18 - Investigateighteen Discovery

[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 Martyrs in the building, premieres August 27th, streaming only on Hulu.

[15] Goodbye.

[16] Okay, right?

[17] I can match your volume.

[18] Can you match up here?

[19] Yes I was going to sing But you don't You don't want that I just don't want Oh yes you do Don't make me sing I'm bad at it Elvis is getting the fuck out of it Everyone's a good singer when you sing like that When you sing like a jingle singer You're good Watch your hand on the You're already doing it Okay Maybe we should get like mic stans Hold a mic like Marilyn McCu Who's that The host of solid gold you're too young.

[20] I get what you mean, but I don't know who.

[21] It's Dionne Warwick held it like this too.

[22] We were just pinching it.

[23] That's what I got.

[24] Guys, are we on?

[25] Oh, that whole thing was the opening of the show.

[26] Oh, good, good.

[27] For sure.

[28] Quality.

[29] That's quality shit right there.

[30] Maybe don't, we're trying to make sure that our mics, or let this sound quality is legit.

[31] What do I sound like he?

[32] You sound amazing.

[33] Maybe don't, maybe let's not, let's try not to touch the chord.

[34] He says, I know.

[35] Rules this week.

[36] Maybe don't get comfort here.

[37] Could you please sit up straight?

[38] Yeah, maybe stand on one foot.

[39] I was definitely way too loud at the beginning of last episode.

[40] I've never noticed that.

[41] I cried in my car because it sounded so obnoxious.

[42] But I did, that was the day I had a pour over coffee.

[43] Oh, cold brew coffee.

[44] Oh, fuck cold brew.

[45] I think maybe a little lower.

[46] Okay.

[47] Because you look so uncomfortable.

[48] I am uncomfortable.

[49] Hang out.

[50] I've never noticed a weird...

[51] Like, I've never noticed it weird, but I'm busy laughing my ass off at us when I listen.

[52] So you look so uncomfortable.

[53] Get comfortable.

[54] Just be aware.

[55] I think you're fine.

[56] Okay.

[57] Yeah.

[58] Guys, have everyone happy?

[59] Let's go.

[60] See, we're going to, we're going to take that whole part off.

[61] No, we're not.

[62] Welcome to my favorite murder.

[63] Behind the scenes.

[64] Behind the scenes.

[65] Behind the crime scene.

[66] It's the, this is the director's cut of my favorite murder.

[67] You know, remember a minute ago, I wrote something down and I was like cracking myself.

[68] up by it.

[69] Yeah.

[70] You want to know what it was?

[71] Yes.

[72] Because, oh, well, I guess we should introduce the show.

[73] You just did it.

[74] I did.

[75] And they know our name.

[76] I'm Karen Colgarra.

[77] Yeah, that's the voice you're listening to right now is Karen Colgera.

[78] They're like, I think you have like a gravelly sexy voice.

[79] Yeah, I was trying to make it sound kind of sexy.

[80] You stay sexy.

[81] Yeah.

[82] And I try not to get murdered.

[83] Right.

[84] And you're a murder voice.

[85] I fucking, my voice, man. I sound like a cartoon character.

[86] Like a bull, like the little like female bully cartoon character.

[87] Be careful.

[88] what you say because our voices sound very similar.

[89] People talk about it all the time.

[90] I know, but people have a hard time.

[91] I appreciate that.

[92] Okay.

[93] So I was going to say we have to do, what's it called when you, like, do a wrap -up in the beginning?

[94] Housekeeping.

[95] Housekeeping.

[96] But I said maybe instead we should call it crime scene cleanup.

[97] That's what makes you laugh.

[98] So hard.

[99] Well, you know, this is the problem of having self -esteem is you just think you're very funny.

[100] Yeah, you're getting a real big head.

[101] There's so many problems with having self -esteem.

[102] Right.

[103] This is one of them.

[104] It's a spiral of liking yourself and it's disgusting.

[105] It is, it never goes well.

[106] No, you need an intervention eventually.

[107] You are definitely driving toward a brick wall.

[108] But I'm, but I think I'm doing a great job driving that car.

[109] That's right.

[110] You're like, check this out.

[111] I'm shifting into third.

[112] Reality hits.

[113] But I am good at Stickshift.

[114] Me too.

[115] My father taught us it was very important that we learned how to drive a stick, not lug the engine, not grind the gears is very important.

[116] I don't even know what any of that means because I never did it.

[117] No, that's not sure I used to grind the shit out of that thing.

[118] But I knew how to drive it.

[119] Well, that's good.

[120] Yeah, I think that's such a badass lady thing to know.

[121] You know what?

[122] It's actually a prerequisite because then any situation that you're in, if you get into a car doesn't matter what car it is.

[123] You should also learn how to hotwire cars.

[124] you always have a way out.

[125] Well, here's another thing.

[126] Did you watch the movie with, here I go again.

[127] No, you got it.

[128] With Kirsten Dunst, where it's the end of the world.

[129] Yes.

[130] Okay, so like none of the cars start anymore because they're all electronic and computerized.

[131] And so once that shit cuts out, you're going to have to fucking hotwire a 72 dots in.

[132] That's right.

[133] And get the fuck out of there.

[134] And guess what?

[135] It's stick shift.

[136] It's stick shift.

[137] If you get on a hill, you don't have to hotwire it.

[138] You take that emergency break off.

[139] You throw it into second.

[140] Ooh, you rub it.

[141] You start rolling down the hill and you pop it into gear and it will go.

[142] I used to drive it, have a little Vespa and you'd have to do that all that run.

[143] Like give it a running start.

[144] Yep.

[145] Which was terrifying.

[146] Yeah.

[147] Fuck yeah.

[148] Yeah, you got it.

[149] Standard shift, everybody got to learn it.

[150] An end of the world podcast.

[151] Also, it's much easier.

[152] It's one of those things we're like, you know, when you were little and you did not how to tell time and you're like, this is impossible.

[153] I'm never going to learn it.

[154] When I was little?

[155] You mean recently?

[156] It just takes me an extra beat.

[157] Yeah, you got to think.

[158] It's a thinker.

[159] Yeah.

[160] You got to think about it.

[161] But driving a stick shift, it's an H shape, H formation.

[162] First gear, top of the age, second gear, bottom of the first stick of the age.

[163] The middle part is neutral.

[164] Then you're going into third over at the top of the second stick.

[165] You know what?

[166] When it comes down to it, I mean, if you're getting, if you need to get the fuck out of there, burn up that first gear and just fucking.

[167] Just go.

[168] Just go.

[169] Throw it in a second because actually you can lug it a little bit in a second, but you can get, you can get more speed.

[170] This is a very real thing I have pictured in my mind right now.

[171] I do too.

[172] I feel like we're helping one person.

[173] Every time we do.

[174] Every time.

[175] But also just get some like dude who might even like you a little bit who would be willing to spend a half an hour in the CVS parking lot with you and just drive a stick shift around.

[176] 10 minutes of that is giving him a hand job as a thank you.

[177] Yeah.

[178] It's just your hand.

[179] Oh, gross.

[180] That's disgusting.

[181] No, I mean, ew, gross.

[182] What's wrong with you?

[183] But all of that should get cut out for sure.

[184] Okay, now starting now.

[185] Hi, welcome to my favorite murder.

[186] We're the worst people.

[187] Stupid.

[188] We're the best people.

[189] We're the, look, we're just trying to help you and relax after a long day of work.

[190] Yeah, we're doing it.

[191] I don't work, but we're doing it.

[192] You do.

[193] That kind of work.

[194] I had therapy today.

[195] Oh, that's work.

[196] It is.

[197] How was it?

[198] Great.

[199] My new therapist is, I guess she's not new anymore, but, you know, the times I'm, like, my therapy is the best is when I go in there being like, I don't know what the fuck we're going to talk about today.

[200] I'm doing great.

[201] Yes.

[202] I'm feeling good.

[203] Like, I don't have a thing to, like, bring to her.

[204] And then it's like the best day of therapy.

[205] Yes.

[206] Because it kind of blindsides you.

[207] Yeah.

[208] Something comes out.

[209] And then you're like, holy shit.

[210] Because it can lead anywhere.

