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[0] This is exactly right.
[1] Hey, this is exciting.
[2] An all -new season of only murders in the building is coming to Hulu on August 27th.
[3] Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are back as your favorite podcaster, detectives.
[4] But there's a mystery hanging over everyone.
[5] Who killed Saz?
[6] And were they really after Charles?
[7] Why would someone want to kill Charles?
[8] This season, murder hits close to home.
[9] With a threat against one of their own, the stakes are higher than ever.
[10] Plus, the gang is going to Hollywood to turn their podcast into a major movie.
[11] Amid the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, more mysteries and twists arise.
[12] Who knows what will happen once the cameras start to roll?
[13] Get ready for the stariest season yet with Merrill Streep, Zach Alfinacus, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Melissa McCarthy, DeVine, Joy Randolph, Molly Shannon, and more.
[14] Only Murders in the Building premieres August 27th, streaming only on Hulu.
[15] Goodbye.
[16] You guys, we have some tour updates for you for the My Favorite Murder Live Show tour.
[17] Are you ready?
[18] Listen to this.
[19] Wednesday, September 6th, Auckland, New Zealand.
[20] We're going to see you soon.
[21] Come to the show.
[22] Sunday, September 10th.
[23] We'll be in Melbourne at the comedy theater.
[24] We added a third show to that.
[25] Thursday, September 12th, Sydney, Australia, at the freaking Sydney Opera House.
[26] That's the second Sydney show.
[27] We really want to sell the Opera House out.
[28] How cool would that be?
[29] Friday, September 29th.
[30] We're going to be at the Fillmore in Detroit, Michigan.
[31] That's the second night.
[32] Second show that night.
[33] Saturday, September 30th, Toronto, Canada.
[34] and then we have a couple new tour dates to announce one day what I'm sorry it's okay go you got it all right and then we have a couple new tour dates Wednesday October 18th Minneapolis we will be there does I say Minneapolis Michigan I say Minneapolis Michigan and that's why I didn't say it wait where's Minneapolis oh shit Georgia real hard wait where's Minneapolis Michigan oh Minnesota Even I know that one.
[35] I guess I'm going to Minnesota.
[36] It's not just.
[37] Okay, so we're going to be in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
[38] October 18th.
[39] Yeah, Saturday, November 11th, Dallas, Texas.
[40] There's a late show.
[41] And also Saturday, December 9th, we'll be in Kansas City.
[42] We're adding a late show at the Midland Theater.
[43] Fuck yeah, Kansas City.
[44] Oh, go to my favorite murder .com slash live.
[45] We also made a Facebook event page on our Facebook, my favoritemerder .com slash MFMFM podcast.
[46] with links to buy the correct non -scalped tickets.
[47] Yes, and then also once you get your tickets, those are the pages to go to to check.
[48] If there are any updates, if you hear rumors of cancellation, if you hear anything to change, just go to our MFM Facebook live show pages, and you can get all the latest information there.
[49] On sale now.
[50] On sale now.
[51] See us in.
[52] Prayer hands.
[53] There's a period of time where we know we're starting to be recorded, but we're not sure we haven't really started and then we go into a different mode of conversation.
[54] It's like pressure's on.
[55] Pressure's on but it may not have started yet.
[56] Right.
[57] So it's self -aware but not but still casual.
[58] Even as we're speaking right now we're not sure.
[59] This is the spot.
[60] This is it.
[61] This is it right here.
[62] So let's start.
[63] I'm not recording.
[64] Perfection.
[65] Hey, hi, welcome to my favorite murder.
[66] The minisoe.
[67] The minisode that gets you through your this week as last week gets flipped.
[68] So So we are doing unqualified with Ana Farras special.
[69] It's the second part.
[70] We did Tuesday.
[71] Now it's Thursday.
[72] You're getting your Minnesota.
[73] Don't get used to this.
[74] Yeah.
[75] It's not going to stay like this.
[76] Understandable that it's been confusing.
[77] We love you guys for sticking through it.
[78] It's hard.
[79] It's not the hardest thing you're ever going to go through.
[80] We hope.
[81] Well, no, I hope it is.
[82] We hope it's the hardest thing you're ever going to go through.
[83] It's not going to be.
[84] Yeah.
[85] And then really, do you want to live your life like that?
[86] No, you need challenges.
