just trying to cite other things that maybe would contradict that.

Inconsistencies, exactly.

And

one of them is that, that this very blatant lie that she was basically trying to make it seem like she'd never been married before.

And it's like, well, why lie?

It's not that that's a blight on your fucking personality that makes it that you should be kidnapped.

It's not the 1800s.

So you don't.

But this was long before.

So it's kind of like saying, it's just kind of trying to show a thing that maybe this is a person who doesn't have a problem throwing up a lie.

Yeah.

But it could have been put up.

Her or him.

This is her.

This was her wedding blog.

Okay.

but then i will contradict that just in fairness to say reading is a small town and there could be people that don't like her and are trying to defame her because she's in in this spotlight and she is in a bad place and you know what i want to say like i i was engaged before vince and i got married and at this point in my life i'm like he was really just a boyfriend like it was you know like you get married and you're like this was stupid we were young it's like it wasn't a real marriage and you say it wasn't because it doesn't matter Sure.

Does that make sense?

Totally.

Yeah.

Or you just, you get to write whatever you want on your wedding blog.

There's plenty of ways to argue the other way.

For sure.

Now,

there was a blog post written under her maiden name, which is Sherry Graff,

on a skinhead website in 2007.

And it was a story about her getting jumped by three

Latino men and five Latina women, and her fighting all of them off.

And the whole thing was kind of about why can't she be proud of being white?

Oh, no.

So, this is where, now, here's the thing.

Her father says that someone else wrote it and is

being an imposter and trying to make her look bad.

But I feel like the second you start saying the word skinheads, and that is part of it.

Now, this also is in this like

northern central California.

This is this is the area where stuff like this takes place.

I mean this is there is a there probably is a big

there's a huge Latina community there.

It's actually Redding apparently is like 97% white.

Holy shit.

So now I read that though.

I mean that might not not be exactly right because I read that on in all of these posts that I was reading.

That might not be exact.

Yeah.

There's definitely a big Latina community because it's a most of these are farming communities.

And

I'm just saying what I'm reading.

But this now on Reddit, there are all these people who claim to be from Reading and who went to high school with her.

Oh my God.

So basically, I won't get into the, now I realize I probably shouldn't get into the details of these stories because this is straight up slander.

This is gossip.

There's no way to prove that people went to high school with her.

There's no way to prove that she wrote that post, actually.

I don't know if there's any way to prove that she wrote that post.

They can prove that someone with that name wrote that post at that time.

But they can't prove it was her.

Right.

Fingers on the keys.

Right, exactly.

All right.

But however,

it ties these two stories together.

Yes, it just is.

Yes, exactly.

Okay.

This thing with the people that talk about her, nobody is

being

malicious.

Most of the people say, this doesn't seem right.

And here's what I know about this person, but I hope we find out the truth.

Nobody is on there like in any way, but I mean, but also that's a good way to try to seem trustworthy is to not be malicious.

But most of the people said that in high school, she needed to be the center of attention.

And she would sometimes pretend to have heart problems if other people were getting too much attention.

And so one of the stories was they were camping, and a girl had

hypothermia.

She was stayed in the lake too long and had hypothermia.

And as they were rushing her to the hospital, all of a sudden Sherry had heart palpitations and now she had a problem too.

It was like, there's a couple stories like that where it's like kind of comes out of the blue in a very convenient way.

Okay.

Again, unproven.

Yeah.

Who knows who these people are that are writing this?

It leads up to one that is a fact and one that is I that I'm kind of freaked out by.

Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.

It's the disappearance of a girl named Tara Smith.

On October 22nd, 1998, then 16-year-old Tara Smith, a high school student in Reading, California, left home to go jogging, only

never to be seen again.

Tara's father believes that a local man who was Tara's romantic interest may have been responsible for her disappearance.

He said on the night of her disappearance, she had plans to meet with the then 29-year-old martial arts instructor, Troy Zink.

Oh, no.

To end their relationship, he was married.

No.

And had a child, if not two children.

