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Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 32: Just the 32 of Us

Published Feb 12, 2025, 8:01 AM

It's time to Rewind with Karen & Georgia!

This week, K & G recap Episode 32: Just the 32 of Us. Georgia talked about the life and death of pop singer Selena and Karen gave the lowdown on the Zankou Chicken Murders. Listen for all-new commentary, case updates and much more!

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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories, and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.

The Exactly Right podcast network provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics, including true crime, comedy, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.

Last Hello, welcome to rewind with Karen and Georgia.

That's right. That means it's Wednesday, and that means we're recapping one of our old shows with all new commentary, updates and insights.

And today we're recapping episode thirty two, which we named just the thirty two of Us. I thought we were done with the number puns.

I mean, I can hear myself and this may not have happened, but I can absolutely hear myself in my memory going yeah, but it's so funny. We have to go back just for this one.

Yeah, like you know, you can't. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

There's a good one. If there's just the thirty two of us gouts pretty funny.

It's so good.

So join us today as we take you back to September one, twenty sixteen, when Sausage Party who was still in theaters.

Classic. It's a classic, and now we can all be Day one listeners.

Okay, here's the intro of episode thirty two. Hello, Welcome to My Murder. My name's Karen, and I sure love murder. How about you Girl over there?

This week? Girl over There is played by Georgia Heartstar, George's Heart Stark and g I love Murder too.

And of course engineer Stephen is here standing by with his mustache and his.

His uh stuff, his equipment, his general style, general style. You're more reporting of the per cast.

Oh thank you?

Yeah, welcome who tonight this so so trapped in? Yeah, Vince, So we have our murder reinos. That what we call people who listen to this podcast. I don't.

We didn't make that.

No, we didn't put that's what people call it. And Vince said that, So Stephen has the perk cast about Kat since been said that the people who listen should be called pervert three rs.

You got to do that.

I'm going to start doing it.

And I said you can have it.

He said, tell me, you know that's a free one. Cool, Hi, everybody, it's episode thirty two. Was up. I'm going to bring up back I have already threatened to do that was up.

And that sound she got murdered.

She was so hacky. The town killed her, the city kills her.

She she got killed.

Do you have a housekeeping I mean I have.

Things I just generally want to talk about.

Well, I'll say mine that our internet specifics that are important Forrester, just battling quiet because it's mine.

How much I hate TV?

Oh did you watch the last night?

I fucking I just I don't. There's a block and I mean to and I haven't. No fans.

No, Well, then you don't want his DNA inside you and you'll never get to have it. He was also on Colbert. We actually watched it at work because enough people at my work like him that we were all like.

Let's watch Is he cute? And well, he is perfection.

It's there's something like disney Esque about the scale of the size of his eyes to the rest of his face. His nose looks like he got a nose job, it's so perfectly shaped. And then in general he just has the he has the charisma, but he's very low key, like he's smart enough to know not to overplay it.

We're talking about rism Ed.

We're talking about Britain zone.

And he's got the British accent man like the like the like street British accent.

Yeah, stop it, but he can do any British.

Well, I guess I only heard. I only heard him speaking in a British accent when he was rapping, so I was like, yeah.

He was trying to he's turning it a little bit on but okay. But also I saw him in the The Unwilling Fundamentalist. What's that movie? He stars in a movie about an a fundamentalist that doesn't want to be who doesn't The word is an unwilling No, sorry, it's part of the title. I'm his number one fan. But in that when he had like a posh.

British accent in and I want it to be dirty, please.

Jesus keep it dirty. Hi, Vince, it's this Karen. She said more gross stuff about Rizam at this time. The thing I wanted to mention was a woman named Liam Moffatt made us this amazing animated opening to our podcast theme song. You can see it on the Twitter page. You can see it on the Facebook page.

I'll put it on the I'll put it on the We have a new Facebook fan page because some people told us that that's how you're supposed to do things.

Don't be closed off all the time. Maybe open some stuff up.

Yeah, so we have a new Facebook fan page. I will post it on there. It is. It's your like, how do you how did you feel watching it with your music and your voice.

I couldn't breathe. Yeah, and but also it's that weird thing of like it's very strange when someone holds up something you did and goes, now, here's something I did to match it. Like, it's just magical. I love it. Gorgeous and it's the cutest. Like the style of it is so like there's a little skeleton in every scene, and it's.

So moves the way everything flows, its moods.

But it's creepy, very creepy. It's all perfectly done. Celianne Moffett, thank you so much for Thank you doing that and thinking of us and participating in that very creative and cool way.

Thanks to everyone who creates, Like there's so many cute drawings of us, even though we berated them.

Last week, they like it. I know.

I keep posting them on Insta. We have an instagram my favorite Murder, and I just them constantly. I like, can't stop posting all day, and I feel like I'm getting annoying because there's just so much cool shit to post.

Well, it's fun to be able to go like, well here's here because the people like it. Yeah, you notice their shit.

It's you know, favorite one from my last episode is you know the part where I go dough A dead body, a female dead body. Someone took a photo of my face and put it over the face in sound of music Sound of music where she's singing on this on the hilltop to all the children, and it's just my little face, like a perfect photo of me with my mouth open, like looking like I'm singing, and it says do it, oh, Stephen, showing it to Karen right now.

I will, really who did it, Jessica Pe?

Thank you, Jessica Pe.

Well done, Jessica Pee. That is hilarious because also the George's face, her mouth is open, it looks like she's going hi, but she's holding a guitar. That's hilarious.

So much good shit good.

You know. Sadly, somebody put my face inside of Selena's face. No, no, no, it's not not truly sadly. Oh this is this comedy podcast. But it was a picture of me before I stopped drinking. You can find such range of hideous pictures of me online. It's hilarious.

I hate it.

It's not cool at all.

When your weight fluctuates, you just and you get photographed. First things, A lot.

Yeah, and you just you just kind of have to separate and you just I like, my thing is just like whatever, I know what I look like. That's not Oh my god, this one where they put my face and just I'm pretty sure it was Selena's picture. It was like big eighties hair with the pink background. Did you see that? So yet it was I was like, is that Charles Bronson wearing a wig? Like? It looked horrifying. I hate that. But of course I'm not complaining because of course all the people who saw it were like, oh my god, this is so cute, where you're just like what. Anyway, I had to complain, and also just we looked it up. This was in oh wait this if it if it was from the Minnesote, then you might not know what we're talking about. But last week's mini corner, what's.

That we have to say?

Correction corner, direction corner yo, yo, Know, Georgia talked about a lady who had a disease and many doctors frighteningly enough, listen to this podcast. Yeah, because those are the people or medical students, I'm not sure people who know how it's actually pronounced.

Well, sorry, not sorry, I'm not a doctor or a medical student.

Never say sorry, not sorry, just don't be sorry.