[211] Mm -hmm.

[212] As opposed to like, here's this problem.

[213] I need you to help me walk through it.

[214] Right.

[215] It's like it's the background to what to when you do bring her a problem.

[216] She's going to be like, here are the little things you've already told me when we didn't have anything to talk about that are the reason you're doing this fucking thing.

[217] Also, things can dawn on you when you have days like that where you're talking and then you go, wait a second.

[218] That's why I got so upset.

[219] For real?

[220] Yes.

[221] You can't.

[222] I was going to say what was.

[223] It was all sex stuff.

[224] So I'll tell you.

[225] after about the fucked up porn I'm into.

[226] Oh, no. But I don't want to talk about it all the fuck.

[227] Is this our rated X?

[228] We haven't really gone into sex that much personally on this podcast.

[229] I feel like that is not a necessary thing.

[230] That's not our area.

[231] I feel like there's probably plenty of podcasts that do that.

[232] Even that handjob joke was very off color for us.

[233] There's got to be high schoolers listening to this.

[234] Oh, they love handjob jokes, though.

[235] Oh, yeah.

[236] They do.

[237] Do they know what hand jobs are?

[238] That's, are you kidding me?

[239] I don't fuck.

[240] They're like Snapchatting them left, right and center.

[241] Oh, they do all day.

[242] Housekeeping.

[243] Housekeeping.

[244] Okay, we have t -shirts available at my favorite murder shirts .com.

[245] They're only available until June 1st, at which point the orders are going to be fulfilled.

[246] And then we're going to come out with a new shirt, probably like the beginning of July.

[247] But this is the last time for the time being that you're able to get this shirt.

[248] Yeah.

[249] So you should go get one.

[250] We promised that the first person.

[251] we see wearing the shirt, we will hug and then murder because wouldn't that be funny?

[252] Yeah.

[253] That's the ultimate prize.

[254] And then, uh, thank you to the moderate.

[255] Okay, so on the Facebook page that we're madly in love with.

[256] That we're now up to 8 ,000 people?

[257] It's nuts.

[258] Now it's growing exponentially.

[259] It's my, it's my home.

[260] Like, I'm so in love with it.

[261] It's, it's where I go first thing every morning.

[262] I really do.

[263] I, it just makes me. It like, it, it, It's made Facebook not awful.

[264] Yeah.

[265] It's the best.

[266] It's all Facebook is to me. Yeah.

[267] So we want to thank the murderators.

[268] Yes, the murderators.

[269] Georgia made that up earlier.

[270] I was really proud.

[271] Thank you.

[272] Ari and Alex are our main murderators and they are fucking killing it.

[273] They're the OG murderators.

[274] They are.

[275] Yeah.

[276] From the beginning.

[277] Original murderator night stalker.

[278] Elena, Jesse, and Kristen.

[279] Chris and Ann.

[280] I just want to make Kristen.

[281] Cristan?

[282] Cristan.

[283] But you're all fucking, I love it's all women.

[284] I love that it's fucking.

[285] And I think some of the second phase murderators are European.

[286] So that like around the clock up on it.

[287] Yeah.

[288] I think one might be in Australia.

[289] And I think one might be in, let's, I imagine her somewhere in Scandinavian.

[290] Right.

[291] Oh, and then then a lighthouse in Greenland.

[292] She just, she only has a, she has a, she has a, to ride a bike to get internet connection like a stationary bike.

[293] She's just like doing it.

[294] Thank you so much, girl.

[295] What a sacrifice.

[296] She's a great shape.

[297] Now that she's found us.

[298] There's also besides the shirt, there's a lot of there's a lot of people on the Facebook page that are making like they're just going off.

[299] Yes, crafts and making their own crafts.

[300] Murder crafts.

[301] We love.

[302] There's a girl who's making cross stitch which I love when cross stitches.

[303] I have one that says bitch please with like flowers.

[304] coming out of it.

[305] I love when I like that.

[306] So her, Etsy.

[307] Is her name Flossy or is the other girl's named Flossy?

[308] I don't know.

[309] One's named Flossy and I love that name so much.

[310] It's genius.

[311] One girl is the girl who's cross -stitch, you can get, stay sexy, don't get murdered.

[312] There's like an Ed Gain one.

[313] Here's the thing, fuck everyone, which I clearly need to buy.

[314] She is killer cross -stitching, which killer with a K, cross with a K, and then stitching on Etsy.

[315] Go buy her shit.

[316] She's an Indianapolis, which proves me wrong that I thought nobody lived there anymore.

[317] Yeah, she does.

[318] She does.

[319] And good for her and you guys, thank you.

[320] You're fucking, the listeners, you guys are.

[321] You're killing it.

[322] And then I think it's, if cross -stitcher's name is not Flossy, then Flossy's the one that's making the metal stamp pendants.

[323] Right, who I don't think has an Etsy yet.

[324] Oh, but she's going to.

[325] But she put a picture up on the Facebook page and they're awesome.

[326] They're the best.

[327] Stay sexy, don't get murdered right on your keychain or wherever you might want to put it.

[328] Right.

[329] And I feel like, yeah, That's going to be the next shirt, too.

[330] Got to be.

[331] Yeah, got to be.

[332] People are clamoring for it.

[333] Yeah, we are going to get an official design going and release that mother.

[334] I'm feeling a little emotional recoil from telling my period story.

[335] I think it was a mistake.

[336] We can cut it out, so stop talking about it.

[337] Okay, bye.

[338] Because then there's going to be no, like, recall.

[339] I'm going to, oh, actually, let's leave that part in.

[340] Because they'll know they fucking missed, and they're going to make, what is she talking about?

[341] You guys missed.

[342] Oh, one more piece of hustle.

[343] I have a comedy show at the Improv Lab, which is in Hollywood.

[344] At the improv, they have a smaller room next to the main room called The Lab.

[345] And Wednesday, June 8th at 10 p .m. Mine and April Richardson Show business class.

[346] She's a friend of the show.

[347] We'll be there.

[348] You might know her from Go Bayside, the great podcast.

[349] Go Bayside.

[350] We have a comedy show there.

[351] And so come to that if you feel like it, we would love to have.

[352] you.

[353] It's super fun and it's just a bunch of different people.

[354] I know Guy Brannum's going to do it.

[355] Jay Wingarten's going to do it.

[356] Chris Fairbanks is on it.

[357] I believe Jamie Lee from Girl Code will be there.

[358] Lovely.

[359] And I'm going to come.

[360] It's my birthday.

[361] It's Georgia's birthday that night.

[362] Be in the audience.

[363] Please don't kill me. If you're around, don't kill Georgia during my show, I'll get really mad at you.

[364] Because anyone, yeah, and my tombstone's saying June 8th to June 8th.

[365] Oh, that would be cool, though.

[366] But not this year.

[367] Oh, sorry, sorry.

[368] It's a boring year.

[369] I thought your point was different.

[370] No, it was, don't do that.

[371] Sorry, I misunderstood.

[372] I got to get back on your wavelength.

[373] Hey, this is exciting.

[374] An all new season of only murders in the building is coming to Hulu on August 27th.

[375] Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are back as your favorite podcaster, detectives.

[376] But there's a mystery hanging over everyone.

[377] Who killed Saz?

[378] really after Charles?

[379] Why would someone want to kill Charles?

[380] This season murder hits close to home.

[381] With a threat against one of their own, the stakes are higher than ever.

[382] Plus, the gang is going to Hollywood to turn their podcast into a major movie.

[383] Amid the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, more mysteries and twists arise.

[384] Who knows what'll happen once the cameras start to roll?

[385] Get ready for the stariest season yet with Merrill Streep, Zach Alfenakis, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Melissa McCarthy, Daveine, Joy Randolph, Molly Shannon, and more.

[386] Only murders in the building, premieres August 27th, streaming only on Hulu.

[387] Goodbye.

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[408] Goodbye.

[409] You guys missed a great period story.

[410] Oh, shit, guys.

[411] It was disgusting.

[412] Should we get into the murder?

[413] Favorite murder.

[414] Oh, sorry.

[415] I don't know how to sing, as I mentioned earlier.

[416] They didn't know that was...