And he had also served a year in jail for rape.

Oh, my God.

Please.

Her father found an unmailed letter in her room after she disappeared that prompted his theories about Zink.

In the letter, she tells him she knows she had made a huge mistake.

She never should have gotten involved with him.

But this letter was never delivered.

And rather than give him the letter,

we believe she wanted to confront him in person to break it off.

Zink told authorities that Tara had asked to meet him near her home.

And then when they met, demanded $2,000 from him.

He refused and she got angry.

And then she asked him to drop her off at the corner of Old Alturis Road and Old Oregon Trail.

No.

Eight miles from where Sherry Papini had been taken.

That's a lot of miles.

That's a lot of miles.

He said he then went to Hanglider Hill to pray and he returned home at 11.30 p.m.

Tara's father went to his house after Tara didn't return.

Tara, not Tara.

And Tara's father said, Zink is an avid four-wheeler guy.

He knows the back roads.

He had five and a a half hours to get rid of the evidence.

He's been smart enough to keep his mouth shut.

The police have not been able to move ahead with the case.

It's heartbreaking and very frustrating.

The guy still lives in Reading.

Almost 20 years have passed, and he has gotten more comfortable, changed his name, and thinks people have forgotten, but we haven't forgotten.

And while he was missing,

while Sherry was missing, her husband Keith asked Tara Smith's father, Terry, for advice.

Keith came to me and we spoke for about an hour.

The father of the missing girl told the magazine, I just told him to stay strong for kids and not assume law enforcement has the answers and to push them.

It was obvious Keith was torn up, and I believe he was confident he'd get his wife back.

Tara Smith was a schoolmate of Sherry Papini.

Wait, they went to school together?

They went to high school together.

The two girls?

Yep.

The girl that disappeared went to high school with Sherry Papini.

Fuck,

tell me more.

That's it.

That's it.

It's basically

shit.

It's basically that there's no conclusion to be drawn from it except for that it's an exact parallel of the same story.

So we don't know where they are.

Okay, but one could argue that

I don't have any feelings

against or for Sherry.

I just think that the husband sounds suspicious as fuck.

I'm not vict, I don't, it sounds like she was a fucking victim,

but whether it's of

the crime that she, that is claimed that she went through or this fucking husband who sounds like a piece of work, I don't know.

I think that this is one of those kinds of stories that anything could be possible.

Like the thing everyone online keeps saying is it's a gone, a total gone girl situation.

Yeah.

And in that, I would say it's that you just don't, we just don't know.

But the thing is, it's to me, it's what's interesting is law enforcement doesn't seem to be moving overtly forward with any kind of like

with anything.

Maybe they're, maybe they are and they're just not being like, but they're vocal about it.

The fact that they haven't warned the community to be on the lookout or to be careful or that this thing is happening speaks volumes to me.

Yeah.

And okay, so

um

what was I gonna say?

Yeah, I don't know.

The whole thing is just like creepy.

It's super creepy.

And there's a lot, the thing that's interesting is there's a lot of stuff cropping up.

Like when I lived in Petaluma, we would hear gossip all the time about

Polyclass's family.

Right.

And because it was, there was always someone that knew an insider that had something to tell you where it's like,

oh, here's the gossip.

Here's the insider information.

And that, it's like urban legends, where that kind of stuff, people like to talk about it, especially when you don't know what the answer is.

Theorizing about this and trying to put it together

is very satisfying.

Here's my thing.

Okay, here's the major thing to me.

The thing that sounds more likely is not two Hispanic women kidnapping a mother and wife off the fucking street and

solely,

they're just not doing that.

What's the other?

Well, and because also the husband said that she said they had they had their faces covered, right?

So, how would you know they're Hispanic or have eyebrows that are a certain way?

Well, I mean, we don't know how they were covered, but why would you walk up to two people in a car with their faces covered?

The Hispanic women, it just sounds, it's one of those things where it's, it just sounds, it's so insulting to Hispanic women and I fucking don't see it.