Okay, yeah, I thought you were a berating me for trying to bring that back when you're trying to bring what was it with?

Oh good point, No, throw that right in my face. I accept that you're one hundred percent right, but I hate sorry, not sorry, because you don't have to be sorry at all. I saw that crop up in like girls talking, where it's like girls, look sorry, that's not sorry, where it's like no, no, no, what you start out as look motherfucker, and then you say your actual opinion. Sorry, I'm kneeling.

Don't apologize.

I'm so tired. Oh you're right, I'm so tired. Here's how you pronounce it.

Well, con sizure jesus, well, I got it.

There's like that's a sound clip from some guys on the radio or something in England who also didn't know how to say gian barre syndrome Kean barre. Well, so there, well, consider me wrong again, consider me always wrong.

Correction, Conda, I'm correcting, Conna. What else? How are you? What are you gonna say anything?

I wish you guys could see Georgia right now her legs are so far up in the air. She is the most casual person I've ever seen in my life.

This is the loungiest You're fucking lounging in your home, lounging so hard as is your American right, Stephen. Can you take a photo of me lounge right now? I'll put it on the vent. It takes my sweat. I'm also sweating.

That's cool. Sweat lounge.

And I got a meme cat on the took one photo just happened. Check it on the well. Let's plug our places Instagram dot com, slash my paper murder.

Oh the face like a picture, only a picture of myself.

I'm not mad mad. Look at those cheekbones, Karen.

I wasn't even really sucking the mall. You part's a bit off. Look at you.

Hilarious, that's my entire butt. Also, that's gonna end up on That's gonna end up on Wiki feet. I promise you can. I have a Wiki feet page. I mean, look at my feet. They're pretty fucking cute. Let's be honest. You deserve it, thank you. Yeah, I'm going to own it. You know why, because I don't have a Wikipedia page. So I'm okay with wiki beats, So you're gonna be fine. Here we go.

You got to break in somehow.

You know what else pisses me? Well, I'm not gonna tell you. Never mind, I am hissed off that my high school they have like a list of like alumni who have done things not on there.

Where's the list on Wikipedia?

Oh?

Please, will someone who's good at computers go on to Wikipedia and edit that page. What's the high school name?

Woodbridge High School in Irvine, California.

Woodbridge High School, Irvine, California.

Also, let everyone know I hate I hated them all.

I hate them. No, don't put that phone in now, this is your high school wiki feet page.

Okay, the fan page, Okay, here's this is hilarious. So I try to start the fan page. We can't use the word murder in the title because Facebook is like, we recognize a word that you can't fucking you can't say because you're not you're a grown adult, and you know what I mean.

I'm fine.

So it's MFM podcast. It's the name of the Facebook fanpage.

Cool. So you kind of have to be an insider to know that it's the just the initials.

Like winky wink. And then I think that means also that maybe your your family and friends won't know that you're part of a murder group. I think that's say MFM. Yeah, I think that's what people are worried about until they see the logo again grown adults.

Yeah. I mean that's the other thing too. Of all the people we know that that say I'm not weird, I'm not alone. You know, all that excitement, Well, now it's turning into because then the second wave seem to be people at work keep catching me listening to this and giving me baby looks, are seeing my the logo and giving me a weird look. But we just got a tweet from somebody who sent a picture that said, was it on the Facebook page or Twitter? I can't remember where they hang up a sign on the door that says murder time, Do not come in and then listen to the podcast at at work all together.

Like the whole crew does.

Yeah, well, I mean she didn't. She was very vague about all of it, or shouting her I should find the name. But if you guys hear this, will you please send us at least slightly more information so we can give you a legit shout out because I it made me laugh so hard when I saw that, or.

Send us a photo of all of you listening secretly listen. And also I love that I've I've been noticing in the Facebook page likes. I'll like look at some comments sometimes late at night, and it'll be like comment, comment, comment, and then someone will comment to someone who already comments, and it'll be like, Alex, you're in this group, Like, oh my god, what's that? I can't believe it. We're like, we're totally like it's people keep recognizing their friends in there, and it's like, hilarious.

I love it. Well, the same thing happened to me with my sister's best friend, Adrian, who I talked about I think on the very first episode.

She had a hometown.

Yeah, well, she loved Richard Ramirez, so when I said who should I talk about, it came out of her mouth so fast that that's when I discovered she was a murderer. Yeah, before the podcast had even started. And it was shocking because I've known her since she was twelve years old and I was ten years old, so Anne never knew that that was an interest of hers. So she recently started listening. She'd went backwards through it and has been texting me constantly of like, dude, I love this podcast so much. And Adrian and my sister were two of the most evil teenage girls anyone could have had the nightmare to grow up with. They were sullen and sulky, and I the only way they would let me hang out with them when she spent the night on the weekend. She would come and stay the whole weekend with us, but they would lock the door and leave me out of the room. And what I had to do to get in the room with Laura and Adrian was makeup a lip sync dance routine to a PAP and tar songs.

Well, we're not moving forward right now in this podcast, and tell you fucking do that. Let's relive your nightmares.

We just basically play a pat pantor. But then yeah, and then you'd be like, right now, she's lifting her legs straight above her.

Head, Oh my god, that's so big, sisters man.

Well, and also, just if you're younger and you hate your sister, just know that's going to change around when you're like twenty two, and then you're gonna be besties for the rest of your life.

You're gonna become the cool one exactly. My sister knows what's up well.

And also I have my sister and aid room to think for like all of my training, because that's pretty much the most professional training I got.

And then oh yeah, on stage, it was pretty exome. I think, my I'm scared. I think my dad might start listening to.

This because what I thought he was already.

I don't think so, because he was like I was hanging out with him over the weekend and he was like, tell me about your thing, like they don't understand it's a thing. And I was like, oh, it's this thing, and I'm like, well, he doesn't know how to download podcasts. And then he was like, looked at this phone and he like showed me the podcast and it was like the and I was like, uh huh, yeah, no, it's okay. He's cool.

He doesn't care about the Efford, does he?

Oh my god? No, my god. You can't have me as a child and care about the Efford. Care about a lot of things. Honestly, I think he's happy that I'm alive, survived my own I mean that I'm alive that you're alive of us me too.

It was supposed to be a compliment.

Oh thank you. All right, you guys, we're going to get into our favorite murders. Yes, we're gonna take a quick pee break. We'll be right back for my favorite murder skippers.

This is your time to come on home, Come on home, be right back. All right. That was a big, long one. Did you really not ever finish the Night of? You've never seen the end? I didn't never finish it.

I just I'm so impatient with shows like I just don't. I can't get through anything. I get through a series, it should get an oscar immediately because it's good.

Can you think of an example of a series you got through because you liked the lead actor the way I, of course, was returning week after week for my friend Resimmon.