[417] Oh, here we go.

[418] Guys, here we go.

[419] I'm going first this week.

[420] I think you're first.

[421] I think I am.

[422] I'm going to get cuddled in.

[423] Yeah.

[424] I'm going to have this half a glass of whiskey ever.

[425] Drink some of your whiskey.

[426] I wish I could.

[427] I drank all mine already.

[428] Before you were 30.

[429] It was up, yeah, in 1997, I had my last.

[430] Shit.

[431] God, I was good at it.

[432] My therapist told me that we're doing an experiment where I'm drinking two glasses of booze a day just to see how it goes so I'm allowed to have two glasses of booze a day oh no more no less yeah we're just like seeing how this goes so it's almost like what if you don't feel like it oh no then I still have to force it down yeah and this is clearly like this was two glasses of whiskey and one big cup oh that's fun does that count as one it does to me and there you go if I was your therapist hell yeah girl I had this realization when I was trying to think of this week's because I get very like when I look at the Facebook page There's so many good cases, and there's so many people who are very passionate about the cases that are their stories or just ones they like or I think are fascinating.

[433] There was a guy that tweeted me a case.

[434] His Twitter handle was at Arkansas lawyer, so it was almost like Arkansas lawyer.

[435] And it was a case of a guy, I think his name was Bobby Lee Foster or Bobby Joe Foster, who killed his own mother, Edna, and decadidator and put the head in the local church.

[436] and then took the eyes and mailed them to Eisenhower.

[437] What in the actual fuck?

[438] Yeah, it was crazy.

[439] But so I was kind of into that, thank you for sending that.

[440] I love it.

[441] I mean, you know, but I had a realization that when we were talking about our kickoff murders, the ones that got us kind of into it, I realized that factually and date -wise, I had an earlier one than Diane Downs.

[442] And it, because it happened in the Bay Area, And it's this Lawrence Singleton attack on Mary Vincent and later murder of, so I'll just tell you about it.

[443] Let's unpack.

[444] Let's unpack this.

[445] It happened in 1978.

[446] So I was eight years old.

[447] And this was on the news.

[448] It was like in 1979 is when he went to trial and all this stuff happened.

[449] And it was on the news every night.

[450] My parents were livid.

[451] They talked about it all the time.

[452] So you must have just been, you were there too.

[453] Yes.

[454] Because it was, we watched the news together as a family every night before dinner.

[455] I feel like there's nothing more harmful for a kid.

[456] Yeah, no one knew.

[457] I know.

[458] It was back, this was the late 70s where no one knew what was good or bad for children.

[459] It was all just like, eat your cereal, go outside, try to survive, come home, and then we'll watch the news together.

[460] It was a generation away from children, after children being coal miners.

[461] Yes, exactly.

[462] It was like, it was that weird time in between coal mining and children being, carried their entire lives until they get to college.

[463] Right.

[464] So I'm the last of that generation.

[465] I lived.

[466] So here's the story on September 29th, 1978.

[467] A man named Lawrence Singleton, who was a merchant seaman, always a bad job.

[468] That Richard Speck was a merchant seaman.

[469] Oh, really?

[470] Yeah.

[471] It's bad news.

[472] I think it's what happens when you're like super fucked up but you're so fucked up, you don't want to join the army.

[473] Right.

[474] So you're like, oh, I'll go out on a ship for a while.

[475] with a bunch of dudes.

[476] So he picked up a 15 -year -old hitchhiker named Mary Vincent in Berkeley, California.

[477] Honey.

[478] Mary had run away from home.

[479] She lived in Las Vegas.

[480] Her parents were getting divorced.

[481] It was all fucked up.

[482] And she had friends in the Bay Area and relatives.

[483] So she made her way up to the Bay Area.

[484] But she was homesick and she'd been on her own for a while.

[485] She had a boyfriend that was bad to her.

[486] She left him, ran away.

[487] She just wanted to get back home.

[488] Sweetie.

[489] So she is hitchhiking in Berkeley and a van pulls up and there are two people hitchhiking behind her.

[490] Now, just so you know, there's Mary Vincent herself tells this story on an episode of I Survived.

[491] It was season four, episode one, and it is epic.

[492] I know you don't like survivors.

[493] I fucking love survivors and things like this where you get the firsthand account of something.

[494] This story is also insanely.

[495] fucked up.

[496] I guess if she's, it's been that long.

[497] I can deal with it.

[498] Right.

[499] And she's in, it's when they can tell their own story.

[500] They're not, you know, that they're able, they're in charge of this narrative and they can tell you what happened.

[501] And yeah.

[502] And like when it's a grizzled fucking bartender, like, cafe waitress and she's like this, this is what fucking happened in me. I can deal with it.

[503] But it's like some like college girl whose life is ruined.

[504] No, you, well, because here's the thing, this saddest part about it, but the truest part about it, is it happens to a lot of people.

[505] So when you have one woman sitting there going, here's what happened to me, A, B, C, and D, you not only get the don't fucking hitchhike, keep your eyes open, pick up on context clues, you have all that, but you also have survive.

[506] And you can survive, and you can come out the other end and help other people.

[507] And it's okay to tell your story.

[508] Like, you don't have to keep this huge secret.

[509] There's other people who have been through similar or worse.

[510] And you have to tell your story.

[511] That's part of healing.

[512] Right.

[513] So, so a lot of what I have here is basically her first -hand account.

[514] Holy shit.

[515] So the van pulls up and there's two hitchhikers behind her in Berkeley, 78.

[516] And the guy that's driving the van says he only has room for one person and says it's Mary.

[517] Well, the two hitchhikers behind her go don't get in that van because they can see into the back of the van.

[518] The whole thing's empty.

[519] There's plenty of room.

[520] But if a person's, saying he only has room for the young girl.

[521] They go, don't take that ride.

[522] But she was so tired, she just wanted to get home.

[523] So she was like, and he looked like a grandfather.

[524] Oh, really?

[525] Yes.

[526] He's this big pot -bellied, kind of grisly old guy.

[527] He was like in his mid -60s at the time.

[528] So she's like, what's that guy going to do?

[529] Yeah.

[530] So she gets in.

[531] And she's really tired.

[532] She's been walking and hitchhiking for a long time.

[533] So she says, I'm trying to go back home to Las Vegas.

[534] he says, I'm going to Reno, but I'll give you a ride to Los Angeles, which is that, that right there.

[535] What?

[536] That doesn't make any sense.

[537] It doesn't make any sense.

[538] Why?

[539] So she settles in and she falls asleep.

[540] Don't do it.

[541] Don't do it.

[542] She wakes up and they have gone east and not south.

[543] When she finally sees a sign, they're somewhere out in Patterson.

[544] They're somewhere out by Modester.

[545] They're on the other side of the five.

[546] There's a lot of, for people not from here, there's a lot, especially in the 70s, there's a lot of no man's land.

[547] Yes, a lot of, especially in the central valley, which is where he drove her out to.

[548] It's just all empty rural farmland roads, little hills with an oak tree on top.

[549] There's nothing.

[550] So she notices that they're going east.

[551] She freaks out, confronts him, says, what the hell are you doing?

[552] He says, I'm sorry, I'm an honest man. I made an honest mistake.

[553] just turn around.

[554] He pulls around, he turns around, starts going down the road and he says, sorry, I have to go, I have to relieve myself.

[555] He pulls the van over.

[556] She's getting nervous.

[557] She realizes this is now a bad situation.

[558] It's, it's nighttime.

[559] He's down, relieving himself, and she looks down and realizes one of her shoes untied.

[560] And she thinks to herself, if I have to run for some reason, and I could outrun this old fat guy.

[561] But if I have to do it, her, she's like, I got to tie my shoes.

[562] So she gets out of the van.

[563] too.

[564] She bends over to tie her shoe and she blacks out.

[565] He hit her in the head with a sledgehammer.

[566] She wakes up.

[567] She's tied up in the back of the van.

[568] After her a sledgehammer hit, she wakes up?

[569] She wakes up.

[570] So he just conks her out.

[571] Yeah, she doesn't like, thank God she didn't die.

[572] When she wakes up, she's tied up and she's naked.

[573] Oh, fuck.