And then there's this man, it sounds so much more likely that the husband who is trying to get a lot of fucking attention and saying really fucking incriminating weird shit and hiring people who uh

who skirt around law enforcement and has something to do with this is so much more likely than two fucking Hispanic women who have no fucking reason to kidnap this woman and didn't well that's no ransom right right they let her go there's no there's no point that's why everybody no feels like it stinks there's no point to it it's not like the the idea that they don't, she's not saying where she was in the meantime.

There are no details about, there's absolutely no detail that she has given the police about where she was, what happened, what, like, they were saying, somebody was saying, what state was she in?

Like, were her nails cut?

Yeah.

You know, what did her clothes look like?

Were they the same clothes that she left in?

Like, all of that.

What almost sounds more likely to me is that these things happened to this woman, these exact things she's saying.

It just was someone else and they scared her into saying that it was two hispanic women i disagree because the the list of injuries that she gives

i no hospital would let you leave two hours after you arrive it doesn't make sense because if you have burns that means you might have infection yeah you have to get you if you've been starved that means you are dehydrated right so they have to rehydrate you they need to put antibiotics into you and also you're in shock you've just had this terrible thing happen they're gonna do do a rape kit, which takes hours and hours.

Right.

I mean, unless there's no word about that whatsoever.

There's absolutely no word about that.

But they're not going to, it's, it doesn't make sense that a hot, no hospital would let somebody just walk out like, look, I'm fine after the list of like how badly she was beaten and injured.

The victim to me in this, and I, the thing I want to protect is that, is the two Hispanic women narrative.

I just don't think that's fucking fair.

Especially with the skin head tie, it pisses me off that she would, that, that that would be the narrative.

And then I'll just remind that the skin head tie could be some weird red herring, just, just to say it.

Who knows what that is?

I mean, anyone can write her name, you know, who knows what that was.

Fuck, man.

It's, it's such a, but as you dig into the story, you know, it goes into like, um,

when I was in that stuff where it's like, oh, people that went to high school with her said she was this, said she was that.

Yeah.

But then I'm like, this is gossip.

This is all gossip.

This is shitty gossip.

What would people say about me if, you know, if it was me in the same situation?

The shit that people say about us would be

upsetting.

But to come back around to the parallel story of a girl she went to high school with that actually did disappear.

And this is the other thing I will read that someone, um,

someone did say on Reddit that I actually really liked.

Um,

someone said, I actually work with human trafficking victims now, and it really pisses me off that the whole world is freaking out over this one woman.

Yet there are thousands of girls that go missing and are sold into sex trafficking every year right here in the U.S., and they aren't even in the news.

I really, really hope that they figure all this out and the truth comes out, whatever it is.

Fuck, man.

A fucking man.

I mean.

Yeah.

Shit.

If it brings light to the fact that sex trafficking actually does happen, that'll be great.

But I feel like there's a lot of people who are like armchair detectives like you and me who see,

who smell a rat and go, there's more to this story.

And they're not talking.

Yeah.

And also, oh, the last thing is they started a GoFundMe.

Somebody else started a GoFundMe.

And in seven days, they made $40,000.

For the family?

Uh-huh.

Something fucking smells fishy.

I mean, and it's in the, it's in his sister's name.

This man, this, this dude.

Like, I'm not even looking at her.

This fucking dude.

Well,

this dude is saying enough himself to be incriminated.

Nothing to do with her.

She might have been a fucking pawn in his game.

Or vice versa.

Or a third choice that we don't know.

It's just so fascinating because when these things get presented on the news, I think back to like, I saw this just briefly in passing.

Yeah.

And it was her blonde hair and big smile.

And this mother is missing.

And everybody's talking about it.

across the nation.

And then it basically is like, okay,

here's the story.

And then the end.

And everyone's like, well, wait a second.

Yeah.

We need to make sure that we fucking update as much as we get, as soon as we get information about this we need to update it because this is one of those things that like you never hear about again and it's like oh well they all went to fucking prison um also the international um kidnapping expert is that part in the middle oh my god someone said this on reddit but it's like this is this is basically a cohen brothers movie it's like these characters

i mean it doesn't it's like somebody coming in and being like

I am on behalf of an anonymous donor.