No, but I can think of one that I got through even though I don't like the lead actor, and that's how good it was. But this might get us in trouble because it's Ozark.

Oh you're not a Bateman fan.

I love Jason Bateman. Thing is a great actor. He just does this thing that drives me crazy. And you'll you'll never not see it again if I tell you, or he goes okay at the end of every sentence, okay, okay, okay, Yeah.

He's being he does that. He's been casual, improvisational, real.

Talking exactly, and I know that and knows what he's doing. But I can't ignore it, and I can't be like that's a character because Jason Bateman keeps fucking doing that. Yes, that's right, but it was such a good show that I was able to get past that. Wow, So yeah, I think we can leave that in.

Okay, Okay, his hands on his hips, Okay, yeah, no, leave it.

Let's fucking let's get some fucking drama. Yeah, that's podcasting.

Come on, cross cross podcast rivalries.

Well on, they've never heard of us.

Let's fucking here's yeah, exactly. Well, here's how they will hear of you. Do you know that, uh you talked about that. You didn't make it on your high school's Wikipedia page.

You are?

You are now on your high school's Wikipedia page.

I know, some beautiful murdering. No fucking went and added in me, I don't, I wonder if it's still there and said that she hates it's Georgia attended high school da Dad and she hated every minute of it.

Hey yeah, Hey, that was an honor.

That was definitely one of those moments in the podcast where I was like, Wow, this is like, this is real, this is huge, this is like cool, it's huge, and I was so appreciate of it.

What I think is funny is that it's the Wikipedia page for your high school. It's not even like your Wikipedia page. It's like you were bummed about something that's real, sub sub sub you know.

No, because every high school Wikipedia page has people who of note, who attended every single one of them, including this one, and had like these random like you know, sports fucking commentator or whatever. And I'm like, can I I think I think I've reached that excuse me cooking channel?

Can I please have it?

You know?

Yeah?

So, I mean but yours has one too? Did we ever look at up?

I doubt it. I mean no, I don't think it's a high school that has like literally two hundred kids at it in a small town in northern California has a Wikipedia page.

Yeah, this was a big one too.

Yeah, we may have done unless we broke the law somehow, which or like because we got a nice new football field or something, but I don't think so. Yeah, yeah, okay, I don't know.

It's okay. It's like you got your high schoo like low key and mine is like, you know, high key, high keyhig in the highest key. I think we should post the photo on the when we post this episode on socials of the couch. Photo of us one of my favorites.

One of the great casual photos. What's the real word I'm looking for? Ass shot?

Just complete butt shot of me yep, Georgia's feet.

Wearing her hot pants. Yeah, with me with kind of my weird bald spot of like my calic, my calic bald spot that's always been there.

What's noticeable. And this is your cheekbones. Every time this gets posted, people comment on your cheekbones.

I'm very blessed, very blessed. Thank you, Pat. That's all Pat Kilgariff's doing.

At those feet. I don't know who those are on mean you, Dad? I think those are Marty's.

It would be amazing if you found out you were making so much money on wiki feet right now.

Man. Honestly, if if fans only whatever it's called existed in my twenties, I would have made some serious cash on those feet. Yeah, but what are you gonna do?

All right, well, let's get into Georgia's story right now about the murder of Selena.

Hey we're back, skippers, Hi, hey friends. All right, my favorite murder this week is Selena Kutina horrez No. And the reason I'm doing it is that it is audio engineer Stevie raymore so the percast favorite murder tributes.

I yeah, no, I you've been sending me ship.

Yeah.

I was like sing and I was like, oh my god, I'm watching it. And then see this Aaron Brockovich did, like a true crime.

Crazy that I watched. Watched it.

Well, I grew up listening to Selena because I'm half my Yeah, I'm half Mexican, and so that music was always playing and I remember like even listening to music just feeling really sad for.

Were you when she died? So you didn't know?

Yeah, I mean I knew it affected because I would still go over to my family's houses.

And stuff, like she was huge. She was like Madonna times twenty.

Well, I'll tell you all about it. Oh, oh did I Stephen Kintinia Quintinia?

Oh I don't, I mean Mexican but I don't know how to speak Spanish.

I wrote it down like I was very I.

Didn't notice speak Spanish either.

I know, I know. You shut up. Oh, Karen, your doorbell phone is ringing. Selena Quintinia Perez was born on April sixteen, nineteen seventy one, in Lake Jackson, Texas, and was called the Mexican American Madonna.

Oh, I must have known that. I've watched the movie with Jayla.

I haven't seen it. Wonderful, Gosh, she's beautiful. They were both beautiful, and she was poised to become a crossover success when her death turned her into a legend. Selena's father discovered Selena's quote per fit, timing, and pitch and helped his kids form a band. And she was like nine years old when I started performing Wow the band Once his parents her parents lost their family restaurant. The band became the family's main source of income and they were in poverty. And this career, Selena's career just took them out of poverty because they were evicted from their home during the Texas oil bust of nineteen eighty two and they moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, which sounds very hot, doesn't it.

Yeah, I think it's super southern in Texas, like down on the golf maybe right, don't yet I know I was like right, so I want to Well, my cousin Cheryl lived in Corpus Christi when I was like in junior high. Okay, but why do I ever say anything?

Is that a big military town? I think it is.

Yes, In fact, it has twenty five that.

Ian Corpus Christie for the rest of this So then the family band began recording music professionally, and in nineteen eighty four, when Selena was I think thirteen, the band released its first LP, Selenau Lostinos Fuck I hope, I.

Hope it's Selena and Fred Flinstone's dog Dinosaur.

Hate mail can be sent to Karen Kilgarath. I'm just translated Karen K's apartment or house at the address is so, yes, Stephen, you are correct. Selena was a third generation Texan of Mexican descent, so she didn't grow up speaking Spanish, so she didn't know any but she learned all her songs phonetically, and when her popularity grew, she had to.

Learn it and she did it very quickly.

Just like Roxette. Like what the band Roxette? What were they German?

Uh? Yeah, are Swedish or something?

Oh they had to learn English.

Well no, they just sang phonetically. They didn't know what they were saying. That's funny. Must have been love. But it's all that she had no clue without.

Song how but it's so powerful. But it sounds so.

The ignorance makes it powerful.

That's what it is like, because that's what love does too. Nice's a stupid idiot, that's right, Okay. Grew in popularity in the year nineteen eighty seven. She won the Tonaho Oh God, I Hannah to Hano Music Award. I like, I was watching videos to get this correctly and I'm just screwing it all up to Hannah Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year, and then she landed her first major record deal with Capital Latin in nineteen eighty nine. So she performed several times at the Houston Astroderm Dome to sold out crowds of more than sixty thousand people, and after her death, Time described her as the embodiment of young, smart, hit Mexican American youth from a tight knit family and a down to earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy. Essentially, she was a huge Mexican American star in her community and was poised to become a mainstream sess and that community was obsessed with her and proud of her and felt like she was one of their own. Yeah, and she was a big fucking deal yea. And she seemed like a very sweet person. Everyone in her band was her family except the guy the guitarists they hired who she ended up marrying. Oh, like they were. They seemed like good people.