[574] And he starts raping her.

[575] He rapes her all night and into the morning.

[576] And the whole time, she's, of course, crying, she's 15 years old, crying, whatever, and saying, just set me free.

[577] Please, I won't tell anyone.

[578] Just set me free.

[579] Sometime in the morning, when he's finally done, he pulls her out of the van, unties her, and says, you want to be set free, I'll set you free.

[580] Picks up a hatchet.

[581] No. Out of the back of the van.

[582] No. Cuts off her left arm.

[583] She's screaming below the elbow.

[584] She's screaming.

[585] She's screaming.

[586] freaking out, going crazy.

[587] She grabs him with her right arm going, uh, freaking out.

[588] He takes the hatchet and he starts hacking off her right arm.

[589] But this is weird, the craziest thing that is as you're telling this, I'm like reminding myself that she survived, but it doesn't fucking sound like she's going to.

[590] I know, I know.

[591] It's crazy.

[592] So she is holding on to him, but she falls backwards anyway.

[593] And that's when she realized.

[594] that her right hand has been, our right arm has been chopped off.

[595] Oh, my God.

[596] So she's all, of course, in total shock, confused, losing blood, looking, and this is the most fucked up part of her story.

[597] There's more fucked up than that.

[598] This is, it peaks in fucked upness right here.

[599] Holy shit.

[600] She sees him, she's looking and, like, she can't understand what just happened.

[601] And she's looking at him and he is flicking his arm like this.

[602] He's flicking his arm out.

[603] Yes.

[604] No. She looks and her right hand is still holding on to his arm.

[605] Oh, my fucking.

[606] Ew, I just got, I gave myself chills and I know this story.

[607] Because you had your hand in like a claw just now.

[608] I did it.

[609] So she passes out.

[610] Or she like kind of goes limp.

[611] Sure.

[612] She's bleeding obviously profusely.

[613] Losing blood, lightheaded, laying on the ground.

[614] So she just goes limp because she just doesn't know what to do.

[615] She's now in the presence of a monster.

[616] He thinks she's dying or dead.

[617] Yeah.

[618] He drags her body over to.

[619] to the railing and throws her over a 30 -front cliff.

[620] On the way down, she breaks four ribs, and he drives away.

[621] Now, later on, when the police catch him, which I'll just let you off the hook now, the police catch him.

[622] And they put together that the reason he did that is because he thought she'd be dead and he didn't want them to be able to get her fingerprints.

[623] Okay.

[624] Okay, who found her?

[625] How did she get found?

[626] I tell you now.

[627] Please.

[628] So she's down in this fucking ravine and she's laying there and she's losing blood like crazy and she wants to go to sleep.

[629] But she said that there's a voice in her head saying you cannot go to sleep.

[630] You have to get up so they can catch this guy.

[631] So she puts her bloody stumps in the dirt and makes a mud pack.

[632] So she stops losing blood.

[633] Oh, my God.

[634] On both arms.

[635] And then she starts crawling back up the ravine, 30 feet.

[636] It takes her all night.

[637] Oh, no, I'm sorry.

[638] I'm sorry.

[639] That was the morning.

[640] He dumped her over in the morning.

[641] So she crawls back up the ravine.

[642] It takes her all day.

[643] She finally gets up to the top of the ravine and back onto the road at night.

[644] And then she starts walking.

[645] naked, covered in blood, with two stump arms.

[646] She walked for three miles.

[647] Oh, my God.

[648] The first car that came up was two dudes in a convertible, and they saw her, and they fucking sped away.

[649] No. Yep.

[650] Yes.

[651] And she said herself, in this, I survived.

[652] She goes, I looked like something out of a horror movie.

[653] She's like, I didn't blame them at all.

[654] Because it was, I mean, beyond something.

[655] you'd see in a horror movie.

[656] Yeah.

[657] And on a, on a far away, like a deserted road in the middle of the night where there's no, this is out where there's no streetlights, there's, you're, like, she said she was walking by the light of the moon.

[658] And in my mind, too, it's like these two dudes are married men and they're gay lovers and they're like on a clandestine, you know, romance thing.

[659] And if they stop to help her, they have to call the cops.

[660] They're going to get caught together.

[661] Yep.

[662] That's just in my head.

[663] That's like, that's very plausible.

[664] So like, hopefully these aren't monsters.

[665] I mean, here's what I'm sure of.

[666] They carry it with them to this day.

[667] Yes, they do.

[668] Imagine leaving a person like that.

[669] And then they read the newspaper the next day.

[670] And they're like, look what we did.

[671] And she could have died.

[672] They could have saved her.

[673] And then she could have died.

[674] But here's who did save her.

[675] Who?

[676] She walks a little further.

[677] A couple who was on their honeymoon.

[678] Oh, no, no, no. Who took the wrong exit.

[679] And is driving around trying to get back to the I -5.

[680] Oh, which is close enough so that Mary heard the noise of the I -5 all day and was like, I just have to get back up because there will be someone if I walk toward that sound.

[681] So that's how she guided herself back toward civilization.

[682] These people grab her, put her in the back of the truck and say, we're going to get you help.

[683] And she said she heard them speeding so fast.

[684] you could hear the tire screeching.

[685] They get to a phone.

[686] Can I say real quick what half the people listening that they're murderinos?

[687] Yeah.

[688] Dream honeymoon.

[689] Exactly.

[690] Exactly.

[691] Like, what else are you going to do?

[692] Fucking canasta.

[693] Well, because imagine you're like, oh, I've married.

[694] I love him so much.

[695] He's the man for me. Now, if the man for you was one of those guys in that convertible, who just like, we have to get out of here, you'd be like, you'd get out of my life forever.

[696] I bet they're still together.

[697] 100%.

[698] Yeah.

[699] They get her, they get to that pay phone, they call, and they air left her to the hospital.

[700] Oh, you very.

[701] So it wasn't even an ambulance situation.

[702] They were like straight in.

[703] Oh, honey.

[704] The relief she must have felt.

[705] Oh, my God.

[706] To be in, to be saved.

[707] So she, sorry, I'm on the next page already.

[708] Because here's, by the way, I won't everyone to know you're like fucking telling this.

[709] You're not even like.

[710] your notes.

[711] Because this, because I remember this happening when I was little.

[712] Holy shit.

[713] And my, I remember my mother being so livid.

[714] And she would talk about Lawrence Singleton, this disgusting piece of shit.

[715] She would talk about him all the time.

[716] Well, because I'll get into it.

[717] I have to go faster.

[718] Was all these, were all these details on the news?

[719] No. But it was, it was a man who raped a girl, chopped her arms off and threw her into a ditch.

[720] That's enough.

[721] That was plenty.

[722] Yeah.

[723] Because you can't.

[724] That's when it was like, oh my God, that could happen.

[725] Totally.

[726] That's real.

[727] Even the word rape.

[728] Like, you don't even talk about, like, couples in fucking sitcoms didn't sleep in the same bed.

[729] Right, exactly.

[730] Well, I'm not from the 50s, Georgia.

[731] Oh, my God.

[732] I mean that the Brady Bunch was the.

[733] So.

[734] Oh, my God.

[735] So she lost over half the blood in her body.

[736] Oh.

[737] But from her hospital bed, she described a picture of him so accurately to the police sketch artist.

[738] that Lawrence Singleton's next -door neighbor saw it and immediately called the police.

[739] Even though she was friends with him and knew him for years, she was like, that's Lawrence Singleton.

[740] That's my next door neighbor.

[741] She's one of us.

[742] So, yes, exactly.

[743] So, and I do have to say this.

[744] In the article that I found that a piece of information from, for some reason in the line, it said housewife and bowling expert.

[745] Wow.

[746] I want her life.

[747] They really described her.

[748] To a tea.

[749] I really, I want that life.

[750] That's a pretty good life.

[751] So they arrest Lauren Singleton nine days later.

[752] I like to call him Larry.

[753] And when he was questioned, Singleton told the police that Mary was a $10 whore, that he was passed out drunk in his van, and that his other friend Larry is the one that attacked her.

[754] And that there were two other hookers in the van at the time.

[755] What a fucking monster.

[756] Lunatic.