I am here to say you can come to me and you don't have to go to the cops, which the cops up there must have lost their fucking shit.

I have a degree in international

kidnapping

things.

I am, my major was Liam Neesoning.

Karen, that's our new fucking title.

Listen, if anyone gets kidnapped and you need someone to fucking intervene on your behalf, don't go to Karen.

Come right here.

Karen and Georgia, my favorite murderer.

Like, we are on this with fucking wild speculation,

personal experiences.

There's going to be a lot of, we're mad at you for saying this, that, and the other thing.

But I thought

this story, I think we've cleared it at every level, but this story is fascinating.

You can't deny.

Amazing.

There's something else going on.

It's fascinating.

Motherfuckers.

Everyone's a motherfucker.

What is fucking wrong with people?

Just like live your fucking life.

I'm sorry.

I'm really angry at people.

It's just like, can we not have a fucking moment?

Like not being total pieces of shit.

Can't it just be Christmas?

Can't this be fucking seas candy and fucking

true crime fucking playing cards and Elvis and fucking meme?

Like, can we please?

Oh, I hate it.

The answer that you get served up every week is no.

No.

No.

Answer is nine.

No.

No moments.

Nine.

Well, speaking of moments, anything that happened to you this week?

Oh, shit.

Oh, fuck.

I always forget.

I always forget.

Okay.

Really think it through.

All right.

Well, I think every week it's going to be nephew for me because

we have our cheat family.

I know, right?

But I have a specific one.

We had our family Hanukkah party last night and my nephew who's one and my other nephew who's six, we like, I like made them all play a game to get.

We all played a game and it was like,'cause I didn't want my six-year-old nephew to feel left out and I want my one-year-old nephew to like have memories of my six-year-old nephew and like, swipe fucking auntie fucking Georgia, like totally killed it.

What game?

Just scare the baby.

Did the baby like

love to scare the baby?

Yeah, of course.

It was great.

It was great.

That's good.

Yeah, it was just like made me heart feel good.

I had kind of a magical moment,

which was I was turning to get onto the one-on-one freeway, and as I passed the mobile gas station, um, which is right on Coanga there right there yeah I think it is

there were

three men

doing their nightly

what is it

were there were three men

facing east

and doing their nightly Islamic

prayers that's gorgeous and it was they were doing it because they it was just basically the furthest corner away from the gas pumps that they could.

And you have to be at the certain time.

You have to stop wherever you are and do the prayers.

Right.

And it was, it was the furthest corner and it was like kind of around the corner so it wasn't like people could see them or whatever.

But they were also doing it in front of the mobile symbol.

So it was lit up for me.

As I turned to look at it, it was lit up.

in front of that symbol, like a movie.

It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

What a beautiful moment to remind you that there's more than just this traffic and this and driving.

And there is at that moment, someone is having a spiritual connection with the universe that has nothing to do with your surroundings and their surroundings.

They're taking some time out to do that.

And also, that this is fucking America.

Yeah.

That that's what you're supposed to be able to see in America.

That's what you should want to see.

And that's a great thing to see.

And thank God we live in a city, Los Angeles, that doesn't interfere with that.

Yeah.

That

supports that and

is open to

that.

And it's fine with that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

I felt very grateful.

That's fucking gorgeous.

Cool.

I played Scare the Baby.

Meanwhile, I'm scaring the shit out of my one-year-old nephew.

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Thanks, you guys.

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I don't know.

Just thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks to Stephen Ray Morris of the Percast for your audio engineer.

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You guys are amazing.

Thank you for listening, Elvis.

You want to?

Wait, you want to?

Oh, wait.

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Happy holidays.

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Okay, we're back.

I wonder if there are any updates, Karen.

It's nothing but updates.

This has been a breaking story for 15 years.

It's crazy.

And I think it is really one of the last.