It's like a Jackson five situation, totally a super talented young kid.

Yeah, but not creepy. And her dad was the manager, so they were very more like a Partridge family. But there we go. But actually, yeah, or like a Manson family. Fuck, cut that out, don't cut that out?

Not sorry?

All right? Where am I cut to? Mid nineteen ninety one, Yolanda Saldivar. She was so you see all these photos of her and videos of her. She was when she got arrested. She was thirty five years old. What that's quote unquote my age. She's thirty five. She looks like a fucking grandma. Yeah, Okay, So ninety one. Yolanda Saldivar was around thirty and she was an in home nurse for patients with terminal cancer and just a fan of Tahano music. Just a fucking random woman. She had a history of stealing money from her employers as well as trying to become intertwined with the lives of other performers, and she attended one of Selena's concerts and became a fucking psychotic fan with the intent of starting Selena's fan club. She started obsessively calling Selena's father, leaving almost fifteen messages until he gave her permission in June of nineteen ninety one to be the president of the fan club, which sounds like, okay, you know what, take this run with it to your thing, right.

Right, because you're harassing us. Yeah, So I mean that's it. It's the thing that they didn't know back then that people know nowadays, which is don't engage, right.

Yeah.

Fifteen calls to anybody at any time is too many. Yeah, I don't care if, like, you have a flat tire and you're going she's.

Many assistant, and she wants to run this thing and make us more money. And it's a thing that we haven't started, and maybe it'll help her with her Like this is what I'm thinking, was there, you know what I mean? Like I'm just saying that's three calls totally in a day, totally totally. Also like you don't need to have contact with her after that. Okay. So as president of the fan club, she was responsible for membership benefits, collecting money, and promoting Selena all that kind of thing. And she actually didn't meet Selena until December ninety one, but they became close friends and Yolanda became a trusted trusted by her whole family. In ninety four, she became Selena's assistant and quit her job as a nurse.

Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, I did not know that. I thought she was just the fan club.

No, she became her assistant. She quit her job as a nurse, even though she's making more money as a nurse than she was doing this. Like she was just so obsessed and had posters all over her house and people come over, she would just make them watch Selena videos, talked about nothing else and was just like kind of like crazy about Selena.

Wow.

Yeah, I was.

Kind of that way about kids in the Hall for a little while, but it was a dark period of my life. Yeah, I was just I had flunked out of college and I was just weirdly obsessed. It was when they were running them on Comedy Central, and I just it was the only thing that made me happy.

The laugh was the creepiest that was. I've never heard that laugh before.

I just realized, I mean, every we all have the potential. Everybody likes a thing, sure like crazy.

And wants some like has this feeling of like ownership and like yeah, and like no one understands it the way I understand it. It's almost made for me kind of thing. Yes, but have you met them and told that that?

See? My thing is that. And maybe it's just from working in TV. I really don't like celebrities. Like there's nothing more disappointing. And I think most people know it these days from reality TV and stuff. Celebrities are very disappointing in real life except for us. Yeah, No, they're just I mean, the most they'll be is slightly pleasant. But for the most art you will you will have regretted trying to be like, hey, can I get a picture? I'm or whatever you're not.

In and it's some obscure thing and they'll don't care.

They don't care. It's super weird. It's like, you know, yeah, it ruins it almost.

So yeah, good luck everybody, Good luck in life. You're sucking cute little fantasies, all right. Well then, so in ninety four, Selena starts opening fashion boutiques. She has two of them opening up. It's called Selena et cetera.

I didn't know about that.

Yeah, I didn't either, because she has this crazy style. It's very nineties and very like on point, like you know, almost madonnay, but a little more hip, real cute.

It's those huge well from what I remember in the movie, there's like a lot of ruffles, yeah, and a lot of like you know, shimmery velvety pants and stuff.

Like that, hoop earrings and red lipstick and yeah, it's totally pretty fucking sweet. So so she she's opening these clothing, these fashion stores and asks Saldivar to become the manager of the botiques. So Saldivart, because of doing this, is authorized to write and cash checks, had access to the bank accounts associated with the fan club and the botiques, and Selena gave her an American Express card for the purpose of conducting company business.

So she put her stalker. She made her stocker the CEO.

Oh of doody know that she's the stalker though, oh right, Oh yeah, Selene has no idea that she's the stalker.

She just thinks she's a good friend of hers. That's like willing to do all this.

Hard Yeah, that's like, you know, Selene's in this bubble of becoming famous and touring and all these things, and this person is becoming a trusted confidante and is a huge fan.

And clearly is an intelligent woman if she's a nurse.

Yeah that other yeah, totally okay, Yeah, and everyone said she was very manipulative and good at you know, being manipulative.

Yeah, so Tine calls. That's all I have to say.

Yeah, it worked somehow. So within a year Saldivar had mismanaged the boutiques and they were failing. And then upon investigation, the family finds out that Saldivar had embezzled more than I saw sixty thousand, but I also saw one hundred thousand dollars wow, and forged checks from both the fan club and the boutiques. But Selena refused to believe it. She was like, no way, that's my friend. Like even her father, who was a manager, and her husband and brother were like dude. They were like dude, probably not like that. But eventually Selena kind of sees some shit going on and believes it and the family fires. Hor tells her not to come near Selena, but Selena still wanted to become friends, stay friends. She was like, you don't work from anymore, but let's stay friends. So at this time, Saldivar purchase is a snubnose thirty eight caliber revolver. And here's what I think is the fucked up thing is is wet caliber hollow point bullets. Then the bullets were designed to cause more extensive injuries than normal bullets, which like throws out. Later we'll talk about it. So on March thirty first, in nineteen eighty five, she convinces Selena to meet You'll not her alone in a day's in motel room, promising to restore to return financial documents that she had stolen, and telling Selena that she had to come alone and that she had that Yolanda had been raped and needed someone to talk to. And this she has to make up this lie because three other times in the past couple of weeks, Yolanda had tried to get her alone and it had been foiled every time, and her husband had come or did they had met in a parking lot or something like that. So, so Yolanda was trying to get her alone. Yeah, So in the hotel room, they kind of they kind of fight over the documents, and as they're doing that, the gun comes out and Selena turns to run and out the door, and Saldivar shoots her in the back as she's running out, severing an artery leading from her heart and it came out the front of her chest on the other side, so it's kind of like a shoulder shot. And Selena's running towards the motel lobby as she's bleeding, and Saldivar comes there. Was witness said that she chased after her, pointing the gun at her and calling her a bitch. Selena around one hundred and thirty yards to the motel's lobby and collapsed on the floor. And meanwhile Yolanda's now trying to escape in her car, and it was theorized that she's heading to the recording studio where the rest of Selena's family is to kill them too, that's what they thought. But a police officer who was around the corner responded stopped her, and instead of getting out of the car, she pulls the car into a parking space and gets kind of blocked in in this parking spot. So she's in her car in a parking spot with a gun, won't come out. In the meantime, the motel staff is trying to help Selena. An ambulance comes in less than two minutes, but Selena's pronounced dead at one oh five from loss of blood and cardiac arrest. Her last words were this fucking makes me want to cry. Her last words your Yolanda Salavad salev Saldivar, Room one fifty eight. Those were her last words, like not tell my family I love them, and she was just trying to make sure they knew. Yeah, which makes me so sad. It's just like the last words out of your mouth are about your killer's name. Well yeah, I mean I know, like I know, like you should get them out, but then it's just wish it could then be like something sweeter. And she was only twenty three years old. Oh no, no, baby, Well, an autopsy's performed, and this is what I thought when I heard about her running after getting shot. She died of heart failure. Wait, though we realized Selena's heart fueled by adrenaline, and I think from running pumped all the blood out of her surflatory system. So I feel like if she hadn't run, she either might have gotten shot again by Yolanda, but or the blood might.