[87] challenges are what make you great yeah uh are what make you talented give you what gives you the knowledge that you can withstand anything that's right and the kind of inner wisdom yeah um god you're welcome god teach you about god it teaches you all about the lord you know a friend i just need people to know for those of you who were letting uh contacting me uh can and this is re the story I told last week about my dogs getting out of my gate yes my dogs are chipped yes my dogs are chipped people I think they just get concerned people are like are we dealing with a person who doesn't understand how to have dogs in the same age they did get out three times they weren't totally out of bounds still I want to be defensive and say yeah my fucking dogs are chipped and I've now written George's name and my phone number on her caller.
[88] I thought you put my name and phone number on your dog's collar.
[89] George's name.
[90] I was like, well, what?
[91] They'll get a hold of you.
[92] I think it's the best way because I'm almost always here recording this podcast with you.
[93] I just get a call.
[94] What if you never told me that?
[95] I got a call and they're like, hey, your dogs are out.
[96] And they like describe them to me. And they're, they're yelling at you.
[97] How do you know my?
[98] Yes, they're chipped.
[99] Um, fuck, that's funny.
[100] I want to have a corrections corner real quick and say that I will never eat food in the microphone again.
[101] Then I apologize.
[102] Oh, oh, did you do that?
[103] Like, not last week of the week before when we did the, I had the burgers.
[104] Oh, you ate right into the microphone.
[105] I didn't know.
[106] I thought Steve was going to fucking edit that out.
[107] But then I realized I was talking in a way that was like, you couldn't edit.
[108] I was like saying a thing that was important.
[109] Okay, I want to say this.
[110] I apologize to you for putting a time crunch onto a recording where there were people who message us and they were like, are you guys okay?
[111] Because we were talking so fast, trying to get done by like 10 .30 or whatever.
[112] Yeah.
[113] And yet the episode was still an hour and a half, an hour and 40 minutes long.
[114] Yes, we can't do this quickly.
[115] Like, I'll never even attempt again, but it made me laugh really hard.
[116] Did we?
[117] I didn't know that.
[118] Yeah.
[119] Oops.
[120] I mean, that's what, you know, some people said.
[121] We just did a live reading of our new tour dates.
[122] Can I read a tweet really quickly?
[123] Sure.
[124] That I thought was hilarious.
[125] A girl named Allie, two E's, two E's, two E's, wrote.
[126] me. Yay, my favorite murder is doing a show nearby on August, wait, on October 14th, fiancé, that's our wedding day.
[127] You will be busy.
[128] Oh shit.
[129] I almost scheduled the dentist appointment on my wedding day.
[130] Like a month before I was like, yeah, okay, let's do March 5th.
[131] Oh, wait a minute.
[132] No, I'm sorry.
[133] I'm not, I can't do that.
[134] I'm not free that day.
[135] And I wrote it in my calendar, wedding.
[136] And I was like, oh, no, I have something.
[137] Oh, it's my wedding.
[138] Yeah, I have something that day.
[139] But you know what?
[140] I'm going to cancel it.
[141] I'll be here.
[142] So yeah, this is where we read your, your stories of your hometown murders that you remember from your childhood, from your mom's childhood.
[143] Maybe you're just making it up.
[144] Maybe you may, I don't care.
[145] And we're going to read them to you.
[146] And we have a couple good ones this week.
[147] I'm excited.
[148] Yeah, Stephen really did his, he did his due diligence, which we expect from Stephen.
[149] We always get from Stephen.
[150] Yeah.
[151] But at the same time, I'm still grateful for it.
[152] Yeah.
[153] I just like to say, say that's his one job and he fucking knocked it out of the park yeah um due diligence stephen's all about due diligence still on stephen has a million jobs with us yeah but the number one is due diligence i want to go in much more specific job assignment task assignment to stephen like figure out bill pay for every bill in my life i want to do things like that to stephen where i'm like well i've never been able to figure it out do you do it do you do my dad offered to do my bookkeeping.
[154] Are you serious?
[155] Yeah.
[156] Because I email, I'll tell you later.
[157] Wait, is that what he does for a living?
[158] No. He dad's, you have to say no. He dads for a living.
[159] He's just a dad.
[160] He's just a dad.
[161] He's just a dad.
[162] He's like, I'll take, I'm like, I can't do it.
[163] I messaged my account and I was like, I was to spend more money and throw money at IRS.
[164] I can't do this because I call him IRS.
[165] And he's like, well, why don't I come over one day and I'll take care of your book.
[166] We'll do it together.
[167] Which is like, when I was a kid, he had to, like, give me flashcards and teach me And it's...