I think it's the second to last

white woman panic story.

I mean, I shouldn't say last.

It's always the vibe, but that thing, the way it broke on the cover of People Magazine, when nothing was corroborated, nothing was factual.

And they just ran with this disappearance story

that turned out to be this fake.

I just think it was kind of like the, it feels like one of the last gasps of that entire, God forbid, a blonde, anything bad happened to a blonde woman.

Right, totally.

So if you didn't know, spoiler alert, the whole Sherry Papini thing was fake.

It took them about four years to crack this case after the disappearance and the return.

And what they did was they found a DNA match, which basically made everything unravel.

They found DNA on Sherry and they then matched it to her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, who basically she had faked this entire thing for so she could run off and be with her ex-boyfriend in Costa Mesa.

Let me tell you guys about Costa Mesa.

It's like,

it's cool.

It used to be cool.

It's not one of the ones that you would like run away for.

It's not a city you would run away from your life for.

I'll tell you right now.

And they keep in the documentary that they show the outside of the apartment.

And it's like, you ran away for what?

No?

Yeah.

Okay.

It's that kind of thing where, like, when Facebook first came back and everyone started talking to people from high school and it all got real kind of fraught.

You know what I mean?

It has that vibe of like, Sherry was way up in Reading and she was a mother and a wife, and maybe not that much was going on.

And then this guy rolls back into town and she's like, I'm giving it all up for Costa Mesa.

It's the thing of like, be careful what you wish for, sort of, you know?

And also be careful who you accuse because, of course, the first thing she tells tells cops is it was two Latina women, one long hair, one short hair, one old, one young, all that shit that sounds so fake.

So anyway, Sherry Papini was charged with making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer and engaging in mail fraud because she got $30,000 from the California Victims Compensation Board.

So she was really in that storyline for a little while.

She was arrested for all of this.

And in September of 2022, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison for all of that.

And she had to pay that $300,000 in restitution for the government funds that they expended looking for her.

Totally.

Shit, man.

And then in April of 2022, her husband Keith filed for divorce and got full custody of their son and daughter.

She has visitation rights.

She got out of prison in August of 2023.

She's, I guess, on parole till 2026.

And her husband, Keith, is in a Hulu documenteries called Perfect Wife, The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherry Peppini, where Keith gets to tell his side of the story.

Oh, we watched it.

Did you?

Yeah, yeah.

It was.

What did you think?

It was,

yeah, it was crazy.

It was, we were both very, Pince and I were very much like, there was a lot of what the fucks

being said.

What the fuck?

You know, like, but why would your brain go to that conclusion then?

Or why would you then do this next step?

It like just boggles the mind in a way of like for people who aren't this way.

Did they talk about the thing where she went to high school with a girl who disappeared?

And there was like a lot of parallels to her story and the girl that actually disappeared.

They do.

Yes.

They totally, I forgot about, yes, they totally talk about that, which is so weird.

Evil.

It's just kind of gross.

Yeah.

So, but again, kind of that thing where it's like, it just is the perfect anxiety insider where it's like, you're doing this on a national stage, totally.

You thought you were just doing a thing to get out of having an affair.

Yeah, no.

All right.

Well, we did it.

We've done it.

And again, once again.

I mean, we can only say so much about our own episode, and it's other people's opinion that really matters.

We just did it.

True.

We've done it twice now.

I mean, we just keep doing it.

It's insane.

So if we want to rename this one, which we don't, because an Albert Fish production is the best name of all time, but if we did,

we could possibly name it day 403, which is Stephen's mustache's age.

Also, the How Dare You podcast, which was just something I said to Stephen, and I did say to Stephen all the time.

I love that.

How dare you podcast is great.

Defiance disorder, which you have.

And then I think me saying I do too means I don't.

I think if I actually had it, I would have said to you, I don't.

You know what I mean?

Because I'd be defying you, but I didn't.

Absolutely.

I went along.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Totally.

All right.

Well, thank you guys so much for listening.

And stay sexy.

And don't get murdered.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

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