[757] So she testifies against him in court.

[758] Get a girl.

[759] With two prosthetic, her two prosthetic limbs on.

[760] She'd already been fitted for them.

[761] She was still a teenager.

[762] I mean, that is a hard thing to do on its own.

[763] Now, listen to this.

[764] As she walks out after testifying against him, he whispers to her, if it's the last thing I do, I'll finish the job.

[765] Oh, I was hoping she'd say, motherfucker or like something at him?

[766] No. Oh, that poor girl.

[767] She ran out.

[768] So in March of 1979, a San Diego jury convicts him of kidnapping mayhem, attempted murder, forcible, rape, sodomy, and forced oral copulation, and gives him the maximum sentence at the time.

[769] Can I guess?

[770] No. Go ahead.

[771] Sorry.

[772] I'm just keep interrupting.

[773] No, no, no. Seven years?

[774] Fourteen years.

[775] For all of that, for all of those crimes combined, maximum legal sentence was 14 years.

[776] That's like almost how old.

[777] old she was.

[778] Yes, that's exactly right.

[779] So, um, the judge who had to pass that sentence said, if I had the power, I would send him to prison for the rest of his natural life.

[780] Um, so along with the particularly gruesome and callous aspects of the crime, the case became totally notorious because he was paroled after serving eight years in prison.

[781] I just.

[782] camp.

[783] Okay, so this is when shit went off because that's when it started on the news every night, this guy got paroled.

[784] And it was like my parents talked about it.

[785] People talked about it in the grocery store.

[786] It was like, how is this happening?

[787] And you know what happened is in 1983, they passed a work incentive law kind of quietly passed it so that they could reduce prison overcrowding where a day was cut off your sentence for each day that the prisoners spent working at the jail.

[788] Or you could make pot legal and get a bunch of fucking prisoners out of jail.

[789] That's exactly right.

[790] And make the murderers and rapists go there for fucking ever.

[791] Why in God's name would you have a work incentive law applied to attempted murderer rapists?

[792] Well, this was back when they were like, rape, it was probably her.

[793] She probably asked for it.

[794] She was probably a $10 whore.

[795] Right.

[796] Motherfuckers.

[797] So they announced, and now, that his release date, this is Ed Martin, who is the Associate Warden of the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, where he was serving his time, his release date, Martin said if there's continued good behavior and work and no change in his programs will be approximately April 28th, which was eight years, four months of time.

[798] And every one of the barrier went bananas.

[799] So here's what happened.

[800] They try to parole him to and Antioch, California.

[801] And the mayor protests the Department of Corrections.

[802] And so acknowledging the public outcry, the Department of Corrections, agrees not to release Singleton and Antioch.

[803] So they try to place some relatives in Tampa, Florida.

[804] People rise up in Tampa, Florida.

[805] And the Tampa chapter of the Guardian Angels, which was a big thing in the 80s, remember them?

[806] They lead these protests.

[807] and eventually Florida officials reject the parolee.

[808] So he can't go back to Tampa now.

[809] If you're, if fucking, if the hells, what is it, Hells Angels?

[810] No, the Guardian Angels.

[811] Oh, what are they?

[812] They were this, oh, they were.

[813] I thought you meant the Hells Angels.

[814] They were basically, when the 80s when crime was crazy, it was basically at the end of the recession, when things were kind of shitty.

[815] It was like back when New York was a total dump.

[816] The Guardian Angels were this group of basically, um what do you call them like uh like mothers against drug driving type of thing no no these were uh i can't think of the term for it it was time by the way like you're not in any hurry it will it's just long and i just want to get through the whole thing but nobody uh thanks cocktails listen take your time everything's fine no but it was the they were like um when you're like a citizen that's taking lawn to your own hands what are those calls like a citizen.

[817] So they basically were like we're taking back the streets.

[818] So they would go, they wore red berets and shirts that said Guardian Angels.

[819] They all knew karate.

[820] They were all like muscled out dudes and they would ride this subway at night to make sure that like, vigilante.

[821] There it is.

[822] They were total vigilantes.

[823] And they basically were like their own gang but a positive gang.

[824] So they just made sure like that people didn't get attacked on the subway.

[825] and every city started popping up with their own group of the guardian angels.

[826] Okay, I dig it.

[827] Eventually, of course, they dispersed because I think they took things a little too far.

[828] Right.

[829] As it usually happens.

[830] But anyway, they actually did some good stuff in the beginning where people, there weren't enough cops.

[831] Yeah.

[832] And there was just a lot of crime.

[833] Yeah.

[834] So he has to come back from Tampa, Florida, which is where his family was.

[835] But Tampa was like, go fuck yourself.

[836] Yeah.

[837] And, you know, Florida's kicking out.

[838] you're probably a big, pretty big piece of shit.

[839] So then he, where did he go?

[840] So then they try to release him in Martinez, California, which is also in Contra Costa County.

[841] So the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and four city council members when a temporary restraining order from a superior court judge barring the Department of Corrections for placing Singleton anywhere in Contra Costa County.

[842] So they're like, quit bringing that mother.

[843] fucker back here.

[844] He's not allowed.

[845] Yeah, ain't going to happen.

[846] So now they try to place him in San Francisco.

[847] But police chief, police chief Frank Jordan at the time, he's told that they're going to bring Singleton to San Francisco for a couple weeks.

[848] And San Francisco wins a temporary restraining order barring him from San Francisco.

[849] So then they take him to Redwood City secretly, but reporters find out that he's there in a hotel.

[850] and protesters surround the hotel and the Department of the Corrections has to pull him out of this hotel and get him out before the protesters rip him apart.

[851] What a bummer to be one of those cops and be like, I fucking hate this guy.

[852] Yeah, you don't want to protect that piece of shit.

[853] So now, a court of appeals overturned that restraining order saying that Contra Costa County and San Francisco couldn't have him there.

[854] So then they tried to place him in El Cerrito, which is not in Contra Costa County, that's a little bit further north, I think.

[855] But the Contra Costa County officials find out that they're going to try to place them in El Cerrito, and they tell the El Cerrito.

[856] They tell the press in El Cerrito.

[857] So then protests begin there.

[858] So basically now, everyone's telling everybody they're trying to place this piece of shit in the North Bay.

[859] And everybody, so then they try to put them in Richmond, but the mayor finds out and the officials are all like, fuck no, get him out of here.

[860] then they try to bring them to a city called Rodeo, which I've never even heard of before.

[861] Doesn't even exist.

[862] But people find out, and a mob of 500 people gathers around this apartment, and they actually have to take him out in a bulletproof vest, and he's escorted out of town by the sheriff's department.

[863] So this is kind of that thing where, yes, this is the kind of the worst story ever, but also the greatest story ever.

[864] we're like just the citizens were like, no dude.

[865] Like maybe legislature says that you can get out of jail, but we say no. So they moved him to Concord, 175 people gather at the hotel where they're keeping him there.

[866] Finally, the governor says, put a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin and he can live there until his parole is over.

[867] Love it.

[868] Jerry Brown?

[869] George Duke Major.

[870] All right.

[871] So that's what he has to do.

[872] He has to live on the grounds of San Quentin.

[873] Quentin until his one year parole is up.

[874] Then he's free to go wherever he wants.

[875] And they don't even, they're not even a track.

[876] Well, then there's just kind of nothing they can do because nothing's in the system about him.

[877] So he goes back to Florida.

[878] And when he gets there, they find out that he's there.

[879] People protest.

[880] A car dealer offered him $5 ,000 to leave the state.

[881] And a homemade bomb was detonated near the house that he was staying in, but no one was Unfortunately.

[882] In 1997, a neighbor calls the police after seeing Lawrence Singleton attacking a woman in his home.

[883] And when the police arrive, they find the body of 31 -year -old mother of three, Roxanne Heinz.

[884] She's also a sex worker, but I wanted to say the mother of three part first so that people care.

[885] Yeah.

[886] So that they know that she was so hard up for money.

[887] that financial problems made it so that she had to do this.

[888] Right.

[889] And then she got stabbed 12 times in the face and chest by this piece of shit.

[890] And when he answered the door, he answered the door to the cops with his shirt open and blood all over's chest.