Not have It's those hollow point bullets.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can get shot and it comes out the other side and you can survive that, right.

No, because isn't that part of it? Is like they explode inside you and so when they come out, they just instead of a bullet hole size coming out, it like rips out. I mean those things are evil.

Yeah, well eats. The thing is so event So Sealda ours trying to say, I was just trying to say that it was an accident, that she was going to kill herself, But it's like, well, why did you buy those bullets then? Yeah, like you clearly had a motive. So meanwhile, there's a nine hour standoff with Yolanda in which she is in her car with the gun to her head hysterically on the phone with the hostage or with the negotiator, trying to say that she didn't mean to kill her, she was an accident, she was trying to kill herself, and all these other excuses. But ultimately, let's see, da da da, she gave herself in and she got arrested. She's tried for first degree murder and claimed that the gun quote accidentally went off, and all these other excuses, but ultimately it didn't work, and the jurors deliberated for less than three hours, and on October twenty third, nineteen ninety five, they found Saldevar guilty. She's sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in thirty years, which is going to be March twenty twenty five. But everyone's like, she is so incredibly hated in Texas. She will be murdered and she has to be in solitary confinement because of that, because.

The rest of everybody wants to kill her in jail.

Yeah, everyone in jail who is huge Selena fans her whole life, wants to fucking murder her.

Yeah that's I mean, yeah, yeah.

So she's she spends every day twenty four hours a day alone in a nine by six foot cell. Let's see. So the case has been described as the most important trial for the Latino population, and it was compared to the oj Simpson murder trial. It was one of the most publicly followed trials in the history of Texas. Wow, her posthumous nineteen ninety five crossover album Dreaming of You debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and became triple platinum.

That just gave me time.

She was the first Hispanic artist to have a predominantly Spanish language album debut and peak at number one.

That's so fucking cool. I know, I mean terribly sad, but also because I remember that being in the movie where it's like the it's a tragedy anyway. Yeah, but this was someone who was poised on the verge of crossing over at a time before that was like before j Low, before any of those things.

We remember like in the late You and I and people are our agel remember in the late nineties, like this huge, this huge Latin explosion and yeah, that was like the first time it became mainstream. So Selena's doing this in the early nineties.

Yeah, So she's for Ricky Martin for like any of that where it was kind of like the sexy you know Kira any.

That wasn't that wasn't on American pop radio. Yeah, like that was not on there at all. So she was kind of a trailblazer and seemed like a good person and this fucking psycho bitch fan like I didn't, I didn't know. I always pictured it differently and it's just like so fucking tragic.

Well, it's also fascinating that thing of like when you can it's like when you were saying, you know, she's just this random person, but you do trace those things of like a person who embezzles, a person who like those kind of smaller crimes. That's how every story goes like this, where it's like they always have a background where they're trying to get anything they want at any price.

And they have like gray area morals too. Yeah, like I don't like, yeah, someone, if I knew a friend embezzled money, I would not trust that person.

Even though I'm allowed to steal money from other PEO. It's not your money. No, No, you don't get to hat.

You need to buy my water unerals in life and not screw other people over.

And you don't want to be that person. Like I remember there was a cafe I was working at when I was a teen, and I had it in my mind. I decided that I could take a twenty dollars bill when I was closing at night so I could buy beer because they only paid me minimum wage. This whole rationalization totally, and I did it two times. Was racked with guilt about it. And then the manager told me, did I tell you this? Or the manager who was also my friend, like someone I hung out with, He goes, I don't I something's going on. We're always short. I think it might be the janitor. And then I was like, oh my, because that's what happened. You steal somebody else could go down for, or like, I mean the idea that he even would suspect this person who has nothing to do with it.

It.

Then I thought maybe he told me that because he knew what it was saying, because it was always me, or it was me the two times, and that was just a manipulation, which God bless you genius move Yeah, but also like and then I like the next week, I was talking to my dad on the phone and we were talking about something else, and then he goes, Karen, there's some people out there that just can't keep their hands out of the till. And then I almost threw up because I was like, I almost wanted to go.

That's me, my dad, My sweet dad is talking about bad people.

And I'm the bad year. You don't want to be the bad person, don't. You don't need whatever the thing is you think you need, You don't, And get your own, get your own, get your own. You can.

Yeah, keep your hands out of the kiddie.

That's super weird that I talked about thought, sure, so weird.

Sorry, I no hip hair. It's super like we've never talked about her before, not at all. That is super weird.

All right, Wow, that was a big story to cover. Do you have updates?

Yeah? I do so. Selena's music and legacy, of course, continue to live on after her death. In nineteen ninety five, a wax statue of Selena was unveiled at Madame Tussaude's Hollywood, and she was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame at Texas Women's University. Netflix, of course released Selena the series and in twenty twenty three, Rolling Stone ranks Selena at number eighty nine on its list of two hundred greatest Singers of all Time, which is incredible. Also, mac released a limited edition Selena makeup line. And it's been thirty years since Selena was murdered, which is crazy. That's been so long, and that means that Landa Saldivar is eligible for parole this year. Her file will be reviewed, including letters of support and protest, and a case summary will be prepared for the board voting panel. Her parole review date is March thirty of this year, twenty twenty five, So that's something to keep an eye on. It's such a high profile case. You know, I can't imagine she's going to be pearled, not that that's what it's about.

But no. But I mean that was such a that story of like a person so inside turning on her is such a nightmare story. It's like, it's not this woman was not a serial killer. She was not like this a hardened criminal in this way. It was something horrible happened, and it doesn't feel the same as the story of the usual stories that we tell of you know, a man being out there trying to kill every woman that he sees.