[168] So he's a good teacher?
[169] Yeah.
[170] Oh, then that's great.
[171] He's smart.
[172] He has OCD.
[173] He knows his shit.
[174] See, my dad, uh, I can't ask him to help me do anything because the yelling starts within 45 seconds where it's like, how come you don't know?
[175] It's since I was a small child.
[176] It's the way, it's the reason I am the way I am.
[177] And then you start yelling back at him.
[178] Yes, because I don't know.
[179] You'd be like, ask one question in an algebra book where you'd be like, so, and then my dad would go, hold on, yeah, this new math.
[180] and you'd start reading the book and I'd be like forget it forget it I'll just figure it out myself I'll just do it myself I'll just do it myself I'll just do it myself I hate that when you do ask someone a question and they don't know the answer instead of like saying I don't know or I could I could look at it they just start never mind yeah I don't I'm not asking you to I'm not asking you to go do your own fucking errand with my problem even like do you know how to spell this word and they're like let me look it up blah and like no what I can look it up myself I just wanted to know if you know how to put your phone down, Vince.
[181] This is a, I wanted it the fastest way.
[182] The fastest and most human way.
[183] Wow.
[184] That was a...
[185] God, damn.
[186] I got real angry.
[187] No, we're fucking pissed.
[188] Listen.
[189] Look.
[190] Look and listen.
[191] Okay.
[192] Are you ready?
[193] I'm so ready.
[194] My Cocker Spaniel saved me from getting kidnapped.
[195] Yay.
[196] Hello, MFF family.
[197] This is synced.
[198] Great.
[199] Love your podcast.
[200] We'll get right to the point because I'm a professor in school's about to start in life is chaos.
[201] I love this person.
[202] Hell yeah.
[203] Okay, when I was a kid, I had a Cocker Spaniel, Sassie.
[204] Sassy!
[205] Oh, that I was such a kid's dog's name.
[206] Let's say I'm Sassy.
[207] Did you used to get Sassy Magazine?
[208] Yeah.
[209] Wait, yeah.
[210] I think I knew it, but didn't get it.
[211] Sassy magazine was, they had, like, they used to have Teen Vogue or some teen version of a fashion magazine, and then they got rid of it, and they put out Sassy.
[212] And it was, like, the 90s -ist.
[213] Amazing.
[214] amazing.
[215] Like most real Gen X. Kurt and Courtney were on the cover of it.
[216] It was so badass.
[217] It was really, look up old I was going to say episodes of it because it's really good.
[218] Anyhow, sassy who was scared of a lot of things.
[219] She would pee on herself when people came to the door.
[220] I do that too.
[221] Could you imagine?
[222] Or if anyone tried to pet her when we were out on a walk, maybe she just had to pee all the time.
[223] Generally, she found people that weren't my family terrifying.
[224] I've always been interested in animals.
[225] Turned out that, turn that passion into a career.
[226] I'm a psychologist who studies how animals think and reason.
[227] And now I have the best job ever.
[228] Yes, you do.
[229] Holy shit.
[230] Come over and talk to Elvis.
[231] My God.
[232] I mean, is this a person that's like watching videos of apes using tools and shit?
[233] They don't want to talk to my cats, do you mean?
[234] Oh, I mean, real shit.
[235] No, no, not compared to me. No, that's just the first thing I think.
[236] Did you see that the video, it was a viral video of a, it was some kind of an ape or chimpanzee that was using a stick and fire to roast marshmallows?
[237] No. It's the greatest.
[238] I thought you were going to say the gorilla who's in the kiddie pool and turning around and dancing and going crazy.
[239] Did you see it really shows how they think?
[240] They really think I got a dance.
[241] Yeah.
[242] Okay.
[243] I play games with dogs for science.
[244] Oh, I didn't.
[245] I should have finished.
[246] that um so i would take our dogs we had another one who isn't in this story but she was awesome to to the field at the school about a block from our house to work on their obedience training one day i was there was sassy and this guy approached me and tried to talk to me he didn't get very close because as soon as he came near me nervous little sassy went nuts she started barking and growling and lunging at this guy this was a dog who usually pied herself and hid behind me when she saw a stranger and here she was going on the attack.
[247] The guy walked away and I felt kind of bad that she had acted that way.
[248] Innocent little me thought that he was maybe trying to ask for directions or something.
[249] Yeah, yeah, adults don't ask kids for help.
[250] That was in parentheses.