[891] How many cold cases can be attributed to him?

[892] Like so there's no way that it was one in 78.

[893] Well, they say that the reason that he got parole the way early like that was because he didn't have, he didn't have.

[894] Um, priors.

[895] Yeah, he didn't have, which is not to say he didn't do anything, but that he didn't, he didn't have a record.

[896] Still, I think cutting off a girl's arms and leaving her for her dead is like worse than your prior for like aggravated assault or whatever.

[897] And I think you're right.

[898] It's not, that's not a first crime.

[899] No. At all.

[900] Especially when you're 60, you know, like you're starting, you know.

[901] Yeah, no way.

[902] Yeah.

[903] But also, if you're in the merchant Marines, God knows what you did in fucking Malaysia or someplace where nobody, you know, you can do whatever you.

[904] You want.

[905] Is he a Vietnam vet?

[906] But fucking half of those killings are for him.

[907] Okay.

[908] So Mary Vincent goes to Tampa to appear at his sentencing and tells her whole fucking story.

[909] She describes her whole attack.

[910] The whole, the toll that the ordeal has taken on her whole life because of course it's been, you know, a terror.

[911] Yeah.

[912] And she's, you know, she's gotten her life together a little bit, but of course she just lives in constant fear.

[913] Sure.

[914] When she was, when he was paroled.

[915] Like, she was doing fine and going to art school in the Pacific Northwest.

[916] Then he got paroled and she fell apart.

[917] As he said to her as she left the courtroom, I'm going to finish this.

[918] If it takes the rest of my life, I'll finish the job.

[919] Yeah, why isn't that considered when they think he's going out for parole?

[920] So the jury deliberated for one hour and he was sentenced to death because good old Florida.

[921] Good.

[922] So unfortunately he died of cancer in the prison hospital um instead of being uh fried you know we're very we're being very vicious in this we really are in this one but uh his apparently what he said in uh when he was sentenced he said he did he denied mutilating mary vincent he still denied it not killing her just mutilating me no no no mary vincent is the girl whose arms he chopped off yes he denies doing that but he said about the stabbing of hayes I'm sorry about the death in this case.

[923] I'll have to carry it on my conscience the rest of my life.

[924] The death.

[925] The death and the narcissistic move of, this is sad for me. On me. The Diane Downs move.

[926] So just to wrap it, Mary Vincent did win a $2 .56 million civil judgment against Singleton, but she couldn't collect because he was unemployed in poor health and only had $200 in savings.

[927] Of course not.

[928] So she did eventually get married.

[929] She moved to Orange County.

[930] She has two sons.

[931] And she started the Mary Vincent Foundation to help victims of traumatic crime.

[932] Oh, sweetie.

[933] Yeah.

[934] Oh, that poor girl.

[935] Isn't it crazy that, like, she would have been better off stealing a car and getting a misdemeanor than hitchhiking?

[936] You can't trust old men that look like grandfathers.

[937] And here's another thing I was thinking about, like.

[938] when she had a bad feeling, he stopped to pee and get out of the car.

[939] The thing about that is, is like, if you have a bad feeling, do what you need to do and apologize for it later.

[940] Like, steal the car and drive the fuck off.

[941] Apologize later if it turns out he wasn't going to kill you.

[942] Right.

[943] Trust your gut.

[944] Yeah.

[945] If you have to blow some guy off at a bar because he's giving you the creeps, but you don't want to be rude, blow him off and apologize later if it turns out that he wasn't a creep.

[946] Because if he's not a creep, it won't be a problem.

[947] later.

[948] Exactly.

[949] Yeah.

[950] Yeah.

[951] That's intense.

[952] I know.

[953] It's crazy.

[954] And if you want to see it, you can watch on I survived Mary Vincent, tell that story herself.

[955] I might have to start watching that.

[956] The thing is about true crime chants is that I really don't like reenactments.

[957] There's no reenactments.

[958] It's the people telling their story and they do, they start a segment with a picture of where it actually happened.

[959] And it's all straight to camera storytelling.

[960] Okay.

[961] It's pretty brilliantly produced.

[962] That's why I like it.

[963] No, I did that.

[964] I could totally do that.

[965] Yeah.

[966] Ooh.

[967] Yeah, I know.

[968] That was a big one.

[969] Let's all take a collective breath.

[970] Yeah.

[971] Anyone needs to use the bathroom.

[972] Go use it now.

[973] All right.

[974] My favorite murder.

[975] Okay.

[976] So I was scrolling through the Wikipedia page of mysterious disappearances as one does before bed.

[977] Sure.

[978] when you have insomnia.

[979] And I came across a really interesting case I had never heard about.

[980] And there's so many twists and turns and weirdness about this that I was intrigued and really excited.

[981] So I'm going to tell this a little bit out of order.

[982] I'm going to leave the exciting thing to the end.

[983] Because the whole thing is fucked up to begin with.

[984] So this is the murder of Sharon Marshall by Franklin Delano.

[985] Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

[986] What?

[987] Floyd, which is like, no wonder you're a murderer.

[988] Parents are so close.

[989] It's almost like making sure your kid's a narcissist by naming him almost after a president.

[990] Yeah.

[991] All right.

[992] So in 1962, this guy, Franklin Delano Floyd, was 19 years old.

[993] It's the worst name.

[994] It's the worst name.

[995] Let's just call him Floyd.

[996] Was convicted of abducting and sexually molesting a four -year -old girl in Georgia.

[997] Yeah.

[998] Piece of shit.

[999] Disgusting.

[1000] He received a lengthy prison sentence.

[1001] And within one year, he'd escaped the prison, robbed a bank.

[1002] It was arrested.

[1003] He served 10 years, released on parole, because apparently four is not young enough to be in prison forever.

[1004] In one month of freedom, he was charged with assaulting a woman.

[1005] And he got away.

[1006] So in 1990, his wife, Sharon Marshall, was found dead and a suspicious hit and run.

[1007] All right.

[1008] So this is where it starts.

[1009] He had sent his wife, Sharon, on a late night shopping trip for baby items because they had a child together.

[1010] Oh, good.

[1011] Have a child with a baby rapist.

[1012] Right.

[1013] I don't know if she knew that or not.

[1014] Okay.

[1015] So she was murdered on her way back to the motel day responding to the night at.

[1016] She appeared to be hit by a car yet there was a blunt force trauma to the back of her head enough to cause the death unrelated to the car.

[1017] accident.

[1018] So after she dies, her child, Michael Hughes, which Floyd was a clear suspect in, kidnapped the kid.

[1019] He was the two -year -old son, Michael Hughes.

[1020] I'm sorry, that's not true.

[1021] He put their two -year -old son into foster care and fucking high -tailed it out of there because he was a suspect.

[1022] The kid goes into foster care.

[1023] The foster care parents love him and decide to start adoption proceedings for him.

[1024] He, like, thrived there where he got there.

[1025] He was just, like, so developmentally delayed because this guy was a piece of shit.

[1026] And Floyd was arrested on a parole violation.

[1027] And then as part of the adoption process, the kid had a DNA test and it was compared to Floyd's.

[1028] And it turns out that Floyd is not the real father to this little kid.

[1029] So when he's released from jail, he tries to regain custody.

[1030] And he can't because he's not the child.

[1031] a dad.

[1032] Then, on September 12th, 1994, this fucking dude comes in to the elementary school where this kid is staying, holds, has a gun, takes the kid by force, gets him the fuck out of there, steals this kid.

[1033] You should see these photos of him.

[1034] He's such a creep, not the kid, fucking Floyd.

[1035] The dad, yeah.

[1036] So two months later, Floyd is arrested in Kentucky and the kid is not with him.

[1037] Hasn't been seen since.

[1038] Floyd tells like differing stories, some that he had drowned the kid in the motel bathroom after the kidnapping.

[1039] Others say that he told them that he murdered the kid in the same manner.

[1040] So he had admitted that to a couple people.

[1041] Another person claims he saw Floyd bury Michael's body in a cemetery, which is like, how do you witness that?

[1042] And then you don't tell anyone until the cops, I don't know.

[1043] In his most recent contact with the FBI, Floyd's admitted to killing Michael by shooting him twice in the back of the head.