Right, but she took advantage of this vulnerable person in a way that was so ugly and then killed her when that person found.

Out about it.

It's just so cold blooded to me, that and just horrible. Yeah, let's keep an eye on that. And so this is another kind of epics story that you've done that gets brought up a lot. And uh so, let's hear Karen's story about the Zanku Chicken murders. Did I talk about your murder yet?

What's interesting it?

Now?

All right, Karen, but you've lived near it. I'm sure you've heard about it, Okay, because it's the Zanku Chicken murders. And there's one on my way from work driving here.

There's one here. I drove by one. Y, let's tell everyone, let's give everyone directions from Sanko Chicken to my apartment.

That's why I got real vague. But yes, so my mouth is watering.

Zanko Chicken is so good.

Zanko Chicken is legendary. And Los Angeles. If you've ever visited here, if you have friends that live here, and you're not wealthy, you've probably eaten here because Sanku chicken is the best food that you can get for a decent price, ye, and everybody knows it and everybody talks about it. It's up there with Rosco's chicken and waffles in that way of like, if you're here, you have to go try.

This, definitely. And Pinks Pinks hot dogs that kind of.

Thinks is shit. It's so shit, but it's fun to stand in line drunk, So go there.

Not gonna lie. I have fucking chomps some chili dogs my day.

But I've for twenty years I've driven by Pinks and watched people standing in line at three in the morning to get those hot dogs. So the first time I went there, I was like, this is going to be crazy, and it was just hot dogs.

It's just hot dogs. But yeah they're gross in a good way.

Yeah, it's like greasy, it's drunken food. Total totally okay. So there. I got most of my information from this awesome article from Los Angeles magazine that was written by a guy named Mark Ahrax and it's from April first, two thousand and eight. There's way more information than I could even entertain. So if this interests you at all, look at that you can google it and it'll come up right away. And I remember reading this probably five years ago, because when this murder happened, everybody knew about it all of a sudden, and everybody was crazy freaked out about it. It'd be like your local mom and pop cafe, like some terrible thing happening there. But the story behind it is kind of fascinating because it's like, so in Los Angeles, there's a there's a city that's right behind the hill that says Hollywood on it. Right behind that city is both Burbank and Glendale. I mean right behind that mountain is Burbank and Glendale. And Glendale has the single largest population of Armenian people that isn't Armenia in the world. Wow, it's huge. And Armenians came there after they were there was a Turkish genocide, which there we see parades about and flags about. And it's like, it's weird because I never heard of anybody being Armenia until I moved to LA And now I feel like I know a ton of stuff about the Armenian culture simply because like I live in Burbank, I live close to Glendale. So anyway, this is this restaurant, Zanku Chicken was started originally in Beirut Lebanon by a man named and the pronunciation on this is going to if you're a Armenian or if you're just not a valley girl, it's going to offend you. Vartkiss Iskenderian and his family started the first Zanku Chicken in Beirut in nineteen sixty two, and then they brought it over here in nineteen eighty three, and it was the chain actually was opened by Mardiros who is the son and his parents were not interested in having a restaurant in America. They wanted to do dry cleaning, maybe go into the suit business. They looked into all these other businesses that were more kind of reliable than a restaurant. But uh Mardiro's believed that this. He looked around and he saw how few Middle Eastern restaurants there were with so with such huge populations of people that would appreciate the food, there was almost no food to feed them that was like from their home totally. So they opened their first restaurant at the corner of Sunset and Normandy in East East la Hey.

And.

The La Times said it's the best roast chicken in town at any price, which is kind of really saying something for the littlest Shishi restaurants they have here. The Zagat Guide would say that Zanku was one of America's best meal deals America, not just La, which is cool. Jonathan Gold, who is a very famous food writer he adores Zanku Chicken, reviewed it and said it the chicken was superb, and nothing in heaven or on our compares with the garlic paste.

Oh my god, that garlic paste.

The garlic paste is what everybody talks about. And it was invented by Marduros's grandmother Shot and his mother makes it, made it all by hand, so it was a secret recipe. People still don't know what's in it. It's this white paste that you get with your chicken and your rice and your hummus and your pedas.

It's a little top, it's like a sigh on the side.

And it is tangy and pungent and garlicky, but there's something else going on. It's kind of like butter, like you can't figure out. All you want to do is eat it and put everything that you eat into it.

Then for the next day you're belching garlic.

Yes, if you're killed with garlic, you reak. It's quite an experience. So that was kind of their secret weapon, aside from the fact that they figured out that other rotisserie chicken places, they realized you have to move the chicken itself, and you have to play with the temperatures, just keep it on one temperature all the time. So they basically kind of went in there and tried to figure out how to give people who wanted to eat authentic Middle Eastern food the best version of that food and not just go like here, yeah, here's whatever, which is amazing. Apparently one time on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David referred to it as chicken so good it could end the rift in the Middle East, so like everybody in La knows about.

It was also in a song that's right, that's right.

There was there's a list on Wikipedia of all the popular culture things. There was somebody on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wou'd also like to eat there. So they started as this hole in the wall chicken place, and after I think like over two years, they were making two million dollars a year, and half of that was pure profit.

Oh my gosh.

So they they were doing obviously great. So there were rumors. Oh so in this article, it's one of my favorite things. In this article, this guy Mark, the writer talks starts out by talking about the Armenian culture and everything, and he says, there's a saying that little old Armenian ladies say in Armenian, which is let's sit crooked and talk straight, which totally made me think of us. Isn't that the best? Let's sit cook, crooked and talk straight. That's basically let's gossip.

That is us to a tee, and I'm flucking in lot with it.

It's the best. So, of course in the Armenian uh, I keep saying culture, but what I mean is community. They uh this family rose to prominence obviously because there all of a sudden started making this tons of money and their food was crazy popular. But they also were huge philanthropists and gave so much back, so they were kind of famous within that community because they were a huge part of it. So there was gossip. It was never confirmed that Pepsi was offering the company thirty million dollars for the chain and the trademark.

Holy shit.

And this was when it was kind of like peeking in its popularity. And at that same time, even though Madeiros's parents did not want to expand, they just wanted to keep that one the first shot. He was like, he kept fighting to expand, He's like, we have to do what we have to do it. So finally they agreed to split. And what they agreed to do was I think it's Mardiro's sorry if I know I'm pronouncing his name wrong, but they agreed that he would take the concept and he would build the chain and any stores that he opened doing that, whether they failed or succeeded, would be on him, because that's basically what the family was afraid. Don't let's not lose all our money. We got a good thing. Let's just keep this good thing going. And in return, he would sign over his stake of the original in Hullo to his parents and his two sisters. But they weren't splitting. It wasn't they weren't they weren't you know? It was they were still completely together as a family. The garlic paste was still made by his mother. At all the Zancuds, which I just can't get over, is this woman who was probably at the time in her I would say probably late sixties or early seventies. And they say in this article they talk about how this mother what I think your name is Margaret spelled with rit. She worked. She got up at seven thirty every morning and went into work and worked till seven o'clock at night. And when she was done cooking for the restaurant, she would start to cook for the people that worked at the restaurant. Oh my goodness, like cook people their home, you know, food from home that they liked.