[251] The next day, I was at the grocery store with my dad and saw sketches of the same guy posted on the community announcements board at the front of the store.
[252] Apparently, he had been trying to lure kids away from schools in the area and police were trying to find him.
[253] I told my dad, and And a few days later, they reported on the evening news that he had been arrested.
[254] From then on, I've always trusted my dog's instincts more than my own.
[255] I think everyone is great until proven otherwise.
[256] And it has served me well on more than one occasion.
[257] On a happy note, my fiance and I met through our dogs.
[258] We were both looking to rent houses that were big, dog -friendly, and kept running into each other at the same rental houses.
[259] That's the most precious meat, cute.
[260] ever heard.
[261] Hi.
[262] Oh my God.
[263] It's you again.
[264] Oh, you're looking to it.
[265] What did think of the last one?
[266] Kind of gross, right?
[267] I mean, it did smell.
[268] It smelled terrible.
[269] It was crazy.
[270] Do you like wallpaper?
[271] I love wallpaper.
[272] Oh, my God.
[273] I love wallpaper of dogs.
[274] Um, sorry.
[275] And our dogs are going to be the maid of honor and best man at our wedding next.
[276] Oh, my God.
[277] And then she, These are the best human beings that have ever existed.
[278] In parentheses, she wrote, yep, we're those people.
[279] Stay sexy, don't get murdered, and always trust your dog, Ellen.
[280] I love it.
[281] Oh, my God.
[282] I was always bummed that Elvis couldn't, and Mimi couldn't be in the wedding.
[283] Can you imagine?
[284] Just let them loose in the room.
[285] They're just wandering around, licking stuff.
[286] They're serving hors d 'oeuvres.
[287] No, I wanted them to work in the wedding because it was...
[288] Cater waiter?
[289] Yeah.
[290] Just right.
[291] But if they were the bartenders.
[292] Oh, my God.
[293] Just like little gin and tonics on their backs?
[294] Oh!
[295] Oh, well, kitties.
[296] Okay, that was amazing.
[297] Mm -hmm.
[298] That was, those are very sweet people.
[299] I love it.
[300] What was her name?
[301] I'm sorry.
[302] Ellen, thank you, Alan.
[303] All right.
[304] Thank you, Ellen.
[305] Okay, this one.
[306] Ooh, this is a doozy.
[307] This is called, I thought she moved away.
[308] Oh.
[309] Oh, what?
[310] Yeah.
[311] First off, let me say that, all caps.
[312] I love these, I love these podcasts so much.
[313] Sorry.
[314] Just all of them in general?
[315] I do too.
[316] They're so fun.
[317] She sent this to everyone.
[318] She sent this to, what's another podcast?
[319] To the president of podcasting.
[320] This American Live.
[321] She sent this to.
[322] I love these podcasts.
[323] Keep it up.
[324] It is exactly what I wanted and I didn't even know I had been looking for it.
[325] I have generalized anxiety.
[326] Yay.
[327] And I have spent my life imagining worst case scenarios.
[328] Me too.
[329] It both friends entertains me. You awesome ladies cracking jokes and talking about murder are the best.
[330] Anyway, okay.
[331] So when I was about six, in 1992, my family lived for a couple years in Dalzell, South Carolina.
[332] D -A -L -Z -E -L.
[333] You got it?
[334] Dazzle.
[335] It's about 15 minutes.
[336] And then she says it's this place.
[337] It's about 15 minutes from Sumter, South Carolina.
[338] I don't know where that is either.
[339] You nailed that one, though.
[340] Sumter, that's got to be.
[341] Sure.
[342] We lived in a trailer park, but it was a well -built one.
[343] Honey, I was not going to talk shit on trailer parks.
[344] I love them.
[345] No shame.
[346] No shame.
[347] and fairly new mobile homes.
[348] Across the street from me lived a little girl about my age name, Virginia.
[349] Yeah.
[350] I would go over to her house sometimes in play and we became pretty good friends.
[351] Sidebar, I was a shy kid and got made fun of a lot, so having a friend was not the norm for me at that point.
[352] Oh.
[353] She moved away unexpectedly and we didn't get a chance to say goodbye.
[354] Uh -oh.
[355] I always felt like it was somehow my fault that she left without saying goodbye.
[356] Oh.
[357] Double uh -oh.
[358] I guess that's uh -oh.
[359] That's an uh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh Anyway, cut to about 11 or 12 years later.