[1044] He told him where to find Michael's remains, but it's been two decades since then and they haven't found anything.

[1045] So that's the story of Sharon the mom and Michael the kid.

[1046] Okay.

[1047] Super shitty all around.

[1048] Yes.

[1049] And so the third incident is the murder of, let's see, what's her first name?

[1050] Shit, I don't know her first name.

[1051] Oh, Cheryl Ann Camesso.

[1052] So at the time of her hit and run death, Sharon is a stripper.

[1053] But, I mean, before I say that, I want to say that she went to college.

[1054] She was going to be an engineer.

[1055] She's a very smart person.

[1056] I think something happened with her crazy husband.

[1057] She's making money stripping.

[1058] You know, it's not like, nothing wrong with fucking making money stripping.

[1059] And that's her career.

[1060] But anyways, in 1989, one of Sharon's coworkers disappears.

[1061] She's 18 years old.

[1062] Cheryl Ann.

[1063] Someone had witnessed a angry confrontation with Floyd.

[1064] And the co -worker?

[1065] Yeah, Floyd and the coworker commens.

[1066] Camesso.

[1067] Cheryl, let's call her Cheryl.

[1068] So Cheryl disappears in 1989.

[1069] Floyd and Sharon get the fuck out of town.

[1070] It remains unsolved until her skeletal remains were found by a landscaper.

[1071] in Florida in 1995, and she was a citizen Jane Doe.

[1072] No one knew who she was when the remains were identified.

[1073] And then in March, a year, the same year, a mechanic in Kansas finds a large envelope stuffed between the truck bed and the top of the gas tank of a truck he had recently purchased at auction, which is like, here we go.

[1074] Gales go.

[1075] He finds, I mean, just finding things stuffed in places.

[1076] It's my dream.

[1077] Yeah, for sure.

[1078] Like, you know, where I think you can find them is when you go into like a weird bathroom and there's a uh the seat uh the toilet seat holder yeah people like shove drugs and money for drugs in those as like uh i'm going to go in the bathroom and shove the drugs in there i'm going to come out and you're going to put the money in there but am i making that up because i've heard that before you don't mean in the in the toilet tank where the water is no that too but in the where the uh where you pull the toilet seat cover off the wall yes yes yes you know what i'm saying yes behind the paper covers.

[1079] Exactly.

[1080] I see.

[1081] I thought you meant in a private bath.

[1082] No. I think you meant those pink, the pink furry cover that like your grandma puts on that matches the bath mat.

[1083] You know, when you go into a gas station and they have the pink furry cover or like sometimes it's leopard print or a toilet.

[1084] You know, those fun gas stations?

[1085] Yeah, kicky.

[1086] So the mechanic finds this fucking amazing fine.

[1087] Inside he finds 97 photos in the envelope, including many photos of a woman who is bound and severely beaten.

[1088] They trace, the police traced the truck back to Floyd, of course, and the investigators compared the photos of the injured woman with Commesso, as well as evidence found with her remains.

[1089] And the clothing was similar to what she was wearing.

[1090] There was also furniture and belongings in the photos that were identified as Floyd's.

[1091] And the medical examiner had compared injuries seen in the photograph to the cheekbone that they had found of this deal, I mean, this, this, this, uh, the remains Jane Doe.

[1092] So they were consistent.

[1093] She had died from a beating and two gunshots to the head.

[1094] Again, two gunshots.

[1095] Mm -hmm.

[1096] Looking at a pattern.

[1097] A kill shot.

[1098] That's the, um, was he in the army?

[1099] Oh, really?

[1100] Uh -huh.

[1101] Kill shot, huh?

[1102] I didn't know about that.

[1103] Uh -huh.

[1104] Two shots?

[1105] Two to the back of the head.

[1106] That's the thing?

[1107] Yep.

[1108] That's how you just take someone out.

[1109] And you don't even look at them in the face.

[1110] Mm -mm.

[1111] And well, and also just, that's for sure.

[1112] So it's one, one, there is a possibility.

[1113] Some could weirdly live.

[1114] now.

[1115] Two, no. Yeah.

[1116] Oh, right.

[1117] Okay.

[1118] So he, so Floyd has tried it convicted for this girl's murder.

[1119] Thank God, Kamesa's murder.

[1120] Based on the photographic evidence found in the truck.

[1121] Other photos found in the truck, though, show sexual abuse of Marshall, who was his wife who died in the hidden run, right?

[1122] I mean, yeah, this weird thing, his wife.

[1123] But the pictures start, and this is where it goes.

[1124] The pictures of Marshall and being sexually abused start at a very early age when she's in her childhood.

[1125] What?

[1126] Right.

[1127] Okay.

[1128] Sexually explicit poses of various ages starting around four of his wife.

[1129] Age four.

[1130] Yeah.

[1131] Of his dead, now dead wife.

[1132] What the fuck is going on?

[1133] Uh -oh.

[1134] Turns out, Floyd met a divorced woman with three daughters and a son in 1974.

[1135] when Sharon is like four.

[1136] In the late spring of 75, Sandy, the mom, is arrested in Dallas for writing a bad check for diapers.

[1137] And some people on the internet, like, how did that happen?

[1138] Did Floyd take out all the money from the account and send her on a shopping trip and the check, you know, like maybe that's even set up.

[1139] When she's in prison or jail for 30 days, while she's there, fucking Floyd disappears with all three sisters and the, infant brother.

[1140] Floyd had been left to care, which don't ever leave your children in the hands of a boyfriend.

[1141] I don't care how fucking cool you think he is.

[1142] No, don't.

[1143] Don't.

[1144] No one with the name Floyd.

[1145] First, middle or last.

[1146] Please.

[1147] No. When she's released, she sees that the fucking children are gone.

[1148] He had put two of the daughters in foster care.

[1149] She finds them there.

[1150] But Suzanne, I'm sorry, but Sharon.

[1151] and the little boy are gone.

[1152] And shoot, she tries to file a kidnapping charge.

[1153] Okay, here's the most fucked up part of the whole fucking thing.

[1154] The local authorities say that as the stepfather, Floyd had a right to take the children.

[1155] Hi, 1974, you fucking piece of shit.

[1156] Okay.

[1157] So Floyd raised Sharon as his daughter since early childhood.

[1158] And if you go online, you can find a photo, like a portrait of him with her as like a four -year -old on his lap.

[1159] DNA testing to determine her paternity after she died and covered that she was not his daughter.

[1160] And he gave a number of inconsistent statements regarding how she came into his custody.

[1161] He told everyone that he had rescued her when she was abandoned by her biological parents, which is probably what he told her as well.

[1162] Right.

[1163] The problem is that the little boy was never, no one knows what happened to him.

[1164] So it's not likely that he's doing well.

[1165] So the earliest known record of her after that of Sharon was when she was registered in 1975 in Oklahoma City high school.

[1166] And if you look at her high school photo, she's clearly not high school age.

[1167] I think he was kind of trying to fudge some stuff.

[1168] Like she was too old?

[1169] She's very young.

[1170] She looks so too young.

[1171] Yeah, she looks junior high -ish.

[1172] So I think he was, like, trying to throw someone off or something like that.

[1173] Her to establish her as being 18 as soon as possible.

[1174] Right.

[1175] And registering her under an alias.

[1176] They had a ton of aliases.

[1177] Let's see.

[1178] So they suspect that Marshall was born, that Sharon was born in the late 60s, kidnapped between 73 and 75.

[1179] Then they leave town again.

[1180] She becomes his fucking wife.

[1181] Ugh.

[1182] Then, I mean, it's not even like.

[1183] cool that she gets to like then figure out who she is.

[1184] He fucking hits and runs her and kills her with a car.

[1185] And wait, sorry, was that, did he do that because she, was there some overt reason?

[1186] We don't know.

[1187] Maybe he found out that her son wasn't his because go back to the kid that was in foster care who he kidnapped that school was done.

[1188] Right, right, right.

[1189] Turns out that the DNA testing proved that it wasn't even his kids.

[1190] So she might have been sleeping with some house.

[1191] She essentially cheated on this.

[1192] Right.

[1193] person that she didn't even want to be with in the first place.