Take a break, honey.

No, she couldn't do it. She was like obsessive, which I love.

Oop.

Sorry, that's that reminds me of my grandma. Like my grandmother's index fingers were both bent at almost like right angles because how much she cleaned, because she was She came over here from Ireland when she was seventeen and she was a maid for most of her life until she met my grandfather. So it's like those old country people are just like, we're here to earn it, we're here to buck and get.

It.

Yeah, that's right. And also if you start a business, you got to put give it your all so you make it into something. And they really did they were this amazing family success story. And Mardiro's well, he would constantly say to the whole family, success means nothing if we don't stay as one. Greed must never rear its head. There's plenty for all of us. And So he had a sister and she had two sons, and they loved all of each other. They were cousins, but they were they felt more like they were each other's you know. He had four boys, she had two sons. They were all, you know, very very close. In fact, his wife was quoted as saying, before we married, he told me, I'm going to live with my parents my life. I will never leave my mother. She was queen of the house, not me, next to God, it was his mother. Holy So, just to give you a sense of that, So Madeiro's is diagnosed. Sorry I don't have the date on this, but I believe it was in like two thousand and one, I think or so. He gets diagnosed with inoperable bladder and brain cancer.

Holy shit.

So he basically felt like he knew something was wrong. He had pains and places, but he didn't go to the doctor. He avoided it. And so by the time he went in and had spread. So he holds a family meeting and he tells his mother and his sister and his wife that he's dying and that when he dies, he wants the Zanku business to go to his four sons.

My goodness.

Now, the problem there is that his four sons were at the time and had been for a couple of years fuck ups and in ways where the oldest son had been caught trying to cheat on a law school entrance exam and so had been a top student at I think it was a Woodbridge university and so he basically got kicked out and was like barred from ever taking the test because he was gonna cheat. So after that he became an evangelical Christian. He was like one of those guys that stands on the street with a bullhorn. The second oldest son was tried for attempted murder when the pimp of the sex worker that he had just visited stole money from him and he ended up chasing him up the freeway and shooting at his car, and he ended up getting tried for attempted murder and it turned out to be a miss trial, so he never had to go to jail, but of course that mark, and of course you know, if this is the richest family in the community and sit like this starts popping off, everyone's talking about it. Then the two younger were basically just on drugs. But when I was reading this article it sounded so harsh, But it's like that's a thing of like, I feel like you can't get rich quick like that and have things just go great, because once you start getting all the money you want and you can buy all the things you want, and you start wanting the things you can't have, and it gets a little nuts like.

That, Oh I got it. You can look at my riches.

I just please watch your behavior, is what I'm saying. Okay, So when he makes this announcement, the room goes silent because that's he's saying, they're the ones that should get it. And his sister and his mother are both just staring at him, and let's see it's as his mother sat stonefaced, she didn't ask what kind of cancer he had or what the prognosis that the doctors gave him. Instead, she blurted out, in Armenia, and your son's the shadow they cast is not yours. And then she got up and she walked up the stairs and shut the door.

Holy shit.

Now she lived with him, as he had said, him and his wife Rita. She wouldn't speak to him. So she would get up at seven thirty every morning, go to work, come home. They'd be standing in the kitchen. She'd get a glass of water and go upstairs and shut the door.

Your son's dying.

Yes, And as he was getting chemotherapy, as he was losing his hair, he ended up losing sixty pounds. He was he was dying of cancer silent treatment.

That's so sad.

It's really fucked up. And it's it's very old country. I mean, it's how some people are. It's hard and obviously I think knowing at least based on what the wife says, the relationship that he had with his mother, this was breaking him.

It was.

It was terrible.

Sure.

So after a year of the silent treatment, he went into his mother's room and he took down that there was a picture of him as a child in Beirut with her when he was like four years old, that she had kept up on her dresser. He took it down, He took out the picture, he ripped it in half. He burned the half with her on it, and he crumpled up the half with him on it and threw it away and then put the frame back up. And two days later their house catches on fire. Now yeah, yeah, and their house they him and his wife almost get caught in the house. They have to get rescued by fireman. The house burns down. The mother takes you know, her stuff or whatever. I don't know how much she had loved and moves in with the sister. So she's gone. And that's the last house ketch on fire. We don't know, no, but he as he's going into his sickness and on you know, I'm sure tons of painkillers, and in a weird place. He's telling his son Steve, that the fire is his mother's doing, that she knew based on what he did to the picture, that that's that was her And I can't stop doing that, Stephen. We need a new setup. Sorry. Uh So, yeah, he's hallucinating basically and saying that, uh that it was somehow her doing. He believed that his mother and her sisters and his sisters were plotting against him.

They are to not give your fucking kids this goddamn business.

Well, yeah, I mean I mean, yeah, yeah, they were. It's it's everybody's worst nightmare. It's kind of like, oh, so this, this is actually what it comes down to really at the end. So Steve, having to hear this and of course loving his grandmother and being in the middle of it, said can't you ever forgive her? And Mardiro's was quoted as saying, God will forgive the devil before I can forgive my mother. Really shit, and then he said, because this is a mother, not a devil, which is super sad. It's like, yeah, ultimately, your mother turned her back on you when you were in your worst place. And also it's that thing of I'm sure after years and years of busting her ass to make this restaurant work, he was going to come in and be like, here's how it's going to happen. So it's like giving bad news and bad news like you.

Could also be like, you know how some people get mad at someone who's sick because it's easier than the sadness you can feel. Yes, so she might have been mad at him that she had to watch her son die. Yes, And it's easier.

Than it's a thousand percent easier. Yeah, yeah, that's it's a stage of grief. But she yeah, it's it's hard, yeah, because when someone else has a disease, then it's all about them and how hard it is for them. You can't be mad at them, like I'm sure she had tons of guilt. It was just this impacted problem.

Yeah.