[360] I'm watching an old home video my family made to send to my grandparents instead of a normal letter of our new home in South Carolina.
[361] No, we never sent it because I both farted and cursed on the tape.
[362] Wow.
[363] Ah, youth.
[364] In the tape.
[365] I go inside for something, and it's just my dad and my brother.
[366] who was 12 or 13 at the time sitting on the porch recording nothing in general my brother is shooting the neighborhood then points out virginia's house and zooms and saying you see that house somebody died in that house his voice is full of miserable puberty -ridden teenage glory then dad says Dylan hush your sister's inside then i come out and we go about filming nothing etc what so oh okay you're just sitting there watching this video this is my dream like you get to watch moments where you're not there.
[367] Like, but that they're relevant to you somehow, hopefully not too painfully.
[368] Like someone talking shit on you.
[369] Yeah.
[370] But like, you know, but this is the best because it's secrets.
[371] Secrets you don't know.
[372] So she's at this point, like 18 years old watching this thing.
[373] If you saw that in a movie, you'd be like, I doubt it.
[374] Who watches a video from way back?
[375] I don't know.
[376] But also in that when those videos cameras first came out, remember it was just like, people would record nothing for hours.
[377] It'd be like, it's Christmas.
[378] and it'd be like six hours of the most boring shit.
[379] Nobody knows how to edit.
[380] No. There's no editing.
[381] Or just kind of stop recording and wait for something good.
[382] Well, I do that with it.
[383] There's like 12 minutes of me just recording Elvis doing nothing because he had done something cute like a minute before.
[384] Right.
[385] You want to recapture it somehow?
[386] Yeah.
[387] This is about me. Okay.
[388] I, about 17 or 18 then, had apparently never seen this tape.
[389] I asked my mom about it and she told me that Virginia's mother had actually gone crazy.
[390] shot her daughter, then shot herself.
[391] Because I was so young and it was such a terrible event, they just told me she had moved away.
[392] So, yeah, I've actually tried to find out some details about it, but I haven't had any luck.
[393] I don't remember their last name, the mother's name, and I assume she was divorced because I don't think I remember a dad being in the picture.
[394] Other than that, I have no other details besides the street name.
[395] Wow.
[396] Sam, thanks again for the amazing gift that is this podcast.
[397] Oh, so these podcasts, isn't it?
[398] oh my god sam that story is haunting yeah creepy i mean that's kind of like perfection and it's that thing of like through the filter of a little child's mind where it's kind of good they probably didn't tell her except for then when you don't know the truth yeah your little child's brain fills in the detail it's it's her fault yeah she probably you know it's so weird do you have these events where you're like oh i was i was i've had been stuck with with this horrible thought of this thing happening for so long because I interpreted it wrong.
[399] Yes.
[400] And it's actually not the way I thought it was like that kind of thing.
[401] Like someone, yeah, I'm trying to think if there was one where it was like, oh, no, I was wrong about that the whole time.
[402] Well, whatever.
[403] I don't want to keep talking about.
[404] No, I mean, no, I know exactly what you're talking about.
[405] I feel like that's what a lot of therapy is about.
[406] It's like, can you look on your past?
[407] And instead of believing that what you think your life has been is just fact, it's actually your skewed perception from your angle of like fear and anxiety and you know like need to protect yourself yeah did I tell you can I say this really quickly because this was such a huge moment for me when Vince and I started a new therapist he's amazing um Vince is amazing too but I had this like narrative Vince's mom died when he was like really young his dad never remarried my parents force when I was really young never remarried and my narrative was like well we need to go to therapy because we don't have an example of what a good marriage looks like and we don't know and blah, blah, blah.
[408] And the minute I said that to the therapist, he was like, Vince has a good idea of what a good marriage looks like.
[409] His dad wore his ring until he died and never got remarried.
[410] And that was his wife and he was sticking with it.
[411] So Vince did have a good fucking image of what a good marriage was.
[412] And I was like, oh, I'm an asshole.
[413] I was totally wrong.
[414] You're not an asshole.
[415] I know.
[416] You just had your version of it.
[417] You just had your perception of it.