[1194] And maybe he was even hoaring her out, like, you know, making money out.

[1195] Like, so we don't know what happened, but that wasn't his kid.

[1196] That sounds like a pretty good motive to me. Fuck.

[1197] Yeah.

[1198] That's insane.

[1199] Wait, what happened to him?

[1200] Okay.

[1201] So he's still a lot.

[1202] No. Yeah.

[1203] He's the creepiest motherfucker.

[1204] He's in jail, though, please.

[1205] He's on death row.

[1206] So, thank you fucking God.

[1207] Jesus Christ.

[1208] I know.

[1209] he's on death row for the murder of the Camesso.

[1210] Oh yeah.

[1211] Oh, because they found her body in those pictures.

[1212] Right.

[1213] So thank God they weren't like, well, she was a stripper, so he only gets four years.

[1214] Like, he's on death row.

[1215] He's still under investigation into the kidnapping of her son and the mother, Sharon.

[1216] Yeah.

[1217] And, like, after Sharon died, they did DNA testing on her and found out that she was the missing child, that this poor fucking woman who dated a piece of shit.

[1218] Oh, my God.

[1219] To help her raise four children that she was dealing with on her fucking own.

[1220] And then, oh, my Lord.

[1221] Yeah.

[1222] I, what in the fuck?

[1223] I have never heard of this before.

[1224] That's crazy.

[1225] And he's still alive.

[1226] wait when so sorry once like when did she get hit by a car she got hit by a car when did he hit her with a car right and a sledgehammer exactly he it was a hit and run in april oh fuck yeah so like Reese yeah Reese I mean I guess I was for some reason I was picturing that this was like the 50s right because it seemed like the kind of time you could get away that's insanity so in 1990s hit and run took the kid by gunpoint these poor, you know, this poor foster parents who were trying to adopt this poor kid who was thriving in their home, they were fostering him and they wanted to adopt him because they cared about him so much and they are stuck.

[1227] Well, and also this piece of shit takes him and then eventually kills him.

[1228] Yeah, like, just leave him with the foster parents.

[1229] But, I mean, that's like, that's the monstrosity of whatever that guy is.

[1230] Narcissism.

[1231] I mean, narcissists, but just like the, like, the violent.

[1232] pedophile.

[1233] It's like the highest strata of in hell, basically.

[1234] Yeah.

[1235] A violent, insane pedophile.

[1236] It's so crazy.

[1237] What?

[1238] I mean, it's so hard to think of a brain and a thought process and a mind that deviates that far from your own.

[1239] Like, I can't even picture it.

[1240] It makes you wonder, I mean, can they picture what being normal is like?

[1241] Are we normal?

[1242] What is normal?

[1243] Well, it's not that guy.

[1244] No. I'll tell you that right now.

[1245] Yeah.

[1246] That makes me want to start up a vigilante club called the new Guardian agents.

[1247] No berets.

[1248] That's not cool.

[1249] No berets are stupid.

[1250] You just, I don't know.

[1251] What do we have?

[1252] We need a thing.

[1253] So upsetting.

[1254] It's actually funny because so I'm listening to this book on tape and this audio book that I've been listening to forever called No Stone Unturned about necrosearch who uncovers clandestine graves.

[1255] It's this great book about these people who find buried bodies.

[1256] And like when I'm driving in the car, because I get stressed out when I drive, I put that on or I put a murder podcast on.

[1257] And then when I forget my book or don't have time to listen to a podcast, I put on like NPR or the news.

[1258] And like immediately I'm like, I can't, this is so awful.

[1259] I can't deal with it.

[1260] Like I even fall asleep sometimes to that to like murder stuff.

[1261] And it's, I think I read that.

[1262] I think that's part of realizing why I love murder and these stories so much is that the real world and what's really happening and what I have absolutely no control over is so terrifying and there's no control.

[1263] But you can not walk alone at night.

[1264] You can, you know, carry pepper spray with you.

[1265] You can make sure you keep your doors locked.

[1266] My door is not locked right now.

[1267] I just looked over.

[1268] Well, but every, it's because every murder story that you read and all that information you gather informs you so that you know a little bit more next time.

[1269] Right.

[1270] But you can't do anything like that China is being armed with nuclear weapons.

[1271] You can't be like, well, next time I'm not going to hang out with China.

[1272] Yeah.

[1273] I think they've always had nuclear weapons.

[1274] Right.

[1275] But like, what are you going to do about that anyway?

[1276] Right.

[1277] Right.

[1278] That's just posturing.

[1279] That's the things.

[1280] What are you going to do about that?

[1281] Nothing.

[1282] No. But in this, you can be like, if I ever get into a situation, you know, you, you, uh, it's, it's just being able to have your, like, your guard up better every single time.

[1283] Yeah.

[1284] And if something does happen, you know, you, uh, you at least tried or had some control over it somehow.

[1285] Right.

[1286] You're informed.

[1287] Yeah.

[1288] Oh, it's so crazy.

[1289] I know.

[1290] That guy, they should kill him tomorrow.

[1291] Franklin Delano, Floyd.

[1292] Piece of shit.

[1293] Peace.

[1294] This is the my favorite murder piece of shit series.

[1295] We didn't even need to do a theme.

[1296] We didn't mean to do a theme.

[1297] Top two.

[1298] Yeah, that's a magical theme.

[1299] Here we are.

[1300] What if we just start matching up on like wavelengths of pieces of shit?

[1301] Well, that was crazy.

[1302] Yeah, that was a wild ride.

[1303] Oye.

[1304] Mel, anything to wrap up with?

[1305] I don't know.

[1306] Go buy a t -shirt?

[1307] Yeah, that'll make you feel better.

[1308] After that, it's a shit show.

[1309] Is that a shit being that I just plugged our t -shirts at the end of this, like, awful thing?

[1310] What choice do we have?

[1311] I know.

[1312] Oh, keep sending us your hometown murders, even though we haven't read them.

[1313] The numbers game on that one is much more narrow because, you know, we sometimes don't even read them.

[1314] But we are starting to make minis.

[1315] and having fun with them there.

[1316] So we will get to them.

[1317] We're making many episodes of your hometown murders.

[1318] I have to say in reading them, the ones that I do, when they have a really good subject line, when it's not just hometown murder, it's like, motherfucker gets buried or like some funny thing.

[1319] I'm more likely to click on it.

[1320] Also, when they're short and succinct, just get to the point.

[1321] That's key because, yeah.

[1322] And it's like in any, good story like that, just include the facts that matter.

[1323] Yeah.

[1324] You can still be quippy and funny and all my, like, and surprised and be yourself, but I would say if you're passing up, um, the six paragraph mark, we're, it's going to be, we're going to have a tough time with it.

[1325] Yeah.

[1326] Yeah, we can give people guidelines.

[1327] Yeah.

[1328] I like to call them guidelines.

[1329] Gaglines.

[1330] Gaggeline.

[1331] Um, yeah, but we love them and we're going to make, I think we're going to try and do many episodes each week.

[1332] You know what blows my mind is that there are just so many.

[1333] And people are just so excited to tell them.

[1334] I know.

[1335] Because no one's ever asked them.

[1336] No one ever asked them before.

[1337] Yeah.

[1338] Well, and also because you realize, like, you don't.

[1339] I've asked friends.

[1340] And they're like, no, I don't.

[1341] Wait a second.

[1342] And then they remember three.

[1343] Yeah.

[1344] Because, yeah, it happens a lot.

[1345] Totally.

[1346] Yeah.

[1347] It's just like part of your identity.

[1348] Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes, please.

[1349] Oh, my God, you guys, we've gotten, we're in the top 10.

[1350] It's crazy.

[1351] Of comedy.

[1352] We're in the top three of comedy.

[1353] That's nuts.

[1354] That's insane.

[1355] And it's because people rate review and subscribe.

[1356] Yeah, that's, you guys are doing it for us.

[1357] We appreciate it.

[1358] Thank you so much.

[1359] Yes.

[1360] And, um, it's fucking awesome.

[1361] Feels powerful.

[1362] I feel like I can get away with murder.

[1363] I guess, Above all, stay sexy and don't get murdered.

[1364] Bye.