So anyway, on January fourteenth, two thousand and three, Mardiros who had been bedridden and was dying, gets out of bed, puts on a white silk suit that he hadn't worn in twenty years. Who gets a nine millimeter handgun and a thirty eight caliber revolver and walks down the stairs of his house. His wife Rita couldn't believe what she was seeing, dude, and she said, in the way it's written in this article, for a man so near death cancer, everywhere, he looked beautiful. So he's having some weird last Later on in the article, they went, he does not have that outfit on, Okay, So they think that she's remembering it because it's this crazy moment and she's remembering him basically as his beautiful young self that she fell in love with, because it's a really beautiful story. But she they lived across the street from each other in Beirut, and he was nineteen and she was twelve, and he was like no, no, no, no, they did. That's not when it started. That's when she first noticed him because he was like the high roller. Yeah, don't be freaked out. It's actually very sweet. And then when she got older, like she was eighteen and he was like twenty six. Yeah, they started dating. So it's very sweet, like she was in love with them all her life. So she said, you're two weeks to go anywhere. Please get back in bed, and he said, I feel better, don't worry. I'm just going to go down to Zanku and see my friends. So she to see an old friend and so she, you know, was like, all right, I'll see you soon. But he didn't go to Zanku.

Goddamn it.

He didn't get to Zanku. He went to his sister's house. The housekeeper lets him in, She sits at the table. Housekeeper gives him lemonade. His sister comes downstairs, she was in the shower. They sit and have a pleasant conversation and share some lemonade. Then Margaret, the mother, comes home from work around two pm, and she greets him. She says hello to the daughter first, then she says to loa to him, puts her stuff down, sits at the table, and the housekeeper goes downstairs to her apartment because she knows that they need to talk to each other. So they talk for about five minutes and it's just normal chit chat. And then he reaches into his waistband for his gun and he shoots his sister across the table, then shut the point blank. And then his mother screams and runs for the door, and he runs after her and he blocks the door. He stands in front of her about like fifteen feet away from the door, it said, and he raises the gun in armenia and she says, don't shoot me, please, and he shoots her eight times. He shoots her once. She goes down on the ground, and then he stands over her and shoots her.

Silly shit.

He looks around the room and sees his twenty three year old nephew is on the stairs. No no, and he just turns around, goes over into the living room, sits on the couch and shoots himself on the head.

Holy fuck, are you serious? So? Oh my god?

Now, Rita the wife well at least at the time of this article, had to be in charge of all the Zancas. And it was this hole. They were in court about the trademark and who owned the rights to it. It's this huge thing and I didn't even get into it. There's so much more to this article.

The poor woman after year, maybe years or maybe however long taking care of her sick husband. Yeah, that's fucking stressful.

As hell, and raising four boys.

Who are not doing who are fuck ups?

Who were rich kids? You know, who were like who were rich kids. And she was a very traditional kind of old school wife where she didn't work, she didn't go to the store, she stayed home and was a housewife and took care of that family, and suddenly just got thrown into this.

I would never want to raise rich kids, you know.

No, Well, but also because that's not anything you've experienced with, so like they're having a whole life that you don't even.

Know whatever they want.

Yeah.

So then then after taking care of her sick, dying husband, then this happens and she has to be in charge of so much shit she didn't expect to be in charge of. Yeah, that poor woman.

Yeah, so I don't know that's that's that rough story behind the best restaurant in LA.

Who owns it? Now?

I think they still do, but I'm not sure. I didn't get like once the murder part was over, that article goes on forever talking about all that part. So I figure, if people are super interested and who owns the rights to Zaco chickens? But you can go for it, But.

I want to a My stomach is growling. I know, are you hungry?

Now?

Oh?

That's I want to eat four chickens.

I do show. I'm like already thinking about what I'm gonna order tomorrow when I go there. Okay, we're back, Karen. Do you have any updates?

There are a couple so, And I've actually thought about this a lot because the line that journalist Mark Ayrex used when he wrote this article for Los Angeles Magazine about the Zancu chicken murders that sit crooked and talk straight, which is an Armenian saying, as I learned from Mark Aras in that article has basically people love that line and they love it for this podcast. So it's been brought up in relation to this podcast. So I just want it to be very clear that we didn't make it up. Mark Araks actually didn't.

But he did.

He found it and he you know, that's that like beautiful long form journalistic work that someone does where they're like building out this world, not just like you know, the hard and fast true crime journalism, but like this beautiful story of fully fleshed out of what's this family is all about and where they come from. So yeah, I thought about that a lot afterwards because it was just like, man, that one part of an article got so kind.

Of popular doc it totally stuck.

So thank any older ar meeting and lady you see the next time you see them if you like that saying, because that's who probably her mother said it first. Anyway. In two thousand and six, a court ruled that the trademark that they were basically all fighting over for zanku chicken, something I eat literally twice a week minimum, just have to the trademark four that belonged to both sides of the family. That's what the court ruled. So Rita Iskendarian and her four sons own the zankus that Madeiros opened. The surviving nephews inherited their mother's share. The first zanku, the one in Hollywood, and they still co own it with their aunt. Though they all still battle over the trademark, both sides have continued to basically expand the franchise.

Yeah. One thing I love about this podcast is I think a lot of people who listen ended up when they come to La for a vacation go to Zanku now and Taco, And I'm fucking proud of that. Hell, yes, you know, if we've given anyone any like good tips, that's one of the best I think. I mean, I got to say.

Yes and go to Zanku because the Armenian culture in Los Angeles is huge, Definitely, it's the second largest densest population of Armenians outside of this country of Armenia.

Yeah. Actually that photo that we took is in taken. My first apartment in Hollywood was in Little Armenia and it was such a pleasant neighborhood and the shops and I just I loved it.

Yeah, And that's Little Armenia, and then Big Armenia is Glenna.

It's called Glendell.

Get over there with the Kardashians over at the Carousel restaurant. But I think it's kind of cool because it's like this story. This restaurant is such a huge part of the city, and the background of the restaurant is just as much a part of Los Angeles as movies and anything else. It's like, if you're going to Zanku on your trip out here, you're doing yourself right and you're really getting a true taste of la I think, yeah, absolutely all right. This episode was originally titled just the thirty two.

Of I mean, it's classic, but just to humor us, let's see what we name it these days based on something we said in the episode. So I'd like this one, consider me wrong again, which I said during corrections Cornery, Like, you know, that could be tattooed on my fucking gravestone.

It's a real exercise in humility. Yeah, corrections Corner. As a practice, I think we've really we've set ourselves up really nicely to just do that in our work every week. How do we fuck up? How did we fuck up in public?

Yeah?

For sure. Also there's Skippers Come On Home, which is us joking that Skippers should come back. Listen to the episode after they finish the intro.

Yeah start now, yeah, press plane now, Skipper right, Well, thank you for not skipping. We appreciate you guys sticking with it, even if you did skip in the beginning and maybe don't skip now, like cool, well, thank you.

I feel like people listening to rewind are the opposite of skippers. They're just like, we want to hear every dirty, fucked up thing you've ever done. We're going to be here for all of it. Yeah, we're gonna hear every story. We're gonna hear every horrible thing.

Every anecdote, every corrections corner.

All right, thanks you guys, Stay sexy and don't get murdered.

Good Elvis, do you want a cookie?

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