[418] And you couldn't have thought of it a different way because, you'd never because that wasn't your experience but that's an amazing point so much from the way I think about my relationship with events now it just was like oh fuck you're totally right isn't that weird it's weird but that's also such a beautiful thought I'm so happy about it it's such a beautiful lovely like I think things like that are hard to come up with yourself yeah because that's like somebody you need a therapist you need a like a scientific kind of official person to tell you best case scenario right because you won't trust it if you tell yourself yeah you'll be like oh I'm lying to myself and I better I better tell myself worst case scenario so I'm more prepared but like that's the thing I love the best about my therapist she'll be like the first time she said it she goes you're very when you get scared she goes you when you get scared you're you tell it you tell yourself very mean stories and I was like what and then like in just it's like anytime I have social anxiety or I'm nervous about dating or any kind of thing it's like I will just go like worst case scenario, here's the, here's what's happening.
[419] And so then I'm always just like, okay.
[420] And it has nothing to do with you being a horrible, awful, nobody.
[421] Monster.
[422] So you tell yourself mean things about yourself.
[423] Just so that I go like, okay, I get, I get what's happening here.
[424] I'm now going to not care.
[425] I have to cut myself off emotionally so that, because it's the worst case.
[426] And really, you're, you are in charge of the outcome because you did that.
[427] So like the outcome could have been totally different.
[428] Oh, girl.
[429] I've shut now.
[430] Why are we talking about this?
[431] Why?
[432] Why are we always, ready?
[433] The subject line of this one is, my school janitor.
[434] It's okay that we did that, right?
[435] Yes.
[436] I mean, it's our podcast.
[437] You know what I think this is?
[438] This is a little touch of the unqualified with Ana Farras coming through.
[439] It's fun to talk about show like that.
[440] It is.
[441] All right.
[442] Hey, this is exciting.
[443] An all new season of only murders in the building is coming to Hulu on August 27th.
[444] Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are back as your favorite podcast.
[445] But there's a mystery hanging over everyone.
[446] Who killed Saz?
[447] And were they really after Charles?
[448] Why would someone want to kill Charles?
[449] This season murder hits close to home.
[450] With a threat against one of their own, the stakes are higher than ever.
[451] Plus, the gang is going to Hollywood to turn their podcast into a major movie.
[452] Amid the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, more mysteries and twists arise.
[453] Who knows what will happen once the cameras start to roll?
[454] Get ready for the stariest season yet with Merrill Streep, Zach Alfenakis, Eugene Levy.
[455] Eva Longoria, Melissa McCarthy, Devine, Joy Randolph, Molly Shannon, and more.
[456] Only Martyrs in the Building, premieres August 27th, streaming only on Hulu.
[457] Goodbye.
[458] Karen, you know I'm all about vintage shopping.
[459] Absolutely.
[460] And when you say vintage, you mean when you physically drive to a store and actually purchase something with cash?
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[478] Goodbye.
[479] My school janitor and the time my dad was part of a manhunt.
[480] All right.
[481] It's on.
[482] Let's do it.
[483] Hi, George and Karen.
[484] This is a pretty crazy story coming from a place that usually encounters no violent crimes.
[485] my best friend from my hometown got me hooked on the podcast and may have already wrote in about this but hopefully it gets red that's hilarious they're in like a race to tell this story this person's winning well cassidy won okay we uh we grew up in a really small like less than 500 people small town in northern main called st francis oh that's so pretty i bet it smells like the salty sea air oh and lobster um and and like like men with really unruly beards.
[486] M .B .O. Set the scene.
[487] Really smell the scene.
[488] It's a town where legit everyone knows everyone and you would never expect anyone from town being capable of such a horrific crime.
[489] Uh -oh.
[490] In the early summer of 2014, a man named Jesse Marquez or Marquis.
[491] I think it's Marquis.
[492] Jesse Marquis had just been dumped by his girlfriend.
[493] The story is, that he was pretty drunk and this happened late at night.
[494] He went into the room of his girlfriend, Amy Thoreau, and both shot and stabbed her 11 times.
[495] Talk about fucking overkill.
[496] It says in this email.
[497] Not only did he murder her in her own bedroom, there were other people in the house.
[498] Fuck.
[499] They promptly called the police as Marquis left with the gun.
[500] There are a lot of woods near us.
[501] Yes, I would imagine that.
[502] And it's on the border of Canada, so law enforcement was construed.
[503] he would jump the very unenforced border.
[504] My dad, it's just a, it's just a border.
[505] It's just a line of maple syrup that's going across.
[506] Sorry.
[507] They promptly called the police.
[508] Oh, sorry.
[509] There were a lot of, said that already.
[510] My dad is a game warden and was a member of the search, which lasted for six days before finding him in the woods.
[511] He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced 25 years to life.
[512] Amy had two young children who will not.
[513] now not get to share their lives with their mother.
[514] This murder did spark a huge anti -domestic violence movement in town and surrounding areas.
[515] That's amazing.
[516] The most fucked up part, oh good.
[517] The most fucked up part about this murder is that Marquis used to work as a bus driver and janitor at my tiny school and all the students loved him.
[518] And he seemed like such a cool guy.
[519] He had such an impact on my eighth grade class that in 2008 when we graduated eighth grade, we fucking dedicated our yearbook to him.
[520] No. Little did we know that six years later he'd snap and now we have a creepy yearbook dedication to a murderer.
[521] Anyway, that's my hometown murder.
[522] Hope you enjoyed it.
[523] Stay sexy.
[524] Don't get murdered Cassidy.
[525] Oh my God.
[526] That's, I mean.
[527] The yearbook thing is crazy.
[528] Well, then you just want to know what happened in that six years or like in that decade or what.
[529] Or that night.
[530] The behind the scenes.
[531] Yes, exactly.
[532] Was it all one night?
[533] Yeah, that he just snapped.
[534] Or was it like a slow erosion?
[535] Yeah.
[536] Oh, that's a hoax.
[537] I'm telling you murders in Maine I'm 100 % here for murders in Maine That must be a show on oxygen or something I'm pitching it This is my way of telling you I'm pitching it to oxygen Oh All right Well I'm doing murders in Maryland Oh fuck I guess murders in Mississippi is What about?
[538] Yeah okay All right This one's called Vicarious Encounters with infamous then.
[539] Okay.
[540] Hey, MFM crew.
[541] All right.
[542] What up?
[543] I've been a fan from the very beginning.
[544] Earlier this week, I was having a couple beers with my dad.
[545] We have a strange relationship.
[546] You ready for this?
[547] Yeah.
[548] We have a strange relationship since he spent 17 years in prison in New York State for killing my mom when I was three and a half.
[549] Wow.
[550] And I read that.
[551] I was like, great job, Stephen.
[552] Wow.
[553] Great job picking this one.
[554] Fuck.
[555] I know.
[556] Okay.
[557] She says, I know, I know.
[558] How can I still see or talk to him right i'll just say it's complicated not right shit we don't i mean yeah i'm not your father i get it there's lots of there's lots of things and understandable that alcohol's involved when you guys hang out my my mom didn't even kill anyone and i have to fucking drink around her when i'm with her look i mean you only have two parents i mean the enormity of that yes it's it's just like no one will ever understand that unless they've gone through it's it yeah and who knows what the dad said I mean who knows anyway who knows who knows yeah anyway for the she says anyway I'm not saying it to you anyway care anyway anyway for the first time this week I really got some details about what prison was like he apparently only ever spent a month in quote the box or solitary confinement because he refused to snitch on a guy who started a fight with him he said having a reputation as a snitch stays with you the whole time you're inside the only thing worse is being a convicted child master He was in Attica for a while, and he said that he used to play Peanuckle with David Berkowitz.
[559] The guy who was Son of Sam.
[560] I mean, I hope this isn't a lie, but if it is, it's great writing.
[561] It doesn't seem like...
[562] Peanuckle is the funniest card game that you could name.
[563] And you're playing it with Son of Sam.
[564] With Son of Sam.
[565] Fuck.
[566] Great, just great contrast.
[567] I love it.
[568] While he was there, he and a guard would make each other laugh by walking by Mark David Chapman's cell and singing John Lennon's songs.
[569] No. what the fuck holy shit all in all a pretty fucked up situation but it has occasionally yielded some interesting stories i love you both and i hope that next time you're in philadelphia we can hang out and be bff i'll make you cookies in the meantime stay sexy and don't get murdered all do the same smooches to you and stephen and the animal crew exo xo exo stuff stuff stuff that's i mean that's fascinating what an interesting person her i mean her all of it yeah also just that the experience of a person you know how like the inside prison experiment all those shows it's also i'm because i'm sure it's hellish and terrible like the night of or whatever it's all just like this huge panic but like kind of anecdotal stories about being inside prison is is a very fascinating way to get that information.
[570] Because you imagine the day -to -day stuff is like, it's pretty boring.
[571] Right.
[572] It becomes, like, you know, you're 12 years into a life sentence and you're like, this is what I do now.
[573] And I, yeah, there's been a couple fights, but I've had to go and there's this and that, but there's not much going on.
[574] Until someone jumps you in the laundry room.
[575] Yeah, with a shank.
[576] Is that what they use?
[577] Maybe they shank you, maybe they garot you.
[578] Maybe you learn to make prison wine.
[579] Maybe you you are able to order through the guy that gets stuff, like a catalog you can get yourself some mushrooms.
[580] Top ramen.
[581] Oh.
[582] Some mushrooms for your top ramen.
[583] Can you imagine doing drugs and mushrooms in a fucking prison?
[584] I think you'd go out of your goddamn mind.
[585] But I think it's just should get just to pass the time.
[586] Yeah.
[587] Right?
[588] Yeah.
[589] Yeah, mushrooms would be bad though because you'd be like, I keep seeing skulls everywhere.
[590] Yeah.
[591] Okay.
[592] Okay.
[593] My grandma my grandma provided a getaway for the acid lady all right okay hi karen georgia stephen and various pets my grandma is completely obsessed with true crime oh my god that's the best one of the things she and i always do together is watch reruns of forensic files and date line one night while watching an episode of dateline on lorissa schuster aka the acid lady my grandma casually mentions that she was involved in this what being the weirder that i am I needed details you're not a weird oh friend you'd be weird if you didn't fucking say what the fuck are you talking about grandma yeah the weirdo is the person that goes would you like some more tea and like gets up and walks away that's the weirdo okay if you're not from Fresno then you may not know about her but Larissa Schuster was this woman who in 2003 murder her husband she and her lab partner incapacitated her husband Tim using chloroform and a stun gun but they were boning right well right probably and then put his body in a 55 -gallon barrel full of hydroclerc acid and left it to dissolve in a storage unit.
[594] Seriously, look up this case because it's whack.
[595] Whoa.
[596] Oh, whack in all caps.
[597] My grandma at the time was a travel agent and booked Larissa and her son on a trip to Disney World and then Missouri, which ended up being her getaway after the murder.
[598] It was in the Missouri airport that Larissa was arrested.
[599] The biggest thing my grandma talks about is how, talks about, though, is how annoyed she was about having to drive to LA for the trial to testify, which is a classic grandma move.
[600] Oh, my God.
[601] Basically, both Larissa and her lab partner were sentenced to life in prison, and my grandma is a badass.
[602] SSDGM, Hannah.
[603] Wow.
[604] That's amazing.
[605] That's so cool.
[606] I really, older, like, older women who have been murderinos since the 30s is my jam.
[607] I want to hear about all of those.
[608] That is so weird.
[609] You don't think about that.
[610] You think about it being such a like, what's it called?
[611] Like new thing.
[612] Right.
[613] Modern thing being into murder.
[614] But it's not.
[615] No, no. True crime.
[616] Because all those pictures, you think of all those like courtroom pictures, half the people in that room do not need to be there.
[617] They're purely there just to watch proceedings take place.
[618] Because remember when we were on tour and there was that woman that was telling us, she was a really famous court.
[619] I can't remember if it was Ted Byrd.
[620] or if it was.
[621] Yeah, she was older.
[622] John Wayne Gacy.
[623] And she was like telling us all about going there and waiting beforehand and sitting in the, in the, in the courtroom.
[624] That's so crazy.
[625] I love, because the back then it wasn't on TV.
[626] You had to go to the courtroom to like get yours.
[627] So cool.
[628] Send us your grandma's stories, you guys.
[629] Please.
[630] Or if they just have kind of good stories.
[631] Any story.
[632] Yeah.
[633] It doesn't have to be murder.
[634] We like all this.
[635] So, yeah, send your stories to my favorite murder.
[636] Gmail.
[637] Don't put links in there.
[638] Yeah, we don't care about links.
[639] No. We won't click your link to your weird credit card.
[640] What?
[641] Just say like if it's spam.
[642] Links look like spam to me. Yeah.
[643] I don't know why I said that.
[644] It doesn't matter.
[645] Okay.
[646] Thank you guys for listening.
[647] And we're going to go back to normal next week with a regular, regular, you know, life.
[648] Yeah, but it's good that we broke up the the pace, the pattern.
[649] Yeah.
[650] We mess with people's minds.
[651] Keeping you on your toes.
[652] It's a whole new world.
[653] There you go.
[654] That's what it is.
[655] Stay sexy.
[656] Don't get murdered.
[657] Bye.
[658] Oh, Elvis, want a cookie?
[659] Oh, yeah.
[660] Good boy.
[661] Want cookie?